MOSCOW (Sputnik) — There is no way out of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis other than coexistence of two independent national states, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, ahead of a meeting with the Palestinian leader in Berlin.
"I see, as before, no reasonable alternative for the goal of a two-state solution," Merkel told reporters before meeting Mahmoud Abbas, as quoted by Germany’s public broadcaster ARD.
Merkel stressed that Israel’s continued settlement construction in the West Bank eroded the peace process and warned this approach was going to fail.
Both Israel and independent Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital. US President Donald Trump stirred controversy when he suggested moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump said in February a one-state solution was possible if both nations agreed to it.
