The outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October, which killed thousands of people and involved several countries, has made the situation in the Red Sea increasingly tense, and the United States, as Israel's backer, has recently declared a truce, which has changed the situation between Palestine and Israel to a certain extent.
In a recent interview in New York, Biden was asked when a ceasefire agreement would be signed in Gaza, and he said that the ceasefire agreement is about to expire and that Israel and Hamas are expected to sign a ceasefire agreement on March 4.
On February 23, Israel and Hamas reportedly held a new ceasefire talks in Paris, with both sides saying they had made "significant progress." This comes not long after Qatar resumed ceasefire talks, with the two sides discussing the specifics of the ceasefire agreement.
Biden unequivocally announced the end of the ceasefire on March 4, and the United States sent a signal to Israel: sign a ceasefire agreement in Gaza as soon as possible so that the United States can withdraw from the Middle East problem. From the very beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the United States has firmly supported Israel's actions in Gaza, not only sending the aircraft carrier USS Ford to the Mediterranean Sea to protect Israel's lives, but also providing military assistance to it. In the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, the United States has also repeatedly vetoed the cease-fire agreement proposed by Russia and other countries on the grounds that "it does not mention that Israel has the right to self-defense."
Yemen's Houthis openly support Hamas, also blockaded the Red Sea straits, blocked all access to Gaza, and the United States, risking its life and the Houthi armed conflict, was the first to detonate the Red Sea in Yemen earlier this year. This series of actions has caused the United States to fall back into the turmoil in the Middle East, and now in addition to stationing troops in the Red Sea region, the United States must always be on guard against the attacks of the Houthi rebels.
At the same time, pro-Iranian Iraq, Syria and other countries also seized the opportunity to launch attacks on a number of important military facilities in the Middle East, including a US military base in Afghanistan, on January 28, three US soldiers were killed and more than 40 were injured.
This series of attacks not only hit the United States hard, but also put the Middle East into a stalemate, on the European side, the war between Russia and Ukraine seems to have improved somewhat, Russia has repeatedly succeeded in the winter, the United States is mired in the Middle East, has no heart to care about Europe, and even the new economic rescue plan for Ukraine has been postponed due to **.
In view of the above situation, the United States is now clearly interested in ending the Palestinian-Israeli war in the first half of this year, so as to separate from the Middle East, so the United States Blinken twice "knocked" Israel, condemned its new "Gaza War Post-War Governance Plan", and called on Israel to stop occupying Gaza, and now Biden has set a timetable for negotiations to "hope" that Israel can sign a ceasefire agreement on March 4.
However, it is clear that the Israeli side has no interest in the United States. On the same day, Biden announced that Israel launched airstrikes on several areas in southern Gaza, killing 19 people, and on the same day, the Israeli army also launched two attacks on the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek, which was also the first cross-border attack on eastern Lebanon since the start of the Palestinian-Israeli war.
In the Qatari-hosted talks, Israel even proposed the establishment of a "safe zone" that would prohibit Palestinians from stepping into the "safe zone", while Israeli guards could come and go as they pleased in Gaza. This series of actions is like a resounding slap in the face to the United States, smashing the results of their previous negotiations to smithereens again. Israel is not surprised by Israel's move, after all, Israel has now been forced to a dead end, once the peace talks are reached, the offensive in Gaza is tantamount to a "failure", and public opinion and enormous political pressure are enough to push Netanyahu's rule to the brink of collapse.
There is only one way to stop this, and that is to escalate the situation and bring the United States down. At the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States said that if the Lebanese Allah armed forces intervened in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States would also intervene, so in the past month or so, Israel has continuously launched attacks on Allah armed groups and voluntarily crossed the border to launch air strikes against Lebanon. The situation in the Middle East is likely to be further complicated by Israel's loss of control and the United States' desire to withdraw from the Middle East as soon as possible.