The Jerusalem Post reports: “Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Thursday the recognition of a Palestinian state comes more at the end of the negotiations for a two-state solution, but that process must begin now, warning Berlin would respond to ‘unilateral steps’.

‘A negotiated two-state solution remains the only path that can offer people on both sides a life in peace, security, and dignity,’ he said in a statement issued shortly before his trip on Thursday to Israel and the Palestinian territories…”