Press Release – Feb 22nd 2010
-IAWM SAYS ASSASINATION PASSPORT OUTRAGE FURTHER PROOF THAT ISRAEL IS A ROGUE STATE AND QUESTIONS WHY ISRAEL IS BEING TRETED WITH KID GLOVES.
In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, was further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law, human rights or the sovereignity of Ireland and other states.
The IAWM further questioned why Israel was being treated with kid gloves by the international community and the Irish government. The IAWM pointed out that if Iran were implicated in such outrages it might well be used as a pretext for military attacks and certainly tougher sanctions, while no action whatsoever was even being discussed in relation to Israel.
Press Release – Feb 22nd 2010
-IAWM SAYS ASSASINATION PASSPORT OUTRAGE FURTHER PROOF THAT ISRAEL IS A ROGUE STATE AND QUESTIONS WHY ISRAEL IS BEING TRETED WITH KID GLOVES.
In a statement, the Irish Anti-War Movement (IAWM) has said that the almost certain responsibility of Israel for the outrage where seven falsified Irish passports were used to facilitate the assassins of senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, in Dubai, was further proof that Israel is a rogue state that has no respect for international law, human rights or the sovereignity of Ireland and other states.
The IAWM further questioned why Israel was being treated with kid gloves by the international community and the Irish government. The IAWM pointed out that if Iran were implicated in such outrages it might well be used as a pretext for military attacks and certainly tougher sanctions, while no action whatsoever was even being discussed in relation to Israel.
The IAWM said that, following the horrors inflicted by Israel on the people of Gaza last year and decades where Israel had denied Palestinians the most basic human rights, this latest Israeli action was proof of the need for the international community to isolate and boycott Israel economically and diplomatically.
The IAWM called on the Irish government to expel the Israeli ambassador and institute sanctions on Israel as were done to apartheid South Africa.
Richard Boyd Barrett chairperson of the IAWM said:
“It is patently obvious that this assassination was carried out by Israel and that they are responsible for stealing Irish and other passport numbers and manufacturing false passports.
The assassination is further evidence of the cold-blooded brutality of Israel and its utter contempt for international law and human rights and the soveriegnity Ireland and other states.
It is a brazen affront to this country that Israel would misuse Irish passports to commit this crime and in the process potentially endanger Irish citizens and passport holders. It shows they have absolutely no respect for our laws, our international standing or the safety of our citizens.
The double standards being applied to Israel after this action are bewildering. If Iran was implicated in an action like this, it is highly likely that it would be used as a pretext for a military assault on the country or at the very least we would hear demands for hard-hitting sanctions. Yet Israel is treated with kid gloves and there is not even a mention of sanctions or diplomatic expulsions.Clearly, there is one law for Israel and one law for Muslim states in the International community.
With this outrage, we have got yet another glimpse of Israel’s criminal immorality as a state and a taste of the sort of brutality and flagrant disregard for human rights that is experienced, day in day out, by the suffering Palestinian people.
Surely now, after this outrage and the horrors inflicted on the people of Gaza, and the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people, it is time to recognise that Israel is a rogue state that should be boycotted and isolated by the International community. It is utterly scandalous that Israel should have a privilegdged political and economic relationship with the EU when it engages so regularly in outarages against Palestinains and against other countries and their citizens. It is beyond comprehension that the Irish government are taking no action to sanction Israel
Just as the International community finally acknowledged after many years that apartheid South Africa was an obnoxious entity that had no place in the community of nations and had sanctions imposed on it, surely the time has come to treat Israel in the same way. At the very least, if the Irish government had any self respect, it would expel the Israeli ambassador and impose sanctions, in response to this outrageous abuse of Irish sovereignity, not to mention the use of extra judicial execution.
For more information/confirmation:
Richard Boyd Barrett 086-7814520
Jim Roche 087-6472737
