
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has come under intense criticism for her remarks in support of Israel, comments that followed a similar vein to those of Tánaiste Micheál Martin.

Date: November 15, 2023 - Foreign Frolics

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has come under intense criticism for her remarks in support of Israel, comments that followed a similar vein to those of Tánaiste Micheál Martin.
Foreign affairs have been dominated for most of the year, as they were last year, by the ongoing war in Ukraine. Now, however, the horrors of that war have been added to by the savage Israeli assault on Gaza, supposedly in retaliation for an astonishing assault by Hamas militants within Israel itself. The Israeli assault… Read more »
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