Two analysts agreed that the Israeli Prime Minister is deliberately killing civilians in the Gaza Strip without caring about any international outrage because he realizes that Washington will provide him with protection and weapons no matter what crimes he commits against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
In his participation in the program “Gaza: What’s Next?”, Benjamin Friedman, professor of international security at George Washington University, acknowledged that Israel is deliberately and randomly targeting Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and Washington supports it for political and electoral calculations.
Commenting on the horrific massacre committed by the Israeli army – at dawn on Tuesday – in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of 40 and the injury of 60, according to what the Civil Defense in Gaza revealed.
He said that Israel is prepared to kill a large number of Palestinian civilians in order to kill a few fighters, and that the American administration has made its decision to accept everything that Israel does, as it has not stopped money and arms shipments to it, and he confirmed that Washington has given additional money to Tel Aviv to wage war on Gaza.
Friedman noted that Israel does not care about the American criticism that is sometimes directed at it because it knows that it will still get bombs and weapons.
For his part, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, does not expect any different behavior from the American administration because – according to him – it is “involved and implicated” in the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians.
He pointed out that since October 7, the United States has provided Israel with 50,000 tons of weapons and explosives, and has supplied it with $22.5 billion in military capabilities, and has provided it with political protection in the UN Security Council and has put pressure on other countries, including South Africa, to withdraw the lawsuit it is filing against Israel, and on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court for the same purpose.
Barghouti asserts that the United States is involved in the genocide, starvation and ethnic cleansing practiced against the Palestinians, as there are about two million Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes.
Barghouti is not surprised by the Americans’ silence on the Mawasi Khan Yunis massacre, “while they remained silent about the martyrdom of 150,000 Palestinians, assuming that there are tens of thousands under the rubble, and more than 94,000 wounded, a quarter of whom will die due to the lack of health services, in addition to Washington’s silence about the occupation dropping more than 80,000 tons of explosives on the people of Gaza.”
American duality
Because it is biased towards Israel and involved with it in the massacres committed against the Palestinians, Barghouti says that the United States is not a mediator and has never been and will never be one, and that it has surrendered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is helping him continue his war on Gaza.
In this context, the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative criticizes the position of the US National Security Council’s Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby, who accused the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of being the main obstacle to reaching a ceasefire in Gaza.
He pointed out that the Israeli negotiators themselves, the families of the prisoners, and even the military system accuse Netanyahu of being the one obstructing reaching a deal with the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, but the American administration accuses Hamas, which confirms American duplicity.
For his part, the professor of international security at George Washington University confirms that the Israeli government does not want a deal, and the US administration wants this deal but is constrained by political and electoral calculations, and therefore refrains from pressuring Netanyahu, and he expects things to get worse if Republican candidate Donald Trump reaches the White House again. He also said that the deal can be reached if there is a new government in Israel.
