America and its deceptive positions in the Gaza war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) while receiving US President Joe Biden at Ben Gurion Airport last October 18 (Anatolia)

There are many leaked Western press reports, media statements, or statements by senior US administration officials - led by President Joe Biden - that suggest a contradiction in positions between America and Israel. Against the backdrop of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” and the subsequent barbaric, brutal Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.

Gossip...or information?

This is a report in a Western newspaper about hidden tension in American-Israeli relations, and that is Biden’s bashing of Netanyahu, and a refusal to receive his call.. These are media leaks about disagreements in the rooms, and closed meetings between Anthony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, and Netanyahu or his war council, Based on the press conference held separately by each of them (Netanyahu and Blinken).

These Western press reports are closer to “gossip” than to accurate information. As for the “statements and statements of US administration officials”, they are always and forever contradictory in their components. The content or content of the statement or statement in its linguistic formulation suggests the meaning or position. And its opposite at the same time... even if the statement is short and in one line. In other words, American politicians in general are well trained to ensure that their answers to press questions and their official statements are “impressive” that satisfies all parties.

Bombing Iraq in Ramadan

Examples of this deceptive American media language cannot be counted... whether in the Gaza war, or other wars (Iraq and Afghanistan, for example), and issues.

In December 1998, the United States of America and Britain bombed Iraq for several days, under the pretext that it was obstructing the work of UN inspection committees for weapons of mass destruction, and that the sites targeted by the bombing contributed to Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. The (American-British) bombing continued, on the first day of Ramadan at that time.

This did not prevent American politicians from expressing their respect for the feelings of Muslims, and their regret for the continued bombing during the holy month... while holding Iraqi President Saddam Hussein responsible for the bombing, because he possesses weapons of mass destruction that he hides in his palaces and many places.

This is an example of American media treatment... good words being marketed to the Islamic world that was upset at the time about the continued bombing during the blessed month, while attaching moral responsibility to another party. The problem, as it later became clear, is that “Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction” is a big lie. It was exposed after an American and Western siege of Iraq for years, then its invasion and occupation in 2003, until 2011. However, America did not apologize for the lie, the invasion, or the destruction. And the killing it caused in Iraq and its people.

Fierce American wars

If we return to the war on Gaza - which can be considered an American-Israeli war, par excellence; To exterminate and displace the Palestinian people, and erase the term “resistance,” in preparation for killing the Palestinian cause, burying it, and getting rid of it once and for all - the American administration supports genocide and displacement in practice.

It (America) provides the “Israeli occupation” with abundant and unprecedented war equipment and internationally banned weapons, and it fights fierce wars in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, on its behalf... to enable it to continue the annihilation of Gaza in humans and stones.

America does not hesitate to deploy its effective veto weapon to prevent the UN Security Council from condemning the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and obstructing any efforts to issue a ceasefire resolution in the Gaza Strip. So, unconditional American support is the clear position, “as the sun shines in the sky,” as they say.

 Disingenuous speech

As for the media discourse, it is deceptive, twisted, and manipulates words.. It is the discourse that is celebrated by Arab political and media elites.. while it is empty of content and practical value.. What does Biden’s statement mean that he “is of the opinion that Israel has exceeded the limit in responding to (the Al-Aqsa flood) )"?

These words of Biden are the same. It does not provide a piece of bread for the hungry in Gaza, it does not quench the thirst of the thirsty, and it does not provide warmth to the displaced who are being killed by the extreme cold there. Also, it does not deter the Zionist aggression against the “Palestinian people” in the Gaza Strip, nor does it prevent Bombard it with fire day and night.

Another example... with regard to the so-called “Rafah military operation”, which Israel intends to carry out to annihilate the displaced (civilians) there, and forcibly and forcibly displace the survivors among them... What do the statements of Biden and members of his administration mean by stressing that the operation be well planned? And to save civilians' lives?

Underestimating minds

These words very clearly reveal the American moral decline, in fully supporting the “Rafah Operation” (that it was planned)... while America knows very well that the Israeli goal is to exterminate one million and 400 thousand displaced people there.

As for “protecting civilians” in Rafah, it is merely a disdain for the minds of Arabs and Muslims. The statement contains a contradiction between its beginning and its end. The displaced people in Rafah are not soldiers and fighters in Hamas or the resistance factions. Rather, they are civilians targeted by Israel. If these displaced people were fighters and resistance fighters, Israel would have become a trace after an eye in hours.

American statements, since the beginning of the war in Gaza, have not stopped repeating the saying: “Israel’s right to defend itself while avoiding targeting civilians.” With the aim of supporting the entity and justifying its continuation of aggression and its war to annihilate Palestinian “civilians” - and not others - even though Israel An occupying state, and the Palestinian people are legally entitled to self-defense.

Distribution of roles

These are just examples of the American media behavior. What is painful and unfortunate is the exaggerated celebration by the Arab media, politicians, and elites that confront the analysis and reading the meanings and contents of these American statements and statements, “the burden of faces.”

They beautify it, exaggerate and exaggerate in loading it with meanings that are not mentioned in it, and they elaborate on anticipating its consequences... as if America and Israel are on the verge of a clash... while the whole game is nothing but a distribution of roles and positions on two levels: a media outlet that promotes talk and illusions... and a practical, realistic one. With military, political, economic and moral support.

Take it easy, elites. Do not participate in deceiving people.

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