“For the first time since 2006 the state has admitted it allowed munitions of war – onboard a US military plane authorised by Simon Harris to touch down at Shannon Airport – to travel through Irish territory on their way to Israel.
Transport minister Darragh O’Brien granted an exemption to the war plane carrying munitions from the US Department of War airbase to Nevatim Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base.”
Ireland’s neutrality looks more and more like incompetence/weakness/literally just lying every year tbh. If you’re gonna say you’re neutral, actually be neutral…
Doubt anything will change though.
Lessons were learned
Well duh
Deny deny deny deny for months. Then admit it.
Did the plane make an unplanned, emergency stop in Shannon?
Disgusting. Never mind passing the Occupied Territories Bill, they were actively assisting the genocide.
Those weapons could have been used – and very possibly were used – to murder innocent children.
Spineless to the core. Business and money put above morals, every single time.
Darragh O Brien’s next statement- “The State of Israel is Ireland’s greatest ally”
For all the people that can’t be bothered reading. A single plane was given an exemption last week after the ceasefire and we’ve no idea what was onboard.
This is just typical deliberately misleading rubbish from the Ditch.
This feels like a betrayal. Perhaps I was naive giving Harris the benefit of the doubt, but now it turns out that his weasel words disguised the state’s complicity in the genocide, making us citizens also, but unwillingly, complicit. An ICC arrest warrant should be issued.
So hold on,
We are a neutral country AND we are opposed to Israel and we’ve allowed weapons to travel through our sovereign territory to them?
I believe Israel has a right to exist, it follows then that it has a right defend itself.
If the Electric Picnic was attacked with 1200 killed and 200 kidnapped, we’d probably understand Israeli rage more.
In other countries this would bring down the government and rightly so
The order of vassal states USA>UK>EU>Ireland . No creamy Guinness advert is going to change the fact Europe was taken over by America in 1945 and we do their bidding.
The worst fucking thing is that the FFG supporters will try and justify their blood stained hands. I am going to e mail my local TD. This is very very inappropriate for a minister. As stated in other countries we would be on the Streets
Anything that former housing minister touches ends up in a much worse state.
Could all the gobshites who were denying this happens a few months back on here chime up please? Just so we can point and laugh.
I’m confused, people understand that Ireland isn’t neutral, nor politically neutral and that our country is only militarily neutral meaning no military alliance or defensive alliance but this is only a policy of DFA, not constitutional or law?
Don’t get me wrong, I get that lying is wrong regardless but this doesn’t contravene any law nor compromise our policy of military neutrality.
I complete disagree with this
The headline doesn’t even match the article. The state didn’t admit that.
They granted a rare exemption but it’s not known what was on board.
As someone who believed that neither the contractor nor the powers that be would be *dumb* enough to allow this to happen (more fool me), I’ll take the hits.
Now can we get interceptor planes that can go up and stop them transiting our airspace without notice?
Let’s do another no confidence vote please and this time, we should all protest. This is disgusting. I hate this government. A bunch of inept morons leeching off the taxpayers that do nothing
What’s the problem? The US is an ally of Ireland and this maintains good relations.
Disgrace
Whoever approved that should be fired. It goes against what we stand for as a country.
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“For the first time since 2006 the state has admitted it allowed munitions of war – onboard a US military plane authorised by Simon Harris to touch down at Shannon Airport – to travel through Irish territory on their way to Israel.
Transport minister Darragh O’Brien granted an exemption to the war plane carrying munitions from the US Department of War airbase to Nevatim Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base.”
Ireland’s neutrality looks more and more like incompetence/weakness/literally just lying every year tbh. If you’re gonna say you’re neutral, actually be neutral…
Doubt anything will change though.
Lessons were learned
Well duh
Deny deny deny deny for months. Then admit it.
Did the plane make an unplanned, emergency stop in Shannon?
Disgusting. Never mind passing the Occupied Territories Bill, they were actively assisting the genocide.
Those weapons could have been used – and very possibly were used – to murder innocent children.
Spineless to the core. Business and money put above morals, every single time.
Darragh O Brien’s next statement- “The State of Israel is Ireland’s greatest ally”
For all the people that can’t be bothered reading. A single plane was given an exemption last week after the ceasefire and we’ve no idea what was onboard.
This is just typical deliberately misleading rubbish from the Ditch.
This feels like a betrayal. Perhaps I was naive giving Harris the benefit of the doubt, but now it turns out that his weasel words disguised the state’s complicity in the genocide, making us citizens also, but unwillingly, complicit. An ICC arrest warrant should be issued.
So hold on,
We are a neutral country AND we are opposed to Israel and we’ve allowed weapons to travel through our sovereign territory to them?
What the fuck?
So what did we get out of it.
It’s one thing to [decieve a Neutral country into letting military aircraft cross soverign airspace](https://www.twz.com/35025/the-time-when-the-usaf-got-caught-trying-to-sneak-f-117s-through-austrian-airspace), it’s another to roll out the red-stained carpet for them.
I believe Israel has a right to exist, it follows then that it has a right defend itself.
If the Electric Picnic was attacked with 1200 killed and 200 kidnapped, we’d probably understand Israeli rage more.
In other countries this would bring down the government and rightly so
The order of vassal states USA>UK>EU>Ireland . No creamy Guinness advert is going to change the fact Europe was taken over by America in 1945 and we do their bidding.
The worst fucking thing is that the FFG supporters will try and justify their blood stained hands. I am going to e mail my local TD. This is very very inappropriate for a minister. As stated in other countries we would be on the Streets
Anything that former housing minister touches ends up in a much worse state.
Could all the gobshites who were denying this happens a few months back on here chime up please? Just so we can point and laugh.
I’m confused, people understand that Ireland isn’t neutral, nor politically neutral and that our country is only militarily neutral meaning no military alliance or defensive alliance but this is only a policy of DFA, not constitutional or law?
Don’t get me wrong, I get that lying is wrong regardless but this doesn’t contravene any law nor compromise our policy of military neutrality.
I complete disagree with this
The headline doesn’t even match the article. The state didn’t admit that.
They granted a rare exemption but it’s not known what was on board.
As someone who believed that neither the contractor nor the powers that be would be *dumb* enough to allow this to happen (more fool me), I’ll take the hits.
Now can we get interceptor planes that can go up and stop them transiting our airspace without notice?
Let’s do another no confidence vote please and this time, we should all protest. This is disgusting. I hate this government. A bunch of inept morons leeching off the taxpayers that do nothing
What’s the problem? The US is an ally of Ireland and this maintains good relations.
Disgrace
Whoever approved that should be fired. It goes against what we stand for as a country.
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