Federal parliamentary delegation R-L Joe Hockey, Ali Kazak, Arafat’s advisor Nabil Abu Rudeineh, President Arafat, Leo McLeay, Anthony Albanese and Peter McGauran. May 1998.
Anthony Albanese pictured with the Australian parliamentary delegation meeting with the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in 1998.
In Gaza’s hour of need, what would President Arafat today make of Albanese’s one sided support for Israel’s ‘right to defend itself, a right denied to Palestinians in decades of Israeli occupation.
Ali Kazak is a former Palestinian ambassador and head of delegation to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region. He is an expert in Australian-Arab relations and affairs, and author of “Australia and the Arabs”. (In Arabic).
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