Day 448 - Irish stew over Israeli embassy closure. What's next?

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode.

In the past several months, Ireland has formally recognized the State of Palestine, it said that it would execute an arrest warrant on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and it also backed South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. So in response to all of this, last week it was announced that for first time, Israel would close an embassy of an EU member state.

Ireland is often considered the most pro-Palestinian country in the EU and public opinion deeply identifies with the Palestinians, which they view as an occupied people. We talk about how Ireland came to this ideology and delve into a period in which the nationalist aspirations of Irish and pre-state Israelis coincided.

For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.

Discussed articles include:

‘Antisemitic liar’: FM blasts Irish president’s claim Israel wants to settle Egypt

Israel to close its embassy in Dublin due to Ireland’s ‘extreme anti-Israel policy’

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IMAGE: Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris awaits the arrival of Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati at Government Buildings, Tithe an Rialtais, in Dublin, on October 25, 2024. (Paul Faith / AFP)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today is Friday, December 27th, Day 448 of the war.
0:13.1	Amanda Borchelle, Dan here in our Jerusalem offices with diplomatic reporter Laser
0:17.2	Bearman. Hi, Laser. Thanks for joining me for our informal Friday discussion.
0:22.5	Well, it's good to be here and a happy Hanukkah to you and all of our listeners. And Merry Christmas
0:27.8	to people who celebrated this week. There are 12 days and there's of course Orthodox Christmas coming
0:33.0	up. So I think it's very relevant to... plenty of Christmas to come. All the Christmas, all the time.
0:38.2	So last week, Laser, some of our listeners were actually viewers as we test drove some
0:43.1	video tech for a filmed version of our podcast chat.
0:47.1	Hopefully that would be forthcoming.
0:49.1	And one of these viewer listeners, Kenny Lambie, pointed out that he saw a map of Scotland behind you. Now,
0:57.3	you and I have bonded over your love for Scotland since I'm part Scottish on my dad's side,
1:02.7	and you've been to Scotland several times. I have not. Tell us about your little love for Scotland.
1:08.2	Yeah, so thank you for writing in Kenny. I think he wrote in from near Edinburgh, beautiful, beautiful place.
1:13.9	Scotland has really always been my passion.
1:16.5	Started when I read the Shakespeare play Macbeth, saw the movie Braveheart,
1:21.2	joined a bagpipe band, the Colonial Pipers in Norwood, Massachusetts,
1:25.1	went to the University of Glasgow for a semester, studied the Gaelic language,
1:29.8	as distinct from Gaelic.
1:31.5	And actually, this past summer, I was on the Isle of Sky at Solmoor-Ostig, which is a Gaelic college.
1:37.7	Did two one-week courses.
1:39.6	It was wonderful.
1:40.5	Hopefully I'll go back this summer.
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