In the conflict between Palestine and Israel, there was an incident that caught the attention of many people, and that was the abduction of an Israeli female hostage by Hamas, who was also of Chinese descent. This news spread quickly on the Internet, and many of them are**paragraph**, in which is the woman's distress picture, and the text description says that her name is Noah, she is of mixed Chinese and Israeli descent, has Chinese nationality, has lived in Beijing, and so on.
However, this news was quickly debunked by netizens, it turned out that this woman is only Israeli nationality, she was born in Israel, has never lived in China, although her mother is Chinese, but she has long given up Chinese nationality and immigrated to Israel, and this woman is still a reserve soldier of the Israel Defense Forces, not an ordinary civilian.
In this way, this news has become a fake news, which should have ended, but there are still some people with ulterior motives who want to use this incident to put pressure on China to intervene in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and help Israel rescue the hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of them, and at a special session of the Knesset on December 25, he publicly stated that he had sent a message to China through the Chinese ambassador, asking China to help rescue Noah. He also said that he had met Noah's parents many times, and they were very worried about Noah's safety, especially Noah's mother, who had already suffered from cancer, and hoped to see her daughter again before she died. In this way, he wanted to touch the hearts of the Chinese and urge China to participate in the hostage negotiations.
In addition, the social ** account of the Israeli Embassy in China also posted a paragraph **, in which Noah's mother is asking the United States ** Biden for help, although she did not mention China, but the Israeli Embassy in China used this ** to show the Chinese people the tragic situation of Noah's mother and try to win the sympathy of the Chinese.
This is not the first time Netanyahu has done such a thing, he has previously contacted Russian ** Putin directly to ask him to intervene in the issue of hostages in Israel and Hamas, which he has always considered to be a manifestation of his "efforts to bring the hostages home".
However, in our opinion, this is a very reckless and rude diplomatic provocation, the whole world knows that China is a sovereign and independent country, never interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, nor interferes in the conflicts of third parties, these Israeli hostages were kidnapped by Hamas, largely because Israel arrested many innocent Palestinians in the process of illegally occupying Palestinian land, which is a grievance between Israel and Palestine, and has no direct relationship with China, requiring China to intervene at the highest level, It is a complete repudiation of China's consistent policy.
In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, China did not remain silent, but called on the two sides to cease fire as soon as possible and release the hostages, but it is unrealistic to ask China to ignore Israel's unfair treatment of the Palestinians, unilaterally support Israel, and demand that Hamas release them.
At the same time, Netanyahu, as the leader of a country, should not convey to the outside world the message that his position is determined by blood, because in the current international order, nationality is the basic principle that determines identity, and it cannot be supported by any country because of his ancestry, and in this case, the international order will be completely chaotic.
What's more, on the issue of hostages, Israel has always said one thing and done another, and so far, many hostages have been killed in Israel's indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, and there are even three hostages who asked the Israeli army for help after escaping, only to be directly killed by the Israeli army.
Gaza Christmas**, Israel's brutal bombing of refugee camps While Netanyahu was saying hypocritical things in the Knesset, the catastrophe in Gaza did not stop, but intensified.
On December 24, the day before Christmas, also known as Christmas Eve, the traditional holiday of the Gaza Strip, Israel carried out heavy air strikes on the Magazi and Buraiji refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip and the city of Khan Younis in the south, killing at least 70 people.
Al Jazeera reported on the airstrike with "Christmas Eve's Big **", severely criticizing Israel's *** behavior.
At the same time, due to the special timing of this air strike, many Western ** did not side with Israel as in the past, Reuters reported that this is the deadliest attack launched by Israel in the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, also reiterated his call for a ceasefire, stressing that the health system in the Gaza Strip is already facing collapse and that an immediate ceasefire must be achieved.
Even Pope Francis, who is celebrating Christmas at the Vatican, has made a point of condemning Israel's massive attacks on Christmas Eve.
