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!

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