On 30 April pro-Zionist lobbyist Mark Jennings wrote an opinion piece on the Newsroom website in which he says:
“The new relationship comes as New Zealand and Israeli governments look close to signing an innovation agreement which will formalise the developing relationship”
We are appalled the government appears to be considering an even closer relationship with Israel despite the ongoing theft of Palestinian land, the ongoing brutal Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and the siege of Gaza while Israel continues to thumb its nose at international law and United Nations resolutions.
On top of this the recent, and ongoing, murders of young unarmed Palestinians by Israeli army snipers should surely rule out any such agreement as signalled by Mark Jennings.
We would welcome your assurance the New Zealand government will not sign up to any “innovation agreement” with the Israeli government. The Palestinian people deserve to have our support for the boycott of Israel rather than our implied support for racism and brutality as embodied in the policies and practices of Israel’s Netanyahu regime.
We look forward to hearing from you shortly.
Na,
Same govt who want a warm relationship with the French govt who have been lambasted by the UN for their treatment of protesters. Never gets any better does it?
The world’s leaders have abandoned morality. Ours too by the look of it.
D J S
Yes David but only those who had morality which are few.
The majority of them line their own nest and cloud that with a stream of Bullshit while their sponsors are also stuffing their coffers.
Leaders who fought for the common people setting a moral code.
Ghandi – India, José Mujica ( Pepe) – Uruguay, Castro – Cuba, Che Guevara – various.
There are others lesser known who have been shot of disposed of.
In NZ
John a Lee, Norman Kirk
Very true John but I think it is getting worse. Though Piggy Muldoon was hated by many I think he had the interests of the “ordinary Bloke” genuinely at heart. All his policies so criticised at the time would look radically left wing and socialist now.
But I don’t think most of them are evil. Just lacking in vision and lacking in inspiration. They just want to be there running things as they are not changing anything, and enjoying the kudos of the position.
That’s what US presidents have been since John Kennedy . I thought Trump was there to implement sone of his own ideas rather than just to “Be the President of the USA” but he has been so far a disappointment (to put it mildly).
D J S
Muldoon deserves credit for his moves to set up constraints of the private sector and his “Think Big” initiatives that he was not supported with.
But he did nothing to address the rapacious bleeding of NZ by foreign banks and corporations.
He gave the enemy a wide berth when he was not working with them.
Should do
But also think we should be doing more and saying that we made a mistake that needs to be rectified when we gave land that wasn’t ours to give away to the bloody Zionists.
IMO I’m Right should dig around in information about the Talpiot Program, especially the info gathered by Brendon O’Connell. If I’m Right were to do that, he/she/it would find that everything considered private by that commenter is know to the Israel spy network. Everything…absolutely everything run in this country using a chip is known to and monitored under the Talpiot Program. If Netanyahu tells our Government minister’s to jump the answer will be “how high Sir?”
A basic rule for Israeli regime apologists, including IM RIGHT and so it seems for much of mainstream corporate media , is to NEVER NEVER NEVER report: Palestinians retaliate.
More corporate media rules: As for Palestinians, as their lands and water resources are stolen or the case of Gaza, poisoned, their houses and mosques and churches and school demolished..too bad. It’s their own fault. Or it’s Hamas’ fault..anyway, not really newsworthy.
Besides, “Israel has the right to defend itself!”And NEVER NEVER even suggest that maybe Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.
As for John Minto ‘s “We are appalled..” ..Martin and I are appalled too.
As reported by IAK ( If Americans Knew ). In the past Year 7000 demonstrators in Gaza have been shot with live bullets. 1700 have shattered limbs many of which will need amputations. Already 120 people have had arms / legs amputated including 20 children. In the past year 193 Gazan’s
demonstrators have been killed . Gazan resistance groups ( Freedom Fighters) have killed 6 Israelis. The death toll of Israelis killing Israelis is much higher aprox 85 annually i.e. domestic disputes. road rages. murders, etc . So yeah maybe it would be pertinent that Israel fired a few rockets at each other.
Also has anyone noticed that our very own musical star known as LORD is not seen or heard of anymore since turning down the opportunity to perform in isrehell, at last years Gramys she was the only nominee to not perform live, you just cant go upsetting the chosen ones or it will be declared “an act of war” i could go on……
Yes DOC, something i had been wondering about myself? At the time LORDE refused to visit, it occurred to me that what happened to her career next would bear watching??
An innovation agreement is part of an economic relationship.
We have an FTA agreement with a nation that runs concentration camps, suppresses free speech, imprisons human rights lawyers/activists, is attempting to steal the economic territory of other nations by building artificial islands – nation a lot like Israel in some of
these things but which makes no claim to be a democracy or that principled.
