Bill Shorten

Shorten’s pilgrimage to Holy Land leads to thorny questions about his faith in Palestine

Bill Shorten addresses the media from Jerusalem, yesterday:

I am looking forward to meeting with the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Hamdallah …

Rami Hamdallah from the Palestinian Authority is supposedly a moderate. Al-Bawaba News, Sunday:

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah demanded on Sunday that Britain apologise for the declaration promising a Jewish state in historical Palestine, ahead of its 100-year anniversary in the coming week.

And he doesn’t think much of his fellow Palestinians either. The New Arab website, September 11:

A leading Palestinian human rights activist was released from jail on Sunday, after he was arrested last week for criticising a crackdown on freedom of expression by Palestinian Authority security officials.

 

Read the full article from the Cut & Paste section of The Australian.