On Fri, 10 May 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
Glad to see NZ is among those voting yes ><https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/10/un-backs-palestines-bid-for-membership-how-did-your-country-vote>.
Look at the sad bunch who voted against ...
Pffft, the UN general assembly is a tootless virtue-signalling body.
And Winston said exactly that about NZ's vote:
"New Zealand will make a clear statement to the UN later this morning explaining its vote, indicating that while it supports enhancing
Palestine's status at the UN, this does not amount to recognition of Palestinian statehood," Peters said. New Zealand's vote first and
foremost reflected the frustration felt by the international community
"at the endless cycle of violence that continues to beset the region",
he said.
In other words, were NZ a member of the Security Council, where the
actual decisions are made, NZ would vote against this resolution,
which it virtue-signalling-voted for in the general assembly.
More Lefty fever dreams. Hey Lawrence, do you realise that the 1979
Iranian revolution was an alliance of Islamists and Lefties rising up
against the Shah, following which the Islamists rewarded the Lefties
by shooting 8,800 of them to death in their Ervan prison in 1988? You
wanna revisit that for us?
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