Australia splits with US to back UN resolution demanding end to Israel occupation of Palestinian territories theguardian.com

Australia has split with the US and voted with 156 other countries at the UN to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.

The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, said the Albanese government’s departure from the position of recent Australian governments had “sold out” the Jewish community for Greens votes in western Sydney and the city’s progressive inner west suburbs.