By Damien Grant on Stuff…
“He’s lost the plot,” Christopher Luxon claimed of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, jumping onto what he assumed would be a stable bandwagon of international criticism of Netanyahu’s recent plans to consolidate Israeli control over Gaza.
Well. This earned a brilliant rebuke from Israeli foreign minister Sharren Haskel, who remarked that our biggest threat is a possum. And in response Luxon took on the appearance of this marsupial when confronted with headlights and muttered that she was entitled to her opinion.
Hopeless. The correct response would be to assure New Zealand that we will not be employing the IDF to control the possum infestation least they turn our cities into demolition sites.
The case for diplomatic recognition isn’t simple. There are two distinct political entities; the West Bank ruled by the Palestinian Authority and Gaza where Hamas remains in place. It seems probable that, in time, these two statelets will develop into separate sovereign entities.
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