Israel continues to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza and drive them off their land while approving three more illegal Israeli settlements and thousands of new illegal homes in the occupied West Bank.
Predictably our government remains stoney silent about any of this while New Zealanders take to the streets in their thousands week after week – in 25 centres across the country this weekend.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
North Island
Opononi – Gathering for Palestine
Sunday 7 July
1:30 pm
Outside the Four Square, Opononi
Kerikeri
Every first Saturday of the month
Saturday 6 July
9:00 am
Kerikeri roundabout, State highway 10
Whangarei – Rally
Saturday 6 July
10:00 am
Whangārei Town Basin in front of Hundertwasser Building
Auckland Picket – US Consulate
Friday 5 July
12:00 noon
23 Customs Street East, Auckland CBD
Waiheke Island Market – Auckland
Every Saturday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
Ostend Market, Waiheke Island
Auckland –Banners around Tamaki Makaurau
Saturday 6 July
10:00 – 1:00 pm
Te Whitinga Pedestrian Bridge – Just south of the Waterview Tunnel
Backup – Cnr Stoddard and Mt Albert Roads
Text Steve for details (dependant on wind speeds)
Auckland – Rally
Sunday 7 July
2:00 pm
Te Komititanga – Britomart Square
Tauranga – Rally
Sunday 7 July
11:00 am -12: 00 noon
Papamoa shopping center – corner of Domain Rd & Gravatt Rd
Hamilton – Rally
Saturday 6 July
1:00 pm
Civic Square, Hamilton
Cambridge Rally
Saturday 6 July
11:00 am
Cambridge Town Hall
Rotorua – Rally
Thursday 4 July
4:00 pm
Rotorua Lakes Council, Haupapa Street (Sir Howard Morrison Corner)
Napier – Rally
Saturday 6 July
11:30 am
Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout
Hastings – Rally
Sunday 7 July
2:00 pm
Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD
Palmerston North – Rally
Sunday 7 July
2:00 pm
The Square, Palmerston North
New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge
Friday 5 July
Check the local Facebook page to see if this is on this week.
New Plymouth – Rally
Saturday 6 July
1:00 pm
The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth
Whanganui – Rally
Saturday 6 July
11:00 am
Riverside Market, Whanganui
Carterton
Every Tuesday
12:00 midday
Memorial Square.
Martinborough – Gathering for Palestine
Every Wednesday
11:00 am
The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough
Masterton
Every Sunday
9:30 am
Town Hall Lawn
Featherston
Every Saturday
11:00 am
The Squircle (opposite the op shop).
Wellington – Flags (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Every Friday
7:15 – 8:15 am
Hill Street bridge Overbridge, Wellington
Wellington – Rally (by the Falastin Tea Collective)
Saturday 6 July
1:00 pm
Corner of Taranaki Street and Courtenay Place outside Burger Fuel. Please see Instagram account @falastin_tea_collective for updates.
South Island
Nelson – Rally
Saturday 6 July
10:30 am
1903 Square, Upper Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Blenheim
Saturday 6 July
11:00 am
Blenheim Railway Station
Christchurch – Rally
Saturday 6 July
1:00 pm
Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street, Christchurch
Timaru – Market Stall
Saturday 6th July
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Timaru Market, George Street
Dunedin – Rally
Saturday 6 July
1:00 pm
Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin
Queenstown
No Rally this weekend
Invercargill – Rally
Sunday 7 July
1:00 pm
Wachner place Invercargill
Can John explain what the tens of thousands of rockets launched by the Palestinians were intended to do, if not kill tens of thousands of Israelis?
The reason the discrepancy in numbers (if they are to be believed) is certainly not through lack of trying. The Palestinians certainly have wanted to kill more Israelis, they just haven’t been successful at it.
Tens of thousands of enhanced fireworks, aka, rockets, has led to zero Israeli deaths prior to Oct 7 2023. Interesting that, huh! Meanwhile Israel is committing genocide and no amount of deflection will hide this horrific fact.
Not an argument. What was the intention of those rockets, if not to kill Israelis?
If someone tries to shoot you, but you’re saved because you’re wearing a bulletproof vest, just because they didn’t kill you, you’d still try to disarm them, wouldn’t you?
I suppose you think that going to a gun fight with a water pistol is fair as well? The pathetic excuses you keep making only reveals what a sick mind you have.
It’s called defending your homeland against psychotic invading rapists who illegally occupy it, BG. Zionists like you wouldn’t understand.
Glad you agree that the intention of the Palestinian rockets is kill as many Israelis (both Jewish and Muslims) as possible. At least we agree on that.
The legitimate inhabitants of Palestine living in ’48 are not ‘israelis’. They’re 1948 Palestinians.
BG – Correct…also the 38,000 killed are made up of 35,000 Hamas terrorists…
Nathan, you need help. What’s your source? Zionist Women’s Weekly?
Wheel – BBC is the source
You’re not rational. Goodbye.
sumsuch – You will be missed
Get help Nathan. Where did you get your numbers, Zionist Women’s Weekly?
