GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Open letter to the PM and Deputy PM

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“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed…..”
“We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,”

 

Imogen Wells
January 18, 2024, • 09:00am
…..there are fears the cause of death for many will now be due to the humanitarian disaster hitting the population – with malnutrition, respiratory and gastro illness running rampant, and the cold weather settling in….

…..- children are now at risk of dying from the humanitarian crisis as well as from the bombs and the bullets. Those deaths are entirely preventable….

…..Basically, we need an end to the fighting.

“…..Basically, we need an end to the fighting.” Tess Ingram, Unicef

 

So why are we not getting it?

Why are our politicians not demanding it?

New Zealand sent a top team of lawyers to the Hague to add our voice to the countries demanding, yes demanding that the World Court order Russia to end their aggression against Ukraine. Why are we not doing the same now for Gaza?

If our political leaders don’t think this is a genocide, then they wouldn’t recognise a genocide even if was happening right before them. This has to be a worry for all of us.

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Leading New Zealanders call on the government to support South Africa’s application to the World Court in the Hague for an interim order for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

To Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters;
If you either of you two men have, have ever wondered what you would have done during the Holocaust. You don’t need to wonder any more, because you are doing it now.

 

Patrick O’Dea is a staunch Unionist and human rights activist

8 COMMENTS

    • Nathan -Again, not a word about the 6k hostages kidnapped from the West Bank and held in “Administrative detention” without access to a lawyer.
      Nothing about the IDFs well documented crimes including shooting an unarmed Palestinian with a white flag just 2 days ago. Why?

      • fingrinn – I did not write the letter, nor do I omit the reason for the current war…in other words, state BOTH sides of the story – otherwise it is propaganda.

        • Hmmm, thought this was obvious, but you don’t state both sides, you never have and you never will because when you view, as you do Nathan, one side here as being less than human (the Palestinians and their Arab brethren), then you are only ever going to come at this, as you do, from one side.

          You use, over and over and over again, one side – Hamas, human shields and hostages as deflections from the carnage that your side is committing.

          You, easily trump propaganda with sheer hatred of a sliver of humanity. As history shows, your beliefs sit on the wrong side humanity.

  1. “If our political leaders don’t think this is a genocide, then they wouldn’t recognise a genocide even if was happening right before them. This has to be a worry for all of us.”

    It is a worry. When our politicians can turn a blind eye to genocide, clearly in service to US interests, then what may they be capable of doing to us, depending on whom is pulling their strings, come the time!.

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