Winston Peters refusal to join 79 countries to protect the International Criminal Court puts New Zealand firmly in Trump’s minority, lawless, hard-right camp

ByJohn Minto

Winston Peters’ refusal to join other 79 countries trying to protect the International Criminal Court after vicious attacks and sanctions issued by US President Trump is unconscionable.

“Endless New Zealand politicians, including the present government, have pointed to our support for a rules-based international system” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “The ICC is a key part of that system but Winston Peters has jettisoned this policy in favour of a US-First approach; rather than a New Zealand-First approach”

In fact, we can find no evidence that Peters has ever uttered a word of real criticism of the US in his entire political career.

Within the past two weeks Winston Peters has

  • Openly welcomed Israeli soldiers and Israeli war criminals coming into New Zealand, with no questions asked, for “rest and recreation” from their genocide in Gaza
  • Refused to condemn Trump’s racist plans for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza so his son-in-law can turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East’.  This is an intended international crime of epic proportion, and now
  • Refused to join 79 countries supporting the International Criminal Court against Trump’s actions

“The countries we are refusing to join in criticising Trump include two other Five Eyes countries, the UK and Canada, as well as Germany, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Spain etc”

“Winston Peters has put New Zealand in the hard-right international minority extremist camp with Trump” says PSNA National Chair John Minto. “This is creepy and cowardly complicity with a state whose values we do not share.”

“Winston Peters’ ministry has been at great pains over the past year to state how much our government supports the work of the ICC. The MFAT website states “We have also been clear in our support of the International Criminal Court’s mandate in Palestine”

“But when the ICC issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity, our government goes completely silent.”

“Will Winston Peters now copy his master and revoke an immigration ban on 33 Israeli settlers responsible for leading pogroms against Palestinian communities in the Occupied West Bank, as Trump did a few days ago?”

“US policy towards Palestine underlines the case for New Zealand to leave the Five Eyes US international spy network.”

“An independent foreign policy means making our own decisions and working with the great majority of like-minded countries who support international institutions, such as the ICC and the International Court of Justice.”

“Instead, we have a foreign minister who is in the US pocket and blindly working for the interests of Trump and his robber barons.”

John Minto

National Chair

Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa

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11 Comments

  1. Well said John.

    This coalition of clowns is in The USA AND ISRAELS back pocket sucking their tit’s.

    So much for our so called independent foreign policy semi non aligned stance.

  2. I always worry when I agree with Minto but we do need to let USA know we do not agree with Trump on certain issues. I do not agree about leaving 5 eyes but wenwedctoexpress our displeasure at his thoughts

    1. You shouldn’t be worried about John Minto, Trevor. He’s the canary in the coal mine.
      He’s done the hard yards and is still banging heads together. He is very well aware of what is really happening here and elsewhere and we would do well to listen.
      Anyone who openly supports Pres.fElon and his dodgy deputy rump, needs their head read.
      Mental illness abounds at the top, Trevor, and in their country the lunatics have taken over.
      Power almost always goes to peoples’ heads.
      You were pretty quick to tell us Jacinda had that problem. She was nothing compared to these guys.

    2. Trevor of Otautahi where the weather is grey but good for gardening, do tell me when Minto has been on the wrong side of history?!

  3. With the Trump brains trust running a mickey mouse white-house … then the 5-eyes more accurately should be described as the 5-i’s ,,,

    and we are the dumb little tag along,,,,, amongst the Five-Idiots …..

    https://youtu.be/AOKlB870qMY?t=63
    “all this plays directly into the hands of the China,,because China plays the long game, and they will have armies of brainiacs running the numbers and the strategy, and they will act rationally,,. So it’s the orange man up against the world’s smartest tacticians. It’s a no win for America, for American consumers particularly, for the world economy it’s terrible.

    So the upshot is that Trump is actually hastening the decline of the American Empire ”

    Trump is a piglet procreating clown who will drag the Usa down.

    At least David Cameron only mucked around with a dead pigs head ,,,,, allegedly….

    and as an interesting aside… the person who spread that rumor about the then british PM was the ‘conservative’ Lord Ashcroft,,, who funds our ‘crime stoppers’ number/service ! …,.

    I wonder if he reported this toffs perversion through to the police :0

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