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June 13, 2025
Analysis and Notes by Selwyn Manning: Prep for Radio New Zealand – Israel Strikes Against Iran – June 13, 2025. Listen to the audio from 3:00 minutes in. Over the last 24 hours, the atomic control agency IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) formed a view at its UN Geneva meeting, that there was so-called evidence ... <a title="Selwyn Manning Analysis: Israel clearly saw an opportunity to strike Iran. Here’s the trip-wire… UPDATED" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/selwyn-manning-analysis-israel-clearly-saw-an-opportunity-to-strike-iran-heres-the-trip-wire-updated/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning Analysis: Israel clearly saw an opportunity to strike Iran. Here’s the trip-wire… UPDATED">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
Analysis and Notes by Selwyn Manning: Prep for Radio New Zealand – Israel Strikes Against Iran – June 13, 2025. Listen to the audio from 3:00 minutes in. Over the last 24 hours, the atomic control agency IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) formed a view at its UN Geneva meeting, that there was so-called evidence ... <a title="Selwyn Manning Analysis: Israel clearly saw an opportunity to strike Iran. Here’s the trip-wire…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/selwyn-manning-analysis-israel-clearly-saw-an-opportunity-to-strike-iran-heres-the-trip-wire/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning Analysis: Israel clearly saw an opportunity to strike Iran. Here’s the trip-wire…">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2025
OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog The madness has begun. We should have suspected something when the cloud strike shut down occurred. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to continue war so that he is never held to account. This madness is the last straw. NZ must immediately expel the Israeli Ambassador ... <a title="The Daily Blog calls for NZ to immediately expel Israeli envoy for unprovoked attack on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/13/editor-calls-for-nz-to-immediately-expel-israeli-envoy-for-unprovoked-attack-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about The Daily Blog calls for NZ to immediately expel Israeli envoy for unprovoked attack on Iran">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Opposition parties say Aotearoa New Zealand’s government should be going much further, much faster in sanctioning Israel. Foreign Minister Winston Peters overnight revealed New Zealand had joined Australia, Canada, the UK and Norway in imposing travel bans on Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar ... <a title="New Zealand’s ‘symbolic’ sanctions on Israel too little, too late, say opposition parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/new-zealands-symbolic-sanctions-on-israel-too-little-too-late-say-opposition-parties/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s ‘symbolic’ sanctions on Israel too little, too late, say opposition parties">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Further reports of civilian casualties are coming out of West Papua, while clashes between Indonesia’s military and the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement continue. One of the most recent military operations took place in the early morning of May 14 in Sugapa District, Intan Jaya in Central ... <a title="More deaths reported out of Sugapa in West Papua clashes with military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/more-deaths-reported-out-of-sugapa-in-west-papua-clashes-with-military/" aria-label="Read more about More deaths reported out of Sugapa in West Papua clashes with military">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Steven Cowan, editor of Against The Current The New Zealand Foreign Minster’s decision to issue a travel ban against two Israeli far-right politicians is little more than a tokenistic gesture in opposing Israel’s actions. It is an attempt to appease growing opposition to Israel’s war, but the fact that Israel has killed more ... <a title="NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing nothing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/nz-and-gaza-peters-appearing-to-do-something-when-doing-nothing/" aria-label="Read more about NZ and Gaza – Peters appearing to do something, when doing nothing">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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June 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Pāti Māori has condemned the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel attempting to carry food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Sweden’s climate activist Greta Thunberg. In a statement after the Madleen’s communications were cut, the indigenous political party said it ... <a title="Te Pāti Māori condemns Israel for Gaza ‘horrific violence’ over Madleen arrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/10/te-pati-maori-condemns-israel-for-gaza-horrific-violence-over-madleen-arrest/" aria-label="Read more about Te Pāti Māori condemns Israel for Gaza ‘horrific violence’ over Madleen arrest">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard has condemned Israel’s interception and detention of the 12 crew members aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s humanitarian aid yacht Madleen. The crew detained include Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who has been designated by Amnesty International as an “Ambassador of Conscience”, reports Amnesty International in a statement. She ... <a title="Amnesty slams Israel for flouting international law with ‘chilling contempt’ over Madleen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/10/amnesty-slams-israel-for-flouting-international-law-with-chilling-contempt-over-madleen/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty slams Israel for flouting international law with ‘chilling contempt’ over Madleen">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Contact has been lost with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid boat Madleen after Israeli commandos intercepted it in international waters. The commandos demanded that everyone on board turn off their phones, and the boat lost contact with Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Omar Faiad as well as its live feed, reports the ... <a title="Israeli forces intercept Gaza freedom aid boat Madleen – cut communications" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/09/israeli-forces-intercept-gaza-freedom-aid-boat-madleen-cut-communications/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli forces intercept Gaza freedom aid boat Madleen – cut communications">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Phil Goff “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy — knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.” This statement was made not by a foreign or liberal critic of Israel but by the former Prime Minister ... <a title="Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/09/phil-goff-israel-doesnt-care-how-many-innocent-people-its-killing-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Goff: Israel doesn’t care how many innocent people it’s killing in Gaza">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2025
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs It is difficult to understand what sits behind the New Zealand government’s unwillingness to sanction, or threaten to sanction, the Israeli government for its genocide against the Palestinian people. The United Nations, human rights groups, legal experts and now genocide experts have all agreed it really is “genocide” which is being ... <a title="New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/09/new-zealands-foreign-policy-stance-on-palestine-lacks-transparency/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s foreign policy stance on Palestine lacks transparency">Read more</a>
