Winston Peters joins allies in demanding Israel allow aid into Gaza
New Zealand has joined 23 other countries calling out Israel and demanding a full supply of foreign aid be allowed into the territory.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says it’s “intolerable” that Israel has blocked any aid reaching residents for many weeks.
The UN is warning that 14,000 babies are estimated to be suffering severe acute malnutrition in Gaza and ideally they need to get supplies within 48 hours.
The UK, France and Canada have expressed their frustration, with the UK’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy telling Parliament the war in Gaza has entered a “dark new phase” and the UK was cancelling trade talks with Israel.
Although the situation had come about because of acts of terrorism by Hamas, for residents in Gaza it had become “intolerable”, Peters told Morning Report.
“We’ve had enough of this and we want the matter resolved and now.”
A full resumption of aid should have happened a long time ago and it was essential that the United Nations be involved in delivering it.
“… we’ve just simply had enough of it, utterly so [from Israel].”
Look.
You can righteously (as I do) hate on Winston and his redneck, anti-trans, anti-vaccine culture war granddad routine he plays to keep above the 5% threshold.
You can, (and you should) hate on NZF for that.
However.
When it comes to his role as Foreign Minister and his inexhaustible political contacts, he does NZ proud.
Now, has our collective criticism against Israel been enough?
Of course not!
They are literally performing a real time ethnic cleansing war crime genocide against the Palestinian people in a disproportionate manner that makes October 7th attack seem mild.
Why Winston’s comments matter is because zionist apologists have weaponised claims of anti-semitism to silence any criticism of their ethnic cleansing war crime genocide, so when a senior Politicians like Winston savage the Israeli response, it really does matter.
Notice how quiet all the Zionist apologists became over Winston’s comments?
They fear truth and are terrified when Politicians with the mana of Winston speak.
You don’t have to like Winston but as Foreign Minister his criticism of Israel is righteous.
He needs to follow those words up with actions.
1 – Kick the Israeli Ambassador out of NZ
2 – Formally change the visa entry for Israeli’s to ensure war criminals aren’t holidaying here.
3 – Volunteer aid and help for Palestine’s re-building.
4 – Put money towards ‘Peace Camps’ held on Marae in NZ where selected Palestinian and Israeli youth leaders can come together on all paid scholarships for week long sessions of meeting and talking and planning together for the future because after hate as deep and wretched as is between Palestinians and Israelis, you desperately need the next generation to have space divorced of that poison if they are to have any hope of growing together in the future.
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Well said Martyn.
Sadly many of those Israeli Youth Leaders can not make your peace camps. Because they were tortured, kidnapped and/or murdered at the Nova festival.
Is that before or after they had f’d over some innocent Palestinians during their compulsory service? Oct 7 was atrocious but stop acting like it came from completely out of the blue. You are insulting your own intelligence
We can agree on the fact that Isreal is by no means an innocent party to the on going conflict.
Their initial return strike had merit but the ongoing killing of innocent children and Palestinians is not on
lol, arresting home invaders isn’t ‘kidnapping’, nor did any ‘torture’ or ‘murder’ occur at the hands of the Palestinian military.
2 infants died on October the 7th, one was shot through a security shelter door by persons unknown and the other died during an emergency caeserian and she was Bedouin. These are documented facts. Interesting that Israel claims the bedouin is now Jewish. Facts matter Anne E.
I don’t think Winston looked at all happy during tricky nicky no good’s budget belch.
At last NZ is saying something. It’s …very late in the game as it has been clear from the beginning that Israel has been intent on genocide. Now is it almost too late for this response after so much killing has happened, with unlimited supply of weapons by the US under Joe now under Trump who wants Gaza cleared out for a resort. War crimes.
Didn’t criticize the genocide, only the methods, didn’t take any actual action against the babyrapers.
In a subsequent RNZ interview he even made the ludicrous claim that the UNRWA is corrupt (a zionist lie which Winston previously used as an excuse to CUT OFF AID TO GAZA through the UNRWA) and that Hamas is stealing baby formula (a zionist lie that they use as an excuse to block baby formula from getting to babies).
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018988050/foreign-minister-winston-peters-on-calls-to-resume-aid-into-gaza
Lol. Have those shady sacked UNRWA staff been reinstated yet?
Ah Winston, ,, Our modern day “curates egg”, as in, good in parts.
Describes him to a tee — thanks.
12 months late at least and as weak as piss .He should have sent the embassy people home and closed it down 12 months ago .Just another arse lick to Trump .
There’s no reason that they should be allowed to go home. Monitor these spies and arrest everyone like Juliet Moses and Sheree Trotter who they are funneling funds to promote the genocide through.
Sixty thousand people killed in Gaza, while the world, as usual stood by and did nothing. Now finally, Winston Peter’s, has his great ‘ righteous moment ‘ by criticizing Israel.
‘Righteous Winston’, surely one of the great oxymorons of all time.
Well said.
Once again the lack of definitions defeat the argument. Which Israelis? The one third who support Netanyahu and the Lukid Party. Or the other two thirds who are shut down in their own country and are leaving in droves as soon as they can.
That’s an important distinction don’t you think.
So yes, the war crimes being committed are worse than those the Nazis perpetrated against the European Jews, and rank a thousand times worse than 9/11. And Peters has rightly called them out. And yes, your four points, while desirable, are unlikely to happen.
But as the leading left wing press, this site really needs to do better in its definitions.
We should also join the growing number of countries who recognise a Palestinian state
Meaning a two state solution. A Jewish state and a Palestinian state.
Who knows politics– the art of the possible — better than Peters. He crooned in just as the world choir began to sing. Good grounds for criticism of the (rich-rule) world this late in the genocide, but all power to his arm. And I’m, ‘reasonably’ sure it’s what he wanted to say all along.
So you’re trying to sanitise peters then? He’s the neoliberal rat in the neoliberal nest. He’s a lawyer foremost and a well educated political liar second. Peters is a normaliser, a faux rationaliser and a back door guardian of the champions of false confederacies and logical fallacies and he should be in prison. He’s discovered that championing the victims of a murderous, arrogant and gleefully cruel invasive species, being israel, might be in his best interests and good promo because he knows, and they know, they’ve gone too far in their orgy of cruelties against hungry wee kids and their parents, their animals, pets and property.
All that we see and all that we seem is but a nightmare within a nightmare. To paraphrase Edgar Allen Poe.