Wheel – BBC is the source
Would that be Bob Bar-mitzvah’s Company?
Wheel – nope
I doubt whether Minto would deny that the intention is to kill Israelis.
Israel belongs to the Palestinians and for 75 years they have been done over by the West. We are all complicit in this.
Well of course they don’t have quite the firepower that Israel does which is supplied by the US.
When the UN rapporteur was here earlier this year she said that Israel has no right to defend itself because it is an occupying force.
It was a slave revolt, a ghetto uprising. Israel is invoking biblical stories, exclusive genetics and the great real estate agent in the sky to justify stealing someone’s land using the methods of Nazi Germany.
A slave revolt? Funded by billions of dollars of aid money, featuring fleets of hilux utes with gun carriers, motorcycles, paragliders, all somehow smuggled in to the ‘open air prison’? With pre-planned mass rape, burning people alive, kidnapping? All from a piece of fertile land – well, it was when Israel had it – that was handed to them supposedly in return for peace. Who are you trying to fool? Surrender the hamas criminals, release the hostages, war ends. Simple.
Yeah that’s right you fucking baboon
Ethan – Bryce is correct…name calling does not change this.
We hear this a lot from the Zionists: pointing to the alleged horrors the Palestinians “intend” to do (but have no practical ability to actually do) to the Israelis, as a tactic to distract from the horrors the Israelis intend to do but, and here’s the difference, actually do to the Palestinians. Comparing the morality of a hypothetical with the morality of actuality completely obfuscates the situation.
As for these alleged “tens of thousands of rockets launched by the Palestinians” at Israel – they’ve obviously had f-all effect, certainly not in comparison to the tens of thousands of bombs the IDF have dropped on Gaza in the last few months.
Or perhaps Israel loves its children and citizens so much it built a huge counter measure (the iron dome) to protect them, while the Palestinians spend zero on the protection of their children and every cent they have to wipe Israel off the map?
Yes Israel is wealthier, but it that their fault? What has the Palestinian leaders done with the billions of dollars of aid they’ve received?
Are you really that blind? Or just blinded by hate? Gaza has been firing rockets into Israeli civilians since it elected hamas. Right now there are tens of thousands of Israeli homes damaged or destroyed – but you don’t give a #$% about that huh? Easier to stick your head in the sand and just deny it ever happened. And with so much evidence readily available too. You know what there’s no evidence for? Hamas’s supposed casualty figures. The Israeli magic bullets that turn mid-air to seek out the nearest women and children? When virtually every ‘civilian’ house is full of munitions (usually under the chikdrens’ bed) or shafts to the hamas terror tunnels? The world is getting sick of the lies.
To the victor go the spoils. Israel will never again risk a terrorist base on its flanks. The Arabs should have accepted Partition in 1947, as the Jews did, and built a state focused on living in peace with their talented neighbours. What a different outcome that would have been for the region and its people. Instead, the ‘Palestinians’ have launched one genocidal war after another and have paid the price.
Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism (the Irgun, Stern Gang et al), be it against Arabs the British or anyone else who stood in their way. Jews don’t have a universal moral standard, it is simply “is it good for the Jews?” That’s they can break any of the moral precepts most non-Jews ascribe to, because they don’t give a shit except anyone except themselves. Sure, they’ll feign solidarity with non-Jews if it helps them reach their goals, but it’s completely superficial and self-serving.
Jews are always telling us how smart they are (even though much of their success is due to nepotism and helping each other get ahead), so they must have realised that the Zionist project, right from outset, of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine would necessarily entail huge ethnic cleansing, murder and mayhem, and an inevitable Arab backlash and resistance.
Then they come out as the victims when all of this transpires. To use a Yiddish phrase, the chutzpah of playin the victim in all of this is incredible, even if it is typical.
What moral standards were the Palestinians Arabs using in their massacres of Palestinian Jews and British officials in Mandatory Palestine Mary Ann?
You child rapists have never had a real nation, and you never will.
what a crock of shit .The isrealies should have stayed in Europe
gordon walker – I wonder why they moved?? Something to do with the Nazi’s I understand
Actually I think there was more than just the Nazis wanting the Jews out of Europe. Boats with Jewish, would be refugees, were being refused the ability to disembark in a number of ports including the US. It was nothing to do with the f’ing Palestinians.
You keep telling lies but that doesn’t make them true. Israel has never let the Palestinians live in peace and Israel constantly took Palestine land which naturally caused a reaction which the paid for media reported as Arab bad, Jew good. It is enough to fool the selfish majority of society but they will answer to a higher judgement.
But why then did Egypt and Jordan not grant Gaza and the West Bank self rule from ’48 to ’67 when they had respectively occupied and annexed the two territories? Or more importantly why did the Arab world not unite to persuade the Palestinians Arabs to accept the partition they had rejected in ’47? It is disingenous to claim that Israel “took” land in those years.
making shit up again ‘Scaby’
Moshe Dayan admitted the horror of the Israeli conquest for the indigenous people in ’56. You admit you hold Palestine by sword-right. Every other conceit has been sheared away now. Israel is an assault on the idea of the West having ideals. You can hold out as long as the Crusaders but the support from the West will dribble away now, like for them.
