Opinion

                             A VETO OF SUBMISSION THAT SHADOWS THE USA

We have known for many years that the United States will never allow itself to criticize Israel no matter how many and great its violations of international law and human rights may be. It is a submission that does not exist, similarly, anywhere else in the world. Washington has turned the Jewish country into the greatest military power in the Middle East and supports it no matter what the circumstances.

Submission was demonstrated again this Friday when the Security Council vetoed a resolution by Arab countries, with the support of 50 others, that demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the bleeding of Palestinian blood. This American veto once again places the White House as complicit in the genocide of the Jewish state.

What we could not assume is that the White House would commit the cynicism of publicly announcing that it had asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to “reduce” civilian deaths in Gaza. That is, fewer Palestinians die under the bombings, but it doesn't matter that they continue to die. Between reducing and avoiding, there is a whole framework for analysis.

Israel is a political and military power of such magnitude that it allows itself to shamelessly dominate US policy itself. Neither Congress nor the White House are capable of opposing it. It is a curious case of humiliation shared with a complicity that is surprising for its devastating effects.
The Israeli state does not even hesitate to commit acts of espionage within the United States; It is a fact that the Tel Aviv press itself has made known several times, as incredible as it may seem. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is pleased to release the names of American citizens who have spied for Russia, China or Cuba. They were all arrested and sentenced. Did the FBI arrest someone who was spying for Israel? The answer is: None. It must be assumed that some civilian or diplomat was “caught” spying, but this information was always secret matter.
The Jewish community in the United States has a great influence on politics and the rest of the circumstances of the social life of Americans. Everyone knows it, accepts it and understands it blindly.

In Gaza, the persistence of Israel's disproportionate response to the act of terrorism committed by Hamas on October 7 is translating into war crimes, some of them assimilated to a genocide of the Palestinian population. The rabbinic historian Yajkob Rabkin questions whether excessive violence respects the principles of the Torah. In the sacred scroll of Judaism it is reaffirmed that “you must show compassion for the misfortune of others and you must help limit their miseries.”

How will relations between Arab countries and the United States evolve due to the Gaza war? Some analysts estimate that the waters will return to their normal course, but others believe that the opposite will happen if Israel takes control of the enclave. For now, Netanyahu has excluded the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from governing in Gaza.

The way in which Israel is acting reminds us of the historic event that marked the year 1948 with the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their own lands. In Gaza, the Jewish government is playing hard with the displacement of the civilian population, from the north to the south, and currently towards a small coastal strip. If they joined the diaspora, Tel Aviv would consider it a success.

But this exile does not seem possible. Egypt has already announced that it will not allow Palestinians to move en masse to its territory; and the other Arab governments have warned that the population of Gaza should not be expelled from the enclave; a position that is supported by the United Nations.