The New Zealand government has scaled new heights of hypocrisy in condemning today’s Iranian attack on Israel but refusing to condemn Israel’s blatant incitement to a wider Middle East war with its missile attack on the Iranian Consulate in Syria two week which killed several Iranian leaders.
Israel’s attack on Iran produced not a whimper from the Prime Minister or Minister of Foreign Affairs but both have lined up to condemn Iran’s response.
It is apartheid Israel which wants a wider regional conflict; it is apartheid Israel which launched a deadly provocative attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus; it is apartheid Israel which is stoking the fire for a regional war. It is apartheid Israel New Zealand should be condemning rather than Iran.
Hypocrisy has been the hallmark of the new government’s approach to the Middle East – refusing to condemn anything Israel has done and pretending the fault lies elsewhere.
Meanwhile Israel is continuing, in full view of humanity, to use starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians in Gaza. And only humbug platitudes appealing for more aid to Palestinians.
Our government has joined us to the side of racism and genocide.
Winston and Luxon are incapable of reasoning for themselves without being handpuppets for their zionist blackmailers.
The current government is piss weak and only interested in crawling up the arse of USA .
Isreal should not be getting weapons of any sort from anywhere and the USA needs to demand a complete cease fire and withdrawal of all Israelis from Gazza and the west bank settlements .Any Israelis living in west bank who wish to remain should do so under palastinian law and order .All troops and check points should be gone by lunch time .What right does Israel have to think they are in charge of another country .
Now they have destroyed Gazza they should return the same amount of land to the west bank and rehome the 6 million refugees as well so that Palistine becomes one large country again
And all the religious minorities should return so they can be discriminated, threatened and forced out by Islamist Palestinians as they have been from the areas the PA and Hamas currently rule?
Thanks for telling it like it is, “there are none so blind as those who will not see” is a common saying & it perfectly describes Israel & its apologists who refuse to recognise that there are 2 sides to this conflict. They take a biased view of history & refuse to understand that Israel is the invader.
John – Did you not host the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Solidarity, the terrorist group, last weekend?
You know, the group, that encourages/has hijacked planes, bank robberies, murders…for the cause?
Are you a Zionist Gaby?
Are you a Zionist Nathan?
How about you Nathan. Are you a Zionist?
Israel just proved once again it ain’t going anywhere. Don’t you ever get tired of losing?
Israel are too busy genociding palestinians to be going anywhere Herr Gaby
Prove your libel, insult to Anne Frank.
Iran is the puppet master behind HAMAS/Hezbollah and a few others…their time for a good spanking and bombing is well overdue.
USA, Saudia Arabia and Israel will put them back into their box.
You are the one that needs to go back in a box im right Gaza is not the Zionist land it belongs to the Palestinians.
Wow, so Iran supports the groups that fight the terrorist babyrapers of ‘israel’? That sounds pretty cool.
‘Im right’ Are you a Zionist?
INTERVIEW: Iran gave one of the greatest military displays in recent history: Scott Ritter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfsoT-_044
Sunak:
@foodlover2236
7 minutes ago
The irony and shamelessness is that the pretender PM is fighting and defending the very callous country that only a few days ago killed 3 of his country’s citizens
Clearly this man’s loyalties are elsewhere. He should be taken to task
@davefroman4700
11 minutes ago
According to Iranian official statements they not only hit the airbase responsible for the attack on the consulate in Syria, but they also took out the MOSSAD’s HQ. And if they penetrated the bunker underneath with that weapon? There may not be many sane voices as Scott thinks doing that analysis.
Ray Mcgovern: IDF Is LOSING! Israeli Military Airport MASSIVE EXPLODED After Iran’s Airstrike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJ8Dl2HFCc
@michaelgallery4582
1 hour ago
why doesn’t the UN condemn Israel for attacking an embassy
@briandstephmoore4910
2 hours ago
The IDF wouldn’t stand a chance if America and the west stopped funding them.
The United $tate$ of America are the authors of their own demise.
They’re being eaten by their own fiduciary. ( My new best word ever.)
Sobering Post @ JM. Excellent work.
Yes! While never condoning the Hamas attack in October, one must always remember such actions are the inevitable result of years and generations of oppression by the Israelis!
Even during the holocaust, the persecuted Jews struck back on several occasions at their Nazi oppressors, most notably in the Warsaw ghetto on 1943, but even in the concentration camps.
The fault squarely lies with Israel, and I do wish we had a government with enough spine to say so quite unequivocally!
Biden tells Israel to “take the win”.
“You got a win. Take the win,” Biden told Netanyahu, according to a White House official.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/live/israel-weighs-options-for-iran-attack-response-as-biden-warns-netanyahu-us-wont-support-a-counterattack-full-coverage-123240420.html
Will Netanyahu listen to Biden, or will the Israeli Prime Minister and his war cabinet launch a full scale war against Iran?
The US says they will stay out of it.
Iran has been supplying Russia with large numbers of Shaheed drones that Russia has used to attack Ukraine, Iran will be expecting a quid pro quo from the Russians at any Israeli attack on their territory.
