Ceasefire Now! Nationwide rallies till the end of the war on Gaza – Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is helping co-ordinate nationwide rallies every weekend until the Israel/Gaza war is over.

We have been pleased with the huge numbers turning out across the country in the past three weeks – each week the numbers have doubled.

Aotearoa New Zealand is part of a rapidly growing international movement demanding an end to the killing.

New Zealanders overwhelmingly support a ceasefire to end the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza but our Labour and National leaders have been pathetic. They are still only calling for a “humanitarian pause” so Israel can resume its mass killing of innocents once there has been a “tea break”.

Over 8,000 Palestinians are dead in Gaza with over 3,000 children killed. One Palestinian child is killed every 15 minutes in Israel’s barbaric genocidal war while our largest political parties twiddle their thumbs.

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“More than two million people, with nowhere safe to go, are being denied the essentials for life – food, water, shelter and medical care – while being subjected to relentless bombardment.” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

But our government is unmoved.

Palestinians have broken in to UN food depots in Gaza because they are desperate and hungry and Israel keeps up its stranglehold on 2.3 million people in Gaza.

The silence from Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon is deafening.

New Zealand heart is on the streets. The vast majority of New Zealanders are demanding a ceasefire NOW!

John Minto

National Chair

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

85 COMMENTS

  1. The reality is that the vast majority of New Zealanders simply don’t realise or care what is happening in Gaza and of those that do huge numbers will completely understand Israel’s reaction to the massacre and abduction of it’s people.
    Of the remainder who are turning up to these rallies you will have Muslims who would attend a pro-ISIS rally if they had the opportunity and self-loathing left-wing nutjobs who would back the devil in any conflict with Israel or the Western world in a larger sense.

    • “The reality is that the vast majority of New Zealanders simply don’t realise or care what is happening in Gaza”
      This is a really, really important point, but it relates to everything and not only what is happening in Gaza. Our politicians and our media, shape our views of the world, but both are mere tools of our unelected rulers – the billionaire class – where money, not votes, truly shapes the world.

      We care for whatever interests ‘money’ wishes us to care about while ‘money’ also ensures that we remain ignorant or indignant to everything else. As money does not care for anything other than itself, then it is only a matter of time before we are all in the same boat as those in Gaza. Sure as night follows day. The entire world got a taste of the power of money just a few years ago…that’s just a mere starter for ten. The true reality of the world is that ‘money’ does not care, hence we do not care too. Money has us right where it wants us to be…..

      • Again, need to point out that this is not accidental. The less we care the easier we are to control.

        The open-air prison that is Gaza, their controlled confines, is what awaits the uncaring, essentially all of us. The unofficial corridors of power are nearing the point where complete control of us all, is finally within their reach.

        Control of the political class.
        Control of the information sphere.
        …………………
        …………………
        Control of all money (via the exit of cash). BOOM!

      • Agreed. We should be rallying against our own murdered children. We should have rallied against little Bill English shockingly writing off a whole generation of our young men as useless. We should have rallied against Marama maligning all non-gay white men as violent thugs and all Pakeha responsible for an Aussie runt’s slaughter of Muslims in Christchurch. We should have rallied against what the SAS did to defenceless peasant women and children in Afghanistan and the two villages which no longer exist. We should rally against the children of the poor dependant upon the kindness of strangers to have their hungry bellies filled. We don’t.

  2. Still no mention of the hostages. Why doesn’t he suggest to Hamas that they release the hostages first and maybe Israel will negotiate.

  3. The following headline represents the pressure, both overt and covert, that is put on Western politicians, including ours, to support the genocide in Gaza

    Paul Bristow: Ministerial aide sacked after call for Israel-Gaza ceasefire

    Paul Bristow became the MP for Peterborough in 2019
    By Becky Morton
    Political reporter

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67264814

    ….In a letter to the prime minister last week, Mr Bristow said “a permanent ceasefire” would save lives and allow aid to reach those who needed it most.
    The government supports “humanitarian pauses” but not a full ceasefire.
    During Prime Minister’s Questions last week, Rishi Sunak said “specific pauses” would allow more aid into Gaza but he rejected calls to back a ceasefire, stressing that Israel had a right to defend itself.
    Mr Bristow, who is the Conservative MP for Peterborough, was a Parliamentary Private Secretary…
    ….he told the BBC: “I completely understand the PM’s decision. And it is with regret I leave a job I enjoyed. “But I can now talk openly about an issue so many of my constituents care deeply about.
    “I believe I can do this better from the backbenches rather than as part of the government payroll.”

