{"id":81241,"date":"2025-08-20T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81241\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:16:13","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-labor-fires-back-at-netanyahu-after-outrage-over-governments-hamas-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81241\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Labor fires back at Netanyahu after outrage over government\u2019s Hamas stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has called for restraint amid an escalating diplomatic row between Australia and Israel, warning that a tit-for-tat approach could damage decades of cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Tensions have flared after the Albanese government cancelled the visa of Israeli MP Simcha Rothman, prompting the Netanyahu government to revoke visas for Australian diplomats in the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Council\u2019s co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin urged both governments not to jeopardise hard\u2011won ties across trade, security and science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAllies with extensive economic, scientific and cultural ties should not be engaging in a diplomatic tit-for-tat that erodes the goodwill and cooperation built up over decades,\u201d Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cCalm heads need to take control of the situation otherwise there will be a risk to some $2 billion dollars in bilateral trade, extensive investment in Australian start-ups, vital security cooperation and the Israeli-made medicine and medical technology that we all rely on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere are real-life consequences here and we want to see the countries work through any issues before things get out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has called for restraint amid an escalating diplomatic row between Australia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-81241","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\/81241","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=81241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}