Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for Australia to formally recognise Palestine ahead of an historic visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Mr Rudd said the “time has come” for Australia to make this historic shift in foreign policy because he feared the world was “drifting towards the disintegration and death of an independent Palestinian state”.
It followed a statement he gave to the ABC’s PM on Friday in which he confirmed his support to recognise Palestine, “as 137 states already have”.
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