The Israeli Embassy in Dublin has apologized after it posted a derogatory message on their Facebook wall for the holiday season on Monday.

The Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine are the latest group to lend their support to the ‘Free Marian Price’ campaign.

Although most of the talk about Mitt Romney’s infamous Boca Raton video has focused on what he said about the 47% of Americans he claims won’t take responsibility for their lives, his comments on the Mideast also say a lot about the kind of president he would be.
 
Romney said straight out that the situation between Israel and the Palestinians, “is going to remain an unsolved problem.” His remarkable confession of defeat on the Mideast, an abject no mas even before getting himself in the ring, sounds eerily like what many said not too long ago about another seemingly insoluble problem: the centuries old warfare in Northern Ireland.
 
There was in Ireland and Britain an abundance of sage advice that the most that could be hoped for was to maintain the violence at a tolerable level and otherwise muddle through and hope for generational change.

Ireland’s Justice Minister has launched an astonishing attack on Palestinian ‘cyber bullies’ who forced Irish band Dervish to cancel an Israeli tour.

Ireland’s deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore has backed the Palestinian bid for membership of the United Nations, when he addressed the UN General Assembly this morning, during his state visit to New York.

Palestinians expect Irish support for their application to be recognized as a state at the United Nations in September, according to a senior politician.

Ireland has upgraded the status of the Palestinian delegation to Ireland to that of “mission.”  This means its head is the equivalent of an ambassador.

A 1200-ton cargo ship that was abandoned in July 2009 off the coast of Ireland will be used by the Irish Free Gaza movement to try and run a Gaza blockade to deliver food and supplies to Palestinians.