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Thread #153638   Message #3618122
Posted By: Jim Carroll
13-Apr-14 - 03:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
Subject: RE: BS: BDS of Israel 'Gathering Weight.'
"I showed that Ireland enjoyed warm and friendly relations with Israel"
Another figment of your sick and inventive mind.
This is actually a summary of Ireland's "friendly relations with Israel"
"Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1975. Prior to 1975, Ireland had refused to establish relations due to Israel's alleged violations of UN Resolutions. In 1981, however, Ireland condemned Israel's attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor. Ireland did not allow an Israeli embassy to open until 20 December 1993. Two weeks prior to that, Ireland had allowed PLO Leader Yasser Arafat to visit and open a delegation.
Ireland annually provides €7.5 million in aid to the Palestinians, including €3.5 million for UNRWA"
Not that it matters anyway
Britain has friendly relations with China, who is at present, one of her greatest trading partners.
Does that negate China's record on human rights - I presume so?
Our (Britain's) relations with despots is legendary
Gaddafi
Bahrain
In the past, Britain and the US has had "friendly relations" with some of the world's despots - like, for instance, the Salazar regime in Portugal, which was regularly declared as Britain's greatest ally
Salazar
While the Greek and Chilean fascists were torturing and 'disappearing' many thousands of its opponents they were enjoying "friendly relations with Britain and America - Margaret Thatcher's "friendly relations" with Pinochet the Torturer could have come straight out of a Barbara Cartland novel.
"Friendly relations" are a political and economic expediency and have nothing whatever to do with the human rights records of those concerned - whatever "facts" one cares to invent about them to defend human rights abuses and terrorist behaviour.
Jim Carroll