German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pushed for a two-state solution to follow the war the Gaza during a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the chancellor’s spokesman said. Scholz said that the long-sought prospect of an independent Palestinian state was the only sustainable solution to ending the conflict in the Middle East, Scholz’s spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said. The chancellor said that a reformed Palestinian Authority, which currently has limited autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, should play a central role in achieving this outcome. As the Israel-Hamas war in…