‘I’m above groupthink’: Why Keating snubbed the Israel statement
Paul Keating says he has never been one to subscribe to “groupthink” as he defends his decision to not join Australia’s six other living former prime ministers and sign a statement on the Israeli-Gaza conflict.
Mr Keating’s name was conspicuously absent from the statement, released on Monday, which supported the Jewish and Palestinian communities and urged all Australians to not allow society to be divided by the “grotesque cruelty and violence” perpetrated by Hamas.
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