33 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence his views on whether, following on from his response of 4 October 2007, that the Israeli army has regularly used unmanned drones not merely for surveillance but also for the targeted assassination of Palestinian militants, and used them extensively in 2006 in the course of its war against Lebanon, it is inappropriate and insensitive for the Irish Defence Forces to source such drones from Israel and that coming so soon after the purchase of Israeli helmets by the Defence Forces this transaction could be seen as associating this State too closely with the militarism of the Israeli State. [27303/07]

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33 Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence his views on whether, following on from his response of 4 October 2007, that the Israeli army has regularly used unmanned drones not merely for surveillance but also for the targeted assassination of Palestinian militants, and used them extensively in 2006 in the course of its war against Lebanon, it is inappropriate and insensitive for the Irish Defence Forces to source such drones from Israel and that coming so soon after the purchase of Israeli helmets by the Defence Forces this transaction could be seen as associating this State too closely with the militarism of the Israeli State. [27303/07]

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