The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa says it is appalling that the government has remained totally silent on Israeli military and diplomatic attacks on the United Nations.
PSNA Chair, John Minto, says the Israel parliament decision this week to ban UNRWA operations in Israel and East Jerusalem effectively closes down the major aid organisation’s desperately needed work in the Gaza Strip.
“UNRWA was set up by the United Nations to assist the hundreds of thousands Palestinian refugees expelled by Israel in 1948, pending their right of return – which Israel refuses to recognise.”
“Israel sees UNRWA as an unwelcome reminder of Palestinian national rights and has always aimed to get rid of it. Support for banning UNRWA came from the Zionist New Zealand Jewish Council earlier this year.”
Israel has also recently shelled United Nations peacekeeping positions in Lebanon and has killed an estimated 230 UNRWA workers in Gaza.
“Our government has previously stated how important UNRWA relief work is for Palestinian refugees in Gaza. The US government says the UNRWA supply of food, water and medicine is ‘irreplaceable’”.
“Yet, under no doubt as a result of Israeli lobbying, our commitment to the UN and its work is increasingly exposed as somewhere between shallow and non-existent.”
John Minto says other western governments have been critical of the UNRWA ban and the recent Israeli refusal to allow the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres to enter Israel.
Despite New Zealand having UN peace keepers in the Lebanon border areas, it failed to join the more than 40 countries which condemned the military attacks on a number of UNIFIL bases in south Lebanon last month”.
“Our government refuses to offend Israel in any way. Even major arms suppliers to Israel, particularly the US, France and the UK, have been sometimes critical of what is a genocide by Israel in Gaza.”
“In contrast, the New Zealand government blames Hamas for all the killing and destruction committed by Israel, though it also finds space to condemn Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran.”
Previous New Zealand governments have formally rebuked Israel for its violence, most recently former Foreign Minister Murry McCully in 2010 and former Prime Minister John Key in 2014, both by summoning in the Israeli ambassador.
“This time, when Israeli attacks on Gaza are becoming even more savage and sadistic by the day, our Foreign Minister and his government remains inactive and silent.”
John Minto says the Israeli war crimes in Gaza now clearly include ethnic cleansing.
“Reports of what is called the Israeli ‘General’s Plan’ are now widespread in our news media. The General’s Plan is a vile combination of military assault, starvation and exclusion of both aid workers and news media, to hide and facilitate the ‘death march’ of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from north of the Netzarim Corridor”.
“This is to prepare for a resumption of illegal Israeli colonisation in northern Gaza.”
“In September, our government voted with 123 other countries for a UN General Assembly resolution to demand that Israel withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territories without delay.”
“That was welcome.”
“What is not welcome is for New Zealand to then stand by when genocidal Israel carries out ethnic cleansing on a massive scale to once again spit on the UN and increase its occupation of Palestinian lands.”
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa.
NZ settler govt is invested in supporting the apartheid state because of its connection to the wider cause of western imperialism! Even though the NZ settler govt current Foreign Minister ‘Winston Peters’ supported a motion recently voted with 123 countries for a UN General Assembly resolution to demand that Israel withdraw from the Occupied Palestinian Territories without delay.” its all “performative” like former Foreign Minister ‘Murry McCully’ in 2010 and former Prime Minister John Key in 2014, both by summoning in the Israeli ambassador, another performative exercise, however he contribute around $100,000+ to the training project of the infamous “White Helmets” a shell civil defense unit that was actually working alongside Al Qaeda groups taking part in terrorizing Syrians to help overthrow the elected govt “Bashar Al Assad govt” its part of the “Greater Israel Project” bringing New Zealand’s assistance to those affected western support violence in Syria and Iraq to over $25 million noted in the “Timber Sycamore report”
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-training-support-white-helmets-syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore
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Countries make decisions based on pragmatism.
NZ relys on the USA for military protection so will not offend the USA.
NZ supported the USA boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980
because Russia invaded Afghanistan yet NZ did not oppose the
USA 20 year invasion of Afghanistan. No Olympic Boycott!!!
