Sage 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇻🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇺 🇵🇷 🍉We have blood on our hands when taxpayer money is being spent to fund Israel's genocide in Palestine and US's war crimes in Iran.
Te Weta 🏴☠️Israel is driving civilians out of Gaza City at gunpoint. Hospitals bombed. Homes flattened. Families forced south into overcrowded death traps. This isn’t “security.” This isn’t “self-defence.” It’s annihilation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/idf-try-to-force-civilians-out-of-gaza-city-as-ground-offensive-continues
And New Zealand government? Stop pretending we’re clean. You are complicit.
You blacklist Hamas wholesale, but you can’t bring yourself to name Israel’s crimes — war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide.
You slap token sanctions on two cartoon fascists (Ben-Gvir, Smotrich) while the entire Israeli state machine wages collective punishment on 2 million civilians.
You wave $37m in “humanitarian aid” like hush money, while refusing to condemn the bombs that made the rubble in the first place. Aid doesn’t wash blood off your hands.
You hide behind the ICJ and ICC — “let the courts decide” — as if international bureaucracy will comfort a child buried alive in a collapsed school. That’s spineless cowardice dressed up as diplomacy.
You still trade: NZ imported US$178 million of Israeli goods in 2024, much of it high-tech, dual-use hardware. Blood-soaked kit, flowing into our ports.
You exported US$16m back — wine, pharmaceuticals, electronics — smiling, shaking hands, “business as usual” while Gaza starved.
You bought bomb-clearing robots from Israeli firm Roboteam in 2019. Our Defence Force has not ruled out buying Israeli-made drones. Direct military links. No denying it. Why?
You keep hosting Israeli diplomats, playing nice in the halls of Wellington, while Israel bulldozes entire neighbourhoods and commits countless war crimes. Why?
This is not “small trade.” This is not neutrality. This is enabling. Every dollar exchanged, every contract signed, every polite silence is complicity.
New Zealand Government: stop polishing your halo, stop pretending you’re bystanders. Admit it. You are enabling a genocidal state.
And don’t think history will let you off. It doesn't work like that. History and the people will remember the excuses the blood and the children.
So explain yourself!
#NZGovtExplain #Genocide #Gaza #Palestine #WarCrimes #StopComplicity #NZPolitics #BloodOnOurHands #NZpol
Greg JohnsonThomas Gouge, English Puritan, on James 2:17. He requests the rich, who won’t make a conscience of the duty of sharing their goods, to stop talking of religion. They have none.
I hear lots of evangelical pastors talk of those with no religion, but it often has to do with a lack of boldness for politics, rarely anything to do with your neighbor’s need.
How can you be rich in good works today, where enemy would say you follow J217?
#christian #blessedtogive #bloodonourhands #gohelp #gotochurch
William Jay, English Congregationalist minister writes on prosperity. Religion makes one beneficient, and that leads to happiness.
In contrast, some religious leaders will make you question your faith if you aren’t displaying the required level of joy. And then prescribe you a regimen of devotional rites that leave no time for beneficence. It surely ain’t the old time religion.
How can you pursue this happiness?
#christian #newhumanity #christisrisen #bloodonourhands #sdgs
Ruby S.There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for #Guantanamo still being open. There was no legal or ethical justification for it in the first place.
Some of us are old enough to remember Barack Obama promising in 2008 to shut it down. That was 15 years ago!
Sabine Hiller 💔🇵🇸🇬🇱🇺🇦Excellent piece by #SallyHayden, a must-read, as is her book #MyFourthTimeWeDrowned - none of us can say we didn't know
"How has the mass drowning of people become normalised?
The potentially hundreds of people who drowned this week off southern Greece are victims of the world’s inequality"
#NotInMyName #StopPushbacks #Refugees #Libya #BloodOnOurHands
Europe’s “shield”: Hundreds presumed to have drowned off #Greece
#Refugees #Libya #StopPushbacks #alarmphone #NotInMyName #Frontex #BloodOnOurHands
Europe’s “shield”: Hundreds presumed to have drowned off Greece - Alarm Phone
Off the coast of Greece, a large fishing boat has capsized. We fear that hundreds of people have drowned. Yesterday, 13 June 2023, we had alerted the Hellenic Coast Guard at 16:53 CEST to this boat in distress, as the people had called us for help. The Greek authorities, reportedly also Italy and Malta, had […]