Last month, tensions between the southern Irish state and Israel would come to a head with the announcement by Tel Aviv that they would close their embassy in Dublin, with the Jewish state having maintained a diplomatic presence in Ireland since 1996. The move follows the withdrawal of Ambassador Dana Erlich in May of last year, following the decision by Leinster House, alongside Norway and Spain, to recognise Palestinian statehood, a move that then-Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned would result in “severe consequences” for Ireland.
Indeed, one month after the commencement of Al-Aqsa Flood and the subsequent Israeli genocide on the beleagured Gaza Strip, Israeli Minister Amihai Eliyahu would suggest that displaced Palestinians “go to Ireland or the desert”. A move that would not only destabilise Ireland through the vast influx of refugees, but would also ethnically cleanse Gaza in line with an Israeli government plan to mass-expel Palestinians from the Strip. Eliyahu’s statements would later be echoed by former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who served almost 30 years in a US prison for passing on official secrets to Tel Aviv before being released in 2015. Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon last October, shots would be fired at Irish UN troops by Israeli forces. Merkava tanks would also aim their turrets at the Irish contingent, almost resulting in an Irish equivalent of a USS Liberty-style incident.
The reason for such tensions arises from Ireland’s strong historical solidarity with Palestine. At the beginning of the 17th century, following the defeat of Irish Chieftain Hugh O’Neill and the end of Gaelic rule in Ireland, the English Crown would move vast amounts of settlers from England and Scotland into the Irish province of Ulster, which O’Neill formerly ruled over. Displacing the native Irish in the region, the plantation of Ulster would bear a stark similarity to the Nakba of 1948, in which 700,000 Palestinians became refugees overnight in order to make way for Ashkenazi Jewish settlers being moved from Europe into Palestine. This was in line with the 1917 Balfour Agreement, in which Britain promised the Zionist lobby that they would assist in the establishment of a Jewish state in return for the entry of the United States to the First World War. Both situations would result in the establishment of states in which the indigenous population was subjugated at the hands of a settler class, eventually culminating in widespread armed resistance. As such, strong solidarity exists in Ireland for the Palestinian cause to this day, resulting in a hostile attitude from Tel Aviv towards Dublin and Ireland as a whole. A hostile attitude that now ominously looks set to go beyond a mere breakdown in diplomatic relations.
On Monday, the Irish media outlet Gript, reporting on an article in the German publication Bild, revealed that ISIS-K – the Afghan branch of the organisation, established following the US withdrawal from the country in 2021 – had used its social media channels to call for its followers to attack cultural and music events throughout Europe and the US, including amongst them Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in March. A concerning development following the recent diplomatic fallout between Dublin and Tel Aviv, and Israel’s role in false flag operations and the establishment of ISIS in the first place. (more...)
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