Why Labor can’t agree on the Middle East (Podcast) [Video]

Penny Wong has gone big on the government’s support for Palestinian statehood – but it’s rattled members of the ALP’s right faction.

Labor’s tortured history on the Israeli/Arab conflict was bound to get to this point.

The internal divisions and electoral exigencies in western Sydney have been driving the post-Hawke era down this path for the best part of the last two decades.

Penny Wong has now accelerated what was probably inevitable, considering the dominance of the Labor left at a leadership level federally, and the anti-Israel influence at a state-branch level.

It therefore should come as no shock that a postmodern Labor government would eventually hint at breaking with the allies and seek to recognise Palestinian statehood before a durable peace could be achieved for a two-state solution.

The naivety of Wong’s statement is not unfairly being interpreted through a lens of domestic politics, as much it is a shift in foreign policy doctrine, and the divisions that remain within the Labor Party on this issue.

Anthony Albanese’s pre-election commitment to a ‘no shift in policy on the Middle East’ is being incrementally dismantled as Muslim politics joins forces with the woke world and the far left against a common enemy in Israel.

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