The international system collapsed in the Gaza test!

Its institutions and values have decomposed, and its viability and ability to survive have been undermined.

This is what the international system looked like in the Gaza test.

The helplessness was almost absolute in the face of the most heinous crimes against humanity in modern times.

Within four years, three tests followed, revealing the extent of its deterioration and its inability to meet its requirements.

The “Covid-19” pandemic was a serious test of the efficiency of the international health system and the ability of the international system to provide humanitarian support in the face of mass death, which mercilessly struck large areas of the world, including Europe and the United States.

During the pandemic, disintegration struck the structure of the European Union, which was unable to show the minimum level of solidarity among its members.

At the same time, the United States did not show any willingness to extend a helping hand to the supposed allies, and there was no significant role for the United Nations.

This was an indication of the imminent collapse of the international system, in which Washington has held the reins of power alone since the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Then the international order was subjected to a second test in the Ukrainian war.

The question has been widely asked: Whose leadership belongs and what are the nature of the calculations and balances of power within it? But he remained suspended in the space of war, which expanded and its repercussions exhausted the entire world.

Neither the United States won its bets on humiliating Moscow, nor did Russia raise the white flags despite the harsh sanctions imposed on its exhausted economy.

In the Ukraine test, the United States brandished the weapon of sanctions against Beijing, as well as displays of force in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, in order to deter any potential Chinese intervention, economically and militarily, that supports Moscow.

In the Gaza test, similar messages were sent to prevent any regional party from “exploiting the situation” after the shock of October 7th.

In both tests, the United States, despite the superior power elements it invested in planning, financing, and armament, did not succeed in achieving the goals it sought.

In Gaza, its image in the Middle East was damaged as never before.

This was a strategic loss that had consequences for its interests in the region.

To a similar extent, its actual leadership of the international organization was damaged, keeping it in a state of paralysis and impotence.

The resort of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to the use of Article 99 of its Charter, which authorizes him to alert the Security Council to any matter that he deems may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security, was nothing but a protest against the obstruction of the powers of the international organization with all its institutions to stop genocide, or to alleviate from the weight of the horrific human tragedy.

The step itself is a historical precedent, and it means that things have gone wrong and the powers of the United Nations system have been suspended.

The United States was blamed before any other international party by virtue of its leadership of the entire international system.

The most serious thing is the collapse of the founding values of the United Nations in preserving freedoms and human rights and ensuring the right of peoples to self-determination.

The targeting of journalists in Gaza and southern Lebanon called for widespread human and professional outrage without it being possible to open any international investigation that would hold accountable and deter.

The tragedy culminated in the disruption of specialized United Nations agencies from performing their duties, especially the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the International Criminal Court.

Hospitals were besieged and bombed, the war of starvation expanded to unprecedented limits, and any human rights were completely undermined without an influential voice being raised by the international organization to lend it credibility and respect.

The offices and schools of UNRWA, which was established specifically to provide relief to Palestinian refugees after the 1948 Nakba, were bombed, without a cry of protest indicating punishment.

With the power of the American veto and its influence, the Security Council failed to issue a resolution to stop the war.

Despite all this, after more than two months, Israel has not been able to achieve a single sign of victory.

It did not succeed in uprooting Hamas and freeing Israeli prisoners and hostages by force without paying heavy political prices.

It negotiated with them through mediators before breaking off the truces and returning to war.

With every failure in direct confrontations, the ferocity of targeting civilians increases.

The world can no longer tolerate an extension of the war, which has left tens of thousands of civilian victims dead, injured, and missing under the rubble.

According to US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, Israeli leaders must end the war within weeks, not months.

The political burdens of the war on Gaza have undermined the standing of the United States and Joe Biden’s chances of extending his term for a second term in the 2024 elections.

In answer to the question: What next? Ideas were put forward for circulation, some of which were a flight of illusions, such as the safe exit of the resistance, similar to what happened in 1982 after the occupation of Beirut and the deportation of the Palestine Liberation Organization to Tunisia.

The situation this time is completely different, as the resistance is fighting on its own land, not on any other land.

The scene of civilians being stripped naked to humiliate them under the pretext of belonging to Hamas and the expansion of indiscriminate, cold-blooded killing in the West Bank carried the opposite message: Fighting until the last martyr.

With the power of images, the vast differences between the treatment of Israeli prisoners and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons have disappeared.

This was a complete moral defeat.

Asking the question “the next day” seemed somewhat hasty: Who will fill the security and political vacuum in Gaza?

The war proved that the matter would not be as easy as previously imagined. Resistance is an original idea and is not imposed on Palestinian society.

Neither the re-occupation of Gaza is acceptable to the Americans, Europe, nor the Arabs, nor is the establishment of buffer zones acceptable to the American sponsor, nor is the exclusion of the Palestinian Authority and the replacement of Mahmoud Abbas with another man according to the specifications of the occupation that the Palestinian people can accept despite any broad objections to the performance of the Authority.

The demonstrations that took place in major Western capitals and cities, and within the United States itself, in support of and support for the Palestinian cause, confirmed the huge contradiction between the institutions of its countries and public opinion in them.

It is a signal of change under the political skin.

In other words, it is a new and warning sign of a crack in the international system.

Undermining that system without clarifying what comes after it.

China has no intention of filling the leadership role vacuum, nor does it have any foreseeable estimate of its costs and costs. The Chinese are content with monitoring roles from afar and positions of solidarity without getting involved in the Ukrainian and Palestinian wars.

Nor is Russia ready to open a new conflict front, even though it is one of the most strategic beneficiaries of the decline in the Ukrainian war, medially and politically, after the war on Gaza.

We are facing a complete disintegration of the structure of the international system that indicates widespread chaos to come, without any sign of a new birth to any foreseeable extent.

Source: Sama News