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  • 13/3/2025

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00:00The Press No, no.
00:02No.
00:04Mr. Prime Minister, are you expecting to inform the President your views on Gaza, considering
00:09that you have diametrically opposed positions on the State of Palestine, your country is
00:13one of three in Europe that recognizes the State of Palestine?
00:16Are you expecting to discuss this with the President?
00:18Are you expecting to inform him?
00:19Prime Minister I don't have to inform the President.
00:21He is very well-glued into it, to the whole situation.
00:24We shared the President's – again – unrelenting focus on peace.
00:28And his envoy and the President himself,
00:30as soon as he came into office, went to get a ceasefire.
00:33We've been calling for a ceasefire for a long time.
00:36We want to consolidate the peace.
00:38That is our fundamental aim.
00:39We want the hostages out.
00:40I've been saying it from day one.
00:42It's a horrific thing to do, to take someone as a hostage.
00:45And I went to Kibbutz Beri after October the 7th
00:50in solidarity with Israel, and that gets forgotten.
00:53And I went a week or two afterwards.
00:55I saw the kibbutz.
00:57It was a shocking thing to see, even though it was a week
00:59or two after the horror.
01:01It was a village.
01:02You could see life going on prior to the attack.
01:04It was something that will not leave me.
01:08And I've been interested in the Middle East for a long,
01:11long time.
01:11It's complex, and it's all of that.
01:14But we do desperately need the hostages out, all of them.
01:17It's been far too long.
01:18Let me finish.
01:19And then we need a ceasefire.
01:20We need to consolidate that.
01:22We need a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
01:25Because again, there's too many children and too many people
01:27starving.
01:29And it's that humanitarian impulse
01:31is what motivates the Irish in respect of its views.
01:35And I've always been of the view,
01:37it's been our view that a two-state solution
01:39would be ideal.
01:39It's become much more challenging and difficult
01:41as time's moved on.
01:43But that has always been our position.
01:45But it's genuine to have people, because we've
01:47gone through this.
01:48We discussed this prior to you coming in.
01:50We've been through some of this.
01:53People hating each other, terrible acts of violence
01:55carried out on each other.
01:57We came through it.
01:59It's our earnest hope that Arab and Jewish people
02:02can live side by side.
02:03And I've met with people, parents
02:04of children who were killed on both sides,
02:08called Paredon Circle in Israel.
02:10And they work to try and bring people together.
02:12It's difficult work.
02:13What about the President's plans to expel Palestinians
02:16out of Gaza?
02:17Are you discussing that with him and giving him your opinion?
02:19Nobody's expelling any Palestinians.
02:21I don't know.
02:22Who are you with?
02:23I have a voice in America, sir.
02:25Oh, no wonder.
02:26OK, voice in America.