Borrell regrets that the lack of unity of the 27 reduces European influence in the war in Gaza

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He warns that never before has there been so much debate about the solution to the conflict in the Middle East and so little prospect for achieving a solution

BRUSSELS, Oct. 15 () –

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, regretted this Tuesday that the lack of unity of the member states of the bloc reduces the influence of the European bloc regarding the war in Gaza, where he admitted that it had never been discussed. so much about the political solution and it had turned out to be so far away.

“The escalation in the Middle East has enormous consequences for the EU, despite this we have not been able to influence the course of events due to the lack of unity. This is a fact,” said the head of European diplomacy at the conference on peace in the Middle East and the two-state solution organized by the group of socialists and democrats in the European Parliament.

In this sense, he has pointed out that the Twenty-Seven have cracks both in their recognition of the Palestinian State, in the request to sell weapons to Israel or in the votes themselves in the United Nations Assembly, where the Member States have been divided several times in the condemnation of Israel’s actions.

During the intervention, Borrell stressed that Israel has exceeded its exercise of the right to defend itself from the attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah, after pointing out that after the tragedy of last October 7 with the attacks on Israeli soil, another tragedy was unleashed in Gaza with the Israeli Army offensive. “For me the right to defend oneself is one thing and the right to revenge is another thing,” he noted.

LITTLE PROSPECT OF POLITICAL EXIT

Thus, Borrell has praised the initiative of the Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia, to launch an alliance of countries favorable to the application of the two-state solution, about which, in any case, he has regretted the lack of future. .

“Never before have there been so few prospects for a political solution, never before have we talked so much about the problem in the face of such weak and small prospects,” he acknowledged, to emphasize in any case that there will be no military solution to a conflict generated by a situation policy and in which, in his opinion, Europeans have a lot of responsibility.