Israel He opened a new front of maximum tension after bombing the Hamas dome in Qatarallied nation of the United States and one of the mediating states in the war in the Gaza Strip. For the international analyst Farid Kahhatthe attack destabilizes peace efforts and demonstrates that the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu It seeks to perpetuate the conflict.
According to the Palestinian terrorist group, Israel attacked a Hamás meeting in which its officials discussed a high fire proposal backed by US President Donald Trump, whose government soon marked distance from the bombing in Qatari territory.
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-Qatar is an ally of the United States in the Middle East and an important mediator in the war in Gaza. How much the crisis in the Middle East with Israel’s attack in Qatar?
On the one hand, the attack proves that the Netanyahu government does not have the slightest interest in putting an end to war or freeing the hostages. The proposal that was contemplating the direction of Hamas at this meeting that Israel attacked, was a proposal that led to the immediate release of all hostages, if it was accepted by the parties. It did not imply a definitive ceasefire. Even so, Netanyahu sabotaged the possibility of a ceasefire. The question now is to what the United States will continue supporting Israel, although it sabote even the initiatives of the American government.
The other is that Qatar is a mediator not only in this conflict. Qatar has tried to mediate, at least, a conflict between Ukraine and Russia and in negotiations between the Taliban movement and the United States. And it is an American ally, so it is striking that the United States has not tried to prevent the attack or taken a more energetic position against.
-What did Netanyahu wanted to achieve with this attack?
I believe that Netanyahu is in a forward escape to prolong the war everything I can and thus avoid having to face the consequences of political and criminal positions against him. I think that’s what is behind. This is not something that does, in my opinion, in favor of the state of Israel, where 74% want the liberation of hostages and the end of the war, but by political-personal calculation.
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-And what immediate effect does the attack on peace negotiations have?
Well, there will be clearly negotiations in Qatar. If negotiations continue, something that is now in see, it would be presumably in Egypt, but I presume that Egypt will ask the United States guarantees that Israel will not attack it if negotiations are carried out in its territory.
-Israel is isolating much more before the international community, which has already increased the pressure to Israel and Netanyahu by the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip?
Obviously. That is, when Israel attacked Iran at least it was a rival of both Israel and the United States. Now Israel has attacked the territory of an allied country of the United States which he had also accepted as a mediator. This is a crime under international law, I don’t think there is doubt. In addition, he launched the attack a few days after Spain, a country from the European Union, decreed a total embargo on weapons towards Israel. That is, Netanyahu does not seem to worry the future of his country, only his personal political future.
-What can we expect from the role of the United States from now on? How is your position?
The point is that this proves that the United States word is no longer worth a penny. It reaches an agreement with Europe, Europe accepts that the United States imposes unilateral tariffs of 15%, does not impose tariffs in return, undertakes to make investments in the United States, and Donald Trump of good times tells him that he is considering new tariffs for internal laws that regulate the activity of companies such as Google. Let’s look at Iran’s case. The United States has a negotiation with Iran about to restart and accepts that Israel bombard that country shortly before, with which the negotiation comes to an end. And now the same thing basically happened. The United States can be with you in something, and the next day Trump will change his mind without continuity solution, without any previous negotiation. I honestly believe that very few are going to accept that the United States is a third neutral really in a negotiation, unless there are Trump guarantees that things like this are not going to repeat again.
-Is it possible for the United States to be removed from Israel or is distanced?
With Trump in the government I would not dare to affirm it. Trump is unpredictable, but there are two things in which it has been perfectly predictable, it is in its unconditional support to Netanyahu and never apply sanctions against the Russia of Putin, or at least not expand the existing sanctions. That could change, yes, but so far they are the only two constants of their foreign policy.
The international analyst Farid Kahhat. (Archive)
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