{"id":81336,"date":"2025-08-20T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:11:08","slug":"labor-responds-after-netanyahu-blasts-weak-albanese-trump-rules-out-us-troops-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81336\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor responds after Netanyahu blasts \u2018weak\u2019 Albanese; Trump rules out US troops in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leader of the nation\u2019s peak Jewish representative group has branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cunseemly\u201d and \u201cunacceptable\u201d for attacking Anthony Albanese on social media as he urged the two leaders to de-escalate tensions.<\/p>\n<p>After Netanyahu labelled Albanese \u201cweak\u201d in a post on X on Tuesday night, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said that \u201cit\u2019s unseemly to speak to another leader, foreign leader of another country, an allied nation, you know, in that way and in that forum\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/33e94af4176a6fc31c823cfc6f4db7788dc0ba57.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin.Credit: James Brickwood<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think nothing is gained by these sorts of exchanges,\u201d he told Sky News this morning. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen some remarks by [Home Affairs Minister] Tony Burke in response to the Prime Minister this morning which are totally out of line as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think both parties are acting contrary to the interests of the people they\u2019re seeking to represent and serve, and they need to find a new course and a new way of dealing with each other and doing business because this is entirely counterproductive.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ryvchin, who has been a staunch defender of Israel during the war in Gaza, said he understood Netanyahu\u2019s frustration with an increase in antisemitic incidents in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e84ece805da303acbafabd8368e4b2bff169a286.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is not the way to do it, and the response from the Australian government has been overblown as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we need everyone to really calm down and think about what\u2019s at stake here. Beyond the leaders there are people, there are bilateral relations, there are deep economic, cultural and academic ties that benefit Australia and Israel, and they need to be preserved at all costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leader of the nation\u2019s peak Jewish representative group has branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u201cunseemly\u201d and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-81336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81336","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=81336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}