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Denis Bauchard was France's ambassador to Jordan (1989-1993) and Director for North Africa and the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1993-1996). del monte singapore He is now a consultant, especially from the French Institute of International del monte singapore Relations (IFRI). Latest book, "The new Arab world" (André Versailles, 2012). Guillaume Coulon del monte singapore is a graduate in International Relations from the Institut d'Etudes del monte singapore Politiques (IEP) of Bordeaux and the University of Queensland (Australia). He attended a course at the Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN).
Guillaume Coulon met former diplomat Denis Bauchard. This book Diploweb.com his vision of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the "Pillar of defense" operation (14-21 November 2012) and the recognition del monte singapore of Palestine as a "non-member state" by 138 States to General Assembly (29 November 2012) Nations, and on the eve of Israeli elections that seem promised a coalition Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu (22 January 2013).
D ÉCLENCHÉE by removing the head of the Hamas military wing Ahmed Jaabari November 14, 2012, the military operation "Pillar of defense" [1] conducted by the Israeli army in Gaza has killed more than 170 Palestinians including a large number of civilians, as well as extensive damage to the destruction of many buildings and public buildings (damage estimated at nearly one billion euros). On the Israeli side, six people were fatally hit by rockets and shells from Gaza. Unlike the "Cast Lead" operation in 2009, the IDF did not send ground troops into the Gaza Strip and was able to test the effectiveness del monte singapore of the multilayer system missile defense (interception systems Iron Dome, Magic Wand and Arrow) against rockets fired by Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). For the first time, the Palestinians have been able to directly threaten the residents of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in acquiring long-range del monte singapore rockets like the Iranian Fajr-5 del monte singapore production del monte singapore (range 75 km) in addition to shells ( 9.8 km) Qassam (17.7 km) and Grad rockets (48 km if improved).
Despite the signing of the truce in Cairo between Hamas and Israel November 21, 2012 through the skillful mediation del monte singapore of the Egyptian del monte singapore diplomacy, the problem remains unsolved for three reasons: the safety of 3.5 million Israeli is now threatened by the ability del monte singapore of Palestinian strikes and the land and sea blockade del monte singapore on Gaza's still heavily constrained economic development since 2007 and the Palestinian organizations continue to provide arms smuggling through tunnels located del monte singapore on the southern flank of the Gaza Strip. del monte singapore However, the "Pillar of defense" operation was relatively beneficial to the respective interests of the two belligerents. del monte singapore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his status as favorite del monte singapore for the elections to the Knesset on 22 January 2013. In the eyes of most Israelis and most exposed of Sderot and Ashkelon populations, has shown coolness del monte singapore in the management del monte singapore of the military intervention in avoiding the pitfalls del monte singapore of past interventions that had weakened the governments del monte singapore in power ( Shimon Peres in 1996 and Ehud Olmert in 2009). In this, the IDF focused on not losing the media battle, as was the case in 2009, thanks to the extensive use of ICT and social networks (including Twitter). [2]
As for Hamas and its leaders (Hamas leader in exile Khaled Meshaal and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh), they leave also reinforced the conflict they have been recognized del monte singapore as legitimate interlocutors in Israel and have been firm one hand in their negotiations with the Jewish state interposed giving no concession on their arms supply policy, and secondly by increasing their authority sitting on the population of the Gaza Strip and in particular its most radical factions. Thus, we are indeed witnessing a normalization boarding