Many Arabs view the US government as being not only indifferent to the agony of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation but also complicit in it.
US pledges of “ironclad” support for the country and no-strings-attached security assistance have stoked those feelings as Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza.“There is tremendous anger in the Arab world, even by those who do not support Hamas,” said Nabil Fahmy, a former foreign minister of Egypt. “They are giving Israel a green light,” he said of Western powers, “and as this gets increasingly bloody, the West will have blood on its hands.
When the war began, Biden called the attacks by Hamas — in which gunmen killed Israeli soldiers and civilians and took nearly 200 people hostage — “pure, unadulterated evil.” “It’s like somebody has ripped out my guts,” she said. “This level of siding with Israel is genocidal.” “You are against occupation in Ukraine; can you deny that the Palestinians are under occupation?” he said. “Nobody is asking you to go and declare war on the Israelis because they are occupying the Palestinians; people are asking you to be rational, wise and convince your allies — push them to their senses.”American officials appear to have softened their statements lately, stressing that Palestinian civilians should not suffer because of Hamas.
As Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza, a densely populated urban area, American military officers with memories of the battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004 — a struggle against Iraqi insurgents that became some of the bloodiest urban combat in recent decades — have been conveying the lessons of that experience to their Israeli counterparts.
Still, there is one thing that the United States can do, Iraqis said: Keep the war with Hamas contained.Frustration with the United States has grown across the region as Blinken’s diplomatic tour presented the unusual spectacle of authoritarian Arab rulers lecturing American officials about human rights.
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