“America is back.” With this sentence, US President Joe Biden opened his term. He said it in a tone full of enthusiasm to announce that his country had returned to assuming its international responsibilities after the isolationist policy pursued by his predecessor, Donald Trump. However, after 3 years, Washington finds itself in increasing international isolation because of its endless support. Israel in its aggression against the Gaza Strip.
Since the devastating war on the Gaza Strip began in the wake of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, in which the Palestinian resistance forces attacked the headquarters and centers of the occupation army around Gaza and stormed the settlements there and captured occupation soldiers and some civilians on October 7, Washington has been forced more than once to stand alone in forums. International to defend its ally.
In the UN Security Council, the United States used its veto power twice in a row to prevent the issuance of two resolutions calling for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Strip.
But on Friday, she timidly emerged from her isolation in the UN Security Council by deciding not to support a resolution calling for the entry of humanitarian aid “on a large scale” into the Gaza Strip after the resolution had been emptied of many of its contents, especially the call for a ceasefire.
Contrary to the position taken by some of its closest allies, such as Britain, France, and…Japan Which voted in favor of the resolution, the United States abstained from voting.
A week before that, in the United Nations General Assembly, the United States found only Austria and the Czech Republic among its other European partners to vote against a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
This situation continues to reflect negatively on the image of the United States in the world.
“The way all this is viewed in the rest of the world is that the United States cares about the Israelis and the Ukrainians,” and pays less attention to non-Western peoples, says Leslie Vinjamuri, an expert at the Chatham House think tank in London.
In his defense of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who announced that he was visiting Israel as a Jew and not as a foreign minister in his first visit after the Al-Aqsa flood, urged the world to put pressure on the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and not just the occupation. Considering that the fuse of this war was lit by Hamas.
Biden administration officials claim that the pressure they are exerting on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government behind the scenes is bearing fruit, as it agreed to allow fuel tankers to enter Gaza, restore internet service to the Strip, and open the crossings.
But Vinjamuri confirms that the narrative that Biden “hugs Netanyahu while secretly pressuring” Israel does not hold true for long.
Total bias
An opinion poll conducted by the Independent Organization on a sample of Arab people, the results of which were published at the end of last November, showed that only 7% of those polled believed that the United States’ role in the Israeli aggression was positive.
20 years ago, the American invasion of Iraq damaged the reputation of the United States in the world.
Munqith Dagher, an official at the Al-Mustaqlila organization, comments that until recently, America “still represents this image of a country that embodies democracy, human rights, freedom of expression, and many values that befit the famous American dream.”
But the torrent of horrific scenes from Gaza, the massacres carried out by the occupation and the policy of collective punishment, “turned the situation upside down,” he added.
Dagher believes that this matter demonstrated to the Arabs “the United States’ complete bias toward the Israelis and its lack of respect for human rights when it comes to the Palestinians.”
