Penn Raine: Is the UN provoking Jew fatigue?

Fellow Breaking Views bloggers have thoughtfully responded to my recent opinion on the continued rise of anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence current in Western democracies.

They suggested that credit points for the Holocaust- Shoah - have largely been spent and that the UN’s alleged factual reporting on humanitarian issues in Gaza, and Israel’s alleged crimes would anyway use up any remaining global sympathy.

Dr Oliver Harwich: A new ‘might is right’ era dawns for small nations

I do not get to Münster often these days, but whenever I am there, I feel drawn to its town hall. This is where, in 1648, diplomats signed the Peace of Westphalia. Thirty years of religious war had left parts of Germany devastated. Some regions lost an immense share of their people to war, famine, disease and flight.

Last summer, on a day when temperatures outside climbed into the high thirties, I stepped into the cool interior of that historic place once more.

Centrist: A well-paid ecosystem takes its grievance to Geneva

Lady Tureiti Moxon travelled to Geneva to ask the United Nations to intervene in what she calls the “political discrimination” of Māori by the coalition.

However, the pattern running through Moxon’s combative narrative, which outlines more than a dozen grievances, is that she starts in the middle of the story.

JC: Winston’s Home Truths at the United Nations

Winston Peters’ address to the United Nations is to be applauded. Following on from President Trump’s home truths, he delivered a few of his own. His speech, of course, has not gone down well with the homeland fantasists on the left. Labour’s Peeni Henare called it “embarrassing” while the Green’s co-leader, Marama Davidson, said it was “cowardly”; Typical for those on the left who refuse to recognise or can’t cope with the realities of today’s world.

Kerre Woodham: What will come from our decision not to recognise Palestine?

The state of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 157 UN member states, and that represents 81% of members. New Zealand is not one of them. Not yet. Like Singapore, like Japan, Germany, South Korea, most Pacific states. New Zealand says, oh, sure, we support recognition, just not yet.

Mike's minute: NZ's Palestine call was logical and sensible

If you watched Winston Peters speech in New York late Saturday morning you can see why he did so well last week in the Herald's boardroom feedback.

For the bloke who has been the epitome of aggro and grumpiness, in his better moments he is as good a foreign minister as this country has ever had.

Rire Norman - The UN, Israel, and the Genocide Narrative: What Do the Facts Say?

The United Nations has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. But before we accept such a grave charge, we must ask: what do the facts actually say?

The UN, once envisioned as a body for justice and peace, has too often become an arena for self-interest and impunity. From child sex abuse scandals to corruption via lobbyists, its record of accountability is appalling. In fact, the UN frequently shields perpetrators rather than exposing them.

Dr Will Jones: Trump’s UN Rallying Cry for the Defence of Western Civilisation

End open borders. Stop importing criminals. Defend your sovereignty. Fight Islamist extremism. Stand up for Christianity. End vastly expensive Net Zero climate policies. Because otherwise Europe is “going to Hell”. Trump’s hard-hitting message to the United Nations this week was music to Nile Gardner’s ears, as he writes in the Mail.

Bob Edlin: Peters and Palestine....

Peters and Palestine: the challenge includes weighing how Trump will react to NZ’s decision

New Zealand is among a dwindling group of nations that have not yet taken steps to formally recognise a Palestinian state, RNZ reported today.

That means we are among a dwindling number of nations to avoid the prospect of American reprisals.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: David Seymour and the UN letter

I’m as interested as anyone on this mystery about whether David Seymour is in trouble over the letter he sent to the UN.

Whether the media reporting is right that the Prime Minister gave Seymour a telling off, or whether David was right that it was just a nice chat, or whether the media reporting is right that Winston is cross with David for sending the letter, or whether David’s right that Winston is fine and is basically going to send the same letter again, or whether Winston is right when he says that’s not true – I’m as interested as you are in what the truth is.

Simon O'Connor: China blindness

What is it with former Prime Ministers and others when it comes to China?

Many former leaders of New Zealand have made much of New Zealand’s independent foreign policy, our commitment to the international rules based order, and human rights, and yet appear to throw such principles to then wind when it comes to appeasing Communist China.

Dave Patterson: Trump, the UN, and the World

The new administration will be familiarly transformational.

President-elect Donald Trump has not demonstrated a fondness for the United Nations (UN). During his first term, he pulled out of the United Nations Human Rights Council because it operated to attack rather than preserve human rights. There is little to recommend the UN for anything more than an opportunity for international diplomats to sit and chat among themselves.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: It's a really tough time to be the UN

Tell you what, it’s a tough time to be the UN.

I can’t help but feel that the UN’s credibility is increasingly on the line at the moment with how often it’s being ignored.

Take for example what’s just happened overnight: the International Criminal Court – which was set up through the UN and endorsed by the UN's General Assembly – has issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Centrist: UN and WHO influence on political decisions in New Zealand

Influence and concerns over New Zealand’s sovereignty

The influence of the United Nations (UN) and its specialised agency, the World Health Organization (WHO) in New Zealand’s domestic affairs raises concerns about the country making their own decisions.

A recent example involves Associate Health Minister Casey Costello, who has faced criticism for citing advice supporting Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs) as a tool to reduce smoking.

JC: PM Needs to Take a Breath on UN

I am writing this criticism of the prime minister with a sense of reluctance, as overall I think he is doing a very good job. He is on a global mission to improve this country’s trade prospects to increase our wealth. He is managing what could be a fractious coalition well. In both instances he is applying his various business skills to achieve these aims. Christopher Luxon deserves plaudits in both cases. The country will hopefully see long-term benefits from his work in these areas.

Lushington Brady: Time to Go the Way of the League of Nations

The UN is worse than useless.

In the first couple of decades following WWII, the United Nations seemed like a beacon of hope for a war-torn world subsequently split by the Cold War.

Yet, when the world came perilously close to full-scale nuclear war in 1962, the UN was mostly irrelevant. Instead, it was old-fashioned personal diplomacy between the US and the USSR that averted the crisis.

David Farrar: Who did we vote with?

Winston Peters announced:

New Zealand has voted for a United Nations resolution on Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian Territory with some caveats, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says.

“New Zealand’s yes vote is fundamentally a signal of our strong support for international law and the need for a two-state solution,” Mr Peters says.

Thi Thuy Van Dinh, David Bell: The UN Machinery against Human Rights

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED (…)

to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and (…)

to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Rodney Hide: Leave our kids alone

The UN is corrupt and perverted. So too is the WHO. Anyone working for these organisations is immediately suspect. So too every pronouncement they make.

How bad?

Well, here’s the WHO explaining when sex education starts:

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 10/4/24

Govt gives farmers something to talk about (regarding environmental issues) at those woolshed meetings

Hard on the heels of three rurally oriented ministers launching the first of their woolshed meetings, the government brought good news to farmers on the environmental front.

First, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced an additional $18 million is being committed to reduce agricultural emissions.