The situation in the Middle East has escalated dramatically, with three major changes, starting with the growing number of countries that have severed diplomatic relations with Israel, with which Colombian President Petro announced in early May that he would sever all diplomatic relations. Prior to this, Bolivia, Chile and Colombia respectively announced the adoption of diplomatic means against Israel, Bolivia announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Israel, Chile and Colombia announced the recall of their ambassadors to Israel, and Bahrain, Turkey, Honduras, Jordan and other countries also announced the recall of their ambassadors to Israel.
It can be said that the severance of diplomatic relations between other countries and Israel has also pushed the United States to the opposite side. Israel is the reverse scale of the United States, and the United States was the first country in the world to recognize Israel, which is a direct result of the United States' Palestinian policy. America's recognition of Israel was a victory for it to wrest control of Palestinian affairs from Britain.
The United States needs Israel as an unsinkable aircraft carrier to deter Arab countries in the Middle East who oppose it openly and covertly, to maintain the smooth flow of oil trade and maintain the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
Israel is a bridgehead to protect the petrodollar. The petrodollar is the foundation of dollar hegemony. Dollar hegemony is a prerequisite for financial hegemony. Financial hegemony is also a necessary condition for technological hegemony and military hegemony. It can be said that Israel and the United States are in an interdependent relationship.
For the United States, abandon Israel. The result is the loss of hegemony in the Middle East, and the loss of hegemony in the Middle East will lead to the loss of oil and dollar hegemony, and then the loss of world hegemony. The United States would never make such a choice.
美国曾经有一句经典名言：It is not that lsrael needs America.America needs lsrael. (不是以色列需要美国，而是美国需要以色列)
Therefore, the United States will defend Israel at all costs, and this has led to dissatisfaction with the United States in many countries, and even caused domestic contradictions.
The second major change is that the Red Sea crisis has expanded into a Mediterranean crisis, and Houthi leader Abdul Malik Houthi has ordered the group to launch attacks on all ships heading to Israeli ports from the Mediterranean. From now on, the Houthis will strike at the ships in question "in the Mediterranean zone" where their weapons can be covered.
In 2023, no one thought that the U.S. military would not dare to fight back when it was attacked by the Houthis, who attacked Israeli merchant ships in the Red Sea in order to support Hamas.
Not only that, the Houthis also attacked US warships with drones, and although the US warships successfully intercepted the Houthi drones, in the face of the Houthi actions, so far, the United States has not launched large-scale retaliation against the Houthis.
And as the Houthis expand their operations into the Mediterranean, it means that the United States will need to devote more military resources to the security of the U.S. coalition's merchant ships.
The third major change is that Hamas and Fatah will meet in Beijing, and if Fatah and Hamas eventually reach a reconciliation and form a coalition government, it will be a more difficult and far-reaching mediation for China to promote reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Over the past few decades, the Palestinians have been at a disadvantage in the struggle against Israel for a long time, and in addition to national strength, the division within the regime is also the main reason.
It can be said that the United States' control over the Middle East is constantly weakening, and the United States will not allow the Middle East to get out of its control, so the United States is pushing Saudi Arabia and Israel to establish diplomatic relations, according to people familiar with the matter, the United States and Saudi Arabia are about to reach a "historic" agreement, which will provide Saudi Arabia with security guarantees and open up possible ways for Saudi Arabia and Israel to establish diplomatic relations.
The defense agreement signed between the United States and Saudi Arabia also means that in order to be re-elected smoothly in the next US presidential election and to create a safe and stable external environment for Israel, the United States is ready to abandon its ideological and value insistence on accepting or even fully embracing Saudi Arabia's secular royal power, and this result is to ease relations between Israel and the Arab world and strengthen the influence of the United States in the Middle East.
For this reason, in order to establish diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, or to approve the sale of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, the United States has not allowed Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons until then, which the United States believes could lead to a catastrophe." CNN said that Saudi Arabia's development of nuclear weapons would make Iran "more angry" and the regional security situation more tense.
And with the further deterioration of the situation in the Middle East, the United States is really anxious, and the United States wants to show the world that it still has the ability to influence or even change the situation in the Middle East, but the current situation is that the United States wants Saudi Arabia and Israel to establish diplomatic relations, so will Israel accept it?
You must know that the United States cannot control Israel's attack on Rafah and the elimination of Hamas, and at the same time does not want to and will not prevent Israel from attacking Rafah and eliminating Hamas, so even if Saudi Arabia agrees, how to persuade Israel is still a headache for the United States.