After Gaza, a new world disorder

“A blessing for Vladimir Putin” : Nicolas de Rivière, France's representative to the United Nations (UN), in New York, will long remember the effect of the launching of the Gaza war by Israel, in response to the terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Overnight, says the diplomat from the top of a Manhattan skyscraper, the reawakening of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict diverted for several weeks the attention previously focused on the war in Ukraine, near twenty months after the large-scale invasion of the country by the Russian president.

“This marked a turning point in international news and brought an incredible breath of fresh air to Moscownotes Nicolas de Rivière. After the Russian invasion, the war in Gaza quickly constituted a second major aggression against international law, given the record number of civilian victims. » In passing, Moscow was able to partially break its isolation within the UN bodies, to observe that of the United States in support of Israel. Over the months, the draft resolutions, which called for a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave gradually destroyed by the deluge of fire from the Israeli army, were blocked by Washington within the Security Council .

A year later, the Gaza war continues and the entire region is shaken. The blows dealt by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Iran's allies in the region place Israel in a position of strength, facing Palestinian Hamas, against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and even in Syria, where the fall of dictator Bashar Al-Assad, on Sunday December 8, took even his Russian and Iranian protectors by surprise.

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