How is the war in Gaza strategically detrimental to the United States in the long run?

International Group Tasnim News- Since its inception, one of the main targets of Israel as an aggressive actor And the expansionist has been seeking the support of major international powers. Britain was the first country to act with the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and during its rule on Palestine.

This declaration encouraged a significant number of European Jewish communities to attack and settle in Palestine, the military usurpation of Palestinian lands. and authorized the expulsion of large parts of the native Arab population from villages, towns, and cities in 1948.

During the next two decades, Israel mainly turned to Western countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and the United States for weapons, It relied on funding and political support. This support continued in the “Triple Offensive” of 1956. That war against Egypt was accompanied by the participation and support of various Western countries against Israel.

With the beginning of the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, relations between the United States and Israel expanded significantly and deepened strategically. After Israel’s victory over the armies of several Arab countries in 1967, American military and economic support for Israel increased significantly. become a regional hegemon. But after decades of unwavering support, America’s role in Israel’s latest war in Gaza bears signs of the collapse of America’s global hegemony.

Blind support

During the past half century, America’s supporting role for Israel has moved from a supporter and protector to a strategic partner. The United States is currently the main supplier of military equipment and economic aid to Israel, and in addition provides political cover for Israel’s policies: since 1973, the United States has used its veto nearly 50 times to protect Israel in the Security Council.

Since the presidency of Richard Nixon, every American president has vetoed at least one Security Council resolution in favor of Israel during his time in the White House. In addition, Israel has received more than 260 billion dollars in economic aid from the US government since 1971, and this figure does not include the amounts that American institutions and private organizations help Israel.

Since the Al-Aqsa operation. On October 7, America has continued its blind support to Israel. So far, these attacks have led to the martyrdom of more than 30 thousand people, most of whom are women and children.

Furthermore, the media and American politicians, including US President Joe Biden, are spreading the lies of the Israeli side. have believed and repeated without any evidence.

This is while in the past three decades America has tried to present itself as an “honest mediator” in the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians, seeking to create a political compromise. It is between the parties to introduce. But now, in the Gaza war, it has become clear to most observers and public opinion that America is fully seeking to usurp the Palestinian lands and deprive the Palestinians of all their legitimate rights. They have ignored the context that caused the al-Aqsa storm operation.

Since the far-right Israeli cabinet headed by Benjamin Netanyahu took office, it has openly announced that the Palestinians must choose one of three options: acceptance Israel’s apartheid system, leave the land or be killed.

In 2023, Netanyahu’s extremist cabinet partners, Ben Guerr and Bazael Smotrich, gained power to implement their extremist agenda in the West Bank. The program of Smotrich, who said in controversial statements that Palestinians do not exist, was to accelerate the construction of settlements in the West Bank and increase the number of settlers in the occupied lands to one million. They will impose stricter restrictions on Palestinian pilgrimage. In the three weeks before the Al-Aqsa Storm operation, the attack of the Israeli security forces on the Al-Aqsa Mosque had become a daily occurrence. government paid The only agreement that the US actually pursued was the gift of a compromise between Tel Aviv and Riyadh to Netanyahu’s cabinet.

In such a situation, the Palestinian resistance movement had no other choice than the October 7 operation. They declared their goal of this operation to end the desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, stop the military invasions of the Israeli forces in the West Bank, release the Palestinian prisoners and lift the blockade of Gaza.

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