{"id":435815,"date":"2025-02-10T09:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=435815"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:53:37","slug":"germanys-scholz-describes-trumps-gaza-proposal-as-a-scandal-in-election-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/germanys-scholz-describes-trumps-gaza-proposal-as-a-scandal-in-election-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Scholz describes Trump\u2019s Gaza proposal as a \u2018scandal\u2019 in election debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described President Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion that the U.S. could take ownership of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">the Gaza Strip<\/span>, relocate its population and redevelop it as a \u201cscandal\u201d in a pre-election debate Sunday. His main challenger also voiced unease but suggested there\u2019s \u201ca lot of rhetoric\u201d coming from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The center-left Scholz and center-right challenger Friedrich Merz, the front-runner in the Feb. 23 election, discussed top domestic issues such as\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Germany\u2019s struggling economy<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">migration<\/span>, and also addressed foreign policy\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">three weeks<\/span>\u00a0into Trump\u2019s new term.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he made of Trump\u2019s proposal to redevelop Gaza into \u201cthe Riviera of the Middle East,\u201d Scholz replied: \u201cA scandal. Besides that, a really terrible expression,\u201d given the extent of the destruction that is now visible there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relocation of populations is unacceptable and against international law,\u201d he added in the debate on ARD and ZDF public television. He pointed to the position of Egypt and Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI share this assessment,\u201d Merz said. \u201cBut it is one of a whole series of proposals coming from the American administration that are certainly disconcerting, but one has to wait and see what is really meant seriously and how it is implemented \u2014 there\u2019s probably a lot of rhetoric in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"PageListEnhancementGeneric Enhancement\" data-module=\"\" data-module-trackunsubscribe=\"\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"PageList-header\" data-ishubpeektitle=\"\">\n<p><em><strong>Source: AP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described President Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion that the U.S. could take ownership of the Gaza Strip, relocate its population and redevelop it as a \u201cscandal\u201d in a pre-election debate Sunday. His main challenger also voiced unease but suggested there\u2019s \u201ca lot of rhetoric\u201d coming from Washington. The center-left Scholz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":435816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435817,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435815\/revisions\/435817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}