Sinn Fein official: 'Israel is an apartheid state'
"A party that murdered 1,800 of its own people...can not moralize," stated MK Michael Oren [Kulano].
By Hagay Hacohen
Irish Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile [Sinn Féin] called on the Irish
Football Association (FAI) to withdraw from the upcoming games because
they are to take place in Israel.
Speaking on Thursday with the Belfast Telegraph, Donnghaile claimed that
"Israel is an apartheid state which is involved in the slaughter of
Palestinian civilians." In response, MK Michael Oren [Kulano] took to
social media on Friday to respond by saying that: "A political party
that murdered 1,800 of its own people, and is active in a country
divided in two due to civil war, can not moralize to a country where
Jews and Arabs live in together side by side."
Sinn Fein also called to cancel Northern Ireland's friendly match
against Israel on September 11, yet the two teams played as planned and
the Northern Irish team defeated Israel 3 to nil. Sinn Fein, which means
"We Ourselves" in Irish, is an Irish political party that holds that
Northern Ireland should be a part of the Irish republic and not, as it
currently is, a part of the United Kingdom.
This position lead to the Irish Civil War (1922- 1923) in which
hard-liners from Sinn Fein rejected the Anglo-Irish treaty that lead to
the creation of the Irish Republic and took arms against Irish
Republicans who wanted to secure Irish independence even if it meant
leaving Northern Ireland out.
It is during that war that roughly 2,000 Irish citizens died on both
sides, which is the figure Oren is using. Even after the Irish Civil
War ended Sinn Fein claimed, and still does, that Northern Ireland
should be a part of Ireland. Terrorist acts meant to make the British to
yield control of Northern Ireland did not end until 1998 when the Good
Friday Agreement was signed.
Donnghaile is known as a hardliner, when he served as Lord Mayor of
Belfast the Deputy Lord Mayor refused to speak with him or shake his
hand as she was of the Democratic Unionist Party [DUP], which wishes
Northern Ireland to remain in the UK.
In 2017 Jewish News reported that the DUP is highly supportive of
Israel, not least so as both communities know what it's like to suffer
from terrorism.
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