US President Joe Biden’s agility in blending lofty and low politics regarding Israel and Palestine has drawn parallel lines between his distinctive and pro-Israel stands. With a discerning vision out for no decisiveness on ending the war between Israel and Hamas, this is taken upon unmistakably wholly as a perceptive semblance. One may ask: Is a morally agreeing foreign policy feasible?
This is a question raised again and again. However, its very feasibility remains under the influence of criticism fairly. If we care to think of it in the constraint of the present circumstances, it is seemingly President Joe Biden’s contradictory pragmatic criteria on the war-ridden countries, particularly Ukraine and Palestine respectively.
Taking Ukraine where Biden has more or less spent two long years he framed a stirring argument for a rules-based order. While in Israel, he set about burning that argument to the ground, as political experts seem to elucidate instantly.
The term was supposedly coined after the Cold War, Canberra typically dates it to the aftermath of World War ll and the norms and institutions were established then. It is often credited with having provided 70 years of peace and security.
The rules-based order has both constrained the use of power and depends on US power; it could shape China’s rise and be shaped by China; and it must be saved and must change.
The significance of the rules-based order concept is clear from the embrace it has received from the political aisle ever since Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd first took up the term in the year 2008.
He, without a doubt, used the phrase less often in his time as prime minister, but only because he preferred different three-word terms, often speaking against the usual theory of might is right and in the strong concept of being a good favourable international citizen.
Biden needs to genuinely commit to a real process to end the occupation and ensure Palestinian liberation & self-determination. He does not have to reinvent the wheel. There exists an entire body of international law and U.N. security resolutions charting a path.
If Biden wants to show the world that he stands behind racial and social justice, articulated in the summer of 2020, if he is genuinely interested in strengthening the principles of international law that have undergirded his support for the defence of Ukraine, then Palestine would be a good place to finally start.
Biden reportedly demonstrates no hint of understanding that his approach to the region, which consigned Palestinians and other Arab publics to a future of repression, helped lay the kindling for ongoing ebullition, as critics point out.