As government ministers swan off for Christmas and summer holidays, Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza continues. According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
“Since October 7, more than 10,000 children have been killed or are lost under rubble and presumed dead, according to a report by the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. At least 24,000 children have lost one or both parents in Israeli attacks and about 18,000 have been injured with some in critical condition”
This is all lost on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters who have still failed to:
- Utter a single word of condemnation for Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza – although they did condemn the killing of Israeli civilians (Palestinians civilians count for less with the new government)
- Condemn Israel for deliberately withholding adequate food, water and fuel from the people of Gaza
- Condemn the war crimes such as collective punishment, forced displacement of civilians and the carpet-bombing of densely populated civilian areas with the inevitable outcomes we are seeing daily
- Condemn the targeting of schools, hospitals, ambulances, journalists etc
- Call for an International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes since October 7th – including the crimes of genocide and apartheid
Mr Luxon and Mr Peters are still lamely calling for “steps towards a ceasefire” for a situation described as catastrophic by the United Nations and genocidal across the non-western world.
This is a failure of moral and ethical leadership. It is an expression of anti-Palestinian racism which has a tenacious grip on the new government.
Any decent government would sever all links with Israel, including expelling the apartheid Israel ambassador, till Israel stops its slaughter of Palestinians and provides everyone “between the river and the sea” with equal rights
Rallies, marches and vigils will take place across the country again this weekend. Details of the events are on our Facebook page here.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
John – Two quick points…
– Hamas is still firing rockets into Tel Aviv.
– Hamas has been informed what they need to do to stop the IDF…hint, Hamas needs to go
Wrong.
Until Israel stops its occupation Hamas needs to stay.
When are you going to admit the West Bank and Gaza are open air prisons controlled by Israel.
… So Nathans quick points/solutions …… are Exactly the same that Nazi germany had for the resistance they faced in their occupied lands … You’re not a very original thinker are you Nathan.
A bit of truth about the totally provoked and foreseeable military attack on Oct 7th ,,,, and Israels war crimes response ,,,, here, ‘A Year of Intelligence Failures’ https://youtu.be/ajUUUnWRu_A
@ Nathan. Correct. Hamas is trying to defend its property, its Mana and its very existence so fuck off and take your nasty little israeli’s and go to Texas where they, as you do, defend the right to be terminally vile and arrogant.
( I must ask. Are you a human or an it? There’s no colour or nuance in your writing. You could as easily be writing stickers on how to operate toasters, you come across as a witless tag writer for electric blankets. A single-note bird squawking from the top of a lawn bowls club house. Are you some kind of animated aesthetic with a penchant for abstract realities and a curiosity for cruelties inflicted by others on others. You write like a dull minded fence post that’s never left home after leaving primary school. They only thing you seem to be able to achieve is to be first here with the least interesting things to write. How do you do that? Do you sleep at all? You certainly sleep alone. ) One cannot defend the indefensible and those who slaughter wee kids or leave them lying bleeding and dying on war ravaged hospital floors can only be justified by the monsters who did that to them and all to feed money into the American Military Industrial Complex. What wonderful people, the Israeli’s are.
The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/22/the-week-around-the-world-in-20-pictures
Hello sweet Nathan. So, Hamas members have found their way to New Zealand, thus Israel is now free to bomb NZ to kingdom come with zero local, let alone international, reprisals.
Silly of NZ to allow themselves to become human shields and humus supporters, but so be it…..sub-human animals with genetic issues is now what we have become – thus ripe for bombing, aye sweet Nate.
Interestingly, if I were Ukrainian, I’d be looking at getting some Hamas members (real or otherwise) into Russia, then make a big media circus out of it, then Israel can bomb the crap out of Russia too, remembering the usual trick – it is all about Hamas. Wherever Hamas exists, Israel must bomb – indiscriminately, and if they do not, then it will just go to show, that Hamas is merely the excuse to bomb a certain people to kingdom come! Thus, we get a reasonable idea of the motives behind those who fixate upon Hamas.
