PSNA seeks assurance New Zealand military exports to the US and Israel have been halted following Friday’s United Nations appeal to end arms exports to Israel
PSNA has written to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today seeking an assurance New Zealand military export orders to the US and Israel have been halted following Friday’s United Nations Human Rights Council resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip, and demanding a halt to all arms sales to the country.
Friday’s vote marked the first time that the UN’s top rights body has taken a position on the nearly six-month war, highlighting warnings of “genocide” in the conflict that has killed more than 33,000 people.
New Zealand has significant exports of military equipment to the US, in particular via Rakon which provides crystal oscillators to the US military which incorporates them into weapons which are provided to Israel. The Rakon website indicates clearly its products are used for “defence purposes”. Previously it has been widely reported Rakon products are purchased by US defence contractor Rockwell for incorporation into guided missiles and guided artillery shells.
All exports orders from Rakon must be stopped immediately.
The wanton killing of over 33,000 Palestinians – mostly women and children – by the Israeli Defence Force has been widely described as a likely genocide by the International Court of Justice and human rights groups around the world.
John Minto
National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
The pigs behind Rocket Lab need to be very… closely… examined.
Rocket Lab does no more than experimental communications works in the military sphere, basically technology demonstrations.The payload of the electron rocket is way too small for any sort of operational military payload. Rocket Lab has also said they will not be involved in any actual munitions work.
Communications are vital to the NZ military given the distances involved.For instance the P8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft have to operate thousands of miles away from New Zealand, but they will still be in New Zealand’s area of responsibility (Nuie, Ross Sea, Tokelaus, Northern Cooks). These aircraft need to be able to transmit video, radar profiles and data across these distances on secure communications. That means military communications satellites.
The NZDF obviously also works in with the military of our one and only ally, Australia. Again that requires advanced and secure communications across thousands of miles. The two countries, between them and counting their adjacent maritime domain, account for nearly a sixth of the world’s surface – mostly ocean.
The paper New Zealanders of ‘Rocket Lab’ have launched several US/zionist spy satellites. You’re full of it.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/mystery-in-the-sky-rocket-lab-launches-us-spy-satellite-from-virginia/articleshow/108695486.cms
Wayne where have you been it is well known that the one ‘inventor’ got out beause it was being sold to the american military for their use in wards.
Is this one of the human beings there?
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202301144423
I am pleased to see that apparently blasphemy is still on the death penalty books
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran
But thankfully they don’t use the death penalty often
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/5/iran-executed-834-people-last-year-highest-since-2015-rights-groups
I think we can agree on your take on the situation between these two opposing sides.
I am no lover of Winston but his speech was excellent and covered all bases .It is a bit late but better late than never.
When it comes to politicians Look at what they do rather than what they say Trev ,,,,,
and in gaby, the internet nobody case, his entire posting history here at TDB has been him calling for the ethnic cleansing and elimination of the Palestine people….
And now the compulsive liar thinks his pretense about Hamas fools people … what a nasty zionist idiot.
Clarity time. What New Zealand, and for that matter, any other nation appalled at the appalling excessive brutality of the IDF in Gaza needs to do to defuse the situation is specifically target particular elements of Benjamin Netanyahu’s War Cabinet, specifically Itamar Ben-Gvir and his Otzma Yehudit Party, and Bezalel Smotrich of the Religious Zionist Party. Ben-Gvir is a nasty piece of work in particular- as a lawyer, he used to defend ultra-zionist terrorists who massacred Palestinians. Take a look at these backgrounders on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otzma_Yehudit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezalel_Smotrich
And newsflash to those who think Hamas started this war. What about the intensive provocation of illegal Israeli fundamentalist ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Hasidism settlers in the Occupied West Bank, much to the displeasure of the Biden administration and European Union, let it be added? These illegal settlements need to be dismantled and the international community needs to ban any funding support to these parties from our countries, as well as prohibiting Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and any members of Otzma Yehudit and the Religious Zionist Party. Enough half-arsed wet bus ticket slaps against a handful of extremist ultra-zionist West Bank settlers. And the same parties are planning to recolonise Gaza once the dust has cleared.