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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4ALL TRADE between EU states and Israel should cease immediately in view of the alleged war crimes committed in Gaza and the cover-up by the Israeli military. That should include dealing with Israeli companies registered in EU member states.
Terrorizing the civilian population in Gaza by the killing of non-combatants is a crime under international law.
The dropping of hundreds of thousands of illegal cluster bombs in southern Lebanon was a deliberate action to permanently contaminate the country, and was also a war crime. 90% of these bombs were dropped after the cease-fire agreed with the UN.
The world cannot continue to deal with a state that continues to act in this barbarous manner and then has the audacity to claim to be democratic.
If this is the case then Ireland should not trade with the us or Britain!!!
But in under law Ireland has to tender contracts and take the best price. If an isreali company has the best offer then the defence forces are obliged to take it!
Hi Mark, in fact there is no legal obligation to buy arms from Israel. I'm not surprised you think there is, because this is the line our government puts out. The department. of foreign affairs, whenever we or TDs have asked questions about their purchase of Israeli arms always use the fact that they are 'obliged to' use the EDA Code of Conduct on Defence Procurement, (and under this code there's no reason not to buy weapons from Israel).
However this is simply incorrect - the code is explicitly a "voluntary, non-binding agreement" which involves "no legal commitment", and states that "in all cases, the final authority for contract award remains with [member states'] national authorities". Furthermore, the Code is an agreement between EU member states, not including Israel, with the declared aim of maximizing opportunities for "suppliers based on each others' territories". On no interpretation can this agreement be presented as compelling Ireland to open its procurement competitions to any Israeli arms company. Companies excluded from the outset incur no costs in tendering, and thus have no legal cause of action.
What this boils down to is that our government is buying bullets from Israel because it wants to, not because it's legally obliged to.
While I dont disagree that they are a less than savoury bidder I do wonder if you would support spending more tax payers money to buy from the second cheapest bidder? (Presuming of course that the decision was based purely on cost, it may well have been based on the product itself for all I know)