NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a two-state solution
- Written by Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less than a week from the polls, a crisis in the Middle East offered opposition parties a brief chance to criticise the foreign minister’s initial reaction.
But if it was a fleeting and fairly trivial moment in the heat of a...