MFATInsider

Personal views from inside the 195. I wouldn't say I'm disgruntled, but I'm not exactly gruntled either.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

If this were any other country, we'd be busy writing condemnation speeches/statements every other week and attending international meetings on how we can end this violence. We'd even be supporting coalition airstrikes!

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Palestinian families document their harrowing displacement in Gaza under evacuation orders while israeli tanks & snipers kill, shoot and fire at them

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

I don’t think Americans fully understand that exceptionalism + an unaccountable foreign policy directly translates into an ongoing misreading of reality out of step with much of the world

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@KajensAngel @nzsis Nah, if you see my bio it specifically says that I'm not disgruntled! And I don't need extra cash as I'm a very well-paid public servant ��

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

Come back to us once another 38,000 innocent Israeli civilians have been killed, and then we'll talk moral equivalency.

[Israel Institute of NZ @IsraelInstNZ]

No comment on the murdered hostages, @MFATNZ?
We hear you loud and clear.
#nzpol

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@Orcacocoa @IsraelInstNZ @MFATNZ please refer us to our "antisemitic" post?

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@IsraelInstNZ @MFATNZ Come back to us once another 38,000 innocent Israeli civilians have been killed, and then we'll talk about moral equivalency

[david galler @gauloir]

The Big Lie - the UK has Farage, the US has Trump, NZ has ⁦@dbseymour⁩ - cut from the same cloth these men are liars and totally unfit to lead. Seymour’s big lie succinctly summarised here by Andrea Vance. https://t.co/auxYGtqBQa

[Ayn Randy @AynRandy666]

Anyone with a brain knows NZ badly needs a capital gains tax.

Which is exactly why National, ACT and NZ First oppose one 🤔🙄 #nzpol

https://t.co/2BsEyTBCN7

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@Jennifercarryer I've seen Shane Jones bully public servants because they wouldn't go along with his corrupt policies that he wanted ito enact purely to enrich his mates at the expense of the taxpayer.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@Filhab3 Now do Trump

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@KajensAngel @toddmstephenson 🤣🤡

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

I wish NZ had the moral strength to call this out. The Ministry is making clear the facts on the ground, but there are those in MFAT leadership and in the Beehive who are too worried about the US and Israel's reaction. And some in the Beehive just lack basic moral character.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@KajensAngel So you're not embarrassed by your support for war crimes? In that case, I'm sorry for making that assumption.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

If this were any other country, we'd be busy writing condemnation speeches/statements every other week and attending international meetings on how we can end this violence. We'd even be supporting coalition airstrikes!

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Palestinian families document their harrowing displacement in Gaza under evacuation orders while israeli tanks & snipers kill, shoot and fire at them

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@KajensAngel I'm sorry of your support for war crimes embarrasses you.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

"Washington orthodoxy" is right, though - our CEs have spent the majority of their senior postings in Five Eyes capitals - Corry: Washington, London; Seed: Canberra x 3. King (DPMC CE) was in Washington (and Bangkok). Not hard to work out the way in which we sees the world

[Sam Sachdeva @SamSachdevaNZ]

I've tried to stay out of the Aukus Twitter trenches this week, but the second para of this is clearly untrue. There have been an abundance of news stories and op-eds in recent months featuring (entirely fair) critiques of Aukus from politicians, academics, and others.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

I've just realised that Trump always talks about countries emptying their mental institutions into the US because he thinks "seeking asylum" is somehow linked to "insane asylums"!!🤡

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

Surely, it's time for NZ to stand up and call out Israel for this holocaust. We should join South Africa's case in the ICJ.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

What the israelis do is unspeakable: Gaza’s children; toddlers, targeted with high velocity sniper bullets: some had their entire torsos blown off

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@grantmcknz And deprive Luxon of my brilliance? He needs all the help he can get! 😀

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

The consensus around the office is that our current PM is the least intelligent any of us have worked for. Ever. And we have current staff going as far back as Lange.

[MFATInsider @InsiderMfat]

@slingshot_the Yes, indeed, let's cut all funding to make sure that every single Palestinian child suffers for the sins of a few terrorists.