The Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly
 

Editor's Note

The United Nation's "NO" vote to America's proposed resolution was seen as a bitter episode and a catastrophic defeat for the United States of America, and revealed Trump's government's deficiencies and shortcomings. By the American delegate's failure in the United Nations in condemning Palestinians' resistance, accusing Hamas of terrorism and doubling pressure on Palestinian resistance groups it turned out that in the current situation and despite of putting both legal and illegal initiatives to use, the American government can't even realize its goals in foreign policy. In order to overcome all the challenges in front of passing this draft, Nikki Haley divided the international society to two groups of pro and anti-terrorism and claimed that whoever is against this resolution is "pro-terrorism". Haley spent his entire time at the UN threatening and bullying the entire world into supporting her agenda. She even went further and warned those voting against this resolution of the "dire consequences". Eventually, the White House's threats were all futile and just added another failure to the long list of its failures. The following points are worth mentioning about this huge defeat which has been describes as "a slap to the Trump government" and "a victory for the Palestinian resistance cause":
1-      Previously, Trump has also demonstrated his support for the Zionist regime by taking three important approaches which will expand Tel Aviv's security factor. The aforementioned approaches include:
Withdrawal from Barjam (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and taking advantage of the United States' political and strategic capacities to oppose the Islamic Republic of Iran to please and give satisfaction to Tel Aviv;
Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Zionist regime;
An all-comprehensive defense of this regime in international assemblies.

2-    This is neither first nor the last of Trump government's failure in foreign policy. The US is in for a series of consecutive defeats: defeat in Syria, failure against Iran in nuclear negotiations and executing expansive sanctions against this country, failure in making the Zionist regime's security against the resistance missiles safe (failure of Iron Dome System), failure in instrumentally using Takfiri groups in order to advance their own regional goals, failure in bringing a solution to their strategic allies in the region (Qatar and Saudi Arabia), failure in Iraq and Afghanistan and …
Disconcerted by these failures he says that when he was a young boy (studying at school) the United States was triumphant and successful in all the foreign policy affairs; however, now the country is failing in all these affairs and issues.
3-     Structural weaknesses and limitations in the American power pyramid have worsened after Trump's coming to power and have directed many harsh criticisms to the White House. The American criticizing statesmen believe that the present radical movement in the foreign policy area is unable to overcome all these diverse crises and challenges the US is dealing with. The Palestine issue is one of the most significant issues the American diplomatic system needs to focus its attention on. The White House wouldn't be able to resolve any other transformation in the Middle East without first overcoming this problem. Just like the previous American governments, the present American government has been unable to find the means of effectively dealing with it.
4-    The American government's idea of the Palestine issue is not in line with the international society's understandings. The international community is against the White House by condemning the Zionist regime's illegal occupation and their violent approaches in building settlements and oppressing the Palestinians. Despite the US intention and attempts, in November 2018, the UN General Assembly approved of a draft resolution stressing the Zionist regime's withdrawal from Golan Heights which were occupied in 1967.
5-   The international community and White House leaders are totally aware of the fact that Palestinian people and their resistance groups are oppressed yet very tough people fighting the Zionists' cruelty and occupations. The American government tries to distort the facts in order to strengthen the security basis of the Zionist regime. They pass the oppressed and ill-treated Palestinians under the Zionists' harsh rules as terrorists and belligerent people. In this context, we should mention that "Saeb Erekat", the chief Palestinian negotiator and a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), condemned "Nikki Haley", the US Envoy to the United Nations for presenting the anti-Palestinian resolution draft, and said: this was exactly in accordance with distorting the facts, and the Zionist regime is in fact the party which continues building the settlements, commits war crimes and imposes general sanctions against the Palestinians and deserves to be condemned. This deceitful and misleading approach of the US has led to more integration and union among the Palestinians, and now Hamas, the resistance group, is being supported more than before. The Palestinian elites, even from other factions, have assumed this offense to Hamas as an offense to the whole Palestine. On the verge of voting to the resolution, Erekat asked the world countries to vote against the American draft resolution in harshly condemning Hamas.
6-   America's behavioral model about the Zionist regime reveals the fact that there have been growing concerns about Israel's security. It was exactly these concerns that pressurized Nikki Haley to activate the aforementioned resolution in harshly condemning Hamas before her tenure in the United Nations ended so that, as claimed by her, compensate a little for Israel's consecutive defeats against the Palestinians. The Zionist regime's last defeat was when Palestinian resistance missiles were fired into Israel in response to Tel Aviv's aggressions. A great number of Hamas missiles passed through the Iron Dome and hit some parts of the Zionist regime territory.
7-   America's approach in irrational and unilateral support of the Zionist regime has decrease any chance of this country to advance a peaceful initiative. With its long history of hostility against the Palestinian ideal, the White House wouldn't be able to stand in the position of a neutral mediator or peacemaker. Additionally, the American plan called "Deal of the Century", proposed by Trump, is lacking all the acceptable principles. In a reaction to this plan, Noam Chomsky, the political activist and social critic, said: "the American politicians have shown us no sign of an approach or outlook; however, if there were some approach according to the reports (which I know there isn't), it would be a very strange and ridiculous one. The American government's strategic goal is to strengthen the Israel's growing coalition with Arab countries in order to have a united front against their common enemy which is Iran; that's because Iran is a threat to America's hegemony and supremacy in the region and also limits Israel's freedom in unleashing violence".
8-   The Palestinian resistance groups have assessed the world countries' widespread support of them during the voting to the White House's proposed resolution as their legitimacy; because these countries have proved that, despite American incessant pressures, they will support Palestinian fighters and care not much for Washington's threats.
9-   Also, the study and research centers in America have put "the strategy of victory" in their agendas for foreign policy, and by using the political elites' intellectual capacities, are going to put an end to the White House's back-to-back failures. The problem is that American politicians and researchers are always looking for the reasons to failure on the outside while the truth is that they should look inside in order to find the reasons to their failures which they don't really see because of their arrogance, superiority complex and egotism.
10-  Proposing the said resolution and dividing those who support it and those who are against it to pro or anti-terrorist groups just tells the fact that the White House leaders, especially the president and his active team in foreign policy area are just a bunch of elderly people with outdated views that still try to assess and manage world transformations based on their memories of their teenage years and are not aware of the fact that the world people's criteria for interacting with or opposing to the powers have drastically changed. In current circumstances, the United States of America can't impose its demands and desires on the international system, and also can't to narrate the events the way it wishes. The best evidence to support this claim is the American State Department approach towards Khashoggi's brutal murder by Saudi agents in Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Despite Trump and Pompeo's day and night efforts to justify this uncivilized act of Mohammad bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia for the world's public opinion, they just got ridiculed and embarrassed. These all prove that fact that the nations and countries' transformations can no longer be managed and dealt with by the obsolete and out of date models.

The general review of the American politicians' behavior and reactions in foreign policy shows that the American statesmen's approach or method isn't at the service of resolving global challenges and problems; they actually choose these destructive, unreal and cruel strategies to advance the political interests of theirs and their weak and tired allies, and are in general negligent of other nations' rights.

 


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