Those who accuse the Albanese Government of breaking with a historic Labor position of opposing recognition of a Palestinian state are wrong.
Labor has a long-held ambition of a two-state solution to the Palestinian Israeli conflict.
Albanese’s recognition of a Palestinian state implements a long-held Labor ambition
It is not surprising that the Whitlam Government supported what has become known as a two-state solution before the phrase was coined – the right of Israel and Palestine to co-exist in peace.
But no Labor prime minister has been more avowedly pro-Israel than Bob Hawke.