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    1. In your opinion Nathan…but your opinions aren’t that nice are they.

      You see how your comment works, I’d suggest don’t be a hypocrite.

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    2. What do you mean Nathan? You state the apparent obvious. Come right out with what you are thinking if you have similar feelings to the Vandals. And then explain why someone who is supporting hurt, vulnerable people should be attacked. He would support you if you were in a similar position. You make no sense, but then this present era has lost its senses it seems.

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    3. Do you really think he would be bothered by this. There is an old saying ‘speak truth to power’. Minto is simply saying what is the truth. Look Nathan read some history: start with Illan Pappe he is a Jewish academic who has written numerous books and articles on the history of the area and how the main stream media ignore the plight of the Palestinians, you see Nathan they are not white!

      It says a great deal about the moron who did this, it wasn’t just about Minto’s views on the IDF and their treacherous government, it is about Te Tiriti and about making poverty history. Basically some right wing idiot.

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  3. While there is little I would agree with in Minto’s protest campaigns he should be able to do them without being attacked in this cowardly way . Front up to him like a man a win your argument face to face .

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        1. MICHAL – Why? He has stated his views clearly, and also has stated that they will not change over the Israel – Hamas War…No goodwill on his side.

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        2. MICHAL – Why? He has stated his views clearly, and also has stated that they will not change over the Israel – Hamas War…No goodwill on his side.

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          1. Nathan you are the one saying ‘Talking and trying to find a way forward’. Lots of goodwill for all who support the right of return of Palestinians to their homes. n Hamas was democratically elected by the people of Gaza, and like all States it has an armed wing.

    2. So Trevor does that mean you supported the Springbok racist team for which Minto has always been known for leading the anti apartheid movement for some years. You of course won’t really have any idea of the many many issues Minto has been involved in. But presumably you think the US’s invasion of all the many countries is justified?

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  4. Remember the screaming banner headlines in the Mainstream media when a window was broken in Winston Peters house, and the smearing of anti-genocide protesters as responsible?, that is until the person actually responsible appeared in court.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/575529/man-accused-of-smashing-winston-peters-window-pleads-not-guilty

    ….The 29-year-old man was charged with burglary after a window was broken at the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ home in St Mary’s Bay.
    Police were called to Peters’ home at about 5.40pm on Monday. The 29-year-old was later charged.
    The man made his first appearance at the Auckland District Court on Friday and entered a not guilty plea.
    The man’s lawyer, Jonathan Hudson, relayed to RNZ that his client claimed he was not involved in the protest outside Peters’ house that evening.
    He is next set to appear in February for a case review hearing, ahead of a jury trial at a later date….

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  5. John is handling this with dignity, I thought that he was in a quiet safe area of Waltham although it only takes a redneck to see his flags and their evil intentions could be carried out.

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    1. I assume you’re being satirical, Bob. Free Palestine, Minto’s catchphrase, means exterminate Israeli Jews. So does from the river to the sea.

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      2. Gaby I think you are one mixed up person and I can understand how that could be. However to say that people supporting Palestine want to see Israel wiped out is puerile.

        I think you are reacting to the psychological condition called projection. There has been thinking about this condition since the 1600s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
        The American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology defines projection as follows:[1]
        [T]he process by which one attributes one’s own individual positive or negative characteristics, affects, and impulses to another person or group… often a defense mechanism in which unpleasant or unacceptable impulses, stressors, ideas, affects, or responsibilities are attributed to others. For example, the defense mechanism of projection enables a person conflicted over expressing anger to change “I hate them” to “They hate me.” Such defensive patterns are often used to justify prejudice or evade responsibility…
        [and]
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_Vico 1688-1744
        [and]         In 1841, Ludwig Feuerbach was the first enlightenment thinker to employ this concept as the basis for a systematic critique of religion….
        [then is stated]
        … The Babylonian Talmud (500 AD) notes the human tendency toward projection and warns against it: “Do not taunt your neighbour with the blemish you yourself have.”[7][attribution needed] In the parable of the Mote and the Beam in the New Testament, Jesus warned against projection:…
        …Freud argued that in projection, thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings that cannot be accepted as one’s own are dealt with by being placed in the outside world and attributed to someone else.[10] Freud would later argue that projection did not take place arbitrarily, but rather seized on and exaggerated an element that already existed on a small scale in the other person…        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection#Freud

        It would be understandable if you are affected by strong projection in your judgment Gaby. But still this does not mean that you are right in tour comment copied below.
        Bob January 7, 2026 At 4:02 pm
        Why is JM being called a Nazi?

        gaby January 8, 2026 At 11:40 am
        I assume you’re being satirical, Bob. Free Palestine, Minto’s catchphrase, means exterminate Israeli Jews. So does from the river to the sea.

        One of the modern explanations about projection.
        Projection ultimately stems from internal conflict. Attributing unacceptable feelings or traits to others can be a way for some people to try to avoid uncomfortable realizations. It’s a subliminal strategy that can protect people from anxiety, distress, and other negative emotions.
        23 Jan 2023
        Projection as a Defense Mechanism – Talkspace
        https://www.talkspace.com › blog › projection-defense-.

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  7. In addition to this Minto’s letterbox has had articles and other bits and pieces put in it that support the Zionist Israelis. But the most recent was a slip of paper with the name ‘Matilda’ on it.
    Presumably the poor kid killed in Bondi is more important than the 30,000 murdered by the IDF.
    I mourn for every child murdered anywhere any time!

    This gutless person cannot apparently knock on the door and have a discussion. Now Minto does not have horns!

