In the dispute over a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, Israel’s Foreign Minister has once again emphasized that his country wants to retain security responsibility in the Gaza Strip for at least several years. This would apply “until we are sure that we will no longer be killed by the inhabitants of Gaza,” Israel Katz told Germany’s Bild newspaper and other Axel Springer publications, including Politico. Referring to the attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel on October 7 last year, in which around around 1,200 people were killed, Katz described Hamas as “the …