Recently, a large number of demonstrators gathered outside the White House, wearing red clothes and shouting "We are the red line" to protest against the US government's connivance with Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip, causing serious casualties and constantly trampling the "red line."
US President Biden has publicly stated that if the Israeli army attacks the southern Gaza city of Rafah, it will cross the "red line." But in fact, Israel has been attacking Rafah for more than a month, and even drove tanks into the center of Rafah. So far, the United States has never determined that Israel has crossed the "red line."
"The red line is a lie," said Brian Becker, a former Democratic state legislator from Connecticut. Palestinian political analyst Iyad Gala pointed out that "the United States drew a 'red line' for Israel's invasion of Rafah, but in fact it gave Israel a green light to invade the entire Gaza Strip."
Israeli Army tanks entered the center of Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. The picture shows thick smoke rising from Rafah during the intensive Israeli bombing that day.
"What's happening is not genocide." This is Biden's response to the International Criminal Court prosecutor's decision to apply for an arrest warrant for Israeli leaders for "war crimes and crimes against humanity." "Listen, when it comes to Israel, we don't talk about red lines." This was the answer given by US Secretary of State Blinken when he was asked whether he would withhold weapons aid to Israel due to Israel's full-scale attack on Rafah. "I said we don't want to see a large-scale ground operation. We haven't seen that happening yet." This was the response of John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator of the White House National Security Council, when he was asked by reporters why the Israeli bombing of the Rafah refugee camp was not considered to have crossed the "red line." The bombing killed at least 40 Palestinians.
"It is often difficult to make a quick and clear assessment or decision on whether specific U.S. defense products or services are being used in a manner inconsistent with international law," and "Given the nature of the Gaza conflict, it is difficult to make assessments or reach conclusive findings on individual incidents." This is the wording of the report submitted to Congress by the U.S. State Department on May 10. Stacey Gilbert, a senior adviser to the U.S. State Department, subsequently resigned due to dissatisfaction with the report's "distortion of facts." Similar lies are everywhere. In the Gaza conflict, the United States, while pretending to be trying to ease the conflict, continued to promote military aid to Israel and obstructed the international community from holding Israel accountable. The U.S. lies have become a major obstacle to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
"The recent series of statements made by US leaders on the Rafah issue are a complete joke." Hisham Haji, deputy director of the Tunisian Maghreb Research Center, said that for months, the United States has been providing political and diplomatic cover for Israeli leaders and has continued to provide Israel with weapons and funds to continue its indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians.
Since the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October last year, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed more than 37,000 Palestinians and injured more than 85,000. Among them, the Israeli army's continued offensive against Rafah has led to a rapid increase in casualties in recent days. In the special operations launched by the Israeli army on June 8 against the Nusayret refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip alone, more than 270 people were killed and nearly 700 were injured.
Mondoweiss, a left-wing website in the United States, said that the US government and Congress are undermining international law for the benefit of Israel and the future of the United States. Palestinian political analyst Hussam Dajani also said that the United States is actually a major player in the Gaza conflict, funding Israel's "total war" against more than 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are unarmed civilians. The United States verbally claims that it will work to stop the conflict, but in fact it is providing military assistance and financial support to the Israeli army. The Biden administration is doing this for both profit and votes.
When it comes to the United States’ lies and lies, we cannot ignore the deeper motives behind them – the military-industrial complex.
In recent years, billions of dollars of arms have flowed into Israel from the United States each year. The continued conflict in Gaza has provided a stable market and profit source for American military-industrial enterprises. Therefore, maintaining regional tensions and satisfying the interests of the military-industrial complex have become the biggest "political correctness" for American politicians.
After the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, James Taiklit, CEO of the US military giant Lockheed Martin, could not hide his excitement: "Some conflicts need to be resolved with weapons, and we are ready with these weapons." Biden signed a foreign aid bill, which included providing Israel with approximately $26 billion in additional wartime aid. On June 4, the Israeli Ministry of Defense delegation to the United States formally signed an agreement with the US government that Israel will purchase 25 F-35 fighter jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin from the United States, with a purchase agreement amounting to $3 billion. Taiklit told investors that the new demand will "provide strong support" for the company's growth in the coming years.
The Washington Post article revealed that after the new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Biden administration has quietly approved and fulfilled more than 100 arms sales orders to Israel, including precision-guided munitions, artillery shells and other weapons. Only two of the transactions were made public, and the vast majority of the others were not subject to any public debate. Jeremy Konindic, a former senior Biden administration official and chairman of the International Refugee Organization, said that the completion of an "extraordinary number" of arms sales in such a short period of time "does strongly indicate that without such a level of US support, Israel's military operations will be difficult to sustain."
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin said at a White House meeting that conflict is "good" for the U.S. economy because it can "expand production and create jobs." William Hartung, a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Statecraft, a U.S. think tank, wrote that leaders of both parties in the United States have repeatedly advocated that "spending money on weapons is good for the economy," but this will lead to a "more militarized economy" and threaten the United States' "peace and prosperity for decades to come."
Chandran Nair, founder of the independent think tank Global Future Institute, wrote that the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza "torn off the mask of the military-industrial complex and allowed the world to truly understand the nature of this beast - it is the biggest threat to world peace."