For his statements Recep Tayyip Erdogan which, as she pointed out, made a sensation, the researcher of ELIAMEP, Katerina Sokou, spoke on Thursday morning (26/10). “It is clear that the Hamas is considered a terrorist organization,” he stressed.
“Yesterday’s statements by the Turkish president made a sensation and were also noted in Washington” pointed out the ELIAMEP researcher, Katerina Sokou, referring to the speech of Recep Tayyip Erdogan about a liberation group and not a terrorist organization, speaking to ERT and the CONNECTIONS show.
“It is clear that Hamas is considered a terrorist organization. There is no doubt about it in the United States, nor in the European Union. And in this context and beyond the sympathy and the effort to give humanitarian aid to the civilians in Gaza, there is no question about the harsh attitude that everyone holds towards Hamas and the Americans also support 100% the will of Israel to destroy Hamas,” he said.
At the same time, Katerina Sokou underlined the great doubts of the Americans about how Israel will cope with this war. “That if the ground attack is successful, to completely destroy Hamas and how that will happen, how many thousands of dead on the Palestinian civilian side and what will that mean for the wider region, for the escalation of violence, for the expansion of the war, for the entry of Hezbollah, perhaps into the war on a second front. And in this case of course we have Iran, which has already warned that if there is a land invasion it will also hit Israel. Certainly to hit immediately. “He will hit it through Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are just some of the concerns of the Americans and that is why they are trying to delay the ground attack,” he noted.
“The Americans have turned their attention to the war in Israel and Gaza”
Additionally regarding scenarios for the Souda Air Base as a key point in the transfer of Americans from Middle East he stated that “yes, it is clear that the crisis in the region highlights in the most difficult way, of course, the strategic importance of the region and that is why it is clear that the Americans have also turned their attention to the war in Israel and Gaza. The effort to reach a rapprochement with Saudi Arabia and the Abraham agreements and the broader stability of the region and in the event of an extension of war, even their interests in free navigation and the energy security of the region more broadly, are essentially at stake” while he also added that “Greece is a critical point and what we have been saying for so many years is proving in practice that there is a huge aircraft carrier in Crete, the Souda base. And correspondingly, Athens is also a center for the evacuation of citizens of many countries, including Canada, from Israel. In fact, the Canadian ambassador yesterday thanked Athens for its contribution to this.”
“In Israel as in Lebanon there are thousands of foreign citizens”
With reference to the American citizens who are in Israel, Mrs. Sokou noted that “such a case of expansion of the war, there should be evacuations of the American citizens. In Israel as well as in Lebanon, the foreign citizens are thousands and over there we would see mass evacuations and I must say that there are definitely scenarios and they are being prepared.
We are already seeing analyzes of how this mass evacuation could be done if necessary and charter flights with American citizens are already leaving Israel every day and there are also evacuations of non-essential personnel from the embassies.
Source: News Beast
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