PSNA is calling on the government to immediately expel the Israeli ambassador from New Zealand.
PSNA Co-Chair, John Minto says Israel’s strikes on Iran are “unprovoked, unilateral and a massive threat to humanity everywhere.”
“This is such a dangerous action, that diplomatic weasel words about Israel are not acceptable. Israel is an out-of-control rogue state playing with the future of humanity. We must send it the strongest possible message.”
“Israel’s using its often repeated lies and misinformation to attempt to justify it’s unconscionable violence and aggression.”
Minto points to Iran’s right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes.
“Even US intelligence officials have made is clear very recently that Iran is NOT on the way to produce a nuclear weapon.”
“And neither is Iran committed to the “annihilation” of Israel. Iran does not support Israel as a racist, apartheid state and wants to see liberation for Palestine. In this, Iran has, along with the overwhelming majority of countries in the world, called for an end to Israel’s military occupation of Palestine, the end of its apartheid policies directed against Palestinians and the return of Palestinian refugees.”
New Zealand has the same policies.
Minto says our government must shoulder some of the blame for Israel feeling it can safely launch attacks on Iran.
“Appeasement of this apartheid state, as our government and other western countries have done over 20 months, has led Israel to believe it can get away within mass murder forced expulsions and managed starvation in Gaza, so that whatever it does it will be never be held to account”
“Only sanctions count – and just the first one must be the expulsion of the Israel ambassador with only giving him enough time to pack his bags.
John Minto
Co-Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Expulsion is a start.
Let me guess; our coalition government will say they are “comfortable” with the IDF “response”
Never mind the disgraceful disregard for the so-called international “rule of law”.
What a sad sick joke.
Expel the ‘israeli’ ambassador.
Expel ‘israeli’ agents like the notorious blood drenched psychopath, Juliet Moses, who gloried in the slaughter of children in her people’s vile pager bombings.
Yaen. It’s all becoming very rote. You need to do something dramatic. BTW, there is no civilian use for Uranium enriched to 60% U-235.
‘ BTW, there is no civilian use for Uranium enriched to 60% U-235.’
Since when did fuckwits pull nuclear physics out of their arses.
With luck the Mullahs will all be hung from the same cranes they used to hang gays.
Iran started it by sending 500 drones and missiles into Israel. Bring back bussy doyle to judean people’s front
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/iran
John Minto yet again proves he is a man of prejudice not principle
One state has launched an unprovoked attack on another. John is calling these actions out. The principled thing here to do would have been to question the veracity, or not, of John’s criticism. The prejudicial thing here to do would be to call out John himself. And given the link you have provided, we can at least understand your own prejudice, your own projection. Still, the actions under scrutiny here is what matters, they are troublesome, for us all. Unprovoked attack, killing people, this is not something we should ever ignore for the sake of….
Hahahah, human beings know who founded and funded ‘human rights’ watch.
@sammy
” John Minto yet again proves he is a man of prejudice not principle. ”
That’s rich coming from what ever the fuck you are. ” John Minto yet again proves he is a man of prejudice not principle.” Yet again, John Minto, a man of principles without prejudice comes up against a liar and a manipulative Machiavellian confederate entity of unknown origin.
Here? Take a void and jump into it along with your groundless factless, desperate accusations.
Que Sammy defending Israel again through a mountain of whataboutisms.
What a ridiculous link Sammy. You must be a simpleton if you think those of us who comment on things don’t know the evil things that Iran does. Do your seriously believe Minto doesn’t know all that, come on don’t be so stupid.
Of course if we called out human rights in every part of the world then there wouldn’t be a country free to stand up and be counted on every front.
I doubt anyone commenting here thinks that Iran is some sainted country. That does not give Israel and that murderous bastard the right to bomb Iran.
“I doubt anyone commenting here thinks that Iran is some sainted country.”
Let me introduce you to Mohammed Khan
Fair enough – but unfortunately most people on this site don’t seem to know Iran regime is the evil. You do. I agree it is incredible other don’t.
