Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2024 2:22:24 GMT -8
The so-called “second phase” of Israel's war of extermination in Gaza (of Hamas, according to the official story; in truth, of the Palestinian people who survive or die there) and the political crisis in France dispute the international interest of this turbulent beginning of the year. No matter how different both issues are - in scope, in purposes, in protagonists - they reflect contradictions and tensions that predict a difficult solution. COMBUSTION The North American Secretary of State has warned of the danger of a “metastasization” of the war, in implicit reference to an escalation that turns the skirmishes on the Lebanese-Israeli border into an open conflagration, to which would be added the intensification of the actions of Iran's proxies in Yemen , Syria, Iraq, Red Sea, West Bank, etc.
This is a classic message of American diplomacy, although there are doubts about the real control that Iran exercises over these forces (2). Not to mention a lack of predisposition on Phone Number Database the part of the ayatollahs to let the crisis lead to a generalized conflagration (3). With his comings and goings to the region since October, Blinken is emulating Kissinger's travel diplomacy fifty years ago , later replicated by many of his successors in office. In a way, the United States acts as arsonist and firefighter in the Middle East. As an arsonist, by supporting Israel in its “scorched earth” policies to guarantee impossible security; and as a firefighter, by affirming its status as the only power capable of establishing the rules of war (of wars), its rhythms, its pauses, its conditions, its story and, as Stephen Walt writes, its almost impossible solutions (4) .
Three overlapping wars After three months of brutal and criminal punishment in Gaza, Israel now says it is time to move on to other, more targeted operations. Just what Washington has been asking for at least two months. Of course, the military and political leadership in Israel does not admit that it acts at the direction of its North American protector, but neither does it replicate these convenient interpretations in related media. Israel claims to have almost completely destroyed Hamas in the north of the strip and practically destroyed its infrastructure of tunnels and command networks, except for pockets of resistance that will not last long (5). The Army has reduced its expeditionary force in Gaza by half (from 360,000 to 170,000 men, more or less), for reasons not only military, but also economic.
This is a classic message of American diplomacy, although there are doubts about the real control that Iran exercises over these forces (2). Not to mention a lack of predisposition on Phone Number Database the part of the ayatollahs to let the crisis lead to a generalized conflagration (3). With his comings and goings to the region since October, Blinken is emulating Kissinger's travel diplomacy fifty years ago , later replicated by many of his successors in office. In a way, the United States acts as arsonist and firefighter in the Middle East. As an arsonist, by supporting Israel in its “scorched earth” policies to guarantee impossible security; and as a firefighter, by affirming its status as the only power capable of establishing the rules of war (of wars), its rhythms, its pauses, its conditions, its story and, as Stephen Walt writes, its almost impossible solutions (4) .
Three overlapping wars After three months of brutal and criminal punishment in Gaza, Israel now says it is time to move on to other, more targeted operations. Just what Washington has been asking for at least two months. Of course, the military and political leadership in Israel does not admit that it acts at the direction of its North American protector, but neither does it replicate these convenient interpretations in related media. Israel claims to have almost completely destroyed Hamas in the north of the strip and practically destroyed its infrastructure of tunnels and command networks, except for pockets of resistance that will not last long (5). The Army has reduced its expeditionary force in Gaza by half (from 360,000 to 170,000 men, more or less), for reasons not only military, but also economic.