A small political drama at the UN took place about two months ago. At an American-Canadian request, Israel joined a petition condemning China for its treatment of the Uighur-Muslim minority. The move was led by Israel's ambassador to the UN and Washington, Gilad Ardan.
He also did so in response to the fact that the Chinese acted against us at the UN, during the days of Operation Wall Guard.
The Chinese threatened revenge - and last week carried out the threat.
They tried to expand the mandate of the UNIFIL force in a way that would harm Israel. Arden and the UN delegation halted the move.
The whole conflict has taught that the affair between Jerusalem and Beijing, which flourished in the middle of the previous decade, continues to fade.
In the days when they were repaired, no one would be moved by small battles in the UN with China. It is clear that Israel belongs to the Western bloc, and we have no other America. But these days are not as repaired. To Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
The one who is in the background to provide support for these two is China.
She has already expressed support for the Taliban and promised him an economic partnership.
It has long signed a $ 400 billion investment agreement with Iran.
But that is not the end of the story, because not only in Afghanistan has the US strategy collapsed - but also against Iran. Eight months after President Biden took office, the prevailing assumption among his people is that the chances of signing a new nuclear deal with Iran are slim.
Even before the fall of Afghanistan, Iran set impossible conditions.
Now that the Taliban are also about to buy oil from them, Khamenei and Raisi have even less appetite to drink the "cup of poison" that the "Great Devil" serves them.
Bottom line, before our eyes was formed a black, jealous and terrorist sequence, with economic and political backing of rising world power.
Against him stands a superpower confused in a retreating trend, failing to achieve its goals.
When Prime Minister Naftali Bennett enters the Oval Office for the first time today, he must present the President with this frightening map. There is no doubt that we are on the side of America and will continue to be. Its containment goal is in the interests of both Israel and the United States, to stop Iran.
Bennett is taking a first step in that direction, according to a political source, because he intends to leverage the deadlock with Iran for a new American approach towards it.
But such moves are not always made with kindness or smiles, but with a tough and determined expression of attitudes.
So instead of whining about the "hard legacy we received," Bennett recommended learning from his predecessor how to harness America to action.
At the end of the day, the Israeli message should be sharp and clear: in the face of the new threat, petitions at the UN simply will not suffice.
