Translated here: https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1718201487132885246
Viewed from the angle of the West, I think the message it needs to avoid isolating itself from the world is very unusual for Western media and important.
Quote:
"Westerners must open their eyes to the extent of the historical drama unfolding before us to find the right answers."
And
"This Palestinian question will not fade. And so we must address it and find an answer. This is where we need courage. The use of force is a dead end. The moral condemnation of what Hamas did - and there's no "but" in my words regarding the moral condemnation of this horror - must not prevent us from moving forward politically and diplomatically in an enlightened manner. The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle."
How many wars have the US and Japan fought after WWII?
Or France and Germany after WWII?
How many wars have the US Government and Native Americans fought after 1900?
Sometimes a clear, overwhelming victory ends cycles of violence.
It's possible because wise humans on both sides realized that the law of retaliation would cause a never ending cycle.
I worry that this sort of wisdom might be in short supply these days.
It was not because of wise humans as if humans suddenly learned wisdom. It was because they both realized instead of being empires acquiring territory, they had instead been turned into players between the US and the Soviet Union who were both much stronger than either of them and that war would end up completely devastating both of them without any benefits.
* democracy
* capitalism
* US military presence
* common European allies
* a shared dislike of communism
* a need to focus internally to rebuild destroyed infrastructure