On 10 May, there were two very interesting episodes at the United Nations.
The first one, as you may have seen in different channels, is the smashing of the UN Charter on the spot by Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gilad Edan.
Furious after the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution to admit Palestine as a new Member of the UN, Edam immediately took out a small paper shredder that had been prepared, and then publicly shredded the UN Charter, blaming other countries for "other countries tearing up the UN Charter" and saying that "the days of the UN are running out".
To be honest, I was stunned when I saw this scene, and I suddenly felt angry and funny. Sadly, with an overwhelming 143 votes, Israel did not come to its senses and remained unrepentant. Laughing, this shredder was prepared in advance, is it Israel itself that knows that this will be the result?
By doing this, Edan's success only proves that Israel is not just Netanyahu, a madman.
The second is that after the above-mentioned incidents, the Deputy Spokesman of the UN Secretary-General, Farhan, "resurrected" the UN Charter.
In the interview, Farhan pulled out a new copy of the UN Charter from his chest and said he had seen too many plays: "It was just one, and there were many more charters, such as this one, and this charter was intact and the idea was not damaged." ”
No matter how angry Israel may be, the United Nations is not a place for it to go wild. The United Nations is an international order established after the Second World War, and its authority cannot be offended. You must know that the last one who went wild at the United Nations was "punished" for just pretending to act. Now, by tearing up the UN Charter in public, does Edam want to provoke these 143 countries as enemies?
Farhan's "resurrection" of the UN Charter is not only a "mockery" of Israel, but also a reminder to Israel that Israel cannot erase the crimes committed in Gaza.
With Israel "stirring up trouble" in Rafah, Israel's path has come to an end.
There are two reasons why:
One is that Biden's attitude towards Israel has changed.
The main manifestations of this have been recently, first Biden warned that if Israel invades Rafah, he will stop sending some weapons to Israel. Moreover, on the 10th, the Biden administration submitted an assessment report saying that Israel's use of weapons supplied by the United States in its military operation against Gaza may have violated international humanitarian law. Although the word "may" is used, it is enough to show that the Biden administration's insistence on Israel is beginning to waver.
In this regard, the US media has a sentence that describes it very well: the US-Israel relationship has reached a critical crossroads, and when it conflicts with the broader national security and moral interests of the United States and the political status of President Biden himself with an uncertain future, Biden's firm support will reach its limit. To put it simply, the United States can help Israel, but when it endangers America's own interests, the Biden administration will consider it separately.
Second, Israel's crimes in Gaza have been more exposed.
According to AFP United Nations on May 10, mass graves where "hundreds" of people were buried were found around hospitals in Gaza. The UN Security Council demanded an immediate "independent" investigation into the matter on the same day.
According to new reports, several mass graves have been found in three hospitals in the Gaza Strip since April.
These alarming findings illustrate the serious humanitarian crisis that the region has suffered. Israel cannot erase these evils.
At present, the differences between the United States and Israel are getting wider and wider, and the international community is calling for Palestine to "join the United Nations," and the moment will always come when Israel will become a "lonely man."
It is worth mentioning that Colombian President Gustavo Petro called on the 10th that "the UN Security Council must start thinking about the deployment of a peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip."
It has to be said that Petro's idea is necessary. If the United Nations wants to contain the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, sending peacekeeping troops to the Palestinian Gaza region is the most effective means to get Israel to back down and quickly achieve regional peace.
Whether Israel will retreat first or whether the peacekeepers will arrive first, we will wait and see.