The Guardian: The war in the Middle East exacerbated Europe’s identity crisis

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, a newspaper English wrote in an analysis on Wednesday that the war in the Middle East region (West Asia) has revealed the identity crisis that has paralyzed the European continent.

The Guardian newspaper wrote: “While the world is focusing on how the geopolitics of the Middle East will change as a result of the Israel-Hamas war, the Western powers are examining the effects of this war on Societies and internal policies are their own. Their concern is not only about the immediate spread of tensions, but also about the consequences of this war in Paris, Berlin, London and beyond. As two major European powers, he wrote that these two countries could play the role of world leaders in these events, but now they are struggling with the effects of their own history.

The Guardian claims that “anti-Semitism” has increased in France and Germany after the Hamas operation on October 7 and the subsequent Israeli military operation. In both countries, their leaders issued statements in this regard.

This newspaper went on to discuss the loss of different aspects of identity in these two European countries and wrote: “Germany has seen in the last two years that its trust in mercantilism As an expression of democracy, it has become immoral, its reliance on welfare as a sign of progress has been challenged, its economic power has been questioned due to its dependence on China, and its pacifist character has been re-tested due to the exigencies of war. “

The Guardian stated that in the current situation, European countries need to present a “new compelling narrative” that includes both the facts of the historical past and the creation of new national identities. Slow is difficult.

This newspaper wrote: “With a war that has flared up in Europe itself And the right-wing parties regaining power within the democracies of this continent, these identity failures threaten the cohesion and efficiency of the European Union.” The Guardian, referring to the existence of right-wing parties in two France and Germany, which have turned to promoting racist messages, especially against Muslims, due to the weaknesses in their official narratives of the Gaza war, stated that the war in the Middle East has intensified the identity crisis of Europeans.

This article states: “French and European leaders are allowing groups ready to exploit these loopholes to use the flaws in their narratives as a weapon against them. . Much has been written about the failure of the European Union to play a role in the Middle East, but when the founding democracies of the European Union do not stop rebuilding themselves, there can be no hope of [European] leadership from Brussels.”

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