The ‘ideal' of a two-state solution will not work as Hamas wants to eradicate Israel
'You can't have a two-state solution when one side wants to destroy the other side,' Ms Panahi said.
'I think so many Australians are just sick of foreign conflicts, foreign hatreds being imported here and shoved in our faces.'
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