Israel, what is happening between Jerusalem and Gaza

No longer just aviation, now there are also tanks ready to bomb the villages north of the Gaza Strip. Israel attacks and after almost a week of war there is no respite on the horizon. Since the start of the conflict, over 120 people have been killed in the Strip and less than a dozen in the state of Israel. These are numbers that show how asymmetrical this clash, yet another in a conflict that arose in the past century. Israel has at its disposal a modern and technologically advanced military power against which very little Palestinian armed groups can do, Hamas above all, firing ground-to-ground rockets of very limited range.

Right and wrong, however, cannot be stably positioned on one side or the other. “This is a conflict that has lasted for over a century, was set in motion, modestly, by what was to become the Zionist movement and has accelerated since 1917 when Arthur Balfour declared that a home had to be found for scattered Jews. for the world, ”he explains Armando Sanguini, former Italian ambassador to Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, scientific advisor to the Institute for International Political Studies“From that moment it has been a succession of clashes. The first dates back to the 1920s with the Arabs who had always lived in this area. Since 1948, when the Jewish state was formally born, the clash between Palestinians and Israelis has become endemic. The Europe that felt the weight of the Holocaust upon itself supported Israel ”.

Over the years, a series of enlargements of Israel into the territory of Palestine, but also invitations, mostly unheard, of the United Nations the return of these territories. On the one hand, the Israeli state says it is threatened in its existence, on the other it has never stopped occupying territories. If in the past there had been strong interventions by the Arab League in support of the Palestinian cause, such as that of 1973 with the world oil crisis, the situation is now different.

“The beginning of the current clash comes from the ruling of various Israeli courts that”some Palestinian families need to be evicted from homes and land», Explains the former ambassador who then adds possible readings of the beginning of the escalation. “On the one hand, Israel acting with its deadly power that causes violent repercussions, but on the other it is possible that Hamas has pushed young people to protest the evictions and then triggered the conflict”.

Hamas is supported and fueled by Iran precisely to fuel the fire of Israel’s war and at the same time increasingly put aside the moderate wing of Abu Mazen who has canceled the elections again, elections that have not already been held for 15 years. In addition to this Hamas it has also found support in Turkey eager to appear as the flag of true Islam.

In this situation the Russia aims at a mediator role. Europe is divided. The US has been with Trump supporter of Israel and of the Abrahamic agreements, now with Biden they condemn Hamas in line with Trump, but at the same time they cannot fail to condemn the harsh Israeli response. The resolutions of the United Nations have so far gone unheeded.

Is it possible to find a balance between the two contenders? “Very hard. There is a juxtaposition of radicalisms that can only cease when one of the two can’t take it anymore. When Hamas runs out of funds maybe. The Israelis, however, could sift through the territory forcing Hamas to fold. There is a giant on either side and a small but rough-and-tumble opponent who is rightly considered a terrorist by most of the world. However, the fact remains that Israel uses force to silence even the legitimate expectations of the adversary ».

You may also like