{"id":74336,"date":"2025-10-14T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/74336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:07:10","slug":"top-german-mps-call-to-lift-weapons-export-ban-on-israel-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/74336\/","title":{"rendered":"Top German MPs call to lift weapons export ban on Israel \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd I am sure that it will then come to the conclusions that my colleague Hoffmann has just mentioned,\u201d Spahn added.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-brokered peace deal this week after two years of bloodshed, including the killing of over 60,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, traditionally one of Israel&#8217;s staunchest allies, has taken a markedly sharper tone about the Israeli military\u2019s offensive in recent months, but Merz has stopped short of committing Berlin to supporting the EU&#8217;s proposed sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Those include partially suspending the EU\u2013Israel Association Agreement and sanctioning two far-right ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government. But the measures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/commission-hints-reversal-israel-sanctions-if-gaza-ceasefire-holds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could be altered or withdrawn<\/a> as the situation in Gaza evolves, the European Commission hinted Monday, with the topic to be raised at the next meeting of EU foreign ministers on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Hans von der Burchard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd I am sure that it will then come to the conclusions that my colleague Hoffmann has just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3472,4420,31368,170,85,46,61,52691,2899,43,4321,140,1032,3803],"class_list":["post-74336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-exports","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-german-politics","tag-germany","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-jens-spahn","tag-military","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-united-states","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}