The 70 are just a fraction of the crimes Israel has committed in Gaza, which has so far killed more than 20,000 Palestinian civilians and injured some 54,000, most of whom were women and children.
Israel's brutality, naturally, also provoked a strong counterattack by Hamas, three days before Christmas, Hamas and the Israeli army engaged in fierce street fighting, Israel officially admitted that 14 soldiers were killed in the fighting, which made Israel's total death toll in this round of conflict reach 153, but Hamas released ** shows that the Israeli army's ** far exceeds the official data.
At present, the outside world cannot confirm the true losses of Israel, only the Israeli Haaretz newspaper has speculated that the death toll in Israel is about three times that of the official one, and Israel may have paid hundreds of lives and thousands of injuries in this war. This is already a heavy price to pay for Israel, which has a small population.
This war has also cast a bloody shadow on this year's Christmas, on the day of Jesus' birth, his homeland is suffering from genocide, while the Western countries that believe in ** religion are turning a blind eye to it and are still preparing to celebrate Christmas. Their so-called democracy and human rights, the love of God in religious teachings, have become a joke in the Christmas breeze.
Russia's war in Ukraine may end with major victory for Russian forces In addition to the Palestinian-Israeli battlefield, another conflict of global concern, the war in Ukraine, has also undergone major changes over the Christmas season.
On December 25, local time, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Russian army had taken full control of the town of Maryinka in eastern Ukraine, which is one of the biggest advances since Russia occupied Mott in May this year.
This pre-war town with a population of only 10,000 has experienced more than a year of fierce fighting, the artillery fire of Russia and Ukraine has turned the whole of Maryinka into a ruin, in the first half of 2023, there is no complete building here, the fighting between the two sides has also moved from the ground to the underground, the Ukrainian army has dug a lot of tunnels and bunkers in the city, and the Russian army has gradually cleared these underground facilities through artillery fire and mines in the past few months.
It was a war of attrition like the First World War, and Russia paid a great price and eventually won the battle and occupied this strategic point.
After that, Russia can use this stronghold to influence the situation of the war in the entire Donetsk region, and if Avadiivka, another important Donetsk town surrounded by Russia, also falls into Russian hands, then Ukraine may lose control of the whole of Donetsk.
Now it seems that Donetsk is already in Russia's pocket, it is only a matter of time, after the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the transfer of Western aid to Israel, Ukraine has been at a disadvantage on the front line, and the previous big ** has also failed, causing great losses and affecting the morale and efficiency of the Ukrainian army, even Maryinka, which has held out for more than a year, has to give up, and the situation of Ukrainian troops elsewhere is even worse.
Next, if Ukraine does not receive enough support from the West, it is likely that it will be forced to withdraw more territory before the end of this year, and it will not be able to realize the plan to launch ** again next spring, and after some important sites are occupied by Russia, the entire country of Ukraine will have to switch to strategic defense, unable to launch a new offensive.
And how long this defense can last is also unknown, in the first half of this year, the **Muth Battle, and the end of the year**, Ukraine invested too many resources and personnel, and the structure of the entire Ukrainian army has also changed, many experienced veterans have been sacrificed, replaced by many inexperienced recruits.
As for Western aid, it is likely that it will never return to the level before the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the two parties in the US Congress have been arguing over the issue of aid recently, and Biden ** also admitted that they will not be able to pass a new aid bill before the end of this year, and at the beginning of next year, the United States will have a "window period", when all the aid pressure will fall on Europe, which will make EU countries more bored, leading to a reduction in aid, and under such a vicious circle, Ukraine will only get less and less aid.
Coming to this point, the Russian-Ukrainian war is likely to have come to an end, and next year may be a turning point in this conflict, if Russia continues to maintain the current military operation, continues to weaken Ukraine's power, and shows the West that it is impossible that they want Ukraine to win, the West may choose to negotiate with Russia and end this conflict, Ukraine's only hope is to barely maintain the status quo, and wait until the United States in 2024 *** expects something to change after the new United States ** comes to power.