We won’t know for sure till the end of the week but so far it looks like it’s the one in the middle – Benjamin Netanyahu – a racist for all seasons.
Netanyahu is also on record as saying
“Israeli is not a state for all its citizens” and “Palestinians are an existential threat to Israel”
As history has told us over and over again – it’s language like this which precedes genocide.
Human rights activists here and around the world must continue to build the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel to end its racist, apartheid policies against Palestinians.
At least Israel votes….what about Palestine, do they vote?
Palestine is not Fatah/Hamas, any more than Israel is it’s government ‘leaders’.
Short of a proper two state solution Palestine _is_ Israel.
Palestinians voted for the heroes of Hamas because they protect them from murderous psychopaths like… everyone up for election in ‘israel’.
It is all power and politics, under the sheen of religion. It applies on both sides, hence no point pointing fingers at just these 3 individuals.
yet Minto supports a race based system here in NZ?
XstraightXedgeX poor Pakeha you want a lolly?
Moments like these you need minties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Palestinian_legislative_election
And here it is “On 11 November 2019, Abbas said that there would be no new Palestinian elections unless they include East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip”
Abbas will die in office, and his successor will not be elected.
Mr Minto, why don’t you just stick to your normal MO and send an open letter to the Govt (and of course post it on here) and explain what they should do and they are inhumane if they dont.
THEN….another post showing the reply/or lack thereof and bemoan their reply as being a terrible response and insufficient.
There you go Mr Minto…2 posts for the price of one for you….go on, you know you want to!
These men dangerously augur the dismantlement of Israel, with their hateful rhetoric and actions. No serious pro-Israel person could possibly endorse them, if that term is to mean anything. If you’re pro-Israel, you’re pro-Palestine, not just vice versa.
You vote for Shit 1, Shit 2 or Shit 3.
They picked Shit 2.
Apartheid Israel apparently is the only democracy in the M.E. It’s possesses nuclear weapons illegally and other forms of WMDS it practices apartheid, it regularly ethnically cleanses the indigenous peoples from its homes, and villages, it murders them indiscriminately, it bombs Gaza repeatedly the world’s biggest open prison and it attacks neighbouring states and has stolen territory and then populates them with european jews. It supports Jihads then uses them to attack neighbouring states. It uses terrorism in countries abroad. It does all this even without one of these candidates at the helm.
New Zealand should support United States by providing financial support to Israel!
Sori Zeld that isn’t in our DNA nor do we have the budget remember we’re in a recession
and you zelda should contribute your mossad paycheque to ‘the cause’
Meanwhile literally next door is dictator Bashar al-Assad but no mention of him or his murderous regime by Minto . .
James+Brown, that tyrant Assad who uses chemical weapons on his own population just after Obama gave an ultimatum that chemical weapons use is a redline, will not to be tolerated????? Where do they breed your kind???
They breed ‘my kind’ in New Zealand – heard of it?
You mean Aotearoa?
Nope I mean New Zealand – you are welcome to call New Zealand Aotearoa if that your personal preference but it doesn’t mine.
Cue allegations of racism / bigot etc . . yawn.
Apartheid Israel values and beliefs will be compatible with bigoted Pakeha like yourself James+Brown! They’re colonizers like your ancestors in fact they were originally helped by your ancestors mother country ‘Britain’ after WW1. The anti-Semitic diplomat ‘Arthur Belfour’ signed a fake declaration (like they’ve known to do throughout history) in 1917 giving someone else’s land to a third party without the permission of the real owners.
The Jewish population that dominates Israel are europeans hell they even discriminate against other Jews that aren’t white. They preach propaganda and claim that they’re the chosen race even though Jews aren’t a race. They have white supremacist (as long as you’re a white Jew) tendencies and humiliate & demonise the Indigenous population on a daily basis. They regularly make claims about superiority like pakeha bigots such as yourself do towards Maori.
The apartheid state is your kinda state that you and your ilk have been wet dreaming about since your ancestors arrived in our beautiful country ‘Aotearoa’ in the mid 1800’s
It’s no wonder that you’ve vitriolized memes towards the Syrian president ‘Assad’ is what brainwashed westerners regurgitate out of their orifice without critical thinking. I bet that you & your ilk would love to replicate what israel has done in a very short period of its country 73 existence even though the irreparable damage that european colonization has inflicted on Maori has its own terrible foreseeable consequences.
Stephen – On behalf of my ‘ilk’ yawn (again).
Not only the last colonization but one of the worst, maybe the worst — I haven’t checked. Britain didn’t colonize countries where there were many people. I used to think the Irish were first of the ‘great’ peoples, no sins on their hands like my people, the Scots. But Germany making endless amends for their terrible crimes, makes me think highly of them.
Very sad John, in fact, horrific but it seems to be what their version of democracy wants.
Fantail, just stick to what you’re good at ‘Maori bashing’ you probably know fuck all about Apartheid Israel and its Utasha ways
Yair Lapid’s comments are actually in support of a two state solution – and his coalition government included an Arab Israeli party (first time ever).
