Gaza " We Can All Play OurPart"

Expel Israeli Ambassador over Gaza slaughter - Adams‏

Sinn Féin Leader Gerry Adams TD has called for a diplomatic offensive by the Irish Government to encourage the Government of Israel to end it's military onslaught against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.

Mr Adams welcomed the decision by The Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan to meet the Israeli Ambassador following the escalation of the Israeli Government's military offensive in Gaza but said the time had come to expel the Ambassador.

Speaking today Gerry Adams said:

"Today marks the 17th anniversary of the IRA cessation in 1997. This is a timely reminder of the efficacy of dialogue and inclusive negotiation as an alternative to protracted armed conflict.

"That principle is as applicable today to the situation in the Middle East as it was to Ireland in 1997.

"The decision of the Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan to meet the Israeli Ambassador, following the escalation of the Israeli Government's military onslaught against the besieged population of the Gaza Strip, is welcome.

"However the time has long past for merely expressing concern to a Government that is clearly oblivious to the outrage of the international community at their actions in Gaza.

"Irish citizens have been upset and angered at the ongoing killing of men, women and children in Gaza.

"All armed actions, including attacks from Gaza must stop.

"In 2009, following a fact finding mission to Gaza I published a report which proposed nine immediate steps to help resolve the conflict. They were:

1. All armed actions and acts of violence should cease.

2. An inclusive process of negotiation should commence in which all democratic mandates are respected, clear objectives are set, and there is a fixed timeframe.

3. The building of the separation wall should stop as a first step which would see its demolition.

4. The siege of the Gaza strip should end.

5. An immediate and intensive programme of reconstruction and economic development must commence.

6. The ongoing Israeli colonisation of the West Bank and the building of settlements should stop.

7. The occupation of the West Bank and the denial of freedom of movement to Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza strip, and between the West Bank and Gaza, should end as part of the process to decolonise the West Bank.

8. Mutual and expeditious co-operation between Palestinians and Israelis to enhance public safety and security should commence.

9. UN resolutions and international law should be enforced.

"Five years later, none of these steps have been taken and the situation has deteriorated once again.

"The decision by the Israeli Government, in the face of international anger, to escalate its military offensive by launching a ground offensive requires a firm and resolute response by the Irish Government, which must now expel the Israeli Ambassador.

"The Irish Government should also push for the immediate suspension of the EU’s preferential trade agreements (Israel-EU Association Agreement and Euro-Med Agreement) with Israel."

You As An Individual Can Take Action "See Below"


 A Non Party Political

GAZA SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION

this coming Saturday the 26th of July at 2.00p.m.
Assemble: O' Connell Square Mountmellick.

Your support for the Palestinian people of Gaza would be

 greatly apprecicated. Please pass on the message to family and friends

Make your views and voice your distaste to Embassy of Israel in Dublin 122 Pembroke Road Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 Telephone number Embassy of Israel in Dublin: 01 230 9400 Fax number Embassy of Israel in Dublin: 01 230 9446 E-mail Embassy of Israel in Dublin: info@dublin.mfa.gov.il

Call for a revolution in Ireland

Yesterday · Edited

If you are horrified by the actions of that oppressive regime in Israel then you can make a difference and you can voice your displeasure at the atrocities being carried against the Palestinians. In the 1980s, people of good conscience boycotted all goods from South Africa because of Apartheid. Twelve Dunnes workers stood up and said enough. They refused to have anything to do with produce from South Africa that they took to the streets and went on strike for two and a half years. What is happening today is no different. Israel commits atrocities yet they still sell their products here.

Three key features characterise Israeli apartheid:

* Four million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories lack the right to vote for the government that controls their lives through a military occupation. In addition to controlling the borders, air space, water, tax revenues, and other vital matters pertaining to the Occupied Territories, Israel alone issues the identity cards that determine the ability of Palestinians to work and their freedom of movement.

* About 1.2 million Palestinian Israelis, who make up 20 percent, or one-fifth, of Israel’s population, have second-class citizenship within Israel, which defines itself as a Jewish state rather than a state for all its citizens. More than 20 provisions of Israel’s principal laws discriminate, either directly or indirectly, against non-Jews, according to Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights in Israel.

* Millions of Palestinians remain refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and elsewhere, unable to return to their former homes and land in present-day Israel, even though the right of return for refugees is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We thought it was wrong then and it's wrong now. Israel is carrying out apartheid on Palestinian land, oppressing and terrorising the Palestinian people on a vast scale and it must be stopped.

If you wish to make a stand, a real stand, not like the numpties in the Dáil who say and do nothing, then hit them hardest....

with your wallet....

~Belenus

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The Rock Of Dunamase (A Special Place To All Laois People And The Laois Diaspora)

The Rock of Dunamase towers dramatically over the plains east of Portlaoise. The 150-foot high limestone hill is crowned with battered fortifications that are thousands of years old. Romantic ruins include a castle, towers, gatehouse, curtain walls and battlements. Views from the top are amazing and range from the bucolic countryside and little church immediately below to the Slieve Bloom Mountains and Wicklow Mountains.

Fortified since the Bronze Age, Dunamase was subsequently occupied by the Celts and destroyed by the Vikings in 845. In 1170 it was gifted by Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster, to his daughter Aoife as a portion of her dowry at her marriage to Norman invader Strongbow. After many different owners down through the ages, Cromwell finally sacked it in 1650. The trenches from that battle can still be seen today.

The Rock of Dunamase is a picturesque forgotten place that is well off the beaten tourist path. Its brooding and impressive aspect make it well worth exploring and present many interesting photo opportunities. Free admission.

