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  Western Backlash to Ireland’s New President Over Israel The outspoken new Irish president on Israel and NATO was inaugurated today and already the knives are out for her, writes Mick Hall.  Read here... excerpt:  A s Catherine Connolly was inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president in Dublin Castle today, efforts intensified to undermine the country’s neutrality as it weighs moves to punish Israel for genocide.  Connolly, 68, was elected after winning over 63 percent of the vote in a landslide victory last month, her robust defence of anti-war and anti-genocide positions resonating with the Irish electorate, while causing alarm in Western corridors of power. These are signs that the victory of the anti-imperialist left has served to galvanise establishment forces, both at home and abroad. A former White House national security advisor, Robert C. O’Brien,  writing  in  The  Wall Street Journal  last week ,  warned the Trump   administ...