During the campaign for the German legislative elections, the Christian democratic candidate for the Chancellery, Friedrich Merz, had made without ambiguity. “It must be very clear again that Germany is not in an in-between, but that it stands very clearly alongside Israel”had he warned during a speech at the Körber Foundation on January 23, promising “End this embargo more or less in force against arms exports to Israel” and judging “Inconceivable” prevent “A Prime Minister of Israel to go to Germany or elsewhere to Europe because he risks being arrested there”. If he had to become chancellor, Germany would have “Again a reason of state”he had assured, an allusion to the doctrine prevailing in Berlin, according to which the protection of Israel responds to an imperative of “State of state”.
This attitude, online with the traditional position of Germany vis-à-vis Israel because of its responsibility in the Holocaust, is found in the coalition contract concluded with the Social Democrats of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). “The right of existence and security of Israel are and will always be part of the German reason” “recalls the text signed by the two parties on May 3, taking up the concept posed by Angela Merkel “Staatsräson”while pleading for a two -state solution – an add required by the SPD in the negotiations.
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Source: Lemonde