The Israeli Prime Minister accused his Australian counterpart of “betraying Israel” and “deserted” the Jewish community in Australia, after days of increased stress between the two countries.
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that history will remember Anthony Albaniz, “What is it: a weak politician.”
Australia prevented a member of the extreme right in the ruling Netanyahu coalition from entering the country on Monday, and Israel in turn canceled the visas of the Australian representatives of the Palestinian Authority.
Australian Immigration Minister Tony Burke said Netanyahu “criticized” in response to Canberra recently announced that it will join the United Kingdom, France and Canada in recognition of a Palestinian state.
“The force is not measured by the number of people you can detonate or the number of people you can leave,” Burke told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday.
The leader of the Israeli opposition criticized Netanyahu’s statements, describing them as a “gift” of the Australian leader.
Yair Lapid wrote on X: “The thing that mostly reinforces the leader in the democratic world today is a confrontation with Netanyahu, the most political, political leader in the Western world.
“It is not clear why Bibi is rushing to give Australian Prime Minister this gift.”
Diplomatic tensions erupted on Monday after the cancellation of the Israeli politician’s visa on the far -right, Simach, the Australian of the country, was canceled before visiting the country, as it was scheduled to speak in the events organized by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA).
Birch I told local media At that time, the government took a “difficult line” for people who seek to “spread the partition.”
“If you are coming to Australia to spread the message of hatred and division, we do not want you here,” he said.
Last year, Burke also denied a visa to the former Israeli Minister of Justice, Eilate Shaked, a right -wing politician who left Parliament in 2022.
A few hours after the announcement of the Rochd visa, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sar said that he had instructed the Israeli embassy in Canberra to “carefully study any official Australian visa request to enter Israel.”
He added in a publication on X: “While anti -Semitism revolves in Australia, including manifestations of violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, the Australian government chooses to fuel it.”
In recent months, there has been a series of anti -Semitic attacks in Australia – That is home to one of the world’s largest populations of Holocaust for the individual.
On Tuesday, Aja said that Road will still appear at the event.
He said on a social networking site: “The Jewish community will not bend to Tony Burke or (Foreign Minister) Benny Wong.”
Australia announced in early August that it would get to know a Palestinian state, as Prime Minister Albaniz said at that time that Netanyahu was “in a state of denial” regarding the consequences of war on innocent people.
“The aid we saw, then the loss of the lives we see around the aid distribution points, as people in the queue of food and water lose their lives, is completely unacceptable,” he said.
The state of Palestine was currently recognized by 147 UN member states 193, and Australia’s declaration came about two weeks after similar moves by the United Kingdom, France and Canada.
In response, Netanyahu It launched a severe attack On the leaders of the three countries, Sir Kerr Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney were accused by “collective killers, rapists, murderers for children and kidnapping.”
More than 62,064 people have been killed as a result of the military campaign of Israel since October 7, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
Israel launched the attack in response to the Hamas -led attack on October 7, as about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.
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2025-08-19 23:54:00
