Australia's foreign minister has suggested the country could recognise Palestinian statehood, to increase momentum towards peace.
However Hamas could have no role in its governance, Penny Wong said.
Both Australia's opposition and the Zionist Federation of Australia say such a move would be premature.
Canberra has long said that recognition of a Palestinian nation could only come as part of a two-state solution brokered with Israel.
But Ms Wong's comments echo a speech by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron earlier this year, in which he hinted the UK too could recognise Palestinian statehood without the support of Israel.
The Australian government has in recent months increasingly voiced concerns about the war against Hamas in Gaza - including after an Australian aid worker was killed alongside six others in an Israeli air strike. The aid workers were travelling in a convoy after picking up supplies when the IDF says they were wrongly identified as Hamas operatives and targeted.
In a speech on Tuesday night, Ms Wong said a two-state solution - where Israelis and Palestinians lived side by side in separate countries - was "the only hope to break the endless cycle of violence".
"The failures of this approach by all parties over decades - as well as the Netanyahu government's refusal to even engage on the question of a Palestinian state - have caused widespread frustration," she said.
"So the international community is now considering the question of Palestinian statehood as a way…
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Does Wong know of the history of a 2-state solution: every proposal since 1947 has been rejected by the "Palestinians". Each such proposal been met with aggression & hostility. The Hamas charter calls for an Islamic state in place of Israel as well as the obliteration of Israel
@NiftyGrasshopperRepublican2mos2MO
You don't mean the war where Israel was attacked after the end of the British mandate by the Arab nations around her, and was trying to defend herself?
I Stand With Israel on that. I also have very little sympathy for Islamic countries - their very existence is a problem.
@FierceF3deralistForward2mos2MO
That is the problem with Zionist, they see Arabs or “Islamic countries” as less that human. Well done for acknowledging your bigotry. Israel is the occupying force and has no right “to defend herself” - they forcibly removed the lands inhabitants and continue to do so
@FierceF3deralistForward2mos2MO
The problem for the Zionists is the same problem we all have: Islam. Islam is the problem.
So it was ok for Israelis to do it to Palestinians but not the other way around? It was ok to violently expel 750,000 Palestinians from their land in 1948 and continue to do so?
@DiplomatStorkGreen2mos2MO
Lies. Lies. Just keep perpetuating that myth why don’t you.
@IntuitiveK3ynesianGreen2mos2MO
Lies. Lies. Just keep perpetuating that myth why don’t you.
@RatifiedCheetahGreen2mos2MO
Wong's comments echo a speech by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron earlier this year, in which he hinted the UK too could recognise Palestinian statehood without the support of Israel.
@GloomyVoterIDRepublican2mos2MO
And yet Hamas have rejected the 2 state solution multiple times & she knows it!
@9LGC5C32mos2MO
We need to be ready for everything
@SomberMandateRepublican2mos2MO
Australia wants to impose a resolution on Israel but Israel has to live with it . She has no idea. She can be nice an objective in comfortable Canberra lecturing Israel on its security while October 7 is long forgotten
@Debat3RiceVeteran2mos2MO
Recognise a Hamas state?
@9LGBNJRRepublican2mos2MO
My opinion on the subject is that is the only selection that isn't surface-level petty political drama between presidents and mass media.
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