Middle East and Iran attack
Deputy Connolly condemned Israel’s attack on Iran and criticised the lack of a debate on it; Deputy Bacik supported her comments. She reiterated that the strike was unprovoked and said Israel was posturing over nuclear arms.
I certainly do not agree with the Order of Business. We need to reflect on what is happening in the Middle East. We have had an unprovoked attack by Israel on Iran and the language around this is simply shameful.
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It is an unprovoked attack on a sovereign, independent country and we are not talking about it or making space for a debate. This is an attack by a rogue state, which the Government has agreed is committing genocide, that has now gone into Iran, and is suddenly the moral conscience in relation to nuclear armaments, which Iran does not process-----
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Israel is not even a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.