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Ireland Wants To Boycott Israel- Raw Reaction from ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA AND PAGS PERSPECTIVE 7-27-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I haven't my issues last week with mum
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  Speaker 2: Donnie telling the world he wants to arrest Benjaminett Yahoo
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  Speaker 2: when he comes to New York and then doubles out
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  Speaker 2: and says he's not welcome in New York City and
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  Speaker 2: to go protest, you know, that feels like inciting violence.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but you just can't say
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  Speaker 2: that to go protest a leader like that, because we
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  Speaker 2: know the radicals will go absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 3: So mum Donnie has really slipped further then I thought
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  Speaker 3: he could.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is low of low. Saying to the
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  Speaker 2: world he wants to arrest Net and Yahoo is just
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  Speaker 2: I look at it as a further plan to arrest
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish people in the Jewish community for even the
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  Speaker 2: little things.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm hearing when mum Donnie says that.
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  Speaker 2: But the Irish and the Ireland government says, hold my beer,
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  Speaker 2: Meyrimum Donnie, because guess what, Ireland's parliament and I love
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  Speaker 2: the country of Ireland, I love my.
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  Speaker 3: Irish heritage, said said this.
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  Speaker 2: They are banning the import of goods from Jewish communities
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  Speaker 2: in Judea and Samaria and much of Jerusalem, which it
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  Speaker 2: calls settlements in the occupied Palisides. They are part of
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  Speaker 2: the BDS movement now and that is anti Semitic, and
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  Speaker 2: that is ridiculous. And you know, Ireland, the people of
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  Speaker 2: Ireland have been revolting for years about the immigration crisis,
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  Speaker 2: about the way the government's been running. Add this to
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  Speaker 2: the list. I went to Ireland right around this time.
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  Speaker 2: I was still there eighteen years ago, and I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I loved it. I love going to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: They have their own version of the White House and meeting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the President's people of Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: But this is too far.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought letting immigrants in from other countries and
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  Speaker 2: all that, which totally negates what Saint Patrick's did, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for goodness sakes, the whole point of driving
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  Speaker 2: it out was driving out those who were not assimilated,
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  Speaker 2: who were not in the Irish culture for the better,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I remind you, and the whole conversion
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  Speaker 2: of Christianity part as well. But the other part was
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  Speaker 2: driving out the snakes that were not assimilated.
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  Speaker 3: But now, even though.
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  Speaker 2: I'm five percent, I relate to Ireland and the Irish
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  Speaker 2: people so much I'm hurt by this as also being Jewish.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hurt that one of our allies in America, Ireland,
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  Speaker 2: one of our closest friends. By the way, nearly thirty
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  Speaker 2: years after Bill Clinton and George Mitchell teamed up to
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  Speaker 2: bring peace between the North and the South of Ireland.
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  Speaker 3: Now they say to.
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  Speaker 2: No longer transact with Israel, hurting the economy, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: making a statement the Irish government doesn't stand with the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people.
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  Speaker 3: When I read this article in the Post, is why
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  Speaker 3: I keep Day's old post.
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  Speaker 2: Because you never know what're gonna find. George Mason, University,
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  Speaker 2: Scalia Law School. Interesting enough, Professor Eugene Kontarovich wrote this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: About how.
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  Speaker 2: Ireland's parliament is not only punishing Israel but giving a
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  Speaker 2: win for rom Us. He writes this, which I find
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  Speaker 2: very interesting. The ultimate goal of BDS is to create
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  Speaker 2: a jew free zone in and around Jerusalem. Irish politicians
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  Speaker 2: have been promoting such a law since twenty eighteen, but
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  Speaker 2: it took the October seventh massacre and Israel's subsequent war
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  Speaker 2: to rescue its hostages and defetams to inspire Dublin's final push.
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  Speaker 3: I've bid to Dublin. I love the country, I love
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  Speaker 3: the city of Dublin.
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  Speaker 2: This is heartbreaking, Hamas here's the message, loud and clear.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it loses on the ground, forcing Israel to
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  Speaker 2: defend itself results in big diplomatic victories.
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  Speaker 3: Who side are you on? Allies?
