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April 11, 2026
To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest of the world to force Israel to live within its internationally recognised borders of June 4, 1967. Common Dreams reports. ANALYSIS: By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares A two-week ceasefire ... <a title="Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/11/ending-israels-war-on-peace-irans-10-point-proposal-is-serious/" aria-label="Read more about Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto While Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the news broke in Aotearoa New Zealand that our government had been advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in September to recognise a Palestinian ... <a title="New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/15/new-zealand-backing-israel-over-two-state-solution-shows-galling-weak-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand backing Israel over two-state solution shows galling weak leadership">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing in the Knesset before Israel’s hardline ministers, Trump announced that it had — and whisked a delegation of world leaders to Egypt to formalise the ceasefire before a global audience. ... <a title="From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered Netanyahu a way out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/16/from-the-knesset-to-sharm-el-sheikh-how-the-us-president-offered-netanyahu-a-way-out/" aria-label="Read more about From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US president offered Netanyahu a way out">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2025
RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is condemning Israel’s E1 settlement plan for the occupied West Bank, despite New Zealand not signing a joint statement on the matter. Twenty-seven countries, including the UK and Australia, have condemned Israel’s plans to build an illegal settlement east of Jerusalem. The countries have said the plan would “make ... <a title="NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/25/nzs-christopher-luxon-condemns-israels-west-bank-settlement-plan/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2025
Why the recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia is an important development. Meanwhile, New Zealand still dithers. This article unpacks the hypocrisy in the debate. ANALYSIS: By Paul Heywood-Smith The recognition of the State of Palestine by Australia, leading, it is hoped, to full UN member state status, is an important development. What ... <a title="Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/20/rewarding-knowingly-illegal-conduct-some-might-say-israeli-terrorism/" aria-label="Read more about Rewarding knowingly illegal conduct – some might say, Israeli terrorism">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2025
Netanyahu’s mass ethnic cleansing strategy pulls the rug out from under the West’s cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed. As ... <a title="The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/14/the-west-is-in-panic-as-israels-plan-for-full-control-of-gaza-heralds-a-new-nakba/" aria-label="Read more about The West is in panic as Israel’s plan for ‘full control’ of Gaza heralds a new Nakba">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2025
By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist in Parliament New Zealand’s Prime Minister says the war in Gaza is “utterly appalling” and Israeil Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s comments came on a tense day in Parliament today, where the Green Party’s co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick was “named” for refusing ... <a title="Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/13/israeli-pm-has-lost-the-plot-says-nzs-christopher-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli PM has ‘lost the plot’, says NZ’s Christopher Luxon">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2025
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor New Zealand is lagging behind the rest of the world through its failure to recognise Palestinian statehood, says Former Prime Minister Helen Clark. Canada yesterday became the latest country to announce it would formally recognise the state of Palestine when world leaders met at the UN General ... <a title="NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/01/nz-lagging-behind-world-by-failing-to-recognise-palestinian-statehood-says-former-pm-helen-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ ‘lagging behind’ world by failing to recognise Palestinian statehood, says former PM Helen Clark">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2025
By Richard Larsen, RNZ News producer — 30′ with Guyon Espiner The former head of Human Rights Watch — and son of a Holocaust survivor — says Israel’s military campaign in Gaza will likely meet the legal definition of genocide, citing large-scale killings, the targeting of civilians, and the words of senior Israeli officials. Speaking ... <a title="The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and standing up for democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/28/the-godfather-of-human-rights-ken-roth-on-genocide-trump-and-standing-up-for-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and standing up for democracy">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2025
Analysis by Keith Rankin. It’s time that the nations of the world (or at least the influential western nations) accept the reality that all the lands that constituted 1920-1948 Mandatory Palestine should be formally recognised as a single nation-state; ideally called Palestine Israel or Israel-Palestine, but more realistically called Israel. In other words, the never-viable ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Palestine Israel: Implementing a One-State Solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/25/keith-rankin-analysis-palestine-israel-implementing-a-one-state-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Palestine Israel: Implementing a One-State Solution">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
RNZ News The United States has denounced sanctions by Britain and allies — including New Zealand and Australia — against Israeli far-right ministers, saying they should focus instead on the Palestinian armed group Hamas. New Zealand has banned two Israeli politicians from travelling to the country because of comments about the war in Gaza that ... <a title="US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/us-criticises-allies-as-nz-bans-two-top-far-right-israeli-ministers/" aria-label="Read more about US criticises allies as NZ bans two top far-right Israeli ministers">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters is putting off recognition of Palestine as a state, despite opposition Labour’s formal request that he make the move. Peters said diplomatic recognition of Palestine was a matter of “when not if”, but doing so now could impede progress towards a ... <a title="NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/nzs-foreign-minister-winston-peters-defers-recognition-of-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters ‘defers’ recognition of Palestine">Read more</a>
