Berlin stresses "no alternative" to two-state Mideast solution
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, April 1, IRNA -- There can be no alternative to a two-state solution for the Middle East, said German deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg in Berlin on Wednesday, only a day after the hardline Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu took office.
"There is no alternative to a two-state solution and we are committed to it," the top chancellery official told the press.
Reacting to mounting international concerns that Netanyahu may oppose granting Palestinians their own state, Steg urged the illegal Jewish state to press ahead with the Mideast peace process.
Germany has been an ardent supporter of Israel and Chancellor Angela Merkel is widely perceived as the most pro-Israeli chancellor in the history of post-World War II Germany.
Most Germans oppose what the government terms as a "special responsibility" towards Israel as a result of Nazi-era mass crimes against Jews.
Berlin also strongly backed Israel's recent savage military assault on Gaza, killing and wounding thousands of Palestinian civilians, among them mostly women and children.
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