The fragility of peace in the Middle East is underscored by the carnage unleashed by Hamas and by the retaliation that Tel Aviv will shortly let loose.
That comparison with the surprise 1973 Yom Kippur war might be thought to spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, especially coming amid his right-wing Likud Party’s controversial Supreme Court overhaul that has prompted mass protests and bitterly widened Israel’s internal divisions.being called Israel’s “9/11 moment”, Israeli doves and hawks could unite in an emergency unity government.
US President Joe Biden has strongly backed Israel’s right to defend itself and its people, which means neutralising the Hamas threat. It is a call that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has echoed while labelling the attacks that have so far claimed at least 300 Israeli lives as “abhorrent”. There is also the potential for an intensification of the higher oil price pain of the OPEC-Russian production cut mini-shock, if the Arab producing nation’s solidarity with the Palestine struggle now extends to repeating the oil squeeze first imposed in response to the Yom Kippur War.
The two-state solution phrase trips off tongues globally as the much-desired outcome. But the reality is that the Gaza territory that would form part of the putative Palestinian state is run by an Islamist movement, whose strings are pulled by a theocratic despotism in Tehran, and which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the US, the European Union, and Australia.
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