At New York
Officially, the United States
still “stands behind
” Israel and remains the number one ally of the Jewish state in its war against Hamas since October 7 in the Gaza Strip.
Behind the scenes, tensions are accumulating and mark a dizzying deterioration in Israeli-American relations, as well as a clear loss of influence by Washington over the policy of its protégé in the Middle East.
The abstention on Monday of the American mission during the vote on a resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an “
immediate ceasefire
” in Gaza was enough to encourage Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop dead in his tracks. the departure of a high-ranking delegation for Washington.
The latter, led by Netanyahu's strategic advisor, Ron Dermer, was to go to the White House to hear the grievances of President Biden, headwinds against an offensive on the town of Rafah (south of Gaza), where they are hiding countless Palestinian civilians displaced…
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