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  Speaker 2: And you know you could disagree with then ya, you
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  Speaker 2: could disagree with the way that's been run, but you
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  Speaker 2: cannot disagree with the country and its people. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: punish its people for the leadership flaws. Not And by
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  Speaker 2: the way, here in New York there was a stabbing
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  Speaker 2: of a Jewish New Yorker just days after Mum Donnie
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  Speaker 2: said the arrest of Dante called for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: Ntew coincidence.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: But to read this and to love Saint Patrick's Day
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  Speaker 2: and to have marched that in twenty twenty six, and
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  Speaker 2: to have enjoyed going to Ireland when I was sixteen
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  Speaker 2: years old, and to really lock in with that side
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  Speaker 2: of my heritage, to see it go against Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Ireland tends to be a very politically
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  Speaker 2: quiet nation, wouldn't you agree, Ryan? I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: very politically quiet nation, so for it to step into
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  Speaker 2: this hurts and you're Irish, shoo, this got a hurt
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  Speaker 2: to hear this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no, that definitely hurts.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like the one thing that I can
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  Speaker 4: think of just kind of hearing this for the first time.
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  Speaker 4: So this is my wrong reaction right here is this arst.
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  Speaker 4: It's not Rosy O'donnald's fault coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: I think not.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, very interesting point because.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, you can't help but wonder if Rosie O'donald,
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  Speaker 4: of all people, didn't move to Ireland to get away
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  Speaker 4: from Donald Trump and his policies and all that lifelong
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  Speaker 4: enemy of hers, by the way, even before he became president.
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  Speaker 4: You can't help but think as a hardcore liberal, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: she it's probably not that hard to assume.
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  Speaker 1: What views she may have about the Israel kalestein conflict
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  Speaker 1: of all that.
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  Speaker 4: You can't help but think if that's perhaps rubbing off
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  Speaker 4: on the Irish government and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But for a pretty quiet government.
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  Speaker 4: It just feels weird hearing them now say or really
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  Speaker 4: call out the US of their involvement with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And look, you could say what you want about the
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  Speaker 1: conflict in the end.
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  Speaker 4: But there's no doubt that the US and Israel, regardless
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  Speaker 4: of whatever the heck is going on in this conflict,
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  Speaker 4: they are both of these nations are far and away
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  Speaker 4: big economic power, and they're both bringing in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money for both nations.
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  Speaker 1: There's no denying that.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a strong relationship.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what hurts is that the Irish have
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  Speaker 2: a strong relationship with the US.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, how many Irish lads are here
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  Speaker 4: in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Ireland ancestry professor Contarage wrote as his headline, the Irish
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  Speaker 2: Israel boycott begs for US sanctions and I on think
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  Speaker 2: we've ever sanctioned Ireland before. But look, if they're going
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  Speaker 2: to take this stance, And did you know I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know this, but US laws require the Treasury Department to
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  Speaker 2: maintain a current list of countries which require or may
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  Speaker 2: require participation in or cooperation with, an international boycott. If
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  Speaker 2: Ireland ends up on that list, that's an embarrassment, an
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  Speaker 2: embarrassment to you know, the Irish people, who probably didn't
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  Speaker 2: want what's going on right.
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  Speaker 3: Now now, they protest them a lot.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I don't notice that, but they do
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of protests over in Ireland about the
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  Speaker 2: way the government's running things. It's just an embarrassment if
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  Speaker 2: Ireland ends up on this list for not siding with Israel.
