The outspoken new Irish president on Israel and NATO was inaugurated today and already the knives are out for her
As Catherine Connolly was inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president in Dublin Castle today, efforts intensified to undermine the country’s neutrality as it weighs moves to punish Israel for genocide.
Connolly, 68, was elected after winning over 63 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last month, her robust defence of anti-war and anti-genocide positions resonating with the Irish electorate, while causing alarm in Western corridors of power.
These are signs that the victory of the anti-imperialist left has served to galvanise establishment forces, both at home and abroad.
A former White House national security advisor, Robert C. O’Brien, writing in The Wall Street Journal last week, warned the Trump administration would “no longer tolerate countries that reap the benefits of America’s economic strength and military power, while pursuing policies that undermine American interests.”
“Ireland’s President-elect embodies the antagonism towards American interests,” he wrote, adding:
“Ireland is finding its voice in international affairs, but it’s one that seems increasingly hostile to US interests. Ireland is the most antagonistic country to Israel in the Western world … Ireland was one of the first Western democracies to recognise a Palestinian state unilaterally, and it is at the forefront of allegations of ‘genocide’ against Israel. Meanwhile Dublin courts Chinese investment with no mention of Beijing’s human rights record, economic coercion or regional aggression.” (more...)
Western Backlash to Ireland’s New President Over Israel
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