What next. Moon of Alabama writes that Iran could bombard Israel but won’t win a missile war versus the US. The Iranians may block the Gulf. Here’s a likely scenario.
A more reasonable attack on the U.S. will target its economy. Iran can stop its production of oil. It has various means to stop oil and gas production in U.S. allied countries situated in its neighborhood. It can close down the Strait of Hormuz through which 25% of the global hydrocarbon productions is flowing. There is the little the U.S. could do to prevent Iran from sustaining such a blockade.
As I have stated previously:
Trump wants lower oil prices and freedom to pursue his domestic agenda.
A few month of oil prices above $200 per barrel would devastated the chances for Republicans to keep the House and the Senate. It would ruin Trump’s presidency. The would turn the world against Israel. Trump would be forced to sue for peace with Iran.
There would be strong collateral damage in the global economy. Iran would be blamed for it. But everyone would also know that it was not Iran or its leader who started this.
When can they start ?not soon enough .That would be the best plan ever bring the orange prick and his cohorts to their knees .It would be a good wakeup for the lagards here as well and would show how oil have stopped us developing green energy as fast as we should have .All those consented Wind farms should be up and running by now and the subsidies on electric cars needs to go back on tomorrow .We can afford those because we would not be importing billions of dollars of oil based fuel every year .
It’s all rather pathetic, John. When a genocide is supported by the neoliberal powerful it’s a steep slope to stop it. But a good crack to crowbar off our neoliberal powerful.
! I’ll never vote for an Israel-supporting party — maybe neoliberal ‘Chippy’ can see some way to get back to power without doing anything for the neediest or climate change.
I rather hate these ‘Friends of the Rich’ in charge of the alleged ‘Left’.
So little old NZ is about to head back to carless days maybe ,because the oil price will make 91 too expensive .Just watch Willis try to control inflation when this kicks in in the next few weeks or months .She will soon learn that governments have no control over inflation .She could shut the whole government down but inflation will still go through the roof .Shane Jones can take a bow for chasing away at least two off sore wind farms with his good bye freddy mantra .
‘Even the decision this week by several western states, led by the UK, to ban the entry of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, is not quite the pushback it is meant to seem.”,,,, “,,,,, in truth, they have selected the most limited and symbolic of all the possible sanctions they could have imposed on the Israeli government.
Their meagre action is motivated solely out of desperation. They urgently need to deter Israel from carrying through plans to formally annex the Occupied West Bank and thereby tear away the last remnants of the two-state comfort blanket – the West’s solitary pretext for decades of inaction.
And as a bonus, the entry ban makes Britain and the others look like they are getting tough with Israel on Gaza, even as they do nothing to stop the mounting horrors there.”
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Israel /zionisim is sick and dangerous — ” A new poll conducted by Penn State University found that 82 percent of Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, coinciding with an ongoing effort by Tel Aviv to forcibly displace and relocate the strip’s population.
The poll was conducted in March and published by Haaretz on 22 May, surveying 1,005 Jewish Israelis.
In response to a question on whether the Israeli army should act in accordance with the biblical story of the Israelites and their eradication of all of Jericho’s inhabitants during the conquest of the city, 47 percent of Israelis responded “Yes.”
Sixty-five percent of the respondents also believe that there is a “contemporary incarnation of Amalek.” Ninety-three percent of the 65 percent that “the commandment to wipe out the memory of Amalek is also relevant to that modern-day Amalek.” ….. https://www.uncaptured.media/p/as-israel-attacks-iran-a-us-army
In a case of ‘the Lunatics have taken over the asylym’ we have Israel / zionism in the 2020’s — ” I recently asked one of his advisers to gauge for me the depth of Mr. Netanyahu’s anxiety about Iran. His answer: “Think Amalek.”
