Sachs called the US and Israel the main provocateurs of the situation in the Middle East

TheUnited States and Israel are the main provocateurs of the situation in the Middle East. This was stated by American economist Jeffrey Sachs in an interview with Dialogue Works TV channel on December 21.

"Israel and the United States are the main provocateurs in the region. The failure of diplomacy to establish peace through the creation of the State of Palestine along with the State of Israel, oddly enough, remains the dominant factor for the continuation of the war," he said.

He recalled that the Jewish state continues to rampage throughout the region - in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza - and also continues to provoke Iran into confrontation.

According to Sachs, Israel is a great destabilizer of the situation in the Middle East, there will be no peace in the region as long as the actions of the Jewish state are supported by the United States.

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Earlier, on November 27, current U.S. President Joe Biden announced the start of an indefinite ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, according to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, the Israeli army left only one town in southern Lebanon during the ceasefire.

At the same time, on December 11, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, citing mediators, reported that the Palestinian movement Hamas for the first time allowed a deal that would allow Israel to temporarily remain in the Gaza Strip after the cessation of hostilities. Meanwhile, exchanges of blows between the parties to the conflict continue.

In addition, following the change of power in Syria, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deployed forces along the Syrian border on December 8 and took control of the Hermon mountain range.

On December 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Israel was the main beneficiary of the events in Syria. According to him, the Russian Federation condemns the seizure of any Syrian territories.

The situation in the Middle East escalated on the morning of October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian radical movement Hamas subjected the territory of Israel to a massive rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. On the same day, Israel began retaliatory strikes.