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Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has rejected international calls for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. “It is absolutely absurd that, after everything that has happened, Israel is now being told that a two-state solution is the right thing,” Katz said in an interview with the newspaper ‘Bild’, the broadcaster ‘Welt TV’ and ‘Politics’.
The two-state solution aims to establish a Palestinian state that coexists peacefully with Israel within secure, recognized borders. Currently, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank live under Israeli occupation, with fewer rights than the Jewish population. Numerous organizations have therefore been campaigning for an end to the occupation and a free Palestinian state for decades.
According to Katz, after the October 7 attack in Israel, even those who had supported the idea of a two-state solution before the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel changed their minds.
The minister described Hamas as “the new ‘Nazis’”. The Palestinian organization must be “eliminated”. At the same time, Katz clearly rejected his own right-wing religious government’s calls for Israeli repopulation of the Gaza Strip. “That will not happen”. The Israeli government’s policy in this regard is “clear, even if individual ministers say otherwise.”
Israel will neither govern nor decide the Gaza Strip. However, Israel will be responsible for security in the coastal area for several more years, “until we are sure that we will no longer be killed by the residents of Gaza.”
Germany and the US recently reiterated their calls for a two-state solution. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly rejects an independent Palestinian state. There are different attitudes on the Palestinian side: while the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas supports a two-state solution, Hamas rejects this model. (AFP/Mrs)
Source: Blick
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