SHANGHAI, November 24. /TASS/. The West's approach based on the policy of force will be unable to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Wang Wen, the executive dean of the Chonyang Institute for Financial Studies at the People's University of China, has said.

"I believe that conflict resolution is crucial. It requires some non-Western wisdom, because if only the Western approach is used, it will be difficult to achieve a settlement," Wang said on the sidelines of the World Conference of Chinese Studies in Shanghai. "The Western approach centers around ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ - weakness and strength - and is based on the politics of strength. Whoever has more power also has the priority right to resolve the conflict. If we compare, it turns out that Israel is somewhat stronger, so the Western approach is to support it in exerting unlimited pressure on Palestine," Wang said, calling this path a dead end.

He believes that it is now necessary to assess the situation comprehensively and pay attention to other approaches, first of all the Chinese one, which shows that a country can develop and remain on the rise without unleashing wars.

"I think that as far as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is concerned, we should turn an attentive ear to some BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - TASS), especially to such countries as China. China is good at conflict resolution. Although we have many disagreements and there are many rifts around [with other countries], you will see that we resolve these contradictions and disagreements not through wars. This is a very good piece of wisdom. This wisdom is worth learning from," he stressed.

On November 21, the BRICS leaders held an extraordinary summit on the situation in the Middle East by video link and adopted a joint declaration. In the document, they condemned acts of violence against Palestinian and Israeli civilians, called for independent investigation into the events and for a ceasefire, and also pointed to the need for direct negotiations for the establishment of a sovereign state of Palestine.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip and took more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas described its operation as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel has declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and carried out air strikes on the Palestinian enclave, as well as some areas of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are on in the West Bank.