Open Letter to Murray McCully

By
Donna Miles
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Hon Murray McCully,

Minister of Foreign Affairs,

NZ Parliament.

 

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7 October 2016

 

Dear Mr McCully,

 

On June 19, I attended a meeting in Christchurch where it was announced that Green MP Marama Davidson would be joining a women’s boat to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid and break the illegal Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

 

Shortly after the announcement, Marama’s delightful and smiley face appeared on a projection screen. She was Skyping us from her house in Manurewa.

 

Marama’s hands were covered in gooey flour. It was her daughter’s birthday that night and she was in the middle of baking a cake for her.

 

Not long into the conversation, the excited birthday girl appeared on the screen and snuggled into her mother’s lap and listened as Marama explained the importance of standing up in solidarity against injustice.

Marama told us that, as an indigenous woman herself, she wanted to stand alongside the women of Gaza and to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians and their oppression by the Israeli government.

 

I salute Marama’s courage to join the humanitarian mission to Gaza and ask that you show some of her courage and defend your parliamentarian colleague who is currently being illegally detained by the Israeli forces.

 

Marama, the proud mother of six tamariki, needs your support to pressure the Israeli government to release her and the other 12 peaceful international activists who were on board of Zaytouna when illegally intercepted by the Israeli Navy on international waters.

 

Kia Ora Gaza reports that thousands of Gazans have been waving Palestinian flags along the beach in preparation for the Zaytouna’s arrival.

 

Please don’t dash their hopes and use your influence and power to uphold international law and the important Kiwi value of fairness.

 

Marama’s children and others growing up in New Zealand need to look to their leaders to show them how to become good international citizens. Marama has played her part, hope you will play yours.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Donna Miles-Mojab

31 COMMENTS

  1. We have written to McCully we re not holding our breath however. That anyone can be arrested in international waters is of real concern. They were not doing anything illegal. At some point history must turn in favour of the Palestinians, driven out of their homes and marginalised by the Zionist thugs. Viva Marama Davidson at the rest of those brave women.

    • Michal, good on you for writing to McCully. I have heard of many others who have written to McCully. I hope more people will write and pressure McCully to speak up against Israel’s blatant disregard for international law and human rights.

  2. Waste of time writing to McCully we have a very gutless spineless and unethical government that is too busy a… kissing and where did it get them for Helens Clarkes job the one we spend millions of tax payers dollars on. The big 5 showed our PM is their glorified bum boy selling out our country to them but when we want something hey what happens we get crushed.

  4. Marama Davidson is an absolute fool getting involved with these issues. She has no concept of factions of the Palestinian people who desire arms proliferation. She has no concept of documents like the Balfour Declaration or the history of modern Israel … or biblical Israel for that matter … or the exodus to Europe … 6 day war … just on and on!!!

    She has no concept of security issues pertaining to the Golan Heights. She have no concept of the Edomites and thus the origins of the Palestinian people. Sunni, shiite, wahhabism – she has no idea … the word Palestinian actually means barren land … she has no idea!!!

    This woman is so clearly ignorant and removed from the complex issues her protest raises that it sickens me. She is totally brainwashed and brain-dead. She is an embarrassment to the Green Party and New Zealand.

    I was contemplating voting for the Greens, however this shines the spotlight on how foolish and blatantly ignorant their members of parliament are. I easily have a list of questions as long as my arm, which would show this woman up as the know-nothing hack she is!!!

    Unbelievable!!! And from a NZ MP, disgusting!!! Totally inappropriate! I have ZERO sympathy for this clown!!!

    • That’s quite an ignorant rant, “Zack”…

      Your historical references are cherry-picked, so not much use. You could justify apartheid or slavery with all manner of “Bible” or historically-based “facts”.

      In effect, you’re attempting to justify the oppression of a people which will not gain much currency with fair-minded people.

      Ms Davidson maintains the proud tradition of New Zealanders standing up for what is right; whether it be opposing wars in South East Asia; apartheid in South Africa; or against French testing of atomic bombs in the South Pacific. In each of these cases, those who protested were vindicated by the inevitable tide of history.

      Those who oppose Israeli aggression in Gaza, West Bank, and the Golan Heights will also be vindicated and people like you, “Zack”, will be on the wrong side of brutality.

