{"id":300612,"date":"2024-12-18T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T09:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300612"},"modified":"2024-12-19T07:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T07:48:38","slug":"antisemitic-liar-israel-blasts-irish-presidents-claim-that-it-wants-to-settle-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=300612","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Antisemitic liar\u2019: Israel blasts Irish president\u2019s claim that it wants to settle Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Times of Israel \u2013 Dec 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_158304\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/greater-Israel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158304\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt size-full wp-image-158304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/greater-Israel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"506\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/greater-Israel.jpg 593w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/greater-Israel-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greater Israel.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar castigates comments made today by Ireland\u2019s president, who accused Israel of breaching Lebanon\u2019s and Syria\u2019s sovereignty and charged, without evidence, that Jerusalem is seeking to establish settlements in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/fm-saar-defends-dublin-embassy-closure-brands-irish-premier-an-antisemite\/\">defended<\/a> his decision to close Israel\u2019s embassy in Ireland, saying that Dublin \u201cencouraged\u201d antisemitism under a prime minister he accused of hating Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Responding earlier today, Irish President Michael Higgins said that \u201cit is a very serious business to actually brand a people because in fact they disagree with Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu, who is in breach of so many bits of international law, and who has beached the sovereignty of three of his neighbors, in relation to Lebanon, Syria, and would like in fact actually to have a settlement into Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think to suggest that because one criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu that one is antisemitic is such a gross defamation and slander,\u201d Higgins added during a ceremony where Palestinian Authority envoy Jilan Abdalmajid presented her letter of credence.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Michael D Higgins has said that to say the Irish people are anti-Semitic is a &#8220;gross defamation and slander&#8221;, and it is a &#8220;very serious business&#8221; to do so simply because people disagree with the actions of the Israeli Prime Minister.<br \/>\nRead more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hXpBuN3cHp\">https:\/\/t.co\/hXpBuN3cHp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8axNrZ6YOB\">pic.twitter.com\/8axNrZ6YOB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 News (@rtenews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtenews\/status\/1869022470574940616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFrom Lebanese territory, Israel\u2019s sovereignty was breached for over a year,\u201d he says. \u201cFor no reason and unprovoked, Hezbollah joined Hamas on October 8th [2023] and since then fired tens of thousands of missiles, rockets and drones at Israeli citizens and communities. Israel did what any country would \u2014 it defended itself against a brutal aggressor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Syria, Sa\u2019ar says: \u201cWhile Assad\u2019s regime disintegrated, armed groups entered the buffer zone and attacked UNDOF forces, in violation of the Disengagement Agreement from 1974. Israel temporarily entered a few limited points to prevent the threat of radical Islamists against its citizens and communities. Israel will not wait for another [onslaught resembling what Hamas did on] October 7th [2023] on any of its borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And regarding the Egypt settlement claim, he says: \u201cHiggins invented the claim that Israel seeks to form settlements there. In the context of our peace agreement with Egypt, Israel withdrew from a huge area \u2014 all of the Sinai desert, and uprooted all of its communities there. This peace agreement has been maintained since 1979.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/antisemitic-liar-israel-blasts-irish-presidents-claim-that-it-wants-to-settle-egypt\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global public opinion is turning against Israel big time. This will only get worse as Netanyahu pursues plans for a Greater Israel. To make matters worse for the Zionists, the more they respond to critics with allegations of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d the more hollow their allegations will sound  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300618,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300612\/revisions\/300618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}