On March 17, 2024 Leo Eric Varadkar, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland gave a speech in which he said among other things:
L. Varadkar:
"the Palestinian people. [...] We [the Irish] see our history in their [the Palestinians] eyes" [... the Palestinian] national identity questioned and denied":
My response:
While the Irish and Arab peoples are both noble peoples of antiquity, the name "Palestinians" refers to those very same Arab people:
Further, by comparison with the Irish people, the Palestinian Arabs claimed to be a "people" only from about 1964:
L. Varadkar:
"displacement, of dispossession [...] forced emigration":
My response:
"Displacement" / "Dispossession":
Some Palestinian Arab displacement was due to the civil war the Palestinian Arabs commenced to oppose the United Nations Partition Plan under resolution 181, and in which they sought to take ALL the land and expel the Jews.
There has never been any indigenous "Palestine" or Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the Palestinian Arabs could base any claim to any part of the land.
"Forced emigration":
The allegation is reverse-fact falsehood propaganda. Not only is there no evidence of any policy by Israel/the Jews to expel Arabs, but there is clear evidence the Arabs sought to expel or murder the Jews:
1929 Hebron massacre of Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
The Jews expelled from East Jerusalem (“Old City”) by the Jordanians in 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamizati...occupation
Upon Israel becoming Re-established, Arabs were made citizens and there are Israeli Arab lawmakers.
Judaism (“Jew”=citizen of “Judah” is both an ethnicity as well as a religion:
Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland - Take a look at a map of the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel, which was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom (including the "West Bank" - land of the previous Jewish Kingdoms of Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and the Golan Heights), with its capital of (what is now "East") Jerusalem; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg
The Palestinian Arabs dropped the name “Arab” because they do not want you to understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate, to take advantage of higher wages through Jewish returnee-exiles:
84 of 100 of the highest incidence Palestinian surnames (Palestine region in 2004), had highest incidence outside that region:
My extract source document:
“Country Origin of Palestinian Arab Surnames upd.pdf” - information source “forebears.io”:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9d115bv6w...d.pdf/file
L. Varadkar:
"Discrimination":
My response:
He chooses to ignore the ongoing terrorism by the Palestinian Arabs in particular Fatah ("Palestinian Authority, the"), against Israeli Jewish civilians. It is the consequential Israeli security measures that the Palestinian Arabs complain to the Media as, among other terms: "discrimination".
Example:
Maia Dee, 20, her sister Rina, 15, and their mother, died in the “West Bank” (Judah and Samaria) when their car came under fire from “Palestinian” Arab terrorists; report May 4, 2023:
https://news.sky.com/story/palestinian-g...d-12872594
L. Varadkar:
"Hunger":
My response:
This refers to the current conflict which started with the massacre of Israelis by the Palestinian Arabs - Hamas, on October 7, 2023, during which many Israeli hostages were taken into Gaza. While the Irish Prime Minister also referred to the need to bring the Israeli hostages home, yet he failed to explain why Israel should increase the food aid it is allowing in to Gaza, while Hamas continues to refuse even to provide a list of those Israeli hostages still alive.
By the way, since Hamas purports to provide frequent (unverified though they are) update-figures for Palestinian Arab casualties in Gaza despite the ongoing hostilities that it worked so hard to bring about, it is presumably also therefore capable of providing that list of the hostages.
Quote:"[...] when I travel the world, leaders often ask me why the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people. And the answer is simple: We see our history in their eyes — a story of displacement, of dispossession and national identity questioned and denied, forced emigration, discrimination, and now hunger. [...]"
Source:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room...lebration/
L. Varadkar:
"the Palestinian people. [...] We [the Irish] see our history in their [the Palestinians] eyes" [... the Palestinian] national identity questioned and denied":
My response:
While the Irish and Arab peoples are both noble peoples of antiquity, the name "Palestinians" refers to those very same Arab people:
Quote:"The Palestinians are those Arab nationals [...]"
Source:
The Amended Palestinian National Charter (1968) - English, Article 5.
Further, by comparison with the Irish people, the Palestinian Arabs claimed to be a "people" only from about 1964:
Quote:“When was the “Palestinian people” actually created? Simply using the Google Ngram Viewer provides the answer.”
[You can use Ngram to do this using the following URL:]
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?co...53B%252Cc0
Extract source:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11401...ian-people
L. Varadkar:
"displacement, of dispossession [...] forced emigration":
My response:
"Displacement" / "Dispossession":
Some Palestinian Arab displacement was due to the civil war the Palestinian Arabs commenced to oppose the United Nations Partition Plan under resolution 181, and in which they sought to take ALL the land and expel the Jews.
There has never been any indigenous "Palestine" or Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the Palestinian Arabs could base any claim to any part of the land.
"Forced emigration":
The allegation is reverse-fact falsehood propaganda. Not only is there no evidence of any policy by Israel/the Jews to expel Arabs, but there is clear evidence the Arabs sought to expel or murder the Jews:
1929 Hebron massacre of Jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
The Jews expelled from East Jerusalem (“Old City”) by the Jordanians in 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamizati...occupation
Upon Israel becoming Re-established, Arabs were made citizens and there are Israeli Arab lawmakers.
Judaism (“Jew”=citizen of “Judah” is both an ethnicity as well as a religion:
Quote:“[...] Jewish identity is also commonly defined through ethnicity. [...]”
Extract source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F
Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland - Take a look at a map of the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel, which was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom (including the "West Bank" - land of the previous Jewish Kingdoms of Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and the Golan Heights), with its capital of (what is now "East") Jerusalem; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg
The Palestinian Arabs dropped the name “Arab” because they do not want you to understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate, to take advantage of higher wages through Jewish returnee-exiles:
Quote:“[...] most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine were migrant workers and descendants of the 1832-1947 wave of Arab/Muslim immigration from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, North Africa, Bosnia, India, Afghanistan, etc. While the British Mandate encouraged Arab immigration, it blocked Jewish immigration.”
Extract source:
http://theettingerreport.com/arab-migrat...n-society/
84 of 100 of the highest incidence Palestinian surnames (Palestine region in 2004), had highest incidence outside that region:
My extract source document:
“Country Origin of Palestinian Arab Surnames upd.pdf” - information source “forebears.io”:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9d115bv6w...d.pdf/file
L. Varadkar:
"Discrimination":
My response:
He chooses to ignore the ongoing terrorism by the Palestinian Arabs in particular Fatah ("Palestinian Authority, the"), against Israeli Jewish civilians. It is the consequential Israeli security measures that the Palestinian Arabs complain to the Media as, among other terms: "discrimination".
Example:
Maia Dee, 20, her sister Rina, 15, and their mother, died in the “West Bank” (Judah and Samaria) when their car came under fire from “Palestinian” Arab terrorists; report May 4, 2023:
https://news.sky.com/story/palestinian-g...d-12872594
L. Varadkar:
"Hunger":
My response:
This refers to the current conflict which started with the massacre of Israelis by the Palestinian Arabs - Hamas, on October 7, 2023, during which many Israeli hostages were taken into Gaza. While the Irish Prime Minister also referred to the need to bring the Israeli hostages home, yet he failed to explain why Israel should increase the food aid it is allowing in to Gaza, while Hamas continues to refuse even to provide a list of those Israeli hostages still alive.
By the way, since Hamas purports to provide frequent (unverified though they are) update-figures for Palestinian Arab casualties in Gaza despite the ongoing hostilities that it worked so hard to bring about, it is presumably also therefore capable of providing that list of the hostages.
