The war between the Palestinian Hamas organization and Israel has not yet subsided, and international calls for a ceasefire between the two sides are gaining momentum. The Chinese Communist Party, which has been conniving at Hamas, suddenly expressed its intention to mediate the Israeli-Palestinian situation at a meeting of the UN Security Council recently, causing concern.
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the Palestinian conflict on May 16. As the rotating president of the UN Security Council in May, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized in his speech that a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine is “urgent”. He said China supports the resumption of peace talks between Israel and Palestine “on a two-state basis as soon as possible” and welcomed the holding of talks between the two sides in China.
In fact, when the Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on May 7, Wang Yi did not say a word about the matter at the UN Security Council video conference on the same day, but only talked about “multilateralism”; after Hamas took the lead in firing a large number of rockets at Israel and Israel began to launch air strikes in response. Although the UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on May 12 to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian military conflict, it did not issue any statement after the meeting.
Since then, Western democracies have spoken out, condemning Hamas’s massive rocket fire and urging Israel to avoid civilian casualties, while Wang Yi seems to have done nothing about it. It was not until May 14 that Xinhua, the Communist Party’s official media, issued an article mentioning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but neither condemned Hamas’s massive rocket attacks as irresponsible nor mentioned the deaths and injuries of Israelis, only accusing the UN conference on human rights in Xinjiang of being a “political farce” under the pretext that “the lives of the Palestinian Muslim people are equally precious. “political farce.” Therefore, when Wang Yi stated at the UN emergency meeting on the 16th that he would “mediate” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, overseas public opinion questioned the true intentions of the Chinese Communist Party’s move.
According to Radio Free Asia, Bassam Tayara, a French international strategy researcher, believes that the real purpose behind the Chinese Communist Party’s statement on the Israeli-Palestinian issue at the Security Council on the 16th was to “distract the media and the world’s attention from the crackdown in Xinjiang.
Dayara pointed out that at a time when 18 countries and organizations, including the United States and the United Kingdom, are joining together to denounce the Chinese Communist Party at the UN human rights conference in Xinjiang, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to keep the United States “focused on the Palestinian issue” by accusing the U.S. government of not valuing Palestinian lives so that the Chinese Communist Party can continue to do whatever it wants to the Uighurs. He also noted that Israel is a major arms supplier to the Chinese military, so the Communist Party is playing both sides of the coin in a hypocritical manner, “hoping to support the Israeli weapons industry while showing a friendly attitude toward the Palestinians and continuing to oppress the Uighurs.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a statement after a phone call with Pakistan’s foreign minister on the 15th, directly blaming the deterioration of the Palestinian-Israeli situation on the so-called “prolonged failure to find a just solution to the Palestinian issue” and stating that “China will continue to firmly support the Palestinian people in their struggle to regain their national rights. “.
In response to the CCP’s latest statement, commentator Yang Wei published an opinion piece in the Epoch Times titled “What Role Does the CCP Play in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? which provides an in-depth analysis of the Chinese Communist government’s bizarre performance in the wake of the Israeli-Palestinian military conflict.
According to the article, the Chinese Communist Party, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, has done nothing substantive to quell the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, “not only seriously lacking the ability to communicate with other countries, but also seriously deviating from its impartial position and using it as a battleground against the U.S. and Western countries. And over the years, Hamas has regularly carried out armed attacks against Israel, including suicide bombings, and has been considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the West. While Wang Yi has ostensibly called for a Palestinian-Israeli “ceasefire to stop the violence,” he has not condemned Hamas for taking the lead in launching rocket attacks against Israel. The article argues that the CCP’s approach is more like encouraging Hamas and reveals the CCP’s position of supporting Hamas.
The article analyzes that the Chinese Communist Party is confronting the United States, and it knows that it is not strong enough. Now that the U.S. military is preparing to withdraw from the Middle East and will strengthen its deployment in the Indo-Pacific, the Chinese Communist Party is naturally panicked. The Communist Party had counted on Russia’s help, but Putin withdrew his troops shortly after setting up the Ukrainian border, “putting the Communist Party alone at the forefront of the confrontation with the U.S.,” and the U.S.-Russian summit is coming up in June. The U.S. and Iran are also currently negotiating, and Iran is naturally willing to reach an agreement with the U.S. if it secures good leverage, so the Chinese Communist Party cannot count on Iran to stir up trouble in the Middle East.
The article said that in the aforementioned big international context, it would be in line with the CCP’s usual practice if it encouraged Hamas to provoke war behind the scenes. This is because by doing so, “it can both distract the U.S. and take the opportunity to sing the opposite tune with the U.S. at the United Nations.”
In addition, the article points out that Hamas’s rockets were supplied by the Chinese Communist Party, and that a significant portion of these rockets not only failed to reach their targets but harmed the Palestinians themselves because of their poor quality.
The IDF Twitter account had posted a video on May 14 showing some of the rockets fired by Hamas landing in Gaza. The Israeli military has also publicly stated that Hamas has failed to fire a total of 350 rockets in the past three days, and that these rockets have killed innocent civilians in Gaza.
As early as 2009, several Western media outlets revealed that Hamas was cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party and that the rockets used by the group to bomb Israel were “made in China. For example, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported at the time that Israeli officials had confirmed that the rockets fired into Israel by Hamas came from China and were filled with small metal balls with a lethal impact range of 100 square meters.
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