German Chancellor Candidate Calls Israel an ‘Apartheid Regime’

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While Iran’s terrorist proxies in the Gaza Strip fired rockets on Israeli cities, the head of Germany’s Social Democratic Party called Israel an “Apartheid regime.” 

“I was just in Hebron,” SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel, now visiting Israel and the Palestinian territories, wrote on his Facebook page. “There’s a legal vacuum there for Palestinians. This is an apartheid regime, for which there is no justification.”

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