Wellington, New Zealand (AP) – Australia A Palestinian kingdom will be recognized, Prime Minister Anthony Albanis said on Monday, joining the leaders of the leaders France, Britain and Canada They will do this in signaling.
His remarks followed the weeks to recognize a Palestinian kingdom within his cabinet and in Australia amid the increasing criticism of officials in his government when he was a “human destruction”, which Albani on Monday called a “human destruction”.
Government of Australia has also criticized Plan announced in recent times Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu for a new military aggressive in Gaza.
Albani says the conditions for Palestine recognition should be met
Albanis told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday that Australia’s decision to recognize a Palestinian kingdom would be formalized in the United Nations General Assembly in September. Albanis said that the acknowledgment was “dedicated to the commitments received from the Palestinian Authority.”
Those commitments had no role for Hamas in a Palestinian government, demonetisation of Gaza and holding elections, he said.
Albanis said, “A two-state solution is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to end the struggle, pain and starvation in the Gaza.”
“The situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fear,” he said. “The Israeli government continues to avoid international law and denies adequate assistance, food and water to desperate people including children.”
Netanyahu reprimanded Australia before the announcement
Next to Albani’s declaration, Netanyahu criticized Australia and other European countries on Sunday, which has gone to recognize a Palestinian state.
The Israeli leader said, “To march in European countries and Australia in that rabbit hole … it’s canard, disappointing and I think it’s really embarrassing.”
Australia nominated Hamas as a terrorist unit and Albanis on Monday reiterated its government’s group to return the Israeli hostages held since October 7, 2023.
The Australian leader spoke to Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas last week, which the authority administered parts of the West Bank-occupied West Bank, supports the two-state solution and cooperates with Israel on security matters. Abbas has agreed to situations with Western leaders including Albani, as he prepared to identify the Palestinian kingdom.
Albanis said, “This is an opportunity for the people of Palestine to self -determinate that separates Hamas, separates it and removes it out of the field once and for all.” He said that Hamas did not support the two-state solution.
Recognition is increasing, but is largely symbolic without America
About 150 out of 193 members of the United Nations Already recognized the Palestinian stateMost of them decades ago. The United States and other Western powers have stated that the Palestinian should be part of a final agreement to solve the decades -old Middle East struggle of the state.
Recognition announcements are largely symbolic and are rejected by Israel, and by the United States – the only country with any real advantage on Netanyahu. The Israeli leader said this month that he would not accept the Palestinian Authority’s participation in a government for Palestine.
A two-state solution will see a status of Palestine, which is built in the most or all occupied West Bank with Israel, annexed to the war-opinion Gaza Strip and Eastern Jerusalem, in the Middle East War of 1967, Israel seized that Palestinians wanted for their kingdom.
Albanis on Monday dismissed the suggestions that the step was completely symbolic.
“This construction is a practical contribution to speed,” he said. “This Australia is not acting alone.”
He said that Albani had discussed Australia’s decision with leaders from Britain, France, New Zealand and Japan. He said “long discussion” with Netanyahu this month, he said.
In the neighboring New Zealand, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday that his government would carefully weigh his position on recognition of a Palestinian state before taking a formal decision in September “.
Peters said in a statement, “New Zealand has become clear for some time that our recognition of Palestinian state is one thing, when not,” Peters said in a statement.
Australian Jewish and Palestinian groups criticized the move
Following the Albanis announcement on Monday, the messenger in Australia, Israel, said the move reduced Israel’s security.
“Now recognizing a Palestinian kingdom, Australia enhances the position of Hamas, a group that he accepts as a terrorist organization,” Amir Mamon posted X.
“This commitment removes any encouragement or diplomatic pressure for the Palestinians, which have always stood on the way to end the conflict,” the Australian Jew Alex Rivechin’s Executive Council spokesman said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Australia President Palestine advocacy network Nasir Mashani considered Albanese’s recognition too late and “completely meaningless”, while the country continues to trade with Israel.
He told reporters in Melbourne on Monday that the move would “do nothing to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza that has been streamful for the whole world for two years.”
Charlotte Graham-Mack, Associated Press