<p>Australia&#8217;s new leftist government announced Tuesday that it was reversing the decision by the previous conservative administration to recognize Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital city.</p>
<p>Australia&#8217;s Labor Party government <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-says-no-change-to-2018-recognition-of-west-jerusalem-as-israels-capital/">said</a> that it would recognize Tel Aviv as Israel&#8217;s capital and demanded that Israel determine the city&#8217;s status in peace talks with the Palestinians. The capital of Israel is all of Jerusalem, not just the western part of the city.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today the Government has reaffirmed Australia&#8217;s previous and longstanding position that Jerusalem is a final status issue that should be resolved as part of any peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian people,&#8221; Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/global-affairs/penny-wong-reverses-decision-to-recognise-west-jerusalem-as-capital-of-israel-with-the-australian-embassy-to-remain-in-tel-aviv/news-story/8a9d096976b207a89eff3d5598d15656">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;This reverses the Morrison Government&#8217;s recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wong claimed that Australia would not waver in its support of Israel even though the country was doing just that in announcing the reversal.</p>
<p>&#8220;I regret that Mr Morrison&#8217;s decision to play politics resulted in Australia&#8217;s shifting position, and the distress these shifts have caused to many people in the Australian community who care deeply about this issue,&#8221; Wong added.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid responded to the news in a statement questioning the very core of Australia&#8217;s government.</p>
<p>&#8220;In light of the way this decision was made in Australia, as a hasty response to an incorrect report in the media, we can only hope that the Australian government manages other matters more seriously and professionally,&#8221; Lapid said. &#8220;Jerusalem is the eternal and united capital of Israel and nothing will ever change that.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prime Minister Lapid:<br />&quot;Jerusalem is the eternal and united capital of Israel and nothing will ever change that.&quot;</p>
<p>&mdash; Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/1582231234754682880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Hours before announcing that Australia was no longer recognizing Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital city, a spokesperson for Wong <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/australia-says-no-change-to-2018-recognition-of-west-jerusalem-as-israels-capital/">claimed</a> that there had been “no decision to change that has been made by the government.”</p>
<p>Yet hours later Wong was accusing former Prime Minister Scott Morrison of trying to manipulate the Jewish vote in Australia by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel.</p>
<p>“You know what this was? This was a cynical play, unsuccessful, to win the seat of Wentworth and a by-election,” she claimed without evidence.</p>
<p>The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-719854">reported</a> that Israel&#8217;s Foreign Ministry summoned Australian Ambassador Paul Griffiths to Jerusalem to be reprimanded over the matter.</p>
<p>&#8220;The timing of this morning&#8217;s cabinet decision was clearly media driven,&#8221; the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said. &#8220;The status of Jerusalem is an important foreign policy issue and it is demeaning for Australia to have its international position changed in such a shoddy manner&#8230;[It is] a gratuitous insult to a key economic and strategic ally, with no countervailing benefit for Australians. This is no way to treat an ally whose intelligence-sharing with Australia has prevented at least one terrorist attack against Australians that we know of.&#8221;</p>

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