The lackluster response from our foreign affairs minister to these appalling acts of terror, the lame efforts of the Prime Minister to cover these, and the equally egregious response from Marama Davidson, reveal our political left's blind adherence to ideologies that (ultimately) spread hatred and violence.
This was a completely unwarranted act of violence against innocent women, children and babies. The failure of those named above to elicit an unequivocal and unqualified statement of condemnation makes the aforementioned unfit to occupy office in our country.
To equate the actions of Hamas with those of the Israeli military as justification, in any degree, for this violence, is unconscionable, unwarranted, and detached from reality.
The state of Israel is not beyond error, but its actions in the past have been largely driven by the reality that to show weakness, would invite ultimate annihilation at the hands of states that have no respect for human rights or the rule of law, and whose grievances are ancient. Human rights simply do not exist in many of the states concerned, and democratic principles are anathema to societies that remain largely tribal.
If nothing else, the reactions, or non-reactions, of many of those on our political left, should leave no one in any doubt about where their sympathies lie, where their ideological excesses end up, and their blindness to reason and the facts of history.
When members of our political left make idiot statements that the colonization of New Zealand equates to genocide, we can see that they are ignorant of history, selective and partial in their reasoning, and untethered from reality
It is equally concerning that the reaction from some sections of New Zealand's Muslim community has been so muted. How many corpses would it take to change their minds? So quick to hit the streets to further their own cause, but so quiet now.
Caleb Anderson, a graduate history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over thirty years, twenty as a school principal.
3 comments:
The 'left' in NZ are inherently tribal.
They love placing everyone into boxes and if they add in some intersectionality all the better.
Yes they are tribal and this is why they like tribal societies.
They call themselves progressives but in reality they are just not.
They yearn for a time when humans were serfs or slaves and they were the ones that ruled.
This is an ancient and forgotten way to rule and this is why the West became so successful.
The West threw off the chains of feudalist tribalism and the individual shone.
People like Davidson and Waititi et al do not want others to shine because they believe they are the only ones that should.
The self-righteous hijab-ed ladies of the NZ Muslim community are not going to recover from this. Sorry- unworthy dig considering the horror and pain of the Israelis - and, of course of the innocent civilians of their own people that Hamas has engendered. They are devils. No matter how one views the historic rights and wrongs, Hamas has consistently fired at Israel from positions inviting retaliation which destroy their own civilians.
a lerge faction of our left parties are intent on decolonistion as preached by Moana Jackson and fellow rebels and now widely indoctrinated. Ideally acheived by ousting the colonists. So just gentle reproach of the Palestinians is to be expected.
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