The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is challenging the New Zealand government to support the move by Türkiye to vote to suspend Israeli membership of the United Nations.
Türkiye Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has told the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Riyadh that Israel should be suspended from the crucial meeting of the General Assembly next month, for its ‘genocidal aggression.’
PSNA Co-chair, John Minto, says New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters will have to take a stand on this issue.
“Cabinet should give him clear instructions to vote against Israeli war crimes and support Palestinian rights.”
“Suspension of Israel will have a lot of backing from many countries horrified with the starvation and carnage in Gaza, and they want to do something effective, instead of just recognising Palestine as a state.
“Even if the US vetoes such a move in the Security Council, there is a precedent going back to 1974 when South Africa was suspended from the General Assembly because it practiced apartheid. The General Assembly suspended a member then, and New Zealand should back such a move now.”
Minto says Israel’s original condition in 1948 for joining the UN was that it allowed the 750,000 Palestinians it had expelled from Palestine to create Israel to return home.
“Israel won’t even talk about its obligations to let Palestinians return, and certainly never had any intention of allowing them to go home. Israel should pay a price for that, along with punishment for its genocide.”
Minto says the escalation of the Israeli assault on Gaza calls for immediate international action and not even wait until the General Assembly debate last next month.
“The Israeli ambassador in Wellington should be told to leave right now, because his government is openly committing war crimes.”
“We’ve just seen a famine declared in Gaza City. Aid is totally insufficient and deliberately so.”
“Israel has called up its military reservists for the major assault it’s conducting on Gaza City to drive nearly a million of its inhabitants out. Israel’s latest dumping ground of choice is South Sudan, even though its government says it doesn’t want to have expelled Palestinians turn up there.”
“And we’ve just had the news that Israel has once again killed journalists, who work for international news agencies, such as Reuters, Al Jazeera and NBC.”
“Netanyahu says it was a mistake. Who believes that?”
John Minto
Co-Chair PSNA
This would be the absolute minimum Peters could do, was he not a puppet of the genocidal zionists.
Far out
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“Minto says Israel’s original condition in 1948 for joining the UN was that it allowed the 750,000 Palestinians it had expelled from Palestine to create Israel to return home.”
After the UN agreed on a partition of the Palestine mandate, both the Jewish majority state and Arab majority state were supposed to come into existence together.
Implementation of the Partition Plan (Resolution 181):
Israel agreed to implement the provisions of the 1947 partition plan, which outlined the division of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, with a special status for Jerusalem
Instead there was a war after the state of Israel was declared in May 1948. After the war, Israel had expanded its territory.
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, adopted on December 11, 1948, is a pivotal resolution concerning Palestinian refugees of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, stipulating that those wishing to return to their homes and live in peace should be allowed to do so, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those who choose not to return.
In General Assembly Resolution 273 in 1949 it required compliance with 181 and 194 and also Commitment to UN Charter Principles and Safeguarding Rights of Palestinian Arabs on Israel’s admission to the UN.
In 1949 it also accepted the borders of that time, thus the 1949-1967 ones are that officially recognised.
“Minto says Israel’s original condition in 1948 for joining the UN was that it allowed the 750,000 Palestinians it had expelled from Palestine to create Israel to return home.”
After the UN agreed on a partition of the Palestine mandate, both the Jewish majority state and Arab majority state were supposed to come into existence together.
Implementation of the Partition Plan (Resolution 181):
Israel agreed to implement the provisions of the 1947 partition plan, which outlined the division of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, with a special status for Jerusalem
Instead there was a war after the state of Israel was declared in May 1948. After the war, Israel had expanded its territory.
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, adopted on December 11, 1948, is a pivotal resolution concerning Palestinian refugees of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, stipulating that those wishing to return to their homes and live in peace should be allowed to do so, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those who choose not to return.
In General Assembly Resolution 273 in 1949 it required compliance with 181 and 194 and also Commitment to UN Charter Principles and Safeguarding Rights of Palestinian Arabs on Israel’s admission to the UN.
In 1949 it also accepted the borders of that time, thus the 1949-1967 ones are that officially recognised.
The obligations would fall on Israel once the recognised Palestine State body – PLO – recognised the Israeli state and was established. This has to date been negated by the failure of the Oslo Accord peace process. There has been no agreed outcome in talks.
Another path would be to set requirements for Israel to meet.
