“Their deaths are regrettable but instantly forgettable. They are Unpeople.” ~Jonathan Shafi The National 💔

“Among the rubble of a medical facility in southern Lebanon this weekend lay the bodies of 12 healthcare workers” ~editorial The Irish news ☕️🥐

“So, we need to build a bomb. The trick here is to keep it away from the government.” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“It’s long clear beyond peradventure that the special relationship is dependency.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“There is no conflict which is simple or conforming to a good guys-bad guys 1950s movie, least of all ours.” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“So should we rejoice that the SDLP is now leading the way in planning for a reunited Ireland?” ~Jude Collins Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“Decades of impunity and failure to uphold international law and hold Israel to account has destabilised the entire region.” ~Karol Balfe Irish Examiner ☕️

“The DUP unequivocally support the American-Zionist war in Palestine. They unequivocally support the US-Israeli war in Iran.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Brash and bellicose, he sounded more like a cartoon bully than a sombre statesman.” ~David Smith Irish Examiner …pretty much describes every member of the Washington regime. ☕️🥐

“Greater Israel, in which there will never be an accommodation with the Palestinian people, requires the country to be surrounded by states which are compliant, or disunited and at war with themselves” ~Tommy Sheppard The National ☕️🥐

“Continually overlooking or withholding crucial information makes propaganda by omission hard to deny” ~Hamza Yusuf The National ☕️

“Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iranian strikes are death blows to international law. And Europe will regret not doing enough to save it.” -Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“In trying desperately to save itself, it might save a great many others as well” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“UNESCO described the massacre as a “grave violation” of international law, yet that did not push the story up the news agenda.” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐

“The great boycotts of history did not succeed because millions of people suddenly became heroic activists.” ~Rutger Bregman Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Peacekeeping has become force protection.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“What is needed instead is a determined effort by non-aligned nations to pool their power and to stand up for basic principles of international justice.” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐

There are credible concerns that Trump’s motives for attacking Iran have more to do with 🔺a dive in his popularity at home 🔺the cloud of suspicion over his relationship with Epstein ~editorial Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

Sport has always been political 🔺 South Africa was excluded from international competition. 🔺Russia was suspended from tournaments after its invasion of Ukraine. To pretend otherwise now is not neutrality. It is selective blindness. ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner

“Unity must not be a protest vote. It must be a strategic choice.” ~Lillian Seenoi-Barr The Irish News ☕️🥐

“The policy adopted in March 1976 to criminalise the IRA and isolate them as a criminal gang with no support had backfired spectacularly.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Can you imagine explaining being afraid of UEFA “disciplinary measures” to an orphan amputee who lives in a tent?” ~Aoife Moore The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Neutrality remains one of the most widely supported pillars of Irish foreign policy, rooted in historical experience, post-colonial identity, and a long-standing preference for international mediation rather than military alignment.” ~Patricia MacBride The Irish News ☕️🥐

“A small country cannot outspend the great powers, but it can decide what kind of politics it wants to import.” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️

“The killing of Gazans never stopped; the intensity merely reduced, perhaps just temporarily.” ~Robert Swift The National ☕️🥐

“If Jackson’s retrospective praise reveals the dissonance of establishment respect, consider the contempt directed at Francesca Albanese — the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️

“The military men always want more money for fancier equipment, more personnel, and, with their friends in the media, constantly manufacture or exaggerate threats to Britain, sometimes quite preposterously.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“People power has many expressions. Boycotting is only one of them” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️🥐

“It is almost like government parties are spooked by a commentariat suggesting our nation's conscience can be dictated by I3raeli-backed threats to foreign investments.” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“The north can’t elect a government or play any role in one, so people here have no say in how this sub-polity is run. Stormont just doles out what’s doled out.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“History does not look kindly on appeasers; the appeasers of Hitler are not well remembered.” ~Suzanne Harrington Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“If you criminalise protest, you can shift the story from what is being facilitated to who is objecting.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

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“Starmer’s government has politicised the new powers in the various acts, starting with the misuse of the Terrorism Act 2000 to outlaw Palestine Action as part of what is in effect Starmer’s government’s anti-Palestinian bias.” ~Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“Why do they play to their increasingly small and irrelevant galleries instead of building real and meaningful working relationships and partnerships?” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

“the only thing Starmer has any proven allegiance to is his own political career.” ~Kelly Given The National ☕️🥐

“Language in America has always been a proxy for belonging, and in periods of heightened immigration enforcement and nationalist rhetoric, Spanish becomes a target.” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️

“If you have a problem with literally anybody expressing public sympathy with a people being slaughtered, then something is missing in your emotional make-up. Not your politics, but your wiring.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“The staggered and heavily-redacted release of the Epstein files has largely functioned to shield powerful men whilst re-traumatising victims.” ~Patricia Mac Bride The Irish News ☕️🥐

Mhairi Black The National ☕️🥐

“The more you read about Epstein, the more you realise you’re not dealing with one monster, but with an ecosystem of monsters, enablers, and cowards.” ~Colin Sheridan Irish Examiner ☕️🥐

“Jon couldn’t field a five-a-side team full of Ulster Unionist MLAs willing to publicly endorse him…” ~Chris Donnelly The Irish News ☕️🥐

“I feel white hot outrage at a world that will deliver a modicum of societal disgrace to those named in the Epstein files while simultaneously excusing Isreali murderers” ~Andrée Murphy Andersonstown News ☕️🥐

Compromising the powerful, influential, popular has been a political espionage tactic for an eternity. The web of deceit was by design, to influence, direct and coerce. We know where all the roads lead to but for some reason there is an unwillingness to act. Strange that 🤔

“There is no atrocity it cannot justify, equivocate or execute.” ~Jonathan Shafi The National ☕️🥐

“Gaza is not only being destroyed, it is being sealed. The crime scene is being cleared while the crime is still underway.” ~Colin Sheridan @colinivan Irish Examiner ☕️

Shocker! Psychotic addiction to violence and coercive control when someone else is footing the bill. Haaretz ☕️

“Ulster Unionists, then the UUP and DUP, have opposed all progressive legislation for the past century and every reform to make this place more equitable.” Brian Feeney The Irish News ☕️🥐

“The hundreds of Palestinians who dream of bringing their loved ones to Palestine for burial are as if they don't exist.” ~Gideon Levy Haaretz ☕️🥐

Laura Pollock’s headline in The National says it all.