{"id":5344,"date":"2025-08-20T17:49:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australias-albanese-downplays-netanyahus-criticism-as-ties-sour\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:49:36","slug":"australias-albanese-downplays-netanyahus-criticism-as-ties-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australias-albanese-downplays-netanyahus-criticism-as-ties-sour\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Albanese downplays Netanyahu&#8217;s criticism as ties sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that he treats leaders of other countries with respect after his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu attacked him over his decision to recognize a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t take these things personally, I engage with people diplomatically. He has had similar things to say about other leaders,&rdquo; Albanese said during a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&rsquo;s personal attack on Albanese has further strained relations between the two countries. Ties soured after Australia decided last week to conditionally recogniz a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly in September.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;History will remember Albanese for what he is: A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia&rsquo;s Jews,&rdquo; Netanyahu said in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese told reporters that he had informed Netanyahu about Australia&rsquo;s decision to support a Palestinian state before his centre-left government formally announced the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At that time, I gave Prime Minister Netanyahu a clear indication of my view and Australia&rsquo;s view going forward but also a clear indication of the direction in which we were headed,&rdquo; Albanese said. &ldquo;I gave him the opportunity to outline what political solution there was and gave him that opportunity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Israel this week revoked the visas of Australian diplomats to the Palestinian Authority after Albanese&rsquo;s Labor government cancelled the visa of an Israeli lawmaker over remarks the Australian government considered controversial and inflammatory.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been facing increasing international pressure over its military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed thousands of civilians and plunged Gaza into a humanitarian crisis, displacing most of its population.<\/p>\n<p>The offensive began nearly two years ago after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 more hostage.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"small-caps text-small text-serif\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">&copy; Thomson Reuters 2025.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Australia&rsquo;s Albanese downplays Netanyahu&rsquo;s criticism as ties sour<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that he treats leaders of other countries with respect after his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu attacked him over his decision to recognize a Palestinian state. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t take these things personally, I engage with people diplomatically. He has had similar things to say about other leaders,&rdquo; Albanese&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/australias-albanese-downplays-netanyahus-criticism-as-ties-sour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Australia&#8217;s Albanese downplays Netanyahu&#8217;s criticism as ties sour&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}