Source: Palestinian Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA)
PSNA supporters will protest at the Winston Peters public meeting in Ōtautahi/Christchurch this afternoon calling for him to end his policy of appeasement towards the US and Israel.
“Winston Peters’ is New Zealand’s Neville Chamberlain” says PSNA Co National Chair John Minto. “He has refused to condemn any of Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians, including the total humanitarian aid blockade of Gaza”
(Neville Chamberlain was Britain’s Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. His name is synonymous with the policy of “appeasement” because he conceded territorial concessions to Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, fruitlessly hoping to avoid war)
“It’s unprecedented in New Zealand history that a government would refuse to condemn Israel breaking its ceasefire agreement and resuming industrial-scale slaughter of civilians. That is what Israel is doing today in Gaza, with full backing from the White House,” Minto says.
“Chamberlain went to meet Hitler in Munich in 1938 to whitewash Nazi Germany’s takeovers of its neighbours’ lands.”
“Peters has been in Washington to agree to US approval of the occupation of southern Syria, more attacks on Lebanon, resumption of the land grab genocide in Gaza and get a heads-up on US plans to ‘give’ the Occupied West Bank to Israel later this year.”
“If Peters disagrees with any of this, he’s had plenty of chances to say so.”
“New Zealanders are calling for sanctions on Israel but Mr Peters and the National-led government are looking the other way.”
“Today’s protest will be holding Peters to account.”
John Minto
Co National Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
