There can be no glorification of Hamas while supporting the Palestinian struggle against occupation
I stand with the Palestinian people in their struggle against the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation. But there is no…
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The horrific predictability of Hamas attacking Israel
I denounce the unprecedented violence Hamas has just launched against Israel. Violence is evil and us at our most failed…
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PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West Papua
Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week that may come back to bite him as Papua New Guinea prepares for its 48th anniversary of independence this Saturday.
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Israel and Saudi Arabia: the rise of rogue states
The West should choose it’s friends in the Middle East more carefully.
And New Zealand should have as little as possible to do with Israel and Saudi Arabia as possible. They are both rogue states.
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Dear Israel – you are suing the wrong people!
You should be suing us instead! It’s unfair to give The Spinoff the privilege of being singled out when we despise what you do to the Palestinian people so much more than they do.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – What a Trio, a Toxic Trio: Trump. Netanyahu and Mohammed Bin Salman
We here in NZ need to debate our role in the world. There is too much at stake. New Zealand should not be afraid to have an independent foreign policy. Someone must say NO to militarism , NO to war, YES to sanity, YES to humanity.
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Busting the myths around Trump’s Jerusalem declaration
Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has produced a lot of hot air; not only from the President himself, but from the mainstream media, which seems stuck more or less in the same narrative it’s been in for decades.
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Another month of Israeli oppression – November 2017 in Palestine
In the month just ended, one that also marked the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the Palestinian people continued their struggle to survive under Israel’s profitable and cynically-imposed regime of population-control.
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The self-fulfilling evangelical death cult prophesy that pushed Trump into declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel
For this voting block, the Bible is a literal version of events, not a metaphorical one. They believe the Earth is less than 10 000 years old, they believe climate change won’t flood the planet because God showed Noah a rainbow and they believe that the end of times and Armageddon could be upon us and they will all be raptured away to heaven.
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Trump’s move over Jerusalem undermines international law and disgraces the US
US President Trump’s surrender to Israel’s territorial ambitions reveals contempt for international law, in particular the Fourth Geneva Convention. Trump’s announcement contradicts even the most recent Security Council Resolution, UNSCR 2334 of December 2016. Israel’s control of East Jerusalem, including the Old City, is illegal because under international law, an Occupying power does not have sovereignty over foreign territory it militarily occupies.