• Helen Clark On Why Palestine Is Disappearing In Plain Sight

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to nz.politics,alt.politics.trump,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jul 20 07:28:10 2026
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    A bunch of the Elders (a group founded by Nelson Mandela) recently
    paid a visit to the occupied West Bank. Among them was former NZ Prime
    Minister Helen Clark. What she saw was a situation for the
    Palestinians even worse than that they were suffering the previous
    time she was there, in 2018. She used the term rCLcatastrophicrCY, and was
    not shy about explaining why. She also used the term rCLethnic
    cleansingrCY.

    She seems to think thererCOs hope to come from a potential change of
    Government after IsraelrCOs elections in October. Me, IrCOm not so sure.

    Sam also discussed with her New York Mayor Zohran MamdanirCOs plans to
    try to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he goes
    there for the UN General Assembly in September. Clark is not so
    hopeful about the prospects of that; she expects there will be massive protection from the Federal level to ensure that Butcher Bibi stays
    free. But the situation does have the potential to turn nasty; the
    phrase rCLpowder kegrCY was used.

    A parallel was made with the case of the Argentinian dictator Augusto
    Pinochet; he was actually arrested while on a visit to the UK, but the
    Thatcher Government was able to work up a legal pretext to set him
    loose so he was able to return home unscathed.

    Somehow I donrCOt think the Trump regime will manage that level of
    finesse ... brute force is more their style ...

    <https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361008644/helen-clark-why-palestine-disappearing-plain-sight>
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  • From Tall Henry@not@home.org to nz.politics,alt.politics.trump,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jul 20 17:59:42 2026
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    In article <113kima$10eqk$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    [flush]

    This is what happens when a political entity decides that its only
    goal is to exterminate another political entity -- esp. one much
    stronger than it.

    There is a price to pay for insanity and mental retardation.


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  • From Tall Henry@not@home.org to nz.politics,alt.politics.trump,soc.culture.israel on Mon Jul 20 18:04:02 2026
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    In article <113kima$10eqk$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    A parallel was made with the case of the Argentinian dictator Augusto Pinochet;

    "Argentinian dictator Augusto Pinochet"?

    Why, you little historian you!

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