MANA Leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira
Thursday 24 July 2014
Burning the Flag or Accepting the Evil
Burning the Israeli flag in Auckland in protest over the murder of innocent civilians in Gaza is nothing to be ashamed
of” said MANA Leader and Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira. “Calling for both sides to stand down when one side is
annihilating the other though, IS something to be ashamed of.”
“On one side you have a state with nuclear weapons, tanks, artillery, fighter planes, helicopter gunships, warships, a
fully operational army, and the best missile defence system in the world that has killed hundreds of innocent civilians,
displaced more than 100,000 people, and destroyed the infrastructure of the people in Gaza, in the last couple of
weeks.”
“On the other side you have kids with rocks, and irregulars with rockets who have killed 2 civilians.”
“Martin Luther King once said, He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without
protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
“Israel has committed a monstrous evil by its massacre of innocent civilians. MANA refuses to passively accept that evil
and chooses to protest against it, and if that protest involves burning a mere flag, then so be it.”
“Those condemning the burning of the flag might want to take a look in the mirror and ask themselves what it is that
they are doing to protest against the massacre in Gaza.”
ENDS