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Lotan commented on October 7, 2023, as a moment that shook the world and constituted a shock wave for the search for justice, and she saw that the isolation in which Israel was placed had become an isolation for the West and democracy after a year of war and destruction.
The newspaper explained – in its editorial – that the moment the Islamic Resistance Movement began (agitationIts attack on Israel will be recorded in history for the first time as the beginning of a terrible crime, but it will also remain as the moment that shook the world, and the Palestinian world was turned upside down, as the Israeli bombing led to… Gaza To kill more than 40,000 women, men and children, and to push those who did not die from the bombing and destruction to live in an endless nightmare.
Tragic duel
A year later, Lebanon enters disturbed as a victim of the 7th of October, because Israel today is moving towards the north, in the literal and figurative sense through its desire to reaffirm its security and military credibility that it lost a year ago in the south. Rather, the government of the Israeli Prime Minister seeks Benjamin Netanyahu And even further, to reshape the Near and Middle East.
This is how we must understand Israel's assassination of the old enemy Hassan Nasrallah leader HezbollahEven if his disappearance represents in itself an achievement for the Israelis. Now, the impact of the shock to Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 is reverberating as far away as Tehran and Sanaa. So what will all this lead to in the end? And why? And no one knows.
At the conclusion of her editorial, Lotan saw that October 7 and its repercussions are nothing but a tragic duel that has been repeated for 76 years between a people who fear extinction and another struggling to survive, noting that international law – which Switzerland was a guardian of under the Geneva Conventions – has been buried. Under the rubble of Gaza.
She continued in another report that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a year after The events of October 7thIt not only led to the marginalization of Israel, but also widened the gap between Western countries and southern countries, as is seen with every new vote in United Nations Where the balance of power is about to tip.
Lotan Batsawit said United Nations General Assembly In favor of the first resolution presented by the State of Palestine, which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces within 12 months from the territories occupied since 1967, namely Gaza andWest Bank andEast Jerusalem Which is considered International Court of Justice Its colonization is illegal.
The Israeli ambassador condemned what he called “diplomatic terrorism,” rejecting this text, and only 13 countries lined up behind it, the majority of which were small countries in the Pacific and Caribbean regions, and at their side was the unwavering protector: the United States, two European countries, the same from South America, and one African country, which is Malawi.
Widening the gap between North and South
Lotan believed that this vote could be seen as a symptom of the way in which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widening the gap between the “West” and the “South” while upending the balance of power.
South Africa embodied another rupture, when it resorted to the International Court of Justice to prevent genocide in Gaza, and for the first time a country from the South resorted to an international judicial body, against a state affiliated with the camp of liberal democracies, a shift that was welcomed throughout the African continent and beyond, and supported by One of the forces that presents itself as an alternative to the hegemony of the Western world by revitalizing anti-colonial discourse.
Lotan concluded that European public opinion, one year after October 7, has begun to destabilize the traditional connection between the continent and Israel, and the fate of the Palestinians and the Israeli army’s violations have become the subject of new discussions.
The accusation of double standards has become embarrassing, especially when violations of international humanitarian law are condemned in the face of Russian aggression against Ukraine, without condemning Israeli violations, so that bias in defending Israel’s interests is no longer self-evident, as the vote of the majority of European capitals at the United Nations now shows.