Chlöe Swarbrick: Green Party Co-Leader on their call for sanctions against Israel

The Green Party says the Government needs to follow up its words on Gaza with action.  

A group of nations, including New Zealand, have signed on to a declaration calling for a ceasefire and condemning Israeli attacks on Palestinians seeking aid.  

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says we should sanction Israel to the same degree as Russia.  

She told Ryan Bridge words are not enough.  

Swarbrick says there's large scale starvation and Palestinians can't eat words.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two guards that we go Opposition parties here saying government
needs to get harder to take a harsher stance against Israel. Yesterday,
Winston Peter has joined a bunch of other countries and
calling for an immediate cease fire.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This horror must end. Two lives have been lost, too
many people have been traumatized, polarized and embittered, ensuring that
yet another generational was ready. And Palestinian children born into
a situation have been sufferable conflict and enmity. That is
why and Zeeland has come together with foreign ministers from
twenty seven other countries to state as curly as we

(00:34):
can that enough is enough, that this war must end,
now that this suffering is intolerable.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Cloe Straubert Ring Party colid with me this morning, Chloe,
good morning. So what more can Winston Dowey has called
for an unconditional seats fire, immediate seats fire. What else?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Foreign Minister has been calling for a cease fire
for the better part of two years, but Ryan, at
the end of the day, Palestinians can't eat, and right
now the blockade on Gaza is starving, actively starving. The
people of Palestine. Look We've had Holocaust scholars and survivors,
We've had Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Entities, Amnesty International,

(01:13):
all of which have said that what is unfolding before
our very eyes is a genocide. Then we have the
horrific videos livestream to our phones twenty four to seven,
and as schools, hospitals are being bombed and eight hundred
people have been murdered in the last two months, lighting
up for food. I think the absolute bare minimum that
any of us can accept from our so called representatives

(01:34):
and leaders is put substance behind their words.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So stratifically, what specific sanctions are you talking about, because
we've got sanctions travel bands against a couple of members
of ntnyah's cabinet. But what specifically else would you like?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
So we can copy the exact same frameworks that we
did with the Russia's Sanctions Act, where you'll recall that
our Parliament acted within just a few weeks of Russia's
unlawful invasion into an occupation of Ukraine and sanctioned Russia autonomously.
That's the reason that I took the parallel approach with
the sanctions Bill. With the unawful occupation of Palestine, Sanctions
Bill which actually would implement a put some substance behind

(02:11):
the words that we signed up to in September of
last year when we joined with one hundred and twenty
three other Member states to support the United Nations General
Assembly effectively to back up the advisory opinion from the ICJ,
the International Court of Justice in a nutshell, Ryan, we
have seen other countries also move to do this, yes,
spaceic sanctions. That Ireland has done this, we saw, we

(02:35):
saw just last week that twelve countries came together to
do the same and Bogata. So we need some action
behind words. All those words are just empty.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
We appreciate your time. Close for Green Party co leader.
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