Palestinian state

The history of humanity has recorded, with brutal episodes of violence and wars, the shaping of countries, states, institutions, organisations, laws, in short, the system and the form that each group of people in a given region has been able to create and consolidate for its existence.

Knowing history, assuming its consequences and learning its lessons must be key in the 21st century, where violence and war are being given free rein as a means to achieve the objectives of some political leaders who exercise power in their respective countries. International law has been forged despite the reluctance of the strongest and, at times, to favour their superiority, but over the years and with the work and effort of numerous and competent political and legal representatives of many countries, international law has been consolidated and must be respected. 

The excessive ambition of some dictators caused enormous tragedies in the 20th century. Today, the threat of a global confrontation is increasing as a continuation of a struggle for political, economic, commercial and social hegemony that has been going on for years and has three clear scenarios: the economy, cyberspace and regional conflicts. 

It seemed that a pandemic like covid, which held the world in check for two years, could teach us the need for a better relationship between all governments and their leaders, whatever their ideology and interests, but then came Russia's invasion of Ukraine to bring us back to stark reality. 

The risk of global conflict increased with Taiwan. And since 7 October, chaos has gripped the Middle East with the self-serving provocation of Iran and its groups such as Hamas in its brutal terrorist attack on Israel. The Netanyahu government's reaction, foreseen even by the very terrorists who targeted it, has been a military operation to liquidate Hamas in Gaza. 

But let us not forget that it is also aimed at wiping out other like-minded groups funded by the Iranian ayatollahs and driven by the Al Quds Brigades of the Revolutionary Guards in the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq. 

It will be far from easy to achieve this goal without avoiding an open confrontation with Iran, which would escalate to incalculable proportions. In Yemen, Houthi terrorists are causing serious damage to international trade with their attacks. 

The Western response has been forceful, but it remains to be seen whether it will go the distance to liquidate this threat and confront a somewhat unexpected Houthi arms build-up. There are many actors in the region on the move and it must be clear who the real enemies are. 

In any case, once an organisation like Hamas, which established a dictatorship in Gaza in 2007 by expelling Palestinians from Fatah, has been neutralised, the solution for the immediate future must include the creation of a Palestinian state, with a renewed and legitimised government without Iranian influence, that is viable and guarantees Israel's security. This is very complicated but necessary.