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Labor was ultimately satisfied with commitments from the Palestinian Authority to demilitarise Gaza, reform governance, hold elections, stop payments to prisoners and provide basic services including education.
Albanese secured the assurances from Mahmoud Abbas, the 89-year-old leader of the authority, the organisation set up in the wake of peace agreements in the 1990s. Critically, Abbas recognised Israel’s right to exist.
The PA is in no position to make any such commitments. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Labor is desperate to appear to be doing something, anything in the hope that it will fool enough people in order to head off the pressure it is under from the public and it's own rank and file.