TEHRAN- President Joe Biden’s unwavering, unjustified, and blind support for Israel’s carnage in the Gaza Strip is pushing the region into a wider conflict.

The U.S. is already caught in a conflict with Yemen’s Ansarullah and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (Kata’ib Hezbollah), which has claimed responsibility for the Sunday drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan near the border with Syria that left three U.S. three service members dead. 

Hamas reacted to the drone attack, saying it was "a message to the American administration" and that "the American-Zionist aggression on Gaza risks a regional explosion," France 24 reported.

Biden has been opposing a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Gaza, shipping weapons to Israel, and vetoing UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Moreover, the shadow of a full-fledged war between Israel and Hezbollah is looming.

While the scandalous U.S. exit from Afghanistan in August of 2021 is still fresh in minds, the U.S. is inadvertently but foolishly being dragged into another war in the region.

Ansarullah started attacking American vessels and warships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden just because the United States and Britain have so far launched a series of attacks on sites inside Yemen in response to Ansarullah’s attacks on Israeli vessels and those destined to and from Israel’s ports.

Ansarullah had said if Israel allowed humanitarian aid into Gaza and stopped the war on the besieged enclave it would have ceased attacks on Israeli-linked vessels. However, Biden, instead of pressing Israel to end its savage war in Gaza, decided to launch attacks on Yemen.

Ansarullah is still insisting that it will stop its attacks on Israeli ships if its conditions are met.

In a commentary immediately after the attacks on U.S. troops in Jordan, the Qunicy Institute said, “They (three service members) didn’t die defending U.S. interests, they died defending Biden’s refusal to press Israel for a ceasefire. Their lives were put at risk by Biden to defend Israel’s ability to continue its carnage in Gaza.” 

Given the United States’ bitter wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was expected that Biden and his national security team would deal with the Gaza war circumspectly, especially as many countries, politicians, analysts and international bodies have been warning about the spread of the war in the region.

The Biden administration has been claiming that it opposes the spread of war but in practice it is adding fuel to the fire by backing criminals in Tel Aviv whose thirst for blood is unquenchable.

Now the feeling to respond to those who killed American troops in Jordan’s border with Syria is boiling. This feeling is being fanned by Republican hardliners.

With each passing day, the U.S. is getting closer to a new bloody, endless, foolish, and guerrilla warfare in the Middle East. Since the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, former and current officials in Israel have been earnestly working to push the U.S. toward a war in the region. Unfortunately, it seems that they are succeeding in their plot and the region is entering a highly dangerous situation.

For example, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on December 28 headlined “The U.S. and Israel need to take Iran on directly”.

We hope that the United States under the Biden administration will come to its senses and stop sacrificing the U.S. interests for Israel.