today they said

 

Simon Harris (incoming Prime Minister of Ireland): "Ireland is repulsed (by the actions of Israel in Gaza.)"

James Healy: "Simon Harris does not speak for me. Nor  can he be said by any stretch of the imagination to speak for Ireland, since just 12 percent of the population voted for his party in 2020, our most recent election. In that election his fast evaporating Fine Gael won just 35 seats in a 160 seat parliament, a loss of twelve seats on their previous total, and fully forty percent of the population expressed their opposition at the time to the entire poltical class by not voting at all, He has become Prime Minister this week because the outgoing leader of his party the newly resigned Leo Varadkar fears Fine Gael will be wiped out the next time Ireland  has a vote. Ten of Fine Gael's 35 parliamentarians have announced they will not stand at the next election. I am suggesting that like other posturing showboaters in Irish politics Simon Harris is afraid of Jihadis but sees the Israelis as an easy mark."