National rallies this weekend which NZ becomes vassal state to the US under Peters and Luxon

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John Minto
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The poster for the Christchurch rally and march

Nationwide rallies, marches and vigils this weekend in solidarity with Palestine while New Zealand becomes a vassal state to the US under Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon

After 83 days of a “textbook case of genocide” neither Foreign Minister Winston Peters nor Prime Minister Christopher Luxon can bring themselves to condemn Israel’s wholesale slaughter of Palestinians.

“Mr Peters and Mr Luxon have given the greenlight to Israel to continue its indiscriminate, wanton killing of Palestinians.” says PSNA National Chair John Minto.

Within a week of the October 7th attack on Israel, the US State Department sent out a memo saying to its allies –

“…high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”

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The New Zealand government got the memo and has faithfully followed it for 83 days.

We have become a vassal state of the US, refusing to condemn Israeli war crimes or even call for the end to the violence/bloodshed.

But New Zealanders will be out across the country again this week in rallies, marches and vigils to call out Israel and the US for their genocide of Palestinians and to call for BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) against the apartheid state of Israel.

Details of the events are on our Facebook page here.

 

John Minto

National Chair

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

52 COMMENTS

  1. The governments of Australia, Canada and New Zealand all voted for the UN resolution calling for a ceasefire. Hamas acknowledged that they had done so.
    The three governments issued a joint statement prior to the UN vote, specifically condemning Israel’s excessive use of force.
    The three governments have quite intentionally taken a different approach to that of the US and the UK and wanted this to be quite clear.
    Surely John Minto must know all this, but not once has he acknowledged it. It is simply incorrect to say that Australia, Canada and New Zealand have slavishly followed the US and the UK.

    • Get off it. These are people treat there own people as enemy combatants and get hundreds of there own people dead in useless wars that cost us way more infact we are declining thanks to these armchair genarrŕálz. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine are fucken disaster zones. At some point you just have to acknowledge these amateurs have no business dipping there toes into defence foreign affairs and trade especially that fucken Luxon. Have you seen Luxons tax policy?

    • The resolution was for a “humanitarian” ceasefire. How is that different to an “actual” ceasefire, as in stop the fighting on both sides? Despite what people are trying to achieve at the UN, it still sounds to me like weasel words.

      Can you enlighten us, please?

    • The US abstained from using their veto to block it as well which should be enough to tell you how pathetically weak the resolution was.

    • A “humanitarian” ceasefire, Wayne. Is this different to an actual ceasefire? Or is it just a pause before the Israelis continue their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?

    • Kia ora Wayne
      On 7 December the New Zealand Parliament passed the following motion: “That this House express grave concern at the ongoing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories; unequivocally condemn the Hamas terrorist attack on 7 October 2023, and call for the release of all hostages; call on all parties involved in the conflict, as well as countries with influence in the region, to take urgent steps towards establishing a ceasefire; recognise Israel’s right to defend itself, acting in accordance with international law, and that all civilians be protected from armed conflict; affirm that a lasting solution to the conflict will only be achieved by peaceful means and that action to revive the Middle East Peace Process is critical;and that process must seek a just and lasting peace that recognises the existence and self-determination of Israelis and Palestinians. We call for the establishment of a free and independent Palestinian state as part of a two-State solution, with both nations having secure and recognized borders where all citizens enjoy equal rights and freedoms. note that the Government will continue its efforts to help all New Zealanders impacted by the conflict.”
      I think we can take that as the position of the New Zealand government. It is hardly “even-handed”. It “Unequivocally condemns” Hamas for an alleged “terrorist attack” while failing to condemn Israel (equivocally or otherwise), or label it as a terrorist entity. Recognises Israel’s “right to defend itself” but does not extend the same right to the Palestinians. Goes on to “affirm that a lasting solution to the conflict will only be achieved by peaceful means” which is nonsense and “for the establishment of a free and independent Palestinian state as part of a two-State solution” (a Labour amendment) which is also nonsense. There can be no two state solution while Israel is colonizing the West Bank, and there can be no peaceful solution while Israel has absolutely no interest in a peaceful solution.
      So if you want to make a case that the New Zealand Parliament or the New Zealand government has done anything except seek to justify the Israeli genocide in Gaza, by all means do so with clear references.

    • I should have mentioned “steps to a ceasefire”. Israel could cease fire tonight and Hamas would respond, but Israel specifies two “steps” that Hamas must take before Israel will cease fire. First that Hamas must release all its prisoners and second that Hamas must unconditionally surrender. By using the Israeli formula “steps to a ceasefire” New Zealand is promoting the ludicrous idea that Palestinians must accept being pushed en masse into the Sinai desert before Israel needs to end its attempts to exterminate them. It is not just ludicrous. New Zealand has adopted a brutal, cynical and inhuman position on the conflict.

  2. All this “they said, he did, but what about?” sniping nonsense is pointless and demeans our humanity. This tragedy was always going to happen. It’s Newton’s law, stupid! – “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” At some point, exactly like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Palestinians were always going to see that if their fate was to be annihilation, it might as well be on their own terms. The question now is what will the OUR reaction be? Will we allow ourselves to again be manipulated into repeating the sins of our fathers, and stand meekly by as yet another genocide is written into history, or will we not? The Zionists are betting on the former!

  5. ted heath has been particularly bitter and twisted since making a fool of himself about some fantasy holiday in Crimea he was boasting about taking ,,,, once the “Russian scum” ( his words) were defeated…. Like I said he knows he’s shown what a bitter old fool he is….

    We should thank Ted Heath from refraining from using the term ‘Palestinian scum’, as he undoubtedly wants to ,,,,,, but his rotten half brain is aware that people do care about women and children being murdered by zionist extremists,,,, and genocide cheer leading side-kicks have to temper their ugliness least opposition to Israels mass war-crimes reaches the tipping point ,,,, sooner.

  6. Africa is the true spiritual and genetic homeland of Israelis, and everyone else. Why don’t the Israelis ask the Africans if they can return home, back to where it all began for us? They could build a Jim Jones-like gated compound out in a desert somewhere. I doubt those on the African continent would welcome the Israelis though, not only because they would see through their superficial ethnic superiority and innate genocidal tendencies, but because they like most of the world have had enough of this backward colonial violence brutalizing the globe for their own selfish and depraved ends.

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