Inside visit: WadePhul travels to Israel to visit Israel

In view of the catastrophic situation, the new Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul demands rapid negotiations on an armistice in the Gaza Strip. “The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has now become unbearable,” said the CDU politician before he left his inaugural visit to Israel. “That is why it is now absolutely necessary to start serious negotiations on an armistice with the aim of release all hostages and the care of the people in Gaza.”

WadePhul wants to meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar tomorrow. He will ask “the strategic goal of the fighting that has been intensified since March”. The Israeli government had decided to expand the attacks at the beginning of the week. The relationship between WadePhul’s predecessor Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Netanyahu was considered due to disagreements to the act of Israelis in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.

Tomorrow WadePhul first wants to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. To commemorate the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany, he will settle a wreath there. The minister wanted to speak to relatives of the hostages tonight who were deported by Islamist Hamas. A meeting with the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa is planned in Ramallah in West Bank on Sunday.

Wadephul: Palestinians need perspective

In the West Bank, too, the Palestinians would need a perspective on a political and economic future, “so that hatred and extremism do not find fertile soil,” said WadePhul. In addition to the Israeli settlement building, Ramallah will be an issue of how Germany can support the Palestinians in urgently needed reforms. The perspective of a two -state solution is, it is removed from the notes, the best chance of peace and security for Israel and his neighbors. “It must not be installed.”

The two -state solution means an independent Palestinian state that occurs peacefully side by side with Israel. Netanyahu rejects such a solution as well as Hamas.

60 years of German-Israeli diplomatic relationships

Wadephul travels to Israel against the background of the celebrations to accommodate diplomatic relationships 60 years ago. Israeli President Izchak Herzog is expected to be an official visit to Berlin on Sunday. Together with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he wants to return to Israel on May 13th.

WadePhul: Freedom society belongs to government criticism

80 years after the Holocaust, the Federal Government renewed the commitment that the existence and security of Israel are part of the German state ranks, said WadePhul. This commitment must also be reinterpreted today, “always in the light of our history and the international legal system, which we are particularly committed,” he added.

Obviously against the background of criticism of Netanyahus politics, WadePhul added: “In our two democracies, critical discussions about the politics of their own government and friendly nations are part of it.” However, this should never be misused for anti -Semitism. Room for factual criticism is an indispensable characteristic of freedom. “We have to wrestle again and again for this balance and differentiation.”