As Israel spreads terror and death in the Gaza Strip, the tension in the Middle East opens more and more fronts. “It has been a chain reaction“, says International Relations professor David Hernández. “What has happened with the war in Gaza is that it has reactivated not only a conflict as historic as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but also other conflicts in the region that seemed paralyzed“, Explain.

Thus, in addition to the war in Gaza and the attacks in the West Bank, the exchange of missiles between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanona conflict that extends with the attacks by pro-Iran groups on US bases in Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthis They wreak havoc on the Red Sea.

“The great globalization project that started after the Cold War has now been exhausted,” summarizes Francisco Veiga, professor of Contemporary History. “As of 2020, there is conflict after conflict that until that moment were frozen and now suddenly they are all developing one after the other,” he explains.

Iran has also carried out an exchange of missiles with Pakistan by the terrorist groups that operate on the border, another way for Tehran to show its strength in the region, which is currently on fire. “In Israel there are a lot of nerves, because they know that they now have an enemy in front of them that can do them a lot of damage, which is Iran. If Iran gets its act together, Israel could be damaged,” Veiga points out.

“We are at a stage in this escalation of conflict in the Middle East in which the parties involved They are not willing to give up their most maximalist objectives“, warns Hernández. A situation that further limits the appearance of possible mediators who could contribute to putting an end to the escalation.