Netanyahu claims Melbourne synagogue attack linked to Albanese government’s ‘anti-Israel position’
Labor’s support for UN resolution calling for end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza to blame for Melbourne synagogue fire, Jewish state’s leader says
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The Australian government’s support for a UN resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza is to blame for a widely condemned arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, the Jewish state’s prime minister says.
“It is impossible to separate the reprehensible arson attack from the federal government’s extreme anti-Israeli position,” the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, posted on social media early on Saturday.
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