by Paolo Giordani
The drama of the Israeli hostages, the humanitarian catastrophe a gaza, in short the river of violence that flows in Holy Land it poorly conceals a reality that is evident to anyone who observes the situation, without political or religious prejudices. What makes this war hopeless and despairing is the fact that none of the parties to the conflict have achievable strategic objectives: Hamas he cannot even imagine wiping out the Jewish state (it would be militarily and politically impossible) and Israel it has only a "tactical" concept of its own security (responding blow for blow and with the utmost harshness, despite knowing that Hamas would survive even the complete destruction of Gaza).
Violence has become an incessant cycle, with attacks and reprisals fueling mutual hatred. The Israeli hostages and civilians of Gaza (“one open-air prison", as he defined it human rights watch) are the innocent victims trapped in this vortex. They live in a state of constant fear and uncertainty, exposed to the horrors of a dead-end war.
Never before would there be a need to build if not "peace" (decades of blood make true pacification difficult) at least a “pact” that allows two states to coexist. Neither the Hamas terrorists nor the extremists on whose votes the survival of the Netanyahu government depends want this. Only the international community, and in fact the great powers, would have the authority and strength necessary to impose a ceasefire, disarm terrorist groups, build (laboriously) a cohabitation agreement.
Unfortunately, more than thirty years after the end of the Cold War, the world has not found a new Order, on the contrary it has fallen into disorder. The only hope, even for the Holy Land, is that it regains strength dialogue between the United States and China (a summit between Biden and Xi is scheduled which observers rightly give great importance to) and that the glimmers of diplomacy between Moscow and Washington are widened to put an end to the war in Ukraine.
During the opening of the humanitarian conference on Gaza in Paris, the French president Emmanuel Macron underlined the importance of protecting civilians and insisted that, 33 days after the conflict began with the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, a ceasefire must become possible. On paper all five permanent members of the UN Security Council (United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain) are in favor of a “pact” on the two States: this is the only strategic perspective that can give security to Israel and a true homeland to the Palestinians.
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