Israeli Foreign Minister Rejects Ben-Gvir's Statements Against Germany

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar announced on Thursday his rejection of extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's statements attacking Germany.

In a post on the X platform, Sa'ar said: "I strongly reject Minister Ben-Gvir's statements regarding Germany. These statements are unnecessary and harmful. Germany is a friendly country, and its Foreign Minister (Yuval) Vadevoll is a friend of Israel."

"This does not change even when there are differences of opinion between us," he added.

Earlier Thursday, Ben-Gvir said on his Twitter page: "Eighty years after the Holocaust, Germany is back to supporting Nazism."

Ben-Gvir's attack on Germany came in response to a statement by German Foreign Minister Vadephul, who said that the recent UN conference on the two-state solution showed that "Israel increasingly finds itself in the minority."

On Tuesday evening, the final statement of the two-state solution conference at UN headquarters in New York, which was boycotted by Washington and Tel Aviv, called for Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and its handover to the Palestinian Authority.

The international conference also called for recognition of the State of Palestine and granting it full membership in the United Nations, replacing the status of "non-member observer state" that has existed since 2012.

According to the official Palestinian news agency (WAFA), 149 of the 193 member states of the United Nations recognize the State of Palestine, which was declared by the Palestinian leadership in exile in Algeria in 1988.

Recently, several countries, including France and Britain, have announced their intention to recognize the State of Palestine, and Australia has also threatened to take a similar step.

On Wednesday, 15 Western countries, including France and Spain, issued a collective call to recognize the State of Palestine and to cease fire in Gaza.

Israel and its ally, the United States, often criticize countries that announce their intention to recognize the State of Palestine, and the matter has even reached the point of American threats.

The movement to recognize the State of Palestine is escalating against the backdrop of a genocidal war waged by Israel, with US support, against Gaza since October 7, 2023, in defiance of all international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.

The genocide left more than 207,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and famine claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.

For decades, Israel has occupied Palestine and territories in Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from these territories and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the pre-1967 borders.