NZ supported the USA invasion of Iraq looking for weapons of mass destruction though they found nothing while at the same time USA was supplying Israel with weapons of mass destruction!!!
NZ knows the Jews illegally invaded Palestine in 1948.
NZ knows the continued Jewish occupation is illegal.
NZ knows the land belongs to the Palestinians.
NZ knows the there is no war in Gaza because the Palestinians have no army, airforce or navy so the Jews are committing genocide against the Palestinians.
But NZ will not offend its military protector no matter what.
So NZ demonizes Hamas the Palestine freedom fighters yet conversely NZ supports the Ukrainian freedom fighters because the USA does.
It’s just politics and self preservation over rules truth every time.
What would you think the US would do if Mexico sent armed soldiers across the border and killed 60,000 Americans (to put the Oct 7th attack in population perspective) ?
What if a foreign invader came to New Zealand and killed 1000 nzers?
Sign kumbaya?
well we cant stop them coming here can we .At Present we have only one ship we can man and thats sailing around China to make Luxon think he is holding China at bay .Our 20 soldiers we can arm are in the middle east helping Israel kill as many innocent people as posable .So if fiji want to storm Kaitia they would be able to kill that 1000 and be back home before we Knew what happened .
Imagine pretending that the zionist entity is a real nation like Mexico. If a foreign invader came to New Zealand and killed 1000 cockroaches, I would celebrate it.
You idiot. The Americans haven’t been occupying and stealing Mexican land for decades. What a stupid non existent comparison
The US like Israel has been an expansionist state through much of its history. It has taken over large portions of former Mexican territory. There the comparison ends. The US is not running Mexico as a concentration camp. It is not set on starving the people of Mexico into submission. It does not periodically assassinate Mexican leaders, it does not impose a blockade on Mexico and it does not routinely bomb civilian targets in Mexico. The US is not kind to Mexico and it has shown little love for the people of Mexico, but if the US treated Mexico in the same way that Israel treated Gaza, I expect that the Mexicans would have responded in similar fashion to the way that the Palestinians did on 7 October 2023
The least our government could do is introduce free device testing to make sure our pagers, phones and electrical devices don’t have explosives planted in them.
I’m rather deeply involved in US politics for some reason. Arguing out in their public sites what the right course was for voters there. My penultimate conclusion was climate change meant there was no more time for 2nd acts anymore, so If you could suppress your nausea vote for the current genocider. My ultimate conclusion, seeing how ridiculous that was, was genocide is the epitaph of the Western regime and so, the world. Our hope is Israel is turned against by the West and the world.
Ultimately the likely scenario is that chaos and disorder increases, the west have their own problems to worry about and Israel finds out how a small nation of 7 million copes alone in a region where your hundreds of millions of neighbours hate you. For now their technology and financial influence will keep them safe but that can’t last forever.
Is that why AO/NZ’s being groomed for an Israeli occupation? Israel is a furnace now so they must easily imagine what it’ll be like to be surrounded by tens of millions of people who righteously hate your murderous, arrogant guts coupled by the fact that the planet is in melt-down mode, so where to go? Hmmmmm…. let me think…
They probably know of a certain country that only has 5.2 million people, is 29 thousand square kilometres larger than the UK, is 1900 km’s East of Australia, is entirely suited to global-heating survival and has a fresh water supply that’s never going to run out while the earth remains round and orbits west to east. I wonder where that is…. Who’d a heard of such a place? Oy Vey! What a dilemma!
I’ve dated some beautiful women. I really have. The thing I discovered early on about dating beautiful women is that whenever you go out everybody wants to fuck them.
John – Echo chamber
“The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa”
HAHAHAHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
I see that TV 1 has not got the memo that Israel is the problem, their news tonight 15/11/24) is still describing the soccer fan violence in Amsterdam and coming French Israeli game as anti semitism violence even though the evidence shows the Israel fans started the conflict.