"State sponsorship of terrorism is a term of US law. It doesn’t exist in EU law, but a Zelensky advisor called for it in the Parliament... And here we are again reporting for duty. And all it will do is make peace harder to achieve. Exactly, of course, what the extremists want. No peace. No off ramps, all bridges burning and Ukraine a permanent abattoir in a suicidal holy crusade against Russia. So, if you want to start naming state sponsors of terrorism, let's do it. European sponsorship of Israeli terrorism in Palestine, Western sponsorship of Saudi terror in Yemen, ISIS, the product of French, American, British, Turkish and Gulf sponsorship in Syria and Iraq, decades of right-wing US-backed terrorism against the Cuban Revolution. The Contras in Nicaragua, death squads in Guatemala, in El Salvador. Remember Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, horror after horror, terror after terror. There's nothing constructive about the pot calling the kettle black, would ye ever cop on, start championing peace, an end to the war which is patently in the interests of the EU, Ukrainian, and Russian citizens."
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Quoted in "Must-watch video: Irish MEP slams Western state-sponsored terrorism!" The Hindu Post (21 October 2022)
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Clare Daly
Clare Daly (born 16 April 1968) is an Irish politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2019 to 2024. As a member of Independents 4 Change (part of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL) during her period as an MEP, Daly gained attention for her foreign policy opinions, particularly on Russia and China, which became contentious.
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