With its annexation plan of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government is in a “strategic impasse”, notes in a whole world Jean-Paul Chagnollaud. According to Professor Emeritus, act only by force without political project and in defiance of international law, as Israel does, does not lead to anything “except for violence”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday the upcoming implementation of a plan including the “conquest” of the Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of a majority of the population of the Palestinian territory. The mobilization of tens of thousands of Israeli reservists is underway for this plan which, according to the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, aims to “completely destroy” the enclave.
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Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, professor emeritus of universities and director of the International Méditerranée magazine, draws a parallel with the American invasion of Iraq: “We wanted to redraw the Middle East* and the result was a chaos whose region, and Iraq in particular, suffers Today. When we absolutely want to act by force and the bombs, A whole world specialist in the show.
Benjamin Netanyahu dreams of a Middle East in which Israel would be all-powerful compared to his immediate neighbors
According to him, Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy is an “absolute strategic impasse”. “Her speech leads to misfortunes, in particular Gaza”, where the “elementary principles of humanitarian law are trampledly trampled”, he said, stressing that the Israeli Gaza annexation plan provides that a large part of the population is forcibly sent “in what to call concentration camps, since it would be completely locked up and that humanitarian aid would only intervene by the Israeli army”.
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Only 60 trucks per day are planned in the Israeli humanitarian aid project for the Gaza Strip that the UN has consulted, barely 10% of what entered at the time of the ceasefire, deplored a spokesman for the United Nations Childhood Fund (UNICEF) on Friday.
A dream of “all-powerful” status
According to Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, the Israeli Prime Minister dreams of a “Middle East in which Israel would be all-powerful compared to his immediate neighbors and maintain a privileged relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, so as to be in a position of force compared to Iran”.
In this situation dreamed of by the Hebrew state, the Palestinian question would also have completely disappeared.
There are de facto no more United Nations and Security Council. The rules of international law are completely despised
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If he owns the military capacities, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, has “no political project”, said the professor, who recalls that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against the leader for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Contempt for international law
“Today, there are de facto no more United Nations and Security Council. The rules of international law are completely despised,” continues Jean-Paul Chagnollaud, taking the example of the Gaza Strip, where civilians are “shredded” by the Israeli army, in “an absolute tragedy on a daily basis”.
>> Read about the humanitarian situation in Gaza: “Today in Gaza, no one knows where to go. No place is sure”
Israel is thus “preparing a generation of people that we will qualify in a few months or a few years of terrorists”, warns the specialist, for whom “if we only rely on military force, violence is sure”.
“As long as there is no political will to make regulations in which the interests of each other are taken into account, nothing will be done if it is not to violence […] We never impose anything in force by force, “concludes the professor.
Interview by Eric Guevara-Frey
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*In this article, the Middle East English-speaking terminology is used as synonymous with Near East
