The specialist in Islam and the Arab world believes that the policy of the Israeli government, favoring colonization in the West Bank, has weakened the security of the Jewish state on the Gaza side.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “certainly bears responsibility for the lack of precautions in relation to the attack” of Hamas against Israel, estimates Gilles Kepel, specialist in the Middle East and contemporary Islam, Saturday October 14 on franceinfo. If he “conceived” that this responsibility is “overwhelming”, “Israeli justice, the commissions of inquiry will see what is going on”he adds.
“Mr. Netanyahu, hostage to his legal troubles, has ceded everything to his extreme right” with whom he formed an alliance in 2022 to regain power “by supporting excessive colonization in the West Bank.” For this reason, “he hired the Israeli army essentially to police the West Bank, stripping the southern flank”namely the Gaza Strip.
“I have gone to Gaza several times to meet, in particular, Hamas leaders as part of my work, my research and my investigations”, explains Gilles Kepel. He remembers that“When returning from Gaza to Israeli territory, we crossed an ultra-secure border, with plowed fields everywhere, full of mines, etc.” “The border that we saw sheared by a bulldozer was paid a billion dollars”he points out.
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