(AFP) Conor Barrins - Irish lawmakers urged their government Wednesday to recognize Palestine as a state in a symbolic motion that sailed through parliament unopposed. The government is not bound to follow the motion. The Israeli embassy in Dublin said, "A vote in favor of this motion, therefore, is a vote for Ireland, a neutral country, to intervene in a foreign conflict in favor of one national movement at the expense of another. That is not how peace is brought about."
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