There are no eternal allies, no eternal enemies, only eternal interests, and this sentence can be said to be appropriate for the current stage of US-Israel relations. Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict between Hamas and Israeli forces on October 7 last year, the United States and their "little henchman" Israel, have had serious differences on the Gaza issue, with the former insisting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) "stop the point" in the military operation against the Hamas forces in Gaza, and the latter insisting on taking this opportunity to achieve "absolute control" over the entire Gaza region. As the death toll of Palestinian civilians in the region has skyrocketed, whether the Biden administration, which was previously hampered by the "rock-solid" brotherly relationship between the United States and Israel, can "endorse" the Israeli army's criminal acts of indiscriminate killing of civilians and large-scale ethnic cleansing has become a major political hotspot for the Western media to pay attention to.
According to the latest information provided by these media, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has recently issued a fierce warning about the Israeli military presence at the Rafah border, and said that it is absolutely impossible for Israel to carry out military operations without providing the United States with a credible plan to protect the more than one million Palestinian civilians hiding there. Obviously, Blinken's remarks not only show that the contradictions between the United States and Israel on the Gaza issue have reached a level that cannot be covered up, but also directly expose the "small calculations" of the two countries on this issue.
The contradictions between the United States and Israel are growing!
1. The United States has put forward the latest additional conditions for the Israeli army: Don't use American weapons to kill civilians!
It's never guns and ammunition that kill, it's those who kill without blinking. However, on the issue of the Israeli army's indiscriminate killing of civilians, the first thing the Americans thought of was to warn the Israeli army not to use the weapons aided by the United States to kill people again, so as not to expose US President Joe Biden, who was busy with his election campaign, to too much pressure from public opinion. Under such an absurd strategic guideline, Biden also spoke on the Gaza issue in a slightly reproachful tone, saying: "If Israel launches a large-scale ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the United States will stop supplying certain weapons." However, Biden himself did not say exactly when the United States took the above actions against the Israeli army, and what types and quantities of weapons it stopped supplying. This makes us have to suspect that the Biden administration has only used the form of "harsh words" to show that the United States has no intention of conniving at the Israeli military in Gaza to "expand the gains of the war", but it does not have enough courage and determination to put the warning into action.
When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Israel of not coming up with a feasible plan to help millions of Gaza refugees safely escape the fighting, is the U.S. giving the world a satisfactory answer to its plan to stop providing Israeli arms aid? The answer, of course, is no, because whether it is Israel, the "hegemonic power" in the Middle East, or the "power politics" United States, which has personally fostered it, they are "all the way" in their bones, that is, their own national interests are above everything else, they follow their own path, and other countries have no way out.
For some hegemonic forces, national security is a "good thing". As long as they want to "take action" against any country, they can "make a big move" against it on the grounds that that country threatens the "national security" of the United States and Israel. Here, we might as well put ourselves in the shoes of the question: If these countries, which the United States regards as "security threats," are really strong enough to pose a substantial threat to them, will they dare to launch a military attack on them without saying a word? At the end of the day, they still think that these beaten countries are "easy to bully".
From a deeper perspective, this issue will return to the most primitive point, that is, hegemonism and power politics, they will only judge the rights and wrongs of international affairs from the perspective of their own national interests, even if they attack other countries, it is "legitimate and reasonable". As for whether their powerful military threatens the "security" of other countries, they have never mentioned it and have made a big effort to double standard. Taking the recent historical evolution of the situation in Gaza as an example, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brazenly sent troops in the name of "armed anti-terrorism and hostage rescue", but now these hostages, except for some of them released by Hamas for the armistice and peace talks, the remaining part has actually been blown up by the Israeli army's own air strikes, and the Israeli army's actions at this stage are more "killing" than "saving people".
Now that the civilian casualty toll in Gaza has soared to 35,091, the world's attention has long been focused on why the Israeli military's actions against Hamas have caused so much "collateral harm". At the same time, when these actions of the Israeli military become more and more unjustified and unjustified, the United States, which supports them, has to passively bear tremendous political and diplomatic pressure.
Second, anti-Semitic protests in the United States and the West have erupted one after another, and the United States and Israel have also become "chaotic".
