MEDIAWATCH: Phil Goff’s critical take down of Israel is a watershed moment

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Martyn Bradbury
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This is a watershed moment in New Zealand…

Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing

Phil Goff is New Zealand’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

OPINION: “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy -knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.”

This statement was made not by a foreign or liberal critic of Israel but by the former Prime Minister and leader of Benjamin Netanyahu’s own Likud party, Ehud Olmet.

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Nightly, we witness live streamed evidence of the truth of his statement – lethargic and gaunt children dying of malnutrition, a bereaved doctor and mother of ten children, nine of them killed by an Israeli strike, 15 emergency ambulance workers gunned down by the IDF as they tried to help others injured by bombs, despite their identity being clear.

…wow.

Phil Goff saying what we are all thinking but are too frightened to say for fear of being accused anti-semitic resets the debate in New Zealand.

You can’t eclipse his righteous and rational criticism of Israels disproportionate actions by trying to smear Goff as an anti-semite!

He makes valid and very reasonable criticism of what Israel’s actions amount to, regardless of Israel’s right to defend itself, a right remember they are using over a people they have occupied brutally.

Phil is providing real moral leadership here, when someone of his mana calls out Israel’s brutality and speaks for basic decency when so many are too fearful to, that deserves respect.

I supported him speaking truth to power over that Trump question in Chatham House, because Trump is an extremism that must be denounced.

Gaza demands our attention regardless of how uncomfortable the issue makes us.

No citizen of this planet can support killing civilians with the woeful malice of the IDF.

Shooting through human shields to kill Hamas is not a solution nor justification. It’s murder.

‘Who started it’ doesn’t justify what has happened and is occurring right now.

We in the West are complicit to enabling a war crime if we refuse to speak out.

Phil has the courage to speak out.

We should be grateful there are still those New Zealanders bold enough to demand action against the worst angels of our nature.

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86 COMMENTS

  1. Winston had to sack Phil because he is making him look as weak as piss .Winston is only interested in the baubles of office while Goff is a real statesman and diplomat .

    • So true. And especially so after Carney became leader and said much stronger things against Trump than the mild rhetorical question posed by Goff, who isn’t even a politician. That really showed Winston up.

  2. Now wait for the accusations that Phil is part of an international Muslim conspiracy, controlled by alien monsters , directed by Satan to destroy the Sacred Children of Israel (mainly located in New York and Chicago).
    Also that Israelis are the victims and just defending themselves with saturation bombing.

    • ‘Israel is fighting for its survival against a terrorist entity.’
      Thank you Zelda – right on cue.

    • Okay but are you putting your head on the block in any way E.? Don’t find yourself without generosity of spirit and get all dried up inside, like an autumn leaf on the footpath.

    • Like all politicians to be fair.
      At the moment we have a government spewing lies and gobbledegook.

    • Yes he is yesterday’s man but left politicians still like to think they have a part to play like Auntie Helen

  5. Although he’s certainly right on this and in regard to Trump, Goff had no scruples when he willfully denied Peter Ellis justice, no scruples about twisting the findings of the Eichelbaum Inquiry. I still regard him with utter contempt for that.

    • Don’t think globally, think locally now in this case Richard Christie, ie zoom right in on the matter in hand – Goff and condemning the nation of Israel’s more-than-brutal behaviour, Just prioritise what you are doing eh. Concentrate, you don’t have to weigh and prioritise every past happening for correctness according to yourself. If one does that then you have to balance the elimination of Jews as civilians en masse to the similar elimination of Palestinians. How can one even consider that in all good faith. It isn’t possible, it isn’t right. And Peter Ellis is a case on his own and his treatment an example of other faulty human thinking.

  6. There have been many instances of societies, through their leaders, actually declaring war upon those peoples who have behaved as Israel is now behaving..
    Is it the case that the colonial mindset that held NZ back for so long, has now arisen again, just at the time when we need to be “adults” and not self serving drones?
    We may be the youngest human society on Earth, but do we really need to remind everbody so often?

  7. What a disgrace to the honour of the human spirit are these comments from Ennius, Trumpet and Trevor. The mean little minds and maliicious, bring shame to the post. It is so good that someone with standing has spoken out. We needed that and Phil Goff has done it for us who regard ourselves as people with a conscience and try to have a concern for others.

  8. Israel can only do what it is doing with the full support of the USA…and its chief lackey, the UK. And no country in the world – including Russia and China – is willing to challenge the USA/UK over their actions. Calling out Israel only, is only scratching the surface of this problem. Israel is a reflection of the USA, the so-called leader of the free world. Will we ever wake up to the core problem here or will we allow/ignore more US-led shite to foment throughout the world!

  9. What a disgrace to the honour of the human spirit are these comments from Ennius, Trumpet and Trevor.  The mean little minds and maliicious,  bring shame to the post.  It is so good that someone with standing has spoken out.  We needed that and Phil Goff has done it for us who regard ourselves as people with a conscience and try to have a concern for others.
    I sent this at 6.40pm and I stand by it as a reasoned and fair thought.   Those who choose to run down Goff and make little of the matter need calling out.   So please put this up or you are shutting out fair comment.

