OPINIONS
Fri 17 Jan 2025 8:43 am - Jerusalem Time
This war that is approaching its end.. What did it say and what did it reveal?
The aggressive war on the Gaza Strip is in its final stages, and if it is not circumvented by Netanyahu and his army, as is happening now in southern Lebanon, where the truce there is due to repeated Israeli violations, which have exceeded 530 violations, it is considered that the ceasefire agreement is on its way to collapse, and that Netanyahu wants to renounce this agreement, relying on the geostrategic changes in Syria, and what is happening inside Lebanon, as Syria is now under Turkish-Qatari influence, and Lebanon is under Saudi-Egyptian-Emirati influence.
This war clearly stated that it was not only Israel's war, but America's war and the entire West's, as they were directly involved in it, supported militarily and financially, mobilized their fleets, aircraft carriers, and all their intelligence and security agencies, and employed all their diplomacy, economy, and money, in order to defend and protect Israel, without which it would have been, as some Israelis said, since Israel had been fighting with stones and sticks since the third day of the war. The war, as the American "Musaylimah" Blinken said, did not succeed in eliminating the resistance militarily, and he said that defeating the resistance forces requires other means that America has tried, such as imposing comprehensive economic, financial, and political sanctions on the targeted countries and resistance movements, as happened in Syria, and the "Caesar Act" to starve the Syrian people, and the five-year plan of Pompeo and Barbara Leaf in Lebanon, a financial and economic siege and a political and security vacuum leading to civil wars.
The important thing is that these wars and this Third World War, she said, are poor countries and resistance movements, foiled major projects and plans, such as what Netanyahu talked about, changing the face of the Middle East, and what the American administration calls the new Middle East, and with them fell Israel’s projects and plans, the plan of the generals in the northern Gaza Strip, not withdrawing from the “Netzarim” and “Philadelphi” axes, eliminating the Hamas movement and the resistance, achieving what is known as the overwhelming victory, and the dream of returning to settlement in the Strip.
This war, which was fought by forces, movements and peoples who were poor in military and armament capabilities and capacities, and great in courage, will and determination, imposed equations and balances of power that can be built upon in the future. The ceasefire, neither in Lebanon nor in the Gaza Strip, speaks of disarming the resistance, but rather a return to coexistence with this weapon on the borders of Lebanon and on the borders of the Strip. This means that the conflict is ongoing and continuous, and there are existential risks that Israel may be exposed to, which sought in its destructive wars on Gaza and Lebanon to prevent a return to coexistence with resistance forces on the borders of its settlements. What is shameful is the state of joy and gloating among some Lebanese and Palestinian forces and parties, by saying that a major defeat had befallen Hezbollah and Hamas. This war also revealed that there is an unprecedented state of official Arab and Islamic betrayal and collusion, and it said that the real Arabs are those who stood with the brave by Gaza, and were partners in blood, part of Lebanon, part of Iraq and part of Yemen, and Iran was also a supporter and partner, and beyond that we found Arabic speakers, not Arabs. This situation extended to the Arab and Islamic masses, who seemed to be “hypnotized” and appeared as a shadow of their regimes, to which Marx’s saying about reactionary peoples applies, while we found that this war brought surprises, including the surprise of Yemen, Yemen, which was able to impose equations in the Red Sea, and an unprecedented challenge to America and its arrogance, and Yemen succeeded in imposing an economic naval blockade on Israeli ports, throughout the war period, especially the port of Eilat “Umm al-Rashrash”, and also forced American destroyers and aircraft carriers to flee more than once from the Red Sea, after targeting them with its hypersonic missiles and suicide drones, as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon, despite what it was exposed to from a deadly triple package in the period from September 17-27, 2023, and the assassination of most of its military and security leaders and its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and his deputy Hashem Safi al-Din, it succeeded in preventing the Israeli army from achieving any ground victory, despite all the Israeli military mobilization that reached five divisions and several brigades, they were unable to They crossed the border and the border edge by hundreds of meters, while in 1982 they reached the heart of the capital Beirut.
We must not forget that the war revealed the resistance’s allies on the global level, such as popular and mass movements, especially the student “intifada” that swept American and Western European universities, which demanded an end to the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, and called for holding Israel accountable for those crimes, and for an economic boycott and divestment from it, as well as boycott movements and many friendly countries such as South Africa, which filed a case against Israel before the International Court of Justice, on charges of committing crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, and Bolivia and Colombia, which severed diplomatic relations with Israel.
The war, as the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya, said in his speech the day before yesterday, “the battle of October 7 constituted an important turning point in the history of the Palestinian cause,” and its “effects” will not stop with its end. Al-Hayya also stressed that our people “thwarted the declared and hidden goals of the occupation, and today we prove that the occupation will never defeat our people and their resistance.”
It is important here for the resistance forces to remain vigilant and wary of the cunning and tricks of Netanyahu and his partners. What happened and is happening in Lebanon must remain before the eyes of the resistance leaders. Neither the Israelis nor the Americans and the colonial Western powers behind them, nor the official Arabs, can be trusted. Perhaps Netanyahu, under the great internal pressures he was exposed to and the external pressures, especially from US President Trump, agreed to this agreement, and his eyes were set on transferring what happened on the southern Lebanese front to the Gaza front, where he is implementing the first phase of the agreement, to please Trump and also to relieve the pressure on him from the families of the prisoners, the Israeli public, and the military and security establishments, and then he will turn against this agreement.
It is clear that after the completion and implementation of the agreement in its three stages, there will be major divisions among the forces of the Israeli right. The differences in the Smotrich Front, “Religious Zionism,” and the Ben Gvir Front, “Jewish Power,” are escalating, and the Likud is no longer cohesive behind Netanyahu. From here, the Israeli political arena appears to be heading towards profound and major transformations, and it will face a choice: either continuing the wars in exchange for the accumulated strategic loss regionally and internationally, or facing the option of a Palestinian state, to save itself from the brink of the abyss in which it has found itself.
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This war that is approaching its end.. What did it say and what did it reveal?