Israel is driving civilians out of Gaza City at gunpoint. Hospitals bombed. Homes flattened. Families forced south into overcrowded death traps. This isnāt āsecurity.ā This isnāt āself-defence.ā Itās 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 weāre clean. You are complicit.
You blacklist Hamas wholesale, but you canāt bring yourself to name Israelās crimes ā 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 āhumanitarian aidā like hush money, while refusing to condemn the bombs that made the rubble in the first place. Aid doesnāt wash blood off your hands.
You hide behind the ICJ and ICC ā ālet the courts decideā ā as if international bureaucracy will comfort a child buried alive in a collapsed school. Thatās 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 ā wine, pharmaceuticals, electronics ā smiling, shaking hands, ābusiness as usualā 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 āsmall trade.ā 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 youāre bystanders. Admit it. You are enabling a genocidal state.
And donāt 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