Apparently the Palestinians who broke out of their concentration camp on October 7 targeted only enemy combatants, it was the trigger happy and very hairy Israelis who did most of the killing on that day – mostly their own people. They only have themselves to blame for that ghetto breakout, reminiscent of the Warsaw uprising. Israel is totally unhinged, they have no qualms killing indiscriminately like a crazed US mass shooter. They are cowards who use high tech remotely to kill the innocent, unarmed, vulnerable and sick. They are serial killers murdering a hundred kids a day. They have broken every humanitarian and international law in the name of their religious revenge fantasy (killing their way to a gated promised land i.e. creating a cult like guarded prison complex where the Israeli government kill ‘others’ or even their own without reason). I will fight with my last breath against these violent psychopaths, their ridiculous god complex and their low IQ apologists.
Ethan, you say: ‘I will fight with my last breath against these violent psychopaths’
No one is stopping you heading over to Palastine and picking up a gun to defend them….or, as I suspect, typing on a keyboard is what you mean by ‘fight to my last breath’?….like a true warrior.
Lol
Unlike fanatical sociopath zionists ( like Im right, gaby , Anne the Extremist, Nathan , etc etc etc) who believe that fighting must be uber violent and include things like the mass slaughter of civilians to “defend themselves ….
…. Perhaps Ethan just meant ‘fighting’ by spreading the truth and debunking dishonest idiots like im right, gaby etc . ….
If Im right made a new years resolution to tell and spread more lies ,,,, it’s hard to see how he could achieve this … but I can see him having a go at it ,,, Lol
This is Western civilization. This is what it looks like.
What we see in Gaza is a much better representation of what Western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned in school.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/12/20/the-atrocities-in-gaza-are-the-perfect-embodiment-of-western-values/
The article the average ‘American dreamer’ does not want to…read.
Pakistan severed links with Israel eons ago and Iran is doing its damnest through its terrorist entities to annihilate Israel. Are these your exemplars of a “decent” government?
Hasbara Ann E, Hamas is tactically outsmarting the racist IDF even though they don’t have tanks, a navy, an air force etc.. The feared Golani brigade patrol unit were slaughtered the other day with the numbers of IDF death toll reaching in the thousands. The IDF are pussies always picking on woman, Children, however when it comes to armed palestinians that are well trained (they all speak hebrew fluently) disciplined, highly motivated and know how to fight consequently the apartheid state is coming to an end. Palestine will be free from the river Jordan to the mediterranean sea.
Lol….bwahhhaa always a laugh reading your nonsense posts Tipene.
When Israel destroy/flood all the tunnels, Hamas will have no place to hide….then boom!
Weird how you never cite evidence for your claims stephen. Crickey even he who considers himself Awakesky hasn’t attempted to run that particular yarn past me. Maybe you’re just a pussy, picking on a woman.
How strange ( yet typical) that a fanatical terrorist supporting zionist like Anne the Extremist should play the victim card about ‘picking on women ,,,, all while she supports the mass slaughter of them, and their children ….
” Gaza is one of the most intensive civilian punishment campaigns in history” ….
…. Lets repeat how Israel ‘defends itself’ ,,,, by “civilian punishment campaigns” https://youtu.be/HK0gDr7bMuI?t=536
Once more the ‘results’ of Israels work ,,, https://www.bitchute.com/video/7VAvYoERpQM/
The Kahanist terrorist nuts before they got into power in Israel https://youtu.be/YMlt9Si9Ti8?t=787
The deadly Kahanist scum ( who are now Israeli officials in power ), speaking in the present …. https://twitter.com/docjazzmusic/status/1723568797427142861 ….
Ask Anne the Extremist to condemn any of this ,,,, and she never never never never never never will ….
….. because she’s one of em ,,, :0
Ah well reason just for once I thought I’d play the card – you’ve taught me the finer details of it so well over the years. But then you’re much further up the victim hierarchy than this lowly white woman.