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  Speaker 4: But then say they end up on this list, right, Alex,
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  Speaker 4: what's that gonna do for the tourism numbers? And it's
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  Speaker 4: probably not too far fetched to think that the tourism
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  Speaker 4: numbers are gonna go down a lot. So you can't
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  Speaker 4: help but think this decision alone is gonna hurt the
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  Speaker 4: economy of Ireland. And I would hate to see that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I love the country Ireland. I've never been
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  Speaker 4: there and I've always wanted to go there, But I
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  Speaker 4: just can't help but think the way that things are
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  Speaker 4: being run right now, it's not gonna end well. And
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  Speaker 4: I hate to put it like that, but that's just
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  Speaker 4: the truth. The trajectory that they're on right now, it's
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  Speaker 4: certainly not a good one. And don't be surprised, Alex,
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  Speaker 4: if we're talking in five years, ten years from now
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  Speaker 4: and the conversation is about Ireland's economy falling to sugar, honey,
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  Speaker 4: iced tea and full and the torres and.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers fallen completely.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's a whole domino effect that's gonna play
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  Speaker 4: out more than likely in the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: It gets even more interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So Ireland claims its move upholds international law, but the
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  Speaker 2: hypocrisy is glaring. It has imposed no similar rules on
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  Speaker 2: goods from other disputed territories, such as China, despite Bejing's
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  Speaker 2: massive and ongoing human rights abuses.
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  Speaker 3: I love this line from Conterovitch.
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  Speaker 2: Ireland isn't about to shutter it's movie theaters showing the Odyssey,
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  Speaker 2: even though parts of it was filmed in western Sahara,
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  Speaker 2: which the Union regards as occupied territory.
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  Speaker 3: It's been applies only.
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  Speaker 2: To Jewish towns that becomes anti Semitic in addition to
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  Speaker 2: anti Israel. So I don't know where ireland Is leadership's
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  Speaker 2: gone south.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to know. I guess it's been going on
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  Speaker 3: to twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: But it's hurtful and it's a shocker because Ireland normally
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  Speaker 2: is like Switzerland.
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  Speaker 3: They don't make any kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of commentary in these national international affairs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's almost rare that they do.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's like Anley's comment and then the one
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  Speaker 4: time that they actually do weigh in on something political.
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  Speaker 4: It just becomes such huge news because they've always had
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  Speaker 4: the stereotype of just, you know, staying silent on issues
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  Speaker 4: that you know may or may not pertain to them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this would necessarily pertain.
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  Speaker 5: To them, perhaps being all about the conflict between Israel
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  Speaker 5: and Palsign about control of Gaza and all that, but
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they have certainly made themselves irrelevant in it now,
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  Speaker 5: I'll say that much.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on this. I really hope
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  Speaker 2: they're on a bottle list. I really hope the Irish
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  Speaker 2: people can fight back on this and and really continue
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  Speaker 2: to fight to protect their own country, their own homeland.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, one about the Irish is they really stick
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  Speaker 2: together and they defend their turf wholeheartedly, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what they've They've done it how many
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  Speaker 4: times throughout history, correct, especially when they immigrate immigrated through
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  Speaker 4: Elis Island legally into the United States.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them stuck together then.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: There's no reason why they can't stick together now, especially
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  Speaker 4: through a trying time.
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  Speaker 2: I want to also note this President Trump's first administration,
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  Speaker 2: Eugene can teravt Rates clearly stated its opposition is to
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  Speaker 2: Ireland's law. Even the Biden administration warned Dublin of consequences.
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  Speaker 2: Even the Biden administration knew this was a bad move.
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  Speaker 1: The auto po that knew the bad move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, But animosity to Israel runs so deep in Ireland.
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  Speaker 2: The only criticism the law got from opponents was that
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't go far enough that its legislators decided passing
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  Speaker 2: a symbolic Israel bashing bill is more important than good
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  Speaker 2: relations with Washington. I am just stunned to have flipped
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  Speaker 2: through the New York Post and read that the Irish
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  Speaker 2: government is going against Israel. I have to figure out
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  Speaker 2: the historical context of that, because the Irish always seem
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  Speaker 2: very welcoming and always, you know, as we got a
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  Speaker 2: new photo from of Mitch Bacado by the way, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: The Irish always feel like friendly, welcome more people. I
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  Speaker 2: could never see them as an anti Semitic bone in
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  Speaker 2: their body.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot see that. So I'm gonna look deeper at this.
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  Speaker 2: But I really hope that Ireland does not push forward,
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  Speaker 2: that they get some as our friend John cats me
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  Speaker 2: just as common sense and does not side with Hamas
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  Speaker 2: in this very ugly, ugly conflict and that's our
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  Speaker 3: At one leg a balx Media today