After Iran launched a military attack on Israel in retaliation for Israel's attack on the consular department of the Iranian Embassy in Syria, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on the 15th local time that the House of Representatives will advance a vote on an aid to Israel bill this week.
On the one hand, the United States is trying to put on a posture to prevent the escalation of the situation in the Middle East, while on the other hand, it continues to push for military assistance to Israel. This kind of hypocrisy and double standard of the United States has been running through the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the very beginning to the present.
On 7 October 2023, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) suddenly launched a new round of military operations against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately declared a "state of war" in Israel, and the Israeli army began a large-scale air campaign on the Palestinian Gaza Strip. A new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out.
As soon as the conflict began, the United States expressed its firm support for Israel.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: No country can and will not tolerate the massacre of its citizens.
The number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip has been growing as a result of Israeli air strikes and ground operations. The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is also deteriorating under Israeli blockades and attacks. In the face of the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, the U.S. government could not even say the word "condemn".
Reporter Saeed Aliqat: Why, in principle, is it so difficult for the US government to say "we condemn the killing of Palestinian women and children"?
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Uh, we do, we, I ...... Of course we don't want to see any children die, we don't want to see anyone die because of this conflict. That is why we have been working to bring this conflict to an end as soon as possible.
However, is it really as Matthew Miller said? After the conflict began, the United States provided Israel with weapons and ammunition as soon as possible. The conflict broke out on 7 October, and on 11 October the "advanced weapons" provided by the United States arrived in Israel. To date, the United States Government has provided more than 100 arms sales to Israel. US media reported earlier this month that the Biden administration will also approve a large arms sales order to Israel, including 50 F-15 fighter jets, and the total transaction is expected to exceed $18 billion. Not only that, the United States has also sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, deployed the THAAD missile defense system, dispatched additional "Patriot" air defense missile battalions, and deployed the "Aegis" missile defense system to "support" Israel.
In the United Nations Security Council, the United States has done everything in its power to obstruct the efforts of the international community to defuse the conflict. As a permanent member of the Security Council, the United States has vetoed many draft resolutions of the Security Council on the Palestinian-Israeli situation.
Yusuf, resident of Khan Younis: The United States has been sending weapons and warships to encircle Gaza, and the weapons and missiles used to bomb Gaza are all made by the United States and Western countries.
The United States has also staged a series of "double standard" plots in favor of Israel at the United Nations.
After the attack on Iran's diplomatic mission in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, the deputy permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations claimed at an emergency meeting of the Security Council the next day that "the United States has not confirmed the circumstances of the bombed buildings in Damascus" and issued a warning to Iran.
U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wood: Iran and its proxies and partners should avoid escalating tensions in the region.
Not only that, but the UN Security Council statement drafted by Russia condemning the attack on Iran's diplomatic compound was also prevented from being issued due to obstruction by the United States and other Western countries.
But after Iran retaliated against Israel, the United States said that "the Security Council cannot ignore Iran's actions."
U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Wood: Iran's reckless actions pose a threat not only to the Israeli people, but also to other UN member states in the region, including Jordan and Iraq.
Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University in the United States, pointed out that the unconditional support of Israel by the United States over the past decades has allowed the latter to "do whatever it wants", which has led to increasingly extreme Israeli domestic politics and its treatment of Palestinians. The US policy in the Middle East over the past several decades has been an important driving force behind the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Source: CCTV news client