THE BUNDES-PRESIDENT VISIT AND THE MUCH EXPECTED OF GERMANY'S INCREASING ROLE IN THE WORLD AS THE PROBLEM SOLVER, RATHER THAN THE MEDIATOR.

THE BUNDES-PRESIDENT VISIT AND THE MUCH EXPECTED OF GERMANY'S INCREASING ROLE IN THE WORLD AS THE PROBLEM SOLVER, RATHER THAN THE MEDIATOR.


         The Bundes-President Joachim Gauck first visit to the Middle East, specifically to Israel and Palestine has been generally referred to as successfull, eventhough it has not reflected the much expected of Germany's increasing role in the World as the problem solver invarious projects that entailed both the developement projects and military intervention, particularly in the Middle East, the Arab World and the African countries. Some of the issues discussed by the Bundes-President included the Israeli fear, or anxiety of Iranian ambition for nuclear power as a thread against peace in the Middle East, the Arab World and the North African countries, besides the Palestinian Authority rejection of peace dialogue with Israel, due to the Israeli policy on the expanding settlement projects in the Palestinians West-bank territories. However, President Gauck may have seemed at home and relaxed in Palestine than in Israel, when he opened the new school funded by the German Developement Projects Organization and expressed Germany's role as mediator, rather than the problems solver in the Middle East, the Arab World and the African countries.



                                                Written by Professor Godfrey Ohia.