Sultan Barakat, professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, has said the US is “losing the grip” over the conflict and Israel’s behaviour.
“The US stood against the rest of the world, first vetoing the resolution at the Security Council, and then it was among a minority of 10 countries against the rest of the world thinking that there is no need for a ceasefire,” he said, referring to a UN General Assembly resolution earlier this week.
“And I think they must find it becoming really, really hard for domestically and internationally to accept what Israel is doing.”
And so, Barakat said Washington would like Israel to kill fewer Palestinian civilians and allow more aid into Gaza. But he added that with more than 18,000 Palestinians killed, the US is “already complicit” in what Israel is doing.
“They need at least to show the rest of the world that they’ve tried, and they’re giving the messages clearly to Israel,” Barakat told Al Jazeera.
source: AlJazeera
