Australia is now in step with the rest of the world.
Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem has never been
recognized international. Only a handful of countries
including Kosovo and Guatemala joined the US in
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Australia
has now gone back to its original position with the
hope that this will encourage peace talks between
the Israelis and the Palestinians.

The status of Jerusalem remains one of the thorniest
issues in the decades long conflict and has caused
numerous rounds of violence. The problem has always
been that Israel has asserted that the entire city
is exclusively theirs - denying any Palestinian connection
to their ancient, spiritual, cultural, and economic capital.

It will be interesting to see if any presidential
candidate in the US will have
the guts to take up the gauntlet that the Australian
government has bravely tossed back down regarding Jerusalem.
It could possibly help encourage the Israelis and Palestinians to
get further peace talks under way

One can only hope and pray.

Although I'm not holding my breath.
Especially if the fraudster Trump becomes a
presidential candidate. Unless of course he
gets jailed first. As I said - one can only
hope and pray. Like hoping Putin gets what he
deserves. One can only hope.

A Pantomine to suit the actors.
Even the Roman occupying army recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Does an invading Arab army cancel that ?
Well Mohammad said that land once occupied by muslims remains Islamic
land forever. So the original occupiers lose their rights forever.
Hmmm
Now you know the meaning of Eurabia .

Hi Bazz,

Do we recognize our Indigenous peoples claims to
this country of their ancestry?

Roman Britain was a period in classical antiquity.
Does Italy make any claims to the UK today?
Does the UK make any claims to the US? And the
lists can go on and all sorts of claims can be made.

What is now Western Jerusalem has been a rural area in Biblical (and Roman) times - it is not the "Jerusalem" that is mentioned in the Bible, which is completely within occupied Eastern Jerusalem. In fact, some places in what is now Western Jerusalem served (akin to capitals today) as regional control/taxation posts by the empires that controlled Israel/Judea at the time (Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece), well outside Jewish cities.

Israeli elections will be held on the 1st of November.

These elections can determine whether internally-divided Israel takes a peaceful approach or a Nazi approach, the odds being about equal.

The Israeli peace-camp always differentiated between Israeli Western Jerusalem and occupied Eastern Jerusalem, whereas National-Camp governments forced the erasure of the [green] line between them in school-books, maps and road/rail-projects.

Australia used to support the Israeli peace camp by keeping this [green] line alive, by explicitly insisting that it is only WESTERN Jerusalem that is Israel's capital. This support has now been withdrawn, and in the given delicate situation, that could become the straw which breaks the camel's back and lands Israel under the darkest Nazi regime, a regime which among other evils will annex the West Bank and forcibly expel its non-Jewish denizens.

In just two weeks, will Netanyahu and his Nazi companions say "Thank you, Australia"?

Labor must be so proud to receive praise from terrorist group Hamas for its action against Israel.