Israel seeks Iranian confrontation to divert attention from atrocities in Palestine

CAIRO - 14 April 2024: The Israeli government wants to escalate the crisis into a regional war to stay in power even if that endangers its people, said Dr. Mohamed Hegazy, former assistant to the foreign minister. 

In an interview with MENA, Hegazy said that is especially true after regional powers, including Egypt, as well as the U.S. have opposed a raid on Rafah. Israel also failed to achieve the targets it claimed ahead of the war on Gaza, which were eliminating Hamas and freeing the hostages. It does not want to free the hostages as part of a deal that entails a ceasefire and an increase of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Israel has thus followed strategic tactics to force Iran to attack in order to save face. 

However Iran does not want an open war and neither does the U.S. A wide-scale war in the Middle East would also destabilize Europe and the world. Iran is also a major exporter of energy with which a war would have repercussions on the global market.

It has become clear how dangerous the extremist Israeli government is on world peace. And after the world no longer sides with this government’s actions, it tries to divert the world’s attention away from its atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank.

It is also trying to change the focus of true international community from the diplomatic efforts in favor of Palestine at the UN and from negotiations. It would much rather manage the conflict in a military arena.

From today and until the UN votes on a full membership of Palestine, there should be pressure to allow a trajectory towards a Palestinian state so the cause does not remain to be an instigation of instability regionally and internationally, Hegazy concluded.