1.Such as it must allow aid to Gaza civilians or leave its occupation there.
2.It has a plan as to meeting 181.
3.It has a plan for meeting 194.
4.It shows how it is meeting its UN Charter principles.
5.It proposes steps by which it fulfils requirements to Safeguard the Rights of Palestinian Arabs.
Türkiye’s hands are not exactly clean here, granted we can say something similar about most of the world.
Comments from Jewish people in NZAO on the treatment of the m and of Israel and Gaza, is often from battle-hardened word-warriors. This from the thoughtful group, feeling sad but looking for al ivable outcome., and questioning our Human Rights Commissioner’s statement?
https://ajv.org.nz/author/ajvnz/
May 2025
,,,In the first cabinet meeting following the Six Day War, long before Hamas came into existence, ridding Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants was top of the agenda.
“If we can evict 300,000 refugees from Gaza to other places … we can annex Gaza without a problem,” defence minister Moshe Dayan said.
The population of Gaza was 400,000 at the time.
“We should take them to the East Bank [Jordan] by the scruff of their necks and throw them there,” minister Yosef Sapir said.
Fifty-eight years later the possible destinations may have changed but the aim remains the same. And a shamefully indifferent western world combined with a malnourished and desperate population may be paving the way to a mass expulsion.
If the US, Europe and their allies demanded that Israel stop, the killing would end tomorrow.
Unknown’s avatar Author Sh’ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices Posted on May 21, 2025 Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on Starvation of Gaza a continuation of a decades old plan
April 2025
…In a recent meeting, Dr Rainbow made Islamophobic comments to Philippa Yasbek, spokesperson for Alternative Jewish Voices and Dayenu: Jews Against Occupation.
“Dr Rainbow asserted that the SIS threat assessment shows that Muslims pose a greater threat to the Jewish community in New Zealand than white supremacists. I was shocked that Dr Rainbow is so prejudiced that he misrepresented the SIS report to say the complete opposite of what is written in the document.
The SIS report states that it should not be used to single out any ethnic community as a threat. It also says that white supremacists make up the bulk of violent extremists in Aotearoa,” says Philippa Yasbek…
New Zealand should also join South Africa’s case filed in the World Court against Israel for committing the crime of genocide.
14 other countries have already done so.l
Francis Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He previously applied the Genocide Convention for Bosnia and won two requests for provisional protection from the ICJ against Yugoslavia.
Professor Boyle was among the first lawyers to win anything under the Genocide Convention from the International Court of Justice.
Professor Boyle previously won two World Court orders for the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina against Yugoslavia to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide.
Professor Boyle is interviewed by Democracy Now, Amy Goodman.
…….based on my careful review of all the documents so far submitted by the Republic of South Africa, I believe South Africa will win an order against Israel to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide against the Palestinians. And then we will have an official determination by the International Court of Justice itself, the highest legal authority in the United Nations system, that genocide is going on. And under Article I of the Genocide Convention, all contracting parties, 153 states, will then be obliged, quote, “to prevent,” unquote, the genocide by Israel against the Palestinians…..
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/2/south_africa_israel_genocide_icj?fbclid=IwAR3luU2oDM596vKJYn5bv4-4Hl4MWDCK55ti65w5lILdRVA3tDB15IOEVkU
This new campaign to get members of the Genocide Convention to file declarations of intervention directly relates to New Zealand.
We have already done this in the case Ukraine vs Russia for breaching the genocide convention.
New Zealand filed a Declaration of Intervention, at the World Court hearing brought by Ukraine against Russia.
As a result of this filing, and in support of it, on the 20th of September last year, Andrew Williams, New Zealand’s Chief International Legal Adviser (acting), stood up in the ICJ court room at the Hague and read out our nation’s declaration of intervention in the case of Ukraine vs. the Russian Federation.
https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/media-and-resources/new-zealands-oral-submissions-on-jurisdiction-in-ukraines-international-court-of-justice-case-against-russia/
New Zealand must repeat our nation’s application as an intervening member to the Genocide Convention and file an application of intervention in the case South Africa vs. Israel. We did it for the case Ukraine vs. Russia we can do it again.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/2/south_africa_israel_genocide_icj?fbclid=IwAR3luU2oDM596vKJYn5bv4-4Hl4MWDCK55ti65w5lILdRVA3tDB15IOEVkU
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