“ Hundreds of deaths, thousands of injured, numerous hostage-takings. The shock, since Saturday morning, has been total for the Israeli populationnotes West France. It is commensurate with the attack carried out by Hamas: deadly and destabilizing in its scale, unprecedented in its methods, fraught with threats in its consequences. »
“ Surprise, dismay, carnage, devastating shock wave: there will be a before and after October 7, 2023, sigh Le Figaro. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, which Israel almost lost, thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, which allowed the dream of peace, the Middle East is returned to its “ground zero”, this point of impact where only ruins remain. »
And now, take up The cross“ Hamas’ aggression seems to signify the definitive death of diplomatic action in the Middle East. Thirty years after the Oslo Accords, Jewish colonization in the West Bank has reached a point of no return, while the Gaza Strip has been subject to a blockade since 2007 which is bringing its population to its knees. On the other hand, Hamas refuses any conciliation with Israel, placing itself in the position of a radical and violent opposition. Between them, Palestinians from Gaza who have no other perspective than living in a territory without a future, with young people who, locked in an open-air prison, have little alternative to violent action. The Hamas offensive is certainly a show of force by the terrorist group, which has demonstrated that it can destabilize the Jewish state. But there is no doubt that it will come at a high price, estimated The Cross, and in particular for the inhabitants of Gaza. Once the astonishment of the first days has passed, it remains to be hoped that the Israeli population understands the impasse into which the government’s current policy is leading it and the entire territory. Otherwise, it is difficult to see how we will avoid another bloodbath… »
In fact, adds Free Charente“ By encouraging the colonization of the Palestinian territories, Israel has ruined any two-state solution. Messianism takes the place of politics for the most radical who make the law and the governments. The territory of Israel is home to a demographic bomb between two communities who want to hate each other, one having decided to dominate the other. This war could have only one merit: to finally open the eyes of Israeli society to the impasse that awaits it. »
Release for his part, underlines “ tactical failure » from the Israeli Prime Minister: “ Benyamin Netanyahu bears a heavy share of responsibility for this astonishing failure of his country to protect its citizens, states the newspaper: its tactical alliance with Hamas, aimed at weakening any legitimate representative of the Palestinian cause, pushed it to empty the southern border of its military personnel to concentrate them in the West Bank, in accordance with the messianic demands of its far-right allies. He will probably pay the political price; but it is very little compared to the suffering inflicted on his people. »
In a column to read in The worldElie Barnavi, former Israeli ambassador to France, is uncompromising towards the current Israeli government: “Ce that we have just suffered (…) is the result of a conjunction of two factors, says Elie Barnavi: a fanatical Islamist organization whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel; and an imbecile Israeli policy to which successive governments have clung and which the last one brought to incandescence. »
From now on, ” Netanyahu is up against the wall, notes South West. If he does not bring the country together in a form of national union, he will have difficulty regaining control of events while on the border with Lebanon, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah threatens to take Israel in its pincers. The Jewish State has repeatedly shown its capacity to respond. But the large-scale hostage taking perpetrated by Hamas allows it to hamper the hands of the Israeli general staff. In 2011, remember South-West, Israel had to agree to release a thousand Palestinian prisoners to recover the only soldier Gilad Shalit. In this asymmetric war launched from Gaza, Israel is experiencing its greatest test since the Yom Kippur War. »