    In this country, I wonder how many Labour or National MPs will share the courage and principles of Conservative MP Paul Bristow to stand up to their party leaders to call for a ceasefire?

    So far, no Labour or National MP in this country has had the courage to cross the floor to oppose their party’s pro-genocide stance.

    In this country Labour and National both, refuse to support the international call from the UN General Secretary and the UN General Assembly for a ceasefire to halt the genocide.

    As I wrote a number of times in these pages before and during the election. Both Labour and National are the parties of war.

    As is proven, every vote for either of these two parties was a vote for war and now, even genocide.

    Under international law no atrocity justifies the crime of genocide.
    Everyone who placed a vote for these two parties, and who is anti-war, needs to write a letter to their MP to express their displeasure at their party’s pro-war stance.

    • First of all a ceasefire only benefits Hammas, and second, you misuse the term genocide (look the word up). Israel are targeting Hammas and military sites. Spraying machine-gun fire indiscriminately into a crowd of innocent civilians at a music festival because of their religion, that’s genocide. Hammas are terrorists hiding behind civilians to garner support for their actions. They say it themselves, why be so ignorant?

  4. What is happening now is GENOCIDE!! GENOCIDE NOW, IN FRONT OF OUR EYES, (UNLESS WE CHOOSE TO LOOK AWAY)

    We need to demand that the Israeli Embassy be expelled. that the Israeli regime be condemned ..that their leaders be tried by the ICC

    and a ps re hostages.
    Israeli forces have been kidnapping Palestinian children in the West Bank, for years, quite often by breaking into their homes in the middle of the night and hauling the children away..see the NO WAY TO TREAT A CHILD CAMPAIGN initiated by DCI Pal (Defense of Children International and AFRC (American Friends Service Committee)

    • Oh don’t be such a drama queen Lois. You know jolly well Arab countries have tried to annihilate Israel numerous times. And 16 year old jihadis wanting to earn their stripes by murdering Israelis at the behest of their Palestinian leaders are not children.

        • Certainly is if a charge of genocide is focussed exclusively on Israel while Imams and Hamas call for jihad Michal. But if it makes you happy I’ll also include Pat O’Dea in the drama queen theatrical troupe. What does he care about Black children in Nigeria being butchered. What do any of you care about the persecution and ethnic cleansing of Christians and Kurds all over the Middle East.

      • Why do you only repeat one side of history as if that is the full story? Evidence needs to be examined with all views included if you want to find the truth. Your insistence on writing such a limited view suggests that you are not a credible source of information.

        • Can you please point me to one or more posts where the evidence you present is examined with all view included please Bonnie.

  5. Countries which voted against the UN Gaza Humanitarian Truce October 2023:

    Against (14):
    A: Austria
    C: Croatia, Czechia
    F: Fiji
    G: Guatemala
    H: Hungary
    I: Israel
    M: Marshall Islands, Micronesia
    N: Nauru
    P: Papua New Guinea, Paraguay
    T: Tonga
    U: United States

    Abstained (45):
    A: Albania, Australia
    B: Bulgaria
    C: Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus
    D: Denmark
    E: Estonia, Ethiopia
    F: Finland
    G: Georgia, Germany, Greece
    H: Haiti
    I: Iceland, India, Iraq, Italy
    J: Japan
    K: Kiribati
    L: Latvia, Lithuania
    M: Monaco
    N: Netherlands, North Macedonia
    P: Palau, Panama, Philippines, Poland
    R: Republic of Korea (South Korea), Republic of Moldova, Romania
    S: San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, South Sudan, Sweden
    T: Tunisia, Tuvalu
    U: Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu
    Z: Zambia

  9. Wrong photo at the top of the post Minto, should be pictures of the hostages, many children. Maybe you tear those posters down like your PA mates?

  10. All these woke lefties telling the Jews to get out of Palestinian land whilst living in stolen Maori land. They just cannot see that they are just as bad. Minto is one confused cookie.

  11. What is Israel’s end game? Everyone is asking.

    Will Israel expel all the last remaining Palestinian population of Northern Gaza and put Settlers there?

    Will Israel hand over Northern Gaza to the Palestinian Authority?

    Will Israel build a permanent steel fence around Northern Gaza, and then expel and exterminate any last remaining Palestinians, to begin demolishing the ruins with military bulldozers and explosives to make Northern Gaza unlivable for anyone? 
    A sort of no go dead zone like Chernobyl?? 

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