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Editorial: Varadkar was right to make Ireland’s position on Gaza clear at the White House

Far-left calls for a boycott of the annual St Patrick’s Day trip to Washington, DC were illogical and petty

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and US President Joe Biden: during their hour-long meeting at the White House, both leaders agreed on the urgency of a ceasefire in Gaza and the revival of the so-called two-state solution

Israel’s war on Hamas, and its atrocious toll of Palestinian lives in Gaza, has begun to resonate on the streets of Europe and the US.

Many Europeans and Americans were deeply sympathetic to Israel in the aftermath of the monstrous Hamas attack on October 7 last year, in which at least 1,200 Israeli civilians were murdered and another 250 were taken hostage. Yet that sympathy is draining away as the horror in Gaza unfolds amid ...