{"id":274671,"date":"2023-10-19T06:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274671"},"modified":"2023-10-20T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T12:36:31","slug":"wests-pro-israel-position-accelerates-its-loss-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=274671","title":{"rendered":"West’s Pro-Israel Position Accelerates Its Loss Of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Oct 18, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Western media start to note how their politicians’ unwavering support for Israel and Ukraine is diminishing their countries’ global standing.<\/p>\n

At Naked Capitalism<\/em> Yves Smith notes the devastating political effects of the Gaza bombing on Biden’s foreign policies:<\/p>\n

Biden Gets Zelensky Treatment in Middle East as Israel Tries to Escalate<\/a><\/p>\n

The US, in a continued demonstration of the degree of enbubblement of what passes for its leadership, seems to believe it still has the force and soft power to be able to bully talk its way out of its geopolitical messes. Yet this week we have stunning examples of how critical players in the rest to the world no longer buy what the US is selling. The gap between the American establishment\u2019s connection to reality and facts on the ground has opened up to a yawning chasm as the Arab world, as Jordan cancelled a Biden summit with its King Abduallah II plus PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in response to Israel\u2019s shelling of Al-Ahli Arab hospital. Not only are they rejecting the attempt to shift blame for the attack to Hamas (we\u2019ll soon address the \u201crogue shell\u201d claim), but also the bigger pretense behind that, that the US is incapable of, as opposed to unwilling to, applying the choke chain to Israel.<\/p>\n

Even the Western media are not much on board with the Israeli and Biden Administration pretense that somehow Hamas dunnit, when Israel has been trying to herd Palestinians out of northern Gaza and specifically attempted to order the evacuation of the hospital. Oh, and this follows Israel ordering the UN to evacuate from Gaza in 24 hours and then shelling its warehouse there: …<\/p>\n

Israel bombed, probably with a U.S. made Hellfire missile<\/a>, the courtyard of the Baptist al-Ahli Arab hospital where thousands had sought refuge. A short video of the immediate aftermath<\/a> shows several dozens if not hundreds of dead and wounded. Doctors later held a press conference<\/a> while standing among some of the casualties.<\/p>\n

Like other hospitals al-Ahli Arab had been told by Israel to evacuate but could not do so as there are no other places where the sick and wounded, including many intensive care cases, could be cared for.<\/p>\n

Three days earlier, notes the UN, the same hospital had, like others, already been bombed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

14 October 2023: In Gaza city city and governorate, Ahli Arab Hospital was hit by Israeli airstrikes, partially damaging two floors and damaging the ultrasound and mammography room. Four people were injured. Sources: Al Jazeera V and Personal Communication<\/p>\n

To then claim, as Biden did<\/a>, that ‘the other team’ was responsible for the attack is unfathomable.<\/p>\n

It was also way too late<\/a> says a RUSI fellow:<\/p>\n

Going to repeat this as the situation has moved more in the past 16 hours than in the previous week.<\/p>\n

The plates have shifted, radically. The window for Israeli operations has shrunk from more than a month, to a few days…if at all.<\/p>\n

That is now the reality of where we stand.<\/p>\n

No country besides the U.S. and a few Europeans will ever defend such barbarity. They will simply stop listen to what the ‘west’ has to say.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times<\/em> quotes a G7-official who struggles with this global divide:<\/p>\n

Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries\u2019 support for Ukraine<\/a> (archived<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: West’s Pro-Israel Position Accelerates Its Loss Of Power<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Blind support for Israel and its criminal lies is rapidly eroding Western influence. Moon of Alabama explains <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274672,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274671\/revisions\/274672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}