American Mediation: Between the Illusion of Neutrality and the Reality of Collusion!

The ceasefire rhetoric has returned to the forefront after more than 111 days of renewed killing and genocide in Gaza, claiming more than six thousand lives, hundreds of whom fell while trying to reach American relief centers. Amid this catastrophic scene, media leaks are escalating, aimed at improving the image of the US administration, and at pressure to impose a new truce. However, any observer realizes that talk of honest American mediation has become a blatant deception.

The United States has never been a mediator, but has always been an "original" party to the aggression, providing the occupation with military and political support, as well as legal cover. The Gaza massacre was a new "achievement" in a long history of bloody partnership.

Recently, voices have been raised within the United States itself calling for an end to unconditional support for the occupation. The trust gap between Washington and broad segments of local and international public opinion has widened, accompanied by successive international reports documenting the scale of the crimes and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Yet, Washington has continued to grant the occupation every reason to escape punishment, allowing it one opportunity after another to continue its aggression without deterrence or accountability.

American bias did not arise suddenly, but rather is the result of decades of persuasion during which the notion that Tel Aviv is a "forward base" for Western interests in the region was reinforced, supported by influential ideological currents, the active role of the Zionist lobby, and domestic political calculations.

At the international level, the United States has monopolized the role of guardian of the so-called "peace process," but in reality, it has been the primary obstructor of it and of every attempt to establish human justice. It has turned international institutions into hostages in its hands, subjecting them to financial and political blackmail. As for the Security Council, it has been emptied of its essence and transformed into a playground for the powerful, where principles are altered according to interests, and international legitimacy is trampled underfoot by the American master. We have seen this clearly in the repeated American vetoes against any resolution to stop the massacre in Gaza, or any attempt to hold the occupation responsible for crimes. The logic of justice has been transformed, with the victim being condemned and the criminal immune.

What makes the reality even more bitter is that the Palestinian leadership, despite all these experiences, has for more than thirty years been betting on the mirage of American neutrality, courting it and knocking on its door tirelessly, hoping to change the impossible, or seeking - consciously or unconsciously - to pull it into a position supporting Palestinian rights. Years of dialogue, negotiation and concessions have been followed by hopes, but the outcome has been a resounding zero; Washington's position has not budged an inch. Quite the opposite, and it has become more certain day after day that it is a partner in the aggression, the Judaization of Jerusalem, the theft of land and the deepening of the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Today, more than seven decades after the Nakba, the landscape hasn't changed much. The rockets destroying hospitals and homes in Gaza are American-made, the intelligence is American-sourced, and the Western media parrots the Israeli narrative, while the Palestinians remain trapped between the hammer of occupation and the anvil of Western complicity and the world's silence. Thus, the Palestinians pay the price of the game of nations, amid the absence of any international or Arab will capable of breaking America's monopoly on decision-making.

The most bitter truth is that Palestinian blood has never been anything but a "cheap" price on the tables of international politics, and that justice will remain a lifeless corpse as long as the killer is the judge. Waiting for justice from a complicit international system, or from a mediation stained with blood, is nothing but a futile dream that bets on the sympathy of the executioner. Unless this shackle is broken, all talk of peace or justice will remain mere political nonsense and the promotion of illusions. In this world, right triumphs only by force, or is wrested from the fangs of the accomplices and partners in crime.