Crucial cabinet decision on Gaza tomorrow must follow ‘public mandate’
PSNA anticipates Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, will get instructions to increase pressure on Israel at cabinet tomorrow.
The United Nations General Assembly High Level Leaders Debate starts in New York next Tuesday.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Co-Chair, John Minto says the government has to have listened to the voice of the people who marched for sanctions against Israel, in Auckland yesterday.
“With only limited time to organize, and disruption caused by having to change from the route over the Harbour Bridge at the last moment, 25,000 turned out to object to the government’s passive, and effectively pro-Israel, policies.”
“It’s a turn-out that’s been building, now rapidly, in our protests around the country over the past two years”
“New Zealanders are nearly two to one in favour of sanctions against Israel. Support for accountabilities will have increased significantly since then as Israel’s depravity and cruelty has shown no bounds”
Minto says Peters will be attending potentially one of the most important debates in United Nations history next week.
“The General Assembly has already begun, and on Friday, New Zealand voted along with 141 other countries, for a state of Palestine to be created through Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
“There were only ten votes against, predictably the US and Israel, but a concerning five Pasifika states voted against Palestine as well.”
“Israel has already made it clear that it has no intention to permit a Palestinian state to emerge, nor compromise its apartheid system, by allowing equal democratic rights to Palestinians who live under its control and inside its present borders.”
Minto says in announcing its position on Palestine, the government will be sensitive to its reputation in Arab countries.
“Israel has just bombed Qatar, to kill off the prospect of a Hamas agreement on hostage releases. Qatar is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which is led by Saudi Arabia.”
“Peters’ cabinet colleague, Todd McClay is in Saudi Arabia this week to talk trade. McClay will not be wanting to explain to the Saudis, face to face, why Peters was in New York at the same time telling the world about Israel’s so called right to defend itself.”
“So far, the UN emphasis has been on two-state outcomes, and how to get rid of Hamas.”
“But the world debate is moving strongly to sanctions.
“Now is the time to move past idle rhetoric, and deliver sanctions, which are the only persuasion Israel will concede to.”
John Minto
Co-Chair PSNA
Koro Winston is an ardent supporter of the apartheid state he has this fetish deep seated belief in British Imperialism which the apartheid state roots begun. Shockingly the P.I states and their people who have also been negatively affected by European exceptionalism throwing their support behind a European colony is baffling beyond belief however given the negative experience Maori have endured specially in Auckland from the Pasifika community should come as no surprise considering that Maori protest group (Nga Tama Toa) stood beside them when they were being dawn raided in the 1970s
Free Palestine
‘Rent-a-mob lefties’ Jesus Gaby – where did they get the cash to rent around 20,000?
The ‘chanting baboons’ have really got you rattled.
Gaby is mad, all her vile ‘people’ can rent is that loser fake christian Nigel Woodley, and Sheree Trotter and the rest of their paid catspaws in the Indigenous Coalition for Israel.
The Cabinet position is likely to hinge on whether Baldrick accepts arch Zionist Seymour’s bullying again.
Once Mamdani gets elected Mayor New York the pro Israel political stalwarts will fall like dominos. Any party worldwide running on a hugely pro Palestinian anti Israel platform will get in on a landslide. The problem being politicians like Luxon, Hipkins just can’t see it.
“…25,000 turned out to object to the government’s passive, and effectively pro-Israel, policies.”
That isn’t even a majority NZ’s Muslim population, let alone the rest of us. 25,000 Islamists, postmodernists, diehard communists and general antisemites isn’t too bad for a country of 5 million, I guess.
Cabinet will make no announcement because Winston needs to be seen as the man at the UN .He will stand up there and talk shit and think he has changed the world .Mean while the killing will continue because our government loves it and wish they could do the same here
Should read: ‘The UN emphasis is on two-state outcomes, and how to get rid of Netanyahu’. Hamas agreed to relinquish power almost a year ago. We could have gone back to a situation where the Israelis kill Palestinians occasionally rather than all the time.