Now U.S. President Joe Biden is "one head and two big", in addition to former President Trump's high popularity, the United States' achievements in the diplomatic field have really made Biden quite passive. In addition to the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine crisis, Ukraine has not been able to defeat Russia so far, and Biden is also in crisis on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A few days ago, the United Nations convened a special session to vote on promoting Palestine's accession to the United Nations, and finally adopted the relevant resolution with an overwhelming result, and the international community once again slapped the United States in the mouth, because the United States had previously blocked Palestine from joining the United Nations through the "one-vote veto" of the Security Council.
With the adoption of the resolution by the UN Special General Assembly, the issue of Palestine's accession to the UN Security Council has once again been pushed to the level of the UN Security Council, so if the United States continues to veto the relevant resolutions, it will be openly opposing most countries in the world. The U.S. is now in a double rhythm when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publicly criticized Israel's military operations in the Rafah area on May 12. For the first time since October 7, 2023, Blinken strongly criticized the Israeli army's military operation in Gaza, claiming that Israel's military operation has resulted in the loss of civilians without weakening Hamas' influence and will lead to chaos in the region, according to US media reports.
Blinken also made a rare request for Israel to withdraw its troops from Gaza, in contrast to the previous "unconditional" support for Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. However, while Blinken criticized Israel, Sullivan, who is the US national security adviser to the President of the White House, openly contradicted the tone, and Sullivan publicly expressed support for Israel on the same day, and at the same time supported the Israeli army's combat operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Blinken and Sullivan, who are important officials of the Biden administration in the United States, have serious differences on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, thus exposing the contradictions within the Biden administration in the United States. The U.S. State Department is in charge of U.S. foreign affairs, and Sullivan is the national security adviser, and now Blinken and Sullivan have different statements, in fact, the Pentagon has ordered a moratorium on the supply of weapons and ammunition to Israel, so Sullivan's position is trying to force the Pentagon to continue to provide military assistance to Israel. From the standpoint of Blinken and Sullivan, Blinken is focusing on civilians in Gaza, while Sullivan is concerned about Hamas, which Israel cares about, so they have different emphases.
For U.S. President Joe Biden, before the presidential election in November 2024, the United States must have a diplomatic report card, when it cannot influence Russia, so the United States is bound to exert force on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, for which different factions of the Biden cabinet in the United States are also playing, trying to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in different ways, Blinken is advocating that Israel make concessions, while Sullivan is a hardliner, so he supports Israel to continue to fight Hamas through military action until Hamas makes concessions, In fact, both Blinken and Sullivan are creating diplomatic results for US President Joe Biden in the Middle East.