While the Israeli army has now completely surrounded Gaza City and the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah is scheduled to give a speech this Friday at 2 p.m., Ghassan Salamé, former UN special envoy to Libya and professor emeritus of international relations at Sciences Po Paris, visiting from France Inter. “We are reaching unprecedented levels of barbarism in this conflict,” he explains. He asserts that this war has a “global symbolic charge.” “In this conflict, we don’t know whether it is a foreign policy conflict or a domestic policy conflict,” he says.
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According to Ghassan Salamé, “the people of Gaza support Hamas.” The powerful leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is due to speak for the first time since the start of the conflict on Friday and indicate whether his formation, allied with the Palestinian Hamas and backed by Iran, will enter the conflict directly. “We are sliding into war, we are no longer declaring war,” assures Ghassan Salamé.
According to him, Hezbollah consists of 18,000 “professional soldiers with a reserve capacity of 100,000 additional” and “a stock of missiles of 150,000.” “The Israelis say it’s 10 times Hamas,” he says.
“The Lebanese are exhausted”
Ghassan Salamé assures that the vast majority of Lebanese are hostile to their country’s slide into war: “The Lebanese are exhausted and even if they are generally positive about the Palestinian cause, they do not want to be the only collateral victims of this war,” he said . “We have a country that is economically in ruins, a country where the institutions are not functioning, without a President of the Republic, with a government focused on current affairs, a parliament that hardly meets, institutions in a pure state State of decay, in a to.” The Lebanese state is largely a failed state,” explains Ghassan Salamé.
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“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a symbolic meaning that no other conflict has. Because it also includes questions of religion,” he said. “Every time there is a confrontation between the West and the Muslim world, China generally wins,” said Ghassan Salamé. “There are conflicts in which only those who do not participate emerge as winners,” he says.
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“A two-state solution is becoming increasingly difficult”
According to him, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s second trip to Israel aims to “call on the Israelis to do two things: to show signs of humanitarian concern after the two major massacres in Jabālīyah and Brej, but also to do something much more important.” It’s one thing to think about the day after,” he explains.
“There is no war to be won in the Middle East, solutions must be found,” assures Ghassan Salame. According to him, “a two-state solution is becoming increasingly difficult.” “I’m not very optimistic about an agreement in the near future,” he said. He accuses the leaders of the world’s major powers of “sweeping the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under the carpet.”
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