Former Labor foreign minister says Canberra must seek to be a world leader – not wait for the US or UK – and recognise a Palestinian state
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The former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr says the federal government should sanction Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and move quickly to recognise Palestine statehood, saying it would send “a message that we are turned inside out with disgust by what appears the deliberate starvation” of Gaza.
Carr, the former NSW state premier and Labor elder, praised Anthony Albanese’s latest statement condemning Israel, which accused Netanyahu’s government of denying aid and killing civilians, including children, seeking water and food.