European Parliament member (MEP) from Dublin Clare Daly has said that she finds it “laughable” that those calling for arms to Ukraine never do so for the Palestinian or Yemeni people.
In a Thursday session of the European Parliament, Irish MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly voted against a resolution to condemn the latest Russian escalation in Ukraine.
The resolution slammed the recent Russian annexation of Ukrainian regions and called for harsher sanctions on Russia and increased military support for Ukraine.
Clare defended her decision not to vote in favor of part of the motion, saying such actions were only escalating the Ukraine-Russia war, “whereas we must work to end the war by opposing it, which we are not doing”.
She said that opposing the war in Ukraine was not anti-European or anti-Ukrainian or pro-Russian, adding that this was “common sense.”
She further said that the European Parliament should be ashamed for bashing those who opposed the war, by twisting their words and subverting their meanings.
She criticized the resolution’s supporters by saying that she finds “ it laughable that those calling for arms to Ukraine, never call for arms for the people of Palestine or for the people of Yemen.”
