Israeli Ambassador should be first on a plane home
With the government considering expelling the Russian Ambassador over renewed threats to annex areas of Ukraine, PSNA is calling for the government to first apply the same logic to Israel and expel the Israeli Ambassador.
“The Israeli Ambassador should be the first one on a plane home”, says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “Israel’s policies of annexing (stealing) Palestinian land, denial of human rights to Palestinians and murdering Palestinians who resist its military occupation are legendary.”
In recent years Israel has annexed the Syrian Golan Heights, annexed East Jerusalem and Israeli leaders have repeatedly threatened the annexation of vast areas of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
“Today, the latest theft of Palestinian land is underway at Masafer Yatta.”
In the meantime, Israel has destroyed the possibility of a Palestinian state (with hundreds of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land) while running a well-documented apartheid state against Palestinians living under its military occupation”
“Our government often talks about the importance of an international rules-based order. We are prepared to back this up with sanctions on Russia but have allowed Israel to breach international law and United Nations resolutions with impunity”
“Consistency, not hypocrisy, should guide our foreign policy – let’s get Israeli Ambassador Ran Yaakoby on a plane home and then talk about pressure on Russia.”
Well said John. As long as NZ is in the 5 Eyes Anglosphere club there will be no change on recognising and supporting Palestine. The Israeli Apartheid State is one of the longest running atrocities in the modern world.
!01% right on the button john. If ever there was a case of bald-faced hypocrisy it’s that of our “all-guns-blazing” protestations against Russia, for the war it’s been forced to wage against the NATO/US in Ukraine, up to and including our provision of military training without the matter being debated in our parliament, compared to that of complete abandonment of the Palestinians to the creeping genocide being waged on them by the Zionazis.
If you can excuse Russia’s invasion of a member state of the UN (it’s been an international crime since 1949 to me to acquire territory from another nation state) in support of a Duginite Putin fantasy Ukraine is not a real country – why do you have any problem with what Israel has done?
The only nation it has annexed land from (Syria) first attacked it (and still does not recognise Israel). If Palestinians had opposed 5 Arab armies invading their territory they would have a nation state in 1948, if they had asked Egyptians and Jordan to leave at any time 1948-1967 … . If they had accepted land for peace (and negotiated an alternative to right of return) in 2000 … rather than intifada. If Abbas had not allowed a party opposed to the peace process to participate in the PA elections built by the Oslo Accords. If Fatah had not lost the election to Hamas. If Hamas had not enabled rocket attacks out of Gaza after disengagement. If the PA had not become a moribund and corrupt post democratic fascist regime oppressing its own people. The last best chance for its people now appears to be an Israeli passport (as per the Orange going to Dublin for an Irish one) or West Bank annexation.
Agreed SPC
Couldnt agreee more, John.
Kia kaha e hoa
Pefe
Very true. ‘israel’ isn’t even a country, and never has been. The criminal gang of zionists had no right to unilaterally declare that they controlled a part of Palestine after invading it between a few years and a few decades before.
It had the right in international law as recognised by the UN. That is its blessing and curse.