Shanghai – I rarely oppose protecting Israel remains a top priority in US policy towards the region. However, as far as it has been demonstrated in the latest round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, few would have predicted that US pro-Israel policies could go.
And countries in this region are US compliant for a variety of considerations. However, recent moves and Jordan, such as Trump’s proposal to move Palestinians to Egypt, have suggested that the compromise has not been fully rewarded. Countries in this region should learn the lesson that compromise is never a solution.
Scholars around the world have created a mountain of literature on American policy towards the Middle East as the US has played a very important role in the region, and sometimes as the most influential actor in regional issues. .
As an academic working on issues in the Middle East, I also spent my time working on the precautionary, diverse dynamics behind US policies towards the region. However, when I spoke to a very senior American scholar who had not addressed the issue of the Middle East in 2013 about my research topic, a very American professor said that American policies in this region can be divided into three terms. He complained in a very angry tone. “Israel”, “Israel”, “Israel”.
I was aware of American pro-Israel policies, but I was shocked by such a classification of American professors. And I even doubted whether the professor was too emotional about US policy, as a result of his personal grievances about America’s strategic and economic overuse. Israeli resources. I then believed that superpowers holding leadership positions in the international community could not have one consideration for policy in such important regions.
The professor may not have sufficient background knowledge as he was not a scholar of Middle Eastern research, but he may be one of the American scholars who provided the most objective understanding of US policy in this regard. Not there. The reason may simply be that his personal departure from the area made him more objective.
Statistics show that the US has provided over $260 billion in support to Israel over the past 70 years. The United States has also rejected almost every resolution condemning Israel’s occupation and military action against the Palestinians, which has forced Israel to avoid liability for its abuse. The United States supports Israel in Israel’s military accumulation, allowing Israel to maintain its military superiority over Palestine and its Arab neighbors.
Since the Al-Aqsa flood, US prejudices against Israel have surpassed the imagination of the modern world. Over the past 16 months, more than 40,000 Gazans in Palestine have lost their lives in Israeli military operations, and nearly 20 million people have lost their lives as a result of starvation, lack of treatment and other poor living conditions. It’s there. What happened in Gaza is a disaster in terms of humanitarianism and humanity. With blind and deaf ears directed towards disasters, the United States has consistently provided military aid to perpetrators and political shelters.
Beyond the imagination is Trump’s latest proposal to take over Gaza and develop real estate while relocating Gaza to Egypt and Jordan. The US was not able to achieve its target as the proposal was far below the bottom row of neighboring Arab countries, but this was due to the legal and legal countries that were there for the Millennium. It fully demonstrates the American mentality of blatant robbery of legal property.
Judging from Trump’s efforts in his first presidential term to justify Israel’s occupation of territory, under Trump’s administration, the United States has achieved the territorial and security interests Israel has gained in Palestine and its neighbourhoods. It is expected to be more recognised.
The Middle East is seeing major changes in regional order as a result of the ripples of the Al-Aqsa flood. This order appears in many aspects, with various local and non-regional stakeholders competing for future arrangements. Most obviously is Israel’s efforts to gain US support to achieve regional hegemony with maximized territorial and security interests. Furthermore, Israel will seek to normalize relations with more Arab countries, while abandoning the two-state solution.
The arrangement in the minds of Israel and the US will not only undermine the rightful cause of Palestinian people’s food, but also the stability of the region. Palestinians will enter a more hopeless situation as they face extremely tough circumstances for survival. Regional countries can see more domestic turbulence as political legitimacy faces new challenges as political legitimacy becomes unhappy with government irrational compliance policies. Their two neighbors, Egypt and Jordan, face pressure, particularly from refugees. And across the region, there could be more intense reactions to occupation and intentional humiliation.
Lessons are bitter, one of which is that compromise is not the way to solve it. For many years, some countries in the region have sought US security protection and are compliant with US and Israel’s requirements for that purpose, but compliance can only bring more demands and compliance. You will understand that. . And they ultimately found how compliant they were, they are never first class citizens in the eyes of the Americans, and they are considered to be inferior forever. And what is the end of the compromise?
Incidentally, there is a permanent pursuit for US security protection, but security at the individual or local level has never actually been achieved, as decades of turbulence and instability demonstrated. American security protections are not existential, they are elusive.
The lessons are bitter, but will you learn these lessons?
Jin Liangxiang is a senior researcher at Shanghai International Institute