Pappe, Finkelstein, Peled, Mate and Shlaim can give you the reality of your dreamland. All Jews of course, being a ‘talented’ people as you say. Oh, I missed out Chomsky, the great one. You are a brilliant people.
When you’ve taken in these greats you will be able to re-fashion your last sentence with the correct subject.
You and Nathan make fools of yourselves here by your wrongness. No one believes you for an instant.
Did Moshe Dayan ever reveal when “Palestine” has not been taken and held by sword right?
We decided not to allow conquest after WW ll — you know, that horror. I believe there was a genocide then, not to mention 27 million dead in the Soviet Union. We decided to do things by a rules-based order. Israel slipped by by our immense sympathy for Jews. Don’t take our humanist sympathy and turn it into another hateful oppression.
Not many comments. Let’s concentrate on our country before lecturing others.
Has New Zealand joined these sanctions yet?
Mounting International Sanctions Against Powerful Israeli Settler Group Could Be Earth-shattering
The Amana organization has ties with all the banks in Israel and with thousands of settlers who live in its homes. An extension of the sanctions imposed by Canada could spell an earthquake in the settlement movement
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-06/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/mounting-international-sanctions-against-israeli-settler-group-could-be-earth-shattering/00000190-853d-dc2c-a9fa-e57d20fa0000
https://archive.is/fwmDp
Reading the comments it’s scary that anybody who is of sound mind, and presumably not a psychopath would justify actions leading to 35000 deaths. It appears that this evil is well embedded.
BY REFAAT ALAREER
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale
فال بد أن تعيش أنت
رفعت العرعير
إذا كان لا بد أن أموت
فال بد أن تعيش أنت
لتروي حكايتي
لتبيع أشيائي
وتشتري قطعة قماش
وخيوطا
(فلتكن بيضاء وبذيل طويل)
كي يبصر طفل في مكان ما من ّغّزة
وهو يح ّّدق في السماء
منتظرًاً أباه الذي رحل فجأة
دون أن يودع أحدًاً
وال حتى لحمه
أو ذاته
يبصر الطائرة الورقّية
طائرتي الورقية التي صنعَتها أنت
تحّلق في الأعالي
ويظ ّّن للحظة أن هناك مالكًاً
يعيد الحب
إذا كان لا بد أن أموت
فليأ ِِت موتي باألمل
فليصبح حكاية
ترجمة سنان أنطون
Translation by Sinan Antoon
….He [Refaat] was assassinated on December 6 by the Israeli army. The only weapon in his Gaza apartment was an EXPO marker. If the Israeli soldiers were to raid his house, he said, he would throw it at them, while crying, “We are helpless.”
….I don’t know how Refaat died, whether he was reading a John Donne poem or editing a poem of his own. I don’t know what became of his body after the bombing of his house, whether his glasses got smashed, whether his soft fingers were clinging to a pen or a flower he asked the world community to send to Gaza.
A Tribute to Refaat Alareer by Mosab Abu Toha January 2, 2024
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/palestine-is-a-story-away-a-tribute-to-refaat-alareer/
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Even the Zionist trolls like Gaby have been stunned to silence. Because of the power of his words, Rafaat Alareer knew the Israelis had to kill him. Like so many others targetted by the IDF Rafaat Alareer’ brother and nephews were also killed in the same blast that struck his home. Four months later Rafaat’s daughter and new born baby were also killed by the Israelis.
How would trolls like Gaby defend or explain these murders?
What would they say? What would be their excuse? That Rafaat’s daughter and grandchild weren’t killed because of their relation to him, but were killed as part of the general ongoing extermination?
I wonder, will we ever hear from Gaby again?
Or has Rafaat Alareer silenced Gaby with his words for good?
From Wikipedia the online encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refaat_Alareer
He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and co-founded the organization We Are Not Numbers, which matched experienced authors with young writers in Gaza, and promoted the power of storytelling as a means of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation.[4]
On 6 December 2023, Alareer was killed by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, along with his brother, sister, and four of his nephews, during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. The Euro-Med Monitor released a statement saying that Alareer was apparently deliberately targeted, “surgically bombed out of the entire building”, and came after weeks of “death threats that Refaat received online and by phone from Israeli accounts.”[5] On 26 April 2024, his eldest daughter and his newborn grandchild were killed by an Israeli airstrike on their Gaza City home.[6]
94 professors had been killed in Gaza, and every single one of Gaza’s 12 universities have been systematically leveled to the ground through aerial bombardment, tank fire and in controlled demolitions.
You tube videos taken by Israelis of their deliberate demolition of Gaza universities goes viral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLcEt2L4DYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFZCV4WGFsc
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/un-experts-deeply-concerned-over-scholasticide-gaza
Gaby and Nathan are back at it, but in different posts. Not an honest/ intelligent bone in their bodies. They disprove Israel’s case, so, long may they continue.
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