2023-10-27 16:36:00
The editor of ISRAEL21c explained the current situation in the conflict in the Middle East and its geopolitical implications. “The world was divided into two blocks: the eastern and the western,” he said in Modo Fontevecchiaby Net TV, Radio Perfil (AM 1190) and Radio Amadeus (FM 91.1).
Alejandro Gomel: How is the current situation regarding the Hamas hostage taking? What is known regarding the Argentines?
The hostage situation is uncertainEvery time the government sends a report on the situation, the list of kidnapped people grows. There is no clear information that there are direct negotiations but there are strong interventions by the Qatari government which, coincidentally, finances the terrorist activities of Hamas.
Precisely, Qatar seeks to negotiate the release of hostages and then of soldiers. But yesterday information was circulating that Hamas was seeking the exchange of all civilians (including babies, children and the elderly) for the 6,000 Palestinian prisoners sentenced in Israel for terrorism.
Hamas confirmed that “regarding 50” kidnapped hostages died in Israeli bombings in Gaza
AG: It turned out that there were already deaths of the hostages but Hamas maintains that it was due to Israeli bombings. This is so?
It is not official information because, in the case of Israel, no one reported who the victims were. But this is likely to have happened, as Hamas’s underground network of tunnels beneath the surface of the Gaza Strip is truly enormous. You have to take into account who is reporting, you have to take everything with a grain of salt.
Nuria Am (NA): Is there still crossfire between Hamas and Israel forces in Gaza or is the situation calmer?
In Gaza, Israel has never stopped attacking, especially the air force. Everything is now being prepared for the imminent ground operation, which is a particular juncture because regarding half of Israelis oppose this. Hamas’s exchange is with troops on the border or launching missiles at places full of civilians.
THAT: Is there a baby among these 20 people?
Among the group there are two children who are the children of Argentines. But yes, there are several Argentine families with several minors.
A doctor in Israel assures that, “the culture of terrorists is totally different”
THAT: The minister in charge of the Argentine embassy in Tel Aviv, Francisco Tropepi, was the one who gave the information regarding the 9-month-old baby.
Yes, he is one of the two little brothers in the Silberman family. The grandparents of these children were murdered by Hamas on October 7.
AG: You said that half of Israelis are once morest an invasion. What is happening inside Israel?
At first, they wondered how to get out of the stupor of how this happened. For them, the fortress surrounding the Gaza Strip suddenly became a Titanic that produced one of the darkest days of the Jewish people.
At the same time, public opinion is divided: there are those who prefer to wait and set a time for the operations to be completed and then sit everyone in the dock. And there are also those who demand “enough of anarchy and false information”, among them the relatives of the victims, logically. Society was already divided, but today the fragmentation has to do with the approaches of what each person thinks.
THAT: There is not much information here regarding what the hostage negotiations are like between the Argentine and Israeli governments. Is there a possible political solution to this?
I don’t think there is, especially in the terms that Argentina is in with an imminent runoff and not knowing what is going to happen. In chronological matters, our country does not have a specific weight like the United States or China, for example, may have.
There may be a delegation from a common international front, guided by the most powerful states, and there perhaps Argentina will have more influence due to the role it plays in the Southern Cone. Those that can help unblock the conflict are the countries that act as intermediaries: Egypt, Qatar or Turkey, since they are culturally related to Hamas.
AG: Did Joe Biden’s visit to the region have any results?
It was received as an endorsement. Even Biden’s speech before arriving here was the speech that was demanded of Benjamin Netanyahu himself. Great support was felt on the ground, it is the first time that a sitting American president visits Israel in the middle of the war.
Argentine families continue to ask for the release of those kidnapped by Hamas
We must also remember that the British Prime Minister and Macron were there. Germany maintained that it might help with weapons and, in fact, there is American weapons to have the latest generation to confront a terrorist organization that hides underground.
AG: With all this that you are saying, we should see the reaction of the other side, for example Russia, China, even Iran. Correct?
It is very clear that The world was divided into two blocks: the eastern and the western. Some have respect for a certain amount of things and others don’t. Israel has long been functioning as a checkpoint between the West and the East. It is the last western border because Turkey, which is attached to Europe, is absolutely islamized. The blocs have been defined, but they are not monolithic because not all of the Arab and Islamic world support the war crimes that Hamas has committed.
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