We learnt it, to our horror, on October 7.
Hamas murdered some 1200 people that day and dragged 251 into Gaza. They killed, tortured, raped and mutilated. They filmed it. They gloried in it.
They weren't alone.
This wasn't a few extremists. It wasn't an aberration. Such is the power of a twisted and toxic ideology. It doesn't stop at the gunmen. It reaches the families, the neighbours and the crowds.
Israel's military estimates some 6000 Gazans crossed the fence that day. About 3800 were Hamas's elite Nukhba. The other 2200 were "terrorists and looters". The footage shows ordinary Gazans pouring through to grab what they could. And whom they could.
One terrorist rang home from Kibbutz Mefalsim on a murdered Jewish woman's phone. "Your son killed Jews!" he told his father. "With my own hands I killed 10!"
His father replied, "Allahu Akbar." In the transcript Israel released, his mother says: "I wish I was with you."
Shani Louk's near-naked body was paraded through Gaza on the back of a ute. The crowd cheered. Some spat on her. Youngsters were among them.
Sapir Cohen was taken into Gaza alive. "I saw thousands, thousands of people in the streets," she said. "They all encouraged the terrorists, and they come to touch me and to beat me."
The aunt of 12-year-old hostage Eitan Yahalomi says Gazan civilians beat him when he arrived.
Hostages weren't just held in tunnels. Three were kept for months in a family home in Nuseirat. The man of the house was the local doctor and imam.
And the polls? Two months after the massacre, 72% of Palestinians told the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research that Hamas's decision to attack was "correct". In the West Bank it was 82%.
That's not Israeli spin. That's a Palestinian pollster asking Palestinians.
Most told the same pollster they didn't believe Hamas committed the atrocities. They backed the attack anyway. Two years on, it's still a majority.
That's what "free Palestine" looked like the one day it got through the fence.
Now to New Zealand.
The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party is contesting our general election on 7 November. It's on your ballot paper as "Free Palestine".
Yes, our Electoral Commission registered it. It did so on 5 August, despite 207 submissions against. It ruled the name wasn't "offensive". It did draw the line at the party's logo, a Palestinian flag, in case voters got confused. The name was fine.
So a flag might mislead you. A party named for a slogan that wipes Israel off the map does not.
Auckland barrister Ian Dunwoodie complained to the Ombudsman. The Chief Ombudsman found the Commission's decision "not unreasonable".
And you're paying. The Commission has allocated the party $82,011 of taxpayers' money for election advertising on television, radio and online. Its leader, schoolteacher Paul Hopkinson, calls it "government funding of $82,000 to help raise awareness of the Palestinian cause".
What cause? The party tells us.
Its very first founding principle calls for "the dismantling of the Zionist structure of the state of Israel". It rejects two states. It wants a single state in Israel's place.
It pledges "unconditional and complete solidarity for the Palestinian resistance in all forms". The website adds "accordant with International Humanitarian Law". The party's launch statement didn't bother: "Unconditional support for all forms of Palestine resistance."
The only way to peace, it says, "is to put an end to the apartheid state of Israel". It signs off: "Resistance Until Victory!"
We saw the resistance on October 7.
So there it is. A party campaigning within New Zealand, in our election, at our expense, for the destruction of Israel.
And the Electoral Commission and the Ombudsman are okay with this.
What would happen if the Jewish people lost their homeland?
They would be wiped out. We know that from October 7. That's what happened to the Jews Hamas reached in a single day.
Maybe some could escape. But to where? Where would they be welcome? And would they be safe there?
Would they be safe here?
Our own Prime Minister has said New Zealand would arrest Israel's Prime Minister if he came here. "We believe in the international rules-based system, we support the ICC, and we would be obligated to do so," Christopher Luxon told reporters.
That's our welcome for the elected leader of the world's only Jewish state. Netanyahu has a country and an army. Imagine the Jew who has neither. What welcome would a Jewish refugee expect?
Meanwhile we have a party campaigning in New Zealand on one cause. It boasts it's "the only party in this election" taking it on. It's not about New Zealand. It's about Israel. Its fix is to end the Jewish state.
We know what follows. We saw it on October 7.
It's a policy that implies a second Holocaust.
And our Electoral Commission and Ombudsman are okay with this.
Israel's military estimates some 6000 Gazans crossed the fence that day. About 3800 were Hamas's elite Nukhba. The other 2200 were "terrorists and looters". The footage shows ordinary Gazans pouring through to grab what they could. And whom they could.
One terrorist rang home from Kibbutz Mefalsim on a murdered Jewish woman's phone. "Your son killed Jews!" he told his father. "With my own hands I killed 10!"
His father replied, "Allahu Akbar." In the transcript Israel released, his mother says: "I wish I was with you."
Shani Louk's near-naked body was paraded through Gaza on the back of a ute. The crowd cheered. Some spat on her. Youngsters were among them.
Sapir Cohen was taken into Gaza alive. "I saw thousands, thousands of people in the streets," she said. "They all encouraged the terrorists, and they come to touch me and to beat me."
The aunt of 12-year-old hostage Eitan Yahalomi says Gazan civilians beat him when he arrived.
Hostages weren't just held in tunnels. Three were kept for months in a family home in Nuseirat. The man of the house was the local doctor and imam.
And the polls? Two months after the massacre, 72% of Palestinians told the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research that Hamas's decision to attack was "correct". In the West Bank it was 82%.
That's not Israeli spin. That's a Palestinian pollster asking Palestinians.
Most told the same pollster they didn't believe Hamas committed the atrocities. They backed the attack anyway. Two years on, it's still a majority.
