A few hours after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approved (142 votes in favor, 10 against, and 12 abstentions) a declaration demanding the implementation of a two-state solution in Israel and historic Palestine, and as the former intensifies its genocidal actions against the population of Gaza and the West Bank, Secretary of State in the Donald Trump administration, Marco Rubio, met in Jerusalem with the highest authorities of the Zionist regime, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to express Washington's support.
Other unavoidable elements of the context of such a visit are the recent Israeli military aggression against Qatar—in which six people died—aimed at assassinating members of the Hamas delegation, with whom the Israeli regime itself was conducting truce negotiations. The visit also includes the return of the hostages that the organization is still holding in the ruins of Gaza, where yesterday Tel Aviv forces killed at least 13 civilians and injured dozens in attacks on a store, a vehicle, and a street. Rubio himself, as well as his leader, met in Washington with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, who arrived in the US capital to denounce Tel Aviv's"state terrorism."
In light of Rubio's visit to Israel and Washington's vote against the most recent UN resolution, the White House's disapproval of the Israeli bombing of Doha is revealed, however, to be a purely theatrical gesture intended to appease the Qatari government and the other monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula, all of them close allies of the United States. In fact, the Donald Trump administration has confirmed its status as a top-level accomplice of the Tel Aviv regime in the genocide of the Palestinian population and the depopulation of the Gaza Strip for the purposes of plunder and permanent occupation.
On this point, one would expect nothing different from the United States. While the ruling Trump administration has taken its support for the extermination of Gazans to unprecedented levels of impudence—such as Trump's ideas of turning the strip into a tourist destination or offering cryptocurrency in exchange for territory to Gaza's rightful owners—it should not be forgotten that his predecessor, Joe Biden, consistently maintained Washington's historic support for Tel Aviv and never stopped supplying the Zionist regime with the weapons used to murder tens of thousands of Palestinians. Moreover, Trump's Democratic rival in last year's presidential election, Kamala Harris, was unable to utter a single word against an atrocity that was already underway.
Ultimately, what Israel is doing to the Palestinians closely resembles the expansionist policy implemented by Washington in the 19th century, which included, among its most violent phases, the extermination of the Native American peoples and the territorial dispossession of Mexico. Furthermore, the idea of a"chosen people" that Tel Aviv's rulers use as a pretext for mass murder and land theft meshes well with the "exceptionalism" that, according to the US government, would grant it special privileges and rights above all other countries.
It is disheartening that the Washington-Tel Aviv duo has no counterweights in the international community, except for the insufficient, timid, and belated reactions of Western Europe to the ongoing genocide and the merely testimonial declarations of governments—China, Russia, South Africa, and Brazil, among others—that seek to build a multipolar order.
In this bleak panorama, the growing social expressions of condemnation of the genocide are salutable, among which the Global Sumud flotilla in solidarity with Gaza stands out. And the Mexican government's demand that Israel respect the rights of its fellow citizens traveling on these generous boats, who, along with the rest of the participants in this humanitarian mission, have been declared"terrorists" and attacked with drones by the Zionist regime, is comforting.
