David Robie

‘I don’t conspire, I write.’ – Raúl Rivero * Kia ora koutou. Editor of Asia Pacific Report. Awarded Member of NZ Merit (MNZM) 2024.

[David Robie @DavidRobie]

Independent journalism - Pacific Media Watch updates at @pacmedcentre : https://t.co/z76DwnmbTh

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"We were occupied in Norway.. & those resistance fighters in Norway are our heroes, & the German occupiers called them terrorists.. Palestine is defending itself. Israel is attacking"

@DrMadsGilbert talking to @MyriamFrancoisC

Watch it here: https://t.co/Q90dofiHZv

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Tucker Carlson:

The Israeli government has abandoned the central tenet of Western civilization, which is justice on an individual basis, and instead adopted an older and darker and, I would say, evil standard of blood guilt.

So don't lecture me about Western civilization and tell me that if I don't defend Israel, I don't defend Western civilization.

I oppose the policies of Israel precisely because I do defend Western civilization.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Israeli fascist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:
“Our goal in the next Israeli government is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the annexation of the West Bank, and the cancellation of the Oslo Accords.”

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

President Trump's claim that "missiles were flying all over the place" over Minab is absurd. The school was struck on the very first day of the war, before Iran had fired a single retaliatory shot. The skies over Hormozgan that morning contained one nation's missiles. They were American.

The New York Times, CNN, Amnesty International, and multiple independent investigations all concluded that the strike used a Tomahawk cruise missile, a weapon Iran does not possess. Such a missile is engineered to strike within five metres of its target. It does not mistake a classroom for a military base. And it did not strike once. The school was hit three times, the second strike targeting the prayer room where surviving children had been moved to shelter. Triple-tapping a girls' primary school is not an accident. It is a method.

The policy context makes the intent undeniable. In the opening days of the war, War Secretary @PeteHegseth declared the assault would proceed with "no stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no politically correct wars." He later pledged "no quarter, no mercy."

Before the first strike, he had purged the senior JAG officers, which is the military's own legal guardrails. Al Jazeera's investigation concluded the targeting was either grossly negligent or deliberately designed to "inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran's military establishment." Either finding is a war crime.

Trump now says accountability is "a strange question." That answer closes the case for self-investigation and opens the door to external jurisdiction.

The Rome Statute's complementarity principle is precise: where a state is unwilling to genuinely investigate, the ICC may act. The evidence of unwillingness here is the president's own words.

Beyond the ICC, states exercising universal jurisdiction - Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, and others - are not merely empowered but obligated under the Geneva Conventions to investigate grave breaches, including the willful killing of protected civilians. Once indictments issue, the named individuals face arrest in any cooperating jurisdiction they enter.

The children of Minab were killed in the first hour of a war they did not know had started. The legal record is built. What remains is the will of the international community and third states to honour the obligations they have assumed.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

TUCKER CARLSON: “Trump sincerely convinced himself that killing the Ayatollah Khamenei would collapse Iran. Intelligence agencies told him it was FALSE. The Israelis told him it was TRUE. When it turned out to be totally wrong days later, he was enraged..”

Trump got played.

[David Robie @DavidRobie]

Lim Tean: Marco Rubio embarrasses himself – and America – over Iran #asiapacificreport #limtean @LimTean #analysis #commentary #USIrantalks #diplomacy #IranWar‌
https://t.co/lZi7m62kkz

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Sen. @ChrisVanHollen is 100% right. This is what it looks like when you put US national interest ahead of partisan politics. Other Democrats should follow suit.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: RT confirms a terrifying reality.

Israel is actively re-establishing abandoned settlements to completely encircle Jenin.

Jenin Mayor warns this military expansion is a calculated step towards full annexation of the West Bank.

The Zionist regime is stealing land!

[LJ @ElleJayTas]

@PeterCronau @davidkersten @abcnews Let’s help them with their reporting, they seem to be struggling

https://t.co/ScNJGyU7Lb

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

You’ll see @ABCnews report Gabbard resigned & that she investigated Covid origins.

But no report on her last day document release on US’s bio-weapons & their development of Covid.

“Ms Gabbard.. task force..has worked to.. probe the origins of COVID-19.” https://t.co/N1NumFD3Dj

[David Robie @DavidRobie]

Bougainville sets out full three-stage proposal for independence by 2030 #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #bougainville #decolonisation #independence #papuanewguinea
https://t.co/MQUxE0N7d3

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

My family and I are exposed to all sorts of threats, restrictions and hateful rethoric.

Yet we would say and do everything we have said and done against the genocide, its ideologues and profiteers, again and again.

Forever proud to stand on the side of Justice.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! RT correspondent confirms Israel is illegally building a military base inside Area A of the West Bank.

Jenin Mayor Jarrar warns this completely cancels the Oslo Agreement.

The Zionist regime is intentionally reoccupying Palestinian territory!

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Over the past few weeks, META’s censorship of my account has reduced my Reel Views by 68%, regular views by 27%, followers by 52%, and engagement by 21%. While META claimed this was due to my content being "unoriginal" (!?), I dug deeper and it turned out to be due to videos I had posted last year on Israel's genocide in Gaza. Which is why I am leaving Facebook and moving to Substack.

https://t.co/WTekXgVLWo

[David Robie @DavidRobie]

A timeline of how the fuel crisis impacted on the Pacific #asiapacificreport #rnzpacific #Pacificenergycrisis #timeline #fuelsupplies
https://t.co/D2AmV3BehS

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Is it difficult coming back?"

Surgeon professor Nizam Mamode, who was working in Gaza a few weeks ago: "Yes"

"How do you feel when you return?"

"I feel quite angry that this country.. is letting this genocide go by and doing nothing about it"

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

If we did not have our missiles, which are for our self-defense, Israel and America would have plowed through Iran the way Gaza was plowed through, and they would have shown no mercy to the old or the young.

They speak of human rights. It is a great lie.

If we could not defend ourselves, they certainly would not have shown mercy to our country and would have destroyed our power.

Therefore, we will never, under any circumstances, negotiate with anyone over our defensive capabilities.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: NETANYAHU SAYS HE ORDRED TRUMP INTO IRAN WAR:

“When I came to President Trump, I told him:

"We are going into Iran."

I did not ask permission. I simply informed him of our plan.”

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This Guardian article doesn’t once mention that he supported the Iraq War or that he is the former chair of Labour Friends of Israel.

Very interesting omissions.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Iran wasting no time consolidating control over Hormuz

Issued a joint statment with Oman about arrangements for maritime safety and "costs associated with them"

Immediately contradicting Trump promise of "no tolls"

Iran's global power rising in real time