LABOR backbencher Michael Danby has warned that the Gillard government's decision to abstain from a vote on the status of Palestine at the UN threatens to undermine the party's long-standing support for Israel that goes back to the days of ALP hero Doc Evatt.
Writing for The Australian, the Jewish MP noted that Evatt cast the first vote to establish Israel and an adjoining Arab State of Palestine in 1947.
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