Paul Murphy: Starmer's Complicity and the Palantir Question
Paul Murphy challenges British commentary and accuses Keir Starmer of complicity in genocide over comments about Gaza. He also criticises Peter Thiel and raises concerns about a secretive Dialogue event planned in Ireland featuring high-profile international figures.
Key claims and targets
Paul Murphy opens by citing an infamous clip in which Keir Starmer said Israel had the right to block water, food and electricity to Gaza, and argues that this statement contributed to Starmer's downfall. He then names Peter Thiel and Palantir, alleging their integration with the Israeli military and responsibility in mass killings of Palestinians.
Event in Ireland and attendees
Murphy describes a planned Dialogue event in Ireland attended by around 200 high-powered figures, naming US Senator Ted Cruz, Secretary Scott Besant and the NATO Europe commander among those listed. He calls the topics under discussion bizarre, highlighting talk of nuclear return, World War Three and battlefield technology.
Democracy and the right to meet
Murphy stresses he has no contact with those organising the event and emphasises democratic freedoms: people may travel to Ireland, obtain visas, meet and organise so long as they do no harm. He warns against shutting down public debate and notes Ireland's high standing on transparency indices, arguing against undermining democratic norms.
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Thanks Ciann Comhairle. You wouldn't know it from listening to the British commentary yet, but a key factor in the downfall of Keir Starmer was his complicity in genocide. I would say in particular that infamous clip where he says yes, Israel does have that right to block water, block food, block electricity from Gaza, engaging in very blatant war crimes. Another man entirely complicit in genocide is Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, which is deeply integrated into the Israeli military structure and has played a crucial role in the slaughter of huge numbers of Palestinians. Peter Thiel is planning a sinister event in Ireland, organised by so-called Dialogue, a secretive event involving 200 people, high-powered people, others with connections to genocide, including US Senator Ted Cruz, Secretary Scott Besant, the NATO Europe commander, and the kind of topics are bizarre, bring back nuclear, navigating World War Three, battlefield technology. Do you think PowerScort should be facilitating this event? Deputy Murphy on the British commentary. Again, I don't see, I think to suggest that Prime Minister Starmer committed genocide, as yourself and Deputy Coppinger did, it is outrageous, he did commit genocide. On the event, I don't know much about the event you're talking about, we are a democracy in this country, and we, you know, if people are meeting, so long as they're not doing any harm to anybody else, that, you know, no, but I mean, is it, no, but there's a tendency on the far left and on the far right to be, no one else can meet but ourselves. I've no talk with these people, I've no interest in whatever's going on there, and like people, citizens of different countries are entitled to come to Ireland to get visas, they're entitled to meet, and they're entitled to organise. I mean, let's just have a certain degree of, we have a very good democracy here, in the International Transparency Index, by all measures, we score very, very highly, because of our approach to these issues, generally, and that's a positive, and we shouldn't try and undermine that either.
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