The United States has made a series of blunders since the conflict erupted in the occupied territories following the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance on October 7 on Israel, a prominent British journalist said.
David Hirst (editor-in-chief of the British website Middle East Eye) revealed that these mistakes were the US response to the attack, inciting Israel to attack the Gaza Strip without restraint, initially putting forward a plan for mass displacement of Palestinians to Egypt, and pushing the Middle East towards a regional war.
In his article, the editor-in-chief of the news site criticized US President Joe Biden for "falsely" repeating Israel's claim that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) beheaded children, which the White House was forced to retract afterwards.
Mass anger
Ahead of Biden's arrival on a visit to Israel on Wednesday, anger in the occupied West Bank, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt reached such a level that no Arab leader agreed to meet him "for his own safety," according to Hearst's article.
Shortly after arriving in Israel, Biden made matters worse when he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Tuesday's bombing of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza appeared to have been carried out by "the other side, not you."
It is clear "behind the scenes" that the wheels are "already starting to come out of the vehicle carrying U.S. Middle East policy," he said, adding that he believes that U.S. actions "behind the scenes" in the immediate aftermath of the Palestinian resistance offensive have paved the way for the crisis the region is now experiencing.
Green light for everything
The United States has not only given the "bright green light" to Israel's bombardments of Gaza aimed at pushing more than a million people in the northern part of the territory towards the Egyptian border.
The editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye quoted several credible reports as confirming that Washington initially tried to persuade Egypt to take in a million refugees from Gaza in exchange for "a bribe, of course."
Sources said Washington is ready to provide substantial funding to Egypt exceeding $20 billion if it agrees to the operation. Cairo has asked to "facilitate the transfer of large teams of aid organizations to the border with Rafah without entering Gaza," she said.
Egyptian officials have held talks related to the displacement of a good number of Gazans. As this allegation was particularly sensitive, the Egyptian authorities summoned the editors and opened an investigation into what was said to be false news.
New Nakba
The forced displacement of half of Gaza's population, under the guise of establishing humanitarian corridors, seemed for days to succeed. The northern border with Lebanon remained quiet as Hezbollah did not respond to the bombardment, and Western media accepted the plan to overthrow Hamas and reoccupy Gaza.
The turning point, and the author still speaks, came when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken apparently realized that another 1948-style catastrophe was unacceptable.
The author quoted "unwillingly" passages from an article by American journalist Thomas Friedman in which he said that if Israel entered Gaza now, "it will torpedo the Abraham Accords (for normalization with the Arabs), further destabilize two of America's biggest allies (Egypt and Jordan), and make normalization with Saudi Arabia impossible. It will also enable Hamas to set fire to the West Bank and spark a war between Jewish settlers there."
He goes on to quote Friedman, who says that "this will, on the whole, play into Iran's strategy of dragging Israel into an excessive expansion beyond its military and economic capabilities, and thus weakening Jewish democracy from within."
Controversy within the United States
There is debate in Washington that the Hamas attack, in terms of its nature, speed and extent, brought about a change in the U.S.-dependent Middle East order.
"Is it possible that the Middle East order, which is dependent on the United States, which is the basis of blind support for Israel, has been shattered?" he asked.
The editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye uses his response to the resignation letter submitted by US State Department official Josh Paul over the Biden administration's handling of the war in Gaza, in which he described its response as a "reckless act" based on "intellectual bankruptcy."
The United States lost attachment to the values it claims to uphold, when it was "blinded by its faith and constant eagerness to divide the world into two opposing parts: democracy versus tyranny, and the Judeo-Christian world versus Islam."