Biden’s hands off approach is a green light for Putin to supply Iran with the precision missiles it needs to counter any Israeli escalation.
The death toll on both sides from such a conflict will dwarf Hamas attack on October 7. A high price to pay for both peoples for their leader’s egos.
Biden simping for israels genocidal behaviour is tragic
What genocide? Stats, please, and stop insulting a Jewish icon. I can think of many better names for you, like Ilse Koch.
Are you a Zionist Gaby?
Why this obsession Pat?
Gaby, Gaby, Gaby, Semantics. Anne Frank was a Dutch Jew, not a Jew Dutch so on behalf of my Dutch ancestory i hereby claim Anne Frank first. I hereby also confer to Gaby the rights to parts of her diary that goes into details of her lesbian fantasies and the portions written in Biro which was invented in1946.
Cur dogs will do as cur dogs do.
The Iran retaliation ( which came with 72 hrs warning ) succeeded in interrupting Israels war crimes slaughter in Gaza …. https://www.tiktok.com/@thenoisyimmigrant/video/7357672823751560466
Being in the war crimes coalition/coalition of the killing ,,,, our ‘leaders’ are very upset about this …. the shameless war criminals
Iran quite rightly invoked Article 51 of the UN Charter after the attack on their embassy, the right of self defence, and did so with forcefulness but restraint with no human casualties. We can conclude that Iran has a deeper respect for international law and human life than the West.
What rubbish. Iran has dropped its mask, exposing itself for the pathetic, damp squib of a terrorist puppet master it is. Israel’s brilliant Iron Dome prevented mass casualties and has earned it even more worldwide respect.
You’ve checked your claim out with Iranian women have you?
Are you a Zionist, Ann with an E?
Why is this important to you?
How to encourage Israel to temper it’s arrogance when the western powers refuse in every instance to confront it? The cruelty and murderous hatred the Zionists have toward the people of Palestine, can no longer be a mystery to Peters. Obviously, the powerful ‘inform and influence’ programming Israel has set up through the decades, allow them exemption to every rule of international law and morality.
Yet there comes a time no amount of sophistry and artifice can obscure the savagery of genocide.
THE WORLD HOLDS ITS BREATH – MOATS with George Galloway Ep 334
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdflXR3BWT4&t=29s
@ZafrodHasselfrau1999
8 hours ago
Iran complying with International law by targeting military targets are the ones in the wrong?, but Israel who broke International law by targeting an Iranian consulate are the good guys, wtaf?. the world is truly upside down.
@fixinman
7 hours ago
Something you’ll find in Iran, billions of barrels of oil.
Something you won’t find in Iran, American oil companies. Now do you see the real issue?
@folarinisikalu2724
8 hours ago
It’s really getting exciting ! Best time to be alive to see the downfall of the REAL axis of evil!!! Who paradoxically parade themselves as the beacon of hope and freedom.
Iran has demonstrated a capability which should give the US and Israel (and the Realm of New Zealand) reason to pause and change track. Publicly the US and Israel are saying that the Iranian attack was a failure. Yet privately, their military analysts are in a state of shock. They know that Iran warned them of the time and place of the attacks, they know that Iran was not intending to cause massive damage or loss of life, but simply to show very clearly, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Iranian missiles and drones are capable of overwhelming US and Israeli defences, including the fabled Iron Dome. So the US needs to decide whether it will allow Israel to take it into an unwinnable Middle Eastern, and New Zealand will have to decide if it will follow the US into another abject military defeat on an even greater scale than Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine. The Anglo-Saxon states, all of them led by idiots, have once again misapprehended their power to prevail in a series of wars against the bulk of humanity.
Rubbish Geoff….Iran will be flattened before they can make their own nukes, and they deserve it too.
The attack on Iran has been planned for years, time to let loose and put it back into the stone age again, where it belongs.
IR you are a deadhead proclaiming bombing back into the stone age on any country. Use a nuke and you too die by nuke. Mutually assured destruction.
It is possible that Israel may use its nuclear weapons to obliterate much of Iran, as the comment above suggests that Israel should. That is part of the wider problem now facing the world. We have a nuclear armed rogue state that is a stranger to the rational, humane, and pragmatic considerations that guide the conduct of civilized states. Where the State of Israel is concerned nothing can be ruled out. How should Iran and the rest of us respond? In the first instance those of us who live in Aotearoa can demand that our colonialist rulers desist from their support for Israel. The colonialist regime is unlikely to do that so long as their American and British overlords continue to demand their unconditional obedience. Alternatively, we could take further steps to eradicate colonialism and the institutions of colonialism from our motu. That would be a more helpful response even if John Minto might not think so.
However, events in the middle east will move faster than they can in Aotearoa. We have to accept that in an even greater fit of madness Israel may turn the middle east into a charnel house. For too long the world has tolerated the State of Israel, and the world as a whole may end up paying the price for such moral neglect. Do not imagine even for a moment that a Israeli nuclear attack on Iran will end up harming no one but Iranians. The world would be turned upside down, and no one would be safe from the consequences.