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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praises his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull for calling out the "hypocrisy" of the United Nations.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Malcolm Turnbull discuss a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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An Israeli court sentences a soldier to 18 months in prison for killing a Palestinian attacker who was lying injured on the ground, capping one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull rebukes the United Nations for adopting "one-sided resolutions" critical of Israel, as Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Australia for the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister.
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| UpdatedIsraeli Prime Miniser Benjamin Netanyahu has touched down in Sydney, becoming his country's first serving leader to visit Australia. He spoke to media at the airport.
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| UpdatedA heavy security presence greets Benjamin Netanyahu at Sydney Airport for his four-day visit to Australia — the first visit to the country by a serving Israeli Prime Minister.
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| UpdatedAhead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's historic visit to Australia, West Bank residents label settlements as either the reclamation of historically Jewish land or the main impediment to peace and security.
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The Palestinian territories' top envoy to Australia urges Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten to press Benjamin Netanyahu on West Bank settlements when they meet the Israeli Prime Minister this week.
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| UpdatedOpposition Leader Bill Shorten wants the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank to stop, and he's vowed to make that clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits Australia this week.
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd calls for a major shift in foreign policy, arguing that Australia should "draw a line in the sand" and formally recognise a Palestinian state.
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Haaretz columnist Allison Kaplan Sommer on possible alternatives to the two-state solution the Israelis and Palestinians could consider.
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| UpdatedWhile most nations have been enthusiastic supporters of the "two-state solution", the two peoples with the most at stake simply cannot negotiate their way clear to make it happen, writes chief foreign correspondent Philip Williams.
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President Donald Trump has urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb settlement activity, but avoided any explicit endorsement of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a longstanding bedrock of US Middle East policy.
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop declines to criticise a new Israeli law that is condemned by the United Nations, the French and United Kingdom governments.
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Middle East expert Yossi Mekelberg of Chatham House in London, about the controversial law allowing illegal settlements to remain.
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Israel's parliament passes a law allowing about 4,000 settler homes to remain on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, but the measure could be struck down by the Supreme Court contravenes rulings on property rights.
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