DUP’s Sammy Wilson says ‘Irish government in the past have acted like Hamas – no wonder they are anti-Israeli now’

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1. TEXT:

   DUP MP Sammy Wilson has hit out at the Irish government’s position on Israel, saying it reflects the state’s “historical record of defending terrorists”.

   He was reacting to comments from the Irish president and the taoiseach, both of whom had rebuked the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen for her early and full-throated backing of Israel.

   Soon after the Hamas attack on Israel, she had visited the country and told its leaders: “In the face of this unspeakable tragedy there’s only one possible response: Europe stands with Israel. And Israel has the right to defend itself, in fact it has the duty to defend its people.”

   Subsequently, Irish president Michael D Higgins told reporters: “It may not have been meant to have malevolent consequences, but certainly we need a better performance in relation to European Union diplomacy and practice.

   “I think that coming down on one side of these arguments is not a positive contribution… [it was] a thoughtless and even reckless set of actions.”

   Taoiseach Leo Varadkar also weighed in, saying her remarks “lacked balance”.

   He said Israel had the right to defend itself but that its response “must be exercised within the parameters of international humanitarian law”, adding: “Even wars have rules.

   “Collective punishment should not be inflicted on the population and Gaza. Citizens must be protected, and Gaza must have access to humanitarian aid.”

   In the course of his remarks, Mr Higgins had also said there had been “unanimous revulsion” at the attack by Hamas, and that he shared “the horror of all those who have been hearing and viewing the details”.

   Responding to the Irish leaders, Mr Wilson told the News Letter: “It’s quite clear they don’t take a balanced view. They’re quite clearly anti-Israeli.

   “No sooner were the words of condemnation out of their mouths about the horrific terrorist actions of Hamas than they were starting to blame Israel before Israel had even started to retaliate against Hamas terrorists.

   “The fact of the matter is of course that we know what the Irish government’s stance over the years has been to terrorism.

   “It wasn’t all that many years ago the Irish government were allowing Irish terrorists to hide across their border and commit atrocities against the Protestant population in Northern Ireland, refusing to extradite them, allowing them to have their training camps, allowing them to launch their attacks on people along the border.

   “Really, the Irish government didn’t do much different than Hamas are doing in Palestine, and you can see why they’d have some sympathy with them.

   “They were first out of the blocks to say aid should not be stopped to Gaza, even though there is well-documented evidence that that aid was being used by Hamas to pay their own terrorists, pay families of terrorists who were in jail in Israel and promote educational propaganda for schools in the Gaza strip.

2. And today’s shittest take goes to….

3. >Sammy Wilson

   i dont need to read the rest of it

4. Sammy Wilson in the past, present, and assuredly in the future acts like a cunt.

5. He is an asshole

6. The same Sammy Wilson who’s a naturist is it?

7. Oh look a bigoted sectarian unionist piece of shit , imagine that

8. “When I was a boyyy… the trains in Northern Ireland…. had faces”

9. Must be tough being this stupid

10. And unionist government’s have acted like the Ku Klux fucking Klan

11. What about the UVF or LVA?
    Are they not terrorist groups?
    Smels like pot kettle black here to me

12. In 1986 the DUP funded the Ulster Resistance movement in response to the 86 Anglo-Irish agreement.
    This movement was a pet project of Sammy Wilson, Ian Paisley and the Glenanne Gang, and it resulted in 200 Czech VZ58 machine guns being smuggled into Ireland through apartheid South Africa.
    These machine guns, AK47 derivatives, were used throughout the late 80s and early 90s to shoot up Irish bars in the North.
    Sammy Wilson is dripping with blood on his hands.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/troubled-past-the-paramilitary-connection-that-still-haunts-the-dup

13. Must’ve forgotten when the government led us into wars

14. Sammy Sausages

15. He’s a card, isn’t he? 🙄

16. An opinion so stupid it barely warrants a post here

17. We wear it like armour.

18. Maybe not the government but yea some sympathies are probably there becuase of similar struggles.

19. Sammy Wilson who publicly endorsed the UDA doomsday plan and has never been asked if he still does or to now condemn it

    > In early January 1994, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) released a document calling for repartition combined with ethnic cleansing or even genocide, with the goal of making Northern Ireland wholly Protestant. The plan was to be implemented should the British Army withdraw from Northern Ireland. The vastly Irish Catholic and nationalist areas would be handed over to the Republic, and those left stranded in the “Protestant state” would be **”expelled, nullified, or interned”**. The story was printed in the Sunday Independent newspaper on 16 January… **Sammy Wilson, then press officer for the Democratic Unionist Party and later the MP for East Antrim, spoke positively of the document, calling it a “valuable return to reality” and lauded the UDA for “contemplating what needs to be done to maintain our separate Ulster identity”.**

20. Don’t Unionists have a history of defending terrorists, though?

21. Colonisers gunna simp for colonisers I guess.

22. Sammy is the Irish government in the room with you right now?

23. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/troubled-past-the-paramilitary-connection-that-still-haunts-the-dup Think they might want to keep their gobs shut on this one.

24. Yes Sammy and the British govt in the past have acted like Israel no wonder you’re pro Israel

25. Why respond to DUP trolling?