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.