Here’s a real example of a young innocent female victim of low-life zionist supremacist extremists like Anne ,,,, Dounia Abu Mosen, a thirteen year old girl and amputee from a Israel bomb which killed most of her family making her a orphan ,,, and then she is subsequently killed while recovering in hospital from a Israel tank shell fired directly into her room ….. https://youtu.be/HK0gDr7bMuI?t=1441
Examples like this and their images are the news fanatics like Anne the Extremist use to make themselves feel good and think they are winning ….
…. Better that than be a victim of zionisim ,,, in Annes twisted head.
I wonder what she’ll try and divert with next ,, Lies and diversions is all she does.
Your selective outrage does you proud. Where were you when 160 of the Palestinian children Hamas used to build their terror tunnels died?
Pakistan and Iran have problems but they have not killed over 20000 Palestinian people since October 7 in what can only be described as a deliberate effort by Israel to kill as many people in Gaza as possible.
You may be too young to know that millions of Hindus and Muslims were killed in the intractable conflict that led to the partition of India and creation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Then up to 3 million more were killed, 10 million ethnically cleansed and 400,000 Hindu women raped when that republic went to war with East Pakistan. That was your real genocide, not the inflated number the Hamas-run Gazan Ministry of Health release to stoke hatred against Israelis.
Good to hear there is going to be a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Gaza. The US is sloooowly getting the message by abstaining instead of playing the veto card.
Will this slow down the Genocide? Or end it? Or not at all?
No Christmas happening in Bethlehem so I guess the rest of the world should cancel xmas ay?
“Good to hear there is going to be a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Gaza.” Den
You heard it wrong Den.
There is to be no pause. The resolution finally passed in the UN Security Council with a US abstention is to allow in more aid. That’s it. The US didn’t support the resolution to allow in more aid, the US abstained in supporting the resolution to allow in more aid.
…After many delays, the UN Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza….
….The US won the removal of a tougher call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/301032124/death-toll-in-gaza-reaches-20000-as-israel-expands-offensive
The UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has said the UN cannot carry out its humanitarian aid in Gaza under the bombardment.
As if to prove his point – on the eve of the passing of the resolution to allow in more aid, Israel bombed an aid shipment killing 4 UN aid workers.
….Israel opened the Kerem Shalom crossing several days ago amid international demands to increase the flow of aid. But the military struck the Palestinian side of the crossing Thursday, killing four staffers, and the UN said it was unable to pick up aid there for delivery….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/301032124/death-toll-in-gaza-reaches-20000-as-israel-expands-offensive
Israel is engineering a man made famine to complete the genocide begun with an indiscriminate bombing and and continued with a murderous ground assault. The US neither supports or opposes Israel’s genocidal famine, but abstains. While supporting the bombing of the starving civilians.
“Good to hear there is going to be a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ in Gaza.” Den
You heard it wrong Den.
There will be no pause, the US refused to allow the “Suspension of Hostilities” (to allow the safe distribution of aid), to be included in the resolution.
The resolution that was finally passed in the UN Security Council with a US abstention is to allow in more aid. That’s it.
The US didn’t support the resolution to allow in more aid, the US abstained in supporting the resolution to allow in more aid.
The US threatened to veto the resolution if it called for a pause to allow in more aid.
…After many delays, the UN Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza….
….The US won the removal of a tougher call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/301032124/death-toll-in-gaza-reaches-20000-as-israel-expands-offensive
The UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres has said the UN cannot carry out its humanitarian aid in Gaza under the bombardment.
As if to prove his point – on the eve of the passing of the resolution to allow in more aid, Israel bombed an aid shipment killing 4 UN aid workers.
….Israel opened the Kerem Shalom crossing several days ago amid international demands to increase the flow of aid. But the military struck the Palestinian side of the crossing Thursday, killing four staffers, and the UN said it was unable to pick up aid there for delivery….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/301032124/death-toll-in-gaza-reaches-20000-as-israel-expands-offensive
Israel is engineering a man made famine to complete the genocide begun with an indiscriminate bombing and and continued with a murderous ground assault. The US neither supports or opposes Israel’s genocidal famine, choosing to abstain, while supporting the continued bombing of the starving civilians.
