The Middle East in the grip of the ruler and the executioner

The Middle East scene seems bleak and far from any diplomatic horizon to resolve the human suffering resulting from the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon. The absence of this horizon is due to American policies and orientations that support Israel and allow it to play the role of the executioner, to flog the countries of the region, however it wants, and violate the sovereignty of their lands and dignity, whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq or other countries, thanks to the role of the ruler played by the United States, as a result of the complete official Arab submission, in addition to the terrible global silence.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Tel Aviv and the region today, the shuttle of American visits since the beginning of the aggression, and he has in his bag Israeli ideas that he will present on behalf of Israel, foremost of which is reaching a temporary truce in exchange for the release of Israeli detainees and a number of Palestinian prisoners, without the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip, as the Shin Bet wants based on the vision presented yesterday by the head of the agency Ronen Bar after his return from Cairo, in addition to more temptations regarding humanitarian aid and increasing the pace of its entry into the northern Gaza Strip, while ignoring the ongoing war of extermination, starvation, massacres and displacement.

Yesterday, Amos Hochstein, US President Joe Biden’s envoy, was in Beirut, and he came to play a mediation role between Lebanon and Israel, but he claimed that a solution without adding new understandings as an annex to Security Council Resolution 1701 is unrealistic, knowing that Resolution 1701 established a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah after the 2006 war, and stipulated Israel’s complete withdrawal from Lebanon, strengthening the deployment of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and limiting the military presence in the border area to the Lebanese army and the international force, which is something that Israel does not want, as it stipulated yesterday that ending the war on Lebanon requires allowing Israel to practice a policy of enforcement and ground penetration into Lebanon, and opening Lebanese airspace to Israeli aircraft. These are purely Israeli conditions, and because of them the United States rejects a solution through Resolution 1701, which reinforces Israel’s desire to continue its aggression against Lebanon as well.

The US withdrawal from implementing Resolution 1701 on the pretext that any amendment to it requires Russian and Chinese approval appears to be a new maneuver by Washington, to allow the opportunity to launch more attacks on Lebanon, under the pretext of Israel’s right to defend itself, and in order to eliminate those it describes as “terrorists.”

It is time for this devastating war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip to stop with a comprehensive ceasefire, a clear and explicit withdrawal of the occupation army from the Gaza Strip, the start of the reconstruction campaign, the entry of aid, the removal of barriers, and the release of Palestinian prisoners demanded by the resistance in exchange for the liberation of Israeli detainees, in addition to ending the war file in southern Lebanon immediately and reaching an agreement based on UN Resolution 1701. However, the United States, with its yellow diplomacy, is still playing the role of the ruler who runs all matters, while Israel is playing the role of the executioner directly, which will undoubtedly prolong the war.