As the saying goes, the Western world is a mess. It was only after the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza that the "chaos" changed from protesting against the low pay of work to anti-Semitic demonstrations. On the morning of May 13, for example, hundreds of Amsterdam University staff, professors, and lecturers went on a peaceful strike to protest last week's violent police crackdown on students calling for an end to the war in Gaza. Shortly after the start of the campaign in solidarity with the Palestinian people, the local riot police attacked the local riot police, who tried to confront the police and prevent them from entering the school, but the attempt lasted only a few minutes before being broken up by heavily armed police.
A demonstrator jumps over a barricade next to a building at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Demonstrators demanded that the university sever ties with Israel.
Police take action against the Berlin Student Union that organized a demonstration at the Free University of Berlin on May 7 in Berlin, Germany.
During the confrontation, the policemen beat the crowd in front of them indiscriminately, and even several Jewish teachers and students were injured by the police, and the scene was chaotic for a while. As a result, the University of Amsterdam was forced to suspend classes for two days, and the organizer of the protests, the Palestinian Dutch Academic, also said in a statement with righteous indignation: "Both universities have authorized the police to exercise 'extreme violence' control over faculty, staff and students involved in nonviolent protests, and to prevent Dutch university students and students from protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza." ”
As the saying goes, the will of the people cannot be violated, and in order to cater to the "big brother's" bias towards Israel, Western countries have gradually allowed themselves to be counterattacked, making their own governments stand on the opposite side of the people. However, with the wave of peaceful protests in Europe coming and going, the top leaders of Western countries have no choice but to stay away from the United States and Israel in order to maintain their own political power.
On the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, a pro-Palestinian protest camp was investigated by the police, and staff were cleaning up garbage.
In the US political arena, although the Democratic and Republican parties have basically maintained the same stance in support of Israel, there is considerable controversy over whether the United States should bear too much stigma for the evil deeds of the Israeli army. Among them, Bernie Sanders, a progressive independent senator, firmly opposed further military aid to Israel, saying: "Israel does not deserve a penny of US military aid, Israel has waged war against the entire Palestinian people, and the results are absolutely catastrophic." Republican Senator Lindsey Graham compared the Kazakh-Israeli war to World War II, asking himself: "Why did we drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?" Of course, to end a war that we cannot afford to lose, and that is the right decision. Israel, do whatever you have to do and continue to survive as a Jewish state. ”
Demonstrators repeatedly clashed with Dutch police armed with batons, who then formed a wall to stop the police from advancing.
Many high-ranking officials, including Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Israeli army's strategic planning at this stage, and believe that Israel's "countdown" by the United States is the blame for Netanyahu's ineffective leadership.
The United States and Israel are deeply divided over Gaza, and the Biden administration's refusal to provide weapons to the Israeli army may be just the beginning. What is clear is that Biden has gradually lost patience on the issue of the Kazakh-Israeli conflict and has the intention of using strong tactics to change Netanyahu's existing strategic plan, while Israel's neighbor Egypt has said that it will join South Africa's "genocide case" against Israel in the International Court of Justice. For a moment, it seemed that all the wind was not on Israel's side, and the chief of the IDF General Staff, Al-Halevi, who did not want to lose US aid, also bluntly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Israeli authorities' lack of strategic planning at a security meeting last weekend, saying: "We are now relaunching operations in Jabaliya." As long as there is no diplomatic establishment of a non-Hamas governing body in the Gaza Strip, we will have to launch operation after operation elsewhere to destroy Hamas's infrastructure, which will become a 'Sisyphean-style' (never-ending and futile) task." ”
In other words, the "hard-line" Netanyahu's overly "willful" decisions in Gaza have pushed Israel against the United States, Europe and Egypt. But even so, in the face of pressure from Biden and Blinken, and accusations from Defense Secretary Gallant, Chief of the General Staff of the Defense Forces Halevi and the head of Simbert, Barr, Netanyahu resolutely stated: "Israel is bearing a 'heavy and painful price' and is fighting a 'war for survival'." We cannot count on the Americans, even without the help of our allies, we will continue the war until we achieve victory. So the question is, why is Netanyahu so determined to implement a decision that the United States and the West consider to be wrong? The answer is that if he admits his mistakes, he is not far from stepping down. And if Biden condones his mistakes, he will not be re-elected. For the sake of the crown on his head and the throne under his ass, the little "plastic friendship" between the United States and Israel is obviously not enough to cover up the shame, and it is only a matter of time before the "breakup" is made.