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  8. John Minto is a national hero in my view, for his long history of activism for all the right causes. The Israelis have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children in Gaza, a clear and obvious case of genocide supported by scholars of both the left and the right.

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    1. Mat – Go tell the Bondi Beach shooting victims and their families your views on the matter…I dare you.

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  10. I have seen nothing mentioned in our right wing state sponsored media regarding this attack.

    The silence is deafening as expected.

    John you have been through this before in 1981 and the following years.

    We are forever grateful to you and your guts in putting your life on the line to highlight the injustices of Apartheid and now the extermination of the Palestinians and exposing just how corrupt this nation is despite its ranking as one of the least corrupt in the world.

    You and us know different.

    Kia kaha John.

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    2. Can you come to some consensus with the blog countryboy? You have something to say so find a way that leaves us with something to think on. And make it short if it is mostly opinion. We know what you think, much the same as we do I believe.

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      1. Greywarbler – Countryboy comments are full of swearing/insults, and BS…He does NOT think the same as “we” do.

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  12. Frankly Nathan I don’t give a damn about making him think just as we do. I do care for him to sort out his mind, read over what he says, look up some on-line dictionary (search with suitable word then meaning in google) and express his heartfelt ideas clearly and shortly. If he can’t get his point over, then give an example from online resources and provide the link so we can get the full story. If he can’t tighten up his thoughts and get onto alternatives, better ways; then get on your horse countryboy. If that’s all NZAO can do, just moan, find fault, point out the obvious where is our spirit, , our depth of understanding, our strength and esprit de corps, our initiative?

    We have been raving for long enough, we expressed concern in the 20th century but didn’t prevent the shithouse being thrown at us now. So we must do something different now. What good things are happening, how can we help each other? This hanging around watching Rome burn, do you understand that reference? is just being gormless. We have let the politicians have more power than they could be trusted with and thought we had systems set up to keep us going in the right direction. But tired old brains, lacking in gorm, can hop in a car and go into reverse so quickly, cos they aren’t with it. And the nation’s brains reposed in politicians and business, financial leaders, were not fully educated, only in hard science and misty economics (seen through a glass darkly 13 Corinthians 13:12*) leaving out the study of humanity,
    social anthropology etc and our highs and lows. https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/anthnav/about-social-anth/

    We are on a low now and still going down.. Fucking pathetic for such clever and smart arses as we think we are. Look clearly and sadly at how we are, we must come off our mini-mountains to avoid being swept to the flooded valleys of dirty grey or brown water contaminated from a permanent broken sewer. Now because most won’t stop and think, and ponder and just reject these words as tl:dr, just laugh, sniff and sneer, ignore them to your and our society’s long-term disadvantage. Or read bits from studying the Bible, good people and bad ones are writ of in there. Read the Trump headlines, and then turn to a chapter of the Bible, it will be relevant!
    *https://interestingliterature.com/2023/05/for-now-we-see-through-a-glass-darkly-but-then-face-to-face-meaning/

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    1. I’m glad you see some humour here Bob1st. We get too serious sometimes and depressed not having your insouciance about matters. Did that come on later in life for you? I am the other way and have to look for humour, so will join you when I see anything hilarious and may point it out so we both can keep our mood light.

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  14. Michal, comment after comment you seize upon Illan Pappe being Jewish. It would be more logical but also absurd for me to say
    some Christians such as the Catholic priest Ernest Jouin, who published the first French translation of the Protocols, combined religious and racial antisemitism, as in his statement that “From the triple viewpoint of race, of nationality, and of religion, the Jew has become the enemy of humanity.” The virulent antisemitism of Édouard Drumont, one of the most widely read Catholic writers in France during the Dreyfus Affair, likewise combined religious and racial antisemitism. Drumont founded the Antisemitic League of France. Put another way Michal, you are an antisemitic fool.

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    1. No not true, I know Drumont’s views, I know that many of the supposedly great states-people now and back in history have antisemitic views. I have Jewish friends and you see they do not think that the state of Palestine belongs just to Jews they are not Zionists and I am anti Zionist in truth. You don’t have to read Illan Pappe there are lots of other ‘current’ writers, read any of these which you clearly have not done:
      On Palestine – Noam Chomsky (Jewish)
      The Invention of the land of Israel – Shlomo Sand (Jewish)
      My Israel Question – Antony Lowenstein (Jewish)
      The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein (Jewish)
      Israel a Beachhead in the middle east – Stephen Gowans (Canadian, he also has an excellent blog)
      The Last Earth – Ramzy Baroud (Palestinian)
      The making of Hamas’s foreign policy – Daud Abdullah (former Deputy Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain)
      The Great War for Civilisation – Robert Fisk (deceased, middle East journalist)
      The Question of Palestine – Edward Said (Palestinian)
      Palestine a four thousand year history – Nurma Masalha (Palestinian)
      Freedom Next Time – Resisting the empire – John Pilger (deceased, journalist, written many books and docos).

      I am not and have never been antisemitic. Jews live in many countries in the world so do black people, Christians, Moslems, disabled, gipsys, gay, women and all of these people’s have been discriminated against in the world as I am sure you know. And that varies from country to country

      In 1945 Jews, Moslems and Christians lived in the area all of them have spiritual historical ties to the area. The Jews were the minority and the place was relatively peaceful, one day there will be democracy with one vote for every person who lives in Palestine.

      Zionists have this thing about Arabs – they aren’t nice.
      And most of us know that Israel, a predominantly white nation, only stands because of the United States need to have a beachead against the Arabs so the orange man this time round puts even more billions into Israel.

      I cannot understand how anyone thinks it is okay to kill innocent children and others.

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