NETANYAHU’S VISIT STIRS CONTROVERSIES
It was all smiles between Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, but the first visit to Australia by a sitting Israeli leader isn’t without tensions. Netanyahu has criticised former Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Bob Hawke over their comments on Israel and Palestine after being asked about the comments at a press conference:
“I prefer not to deal with labels but with substance, and I ask both former prime ministers to ask a simple question: what kind of state will it be that they are advocating?”
“A state that calls for Israel’s destruction? A state whose territory will be used immediately for radical Islam?”
Rudd has
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