Dear Editor,

I refer to the closing of the Israeli embassy in Dublin and the outrageous comments from the Israeli foreign minister, a person who should be tried for crimes against humanity. I refer to a report from the United Nations concerning practices affecting human rights of the Palestinian people in September 2024, especially two important conclusions:

“The developments in this report led the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide. The targeting of Palestinians as a group; the life-threatening conditions imposed on Palestinians in Gaza through warfare and restrictions on humanitarian aid—resulting in physical destruction, increased miscarriages and stillbirths—and the killing of and serious bodily or mental harm caused to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are violations under international law. Civilians have been indiscriminately and disproportionally killed en masse in Gaza, while in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israeli colonial settlers, military and security personnel have continued to violate human rights and humanitarian law with impunity. Senior Israeli government and military officials must be held accountable, including for using dehumanizing language and inciting violence. Also, the multiple violations of international law by Israel in its war on Gaza; its apartheid system of injustice in the occupied West Bank, within the broader context of its decades-long occupation-cum-annexation of Palestinian and Syrian Golan territories; and its ongoing defiance of binding Security Council resolutions and orders of the International Court of Justice, gravely weaken the international rules-based system. Obligations established under international law to limit the barbarity of war and protect human rights, including the right to self-determination, are under threat by Israel’s violations and by the fact that other States are unwilling to hold Israel accountable and continue to provide it with military and other support.” (United Nations Sixty-Ninth Session, Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, September 20, 2024)

May I also add the role of the major international media outlets who have conspired to hide the utter rubbish statements from the Israeli Defence Forces that link each slaughter to false allegations against the Palestinian people.

In due time this slaughter facilitated by Britain, Germany and the US will be shown for what it is: mass murder.

Yours,

Paul Doran