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Chance of a two-state solution without Hamas perhaps greater

11/12/2023, 7:02:20 PM

Highlights: Chance of a two-state solution without Hamas perhaps greater, says Olaf Scholz. "If you want to have a permanently peaceful situation, you have to want the possibility of a Palestinian state that does not threaten Israel," he says. "And if they can no longer do that, the chance is perhaps greater than it was before this attack on Israel," says the German Chancellor. The goal must be that after all the terrible things that have happened, there is a perspective "that makes a two state solution possible again," he adds.

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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). © Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that a two-state solution in the Middle East is still possible despite the war waged by Israel and the Islamist Hamas. The goal must be that after all the terrible things that have happened, there is a perspective "that makes a two-state solution possible again," said the SPD politician on Sunday evening at a talk format of the "Heilbronner Stimme" in Heilbronn.

Heilbronn - "If you want to have a permanently peaceful situation, you have to want the possibility of a Palestinian state that does not threaten Israel," Scholz said. This is part of the concept of the two-state solution, which has been almost possible on several occasions. Hamas has always thwarted these peace efforts because it wants to destroy the Israeli state and expel Israeli citizens, Scholz said: "And if they can no longer do that, the chance is perhaps greater than it was before this attack on Israel." dpa

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