No Right Turn on why the Maori seats matter. Quite something.
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Outgoing Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, recently quoted as saying:
(I am saying) what no previous Israeli leader has ever said: we should withdraw from almost all of the territories, including in East Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in response:
We wish we had heard this personal opinion … (before) he resigned.
No shit. But this all pre-supposes the dead end that is the two-state solution. As Ghada Karmi wrote last week in The Guardian:
A unitary state is inevitable. Establishing an exclusive state defined along ethnic-religious lines and excluding its previous inhabitants was unjust and ultimately unsustainable. No political acrobatics will alter this. The sooner the UN, which unwisely created Israel in the first place, takes charge of the consequences, the better it will be for Palestinians, for Israelis and for the region as a whole.
No Right Turn on the arbitrary end of all historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.
How can you put an end to seeking redress for breaches of a treaty? It’s an absurd contradiction. Either breaches exist and they need to be investigated and redressed or they don’t exist. Arbitrarily ending the formal process for these investigations to take place is like saying we don’t need courts any more to investigate crimes. In fact it’s like saying you can’t even report crimes any more, let alone have them investigated.
Over the weekend a group from the Free Gaza Movement, including my good friend Ken O’Keefe, set out in boats from Cyprus and successfully broke Israel’s contemptible economic blockade of Gaza. Ken emailed through a few photos today, with this message:
Some pictures to share of a day that may have largely ignored in the West, but was deeply powerful and moving to not just the people of Gaza, but to the Arab world and beyond.
And a news report from France 24:
Speaking of Survival International, they’ve posted a video on their website of gunmen hired by farmers to attack a Makuxi Indian village in Brazil, part of a brutal attempt at an Indian land grab.
The correlation between this and Daniel Quinn’s alternative theory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.
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