How disgraceful and sickening…
It seems clear from media reports that Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskell is visiting Auckland this weekend as part of a trip to strengthen ties with New Zealand and other Pacific countries.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Co-chair Maher Nazal says he would expect Foreign Minister Winston Peters to have had, or will be having, a secret meeting with Haskell.
“Haskell wouldn’t come to New Zealand unless she was having a meeting with
Peters. Otherwise, it would be a diplomatic snub. Haskell wouldn’t tolerate that, and Peters is most unlikely to snub Israel,” Nazzal says.
“But if he’s turned her down, we’d love to hear about it.”
“The visit is despite Haskell recently mocking Prime Minister, Chris Luxon, with some sarcastic comments that New Zealand’s worst enemies were cats and possums, when Luxon said her boss Benjamin Netanyahu had ‘lost the plot’.
“The trip is a ‘thank you’ visit for New Zealand refusing to recognise Palestine. Haskell had appointments with the governments of Fiji and Papua New Guinea earlier this week.”
“They are the only two countries in the world, other than the United States, which both voted in the United Nations last year against requiring Israel to leave the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and also have an embassy in Jerusalem. They are the greatest fans of Israel outside the United States.”
“Haskell is an agent of Israeli cruelty and depravity, and she has no legitimate business here. Right now, Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians and withholding New Zealand aid from the people of Gaza.
“Why would we put out the welcome mat for a representative of such a monstrous regime?” asks Nazzal.
“Haskell was recently interviewed by genocide-denier Sean Plunket on his radio show. “show The Platform and said she’d like to visit New Zealand, saying, “We want to Thank the New Zealand government for its support over the last two years.”
“That says it all. New Zealand has stood resolutely with a racist, apartheid regime, as it continues to commit genocide against the Palestinian people – two years and counting,” says Nazzal.
“Giving comfort and solace to a regime committing genocide is unconscionable.”
“We are sure the government has told Haskell to keep her visit quiet, because they will be embarrassed at her praise. But the Auckland Chamber of Commerce is happy to welcome her, given its public enthusiasm for extending New Zealand’s economic relations with apartheid-genocide Israel.”
…just as Sean Plunkett predicted in his interview with her, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskell is visiting Auckland as a thank you to this Government’s support of Israel’s genocide.
Why a war criminal should be able to just waltz into the country, thank their Zionist sympathisers and this pathetic spineless Government and waltz out is an outrage!
She should be arrested as soon as she is on NZ soil!
The reality is that the war crimes continue in the shadow of the Zionist genocide.
The reality is that Palestinians are still dying.
The reality is the Israeli Parliament is trying to pass law to annex the West Bank.
The reality is that the economic toll of the war may cost Israel an estimated $400 billion in lost economic activity over the next decade and it clearly threatens Israel’s economic future.
For Israel, 90% of the economic shock will come from indirect effects: reduced investment, slowing productivity growth and labor market disruption.
Israel had 4.5% growth before the Gaza war and this has shrunk to a mere .3%, seeing as Netanyahu requires eternal war to keep from ever being held account judicially and electorally, it is more important now than ever before to boycott the Israeli Economy and all sporting and cultural connections.
Comrades, we must light a protest against these war criminals coming to NZ that will terrify the genocide out of National, ACT and NZF!
We must rise up as one against these war criminals.
Now is the time to boycott Israel’s economy as it drowns in its own war crimes, demand all sporting codes throw Israel out and remove all Israelis from any cultural participation.
Netanyahu is murdering more Palestinians by the day and Trump is barely able to keep his choke chain on him.
Our Government’s pathetic cowardice and Zionist apologist position on Israel’s war crimes and genocide must never, ever be forgotten.
We should be ashamed that this person is allowed into our country.
Her presence on these shores stains all our mana.
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Luxon will deny any responsibility as usual
No one from the current Israeli Government should be welcome in New Zealand. No one from the current New Zealand Government should be welcoming any Israeli official in New Zealand.
I hope she is greeted by protesters.
Israeli War Criminal visiting this weekend to thank NZ for supporting genocide
By Martyn Bradbury
Thanks for all that satellite surveilance New Zealand it helped us kill heaps of Palestinians.
When asked by TVNZ OneNews to explain why New Zealand satellites were providing military intelligence to Israel, Judith Collins said with a smirk on her face, “We are not at war with Israel”
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/one-news-at-6pm/episodes/s2025-e297
Sharen Haskell and Judith Collins obviously think that they will be able to get away with their crimes indefinitely. But impunity won’t last forever, one day Haskell and Collins will have to answer for their crimes in court. Haskell might be able to evade international jurisdiction by hiding out in Israel, but not so Judith Collins, unless Collins intends to join Haskell in Israel one day the New Zealand and international legal system will catch up with Judith Collins and she will have to answer in court to why she supported a genocide.
Sharren haskell and Judith Collins may be blythly unaware that the blanket impunity war criminals and their allies currently hold is starting to erode.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers identified in ICC complaint on killing of Hind Rajab
….Among those identified are three top commanders that the foundation is naming publicly: Colonel Beni Aharon, the commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade, who is already the subject of an ICC criminal complaint; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion; and Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company.
Ella and Glass are believed to be directly responsible for the killings in the field.
Twenty-two other soldiers operating in the Vampire Empire Company will be named “progressively, as national-level complaints are filed in different jurisdictions”, the HRF said in a statement.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dozens-israeli-soldiers-identified-icc-complaint-killing-hind-rajab
Haskell and Collins may not think it now, history will not be kind to those who commit genocide, history will not be kind to those who supported them.