{"id":15390,"date":"2024-02-11T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/northern-irelands-new-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-thought-of-as-future-partner-for-peace-report\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:46:41","slug":"northern-irelands-new-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-thought-of-as-future-partner-for-peace-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/northern-irelands-new-first-minister-says-hamas-will-be-thought-of-as-future-partner-for-peace-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s new first minister says Hamas will be thought of as \u2018future partner for peace\u2019: report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michelle O\u2019Neill, the recently elected First Minister of Northern Ireland, said on Thursday that the terrorist organization, Hamas, would eventually be regarded as the \u2018future partner for peace\u2019 in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Tonight with Andrew Marr on British broadcaster, LBC, O\u2019Neill stressed the importance of communication, comparing the ongoing Israel-Hamas war to ongoing peace talks within Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Marr asked her if the terrorist organization Hamas would \u2018eventually\u2019 become regarded as a \u2018partner for peace.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018A long time ago the [Irish Republican Army] IRA was seen as a terrorist organization. The British Government and everybody else could not ever talk to them,\u2019 Marr said. \u2018Do you think that Hamas, although regarded as a terror organization by many people around the world, is going to eventually have to be a partner for peace?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Yes,\u2019 O\u2019Neill said, \u2018I think you only have to look at our own example to know how important dialogue is and that\u2019s the only way you\u2019re ever going to bring an end to conflict.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018If republicans didn\u2019t talk to the British government or the British government didn\u2019t talk to the republicans, in the past in Ireland we would not be in the scenario we are in today, enjoying a peaceful and far more equal society today,\u2019 the first nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland continued.<\/p>\n

She also called for an immediate ceasefire and for the application of international law in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I really only hope that in the coming days and weeks that we can get to a point where we see a ceasefire in the first instance, that we have dialogue, and that we get to the ultimate position of having the Palestinian state recognized and a two-state solution that the international community stands for,\u2019 O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill argued that Israel was bombarding the Palestinian people and not defending themselves against the Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u2018Anybody can stretch Israel\u2019s position of being one of defense because this is bombardment, day after day, slaughter of the Palestinian people,\u2019 O\u2019Neill continued.<\/p>\n

\u2018This needs to stop, and we need the international community to stand strong and to stay firm in the court of international law. That\u2019s where everybody must be,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I really only hope that in the coming days and weeks that we can get to a point where we see a ceasefire in the first instance, that we have dialogue, and that we get to the ultimate position of having the Palestinian state recognized and a two-state solution that the international community stands for.\u2019<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill also condemned the unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, saying that they had violated international law by taking hostages.<\/p>\n

\u2018From day one, we\u2019ve said that what happened on October 7 was wrong, and that does not apply in international law in any shape or fashion, the hostages taken was wrong,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n

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