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2 months ago | 
irishtimes.com | Paul Kearns
“What a despicable person, what twisted policy,” said Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar yesterday evening, in reference to a speech by President Michael D Higgins at the Holocaust Memorial last Sunday night in Dublin. And with that pointed and highly undiplomatic personal criticism, arguably a new low has been reached in Irish-Israeli diplomatic relations.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Paul Kearns
“I can’t believe it,”my eight-year-old daughter Ella exclaimed excitedly when I told her on the way home from drama class that the war may be over and the hostages were coming home. “No more sirens,”she beamed. Hopefully, I said, before mumbling something absurd about the continued risk of Houthi rockets from Yemen. These are the conversations we tend to have with our children in Israel.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
eurotopics.net | Thomas Vieregge |Paul Kearns |Maria Sterkl |Stefano Stefanini
Much more than a hostage needs to be secured to achieve peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, Der Standard concurs: “Nothing has been resolved in this conflict, the biggest hurdles are yet to come. How is the completely destroyed Gaza to be rebuilt – and who will bear the responsibility? How can the people in Israel's south live without fear of missiles and without relying on the permanent presence of the Israeli army in Gaza? ... There are still no answers to any of these questions.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Kearns
They are calling it the Trump Effect. Just last weekend President elect Donald Trump threatened "hell" for Gaza if the Hamas -held Israeli hostages were not released before his inauguration. That inauguration is now just six days away. Expectations in the media and on the street in Israel is reaching fever pitch that a deal or truce of some kind is imminent, and that most, if not all the remaining hostages believed to be alive will be soon freed. 466 versus 46,600.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Paul Kearns
As an Irish citizen living in Tel Aviv in Israel, I am constantly asked by Irish family and friends how Israelis view the war on Gaza and now the war with Lebanon, whether they openly talk about the war, and specifically how Israelis justify the devastation and deaths of 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The simple truth is Israelis do not see what the rest of the world sees almost every night on their television screens.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
businesspost.ie | Paul Kearns
Middle East There is a macabre, but widespread view in Israel, that unless Israelis are killed in a missile strike the intention behind those attacks, or their psychological impact, are breezily dismissed abroad Following the assassinations of Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, long languishing in the polls, has now overtaken its centrist political rivals. Picture: Jacquelyn Martin What comes next?
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
irishexaminer.com | Paul Kearns
One year year on from the horror of the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, when 1,200 Israelis were murdered, and a further 250 were taken hostage, the mood and outlook for Israelis and Palestinians and the wider region is bleaker than ever. Some 100 or so of those hostages continue to be held by Hamas, and less than half are believed to remain alive after one year in captivity in the network of built tunnels under the streets and towns of Gaza.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
anthesisgroup.com | Paul Kearns
The global business community has been talking about carbon emissions for decades. Many have set goals to reduce emissions from their operations (Scope 1) and from the energy they consume (Scope 2). For most, however, the bulk of the emissions generated by producing products or services lies in the purchased supplies and services of the value-chain (Scope 3). Packaging, an essential part of most every product, is part of a producer’s Scope 3 emissions.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
anthesisgroup.com | Paul Kearns
Effective packaging baselines are set up to accomplish various objectives, including to report against both goals and regulations, as well as for strategic decision making. This whitepaper provides an overview of the methods and key considerations to take into account when conducting an effective packaging baseline. Key topics covered include:What is a packaging baseline? What makes a packaging baseline effective? How is a packaging baseline built and completed?
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
anthesisgroup.com | Paul Kearns
2024 CDP Disclosure season has begun and if your company uses plastics, there are some important changes to the CDP Questionnaire that you need to know. Last year, Anthesis published guidance on the newly added questions, W10 Plastics, which was then part of the CDP Water Security Questionnaire. At the time, CDP asked 7,000 companies to answer 9 questions regarding their understanding of their plastic footprint.
