Six New Zealanders - Kia Ora Gaza - will be taking part sometime in September 2010 in another movement by land to subvert Israel's illegal and medieval blockade of Gaza. They have my full support. They are far more true heroes than the first New Zealand fatality in Afghanistan whose body has arrived back amid a sickening political and media hype. He was merely doing a job he loved and was paid for which potentially if not really involved killing civilians.
Presumably after Israel played its passport game in New Zealand some years ago we have been blessed with the absence of an Israeli embassy. Now it is back. The very evening Kia Ora Gaza was announced on New Zealand establishment television news we had to put up with the sight and sound of the Israeli ambassador being allowed to comment. He had the temerity to say that Kia Ora Gaza is not the Kiwi way. This is from a person who comes from a country which does not share the same values as Kiwis, who wish others well, are tolerant of people of other cultures, religions and governments, and who hate bullies.
Israel cannot continue to keep playing the same card. More people see that it is a domineering, trouble-making bully, with one set of rules for everyone else and none for itself. Without the United States it would disintegrate, having brought this on itself.
Does Israel imagine that it can continue on its current path indefinitely? It has become the most despicable nation on earth. Why? Because it should know better. But it is as if the state of Israel has been established and led by low class thugs. Israel has little to do with the best in Jewish culture, thought and activity. It actually represents the worst - that tendency to materialism, spitefulness and lack of compassion.
