Australia recognises Palestine

 Yesterday the Australian government would recognise Palestine next month at the UN if certain conditions were met.

Well this should have occurred in 1948/9 just like Israel.

A couple of things before commenting.

Israel well David Ben-gurion used vicious jewish terrorists in 1948 which created the nakba.Two former terrorists have become Prime minister and like Yasser Arafat never apologized for their crimes. Hamas i nessence was created by Israeli intelligence services to provide a counter to Arafat and divide Palestine polity. West Bank settlers have killed nearly as many palestinians since october 7 as Hamas di in their murderous spree that day. In any other circumstances they would be called terrorists. There have been an average of 4 'incidents' each day this year.

There are a number of problems of recognising Palestine. 

1.  Israel has essentially made Gaza rubble. By bombing the 32 hospitals and the targeting of medical professionals their medium term objective is to 'encourage all palestinians to leave.
2. Israel has stolen land from the palestinians on the West Bank as well as turning a blind eye their killing thus Israel is taking more and more of the West Bank
3. It was envisaged that Palestine would be one country that is Gaza and the West Bank would be joined.

Who thinks Israel will give up any territory or help build what they have destroyed?

Many in Israel believe in a one state solution ( Israel) where palestinians have no rights.

Hamas cannot be part of any government. They have not only killed their own countrymen but their actions on October 7 has meant over 60,000 of them have been killed. ( Spare a thought for the christians there. Hamas hates them as they do not want to take revenge of Israel after their family members have been killed and Israel treats them as though they were muslims!)

I have said many times it would be very hard to see peace in this place as both peoples appear to hate each other with a violent passion. It is no coincidence that a lot of Israelis killed on october 7 were sympathetic to palestinians. Hamas wants to continue the hate and the killings. I see the same thing on the Israeli side so this problem needs a modern day mandela to succeed.