Mediterranean cooperation against the clash of civilisations

"In the face of Israeli militarism, which responds to partisan action and acts of terrorism by veritable war crimes, Europe has not to be complacent," argue the philosopher Etienne Balibar and the physicist Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond. "Europe must actively contribute to the construction of a Mediterranean space of cooperation and negotiation. The United States, Russia, and Iran could have observer status, but its natural members are those with shores on a common sea, from which they have wrought history. Such a regional council would certainly not offer an automatic guarantee of peace, but it is the sole antidote to the rationale of the clash of civilisations, the only one able to push back fundamentalism at the same time as postcolonial racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia."

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