The year 2023 is coming to an end, and looking at the current situation, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about to come to a "New Year's Eve", and most countries in the world are worried about it. On December 12, local timeThe United Nations General Assembly convened its tenth emergency special session on the Palestinian-Israeli issue and adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip by a vote of 153 in favor, 10 against and 23 abstentions.
According to the relevant regulations of the United Nations and the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, the five permanent members of the Security Council cannot use a veto. However, it should be noted that the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly are only politically inclined and do not have the force to enforce them.
The adoption of the resolution coincided with Israel's fierce assault on the southern Gaza Strip and the launch of a "water offensive" programme to divert seawater into Hamas's tunnels.
There can be no ceasefire in the Gaza StripIn addition to the fact that the relevant UN resolutions are not enforceableAnd for another reason,Israel felt that it was "victorious".
Israel has taken full control of the northern part of Gaza some time ago, and now it is launching a military operation in the south, and according to Israel's military strength, sweeping the entire southern region is already a certainty, so he will not give Hamas a respite. Now that the war has begun, he will not stop.
However, compared with the progress on the battlefield, Israel is losing ground in the international arena. On the day of December 12th,Biden publicly stated at a rally that Israel cannot afford to lose support because of indiscriminate bombardment, and that Israel cannot say no to the two-state solution.
And the day before,Biden has also reminded Israel that the world could change overnight.
In addition to the United States, other Western countries seem to be starting to pivot as well. According to a report by Reuters on December 11,German Foreign Minister Baerbock said that Israel's military operations should be more targeted and reduce civilians**.
Although the United States vetoed the vote in the Security Council a few days ago to call for an Israeli ceasefire, Britain, which has always supported Israel, abstained, and Japan voted in favorOn the topic of support for Israel, divisions began to emerge within the Western camp.
Is it the conscience of Western countries that has found out?Of course not. The civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip has long been out of control and has now exceeded 170,000 people, if they really found out in their conscience, should have started a long time ago.
And if they really oppose Israel, there is no need to use this way of "reminding" and "persuading", Israel is a small country, and its advanced ** basically comes from the United States, if the United States wants to contain Israel, it can directly cut off its supply, why bother with this kind of lip service?
There are three important reasons for the change in the attitude of the United States toward Israel. First, in order to deal with China, the United States has decided to withdraw from the chaos in the Middle East and pile up resources in the Asia-Pacific region. In this case, he does not want the Middle East to continue to be at war, and if Israel makes too much trouble and causes the Islamic world in the entire Middle East region, the United States may be forced to return to the Middle East.
Second, the Ukraine issue is unresolved, and the U.S. support for Ukraine has been a bit of a crossbow, but it has not achieved the goal of crushing Russia.
With the current strength of the United States, it does not have the ability to control the three hot spots of Ukraine, the Western Pacific, and the Middle East at the same time. Calming things down in the Middle East is the best option for the United States.
In the past period, the United States' **, bases and even its embassy in Iraq have been attacked by various armed forces, but the United States has chosen to swallow its anger, and this is the reason. Not because of his conscience, but because he lacked the skills.
Thirdly, the United States itself is well aware that the developing countries account for more than half of the world's total, and most of these countries are sympathetic to the plight of Palestine.
Because Israel's behavior is so crazy, even the United States, which controls the world, has a feeling that it can't control the situation. Under strong pressure, it is impossible for the United States to completely ignore the righteous calls of other countries.
In fact, Biden is right in saying that the global ** thing can be reversed overnight. This time the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was actually provoked by Hamas, so in the early days of the conflict, Israel won a lot of sympathy points and stood on the moral high ground.
However, then Israel began to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the Palestinian population, the number of civilian deaths rose sharply, and the world's ** countries began to reverse, and even UN Secretary-General Guterres publicly stated that Hamas's attacks were not without reason. Throughout the conflict, Israel has played its own good cards and stood on the opposite side of the world.
As it stands,There should be some kind of tacit understanding between the United States and Israel, and the United States hopes that Israel will reduce the number of civilians, and at the same time achieve its strategic goals as soon as possibleto complete the occupation of the Gaza Strip, then to prop up the puppet institutions, and then to withdraw troops. Therefore, this conflict will not stop in the near future, and the resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the Security Council will not play a substantive role.
This incident also reminds us that the international community today is still a jungle society, and conflicts outside Western countries, where dozens of people die will be portrayed as "big" conflicts between Western countries and their supporters, killing more than 10,000 innocent civilians, and so far without any sanctions.
The statement is cruel, butFor a long time to come, if you want to gain a foothold in such a world, improving your own strength is the king, and everything else is nothing.