      • Thanks Geoff Lye. Could Kiwis carry a torch for humans respecting each other, like the Olympic one? Standing firm for that, but not soft as marshamallows or just going with the flow as easiest. How far would our Kiwi torch get to the world? Would it even survive leaving our shores?

  10. The sooner the genocidal Zionists are kicked out of Palestine and charged with war crimes the better Palestine and the whole Arab world can get rid of their own dictatorships and create societies in which all are free and equal regardless of race, gender and nationality. For a socialist West Asia!

  11. Anyone who knows anything about the real history of Palestine, from the archeological data and not the fabricated myth of the bible, up till the present day, knows there is absolutely zero justification or rational for the genocide being perpetrated by the IDF in Gaza. Among Israeli citizens, at least 55/60% are just as horrified as the rest of us. Let’s never forget these heroes who suffer under the rule of a nazi like regime, and who’s protests and demonstrations get no publicity, are Israelis and Jews, including some of the last Holocaust survivors.
    That said, the cycle of good and evil in politics always turns. It generally rebounds with a vengeance on wrongdoers. The tragic history of the recent events in Gaza is already written, as will be the reciprocity.

    • My understanding is that the archeological data backs up the Bible and the scriptures totally condemn what Israel via the IDF is doing while also making it completely clear that they have forfeited any claim to that land. Unfortunately sinful people with selfish desires who can only understand a few words at a time have concluded the opposite but you can be sure that their destruction is certain. I can’t give you a day or hour but I know that righteousness wins because we have a righteous judge in control.

  12. Occupied people resisting their occupiers is only a ‘jihad’ to dishonest zionist supporters ,,,,, and Anne E has a long and proven record of being childishly dishonest.

    Israel and the land theft required to form it was founded on terrorism, violence and British connivance .

    Albert Einstein predicted the demise of the fledgling state when he was asked to help raise funds for its terrorist cells.

    “Ten years before the state declared its “independence” in 1948 on land stolen from the people of Palestine, Albert Einstein described the proposed creation of Israel as something which conflicted with “the essential nature of Judaism.” Having fled Hitler’s Germany and eventually becoming a US citizen, Einstein needed no lessons in what fascism looked like.” ,,,,,, “in 1948, he and a number of Jewish academics sent a letter to the New York Times to protest against a visit to America by Menachem Begin. In the well-documented letter, they denounced Begin’s Herut (Freedom) party, likening it to “a political party closely akin in its organisation, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties.”

    Herut was a right-wing nationalist party which went on to become the Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu. As the leader of the Zionist Irgun terrorist group, a breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organisation, the Haganah, Begin was wanted for terrorist activities against the British Mandate authorities. Even when he became prime minister of Israel (1977-1983) he never dared to visit Britain, where he was still on the most wanted list.”

    Israel is without doubt committing the ultimate crime,,, Genocide. The murderous intent behind this mass murder crime is as clear as day from the mouths of Israeli leaders…

    … ie- “The Israeli government stated exactly what it intended to do. Netanyahu showcased his religious fundamentalism with pride, comparing Palestinians to the Amalekites, whose injuries to the ancient tribe of Israel “our holy Bible tells us never to forget.” Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister, declared, “There will be no water, no food, no electricity or fuel. Everything will be closed. We are fighting against human animals, and we will act accordingly.” The former Israeli Ambassador to the UN confessed he is “very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is showing for the Palestinian people and these awful inhuman animals.”,,,,

    ,,,, “former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin was televised declaring the enemy is not Hamas but all Gazans: “Every child in Gaza is the enemy—every child to whom you are giving milk will grow up to rape your daughter and slaughter your children. Not a single child should remain. This is about justice.”

    Only last week Netanyahu stated, “This war is against good and evil.” “We are fighting human animals, monsters.” Yes, 600 days after Israel slaughtered entire families and burned children alive. Who, we may ask, are the human animals?”
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    Here’s’ an example of Ann E’s ‘brute force’ in action https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/massacre-al-najjar-family-gaza-genocide

    Here’s the (soon to be ) “once Islamic land” that Anne E calls for ‘brute force’ against the Palestinian who resist their dispossession– ‘‘If I Don’t Steal [Your Home] Someone Else Will’ Israeli Settler Justifies Forcible Takeover’ https://youtu.be/KNqozQ8uaV8

    Ann E’s call for brute force is a call for more of this,,,, https://ragspassage.substack.com/p/aseel-two-phone-calls

    Shes a very sick and dishonest person ,,,,,, nathan should marry her 😉

    • Thanks B Awakesky that gives some light on my eternal ignorance about this. There is always something extra to learn with more sadness on behalf of Jewish people. But further to concern us all – we are all faulty and willing to follow someone who can unleash all the bad ideas that are kept under control usually.

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