The US and Israel are making fools of the United Nations.
https://english.news.cn/20231223/e49a15df76ec46edabb93e82d7a2a023/c.html
…UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that the Israeli offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza.
Many people are measuring the effectiveness of the humanitarian operation in Gaza based on the number of trucks allowed to unload aid across the Egyptian-Gaza border. This is a mistake, said Guterres.
“The real problem is that the way Israel is conducting this offensive is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza,” he told reporters.
An effective aid operation in Gaza requires security, staff who can work in safety, logistical capacity, and the resumption of commercial activity. These four elements do not exist, he said.
Security for aid delivery is absent. The intense Israeli bombardment and active combat in densely populated urban areas throughout Gaza threaten the lives of civilians and humanitarian aid workers alike. The United Nations waited 71 days for Israel finally to allow aid to enter Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing. The crossing was then hit while aid trucks were in the area, he said.
The humanitarian operation requires staff who can live and work in safety. Some 136 UN staff members in Gaza have been killed in 75 days — something unprecedented in the history of the United Nations….
For conspiring with Israel to kill United Nations staff, the US must have their veto right suspended.
Not even the Mafia would tolerate one of their members aiding and abetting a killer of their organisation’s staffers.
https://english.news.cn/20231223/e49a15df76ec46edabb93e82d7a2a023/c.html
Before any more UN staffers are killed by Israel, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres needs to call an emergency meeting of the United Nations General to vote on a resolution to suspend America’s power of veto.
After negotiating the latest humanitarian pause in Gaza the Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan slammed the Security Council for not condemning Hamas for the October 7th attack that started the current Gaza “war “.
Eli Cohen the Israeli Foreign Minister said in response, “Israel will continue the war until the release of all the abductees and the elimination of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”
The Israeli governent/IDF October 7th “atrocities” statement is all lies and with each day that passes the evidence is clear that the IDF indiscriminately and intentionally killed Israelis and Palestinians alike.
This link shows IDF Merkava tanks shelling houses in Kibbutz Be’eri that had Palestinian fighters and Israeli hostages inside:
https://rumble.com/v429mh2-october-7-channel-12.html.
It is heartening to see a staunch group of regular commenters on this blog who are holding the line in these very dark times.
“After negotiating the latest humanitarian pause in Gaza the Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan slammed the Security Council….” Pukahu Road
It’s amazing how powerful mainstream media is in sowing the impression in people’s minds that the UN Security Council just voted for a “pause”. The latest UN Security Council resolution that passed with a US abstention, did not call for a pause. The resolution that has just been passed after the US delayed its passing three times, called on Israel to allow in more aid. That’s it. The resolution did not call for a “pause” despite the fact that Antonio Guterres said it is impossible for the UN to deliver aid under bombardment. Despite the fact that the day before the vote was taken Israel killed four UN aid workers trying to deliver aid. The aid could not then be delivered.
No pause, and aid delivery bombed. The US and Israel are making fools of all of us.
You are absolutely right Pat and I agree the UN Security Council has lost all credibilty as these votes continuely fail to deliver.
Your criticism is fair.
Completely true. Disgusting.
We need, like the devil, a renewal of heart in the world. The idealism post-WW ll and now. Every Gazan and Palestinian is me.
“Mr Luxon and Mr Peters are still lamely calling for “steps towards a ceasefire” ”
Nothing lame about that. It is hardcore zionism. The State of Israel has defined the steps towards a ceasefire as consisting of the release of all prisoners held by the Palestinians and the unconditional surrender of Hamas. The Realm of New Zealand supports Israel in that demand.
Think about it. What steps can Israel take “towards a ceasefire”? None at all. It could cease fire at any time. It needs to do nothing else before Hamas would also cease fire.
So New Zealand supports the continuing genocide in Gaza. Simple as that.
Israel knows what it is about. On that may it go to hell. Scots/ Palestinians are terribly mixed up in my mind — I think Mel Gibson did a film about it.