This is an enormous victory for Taxpayer’s Union, The Platform & Israel apologists…
No more aid for UN aid agency until Peters satisfied – Luxon
New Zealand will not make further payments to the UNRWA until the foreign minister is satisfied over accusations about its staff’s involvement in Hamas’ attacks, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says.
More than 10 donor countries suspended their funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN’s largest agency operating in Gaza, over the weekend.
They included Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Japan and Austria.
Israel had provided the agency with information alleging a dozen staff were involved in the 7 October attack by Hamas fighters in southern Israel, which left about 1300 dead and about 250 taken as hostages.
More than 26,000 people – mostly women and children – have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a major military operation in response, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Heading into National’s caucus meeting this morning, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon confirmed New Zealand would be halting further funding for the agency until Foreign Minister Winston Peters gave the go-ahead.
“Look, I mean the allegations are incredibly serious, it’s important they are properly understood and investigated, we won’t be making any further contributions until the Foreign Minister says it’s good to do so,” Luxon said.
“That’ll take as long as it takes.”
…for the last 24 hours, Israeli proxies have been selling the UNRWA as a taxpayer issue so as to deflect attention from the UN ruling against Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime.
That attention by right wing noisemakers has spooked Luxon into dumping UNRWA aid which is exactly what the State of Israel wants.
It is a shocking development and further proof of the importance of The Platform and Taxpayers’ Union in being able to force knee jerks directly from National.
If this was actually a taxpayer issue, the IDF have killed 140 UNRWA staff since October 7th, which means we as Taxpayers should be demanding the IDF refund us for killing the staff members we were funding!
We send UNRWA a million dollars, they have 13 000 staff, so that’s $76.92 per staff member and the IDF have killed 140 of them, so from a purely taxpayers perspective, shouldn’t we be demanding IDF refund us $10, 769?
See how petty it is pretending that this is a taxpayer issue rather than an attempt by Israel to deflect from the UN ruling against their ethnic cleansing war crime?
Stopping the aid to that ethnic cleansing war crime makes us responsible for it now.
National has more blood on his hands.
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Helen Clarke has bigger brass cojones than the rest of them (including the other cowardly-complicit 5-Eyes leaders) in calling this out for what it is – another assist for Israel’s extermination plans.
Oh? Did she ban zionist lobby groups that are openly supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people while she was in office?
” UNRWA
United Nations Organization (est. 1949)
unrwa.org
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a UN agency that supports the relief and human development of Palestinian refugees. UNRWA’s mandate encompasses Palestinians displaced by the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent conflicts, as well as their descendants, including legally adopted children. Wikipedia “
jay11 – 3 Generations later what has UNRWA achieved? It was charged with developing the two state system framework, and failed…it has been captured by Hamas within Gaza.
This is a shocking development. Unlike most international political decisions, reckon this one is on National only.
Luxon has tried to do a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of this appalling decision. People are relying on this aid to survive, by all means have an inquiry, but by starving people to death we become even more complicit in this genocide.
Yet again we are being told what to do by our ‘allies’, say goodbye to our independent foreign policy.
Luxon should declare if he is one of those christians who believes the Jews are Gods chosen people and therefore their actions are justifiable as Gods will.
This, is playing out exactly as I’ve predicted. Has anyone thought to ask what the governor general thinks re the above stuff and things? You morons who voted for the Twatzo’s, I hope you’re going to enjoy hiding from IDF sport sniper fire behind Mount Anglam on Rakiura / Stewart Island.
Winstone is weak he is not the leader of old him and his mate Shane a too busy feathering their own nest.
Luxon is no good. We have to get rid of him.
He is following the lead of other 5 eyes allies which is to be expected. Hamas knew what they were starting when they attacked .They had a good reason too atrack as Israel has been stealing land for years.If they had attacked soldiers of the Israel army Israel would have found it hard to reply by attacking civilians.
Luxon knows we will need allies at some point so we cannot go against the other members of the group
All shit Treva. Israel has been attacking civilians since 1948. This did not happen in vacuum
So Trevor lets starve them out, shades of the Warsaw ghetto, I wonder who remembers the starvation in Poland. Who on God’s earth would justify this action. New Zealand is supposed to be better than this. Luxon supposed to be a Christian but he can’t pray this away he is nothing more than a hypocrite and the children of Palestine mean nothing to these heathen ba***rds . Did NZ TELL them to stop NO ,disgraceful disgusting from people who should know better
Israel has done nothing but lie and rape the truth since the since the al-qassam resistance fighters launched their military operation, breaking out of their prison/ghetto, over-running and capturing three Israel army bases , and defeating the Israel military’s Gaza division in a stand up fight.
