It could have been worse, much worse.That is probably the best that anyone concerned about the systematic demonisation of Israel in the media, the universities and much of the political class could say about the outcome of the Palestine recognition debate at the recent ALP National Conference.
After many hours of arduous negotiation between the factions the Conference was presented with a resolution that committed a future Labor government to ‘discuss joining like-minded nations’ in recognising a Palestinian state based on the 1967 boundaries with land swaps in the event that the ‘next round’ of negotiations failed to progress.
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Peter Baldwin was a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments.
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