Friday morning, outside Israel’s Dublin Embassy, the Israeli flag was lowered and removed by embassy officials in the absence of Dana Erlich, Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, who was recalled to Jerusalem last May
A symbolic prelude to the embassy’s closure as announced by Gideon Saar at the start of the week
The day before, a group of Israel’s vitriolic Irish adversaries and protestors gathered outside the Israeli embassy building, to celebrate what they perceived as 1. Israel’s capitulation to their obsessive campaigning and weekly street protests 2. and their victory in effecting Israeli Embassy closure 3. and Israeli ambassador Erlich’s permanent departure
Just a normal week of non diplomatic engagement in the escalating Ireland / Israel phoney war
Pending the election of a new Prime Minister and agreement on a new program for government, the outgoing Irish administration continues to be in office with caretaker responsibilities
The new Irish government will essentially be a reincarnation of the old, formed by two centrist parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, who are now politically indistinguishable and only differ in personalities
Centrist in everything save for their adoption of the extreme left-wing anti-Israeli invective of Ireland’s opposition parties
