This conflict needs “a political and not a military solution”, believes Brahim Oumansour, associate researcher and director of the Maghreb Observatory at IRIS.

Emmanuel Macron returns to France this Wednesday evening, October 25, after a two-day presidential visit to the Middle East. Can we already say that this is a successful operation or not for the President of the Republic? “On the diplomatic level, he tried to play the regional balance, by first visiting Israel, to present his solidarity, and meeting two other heads of state in Jordan and Egypt. For the moment, it is a success, at least on a symbolic level“, indicates Brahim Oumansour, associate researcher and director of the Maghreb Observatory at IRIS.

Reminder to the international community

Emmanuel Macron said it again in Cairo, “it is not because this idea of ​​a two-state solution is old that it has become obsolete“.”His speech is interesting, to the extent that before October 7, almost everyone believed that the Palestinian question was going to be swept away definitively. Unfortunately, it is from the Hamas attack that we understand that ultimately it reminds the international community that the conflict exists“, declares Brahim Oumansour, adding that this conflict needs “of a political and non-military solution“.