Please view the Ariel Views of the Rock Of Dunamase filmed by Mountmellick Man Oliver Burke of Compuvision. (See Below)

 The old Irish Moores are Ó Mordha, from the word mordha (stately, noble).The eponymous ancestor Mordha was twenty-first in descent from Conal Cearnach, the most distinguished of the heroes of the Red Branch.

The O'Mores were the leading sept of the Seven Septs of Laois; the other six being tributary to them. According to Keating, the O'Mores have St. Fintan as their protector. Of thirteen families of Moore recorded in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland (1912), twelve claim to have come to Ireland as settlers from England or Scotland and only one to be an offshoot of the O'Mores.

Judged by the test of their resistance to English aggression, the O'Mores may be described as one of the foremost Irish septs. In this connection particular mention may be made of Rory O'More (died 1557) and his son, Rory Óg O'More (died 1578), both of whom were distinguished Irish leaders in the wars against the Tudor sovereigns, and another Rory O'More, a member of the Laois sept, the head of the 1641 Rising and a staunch ally of Owen Roe O'Neill in the subsequent war. It is of interest to note that he was known in English as Moore as well as O'More.

The Ulster Plantation

Within a decade of the ‘Flight of the Earls’ came the Ulster Plantation. It was the excuse needed for the wholesale robbing of the clans. That the lands belonged to the whole clan community was of no consequence to the English. According to English law and custom it should belong to the lords (chiefs). The English Lord Lieutenant, Sir Arthur Chichester, and the Attorney General, Sir John Davies, were the instruments , for giving effect to the great Plantation. The natives were driven to the bogs and the moors where it was hoped that they would starve to death. The conditions upon which the new people got their land bound them to repress and abhor the Irish natives , admit no Irish customs, never to intermarry with the Irish, and not to permit any Irish on their lands. As a result many of the Irish starved to death. Many others sailed away and enlisted under continental armies.

The Rising of 1641

The Irish were not content to starve and die upon the moors. The Rising of 1641 was the natural outcome of this great wrong. Rory O’Moore is chiefly credited for this great resurgence of the Irish race. For years he patiently worked among the leading Irish families, Irish Generals in the Continental armies, and other Irish representatives in the European countries. Plans being matured, the Rising broke in Ulster on the night of the 21st October 1641. Practically in one night they reconquered their province, having sent the Planters scurrying into the few Ulster cities that they still could hold. It was Ulster only that had risen that night - the other quarters remained quiet due to a miscarriage of plans and through a traitor. For the purpose of inciting the English at home , the English invented stories of massacres and Irish cruelty - many of which are still believed today. The fearful cruelties perpetrated by Sir Charles Coote, leader of the English army in Leinster, and by St Leger, English commander in Munster, combined with fear for themselves and their estates, drove the Anglo-Irish Catholic lords and their fellows in Munster to join the Rebellion. When the great and historic Synod met in Kilkenny in May ’42, the Irish practically owned Ireland, English power merely clinging by its teeth to some outer corners of the country.

 
The War of the ‘Forties

The Confederation of Kilkenny proved to be perhaps more of a curse than a blessing to Ireland. 
The establishing of the Confederation was the establishing of a Parliament in Ireland. In England Charles and his Parliamentary Government were now at bitter odds - beginning the great civil conflict there. They manacled, and thwarted the great Irish figure of the Forties - the truly admirable man and signally great military leader, Owen Roe O’Neill. With Owen Roe’s coming arose Ireland’s bright star of hope - and with his passing, that star set. Owen Roe was a nephew of Hugh O’Neill, ‘Earl of Tyrone’, who fled at the century’s beginning, and had died abroad. Owen Roe was a young man at the time of the Flight of the Earls, had fought in that last disastrous fight at Kinsale and going abroad also, had won signal distinction as a military commander in the Spanish Netherlands. He had never ceased to hope that he would yet be the means of freeing his Fatherland. And through the years in which his sword had been in the service of Spain, his heart was ever with Ireland. He came to his own North, when, close following its first bright burst the clouds of despair had come down, and begun to sit heavy on it again. On the 6th July 1642, with a hundred officers in his company, the long wished for saviour stepped off a ship and was given command of the Northern army. So potent was the name and fame of Owen Roe that even while his army was still in embryo, Lord Levin from Scotland at the head of twenty thousand men refused to meet such a formidable battler and strategist. In June 1646 he fought and won his great pitched battle, the famous victory of Benburb. Here he met and smashed the Scottish General Monroe, who then held the British command in Ulster. All remaining Scottish forces were, by his signal victory sent scurrying into the two strongholds of Derry and Carrickfergus. The province was Owen Roe’s and Ireland’s.
So would the whole country soon have been - but unfortunately the Supreme Council, flinging away the golden opportunity, not only signed a peace with Ormond, acting for King Charles, but went so far as to put under his command all of the Confederate Catholic Army. Owen Rose hurried south with his forces to overawe the traitors and try to counteract the harm they had done. But every move made by Owen Rose, and every combination, was wisely directed toward the great end. Yet the noble man held steadily to his task, and when eventually Cromwell came like an avenging angel Owen Roe was the one great commanding figure to which the awed and wasted nation instinctively turned.
But, as by God’s will it proved, their turning to him was in vain.

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CompuVision Laois

July 8

we went to the rock of dunamase on Saturday and recorded this hope you like it, feel free to share it, — with Tommy Thompson and Laura Maher atThe Rock Of Dunamase.

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