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Merkel: Settlements ruin efforts for 2-state solution

www.haaretz.com
Posted on Thursday July 2, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded on Thursday that Israel halt construction in the West Bank settlements, saying it endangered efforts to achieve a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

“I think it is now important to get commitments from all sides and that includes the issue of settlement building,” Merkel said in a speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

“I am convinced that there must be a stop to this. Otherwise we will not come to the two-state solution that is urgently needed.”

Merkel’s remarks are in line with the positions of the European Union and the United States, but were unusually clear-cut for the German leader, who regularly cites her country’s special obligation to Israel because of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were deliberately murdered. we will not come to the two-state solution that is urgently needed.”

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