Australia’s parliament votes against recognising Palestinian state
Australia’s federal parliament has voted against recognising Palestine as an independent state.
Here’s how the House of Representatives voted on the motion put forward by the Greens:
- Yes: 5. The Australian Greens and Independent Andrew Wilkie.
- No: 80. Representatives from the Labor government, as well as the Liberal and National parties.
Australia was one of 143 countries that voted in support of Palestine’s becoming a full UN member in the UN General Assembly earlier this month.
Several countries have announced they will recognise the State of Palestine so far this year including Barbados, the Bahamas, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Australia is still dealing with its own bloody colonial past.
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/australias-bloody-past-of-british-colonialism/
It's not surprising countries with colonial skeletons in their closet keep backing Israel's colonial genocide and not willing to recognize the 'natives' as people with equal rights.
Saudi Arabia condemns Israel’s ‘continued genocidal massacres’
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry has denounced Israel’s attacks on the tents of “defenceless” people in Rafah and called for international action to stop the “continuous genocidal massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people”, according to the official Saudi Press Agency,
The ministry said Israel’s blatant violations of international law and norms were taking place against a backdrop of silence and “puts the credibility of the institutions of international legitimacy at stake”.
It added, “The kingdom stresses the need for the international community to assume its responsibilities today more than ever before, to stop the massacres against the Palestinian people and hold those responsible accountable.”
Former US presidential candidate Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on Israeli shell
Failed US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has been photographed writing, “Finish them”, on an Israeli shell as she toured military locations on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament and former ambassador to the United Nations, posted the photo – which was taken as he accompanied Haley on her border visit – to his social media account.
“‘Finish Them’. This is what my friend the former ambassador Nikki Haley wrote,” Danon said in his post that shows a kneeling Haley writing on an artillery shell with a purple marker pen.
Haley was the US ambassador to the UN under former President Donald Trump and her term overlapped with Danon.
Images from Israeli Knesset member Danny Danon’s X social media account.
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