WPI calls for expulsion of Israeli Ambassador from Ireland

Workers Party of Ireland (WPI)

May 31, 2010

http://www.workerspartyireland.net/, wpi@indigo.ie

News Release

Israeli attack – time for terrorist state to be given pariah status

Call on Micheál Martin to break off Diplomatic Relations and expel Ambassador

The President of the Workers Party of Ireland, Michael Finnegan has called on Ireland to immediately break off diplomatic relations with Israel and to expel the Israeli Ambassador from this country.

Mr. Finnegan said that this morning’s Israeli commando attack on the international aid flotilla should remove any doubts that Israel operates with no regard for democratic rules and international law and must now be treated as a pariah state.

“Israel should be isolated and shunned by the international community until it demonstrates that it is prepared to operate under the norms of international law, end its terrorist actions and withdraw from the Palestinian territories”.

The Workers Party President said that the removal of some prominent individuals including three members of the Oireachtas from the flotilla before it left Cyprus suggests that a premeditated military attack against the aid convoy was being planned.

“This attack is completely in breach of international law and as an attack on a purely humanitarian convoy is a heinous and bloody crime of the type one would expect from a fascist regime, not a democratic state.  Given that there were a large number of Irish citizens on this flotilla and that Israel has recently used Irish passports in order to carry out a cold-blooded assassination, there is no longer any excuse for not throwing out the Israeli Ambassador and breaking off diplomatic relations and I am calling on Minister Micheál Martin to do this immediately”, said Michael Finnegan.