The government decision to delay till September considering whether to recognise a Palestinian state is weak and deeply embarrassing.
Recognising a Palestinian state is decades overdue and the government could even delay it further.
There was a time when New Zaland would have been a leader in standing up for human rights and international law but we are now the slowest follower in the western world – a shameful place to be.
But recognising Palestine is NOT a substitute for sanctions against Israel.
“Sanctions against Israel is the only way to force this apartheid state to end the genocide in Gaza” says PSNA Co-Chair John Minto. “This is the urgent priority.”
Israel continues with the mass killing and mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza because it has never been held to account by western countries such as New Zealand.
“This impunity for genocide must end”
This Saturday 16 August the Palestine Solidarity movement has a National Day of Action for Palestine.
People in more than 30 centres will be rallying and marching and demanding the NZ government recognise Palestine and impose government sanctions against Israel’s genocidal attacks on Palestine.
John Minto
Co-Chair PSNA
And fundamentally, just another aspect of the Luxon regime’s support for the Gaza Holocaust.
Why has Winston Peters met with Juliet Moses- who encouraged deranged failed property developers to bomb academics- but not with any human rights defenders who condemn her people’s slaughter of the Palestinians (and Lebanese, Syrians, Yemenis, Iranians)?
NZ has waited 78 years to recognise a Palestinian State. Now NZ is going to wait another 4 weeks or more to give Israel time to complete its invasion of Gaza and a genocide.
It will be a State Without Land or a State Without People.
NZ foreign policy what a croc.
Yes Joseph your right its the same plan the COC had with our tariffs, be quiet, say nothing, don’t questions or challenge and it will all go away, only thing this didn’t work in fact it backfired.
They are giving the Zionist time to either wipe them out (the Palestinians) or eradicate them from Palestine leaving themselves to claim the Gaza strip a land that is not theirs.
Oooh it’s too complex! Ooooh there’s so many factors!
That’s such bullshit.
Just declare Palestine a state already, FFS.
What a bunch of disgusting spineless, gutless kowtowing “leaders” we have in the Beehive. I sincerely hope this is their one and only term in government.
They are such weirdos.
Chloe banned for calling the Gnats spineless – the invertebrate Brownlee got his pseudopods in a knot over it.
In 20 years the world will be wondering why so many terrorists are coming out of Palestine, they only need to look back to 2025 et.al and there will be no more wondering. As we speak a Hammas leader is being born in genocidal circumstances and the revenge will be terrifying for the west . While pale stale( some orange ) leaders stand back and wring their hands and do nothing.
“The catastrophe in Gaza, which the elders, of which I’m a member, is now calling an unfolding genocide, has totally changed world opinion about this.” Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark, on RNZ Morning Report yesterday.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018999534/former-pm-helen-clark-on-nz-recognising-palestine-as-a-state
Never again, or soft of again?
What is notable is that Helen Clark doesn’t call it a genocide herself, saying a group that she belongs to is now calling it a genocide.
Clark’s hesitancy to call it a genocide herself may be due to her not wanting to contradict the New Zealand Labour Party ‘position’ that what is happeing in Gaza is not genocide. And that it is up to the International courts to make that determination.
“No person with any ounce of moral courage can see this as anything but horrific, nothing more than a genocide.” Labour’s Damien O’Connor goes against party policy in calling Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘genocide’
Phil Twyford – said his [O’Connor’s] comments did not reflect Labour’s position.
“Damien O’Connor is incredibly passionate about this issue and that was evident during his contribution today. I respect the emotion and feeling he showed during the debate.
However the Labour Party’s position remains that it is for the relevant international bodies to determine whether actions by Israel are within the constraints of international law.” Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins, Damien O’Connor goes against party policy in calling Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘genocide’
Post-mortem or prevention?
From Google:
Experts on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said a judgment on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is unlikely before the end of 2027 at the earliest, amid warnings that the international community should not use the court’s glacial proceedings as an excuse to put off action to stop the killing. 27 Jul 2025
https://www.google.com/search?q=When+will+the+ICJ+deliver+its+judgement+on+Gaza&oq=
The Irish oppostion parties and government have not waited for the ICJ to make that determination. And have invoked the genocide convention, which obligates all states to act to prevent and punish the crime of genocide
Prevention or recrimination?
In his poem Pastor Martin Niemöller speaks of liberal guilt, in not speaking out agains the Holocaust in Europe
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
As it was in the 1940s Liberal genocide denial is enabling genocide.
Without Left and liberal genocide denial this genocide would not be possible.
Maybe one day Chris Hipkins might write a poem regretting that he didn’t speak out.
Somehow I don’t think it will be as well received as Martin Niemöller’s poem
A search of Hansard shows that the word “spineless” has been used in Parliament 61 times between 1954 and 1990. Apparently people with white penises are welcome to use it in Parliament.
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