PSNA says Foreign Minister Winston Peters has issued what it calls a gold-plated reward to appease Israel for its genocide against the Palestinian people, with the decision not to announce sanctions, or even to recognise a state of Palestine, at the United Nations today.
PSNA Co-chair Maher Nazzal, says that the rest of the world recoils in horror at Israel’s cruel and depraved war crimes against the Palestinian people, but Winston Peters has washed his hands and walked away.
Read MorePSNA says a proposed ‘thank you visit’ by Israel’s deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel would be embarrassing for the New Zealand government and expose it as a collaborator with Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Co chair, John Minto says he expects the New Zealand government will find some excuse to avoid having Haskel in New Zealand.
Read MoreAn international flotilla of ships and boats is sailing towards Gaza loaded with humanitarian relief supplies for the beleaguered Palestinians living there and suffering from Israeli-perpetrated mass killing and mass starvation of the population.
The people on the flotilla represent the very best of human values and are standing up for humanity when many governments, including our own, are failing to uphold these values.
We are requesting our government inform Israel that Aotearoa New Zealand expects them to facilitate the entry of this humanitarian convoy so it can deliver the desperately needed food, water and medical supplies.
Read MorePSNA says the ‘complexity’ excuse for cabinet inaction on Palestine this morning is a cowards’ way out for the government to avoid even the most tepid policy to oppose Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Prime Minister, Chris Luxon, said this morning that cabinet today would not be making decisions on recognition of Palestine for Foreign Minister, Winston Peters to take to the United Nations General Assembly next week.
Luxon said recognition of Palestine was ‘complex’ and government decisions were still weeks away.
Read MorePSNA anticipates Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, will get instructions to increase pressure on Israel at cabinet tomorrow.
The United Nations General Assembly High Level Leaders Debate starts in New York next Tuesday.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Co-Chair, John Minto says the government has to have listened to the voice of the people who marched for sanctions against Israel, in Auckland yesterday.
Read MorePSNA says Winston Peters must immediately and thoroughly condemn Israel’s bombing on the Qatari capital Doha.
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa Co-chair John Minto, says even Israel’s sponsor in chief, Donald Trump, has publicly disagreed with the Israeli attempt to kill Hamas negotiators in Qatar.
“Even by the blatant standards of aggression Israel has set itself, bombing a ceasefire negotiation meeting in yet another country is an outrage.”
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