2023-11-17 10:08:03
Amin Maalouf, on the left, and Frédéric Encel, on the right. FRANCK FERVILLE for Le Figaro Magazine
MAJOR MAINTENANCE – The permanent secretary of the French Academy and the geopolitologist discuss the conflict which shook part of the world.
Amin Maalouf, author you “Labyrinth of the Lost” (Grasset), sees in the confrontation between Israel and Hamas a conflict which has its own logic, but is also part of a new cold war. Frédéric Encel, who publishes “The Ways of Power” (Odile Jacob), believes that if the West forms a coherent bloc, this is not the case for the “global South”.
LE FIGARO. – Frédéric Encel, you explained that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was regional. Do you still make this diagnosis today or has Tehran’s involvement in this confrontation made it a central conflict?
Frédéric ENCEL. – I have said often and for a long time, while regretting it, that this conflict was relegated to the rank of local dispute. However, obliterating the problem does not amount to resolving it: it risks re-emerging violently. If it has global implications, I do not believe in a major regionalization of the conflict and even less in a world war. This conflict did not involve the major…
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