Prime Minister Anthony Albanese doubled down on Australia\u2019s position that Hamas must have no role in any future Palestinian state.<\/p>\n
Asked what Australia\u2019s own pathway and timeline to recognising Palestinian statehood would be, the PM told Canberra reporters, \u201cHamas is a terrorist organisation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should have no role to play in a future Palestinian state, and I note the conference from the Arab League last week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for actions that undermine a two-state solution and around the distribution of aid.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrime Minister Netanyahu has made comments that are certainly not consistent with a two-state solution as well, and we have been critical of some of the actions of Israel in particular,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision they made in March to breach what has been expected of a democratic nation and withhold the supply of aid for people who desperately needed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy message would be the same privately as it has been in the past. I said to Prime Minister Netanyahu before, as I have said publicly for a long period of time, that I am a supporter of a two-state solution and there cannot be peace and security in the Middle East without there being an advance on the two-state solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese doubled down on Australia\u2019s position that Hamas must have no role in any future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-42551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}