Let's start with the background: Last month, some senior officials of the US State Department were very dissatisfied with Israel, which they believed had used American-made munitions and caused a lot of noise on the humanitarian issue in Gaza. For example, the bombing of hospitals, schools and other infrastructure, and even the indiscriminate bombing of many UN agencies have killed people in Gaza. It is reported that Israel has repeatedly assured that it will not violate international humanitarian law when it receives the weapons aided by the United States, but many departments of the United States have unanimously determined that Israel is lying.
In this case, Israel is mainly questioned by the four departments of the US State Department that are responsible for "Democracy, Human Rights and Labor," "Population, Refugees and Migration," "Global Criminal Justice," and "International Organizations." They jointly submitted a complaint against Israel, which was eventually submitted to Biden through the U.S. State Department. Whether Biden signs or not will determine whether the United States will eventually provide military assistance to Israel.
In fact, from a certain point of view, this is a direct manifestation of the outbreak of the contradiction between the United States and Israel. Although the two sides are far from fighting each other, they have already pinched themselves on the Gaza issue. The United States demanded that Israel abandon the idea of attacking Rafah, but Israel did not listen at all and turned to bomb Rafah.
It is worth mentioning that a few days before Israel bombed Rafah and took a crazy step, the United States was still endorsing Israel and assuring Hamas that Israel would withdraw all its troops from Gaza after the final phase of the agreement was completed.
Although within the United States, there is a bipartisan agreement on support for Israel. But now, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has spread to the United States, and protests in support of Palestine are blooming everywhere on American campuses, and may even affect Biden's re-election. A few days ago, Biden made a rare admission to bow his head and admit the facts, believing that American weapons had caused civilian casualties in Gaza. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that Biden has admitted that American weapons have been used to kill civilians.
However, Biden added that while Israel has not yet expanded its military operations in the Gaza Strip to the southern city of Rafah, it will stop supplying aerial bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it does. According to the Pentagon, the United States has suspended the delivery of a batch of weapons to Israel. It is reported that the United States has suspended the supply of powerful aerial bombs to Israel, in addition, Biden supplemented the suspended military assistance with artillery ammunition.
But despite this, Biden still said that the United States will continue to provide Israel with defensive weapons, including the Iron Dome air defense system, but if the large-scale ground invasion of Rafah by Israeli forces begins, other arms shipments will be stopped. Biden's move sends an unusual signal: the United States is also assessing the risk of supplying weapons to Israel.
If the United States stops exporting offensive weapons to Israel, Israel's attack on Rafah will certainly be affected. Without U.S. military assistance, Israel would not have lasted long. Well, it can also be seen from Biden's Biden that the United States' support for Israel is beyond our imagination. After all, Israel is not simply inflicting civilian casualties in Gaza, it is committing genocide against it. The United Nations has long concluded this. Therefore, in this Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States is also the executioner......