Geopolitical Lessons from Yom Kippur War: Conference with Frédéric Encel in Dijon

This Thursday, November 23, at the invitation of the France Israel Dijon association, Frédéric Encel French geopolitologist, professor of international relations and political science at the Paris school of business (PSB), will give at 7 p.m. at the Dijon hotel The bell a conference on the theme “50 years after the Yom Kippur War, geopolitical lessons so current”. The conference was planned well before the tragic developments in the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Frédéric Encel concedes that “during the Yom Kippur War, the Israelis had already largely misestimated the Arab coalition. But for the rest, the context is very different. It seems to me that Netanyahu has greatly underestimated the ruthlessness, determination and military capacity of Hamas, and that is very serious. Moreover, the majority of Israelis today consider him responsible for the escalation that took place.” The geopolitologist should also return to the dangerous game of the Israeli state, “which wanted to continue to keep Hamas afloat, through various forms of financing, in order to “gentrify” it and, ultimately, undermine the Palestinian Authority. The goal was to avoid the creation of a Palestinian state at all costs. This strategy was completely swept away by the Hamas attack of October 7, although the birth of a Palestinian state has long seemed inevitable to me. »

Frédéric Encel will also present his latest book The ways of power: thinking about geopolitics in the 21st^e century.