{"id":59622,"date":"2025-08-11T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59622\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:20:07","slug":"australias-recognition-of-palestine-a-small-step-to-two-state-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59622\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s recognition of Palestine a small step to two state solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s announcement that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state has been welcomed by Professor Greg Barton.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledges the recognition will be symbolic, but believes it is a small step towards opening political negotiations at a time when it appears nothing will sway the policies of the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p>He is not ruling out the possibility Australia will be punished by the US in some way for this decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister&#8217;s announcement that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state has been welcomed by Professor Greg Barton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,6901,6898,6897,12241,44,6899,3755,21392,6902,6900],"class_list":["post-59622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-podcast","tag-statehood","tag-united-nations","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59622","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=59622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}