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Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid' to describe Middle East conflict

Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid' to describe Middle East conflict
Germany's Scholz rejects word 'apartheid' to describe Middle East conflict Copyright  Thomson Reuters 2022
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BERLIN - 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.

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