Taoiseach says he does not regret Israel 'revenge' comment

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not regret saying the Israeli response to the 7 October Hamas attack was becoming "something more approaching revenge".

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Varadkar is catching flak for saying very softly what the Israeli government has admitted openly since day one?

Israel has declared itself at war and vowed “immense” revenge...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-palestine-hamas-attack-netanyahu-b2425864.html

He's a smarmy fuck, but when he feels like he's on the popular side he digs in.

This is the case with most leaders who condemned Israel. Jordan has a dictator who has left Jordanians to live under crushing poverty, Erdoğan kills Kurds wherever he can, Sisi is a military dictator who won Egypt with a coup, etc etc

Not what I was implying, just that I think this guy is an incredible prick who'd step over his own mother to be seen as a popular guy in the papers.

He is nothing close to a tyrannical leader, just a prick