Israel's ongoing military operation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, which, according to local aouthorities, has killed over 34,000 Palestinian civilians and injured nearly 77,000 others, is a US "proxy war" and the UN Security Council needs to be restructured, Prof. Ntsikelelo Breakfast, senior lecturer at South Africa's Nelson Mandela University, told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the US veto against Palestine's full UN membership.
"The US supports Israel and there is no way it would support the resolution that is drafted by Algeria because as much as America, for instance, in public talks about the ceasefire, but it is also funding the military operations of Israel, which is applying double standards," he said.
The professor of history and political studies explained that the resolution "will not sit well with the US because of its close ties with Israel", despite the fact that it "comes across to be a permanent solution which will benefit the people of Palestine."
Prof. Breakfast added that the international community, more than ever before, is ready to vote for the recognition of Palestine as a state in order to achieve a lasting solution to the Middle East conflict.
"The US, after the Second World War, has established multilateral institutions like the Bretton Woods institutions, the United Nations with an intention of using them as a platform to entrench its hegemony," he said.
However, the expert noted that there is an ongoing "hegemonic shift" on the global scale, with the emergence of "power blocs" like China, Russia, which are "posing a threat to the dominance of the US" and are "echoing the voices of the powerless over the powerful."