NO world eye sees ongoing blood and bones rivers flowing in Gaza or elsewhere in the Middle East; Even a first grade kid in an alert learning school knows how ill, bad, worst Middle East is managed; it is no secret; US ruling and off-ruling leaders after a pause of some months do issue statements purported to demonstrate to the whole world that America is the axle of peace-in-waiting or open crisis or peace bulk, bruised peace or no peace in the entire Middle East; President Joe Biden is on record repeating that had Israel not come into being, America would have created one (Israel) into being in the Middle East landmass.
It is good; open appreciation should be accepted; true friends speak like Joe Biden spoke as guardian of Middle East; Israel ideologically is to America entire Middle East; and it is a fact of history that it were Arab groups who had helped establishment of Israel in the Middle East; no secret; every open mind reads the name of Hussein bin Ali Emir of Makkah and King of the then Arabs; his episode of 1916 Arab revolt is a deeper part of global and Middle Eastern history; some Arab aspects light is also shed in the famous book written by Meneham Meir son of Golda Meir “My Mother Golda Meir: A Son’s Evocation of Life With Golda Meir”. I had read the book in my days of doing special certification in Foreign Policy.
My argument is that Middle Eastern countries as a united group should talk to American leadership. Obviously in any such effort Israel will be strongly represented; in the current ongoing Israeli-wrought bloodshed in Gaza and adjoining belts in Palestine even the UN Security Council (UNSC) failed to enforce its recommended writ. US had vetoed almost all UNSC draft resolutions aimed at breathing ceasefire and transitory peace in the bloodied region. It were US vetoes blocking peace efforts in the UNSC. But the rest of the veto powers present in the UNSC could not do any counter advantageous initiative. So once again on the international stage, in the international forum of UNSC the US showed her global affairs management capability.
Related aspect is that in principle the USA accepts a two-state Palestine-Israel conflict as devised via UNSC earlier resolutions; but most baffling aspect of this US acceptance is that Washington does not exert itself to factualize the UNSC recommendations on ground for peaceful settlement of this conflict. Because she does not exert her UNSC role as peace preserver then it clearly means US wants a prolonged decimation war in the Middle East. No other conclusion can be inferred from her acceptance of UNSC recommended two-state solution and persisting non-exertion of her diplomacy and depth of ties with Israel and extending with the Arab States.
To be brief: In this conflictual situation the Arab states should form a joint Palestine Dispute Peaceful Solution Forum for earliest negotiations with US administration and US state head whoever may be in the White House after US general elections, almost a month ahead. No price is priciest than peace.
—The writer, a retired Secretary in AJK Govt, is a senior columnist, based in Rawalpindi.
