Well its a start – Mark
Anthony Albanese has hardened Australia’s criticism of Israel in key UN votes, deepening its rift with the US on the Middle East as incoming president Donald Trump prepares to strengthen American support for the Jewish state.
Australia’s representative at the UN in New York overturned the nation’s past positions to support draft resolutions recognising the “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians to the occupied territories’ natural resources, and demanding compensation from Israel for a wartime oil spill affecting Lebanon 18 years ago.
Australia had abstained or voted against the first resolution since 2003, and opposed the second since 2006.
The move, during UN committee ballots on Thursday (AEDT), follows the Albanese government’s decision to break with the US and abandon longstanding ¬bipartisan support for Israel by ¬declaring Australia could recognise a Palestinian state ahead of a negotiated two-state ¬solution.
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