With Netanyahu waging war in command of an army whose rank-and-file consists of apocalyptic right-wing zealots bent on extermination of what they believe to be the reincarnation of biblical enemies, a growing national obsession with conquest of the third holiest site in Islam, and access to an undeclared and opaque arsenal of nuclear weapons, Dr. Farr’s decades-old warning now echoes like an air-raid siren as the non-NATO world, which could only wring its hands at the livestreamed genocide in Gaza, now beholds an even greater horror: the growing threat of a nuclear holocaust, which the Israeli government, military, and most of its citizens, seem ready to unleash.”
Israel threatens the city of Tehran: “Tehran will Burn.” NUKEs? https://youtu.be/y6N20PF210I
The Muslim Brotherhood/Hamas is the sick and dangerous entity which is why they have been banned in so many countries, including Muslim countries.
and yet the IDF supplied Hamas with weapons and support in the 1970s and 1980s – you always forget to mention how Israel built Hamas up Ann
Yes, perhaps AnnE comes from an an offshoot of Machiavelli from the style of thinking. Was he Jewish?
Or did the Israelis learn their mad manoeuvres from reading his books; Jewish people being very well educated and intelligent – possibly the most creative people on the planet. Pity they get dragged down by the ways that Machiavelli outlined. They have fallen into the behaviour of reacting to, then copying the brutal actions of their foes that tried to maliciously destroy them. And what I have outlined is what is happening, it can’t be denied.
As Israel had closed its embassy doesn’t that mean there is no Ambassador here? Netyanyahoo is an evil warmongering criminal and he must be shunned and stopped by all world leaders. It’s unbelievable how he has been tolerated and supported with war machines when Saddam Hussein/Ghadafi/ bin Laden etc were not. In the scale of these recent tyrants Netyanyahoo is by far the worst and the most dangerous to the world. Expelling ambassadors and banning Israeli rightwing politisns is the very least of what needs to be done. How far will the world let Netyanyahoo go??? Til we are all wiped out by an escalating nuclear war?
No comment on the IAEA report saying Iran was in breach of NPT expectations?
No comment about the number of missiles fired at Israel that were supplied by Iran?
No comment about Iran not recognising another member state of the UN?
“Even US intelligence officials have made is clear very recently that Iran is NOT on the way to produce a nuclear weapon.”
Not exactly. The first step is uranium enriched to weapons grade standard – this is the stage they have reached and apparently enough for 10 or so weapons. The Iranians stopped work on weapons development in 2003 (Iraq regime change) and are not known to have resumed this.
No comment about Israel launching an unprovoked and illegal attack on another member state of the UN, seemingly because they were going to accept the proposal. No comment on the number of bombs dropped on women and children supplied by the US. No comment on the number of civilian casualties caused by targeted assassinations in Iran. Usual strawman arguments presented by the local Israel lobby in the Herald yesterday.
Read this and tell me the discussion doesn’t need to change to regime change in Tel-aviv.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/parnia-abbasi-an-aspiring-poet-died-in-an-israeli-strike-on-a-tehran-apartment/YHM2ENQAS5CJZBOU4H3VYVXS2Y/
Expel, eject etc Israeli ambassador! We don’t want to hurt Israelis but we could ‘give them a rocket’ as the saying goes, by firing their ambassador back to them. Put a note ‘Goods not wanted on voyage’ as we travel forward in a backward manner so confused, and can’t cope with more problems than presently, from war-minded people fulminating mayhem.
Four simple questions sweep away the “it’s complicated” crap that gets spun in defense of the depraved……
1) Did Nazi Germany have a right to exist ?
2) Does Germany have a right to exist ?
3) Does Zionist Israel have a right to exist ?
4) Would a Israel where all inhabitants enjoyed the same civil / human rights and protections have a right to exist?….
See, not complicated at all …. Iran ( correctly ) believes the zionist entity which was founded with terrorism, ethnic cleansing and British connivance has no right to exist. It’s evolution into a mass murdering, child starving / killing, Ghetto Liquidating, sado-state validates the Iranians position 100%..
