NZ not recognising Palestine ‘difficult to justify’ – Middle East expert
It will be difficult for the government to justify not recognising a Palestinian state at the UN this week, an expert on the Middle East says.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will outline New Zealand’s position at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Saturday.
Australia, Canada, the UK and France have now officially recognised a Palestinian state, as the crisis on the ground in Gaza worsens.
New Zealand has held off making any moves to date, with Cabinet instead opting to go through a weeks-long consultation and deliberation process before announcing its decision at UNGA.
Recent comments about “weaponising hostages” made by ACT party leader David Seymour demonstrate the different approaches the coalition parties have taken.
Look.
Recognising Palestine is not in any way shape or form a ‘cure all’ to the genocide in Gaza.
It is merely a means to shame Israel, and that’s it.
That’s all we have as ‘allies’ to a country openly committing war crimes and genocide, ‘shame’ them.
Recognising Palestine is the very least we can do, and we can’t even do that because ACT are utterly beholden to the zionist lobby groups.
Take ACT MP Simon Court…
…Free Speech and the protection of it allows a piece of shit like Simon Court to spew pro-genocide hatred, and we all have to collectively respect that.
ACT are a pro-Genocide Political Movement who support the war crimes of Zionism and Free Speech means we have to give them that space to vomit up their hatred.
Simon Court seems to believe that the extermination of all Palestinians is the only solution, and we should ensure that he and his hateful political party get smashed in the next election.
Because Luxon is so spineless, he’s allowing ACT to hold up the symbolism of recognising Palestine and it’s now damaging our international reputation…
Winston Peters scolds David Seymour for ‘talking out of his field’ on Palestine
…As the UN officially declares Israel guilty of war crimes and genocide, Christopher Luxon continues to be held hostage by zionist apologists ACT.
As Nicola Willis hilariously claims Priests protesting outside her Office are intimidating, Christopher Luxon continues to be held hostage by zionist apologists ACT.
Last week in Parliament Luxon used all the pro-Zionist ACT Party talking points to defend not doing anything.
The truth is that David Seymour has built an illegal settlement on the Prime Minister’s Balls and we all have to pretend that’s an independent foreign policy.
His feckless cowardice and inability to show any spine against ACT is a shocking disgrace to our collective mana as a people.
The ACT Party are pro-genocide and pro-war crime and when the announcement finally comes through and Luxon is shamed into doing the right thing, make sure ACT Party Trolls get to hear your contempt for them.
From the River to the Sea, ACT will always support any Zionist killing spree.
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David Seymour just gets more repugnant every time he opens his mouth, and Simon Court should just sod off. Throwing words around like genocide when he appears to support one taking place is rather curious. Of course he finishes with that tired old cliche of not supporting Zionists is antisemitism. If he bothered to look he would see the Zionists themselves are quite happy ditching other Jews when it suits their cause, much like Netanyahu and his treatment of the hostages. Or shall we get into the very suspicious ‘asleep at the wheel’ behaviour that allowed Oct 7 to happen in the first place?
Koro Winston has always been an ardent supporter of apartheid Israel. Him and his past ministers have shaken hands and done deals with actual war criminals like Moshe Yalon. At least the little smug repugnant cunt Seymour and his flock of zionazi don’t pretend where they stand in support of the apartheid state unlike FM Winston standing on a podium making performative noises out of his backside
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And Winston has a firm grasp on whats left of Luxons balls and wants to stand up at the UN and make a statement then claim he is stopping the genocide .He will leave the stage with a stupid smirk on his face thinking he has saved all of the Palastinians all on his own .The reality is everyone will be thinking who is this old coot .Not long ago Winston was slagging off the UN and suggesting we leave it .He would have more effect if he stood up and demanded that the veto rights of the few, power hungry nations ,was scrapped right now .
Winston can ‘scold’ Seymour all he likes. Won’t help in any way. Seymour’s words, once spoken, are out there, doing damage.
The point is, neither Winson nor Luxon can control Seymour. He says and does what he likes without ever suffering any consequences. Being ‘scolded’ by Winston isn’t going to make him lose any sleep.
There need to be nastier repercussions for loose cannon Seymour. He embarrasses us all continually. Weak Luxon shows us his true colours again, he’s a sock-puppet for billionaires. A very smelly, old moth-eaten sock too.
He should be thrown out along with the rest of the incompetents. They couldn’t be recycled usefully, they are too far gone.
“It is merely a means to shame Israel, and that’s it.”
So it’s a virtue Signal – glad we clarified that then.
Winston has invoked the coalition “agree to disagree” clause over new visa/immigration measures and he has probably been stiffed over Palestine in terms of having a weasel position to present to UNGA.
Winston is an Israel supporter through and through-but he likes to fit in with 5 Eyes and international diplomacy where possible, and does not like being dictated to by anyone, let alone the likes of Seymour.
I doubt it will be enough to cause an early election unfortunately, but we live in hope…
I’m all for shaming Israel, but it should not come at the cost of New Zealanders well-being (unless we collectively voted for that). I think Luxon/Winston understand this. Trump is extremely vindictive, and do not be surprised if every country that condemns Israel gets hit with even more punitive tariffs. That might work out okay for the European countries (who mostly trade among themselves), but not so much for us. Keep in mind that nothing we say is going to change the course Israel/US are set on wrt Gaza.
If the danger of tariffs from the US over sanctions against Epstein’s people exists, that simply suggests that all ties with Americans should be cut and any Americans- particularly government agents- here be held to account until things are made right.
so what you are saying is bend over and take one for Israel and genocide then .Thats a weak response but not unexpected considering our own human rights and abuse in care which is being swept under the carpet .
I’m just not into collective mana. Could it possibly be that our biggest problem is Loose man being hostage to Amanda’s faith and that her’s is great?
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