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Speaker 1: So if you watch the Peter speech in New York

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Speaker 1: like Saturday morning, you can see why he did so

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Speaker 1: well in last week's Herald's boardroom feedback for the bloke

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Speaker 1: who's been the epitome of agro and grumpiness in his

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Speaker 1: better moments, he is as good a foreign minister as

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Speaker 1: this country's ever had. Politically, the announcement and its built

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Speaker 1: up got dragged out way longer than it ever needed to,

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Speaker 1: and therefore took up too much oxygen at a time

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Speaker 1: when we really should be focusing on vastly more pressing

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Speaker 1: local issues. And no matter what we said, the eyes

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Speaker 1: of the world were never really honest, despite the hysteria

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Speaker 1: of too many in our media landscape who have little

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Speaker 1: or no grip on perspective. But given we were to

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Speaker 1: say something, what we did say was logical and sensible,

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Speaker 1: unlike what was said by many far larger countries earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week. The United Nations' greatest weakness is its

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Speaker 1: reliance on hot air as opposed to substance, which is

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Speaker 1: why we landed where we did in our declaration. Just

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Speaker 1: saying stuff counts for nothing. It's too easy, which is

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Speaker 1: why too many people do it By the time Peters

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Speaker 1: had finished the week, he'd done some excellent truth bomb

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Speaker 1: work on climate He's indisputably right. We make a lot

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Speaker 1: of promises we know aren't going to come to pass.

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Speaker 1: And on Gaza. We're all appalled at the art workings

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Speaker 1: of hate, but recognizing things doesn't stop that hate, or

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Speaker 1: the war, or had the food flow or the hostages released. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: we should expect more of both Israel and the Palestinians.

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Speaker 1: Don't ask for recognition while you're still refusing to release

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Speaker 1: hostages when there is something a lot more tangible. New

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Speaker 1: Zealand is ready to recognize progress. Progress is tangible words,

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Speaker 1: aren't The idea that a lot of people saying stuff

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Speaker 1: builds momentum is simply not true. We've seen that in

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Speaker 1: the past week. A piece, if there is to be one,

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Speaker 1: will be driven by the Americans, who will corral the

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Speaker 1: Israelis to a point of some sort of submission or agreement.

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Speaker 1: Albanezi and Starbar and Carne and all the rest of

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Speaker 1: them played true to the usual lightweight verbal frippery that's

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Speaker 1: made the UN famous. We at least told it like

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Speaker 1: it was. It was a good moment for a small

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