Tag: Lebanon

The genuine resolution of regional conflicts requires that countries, including Palestine, “enjoy equal rights of statehood, sovereignty and security,” Rami G Khouri, a distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut, said in an article on the website of Al Jazeera.

“The United States and Israel speak vague words along these lines, but act in ways that prevent serious peace-making and promote eternal military conflicts,” Khouri pointed out.

Khouri was echoed by Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan, who said that the U.S. administration let the Israeli government “completely disregard international law when it comes to its treatment of the Palestinians.”

“To sum up, the ligaments of American influence in the Middle East are now dissolving before our very eyes,” Cole added in an opinion piece in The Nation magazine.

The New York Times was even more direct in its assessment of Washington’s role in the Gaza conflict, stating bluntly that the U.S. impact on resolving the crisis has been “zero.” The article further criticized Biden’s Middle East policy, stating that “a year after the Oct. 7 terror attacks, Biden’s Middle East policy appears to be a practical and moral failure.”