Mfat's statement rejects calls to follow up on a UNSC resolution condemning forced displacement and illegal settlements building, now gaining pace in the West Bank.
"Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters forwarded a motion in Parliament calling on parties to the conflict to “take urgent steps towards establishing a ceasefire”, a formula of words designed to both assuage growing public disquiet and avoid confronting Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians.". That hits the nail on the head. The New Zealand Parliament is being very duplicitous. It is falsely implying that it does not condone genocide while assuring Israel and the US that it fully backs the expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza by any means necessary, including their actual extermination.
"Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters forwarded a motion in Parliament calling on parties to the conflict to “take urgent steps towards establishing a ceasefire”, a formula of words designed to both assuage growing public disquiet and avoid confronting Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians.". That hits the nail on the head. The New Zealand Parliament is being very duplicitous. It is falsely implying that it does not condone genocide while assuring Israel and the US that it fully backs the expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza by any means necessary, including their actual extermination.