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Related: About this forumIrish senator blasts Israel as ‘right-wing regime’ committing ‘criminal’ acts in epic rant
Norris said that over time, Israel has fundamentally shifted its social and political orientation.
I am not anti-Israeli, I am not anti-Semitic. I supported the state of Israel. In the forty years I have known the state of Israel and sometimes had a home there Ive seen it completely changed, he said.
It changed from a left-wing socially directed country, to an extreme right-wing regime, that is behaving in the most criminal fashion and defying the world. Using unscrupulously using the Holocaust to justify what they are doing and it is time that rag was torn away from them, Norris continued.
He ended his speech by saying, I am with human rights whether they are, Israeli, gay, women, black, whatever they are. I am not changing my position. I am not anti-Israel I am not anti-Semitic but I am pro human rights for every human.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/09/irish-senator-blasts-israel-as-right-wing-regime-committing-criminal-acts-in-epic-rant/
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Irish senator blasts Israel as ‘right-wing regime’ committing ‘criminal’ acts in epic rant (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2014
OP
I love epic rants, "tirade" is a better word. Fuelled by passion and truth.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#2
IDF and Israel Policy is to "shoot first, weep afterwards". Epic. At 3:30 onwards, for context.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#3
There would be all nations in Africa... The IRA experience is what he referred to as the parallel as
Fred Sanders
Aug 2014
#6
peacebird
(14,195 posts)1. I agree wholeheartedly! Brave man. K&R
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)10. It shouldn't be considered "brave" to speak up against the Right Wing.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. I love epic rants, "tirade" is a better word. Fuelled by passion and truth.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. IDF and Israel Policy is to "shoot first, weep afterwards". Epic. At 3:30 onwards, for context.
indivisibleman
(482 posts)4. Great speech.
I agree 100%.
swilton
(5,069 posts)5. Who could appreciate colonialism better than the Irish
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)6. There would be all nations in Africa... The IRA experience is what he referred to as the parallel as
to end the Palestinian/Israel conflict as he said in the speech towards the end.
At 4:37 he starts in on GW Bush but then it's edited out. I would like to have heard what he had to say about him too.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)9. I like how he mentions that Israel created Hamas....
It was because they claimed they couldn't deal with the PLO.
Hear! Hear! Senator Norris. Hear! Hear!
1dee4l2
(1 post)13. This his how uncorrupt senator sounds like.
SMDH
Esra Star
(2,167 posts)14. Thanks for this post. Where can we get more politicians with backbones?nt