The major French newspapers covered what they described as the unprecedented attack launched by the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas) from the Gaza Strip on Israel, although they differed in the angle of dealing with it, as Le Monde saw that it aimed to reshuffle the cards in the conflict with Israel, and Le Figaro followed it by saying that it could frustrate The hoped-for reshaping of the Middle East, while L'Obs magazine was concerned with drawing the first lessons from it, while Liberation headlined that it caused a fatal surprise in an endless conflict.

Le Monde began - in an article written by its veteran correspondent Benjamin Bart - that the date chosen by Hamas to attack Israel was not a coincidence, because it brings back to the Arab imagination, through Hamas forces’ penetration of the fortified fence surrounding the Gaza Strip, what was the Egyptian forces’ crossing of the Bar Lev line. It was fortified 50 years ago, which changed the balance of Israeli-Arab power, and was a shock to the Israeli psyche.

Miserable failure

Although it is too early to guess the exact consequences of this new conflict - according to the author - the scale of the attack carried out by Hamas is not at all proportionate to the operations it has carried out since 2007, which means that the Middle East is witnessing a new political and security earthquake, and that the setback that befell Israel, As it happened in 1973, it is characterized by incredible, symbolic brutality.

The writer believed that the fact that the Israeli political and security establishment remained paralyzed, as if it had been in a state of astonishment all morning, indicates a miserable failure, especially since the Israeli intelligence services did not expect anything to come, even though an attack of this size requires months of preparation. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who presents himself as As the protector of Israel's protection and security, he must give this catastrophe a personal dimension, and he must be held accountable after the initial shock and loneliness that should prevail for a few days.

The newspaper concluded that the new war in Gaza will have a regional resonance, and may be a direct blow to the Israeli-Arab normalization process, because the images of the bombing of Gaza promise to incite Arab public opinion and attack its leaders, especially those who have established relations with Israel, and thus Hamas’ message to the countries of the region and Western embassies. It is clear that there will be no stability in the Middle East without Palestine.

The writer commented that the extent of the "bloodshed" committed by Palestinian fighters in the towns on the outskirts of Gaza that they entered promised to restore the "terrorist" stigma to the Islamic movement, and he expected that the Palestinian cause would not emerge from this battle victorious in Western public opinion, but a fair number From the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the diaspora, they will feel solidarity with Hamas 30 years after the Oslo Accords, when Jewish settlement in the West Bank reached the point of no return, and the extremists in power in Israel did not offer them anything but submission, imprisonment or death.

Wrong horse

In the same context, Le Figaro believed that this unprecedented attack could thwart the hoped-for reshaping of the Middle East, but she focused on the extensions of the conflict that the attack could cause, and commented that the Lebanese Hezbollah congratulated Hamas on its “heroic, large-scale operation,” and said “The leadership of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon is in direct contact with the leadership of the Palestinian Resistance at home and abroad and is constantly evaluating events and the progress of operations.”

The newspaper asked: Does this mean that “the pro-Iranian militia has an interest in opening a front against northern Israel?” She responded that perhaps not, because Hezbollah, which recently concluded an agreement to share gas reserves in the Mediterranean with Israel - according to the newspaper - did not make a decision to launch simultaneous attacks against the Jewish state, although there is no doubt about the cooperation between it and Hamas.

However, the newspaper saw that Iran has an interest in the outbreak of “Israeli-Palestinian violence,” and responded to this for a simple reason, which it said Tehran does not hide, which is that the Islamic Republic looks dimly at the continued rapprochement between its new ally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Israel, and it warned by saying that those who conclude an agreement With Israel, they are "betting on the wrong horse."

As for Loops magazine, it described the “catastrophic situation” in Israel as the most dangerous since the October 1973 War, and said that Israel is in a state of shock and astonishment at this “terrorist” attack, and said, “Israel is preparing for a long war and perhaps a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip,” as researcher David imagines. Successor.

Political science professor Hosni Obeidi, director of the Center for Studies and Research on the Arab and Mediterranean World in Geneva, confirmed that the attack this time will lead to the weakening and marginalization of the Palestinian Authority, because the Palestinian movements have been entered by a new generation determined to take its fate into its own hands, in the face of an Israeli government dominated by the right. Extremist religion and the resigned international community.

For its part, Liberation saw that Hamas's massive attack on Israel caused a deadly surprise in an endless Israeli and Palestinian conflict, and linked it to the October War, which it saw as a strong symbol that fuels fear of a new cycle of "terrible violence," noting that the Hamas attack will put the Israelis in the same situation. Mentality.

Deadly episode

After a quick review of some of the events, the newspaper said - in an editorial written by Dov Alfon - that this is an unnecessary deadly episode in a conflict that feeds on conflicting historical narratives, fostered over the years by two extremely hostile societies, with little in common except a deep sense of injustice. History and exposure to harm.

According to the writer, Israel believed that the withdrawal of all its soldiers and all its settlements from Gaza in 2005, after 38 years of occupation, would put an end to its problems with the 1.6 million Palestinians there, and it was even looking at the continuous launching of rockets from there since Hamas ruled the Strip. It is an act of anger that invites violent retaliation from time to time, but most of the time it is silently tolerated as a symptom of illness best left undetected.

The writer believed that the feeling of the people of Gaza that they are victims stems directly from the miserable living conditions in a crowded, besieged, and poor coastal strip that is only a few kilometers wide. The Israeli soldiers and settlers may have left, but Israel continues to close its borders with Gaza, and is blockading its coasts due to fears of weapons imports. , and controls the airspace, which means that Gaza is still effectively “occupied” and thus the “resistance” maintains its legitimacy.

The newspaper concluded that the geopolitical changes witnessed in recent months place before Hamas and its “Iranian sponsors” - according to the writer - an untenable possibility, which threatens the birth of a “new Middle East” that will leave Iran without legitimacy in the Arab world, which will abandon the people. Palestinians, and Hamas will have succeeded in its bet and slowed down this progress, which will embarrass Israel’s new allies and increase the solidity of the positions of the Israelis and Palestinians in the conflict.