“We have never seen this”, with “scenes” in Israel which “are similar to the pogroms” of the 19th century, estimates a geopolitologist

“We’ve never seen this”estimated geopolitical scientist Dominique Moïsi on Monday October 9 on franceinfo, after the coordinated attack by Hamas on Israel on Saturday. “This is a completely new fact”with “scenes on the territory of Israel which are similar to the pogroms which could have existed in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century: people are killed because they are Jews”.

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“The psychological impact for Israel is coupled with an impact in the international community, at least in the Western world”added the founder of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). “I don’t remember such an outpouring of sympathy, of empathy with Israel since the Six Day War in 1967, with the feeling that Israel is threatened.”

“The rave party on one side, the rage on the other”

If Dominique Moïsi shares the feeling that the attack of October 7, 2023 is equivalent for the Israelis to the attacks of November 13, 2015 for the French, with in particular at least 260 bodies found on the site of a party in the Negev desert, “this rave party at the edge of rage is totally irresponsible”. “It shows to what extent the Palestinian question had disappeared from the minds of Israelis”still believes the geopolitologist, special advisor to the Montaigne Institute. “What happened appears to be the summary, the symbol of the situation: the rave party on one side, the rage on the other.”