The new announcement is just the latest in a number of steps the Australian government has taken to distance itself from Israel since its election in May last year.
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
Australia’s Labor Party government ought to take a look in the mirror before hurling false and insulting accusations at Israel.
The placing of the blame on incitement is a clear strategy of successive Israeli governments to remove legitimate Palestinian claims from the public sphere.
Australia stopped referring to the West Bank as occupied in 2014, now they plan to revert to this terminology.
Israeli-Saudi peace is a good thing, but only when it also includes ending the occupation and reaching Israeli-Palestinian peace.
The results of the second quarter of 2023 indicate a decline in the popularity of Fatah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s government argued that its hold on the West Bank cannot be considered an occupation, because the territory historically belonged to ancient Israel.
I tried to explain that just like us, almost all Palestinians want to control their own destiny and they do not want to live under the oppression and humility of occupation.
“We no longer believe it’s possible to convince the majority of the Israeli public to accept our positions,” Becher said, “so our mission is to advocate overseas for international intervention.”