      • You’re certainly quick to call my writing ignorant, yet Marama Davidson who has no indepth concept of the issues gets a pass.

        It’s interesting that Jordan and the surrounding counties seem to have left the Palestinian people to languish rather than taking them in. This is clearly a political agenda Marama is ignorant of.

        The original proposed boundaries of Israel were huge, it was going to encompass the whole of what is now called Jordan and more. Israel is tinny. I don’t see Marama denouncing munitions being brought in through Gaza and then used/fired into Israeli territory.

        I’m not picking sides, I’m calling Marama an ignorant fool and an embarrassment to New Zealand. Maybe if she cleaned out malaria infested swamps and made the desert bloom I’d have more time for her. She is a know-nothing, with a one-sided mindset and lack historal context.

        To compare Israel/Palestine to French nuclear testing is bazaar. If you think that tomorrow history is suddenly going to favour either side as being right – I’d suggest that is ignorant and a poor way of viewing things, not to mention conflict resolution.

        As for Marama, that embarrassment needs to read a book!

        • “It’s interesting that Jordan and the surrounding counties seem to have left the Palestinian people to languish rather than taking them in. This is clearly a political agenda Marama is ignorant of.

          The original proposed boundaries of Israel were huge, it was going to encompass the whole of what is now called Jordan and more. Israel is tinny. I don’t see Marama denouncing munitions being brought in through Gaza and then used/fired into Israeli territory.”

          What the hell do you know and talk about?

          Jordan is home to 1.4 million Palestinian refugees at least!

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees

          That is a sizeable part of the total Jordanian population. Also have Lebanon, Syria and other neighbouring countries accepted Palestinian refugees.

          As we are talking about comparatively poor countries, who also have their own challenges, they have hesitated to give the refugees the same full rights as their own residents and citizens, as the understanding was for many years, that one day they would return to their homeland in Israel. As that is for many no feasible, realistic option anymore, they rather prefer compensation now, but where is the compensation they should be given, from Israel?

          As for the “original proposed boundaries” for Israel, yes, the Zionists would like to take it all, up to the Euphrates, I suppose:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

          The “Promised Land” according to Zionists:
          “The Bible contains three geographical definitions of the Land of Israel. The first, found in Genesis 15:18–21, seems to define the land that was given to all of the children of Abraham, including Ishmael, Zimran, Jokshan, Midian, etc. It describes a large territory, “from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates”, comprising all of modern-day Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Oman, Yemen, most of Turkey, and all the land east of the Nile river.”

          https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=greater+israel&biw=939&bih=592&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjf_viQ6cnPAhVJnJQKHZVVAIQQsAQINA

          So this comment reveals you are a Zionist Imperialist yourself, or at least a facilitator or supporter of their ideas.

    • You sound a bit sanctimonious and biased there, what is your “authority” of presumed “greater insights”, I dare ask?

  5. Just broaching Israel/Palestine as a topic in itself generates controversy and confrontation. The previous sentence could be deemed offensive. Using ‘Israel’ as a proper noun is offensive to many who don’t recognize Israel as a country/state – rather they refer to Israel as the ‘occupied territories’.

    Everybody who takes sides, interferes or subverts with regard to Israel/Palestine comes out the other end proverbially mangled up to say the least. No matter how eloquent a writer or speaker, once they move from observation to involvement, they have plunged themselves into a snare.

    I’m a Kiwi, I’m not from the lands of patriarchs and prophets. Unfortunately, the further away you are from a situation like the Gaza Blockade (which started in 2007), the more ignorant you are to the nuances. Self proclaimed ‘free thinking’ liberals and of course the media start going to work.

    Liberals eliminate cultural paradigms, history, agreements, and of course all Gods. Then these liberal reporters, students, politicians and the like adorn themselves with a secular mindset and cry out with loud voices, “INJUSTICE”! They haven’t adorned themselves with much else. No history, no regional knowledge, no culture, etc. Just talking points really.

    We are seeing more and more ignorant celebrities and politicians opening their mouths about issues they know nothing about. Marama should be working on New Zealand issues, not plunging herself into this classic Middle Eastern Mire.

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