New Zealanders urge Winston Peters to speak up for Palestine in his meeting with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
On the eve of Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio New Zealanders are asking Mr Peters to speak up for Palestine.
In the last few days 1606 people have signed an open letter to Mr Peters which we have sent him this afternoon, New Zealand time.
The letter is below.
John Minto
Co National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
Open letter requesting government action on the future of Gaza
17 March 2025
Rt Hon Winston Peters
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Winston.Peters@parliament.govt.nz
Open letter requesting government action on the future of Gaza
Kia ora Mr Peters,
The situation in Occupied Gaza has reached another crisis point.
Last Sunday Israel announced it was ending its January ceasefire agreement with Palestinian groups resisting the occupation and was once more imposing a total ban on humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
Israel says this is because it wants to extend the first phase of the ceasefire agreement rather than negotiate phase two which would see the agreed withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. The renewed blockade on food, water, fuel and medical supplies has been widely condemned as a breach of the ceasefire agreement and the use of “starvation as a weapon of war” by Palestinian groups, international aid organisations and many governments. The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has called for “humanitarian aid to flow back into Gaza immediately”. Israel has refused this request.
Compounding the crisis is US President Donald Trump’s recently declared intention to permanently remove all the Palestinian people of Gaza and send them to other countries such as Egypt and Jordan so Gaza can be rebuilt as a US territory in the Middle East – in his words “the riviera of the Middle East”.
Israel has accepted this US proposal but Palestinians and the vast majority of governments and civil society groups around the world are appalled at the scheme.
To this point our government has not commented on either Israel’s new blockade of humanitarian supplies into Gaza or the US President’s plan for ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory.
Back in December 2023, when the government was commenting, the Prime Minister stated “…Israel must respect international humanitarian law. Civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected…Safe and unimpeded humanitarian access must be increased and sustained.”
None of this has happened in the more than 14 months since.
We are asking our government to speak out once more on behalf of the people of New Zealand to, at the very least, condemn Israel’s use of humanitarian aid as a weapon of war and to call for international humanitarian and human rights law to be applied.
We believe the way forward for peace and security for everyone who calls the Middle East home is for all parties to follow international law and United Nations resolutions so that a lasting peace can be established based on justice and equal rights for everyone in the region.
New Zealand has an internationally respected voice which can make a strong contribution to this end. We are asking the government to use this voice.
Nga mihi.
Nā,
Is there a letter going to Hamas to stop their actions.While most feel sympathy for the Palestinians the ball is in their court to end this particular invasion
You are obviously intelligent so why not learn what happened before October 7, 2023? Israel continues to take as much as possible and any concessions that Hamas makes will soon be followed by new Israeli demands, you only need to look at what is happening now as Israel fails to keep the recent cease fire agreement. I am not defending the violence committed by Hamas but unless you understand why it happens you will never be able to offer a realistic solution.
Your comment ignores the reality that this conflict is all to do with Israel and that Netanyahu doesn’t want peace with Palestine.
Trevor perhaps you should write one, thanking them for their staunch fight against the racism they have suffered and continue to.
Kia Kah John.
So much respect for you.
A good letter but it’s doubtful if Peters will even read it.
Peter’s NZF electoral base is distinguishable from that of Trump’s only by virtue of their accents.
Maybe if they put lots of pictures in the article Peters could pretend to read it? Like you say it’s likely that they don’t care what happens in Gaza.
No they don’t.
I’m sure they know already.
“Rubio is a passionate supporter of Israel” …. https://anr.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Marco-Rubio-is-One-of-the-Biggest-Recipients-of-Israel-Lobby-Money.-He-has-Collected-1-MILLION-and-Counting-768×443.jpg
…. ‘Now he parrots their propaganda and does their bidding in Trump’s government!’
Who knew that to ‘Make America Great’ ,,,, you had to be Israels war whore? …….. Or is it something else ——
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/17/trump-is-bombing-yemen-for-israel/
—– Known things:
1. Trump is a servant of Israel.
2. Trump is on the Epstein flight logs.
3. Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence.
4. Epstein was running a sexual blackmail operation.
5. Trump is obstructing the release of the Epstein files.
Question:
Exactly how many kids did Trump rape?
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How much money has Winston first pocketed from them? ,,,, I bet he’s got some….. Or did he meet Epstein 😉
Same with Seymour ,,,, his ‘Atlas’ has no place for Palestinians …. maybe it’s more than just money/’donations ,,, Did Epstein/Mossad help him lose his virginity,,,, with a underage virgin?
Israel corrupts
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You can have international law ,,,, or you can have Zionist Israel.
You can’t have both as Israel is a rouge criminal nation ,,,,,
Our fake ‘law & order’ Govt, would ditch the law in a heart-beat,, for their favorite criminals.
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Wayne Mapp once said ‘New Zealand is like Israel’,,, or ‘Israelis are like New Zealanders’ ,,,,, referring to himself he could vey well be correct…
…Didn’t he ‘forget’ about a NZ raid in Afghanistan that killed nothing but civilians??? ,,,, sounds VERY Israel like to me.
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https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/19/this-is-trumps-genocide-now/
Notice how all the criminal backers or ‘Genocide Deniers’, standing firm with Israel ,,, that they never want to use the definition of Genocide as defined in “The Genocide Convention”??,,,, which is an international legal document that formalized the crime of genocide for the first time…….
A murderer standing in court and arguing with the judge about the definition of the word murder has as much credibility (and legal standing) as the Zionist criminals …..
The law is clear.
Gas-lighting Crim’s is what they are ……………….
Winston Peters may choose to prostrate this country to the US war machine but he might want to look at what good it did Australia who turned belly up for the yanks by turning their whole country into a US military base and nuclear target.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360624436/musk-and-big-tech-urge-trump-punish-australia