Author,lawyer, board member Israel Council on Foreign Relations,former TD,Justice & Defence Minister & Irish Parl Foreign Affairs Cmtee chair. Chair MDA Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
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Alan Shatter retweeted
Difficult to get more dumber than protesting ‘apartheid’ to an Arab-Israeli music ensamble performing in London. “ Stupid is as Stupid does” Forrest Gump.
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Teachers for Palestine & their teacher supporters want to bring their partisan toxic politics & symbols into children’s classrooms & believe parents have no rights, as their children’s primary guardians & carers, to object. They also believe school management is not entitled to manage in the best interests of a school’s pupils. The arrogance, sense of entitlement & lack of insight is stunning.
South Dublin school seeks reporting restrictions in teacher keffiyeh case
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Rumour that a Dail motion condemning the snake attack imminent & as soon as our Foreign Minister sees the video a statement will issue. Gotta condemn the Zionist snakes! Meet at 2pm tomorrow Thursday at Garden of Remembrance to join the protest
Whats been happening in Ireland is being seen globally “Congratulations to Ireland and elements of the Irish "pro-Palestine" industrial complex for embracing Hamas apologists who preach anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-Indian, anti-tolerance, and sectarian politics while packaging it as "solidarity." These "activists" like this despicable figure demand that elected officials in the U.S. and Europe devote themselves entirely to Gaza, yet spare Hamas any accountability for the misery it has inflicted on Palestinians.”
Long live imported jihadism in Europe!! Congratulations to Ireland and elements of the Irish "pro-Palestine" industrial complex for embracing Hamas apologists who preach anti-Western, anti-liberal, anti-Indian, anti-tolerance, and sectarian politics while packaging it as "solidarity." These "activists" like this despicable figure demand that elected officials in the U.S. and Europe devote themselves entirely to Gaza, yet spare Hamas any accountability for the misery it has inflicted on Palestinians. When winter floods devastate displaced Gazan families, the blame must fall on Israel, America, Arab/Muslim states, NGOs, and virtually anyone else, but never the Islamist fascist regime that governs Gaza.
Meanwhile, moderate Palestinians in Gaza who reject terrorism, oppose Hamas, and seek normal lives routinely face greater obstacles to obtain immigration visas to Europe than the radicals who dominate the conversation. I've been involved in helping anti-Hamas Gazans obtain Visas in Europe; they face awful obstacles VS. actual Hamasniks.
A word of advice to Western politicians hoping to build careers around "pro-Palestine" Gaza activism: don't. The same ideological ecosystem that elevates you today will denounce you tomorrow if you deviate even slightly from its orthodoxy. Once you become a vehicle for a foreign cause rather than the local/domestic constituents you were elected to represent, there is no room for nuance, moderation, or independent judgment.
Reject extremism, reject political romanticization of militancy, and stop giving a platform to those who excuse or glorify Palestinian terrorism in the name of anti-Zionism and "pro-Palestine" activism.
P.S. Read the individual's own words before rushing to defend them.
Alan Shatter retweeted
The Republican lead House Oversight Committee yesterday published its report into the US authorities failure to properly investigate and address allegations of sexual and other offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein. The report is generating inevitable controversy. A proposal it contains is relevant both within and outside the US and should result in new legislation being enacted by the Dáil. It is that a Bill be enacted “ to prevent the weaponisation of non-disclosure agreements to silence survivors” of abuse.
Alan Shatter retweeted
The images coming out of Gaza this week - flooded tents, displaced families and people suffering in the rain - were entirely predictable. Winter is not a surprise and hundreds of thousands of people are living in makeshift tents, while Gaza faces severe sewage and drainage problems.
None of this needed to happen like this. Smart policy is about anticipating problems before they become crises. Israel should have prepared months ago, allowing in temporary housing units, better tents and the infrastructure needed to get people through the winter.
Instead, the government did not and now, rather than being seen as a country that anticipated a humanitarian crisis and acted responsibly to prevent it, Israel looks like it is responding to international pressure.
Is Hamas to blame for the situation in Gaza? Yes. If it disarmed - as it is supposed to under the @BoardOfPeace plan - would the situation change? Of course. But we do not have the luxury to wait for that. With a little foresight, strategic planning and basic compassion, Israel could have prevented the diplomatic pressure that has inevitably arrived.
The farce that the UN has become. Now as discredited as the old League of Nations that fell into disrepute before WW2.
Difficult to get more dumber than protesting ‘apartheid’ to an Arab-Israeli music ensamble performing in London. “ Stupid is as Stupid does” Forrest Gump.
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Alan Shatter retweeted
Child soldier Louay Aqel took part in the 10/7 massacre and was killed in action that same day. Aqel is one of over 400 confirmed 10/7 attackers (so far) that appear on the Gaza Ministry of Health’s 70,000+ fatality list and lamented by many as an innocent child killed in Gaza.
