National are allowing Israeli Death Spy Satellites to launch from Rocket Labs – is NZ now complicit in genocide?
Auckland pro-Palestine march draws 20,000 calling for Gaza ceasefire
Chants echoed around central Auckland as 20,000 pro-Palestine demonstrators packed the streets, calling for action by the Government against Israel.
Look.
I appreciate everyone is busy.
But something was revealed last week that in the wake of 20 000 marching for justice and peace in Gaza demands more attention.
National are allowing Israeli Death Spy Satellites to launch from Rocket Labs – is NZ now complicit in genocide at a time when we are scrubbing those multinational deployments?
Defence won’t have to keep some war records under law change
Military historians say a law change will let the Defence Force off the hook for not keeping war records.
A change to the Public Records Act would let the NZDF seek an exemption from its legal duty to keep records if it is in multinational deployment.
A regulatory impact statement said recordkeeping overseas was “ad hoc and occurs rarely” anyway.
This change would relieve agencies of “the burden of non-compliance”, until they found a solution, it said.
But historian Dr Aaron Fox said it would make war crimes harder to prove.
“That’s an extreme example, but absolutely yes, without our New Zealand paperwork relating to what a New Zealander was doing, it does make it a lot more difficult,” Fox told RNZ.
“We need to know why our people are overseas, we need to know where they are, what they are doing, and have the ability to hold those people accountable for their actions should something go wrong.”
This is being pushed by ACT and the worst part about it is the pretence that this is somehow a response to the terrible failure during Operation Burnham, the SAS revenge attack that killed Afghan civilians is a terribly flawed raid.
This new law will allow those NZ war crimes to go unseen and at a time when we are becoming more embroiled with allies who are committing war crimes!
Look at this outrageous development when it comes to the genocide in Gaza…
Rocket Lab is launching a series of satellites from Māhia for US based BlackSky Technology. BlackSky sends ground information to the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza.
Knowing this, the Minister for Space, Judith Collins, has approved these launches.
Advice to Collins, just disclosed under the Official Information Act, was that no end users of BlackSky’s satellites have ‘been accused of an internationally unlawful act’, and so New Zealand is not breaching international law by approving the satellites.
However, Israel was a known customer of BlackSky.
PSNA Co-Chair Maher Nazzal says the line of dots are joined between Collins’ pen and ‘opening the ‘Gates of Hell’ on Gaza’, as Israeli war minister Israel Katz has just called it.
“Whatever the evidence against Israel was in late 2023, when Collins approved the launches, it is now overwhelming that Israel is violating international humanitarian law at every turn.”
“The International Association of Genocide Scholars has just agreed with the UN in saying Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
“Israel is openly at this very moment purging nearly a million people out of Gaza City, to reoccupy Gaza with Jewish-only settlements and Trump casinos.”
“The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification earlier this month declared a famine in Gaza City, which is spreading south.”
“Israel is doing to Gaza, on the same scale and duration, what the Nazi Wehrmacht did to the besieged Russians in Leningrad in the Second World War.”
“New Zealand Space Agency documents show officials flagging Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, but denying that any end users of BlackSky’s satellites are accused of international crimes and advising Judith Collins to approve the launches.
“Judith Collins has now told Parliament that she had no evidence of a contract between BlackSky and Israel in December 2023. But the point is, we all now know the contract exists.”
Nazzal says whatever the government knew, or chose to know, when Collins approved the satellites currently in orbit, it must cancel the two remaining scheduled launches.
“Or it must provide verifiable assurances that none of the Māhia launched satellites are, and will not be, collecting data to spy on Gaza for Israel.
“The government can’t hide behind continuing fantasies that it doesn’t even need to consider whether these launches should stop, because it can pretend the contract between BlackSky and Israel does not exist.”
“Israel’s war crimes in Gaza are undeniable. Israel now no longer tries to hide what it is doing.”
“The government can’t say it doesn’t know the real death toll, the absolute devastation and the end goal of Gaza purged of Palestinians. Judith Collins just needs to turn her TV on.”
…so let me get this completely fucking straight.
We are removing requirements to keep records of war crimes in multinational deployments AT THE SAME TIME as we are helping launch spy satellites for Israel being used in war crimes?
With us launching these spy satellites for Israel, is NZ now complicit in genocide?
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More than 20,000 marched parroting MSM junk news who always marginalize progressive movements like the Treaty principle bill march to parliament where they were significantly deflating the numbers downplaying the event
Remember NZ is a colonial state of Britian its relationship and historic connections is deep in British imperialism, and its laws and customs are still suppressing the indigenous population right to self-determination over its lands and livelihoods. Similarly, apartheid Israel Genisus is rooted in British imperialism, and its laws and Customs are suppressing the indigenous population the Palestinians.
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“No records on multinational deployments” is the funniest excuse for a cover up possible.
Literally everyone in New Zealand knows that New Zealand forces, when deployed overseas for anything except dropping off a single plane’s worth of pallets after a hurricane blew through, are always deployed in some sort of multinational operation. From the Boer War onwards!
This bill, as written, would allow records to be disposed of or deliberately not kept, _even in operations nominally led by NZ commanders_, like the 2000 intervention in the Solomon Islands or the Truce Monitoring Group in Bougainville in ’97-98.
That is deliberate, and deliberately malicious. Absolutely a reaction to the Operation Burnham massacre, and the embarrassment having an ‘investigation’ (even though it was a complete coverup) in that case. They simply want to make sure that there are no records that can be used to prove the crimes they are committing.
The (NED) National Endowment for Democracy has its dirty mitts in the overthrow of the Nepal Government another color revolution targeting a BRICS (China) friendly nation its Project 2025 playing itself out with western multinational deeply involved in funding these student movements and other disaffected communities follow the money.
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/
Indeed. Just like they fund traitors like Anne-Marie Brady to subvert our democracy right here.
Yes NZ is part of the international killing machine.
What are they always telling us?
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”
Why is the NZDF fearful of keeping historical records?