A huge congratulations to everyone involved in protesting week in week out and sent countless emails and called TDs and officials! You’re all legends and this is your victory!
Wow, so the thing that the government and Central Bank said they couldn’t do, they did.
The Government said this wasn’t possible, what has changed?
Excellent joined up policy making. Proud of all arms of the state doing joined up statecraft to deny funding through us of Israel, the genociders.
On to the occupied territories bill. And after that… EU sanctions against Israel.
Better late than never. Well done to all who stood and spoke up.
Absolutely great news
Fucking result. That’s what grassroots activism can do. They tried to minimise it as not a big deal or not possible to change and there you go. Fair play, hopefully this can inspire bigger countries to follow suit.
The Central Bank didn’t do anything. The bonds were due for renewal tomorrow and the Israeli’s chose Luxembourg to review their bonds prospectus instead of Ireland.
The headline is factual but misleading as it could suggest that Ireland has taken action here, we haven’t.
So the article doesn’t specify anything
Did the central bank refuse?
Did the Israelis just swap to Luxemburg?
It appears that Israel themselves switched from using Ireland to using Luxembourg. Whether this is in response to anything from the Irish side of the fence is not known (at least not from this article).
The Government was correct in that, had Israel determined to continue to use Ireland to approve the bonds for EU sale, the Central Bank would be legally obliged to do so – note that this does not mean that the Bank were in any way involved in actually selling them. Israel was only using Ireland when they needed to switch from London due to Brexit. So whether this move to Luxembourg is down to Irish protests or just because Israel just prefer Luxembourg is up in the air.
It looks like the Israelis just swapped rather than anything was done here tbh., so don’t know why people are congratulating themselves
Maybe next we can set up a coalition of the willing to help Palestine and we can set up government schemes to take in Palestinians.
We just have to get the eu president of the commission who only last month advised Israel that all of Europe stands with Israel. We also have to use our world class negotiating skills and get Germany to agree to sanction Israel. Currently they’re refusing to do so. https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar41d2b07a
It amazes me that we sanctioned Russia to the tune of over 2000 sanctions but not a single one has been placed on Israel. Why is the EU so pro Israeli?
Let’s just hope Israel doesn’t strike back now and see our actions as a neutral country as hostile. The United States keeps giving the government veiled threats about the pharma industry (lots of these companies although American have Israeli connections) I wonder would they use Americans to destroy our economy and empty Palestine out to Ireland. They’ve had several ministers threaten to do that very thing.
So it was possible. Amazing.
Well done to Pearse Doherty and Sinn Fein are helping make this happen and keeping the pressure on over this. Making it not worth Israel’s time.
You might not like them but they have put their money where their mouth is on this issue, unlike our lying government.
Embarrassing that it was the Israelis that switched and not us that tied the connection but I’m not shocked.
FF and FG were red in the face defending this all year. They’re jokes. I’m sure Pascal is devestated at this.
I’m happy we no longer facilitate this whoever took the decision, but I wish our government listened to opposition and plugged the plug first. If this was always something Israel could do, the writing was already on the wall.
That’s what having a centrist government will do though. Absolutely nothing.
Look, even if it was Israel’s decision to switch to Luxembourg. It’s still good news and their decision was probably influenced by the protests from the Irish people towards them for the absolute horrors they’ve committed. They are committing genocide no doubts about that. The approval of their bonds was not welcome here and so they’ve moved elsewhere. It’s a small win, but a win all the same. Now to try and get the approval of these bonds not welcome anywhere in the EU.
Outrageous that we even let them bring them here to begin with.
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A huge congratulations to everyone involved in protesting week in week out and sent countless emails and called TDs and officials! You’re all legends and this is your victory!
Wow, so the thing that the government and Central Bank said they couldn’t do, they did.
The Government said this wasn’t possible, what has changed?
Excellent joined up policy making. Proud of all arms of the state doing joined up statecraft to deny funding through us of Israel, the genociders.
On to the occupied territories bill. And after that… EU sanctions against Israel.
Better late than never. Well done to all who stood and spoke up.
Absolutely great news
Fucking result. That’s what grassroots activism can do. They tried to minimise it as not a big deal or not possible to change and there you go. Fair play, hopefully this can inspire bigger countries to follow suit.
The Central Bank didn’t do anything. The bonds were due for renewal tomorrow and the Israeli’s chose Luxembourg to review their bonds prospectus instead of Ireland.
The headline is factual but misleading as it could suggest that Ireland has taken action here, we haven’t.
So the article doesn’t specify anything
Did the central bank refuse?
Did the Israelis just swap to Luxemburg?
It appears that Israel themselves switched from using Ireland to using Luxembourg. Whether this is in response to anything from the Irish side of the fence is not known (at least not from this article).
The Government was correct in that, had Israel determined to continue to use Ireland to approve the bonds for EU sale, the Central Bank would be legally obliged to do so – note that this does not mean that the Bank were in any way involved in actually selling them. Israel was only using Ireland when they needed to switch from London due to Brexit. So whether this move to Luxembourg is down to Irish protests or just because Israel just prefer Luxembourg is up in the air.
It looks like the Israelis just swapped rather than anything was done here tbh., so don’t know why people are congratulating themselves
Maybe next we can set up a coalition of the willing to help Palestine and we can set up government schemes to take in Palestinians.
We just have to get the eu president of the commission who only last month advised Israel that all of Europe stands with Israel. We also have to use our world class negotiating skills and get Germany to agree to sanction Israel. Currently they’re refusing to do so. https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar41d2b07a
It amazes me that we sanctioned Russia to the tune of over 2000 sanctions but not a single one has been placed on Israel. Why is the EU so pro Israeli?
Let’s just hope Israel doesn’t strike back now and see our actions as a neutral country as hostile. The United States keeps giving the government veiled threats about the pharma industry (lots of these companies although American have Israeli connections) I wonder would they use Americans to destroy our economy and empty Palestine out to Ireland. They’ve had several ministers threaten to do that very thing.
So it was possible. Amazing.
Well done to Pearse Doherty and Sinn Fein are helping make this happen and keeping the pressure on over this. Making it not worth Israel’s time.
You might not like them but they have put their money where their mouth is on this issue, unlike our lying government.
Embarrassing that it was the Israelis that switched and not us that tied the connection but I’m not shocked.
FF and FG were red in the face defending this all year. They’re jokes. I’m sure Pascal is devestated at this.
I’m happy we no longer facilitate this whoever took the decision, but I wish our government listened to opposition and plugged the plug first. If this was always something Israel could do, the writing was already on the wall.
That’s what having a centrist government will do though. Absolutely nothing.
Look, even if it was Israel’s decision to switch to Luxembourg. It’s still good news and their decision was probably influenced by the protests from the Irish people towards them for the absolute horrors they’ve committed. They are committing genocide no doubts about that. The approval of their bonds was not welcome here and so they’ve moved elsewhere. It’s a small win, but a win all the same. Now to try and get the approval of these bonds not welcome anywhere in the EU.
Outrageous that we even let them bring them here to begin with.
In other news, they just published their [ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza](https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f86dd56a-de7f-4943-af4a-84819111b727.pdf).
Truly dystopian.
Will they still use our passports to do the odd assassination.
The unhappiness of many here at the news that the ICB is no longer ‘selling’ Israeli bonds is interesting.
Well done to all involved in bringing this to an end.
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