Israel/Palestine

Eugene

(66,229 posts) Mon Aug 11, 2025, 02:39 AM Aug 11

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Albanese says

Source: Associated Press

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Albanese says

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-MCLAY
Updated 12:01 AM EDT, August 11, 2025

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday, joining the leaders of France, Britain and Canada in signaling they would do so.

His remarks followed weeks of urging from within his Cabinet and from many in Australia to recognize a Palestinian state and amid growing criticism from officials in his government over suffering in Gaza, which Albanese on Monday referred to as a “humanitarian catastrophe.”

Australia’s government has also criticized plans announced in recent days by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu for a sweeping new military offensive in Gaza.

Albanese told reporters after a Cabinet meeting Monday that Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state will be formalized at the United Nations General Assembly in September. The acknowledgement was “predicated on commitments Australia has received from the Palestinian Authority,” Albanese said.

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I'm starting to think that Hamas planned this all along. Two hundred Hamas "Terrorists/Freedom Fighters" will..... FadedMullet Aug 11 #1

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1. I'm starting to think that Hamas planned this all along. Two hundred Hamas "Terrorists/Freedom Fighters" will.....

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Mon Aug 11, 2025, 04:52 AM

Aug 11

.......attack an Israeli town and kill and capture a bunch of Israeli. Netanyahu will go nuts, egged on by his loony cabinet members and will bomb the shit out of us, destroy everything and kill or maim a bunch of our children. Their martyrdom and Israeli atrocities will open the eyes of the West to the fact that Israel seeks to drive us out of the "promised land" completely (just like "God wanted in the beginning) and 50 years of talk about two states and peace is just talk.

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