Australia to Recognize Palestinian Statehood
In the past two months, France, the UK, and Canada have signaled that they would recognize a Palestinian state at the next U.N. General Assembly in September.

Australia to Recognize Palestinian Statehood

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at the 80th Session of the United Nations in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters on Monday following a Cabinet meeting.
The decision means Albanese joins the leaders of Canada, France, and the UK, who recently announced that they would be recognizing Palestinian statehood at the major U.N. gathering. New Zealand’s government has also indicated that it is considering the same move.

Albanese said recognition would be predicated on commitments that Canberra has received from the Palestinian Authority, the Fatah-controlled governing body of the West Bank. In a separate statement published on Albanese’s website, the commitments outlined include no role for the Hamas terrorist group in a Palestinian government, demilitarization, and holding elections.
He said the move was “part of a coordinated global effort building momentum for a two-state solution.”

Canberra has held talks over the past two weeks with the leaders of several nations, according to the prime minister, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“A two-state solution is humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East, and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering, and starvation in Gaza,” the Australian premier said.


Albanese said on his website that his decision contributes to international pressure to formalize a two-state solution, call a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, and secure the release of hostages still being held by Hamas after the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

“Hamas continues to damage the prospects of a two-state solution and rejects Israel’s right to exist. Hamas must release the hostages cruelly taken on October 7, 2023 immediately, unconditionally and with dignity,” he said. “The Australian Government has consistently made clear there can be no role for Hamas in a Palestinian state.”

The Australian premier also said the Netanyahu government “is extinguishing the prospect of a two-state solution by rapidly expanding illegal settlements, threatening annexation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and explicitly opposing any Palestinian state.”

Israel’s Response
Israeli Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon released a statement on X that criticized Canberra’s decision, saying that Australia is undermining Israel’s security by recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas “continues to kill, kidnap, and reject peace.”
“This decision will not change the reality on the ground. Peace is not achieved through declarations; it is achieved when those who have chosen terror abandon it and when violence and incitement end,” Maimon said. “Rewarding those who use terror as a political tool sends the dangerous message that violence brings political gains.”

Israel began its military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which saw Hamas-led terrorists kill about 1,200 civilians in Israel and kidnap 251. According to the Israeli government website, 49 of those who were abducted that day are still being held in captivity. One additional hostage has been held in Gaza since 2014.
The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health reported on Aug. 10 that more than 61,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its casualty figures, and The Epoch Times cannot verify their accuracy.
France, Canada, UK
In the past two months, some Western nations have indicated that they plan to recognize a Palestinian state. On July 24, Macron said he would formally announce France’s recognition of a Palestinian state at the U.N. gathering, citing the need to end the Israel–Hamas war.
Four days later, Starmer said the UK will make the same move unless Israel agrees to a cease-fire and to improve humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.
The following day, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country would recognize Palestinian statehood at the U.N. if the Palestinian Authority committed to making reforms, including holding an election in 2026 and refraining from militarization.
On Aug. 11, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said in a statement that Wellington will consider whether it will also formally recognize a Palestinian state in September.
“New Zealand has been clear for some time that our recognition of a Palestinian state is a matter of when, not if,” Peters said.

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Reward hamas. That'll teach them.

Clueless fuckheads.

The so called "two state solution" is gibberish, the Arabs have refused to accept that. They have been explicit: They want a one state solution, drive the Jews into the sea. An all Arab state that is Jew free.

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Maimon said. “Rewarding those who use terror as a political tool sends the dangerous message that violence brings political gains.”

The entirety of the land should be bulldozed and they should never have any claims to the land again. You don't reward the murder of 1,200 people or the torture and kidnapping of hundreds more, you punish that type of behavior. Rewarding it will just send a signal to the next terrorist organization that terrorism works.

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Albanese said recognition would be predicated on commitments that Canberra has received from the Palestinian Authority, the Fatah-controlled governing body of the West Bank. In a separate statement published on Albanese’s website, the commitments outlined include no role for the Hamas terrorist group in a Palestinian government, demilitarization, and holding elections.

He said the move was “part of a coordinated global effort building momentum for a two-state solution.”

Sure...
Lets create a country but, we don't know where their boundaries are, what kind of government they'll have, who's going to be involved in it never mind that the supposed population that would be involved with this country has avowed themselves to destroying another country.

So brave for these virtue signalers to recognize the terrorists half a world away.
Maybe if they had to live on the same continent with these savages they might give it a little more thought.

Im all for it. Take a portion of Western Australia and call it Palestine. Settle them all there, and let Isreal absorb the abandoned real estate.

The two-state solution within the State of Israel died on October 7th 2023.

The Arabs in Gaza killed it along with more than the 1200 innocent people they murdered.

The two-state solution has existed since May 15th 1948 when The State of Israel was declared, and prior to that, the Arab states of Egypt and Jordon existing since 1922.

The Arabs in Israel, who call themselves "Palestinian" are majority Egyptian and Jordanian Arabs.

Those are "their" states.
They need to leave the State of Israel.

From talking with friends in Israel, I agree w/ sigmonkey. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment for most in Israel. There are exceptions - liberals in Israel. Thankfully not as popular as liberals here.

Recognizing Palestine is the reward that Hamas has been waiting for. Why would they now negotiate in good faith when they can just stall and wait Israel out.

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Thankfully not as popular as liberals here.

The Left--real Socialists--ran Israel for decades. Since Likud has been in power, especially under Netanyahu, two things seem to have happened:
1. The Terrorists have gotten much worse, and turned almost all Israelis against them
2. Netanyahu's liberal (i.e. free market) economic policies have turned Israel into an economic dynamo, at the forefront of the world in computer, medical, and military technology research and implementation.

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Originally posted by Captain Morgan:
Im all for it. Take a portion of Western Australia and call it Palestine. Settle them all there, and let Isreal absorb the abandoned real estate.

Beat me to it.