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We look at their deeds on the ground today. Do they denounce or ban party members with anti-Semitic statements?’

In Germany, center-right wins election German opposition leader Friedrich Merz is set to be the country’s next chancellor after the center-right Christian Democratic Union party secured victory in the highly consequential election on Sunday.

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for him to do so without being arrested under a warrant by the International Criminal Court.

They promote the propaganda against Israel created by Iran and Qatar. Often it is based on the same Nazi propaganda supplied to the Arab world by the Grand Mufti, the Arab leader who spent the war years in Berlin as a guest of Hitler and begged The Fuehrer to build extermination camps in British Palestine.

Friedrich Merz, the winner of the election and next Chancellor of Germany has shown strong commitment to the Jewish community and Israel, and shares a warm relationship with the Rabbi of Berlin, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal.

On Tuesday evening, in the building of the left-wing newspaper Junge Welt in east Berlin, the rich allegro sounds of the first movement of Mozart’s clarinet quintet filled the halls, played by the Palestinian Nasmé string and clarinet ensemble.

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they supported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Saturday adopted an Arab League plan to rebuild the devastated Gaza Strip. The Egyptian proposal, which was welcomed by the foreign ministers of France, Germany,