Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney attacked a Chanukah tweet by US Ambassador david Friedman.
Friedman tweeted “More than 2000 years ago, Jewish patriots (Maccabees) captured Jerusalem, purified the Holy Temple and rededicated it as a house of Jewish worship. The U.N. cant vote away the facts: Jerusalem is the ancient and modern capital of Israel. Happy Chanukah from this blessed city!”
In response, the irish Minister responded: “U are working on a New Peace Initiative that we all hope will be fair, balanced and successful. But comments like this will be seen as provocative and biased. Not helpful in creating the necessary environment of compromise. @UN @UNRWA”
A screenshot of an earlier tweet, later deleted, is attached below as well:
U are working on a New Peace Initiative that we all hope will be fair, balanced and successful. But comments like this will be seen as provocative and biased. Not helpful in creating the necessary environment of compromise. @UN @UNRWA
— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) December 3, 2018
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Mr. Coveney,
Go kiss your Blarney Stone, wontcha ?
Then get a pint or two from O’Callahan’s pub and get yourself blasted.
Amazing how these morons want to rewrite history just to be PC.
From a non-Jewish prospective he would seem to be correct. Ambassador Friedman represents the U.S., not Klal Yisroel.
Truth hurts Mr. Coveney?
Idiot
Where are his tweets responding to PA/Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran and their unhelpful and provocative statements?
To Minister Coveney;
Even if one will seal his lips with tape it will not change the prospects of an agreement with the Palis one iota.
I’d bet that, if Ambassador Friedman had tweeted: “More than 2000 years ago, Palestinian patriots captured al-Quds, purified the Holy Temple and rededicated it as a big mosque.” Simon would have been ecstatic, and praised his open-minded and even-handed view of events.
Apparently, reality is just too insulting for some people.
> rt
Your remark seriously leaves open the question of whether or not you are as confident in the military story of the Jewish emancipation of the Temple mount by the Jews in the Maccabee era as you are about any other history in the period, such as Greece and Roman wars.
rt, are you saying that the Jewish connection is an impediment to peace, not the culture of violence that exists in the Muslim world?! Not the hundreds of thousands of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and minorities killed by wild masses of Muslims for one reason or another?!
It’s the Jews’ fault for being historically connected to Jerusalem?! It’s the Jews’ fault for wanting to govern Jerusalem to keep it’s citizens safe?! This is why there’s no peace?!! Really?!!
TO RT
I didn’t know there is a different version of history for the jews and the rest of the world.
a balanced peace means not capitulating to the Arab terrorists in the WB. Fair and balanced means getting Abbass who was elected 10 years ago for one 4 year term – get him out. To stop the Arab hatred in education towards the Jews, etc, that is fair and balanced! not the forcing the Jews to give everything to the Arabs for nothing in return….
Who honestly cares what the Foreign Minister of a little tin pot nation on the edge of Europe really thinks? The Irish are famous for nothing other than potatoes and Guinness. Brains have never been recognized as their strong point, indeed some of the world’s best stories revolve around the genius of the Irish brain.
Paddy Irishman, the Ambassador to the UN, checks into a hotel and goes up to his room. Five minutes later he calls the desk and says, “Ya have given me a room with no exit. How do I leave? I have to be going to the UN to give a speech for my country.” The desk clerk says, ”Sir, that’s absurd. Have you looked for the door?” Paddy Irishman replies ”Well, there’s one door that leads to the bathroom. There’s a second door that goes into the closet. And there’s a door I haven’t tried, but it has a ‘do not disturb’ sign on it.”
Dear Mr Coveney,
In 1922 the British lopped off 78% of Mandatory Palestine and created the country of Jordan. Now you want a “fair” two-state solution in which the Arabs take most of the remaining 22%.
Do you think it is fair for the PA to execute Arabs who sell their land to Jews?
Do you think it is fair to commit to chase every last Jew out of the PA land?
Do you think it is fair to kill Jews?
Do you think it is fair to build terror tunnels to enable the killing of Jews?
Do you think it is fair for adherents of the religion of love to promote the murder of Jews by encouraging the adherents of the religion of peace to kill us?
Why is it that the Jews are always worse off with your fairness?