The purpose of the high risk near suicide raid was to take hostages for exchanging with the thousands of Palestinians locked up and mistreated in Israel gulags.
The military resistance has been provoked by more land theft, more mistreatment and more murder by a Zionist regiem which gets more deadly and more fascistic under the corrupt thug Netanyahu and the immoral extremists he has put in power.
At the very least people should try and get the two sides of the story ,,, https://www.palestinechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/PDF.pdf
Something our dirty media never provides ,,,
For instance the al-qassam fighters predominantly killed men of fighting age with over 70% being males and the average age was approx 30.
Compare that to the figures and statistics of who Israel kills …
When it comes to debased barbaric savagery and mass murder against civilians Israel wins hands down.
Similar to 9/11 when we overreacted. Luxon hasn’t even got half the skills of Alexander The Great Luxon is a piss ain’t playing with elephants. Back the fuck off Trev.
Elections in late 2026, cast your vote Sam!
Luxon is a major folder…so weak.
More context ,,, about us now participating in and accelerating Israels Genocide ,,,, From UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini
““In the past 100 days, sustained bombardment across the Gaza Strip caused the mass displacement of a population that is in a state of flux – constantly uprooted and forced to leave overnight, only to move to places which are just as unsafe. This has been the largest displacement of the Palestinian people since 1948.”
“Overcrowded and unsanitary UNRWA shelters have now become ‘home’ to more than 1.4 million people. They lack everything from food to hygiene to privacy. People live in inhumane conditions, where diseases are spreading, including among children . They live through the unlivable, with the clock ticking fast towards famine.”…..
“The crisis in Gaza is a man-made disaster compounded by dehumanizing language and the use of food, water and fuel as instruments of war.” etc etc https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/gaza-strip-100-days-death-destruction-and-displacement
Craig Murray — “This of course explains why the immediate response to the ICJ ruling was a coordinated attack by Israel and the combined imperialist powers on UNRWA, designed to accelerate the Genocide by stopping aid, to provide a propaganda counter-narrative to the ICJ judgment, and to reduce the credibility of UNRWA’s evidence before the court. “….
….”No matter what the ICJ said. Israel would not have stopped the Genocide, that is the simple truth. The immediate reaction of the U.S and allies to the Order has been to try to accelerate the Genocide by crippling the UN’s relief work. I confess I did not expect anything quite that vicious and blatant”
https://mronline.org/2024/01/29/has-international-law-survived-or-has-the-western-political-class-killed-it/
Now it’s our Genocide too ….
An excellent move by the Taxpayers Union and why I continue to donate to them.
Over the years Hamas has received billions from western governments and has stolen part of it then used the rest to fund its terrorism.
Which governments…as foreign aid for Palestine actually goes through Israel first and I can only imagine the “tax” they skim off.. Please stfu
Andrew – Yes, the 3 Billionaires running Hamas – became Billionaires due to Aid Money
Just another attempt to shut down the UN because they dont want to suck up to the big 3 who veto everything anyway .Luxon and winston glearly fancy giving trump head
This demonstrates that New Zealand is not an independent country. Our foreign policy- under Chris Hipkins or Chris Luxon- is entirely owned by hostile foreigners with an agenda of murdering anyone who refuses to be their slave, whether Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese, or anyone else on earth.
Noone is safe while these evil creatures control our governments.
Rubbish Mohammed, you Muslims just have to behave yourselves and know your place, behave and you will not be bombed lol
Im right … “know your place” ,,,, Im rights belief in this concept can be summed up in two words,,, they being ‘Ubermensch’ and ‘Undermensch’.
As for Im rights correct place ,,, based on one of his his own previous posts that would be dead or maimed in a workplace accident caused by his own unsafe negligent stupidity.
He’s a dangerous fool who also likes spreading any viruses and bacteria he may have contracted ….. by his own admission.
I’m right eh Im right 🙂 .
P.s are you also the idiot who has previously called for a war with Iran a few years back??? ,,,
It is a one off annual payment and is next due in June.
Good move. We can’t have the tax payer funding terrorism.
Nb even the epitome of wokeness Canada and the EU have stopped funding.