At the Berlin Security Conference 2023, the 12th President of the European Parliament, Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering, calls on all those involved in the Gaza war to respect the dignity of the other side. They must face up to the responsibility of developing a vision for a peaceful future in the Middle East.
Aaron Sagui, Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, did not consider the current time to be appropriate for discussing the peace process. The Israeli army (IDF) is fighting pure evil in Gaza, he claims. The Israeli government’s goal at the moment is therefore to destroy any Hamas entity in Gaza. This is necessary because the signs before the attack were not interpreted correctly. We didn’t put the pieces of the puzzle in the correct order. We were under the misguided impression that Hamas was interested in peaceful coexistence, Sagui said.
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Meißner provides an analysis of Hamas’ motivation. The aim of the attack was to keep the Palestinian conflict under discussion in view of the normalization of Israel’s diplomatic relations in the Middle East, he said.