Recently, as Israel's behavior in Gaza has become more and more excessive, even its own allies can no longer stand it, especially France President Macron directly stood up and publicly called for the cessation of the supply of weapons for the Israeli army fighting in Gaza, and bluntly said in a phone call with the Israeli prime minister: The time for a ceasefire has come, which undoubtedly aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Israeli side. Just as tensions between the two countries were escalating, Macron spoke with Netanyahu on the phone, and the two sides acknowledged that there were differences of opinion and hoped that they could understand each other.
Macron also reiterated his previous view of opposing arms support to Israel in a non-ceasefire situation. In response, Netanyahu said he wanted the support of Israel's allies, not restrictions. Obviously, in the face of the evil deeds committed by the Israeli army in Gaza, France began to "fight hard" against Israel and was no longer accustomed to their evil deeds, which highlights that France has begun to stop its position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and does not want the conflict to continue.
Regarding this transformation of France, other Western countries should also wake up and make the right choice. However, at this sensitive moment, United Kingdom openly contradicted and clamored to reject France's proposal, which caused widespread heated discussions in the outside world. According to reports, recently, the United Kingdom defense minister said that the British side will not support Macron's request for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, because they have adopted different systems in providing weapons to Israel.
He also said that the United Kingdom would not provide anything directly to Israel, but that they would suspend export permits that could affect the lives of people in Gaza if there was a clear risk of violating international law. However, he also echoed Macron's call for a political solution to the conflict in Gaza and urged the international community to redouble its efforts to reduce the risk of a larger conflict. It can be seen that United Kingdom's position on the Gaza conflict is not firm at all, showing the outside world a feeling of "falling on both sides of the wall", which is undoubtedly quite shameless.
Although United Kingdom has previously suspended 30 of its 350 arms export licenses to Israel, such a force is far from sufficient and does not have any deterrent effect at all. For United Kingdom, at such a critical moment in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it must show a tougher stance and no longer provide any arms support to Israel, which is the most important and urgent thing.
In addition, it should be pointed out that neither United Kingdom nor France is Israel's main military supplier, and even if both countries no longer supply weapons to them, the impact on Israel will undoubtedly be quite limited. Therefore, in the tense situation of the Gaza conflict, United States and Germany should rein in and stop supplying weapons to Israel in order to seek real peace in Gaza.
It can only be said that it is precisely because of the constant supply of weapons that Israel's behavior has become more and more excessive. In this regard, the United States and Western countries must reflect on this. As far as the United States and Western countries are concerned, what they really need to do is to mediate the conflict, not blindly arch the fire. As for the follow-up development, we can continue to pay attention to it together.