Senator Payman has been “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?
00:04It depends on what is brought forward in the Senate.
00:09Obviously, you and I both don't have a crystal ball,
00:12so it's really difficult to say.
00:14But if the same motion on recognising the state of Palestine
00:17was to be brought forward tomorrow, I would cross the floor.
00:20Do you support a two-state solution?
00:22I do.
00:22So you do support the continued existence of the state of Israel,
00:28of a Jewish homeland state?
00:29Yep, and I think that the Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side.
00:34So from the river to the sea still means the state of Israel exists?
00:39Yes, obviously the Likud party charter says otherwise.
00:43They only want Israeli sovereignty.
00:46And on the other side, Hamas does not want a state of Israel to exist.
00:49Well, this isn't about Hamas.
00:51You know, the Palestinian people are not all represented by Hamas.