On 25 March, the Security Council voted 14 in favor, none against, and one abstention, and adopted a resolution on Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The resolution, co-sponsored by the 10 non-permanent members, calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan, respected by all parties, leading to a lasting and sustainable ceasefire", and the immediate and unconditional release of all detainees, as well as the removal of all obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian assistance in large quantities.
Guterres was the first to say that this resolution must be implemented and that any failure would be unforgivable. Ambassador Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, pointed out that the Security Council resolution is binding! China demands that the parties concerned fulfill their obligations under the UN Charter and take due action in accordance with the requirements of the resolution.
Anrikai
It is precisely because China and relevant countries uphold principles and uphold justice that force the United States to realize that the United States cannot and cannot continue to obstruct the Security Council from taking crucial steps in the right direction. Justice will prevail.
A White House spokesman stressed that the abstention of the United States does not represent a policy shift. Although the US side made amends after the fact, the US-Israel contradiction has been openly put on the table. Netanyahu condemned the apparent reversal of the US position, calling it "regrettable" that the US did not vote against it and canceled the planned visit of a high-level Israeli delegation.
Why, then, did the United States stop acting as an executioner and agree to give the Security Council resolution a release?
Netanyahu
First of all, the contradictions between the United States and Israel on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have intensified, and Biden wants to put the brakes on the situation. In fact, the United States has begun to lose control of Israel. Netanyahu's ambition is not only to oppose the two-state solution, but also to use the conflict to further expand his territory.
Just in the middle of this month, Israel announced that it would confiscate 8 square kilometers of Palestinian land in the West Bank and that it would build Jewish settlements. Israel's finance minister has vowed to continue the "settlement movement" in a "strategic way", meaning that the 8 square kilometres are just a side peas.
Not only that, but Israel is pushing for an offensive against Rafah, which is not in the interests of the United States. Blinken personally rushed to Israel to persuade Netanyahu to do so, but the Zionist forces were very willing to attack, and they made it clear that Rafah would be defeated even if the United States did not support it. In this context, the White House's "green light" to the Gaza ceasefire resolution in the Security Council can be seen as a warning and pressure on Israel.
American
Second, it is necessary to restore the international image of the United States, and at the same time take the opportunity to draw closer to Middle Eastern countries and avoid losing all the Middle East strategies. It can be said that Israel's brazen launch of the Gaza War has had a disastrous impact on the US Middle East strategy.
On the one hand, Israel's move is on the opposite side of the entire Middle East country, and the process of "establishing diplomatic relations" between Israel and Saudi Arabia has come to an abrupt halt. And Israel relies on the support of the United States to fight the war. The conflict in Gaza has not only caused the US military to be stuck in the Middle East and the Red Sea shipping route has become unsafe, but has also led to a rapid deterioration in relations between the United States and Middle Eastern countries.
On the other hand, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict superimposed on the Russia-Ukraine conflict has put the United States in an unfavorable situation of "two-front warfare", and the Indo-Pacific strategy has also been affected. A Palestinian-Israeli conflict has caused the United States' plan to withdraw from the Middle East to be in vain, and if it is not handled well, the United States' strategic goal of containing Iran in the Middle East will also fail. Biden knocked Netanyahu to prevent American interests from being coerced by Israeli interests.
Biden
Finally, Biden is in a critical period in the race for the election. At present, the U.S. election has entered a white heat, and it is confirmed that it is the "two-person turn" of Trump and Biden again. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has had a huge impact on Biden's election results, which has also caused his approval rating to lag behind Trump for a long time.
The Muslim American community has threatened Biden not to get their votes if the conflict in Gaza continues. Biden's decision to release the Gaza ceasefire resolution helped boost the election.
In the final analysis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict collided with the US election, and a ceasefire is "politically correct". Therefore, Biden also had to compromise in the Security Council in order to be re-elected. Of course, there is still a long way to go for Gaza to achieve true peace, and the key is to implement the two-state solution and allow Palestine to become a state.
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