2024-01-30 23:08:35
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has rejected international calls for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians as “absolutely absurd.” Given the fact that Palestinians have killed Jews, Palestinians cannot be given the task of being responsible for the safety of Jews in the future, said Katz in an interview with the “Bild” newspaper, the broadcaster “Welt TV” and “Politico “.
“It is absolutely absurd that, following everything that has happened, today Israel is being told that a two-state solution is the right thing to do,” Katz continued. In Israel, even those who supported the idea of a two-state solution before the brutal Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th have now changed their minds.
The minister described Hamas as “the new ‘Nazis’”. The Islamist Palestinian organization must be “eliminated.” At the same time, Katz clearly rejected calls from his own right-wing religious government for Israeli repopulation of the Gaza Strip. “That’s not going to happen,” Katz said. The Israeli government’s policy in this regard is “clear, even if individual ministers say otherwise.”
Israel will neither govern nor decide on the Gaza Strip. However, Israel will be responsible for security in the coastal area for several years “until we are sure that we will no longer be killed by the residents of Gaza.”
The two-state solution envisages the establishment of a Palestinian state that exists peacefully alongside Israel within secure, recognized borders. Germany and the USA recently reiterated their calls for a two-state solution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 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, the Islamist Hamas rejects this model. Their stated goal is to destroy Israel.
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