Daily Briefing Dec. 27: Day 448 – Irish stew over Israeli embassy closure. What’s next?
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman dives deep into the roots of apparent Irish animus against the Jewish state and harkens to the mandate period when ideologies were more aligned
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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today’s episode.
In the past several months, Ireland has formally recognized the State of Palestine, it said that it would carry out an arrest warrant on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and it also backed South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. So in response to all of this, last week it was announced that for the first time, Israel would close an embassy in an EU member state.
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Ireland is often considered the most pro-Palestinian country in the EU and public opinion deeply identifies with the Palestinians, which they view as an occupied people. We talk about how Ireland came to this ideology and delve into a period in which the nationalist aspirations of Irish and pre-state Israelis coincided.
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Discussed articles include:
‘Antisemitic liar’: FM blasts Irish president’s claim Israel wants to settle Egypt
Israel to close its embassy in Dublin due to Ireland’s ‘extreme anti-Israel policy’
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