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About the authors

Dr Eulalia Han is a Research Fellow at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore.

Dr Halim Rane is the Deputy Director of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit and a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Griffith University.

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Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore

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School of Humanities, University of New England

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School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland

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Director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, University Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Georgetown University

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Professor Samina Yasmeen

Director, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia

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1 Islam and the Question of Reform

B MacQueen, K Baxter and R Barlow

2 Identity, Education and Belonging

Fethi Mansouri and Sally Percival Wood

3 Political Culture and Conflict Resolution

Benjamin MacQueen

4 Islam and the Australian News Media

H Rane et al.

5 Challenging Identities: Muslim Women in Australia

Shahram Akbarzadeh

6 Muslims in Australia: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion

Samina Yasmeen (ed.)

7 Islam and Contemporary Civilisation

Halim Rane

8 The Afghanistan Conflict and Australias Role

Amin Saikal

9 Banning Islamic Books in Australia

Richard Pennell, Pam Pryde, Emmett Stinson

10 Muslims in the West and the Challenges of Representation and National Belonging

Fethi Mansouri and Vince Marotta

11 Womens Human Rights and the Muslim Question

Rebecca Barlow

12 The Arab Revolutions in Context

Benjamin Isakhan, Fethi Mansouri, Shahram Akbarzadeh (eds)

Making Australian Foreign Policy
on Israel-Palestine:

Media Coverage, Public Opinion and
Interest Groups

Eulalia Han and Halim Rane

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS

An imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited

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First published 2013

Text Han & Rane 2013

Design and typography Melbourne University Publishing Ltd 2013

This book is copyright. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means or process whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Han, Eulalia & Rane, Halim

Making Australian Foreign Policy on Israel-Palestine/Eulalia Han, Halim Rane.

9780522862478 (pbk.)

9780522862485 (ebook)

Palestine ArabsIsrael.

JewishArab relations.

AustraliaForeign relationsIsrael.

IsraelForeign relationsAustralia.

AustraliaForeign relationsPalestine.

PalestineForeign relationsAustralia.

327.94095694

Contents

Appendix A:
Survey on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Appendix B:
Australian Governments and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Appendix C:
General Assembly Resolution 67/19 on the Status of Palestine in the United Nations and Official Correspondence between the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations on Recognition of the State of Palestine

Preface

This book examines Australias foreign policy on the Israel-Palestine conflict. A book on this issue may seem unnecessary to some given the relatively minor role Australia plays in the Middle East, especially when compared to the role of the United States (US) or the European Union (EU). However, there are multiple factors, historical and contemporary, that warrant this study, which constitute the focus of this book. Historically, Australia was instrumental in the United Nations (UN) resolution on the partition of Palestine and the subsequent establishment of Israel. Each decade since, the Israel-Palestine conflict has become more intractable, culminating in a conflict of competing narratives and norms, based on Israeli claims of self-defence versus Palestinian demands for self-determination. Foreign policy involves finding a balance between national interests and values as well as between being pragmatic and principled.

Australia is in a unique position as a Western nation that shares the Asia-Pacific region with the worlds most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia. Australia is also a middle power that sees itself as capable of contributing positively to world affairs. In this respect, Australia actively supported self-determination in South Africa, East Timor and Kosovo but has not in the case of Palestine. Instead, Australian foreign policy has tended to align itself with the US and the interests of Israel as far as the Israel-Palestine conflict is concerned. Australias alliance with the US in this regard has not only put Australia at odds with the Arab and Muslim world but has involved the country in the regrettable Gulf War of the 1990s and the War on Terror over the past decade.

The Israel-Palestine conflict is a central factor in Islam-West relations. For decades, this conflict has been seen by Muslims as a microcosm of the unequal relations between the Muslim world and the West. The foreign policies of Western nations, particularly the US, have been judged by Muslims largely on account of their response to the question of Palestine. Muslim grievances with Western support for Israel and the suffering of the Palestinians have been a driver of Islamic extremism. Since the turn of the century, the battle against Islamic extremism has defined relations between the Muslim world and the West. Within this context, a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict remains a priority for the international community and especially the UN. For Australia in particular, the Governments position on the Israel-Palestine conflict puts it at odds with not only its Muslim neighbours and the Muslim world more broadly but also Australias reputation as a nation that champions human rights and respects international law.

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