MAJOR MAINTENANCE – According to the specialist in Islam and the contemporary Arab world, the tragedy of October 7 precipitated a geopolitical shift unprecedented since the Second World War. The elimination by the IDF of the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is part of this great upheaval, he explains.
In his new book, The Upheaval of the World (Plon), which has just been published, Gilles Kepel analyzes the consequences of the pogrom perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. According to the specialist in Islam and the contemporary Arab world, this tragedy precipitated a geopolitical shift unprecedented since the Second World War. The elimination by the IDF of the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is part of this great upheaval, he explains.
After the failure of Israeli intelligence on October 7 last year, it sounds like a resounding revenge for Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu, at the cost of numerous victims in South Lebanon. It could also herald a paradigm shift, because through Nasrallah, the main mystical-political figure of contemporary Shiism, it is the Islamic Republic of Iran which is affected and its entire regime which is weakened.
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