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About 120 people attended Women Will Speak rally which was met by counter protesters supporting trans rights. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAny resolution to Israel’s war on Gaza and the broader question about the future of a Palestinian state requires the involvement of the United States and Israel, Wilson says.Wilson said that the government had previous stated that Hamas could not be a participant in a future government but has not articulated how this might be achieved with the decision to recognise a Palestinian state.What they’ve done is written a blank cheque, very clearly, to those who are sponsoring terror, and, in fact, what it’s actually doing is providing incentive where Hamas as an organisation uses civilians as part of its propaganda efforts, and it’s incentivising more of that conduct into the future. And it will be civilians that will pay the price for that.We’ve taken a long-term bipartisan position around a two-state solution based on a series of pre-conditions that we would expect to be met, like the lasting security in respect for the State of Israel. Like making sure Israeli hostages are returned. Like making sure there isn’t going to be Hamas running any government. We’ve set about pre-conditions and we’ve been very public about that.Up until last Monday, that was also the position of the Government. Now, what the Government has done is essentially thrown that into turmoil by making a commitment to recognise a Palestinian state. But not being able to then say if those preconditions are going to be met, that they’re going to back down. There wasn’t the engagement with the Opposition up until this point. Continue reading...

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