…. People who lie for Israel pretend zionist Israel is a democracy and it’s Palestinian citizens have equal rights ,,, what a sick joke these ‘retarded for Israel’ types push ,,,, .here’s an example of that zionist “democracy” in action– ‘‘If I Don’t Steal [Your Home] Someone Else Will’ Israeli Settler Justifies Forcible Takeover” https://youtu.be/KNqozQ8uaV8
btw,,, zionist NATO shills like SPC , David Farrar & the bulk of his Kiwi blog posters, Stephen Rainbow ( our grifting fake‘ human rights commissioner ), Chris Trotter and various other shitty people would get my 4 question quiz WRONG ,,, They would answer zionist Israel as it exists today has a right to continue / exist ,,,,, and a Israel without murderous racist discrimination against Palestinians should NOT exist….
… for Zionists it’s, ‘From the river to the sea we want Jewish Supremacy’..
Hamas believe Israel has no right to exist either. They were stupid enough to put it in writing and have never fully revoked it. And silly politicians like Macron and Starmer are busy trying to persuade antisemitics (oh I mean anti-Zionists of course bwahaha) to recognise Palestinian statehood. What has changed since ’47 when the Arabs of Palestine rejected the notion of their own country and inveigled surrounding nations to eradicate Israel for their sake?
What has not changed is Ann E’s habitual telling of lies for Israel ,,, ie She pretends that Israel does not support and partner up the bad and extreme fringe elements within the Muslim religion,,, even when this clip showing senior Israel officials admitting just that was repeatedly rubbed in her face — 3mins 5 second mark https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Ek7JlH7kYfY .,.
… she actually whinged it was antisemitic to bring up this fact :0
,,,, now she reverts to zionist origin myths and claims ” What has changed since ’47 when the Arabs of Palestine rejected the notion of their own country and inveigled surrounding nations to eradicate Israel for their sake?” ,,,, she leaves out the bit that the surrounding nations were flooded with Palestinian refugees from the zionist ethnic cleansing carried out through violence, massacres and the obliteration of 531 Palestinian villages and towns ,,, here https://youtu.be/6b-6QvPEekQ?t=592
….. “with regard to the Arab states declaring war on Israel following the latter’s declaration of independence in May of 1948 Peter Binart takes issues with the common chronologies ,,,by the time the Arab armies attacked, Zionist forces had already largely depopulated Jaffa and Hifa, Palestine’s two largest cities.
The war’s most notorious massacre of Palestinians in which Zionist militias killed more than 100 men women and children in the village of Derasine occurred in April,, when Jewish leaders claimed the Arab invasions drove Palestinians to leave they’ve got the causation reversed,,,, it was not the entry of Arab armies that14 caused the exodus,,, it was the exodus that caused the entry of the Arab armies”…..
….”as has been documented extensively before, the Zionist forces outmanned and outgunned all the Arab armies combined.”
Why the ‘Two-State Solution’ Is Impossible https://youtu.be/6b-6QvPEekQ
“Bad” and “Extreme” fringe elements in Islam (that is the Muslim religion is it not) Really? Now would that be terror? As in “I have been made victorious through terror”. Who on earth would possibly utter such a warlike, supremacist gloat? What would they have been meaning? Something like control and domination would you say? And does it have anything to do with the bad and extreme Arabs who carried out late 1920s and 30s pogroms against the Jews of Palestine as well as the British administration of Mandatory Palestine. Or the bad and extreme Arab states who called for the Arab Palestinians to temporarily leave their homes until the War coalition destroyed Israel, whereupon they could return to their homes as well as collect the spoils from Jewish homes. Or even the bad and extreme Hamas with their call for the genocidal destruction of Israel. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas. But hey, carry on with your taqiyya and your perpetual bleating about me. You’re giving whiny Syrian girl a good run for her money. How is she by the way. Still softly sobbing for dear, departed Assad?
