National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir accuses Germany of sliding back into Nazism after its foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, says that a recent UN conference on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict showed that “Israel is finding itself increasingly in the minority.”
“80 years after the Holocaust, and Germany is returning to supporting Nazism,” tweets the far-right minister.
The comment comes as Wadephul is making his way to Jerusalem for talks with his counterpart Gideon Sa’ar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who are allied with Ben Gvir in the governing coalition.
Wadephul noted in a statement that “in view of the open threats of annexation by some in the Israeli government, a growing number of European countries are ready to recognize a state of Palestine without previous negotiations.”
Ben Gvir and members of his far right Otzma Yehudit party are among the staunchest supporters of West Bank annexation, though others in Netanyahu’s government also support the move.
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