Alan Shatter retweeted
What happened at Trinity College, Dublin today should be universally condemned
As I've warned repeatedly, the sheer cult-like nature of the "Free Palestine" movement in Ireland has made it exceedingly prone to political violence
I am heartened to see that the exceptional men and women of the Gardaí were on site and prepared for these criminal agitators, who don't represent the many decent, hardworking people of Ireland who are increasingly tired of the these goons and their antisocial antics
Alan Shatter retweeted
A London Free Palestine crowd is charging the British Library with genocide tonight for hosting a concert by three Arab and three Jewish Israeli musicians.
The boycott movement calls Arabs and Jews working together "normalization" and tries to stop it. Coexistence is the thing they are protesting, because it proves their story about Israel wrong.
🎥: @fatdea
Alan Shatter retweeted
Hamas is dedicated to maximising the misery of Palestinians in Gaza resulting from winter weather just as it remains dedicated to maximising Palestinian civilian casualties in its initiated conflict with Israel. In its world they are mere pawns in its extreme Islamist global propaganda war.
🚨URGENT: Hamas militias in Gaza barred engineer Ahmed Al-Talouli from working with the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing to help provide tents for displaced families during the winter storm.
They forced him to sign a pledge not to carry out any ministry-related work in Gaza. After being threatened today, he deleted his post.
The Palestinian Authority, through its Ministry of Public Works and Housing and in partnership with UNDP, launched a project to establish camps using durable fiberglass shelter units. Yet just one day before the rainstorm, Hamas arrested the ministry’s engineers and crews, forced them to sign pledges not to work in Gaza except through Hamas, and confiscated the tents.
Hamas is not only failing to help Gaza’s people face the winter storm; it is actively preventing others from helping them.
This story has been completely ignored by pro-Palestinian activists and media in the West. Because Hamas is responsible for this abuse, they have chosen to stay silent.
Alan Shatter retweeted
Ireland’s Senior Women’s Sixes team finished second in Pool B at the 2026 European Sixes Lacrosse Championships in Salou, Spain, with three wins from four games. Team Israel won the gold. No “ Stop the Game” Campaign, no boycott, no hate, no protest. Just sanity & just sport!
ISRAEL'S WOMEN'S LACROSSE TEAM ARE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS! 🥇🥍🇮🇱
Team Israel claimed gold at the European Sixes Lacrosse Championship in Spain, winning the final 11:10 and finishing the entire tournament undefeated! 💪
The victory also secures their spot at the 2027 World Championship, another step toward the LA 2028 Olympics!
What an incredible achievement for Israeli women's sports! 🇮🇱👏
📸 World Lacrosse
#lacrosse #womenslacrosse #europeanchampions #womeninsports #teamisrael
The Republican lead House Oversight Committee yesterday published its report into the US authorities failure to properly investigate and address allegations of sexual and other offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein. The report is generating inevitable controversy. A proposal it contains is relevant both within and outside the US and should result in new legislation being enacted by the Dáil. It is that a Bill be enacted “ to prevent the weaponisation of non-disclosure agreements to silence survivors” of abuse.
Alan Shatter retweeted
There is absolutely no evidence of genocide by Israel. Accusations are part of a political warfare campaign intended to lead to the annihilation of Israel. If you support that campaign you have genocidal intent.
Alan Shatter retweeted
As sewage floods Gaza every winter, people in Gaza have started referring to Hamas’s October 7 attack, dubbed “Al-Aqsa Flood,” as the “Shit Flood.”
Remember when Hamas proudly boasted about turning water pipes into rockets to attack Israel
Alan Shatter retweeted
Recall many years ago attending a Fine Gael branch meeting outside Dublin in the backroom of a pub that was supposed to start at 8pm but didn’t start till after 9.30 to facilitate those attending have “ a few drinks”. After the meeting got going the chair introduced me with a 25 mts speech on the topic I had been asked to address. Reminded of that evening by Rowan Atkinson skit below.
Rowan Atkinson barely says a word, yet somehow ends up being the funniest person in the room.
The two hosts spend the introduction congratulating Reverend Sebastian on a speech they've practically delivered themselves. Every joke gets explained, every clever point gets revealed, and they even manage to spoil the ending while insisting they wouldn't dream of spoiling it.
What makes this brilliant is the contrast. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are completely comfortable with their own performance, while Rowan Atkinson's silence says everything.
Sometimes the best comedy isn't what someone says. It's what they're forced to sit through.
Alan Shatter retweeted
Palestinian Hamas’s own videos show it digging up water pipes and turning them into rockets to attack Israel.
Infrastructure meant to serve Gazans is sacrificed to fuel Hamas’s war.
When the rains come and sewage floods Gaza’s streets, outrage should be directed at Hamas.
Alan Shatter retweeted
Ali Ashour is the SIXTIETH Gaza "journalist" Hamas & PIJ themselves confirm was a combatant. The IDF listed Ashour among 170 combatant "journalists" citing a captured Hamas document as evidence, dismissed as unreliable. But now Hamas itself confirms the IDF was right. SIXTY! 1/
