HASWith the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 and the death of its instigator, Yahya Sinouar, a year later, A dynamic of total war is launched, like an ever-expanding chaos. Israeli attacks against Iran and all its regional allies, as well as the offensive against Lebanon, effectively give this impression of acceleration.
At the local level, the West Bank is one of those war fronts. The coalition in power in Israel, in which the extreme right participates, wants to reinforce control: new settlements, serial expulsions… there have already been more than 700 Palestinian victims since a year ago in this silent confrontation whose objective is to make irremediable occupation of all Palestinian lands west of the Jordan River. Greater Israel is on the agenda.
At the regional level, Israeli incursions know no limits in the skies of the Middle East. The Israeli Prime Minister already targets Iran and its facilities military and, beyond that, the Tehran regime. In reality, Benyamin Netanyahu is using here a Manichean software imagined a quarter of a century ago by American neoconservatives. Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, White House strategists launched a “war on terrorism.” They claimed to reshape the Middle East by imposing democracy by force. We saw a coalition led by Washington wipe out Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, creating fertile ground for the spread of jihadism through the birth of the Islamic State organization, just as Al-Qaeda was born from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. . At that time, the President of the Republic Jacques Chirac (1995-2007) did not want France to join this coalition.
One image will remain, that of September 27. In his speech to the United Nations, Netanyahu rejects a truce proposal with Hezbollah presented by Washington and Paris with the approval of several Gulf countries. Shortly afterward he ordered the bombing of Beirut that would end the life of Hassan Nasrallah. Today some wonder if the Israeli Prime Minister will consider the disappearance of Yahya Sinouar a “sufficient victory” to change his crazy course.
Unbearable Selective Outrage
Since October 7, all calls for a ceasefire in Gaza or Lebanon have gone unheeded. For a year now, only “Israel’s security” has been talked about. Little has been heard about the Palestinians’ right to their own security, whether physical, food or health.
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