“according to the data presented in the statistical annex of the US Department of State’s annual report, Country Reports on Terrorism, the major perpetrators of terrorism are Sunni groups, not Iran nor groups allegedly sponsored by Iran. The Sunni groups receive financial support from the Gulf Arabs and, ironically, from the United States.”….. and Israel, https://sonar21.com/according-to-us-government-data-iran-is-not-the-major-sponsor-of-terrorism/
“Earlier this month former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed that Israeli intelligence has been arming a criminal gang in the Gaza Strip led by a Palestinian named Yasser Abu Shabab.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/why-israel-arming-isis-linked-gangs-gaza
The gang includes members who have been affiliated with ISIS, the extremist group also known as Islamic State.
This did not come as news to many Palestinians, who have pointed out that criminal gangs protected by Israeli forces have been looting aid trucks entering the Strip for many months – a fact reported by The Washington Post back in November.”
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“We also cannot ignore the fact that shortly after Hamas formally organized in 1987, the Government of Israel embarked on a covert action to funnel money to Hamas in order to create an alternative to Fatah and the Palestinian Authority. This was done in order to sabotage any prospect for a legitimate two-state solution.
Israeli insistence that Hamas is some awful terrorist group is simply not backed up by the facts. Zionist diatribes about Hamas being nothing but murderous thugs are belied by the grossly disproportionate number of Palestinians that have been slaughtered, not only by the Israeli Defense Force, but by armed settlers. The reality is being driven home with each passing day as Israel continues to bomb and strafe Palestinians in their homes and in temporary shelters. The sheer lopsided body count tells the true story and it is one the ICJ has declared is genocide.” https://sonar21.com/when-it-comes-to-terrorism-israel-beats-hamas/
Ann E gets her zionist lines from ,,, zionist hate networks https://yandex.com/video/search?text=how+the+international+Israeli+lobby+perpetuates+Islamophobic+hate&from=tabbar
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“Israeli military sources told The Times of Israel that Israel has been arming a group described as a “criminal gang of jihadists” led by Yasser Abu Shabab,” https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/05/israel-arming-isis-gang-gaza/
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa — the ( Israeli backed )Islamic terrorist also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, who rose through the ranks of the Islamic State of Iraq before founding an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra ,,,, is an Israeli success story. …..
…… Since winning the day for Israel Mainstream media continue to ignore the ongoing genocide in Syria as the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia went on a klling spree in Latakia province, where the Alawite minority lives.
And Desperate Christians appealed for help on social media:…… Thanks Bibi
“”Syria’s new rulers, belonging to the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) movement, have unleashed a campaign of sectarian reprisals against the Alawite and Christian communities. This ongoing genocide is being met not with outrage, but with diplomatic overtures toward the rebranded al-Qaeda warlords now ruling from Damascus.
The massacres and repression of Alawites and Christians in Syria began immediately after the fall of Damascus and have continued ” ….. just as Israel planned and Netanyahu took credit for.
Israel backed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist group,blew up a church in Syria just the other day ,,,, “Christians in Syria are reeling after a suicide bombing struck a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus during a June 22 Divine Liturgy.
At least 20 were killed and more than 60 injured that Sunday after an attacker, reported to be armed and wearing an explosive vest, entered Mar Elias, a Greek Orthodox church in the city’s Dweila neighborhood.”
Good stuff for zionists ….. Henry Kissenger did describe them as “boastful,” “psychopathic,” “fools,” “a sick bunch,” and “the world’s worst shits.” …..
Nah it’s Erdogan who’s spreading his ghastly Islamist tentacles further into Syria, funding Islamic State and cosying up to Syria’s terrorist-in-a-suit head honcho. He’s fishing for other prey now that he’s sick of bombing the Kurds and people are beginning to notice the death toll.
The Israelis are too busy saving Syrian lives. https://jihadwatch.org/2025/06/genocidal-israelis-save-life-of-syrian-girl. Along with Mahmoud Abbas’ family. Show some gratitude.
My old people rose up to fight to the death when they were disturbed from their comfort, apart from our first guy who fought for pure pleasure. John is that guy in the good Minto family.
Expect no reward, just do right.