McCully’s explanation reinforces bias, flawed logic It appears that the persistent criticism of McCully’s sponsoring of the anti-Israel UN Resolution 2334 has hit a nerve. On 12 January 2017 he published a defence of the move in The New Zealand Herald, in an opinion piece titled…
World leaders speak out on biased UNSC resolution; New Zealand waits While the passing of the controversial UNSC Resolution 2334 on the eve of Christmas and Hanukkah went under the radar of many, a number of world leaders have spoken out. Even members of Obama’s own party are appalled at the…
Hundreds of Kiwis protest NZ’s anti-Israel UNSC vote outside Parliament The absence of government representatives in Parliament over this holiday period didn’t stop busloads of Kiwis from travelling to Wellington in order to send them a message. Flaxmere Christian Fellowship Church Pastor, Nigel Woodley, led a two-busload delegation of Kiwis from…
New Zealand’s dangerously deluded Foreign Minister New Zealand Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, is a man on a mission. Undeterred by the failure of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice and Joe Biden to bring the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to a peaceful…
New Zealand no longer an honest broker of peace When New Zealand set about campaigning to win a seat on the Security Council, it did so on a platform of even-handedness and fair-mindedness, particularly on the sensitive Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Foreign Minister Murray McCully has since signalled a blatant departure…