Benjamin Netanyahu’s vanity project – restoration to the PM job via alliance with the extreme right Religious Zionist party is the biggest mistake of his career (and that of Likud).
Fuckin pathetic creeps, censored always. Death to the lot of ya wankers.
This person doesn’t get published because he threatens to kill Daily Blog staff members.
Yup can’t argue with that rule to be honest.
The “Grey River Argus” has warned Mr Netanyahu many times that we will not stand for this!
The really good news is that the once dominant Israeli Labour Party fell to 4%. If it can happen there it can happen anywhere. They never recovered from the Oslo Accords.
Meh. In the real world Ehud Barak won the election in 1999, 6 years later. He offered Arafat East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza – Arafat said no, unless he also got right of return to Israel for the 1948 refugees. Then launched an intifada. Then his successor allowed Hamas who rejected the Oslo Accords to stand in PA elections – the PA was set up by the Oslo Accords. Hamas won. Now Fatah run the WB and Hamas Gaza and neither has elections – Abbas says he is willing to but they must include Gaza and East Jerusalem. So when Abbas does his successor will not be elected.
Labour is irrelevant because there is no peace partner, at first superseded by Sharon/Olmert (Kadima) and their disengagement policy. Since then it has been Lapid secularists of the centre and the centre-right non compliant to the cult of Netanyahu.
Israel must get rid of its nuclear weapons the UNGA unanimously majority decided. The five nations that opposed Friday’s resolution on the “risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East” were: Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau and the United States. Another 24 countries abstained, including European Union members.
The resolution largely targets Israel, which is believed to be one of only nine nations to possess nuclear weapons. Israel has never admitted to having such weapons.
The resolution reaffirmed “the importance of Israel’s accession to the NPT and placement of all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive international atomic Energy Nancy safeguards, in realizing the goal of universal adherence to the Treaty in the Middle East.”
It further called on Israel “to accede to the Treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and to place all its unsafe guarded nuclear facilities under the full scope of Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step toward enhancing peace and security.
Looks like its Bibi – and by a solid margin in the context of recent Israeli elections.
it would matter if you mattered, but as you don’t, it doesn’t
but pointing out your habitual lying is hopefully is a heads up for other posters.
Oh, to see a fine line of comments on a vital people’s blog. Footnotes — sneer.
We will end soon by these supposedly Left commenters.
It must come from ideas now. Or the rich will drive us to extinction.
This playing to customers by you and many others is over.
I, being Scots and North Country and Irish only know how to fight. I thought you south English by your ‘thought’ were better than our fight.
J’, entirely, ‘approve’. Sometimes I don’t even understand what I said. That’s how I go. I find none of the ‘Left’ folk above me. Helpful, often, but I wish for better. This is the last decade to prevent my desperate old age and my youngers’ early deaths, and the folk produced by acres of comfort aren’t up to it.
That address was intended for the blogholder, never you. You re the obverse of that coin — a shining light for the people when every other talker in this movement has covered themselves in compromise.
I wonder if any of the line-up have read this 2014 book. I haven’t but I am lessimportant than them with less important decisions to make.
Humanity-Craft for New Epoch Leaders
Avant-Garde Politician: Leaders for a New Epoch
Yehezkel Dror (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
Washington: Westphalia Press (Policy Studies Organization), April 2014, 350p, $17.50pb.
…His book is intended for a global audience: all who are interested in politics and policy studies writ large, political leaders and their advisors, and “the large variety of non-political leaders and decision-makers who desire to impact the future of humanity for the better.”
Dror’s distinctive style of providing long and provocative lists of points to support his wise arguments (sometimes with numbered items, sometimes not) is certainly apparent in this encyclopedic tour de force. It is not easy reading (I found myself dipping into the book on four different occasions), but the wealth of well-documented insights deserves multiple visits. Unfortunately, there is no index. So, to avoid missing any topic of substance, reviewing the chapters “by the numbers” is especially appropriate in this instance.
Introduction
The fateful leap in human capacities to shape its future in interaction with the environment started around the mid-20th century with the atomic bomb. This was only a beginning: the leap in human capacities has become a quantum jump, and now includes rapidly escalating capabilities to destroy humanity. Citing Donald Michael’s 1968 book on The Unprepared Society, Dror warns of “Unprepared Humanity,” cascading into an epoch of metamorphosis. Yet, the vast majority of humanity is not aware of the existential challenges, and “the vast majority of political leaders are sleepwalkers,” suffering from significant mental blind spaces which assure disasters.
Given this diagnosis, this book fuses two leitmotifs: 1) the need for a novel “Humanity Constitution,” together with constantly expanding global law; and 2) bringing to the fore a novel type of “avant-garde” political leader with the qualities needed to cope with an era of metamorphosis, including founding the required Humanity Constitution. Dror explores the qualities of mind required by these politicians, and offers guidelines for becoming one. A new cohort of innovative moral, value, and spiritual leaders is also needed, “as illustrated by Pope Francis.”
That address was intended for the blogholder, never you. You re the obverse of that coin — a shining light for the people when every other talker in this movement has covered themselves in compromise.
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