IRISH MP HUMILIATES ISRAELI AMBASSADOR - EPIC 👌
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Summary
Ambassador Danny Dweck is an Israeli politician and human rights activist who served as the Prime Minister of Israel between 1997 and 2006. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit Ireland. He is also the first person to visit the Irish Republic of Ireland, and is a regular visitor to Derry. In this interview, he talks about his views on the Israeli government's policies towards the Palestinians and their land grabs.
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Ambassador, I will say frankly I'm one of the people who thinks you should be expelled from this country
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and I believe that it's to do with the policies of your state.
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If I was Jewish and had never stepped foot in Israel, I could claim citizenship there tomorrow,
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but 6 million people whose origins are in what you now call Israel,
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who were forced out in 1947 or 1948, do not have that right.
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Isn't that part of the reason why the Palestinians are in dispute with Israelis?
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Because you deny them the right to return to their homes and to their land and to their villages
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and that they have a legitimate claim, even under international law, to return,
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And why do you give that right to other people who have no connection whatsoever with the land,
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whether you call it Israel or whether you call it Palestine?
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Why do you continue to seize land if you're serious about Oslo and the two-state solution,
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which under that agreement is land designated to be Palestinian land?
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500,000 people, most of which has taken place since Oslo.
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Why do you allow it to happen if you're serious about giving this land to the Palestinians?
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Are you not just taking us, Ambassador, for idiots that you can say with a straight face,
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we're serious about peace, but while we're serious about peace,
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And you expect the Palestinians to sit back and do nothing about that.
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Now you know what the Palestinian people have been asking for,
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because I believe the whole apartheid system should be dismantled.
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But what they've asked for is to lift the siege of Gaza.
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Let them not be dictated to by a government for whom they do not vote
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as to what can go in and out of their territories,
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What makes you think you're allowed to have nuclear weapons
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They have no territorial sovereignty over that land.
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and I would certainly describe your state as an apartheid state
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with different laws for people depending on their race or religion.
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For example, at checkpoints, going into the West Bank,
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there's a channel if you're Israeli or European
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Oh no, sir, you can't come in through the same entrance
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as Irish people or European people because you're Jewish.
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and your military barriers and your apartheid wall.