Senator Fatima Payman indefinitely suspended from Labor

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Senator Payman was “indefinitely suspended” by the Prime Minister after crossing the floor to vote for a Greens motion to recognise Palestinian statehood and then stating she would do it again in an ABC Insiders interview.

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00:00Will you abide by the decisions of the caucus in the future?

00:05It depends on what is brought forward in the Senate, obviously.

00:10You and I both don't have a crystal ball, so it's really difficult to say.

00:14But if the same motion on recognising the state of Palestine was to be brought forward

00:19tomorrow, I would cross the floor.

00:21You would cross the floor again?

00:22Yes.

00:23Do you expect it will come forward again?

00:25Well, I haven't been speaking to the Greens, and I think that's a question you can ask

00:28the Greens.

00:29Do you support a two-state solution?

00:31I do.

00:32So you do support the continued existence of the state of Israel, of a Jewish homeland

00:38state?

00:39Yep.

00:40And I think that the Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side.

00:44So from the river to the sea still means the state of Israel exists?

00:48Yes.

00:49Obviously, the Likud party charter says otherwise.

00:53They only want Israeli sovereignty.

00:55And on the other side, Hamas does not want a state of Israel to exist?

00:58Well, this isn't about Hamas.

01:01The Palestinian people are not all represented by Hamas.

01:04And we can draw upon what's been happening in the West Bank, 8,800 Palestinians being

01:11detained with no reasoning or trial.

01:16So if we want the hostages to be released by Hamas in Gaza, we also need to expect that

01:24for the Israeli government to release the 8,800 Palestinian hostages in West Bank.

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