Rhun ap Iorwerth

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317 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson · 'A bad start even before he starts' - Welsh First Minister on why trouble's brewing with Burnham · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

careful and am careful and my party's careful to in absolutely no way allow ourselves to be drawn in to what some people would would like perhaps is to say that this is s an anti Israel thing.

It's n it's not it's absolutely an an anti current Israeli government thing.

But I feel for the Jewish communities in in Wales, for the pain that they're going through because of the growth of anti Semitism and so on.

I believe in people coming together and finding that

common ground and tolerance tolerance between us.

You you accept that will make some people uh feel that you are anti Israel in the language.

Well no no no no I've I I I've just said it's not anti Israel at all and No I'm putting to you that not everybody will accept that point, but uh but no, I I feel for the people of Israel.

The spending on defence.

Is that still your view?

Uh no, we we we haven't said that.

As all of us have to be uh nowadays, in recognizing that the threats that we face are changing, not just changing in nature, but changing in intensity.

We are living in a dangerous world and we recognize that um in order to address uh that threat we have to

use you know, resource well and and making sure that we have

You used to oppose it and indeed you don't support membership of NATO.

Um again, the NATO one isn't is as isn't as straightforward as as that.

We have never called, for example, for the UK to pull out of NATO.

You know, w I I uh do believe that we work better together, and that has to mean in defence terms too.

And remember also, Nick, that um

Um Plaid Camri as a a party that believes uh in the future of of Wales uh is a party that believes in dealing with the realities of today's Wales and the realities of the threats that that we face.

And w you know, we're we're not somehow uh frozen in time as a political party and and we have to recognise uh the changing face of the world in which we live.

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