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The agony of the Palestinian cause
The Middle East is in complete recomposition. At the maneuver, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed ben Salmane ...
The Middle East is undoubtedly undergoing its deepest geopolitical transformation since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. But the tragic and contradictory nature of the news of the last days conceals its importance. Through a tragic mixture of blood, tears and shattering statements, the turmoil peculiar to this region makes us lose sight of the essential strategic reconsiderations that are taking shape. The emotional shocks and the signs of evolution intertwine in such a twist that it is necessary to unravel the threads.
On Friday, March 30, in the Gaza Strip (where two million people live, including 1.3 million refugees), eighteen Palestinians are killed and nearly 1,400 wounded by the Israeli army as a result of a massive demonstration organized by Hamas as part of the "Great March of Return", protest to last six weeks. Objective of Hamas, which leads this territory with an iron fist and mafia mores: mobilize the people, a largely innocent crowd, to oppose by mass effect the uprooting of Arab families, their inability to find their land and, in the background, the proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel by the United States.
"We identify attempts of terrorist attacks under the cover-up of riots," the Israeli general in charge of the sector responded in the heat of the action. There is no evidence that there was any terrorist attack or riot (the demonstrators did not attempt to cross the border fence); but the army, which had warned it would use force, fired, often reaching protesters in the legs, according to a now-tried riot pattern. A "disproportionate" security response, to use a reserved expression ...
A triangulation-strangulation against Iran
Lundi 2 avril, sans lien avec ces cruels événements, la prestigieuse revue américaine The Atlantic publie une interview décoiffante de Mohammed ben Salmane ("MBS"), le prince qui défraie la chronique et effraie le Moyen-Orient. L'homme qui vient d'accomplir une opération éclair de redressement des comptes publics du royaume wahhabite - au prix d'une purge spectaculaire parmi les ministres, hommes d'affaires et autres profiteurs du système - enjambe les clivages : "Notre pays n'a pas de problème avec les juifs", déclare-t-il. La phrase a déjà été prononcée ["MBS" a dit presque les mêmes mots, en juin 2016, devant un petit groupe de journalistes français, dont l'auteur de cet article]. En réalité, depuis 2002 et le plan de paix alors conçu par le roi Abdallah, Riyad promeut une solution très claire : l'Arabie est prête à reconnaître Israël si cet Etat se retire des territoires occupés en 1967.
The novelty lies elsewhere, it is in the "tempo": its very moderate defense of the Palestinians, whose rights are presented as a parallel to the Israeli aspirations, erases the precedence of the former (traditional argument of the Arab countries) and places them in equality with the second. "I believe, he says, that every people has the right to live in peace in their nation, and I believe that Palestinians, like Israelis, have the right to have their own land." But, unfortunately, the statement of "MBS" falls right after the deaths of Gaza ... and, very opportunely, it is part of the follow-up to the US decision to relocate the US Embassy of Tel Aviv in Jerusalem.
The triangulation currently taking place between Washington, Jerusalem and Riyadh may seem heterogeneous, but it represents one of the most daring initiatives that have been recently attempted in the Middle East - it is no more than the strangulation of Tehran. Because, behind Saudi Arabia, figure prominently its "customers" and obliged, the first of which Egypt, heavily indebted to the Wahhabi crown. This anti-Iranian axis, in turn, requires putting pressure on the Palestinians to accept a war of war they will not win, of which they can not be, the winners. With this major risk: to make the Palestinian issue a cause now defended by the Iranian mullahs - or by Turkish President Erdogan ...
THE ANGEL OF DEATH
The Middle East is in complete recomposition. At the maneuver, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed ben Salmane ...
The Middle East is undoubtedly undergoing its deepest geopolitical transformation since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. But the tragic and contradictory nature of the news of the last days conceals its importance. Through a tragic mixture of blood, tears and shattering statements, the turmoil peculiar to this region makes us lose sight of the essential strategic reconsiderations that are taking shape. The emotional shocks and the signs of evolution intertwine in such a twist that it is necessary to unravel the threads.
On Friday, March 30, in the Gaza Strip (where two million people live, including 1.3 million refugees), eighteen Palestinians are killed and nearly 1,400 wounded by the Israeli army as a result of a massive demonstration organized by Hamas as part of the "Great March of Return", protest to last six weeks. Objective of Hamas, which leads this territory with an iron fist and mafia mores: mobilize the people, a largely innocent crowd, to oppose by mass effect the uprooting of Arab families, their inability to find their land and, in the background, the proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel by the United States.
"We identify attempts of terrorist attacks under the cover-up of riots," the Israeli general in charge of the sector responded in the heat of the action. There is no evidence that there was any terrorist attack or riot (the demonstrators did not attempt to cross the border fence); but the army, which had warned it would use force, fired, often reaching protesters in the legs, according to a now-tried riot pattern. A "disproportionate" security response, to use a reserved expression ...
A triangulation-strangulation against Iran
Lundi 2 avril, sans lien avec ces cruels événements, la prestigieuse revue américaine The Atlantic publie une interview décoiffante de Mohammed ben Salmane ("MBS"), le prince qui défraie la chronique et effraie le Moyen-Orient. L'homme qui vient d'accomplir une opération éclair de redressement des comptes publics du royaume wahhabite - au prix d'une purge spectaculaire parmi les ministres, hommes d'affaires et autres profiteurs du système - enjambe les clivages : "Notre pays n'a pas de problème avec les juifs", déclare-t-il. La phrase a déjà été prononcée ["MBS" a dit presque les mêmes mots, en juin 2016, devant un petit groupe de journalistes français, dont l'auteur de cet article]. En réalité, depuis 2002 et le plan de paix alors conçu par le roi Abdallah, Riyad promeut une solution très claire : l'Arabie est prête à reconnaître Israël si cet Etat se retire des territoires occupés en 1967.
The novelty lies elsewhere, it is in the "tempo": its very moderate defense of the Palestinians, whose rights are presented as a parallel to the Israeli aspirations, erases the precedence of the former (traditional argument of the Arab countries) and places them in equality with the second. "I believe, he says, that every people has the right to live in peace in their nation, and I believe that Palestinians, like Israelis, have the right to have their own land." But, unfortunately, the statement of "MBS" falls right after the deaths of Gaza ... and, very opportunely, it is part of the follow-up to the US decision to relocate the US Embassy of Tel Aviv in Jerusalem.
The triangulation currently taking place between Washington, Jerusalem and Riyadh may seem heterogeneous, but it represents one of the most daring initiatives that have been recently attempted in the Middle East - it is no more than the strangulation of Tehran. Because, behind Saudi Arabia, figure prominently its "customers" and obliged, the first of which Egypt, heavily indebted to the Wahhabi crown. This anti-Iranian axis, in turn, requires putting pressure on the Palestinians to accept a war of war they will not win, of which they can not be, the winners. With this major risk: to make the Palestinian issue a cause now defended by the Iranian mullahs - or by Turkish President Erdogan ...
THE ANGEL OF DEATH
