Germany’s Scholz rejects use of the word ‘apartheid’ to describe situation between Israel and Palestine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected using the word “apartheid” to describe relations between Israel and the Palestinian Territories after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “I want to say explicitly here that I do not adopt the word apartheid as my own and that I do not think that is the right way to describe the situation,” said Scholz during a joint news conference with Abbas in Berlin on Tuesday.

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