A few days ago, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi just expressed his stance on the situation in the Middle East, calling for a ceasefire and ending the fighting as soon as possible, but as soon as the words fell, the US State Department announced that five Israeli forces had committed "serious human rights violations" before the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, among which the Neza Yehuda battalion has not been corrected so far. This statement is very ironic, because the series of atrocities committed by the Israeli army in Gaza have long aroused the public outrage of the international community, and the US side is too "late to know" that it has only said it now. What is even more outrageous is that even now, the US has not stated that it will launch sanctions.
This is very different from the US side's behavior, which has always been very concerned about the so-called "human rights issues" of other countries, and it also makes us clearly see the double standards and hypocrisy of the US side. But why did Sister Lan say that this statement was very interesting? Because we cannot rule out that this statement is a signal that the United States has turned its gun on Israel.
Objectively speaking, U.S. President Joe Biden still supports Israel at the moment, and just a few days ago Biden signed a bill that allocates more than $26 billion in aid to Israel in addition to about $61 billion in aid to Ukraine. But that doesn't mean Biden can tolerate all of Israel's actions, especially the imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.
Rafah, located in southern Gaza, is one of the few areas that has not been poisoned by Israeli forces, and is currently home to more than 1.5 million Gaza refugees. Recently, the Israeli government has been stating that it will launch a ground military operation against Rafah, based on the population density of Rafah, if the Israeli army does send troops to Rafah, the casualties will be visible to the naked eye. The US does not want to be criticized by the international community, and certainly will not support Israel in doing so.
From a more in-depth perspective, Sister Lan told everyone that the essence of the dispute between the United States and Israel lies in the disagreement over the follow-up arrangements for the Gaza Strip. Although the United States supports Israel, it does not want Israel to invade and occupy Gaza, and the United States' arrangement for the Gaza Strip is to establish an authority composed of Palestinians after the war, and then the division of Palestinian and Israeli sovereignty will be determined. The reason why the United States supports Israel in eliminating Hamas is because Hamas poses a challenge to this arrangement of the United States.
However, if Israel wants to annex Gaza, I am afraid that it will not let go of even the West Bank in the future, and Israel also knows very well that if it gives up attacking Rafah at this time, then with the realization of the intention of the United States to form the Gaza authorities, it will no longer be able to get its hands on Gaza, and the investment it has made over the past years will be completely bankrupt.
Therefore, the current US attack on Israel on the "human rights issue" is to warn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if Israel does not obey again, US sanctions will come at any time.
Will Netanyahu listen? I'm afraid it won't be easy, because Netanyahu is under pressure not only from the United States, but also from within the country, and the vast majority of the members of Israel's wartime cabinet are ministerial-level officials from Israel's far-right camp, and these officials have made it clear that they will attack Rafah no matter what, and Finance Minister Smotrich has even threatened that if Rafah is not attacked, Netanyahu's government may be overthrown.
Faced with the situation of being forced to step down, even if Netanyahu wants to buy the US account, I am afraid that he will have to weigh it first.