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LAST UPDATE | 22 May 2022
AN EU DELEGATION to Palestine has cancelled its trip after its chair was denied entry to Gaza by Israeli authorities.
A group of six MEPs, including Irish MEPs Grace O’Sullivan and Chris MacManus, was due to travel to Palestine via the Israeli city of Tel Aviv today, but the group’s chair Manu Pineda was last night informed that authorities in Israel had moved to prevent their entry.
O’Sullivan said that “we took a decision that the Israeli authorities shouldn’t be allowed to pick and choose who they wanted to come” and cancelled the trip. The Ireland South representative told The Journal that she was in line to board the plane when the decision was taken not to travel. “It’s not right for the Israeli authorities to just pick and choose who they allow [to] come out on these official delegations.”
The delegation had been due to examine the situation on the ground after the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. O’Sullivan met Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, the ambassador to Palestine, this afternoon and signed a book of condolences for the veteran reporter. She added that she would support sanctions against Israel: “We have talked in Ireland [about] whether we should be importing foods from the occupied territories – maybe it’s time to consider that again.”
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is due to visit Israel and Palestine in the coming days.
The Journal has contacted the Israeli embassy for comment.
Chris MacManus, another of the six delegates who represents the Midlands Northwest constituency, told The Journal that the move was “a direct interference with the work of the European Parliament”.
“it shouldn’t be tolerated. It will require serious discussion on the coming days. We need to see a firm diplomatic response coming from European Union.”
In 2016, Israeli authorities refused access to Gaza for a working group of the European Parliament Delegation for relations with Palestine. No justification was given to explain the refusal.
The EU is the Palestinian Authority’s largest single donor and the bulk of its humanitarian aid goes to Gaza to help meet the basic needs of the Palestinian population.
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Sounds like a Ponzi scheme… Buy a share over the Internet in a place that could be a very artfully photographed Priory hall. Demand is high, the asset is way over valued. The initial investors cash out at the maximum and when the asset plummets in value and the shares become unsellable, the late investors loose everything. Also seems like it’s completely unregulated and open to abuse by those with inside information as to the value of the assets and property shares.
This sort of scam is nothing new, been several schemes shut down the UK selling people ‘shares’ in London green belt land and selling them on the fact that it could be reclassified for development and increase in value 100 fold.
Well, I guess we have learnt over the last few years that there is no shortage of gullible people out there when it comes to property, especially the Irish!
Crowdfunding? a bid like NAMA in ways.
Fianna Fail would love this…..
i doubt mr tully would appreciate seeing his house thats for sale for almost 450,000 being used at the top of this article
So more foreign direct investment ready to make our property crisis even worse. Good man Enda look the other way as usual.
Hmmmmm.
No bona fide purchaser for value without notice. What could possibly go wrong?
What has equity’s darling got to do with this; what am I missing?
Does this solve the homeless crisis in Ireland? Do we have the same population as the UK with ready cash? This business solution is well on the way by an Irish company by Irish people and they will only be investing in Social houses so we can solve our own problems thanks!
Some tips to reduce rents: (1) govt cancel new 4% prsi tax on rental income (2) govt cancel new 7% usc tax on rental income (3) treat landlords as a business meaning cancel the 25% reduction in mortgage interest against rental income for purpose of calculating tax liable income. All 3 plus property tax have lead in my case to an effective 26% increase in the cost of renting out property which ive not yet passed on. But many landlords in dublin have. Guys THE GOVT HAS TAXED RENT INTO OBLIVION and wonder why rents increase but oh yeah they dont tell Joe Soap this little secret. …..
A lot of women in UK. are using this type of “crowdfunding investment”, to have a property portfolio to eventually make themselves a good pension, time will tell if it works, to me there seems to be a lot of costs involved, for what you might get out of it. Will this start another property bubble? I think so I wouldn’t like to see this happening here again. I am very interested in what Louise has said, how would that work? Would there be rent controls, I heard a TD. talk about that, and said the leases would be 20 years, but these are families, only investors would tuff them out of their home! That won’t work., people need homes of their own,for life, to rent or buy,That is a real need in Irish people.
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