Published: 20 November 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Tony Abbott rejects warnings, urges Scott Morrison to move Israel embassy (Fairfax)
Mr Abbott said the "rhetorical backlash" from Muslim countries in Asia was always going to happen but that this should not stop Australia showing its support for Israel by moving the Australian embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Simon Birmingham says Indonesian trade deal critical amid Israel embassy spat (Guardian)
Trade minister says Australia will not be ‘bullied’ by any other nation, but added the Morrison government should maintain a cool head
Morrison’s Israel embassy policy cannot be fathomed – and risks his political survival (Guardian)
KATHARINE MURPHY You’d need a degree in tea leaf reading to grasp the PM’s motives and conservatives will eviscerate him if he can’t deliver
Morrison and Jerusalem – what a way to run a foreign policy! (Pearls and Irritations)
PETER RODGERS Scott Morrison’s revelation last October that he was thinking about relocating Australia’s Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem should go down as one of 2018’s crassest comments. For the PM was not “thinking” at all. Casting the possible relocation as shock therapy for the non-existent Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a fraud
Photo: Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison, whose stance on the Israel embassy is escalating into drawing room farce (Mick Tsikas/AAP)
