Germany’s Scholz rejects word ‘apartheid’ to describe Middle East conflict

August 16, 2022
Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid' to describe Middle East conflict
German Chancellor Scholz meets Palestinian President Abbas

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected the word apartheid to describe relations between Israel and the Palestinian Territories after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

“Naturally we have a different assessment with a view to Israeli politics, and I want to expressly say here that I do not espouse the use of the word apartheid and do not think it correctly describes the situation,” said Scholz during a joint news conference with Abbas in Berlin on Tuesday.

(Reporting Rachel More and Miranda Murray)

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