That's what "free Palestine" looked like the one day it got through the fence.
Now to New Zealand.
The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party is contesting our general election on 7 November. It's on your ballot paper as "Free Palestine".
Yes, our Electoral Commission registered it. It did so on 5 August, despite 207 submissions against. It ruled the name wasn't "offensive". It did draw the line at the party's logo, a Palestinian flag, in case voters got confused. The name was fine.
So a flag might mislead you. A party named for a slogan that wipes Israel off the map does not.
Auckland barrister Ian Dunwoodie complained to the Ombudsman. The Chief Ombudsman found the Commission's decision "not unreasonable".
And you're paying. The Commission has allocated the party $82,011 of taxpayers' money for election advertising on television, radio and online. Its leader, schoolteacher Paul Hopkinson, calls it "government funding of $82,000 to help raise awareness of the Palestinian cause".
What cause? The party tells us.
Its very first founding principle calls for "the dismantling of the Zionist structure of the state of Israel". It rejects two states. It wants a single state in Israel's place.
It pledges "unconditional and complete solidarity for the Palestinian resistance in all forms". The website adds "accordant with International Humanitarian Law". The party's launch statement didn't bother: "Unconditional support for all forms of Palestine resistance."
The only way to peace, it says, "is to put an end to the apartheid state of Israel". It signs off: "Resistance Until Victory!"
We saw the resistance on October 7.
So there it is. A party campaigning within New Zealand, in our election, at our expense, for the destruction of Israel.
And the Electoral Commission and the Ombudsman are okay with this.
What would happen if the Jewish people lost their homeland?
They would be wiped out. We know that from October 7. That's what happened to the Jews Hamas reached in a single day.
Maybe some could escape. But to where? Where would they be welcome? And would they be safe there?
Would they be safe here?
Our own Prime Minister has said New Zealand would arrest Israel's Prime Minister if he came here. "We believe in the international rules-based system, we support the ICC, and we would be obligated to do so," Christopher Luxon told reporters.
That's our welcome for the elected leader of the world's only Jewish state. Netanyahu has a country and an army. Imagine the Jew who has neither. What welcome would a Jewish refugee expect?
Meanwhile we have a party campaigning in New Zealand on one cause. It boasts it's "the only party in this election" taking it on. It's not about New Zealand. It's about Israel. Its fix is to end the Jewish state.
We know what follows. We saw it on October 7.
It's a policy that implies a second Holocaust.
And our Electoral Commission and Ombudsman are okay with this.
Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011. This article was first published HERE
6 comments:
What's the difference between the "The Palestine Free from the River to the Sea Party" and the Greens when it comes to Palestine?
And that’s why Hobbitville is a political mess. Our corrupt MSM turns a blind eye in order to further its own warped ambitions by indoctrinating the gullible public. We should never have closed down our asylums and released the inmates into the populous. Obviously, many found their way into politics.
The Green's support genocide when it is done by the Palestinians. They hate genocide when they accuse Israel of it.
The problem is Israel needs to up it's game on the genocide part. They are being blamed for it anyway, so just get it over with.
ACT supports Jews. This is another reason to vote for ACT.
In reading this article I reminisced on a Country known to us as The United Kingdom, a Realm of 4 Entities - Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, from which came the Nation of New Zealand and the Laws that we initially lived by, redeveloped into Laws that created our Nation going forward.
Sadly of recent years the UK has become home to many immigrants, the recent being illegal, the majority thereof being of the Muslim Faith.
They created ghettos to live in, have not contributed to the UK as a functioning group (they are neither part of the agricultural domain, office workers, lorry drivers) - but have a distinct factor in "divisive" activity against an established Society, to whom they live off.
From this human mass has come young men who have 'returned to the homeland' of
of The Koran, to become Jihadist's against the Infidel - which includes those who are Citizens of Israel.
Also from this mass of Humanity have come, within the UK, the development of Muslim based groups whose sole purpose it to dis-establish the Government.
The 7th of October was the catalyst for these people (Worldwide) to "come out of the closet" and bring disharmony, protest (more violent than peaceful) and to seek alignment with those (more so white people) who had issues with "the establishment" to enhance, embolden and lead those protests - to which you will find that they exist - in The Green Parties being at the forefront, along with those "who have a beef about society".
Another "group" that stood up, stepped out where the numerous Gay Entities (right across the World) and "stood for Palestine & River to The Sea".
As an aside, an International Media outlet interviewed many of these people and asked - what they knew about Palestine
- how did the Palestinians live (some answers comical - they could have watched Media Video footage of life in Gaza and who was feeding them)
- did they have concerns of how the Palestinian's would treat them
- would they travel to Gaza and/or any other Arab Country.
I will leave reader's to create answers, just keep in mind, it was obvious that the Reporter's were dealing with 'simple minded people' - their answers showed that.
It is also interesting to both see and hear that this same group has been slowly 'building' within the USA - Dearborn, Michigan is a good example, they cleared the town of white people and took over the entire town - you can find this data via Goggle.
So, NZ has a group who have established themselves - we are seeing the start of the same activities that have occurred across the World, which is slowly gaining ground in Sydney, the question to ask " are these people immigrants to this Country and where do they get their money from"?
Oh of course a NZ Govt Agency has funded them.
Just like Governments have done overseas.
But they will need more, so where will that money come from?
We have a problem!
Thank you Rodney for your reminder of the Hamas atrocities. Our Western Culture is seriously under threat . Judeo - Christian values are being annihilated. I have young Jewish acquaintances in NZ who are very frightened by the current anti -semitism.
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