World News: Hamas Unprovoked Attack - A Never-Ending Story

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Category: World News

Published on Sunday, 08 October 2023 11:31

Written by Olivier Longhi

Hamas' offensive against Israel is a continuation of previous aggression on the southern Lebanon border and confirms the permanent state of war in the Jewish state since 1948 and augurs a twenty-first century as tense as the last.

It is in the face of a Jewish state that has been sinking into an institutional crisis for several months now that Hamas unleashed one of its most violent offensives against Israel. Bloody and deadly, this bloody and murderous offensive is pushing the Jewish state towards a war that it had no desire to wage because of the uncertainty of the results.

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However, while this aggression will not fail to be part of the already long list of multiple coups against Israel carried out by Hamas, it also refers to a geopolitical fact that has hardly changed since 1948, namely that the Jewish State is in a situation of permanent war and has been since its creation. If this situation is already an aberration in itself, it is also part of a region of the world that has become one of the most sensitive, those where ancestral passions are being torn apart, and international alliances and support are being torn apart against a backdrop of tensions on the black gold market.

Powder Keg

Certainly, many astute observers will point out that there is nothing in common with the Yom Kippur War of 1973, a conflict that caused, through its induced effects on oil prices, and among other causes, one of the deepest economic crises in the Western world. But beyond this historical observation, a reality emerges: the Middle East, where writing was born and the first city-states, is, and will continue to be for many years to come, a powder keg that nothing seems to extinguish.

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Opposing two peoples, driven by ancient and ineradicable religious convictions and beliefs, themselves the driving force of human passions that hark back to the first monotheistic religions, this new conflict nevertheless has certain differences from the previous ones.

The radicalism of the two main actors, in this case the ultra-religious Jewish factions that haunt the Knesset, which is quick to intensify the colonization process, and the Shiite Hamas, supported by Iran, Israel's sworn enemy, both convinced of their right, thus maintain a climate of hostility that constitutes the first breeding ground for a confrontation that is destined to continue.

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This raises the question of stopping the fighting, first and foremost for the safety of the civilian population. But then again, a halt in fighting does not mean peace, let alone a peace plan. Does this mean that the Middle East of the twenty-first century will be, as it was in the second half of the twentieth century, a space of latent or open wars, a human, religious and diplomatic impasse?

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For the time being, the facts tend to prove this, and the global geopolitical situation is in no way designed to prevent the conflict from being interrupted. Focused on the Ukrainian-Russian war, the Western bloc would have happily done without a resurgence of tensions in the Middle East, which is also a factor of disorder on the already very capricious black gold market. In the end, the only thing left for the international chancelleries to do is to hope that the conflict will die out as quickly as it was rekindled. Looking forward to the next one?

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Bio: Olivier Longhi has extensive experience in European history. A seasoned journalist with fifteen years of experience, he is currently professor of history and geography in the Toulouse region of France. He has held a variety of publishing positions, including Head of Agency and Chief of Publishing. A journalist, recognized blogger, editor, and editorial project manager, he has trained and managed editorial teams, worked as a journalist for various local radio stations, a press and publishing consultant, and a communications consultant.