Hamas’s cruelty is a fitting sign of this new, more brutal and unpredictable world. What has already arrived: the multipolar world in the current sense of the expression, i.e. a world without hegemonic power.
This new world ends 70 years of what historians already call the “Long Peace.” In this new period, Russia began the largest war in Europe since the last world conflagration. China is preparing to take over Taiwan. And given the perceived absence (or decline) of a dominant power, a number of regional leaders and armed groups believe that the moment favors aggressive actions whose benefits would outweigh the risks.
Hamas terrorists are exploiting a world without a dominant power, the latest sign of the end of the Pax Americana era. Photo: Hatem Ali/AP Photo
This is clearly why Hamas. This terrorist group is part of an “arch of resistance” made up of countries and religious groups that are often enemies of one another but work to limit or eliminate the ability of the United States to exert its power in the broader Middle East.
The images of the impressive aircraft carrier Gerald Ford heading to the eastern Mediterranean after the Hamas attacks are significant. What does a “task force” of this size achieve if the superpower’s strategic dilemmas in this region have never been resolved?
On the contrary, Americans are still paying the price for the stupid decision in 2003 to invade Iraq. And not knowing what to do during the Arab world’s wholesale disintegration after the events of 2011 other than expressing fatigue with being “the world’s police.”
The aircraft carrier USS Geraldo R. Ford was sent to the region by the United States as part of Israel’s response to the Hamas terrorist attack. Photo: Jacbo Mattingly/EFE
Successive American administrations have accompanied Israel’s decadeslong march into a fundamental dilemma. By conquering all Arab territories and their populations on the western side of the Jordan, as has happened so far, Israel will cease to be either a Jewish state or a democratic state a warning issued by Israeli intelligence itself as early as 1998.
In this sense, what the unjustified Hamas massacre brings to light goes beyond the complexities of the ArabIsraeli conflict. One of the terrorists’ goals is to torpedo the Abraham Accords, the “normalization” of Israel’s relations with several countries in the wider Middle East, which would even include Saudi Arabia.
So the question is who is able to implement what kind of “solution” not only for the oldest conflict of our time. But above all, which regional alliances which “foreign powers” are connected to.
Over the past twenty years, American exceptionalism has been strongly denounced, including by the Brazilian government’s international advisory body, which highlights the “international dimension” of Hamas’s actions. Waiting for the “multipolar world”. This exists so everyone can enjoy it however they want.