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Aug 20, 2024, 6:37 AM

Bridging Proposals A Bridge Too Far For Hamas

Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about the continuing terrible Israel/Gaza war. For those viewing events from the outside who genuinely want the conflict to end, never resume and all the hostages released, there is a deep...

Jun 27, 2024, 12:49 PM

Israel needs a competent united government

Current Government Long Past Its Sell-By Date Israeli politics for an outsider looking in have for decades been complex. Since the days when Israel’s Labour Party was the dominant political force, coalition governments have been formed involving a variety of...

Apr 20, 2024, 9:04 AM

Ireland’s Government is an Embarrassment

Other EU states should ignore its campaign to recognise State of Palestine

Apr 8, 2024, 10:05 PM

Hamas’s Primary Interest to Restore Its Gaza Rule

The only issue now central to the continuation of the Israel/ Gaza war from the perspective of Hamas is whether Hamas can reinstate its barbaric, Islamic fundamentalist, authoritarian, terrorist rule of Gaza upon the conclusion of hostilities or whether...

Mar 26, 2024, 3:31 PM

Time for Netanyahu to go

There can be no doubt that the Netanyahu led coalition government formed on the 29th December 2022, Israel’s thirty-seventh government, is and will be historically judged the most disastrous, incompetent, dysfunctional government in modern Israel’s 76 year history. There...

Mar 8, 2024, 6:43 AM

Confront Irish Premier During St Patricks Day USA Visit

The Irish government has for many years used St Patricks Day, 17th March, for a multiplicity of co-ordinated global diplomatic and public relations initiatives, to promote Ireland as an attractive EU base for multinational companies and to attract tourism....

Nov 27, 2023, 3:22 PM

As if Israel simply woke up one morning and chose to attack Gaza

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (iStock)

A grotesque, fact-free letter by 620 Irish academics accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocidal violence

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About Me

Alan Shatter is a former Irish Minister for Justice, Equality & Defence, a former chairperson of the Irish Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee, a former member of the EU’s Council of Justice & Home Affairs Ministers & Council of Defence Ministers, a Fellow of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, Chairperson of Magen David Adom Ireland, a retired solicitor advocate, author of academic legal works, novels and occasional and an occasional lecturer and broadcaster on legal issues and contemporary Irish domestic and international politics. The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs is included amongst the publications for which he has written.

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