Palestine Human Rights Campaign applauds NZ government aid package

The Palestine Human Rights Campaign congratulates the Government on the recent news that $800,000 will be provided for UNRWA to help in the current crisis in Palestine.

This should be accompanied by increased pressure on the government of Israel or a New Zealand-lead campaign of Western Countries to isolate Israel until the Separation Wall is demolished and true freedom is restored to the Palestinians in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as countless U.N. Resolutions have stated.

Unless the Israeli Occupation is stopped, such aid, as provided for the past 55 years, becomes a sad indictment on the world's inability to cease Israel's barbaric processes of destruction and misery.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>