So the government is being entirely consistent, if it were to do otherwise it would be being inconsistent.
It has at least supported resolutions at the UNSC against Israel, not any against China though.
John Minto’s OK by me, he has a bee in the bonnet about Israel and in the case of the Palestinians , rightly so.
However, so to do YOU have many excellent points about china, our largest trading partner.
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We have an FTA agreement with a nation that runs concentration camps, suppresses free speech, imprisons human rights lawyers/activists, is attempting to steal the economic territory of other nations by building artificial islands – nation a lot like Israel in some of
these things but which makes no claim to be a democracy or that principled.
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More and more Israel is cementing itself as the world’s most violent rogue state
Imagine if Nth Korea did half of what Israel does in the name of security and their “god”
Like the apartheid regime in Sth Africa, we should break diplomatic relations and implement immediate sanctions
Well done, Jihn Minto for being that prickly conscience of our nation!!
#BDS
100% John Minto
Winston need to show a bit of spine.
We are looking and will remember.
Few will care, Palestine is far away, and they are mostly Muslims, few ‘real Kiwis’ care much about them.
And Jacinda is off to Paris shortly, to meet up with Macron, to talk about Facebook and so. All cameras will follow her. I would not be surprised if she makes a surprise visit to Prince Harry and Meghan while there, as it is only a short flight away.
I presume she will have also organised her ‘carbon offset’ for the long trip to Europe, as it has a large carbon footprint.
https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/sustainability-customer-carbon-offset
https://climatecare.org/10248-2/
I move we bolt the door after she’s gone.
Anyone second the motion?
Who would you replace her with Helena?
D J S
Time for another election…not a selection, imo. We all spend time digging around on the internet and many are finally beginning to recognize the lies pouring out of Wellington…with knock on effects worldwide. (current France visit as exampled). If we vote someone in, imo, that person should stay in and not be pushed sideways. Were that person to be pushed aside, then a new election should be called.
And new rules should apply, i.e. referendum outcomes should be honored. Too simplistic? Probably.
Too much is going on that is too bizarre not to be “fabricated”. This current France visit by Ardern on the subject of “hate speech” is too Orwellian to be acceptable.
If one reads the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, one can see the the Chess Plays for what they are.
Enough is enough. Shakespeare can keep his all the world’s a stage…we need to drop the curtain on the players and boot the lot off our stage.
Let us not forget that in 2016 Netanyahu threatened New Zealand not to back a UN resolution that condemned it’s settlements, saying it would be a “declaration of war”.
Israel wants regional dominance. Netanyahu is an extremist.
New Zealand MUST stand for the two-state solution and for our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
Assad’s troops shot dead 12 unarmed protesters and he got named the “Butcher of Damascus”.
Netanyahu’s troops shot dead 150 unarmed protesters in Gaza and he’s “rightfully defending Israel’s border”.
Double standards much?
I think that immediately after WW2 even the Palestinians had some sympathy with the idea of a Jewish homeland even though they were loosing sovereignty of some of their country. The psychology of the situation must have been like they were making a space for desperate refugees in need and deserving of a safe place in the world.
For a generation perhaps the immigrant Jewish behaved like they were grateful , and co-operative, and keen to accommodate the indigenous people.
If that mood had been allowed to persist then Israel might have been able to develop as any another country. But the mood has changed with the generations and now gratitude has long gone and in it’s place, necessarily as it is the only alternative , is belligerence , greed and an unjustified sense of entitlement. The belligerence has of necessity to replace gratitude and co-operation because there is a complete absence of legal or moral justification for Israel’s existence in the middle of Palestine, except for the sentiment that wanted to offer a compensation for the horrors that were inflicted on the Jewish people during the war. That sentiment has now been over spent to the extent that it is now deeply in debt, and the only way Israel can continue to exist is in the mode it now projects.
Thing there are going to get much worse before they get better.
D J S
There is variation on that.
https://mirrorherald.com/british-mandate-palestine-legacy/
“Prominent scholars of the international law crime of genocide and human rights authorities take the position that Israel’s policies toward the Palestinian people could constitute a form of genocide. Those policies range from the 1948 mass killing and displacement of Palestinians to a half-century of military occupation and, correspondingly, the discriminatory legal regime governing Palestinians, repeated military assaults on Gaza, and official Israeli statements expressly favoring the elimination of Palestinians. ”
There are many other reports written at the time.
The very basis for claiming a “Homeland” that was mythically left long ago is a much argued premise.
Archaeological evidence is just not there it would appear.
When you buy a car it is foolish to buy it on the information given by the seller.
My Great Grandfather like near a million others, was driven out of Ireland by the English occupiers starving them but exporting food. I don’t have a legal right to go back and claim the family house.
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