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Wed 25 Jun 2025 8:40 am - Jerusalem Time

12-Day War!

Ibrahim Melhem

Ibrahim Melhem

Opinion Writer

It was said long ago, "He who starts a war ends it." This simple phrase encapsulates the apparent and hidden turmoil that the region witnessed during the past twelve-day war, in which missiles, drones, and anti-aircraft missiles intersected in open skies, their flames lighting up the skies from Tel Aviv to Tehran.
Thus the war ended; with the sudden announcement of its end, just as it had begun with the surprise of the deceptive opening strike. The region breathed a sigh of relief after holding its breath, fearing that the arc of fire would expand beyond the ability to extinguish and activate containment engines.
Only Gaza remained outside the coverage, whether in terms of the media outlets that lowered their curtains on the ongoing genocide in the blazing brazier, or in terms of the deafening silence and the absence of a human conscience regarding the scenes of death, killing, starvation, and thirst in the Strip, which has been languishing under the blazing fire for more than six hundred days.
As painful as Israel has dealt Iran, it has also received painful blows that have altered the character of the rogue state, whose "king," intoxicated by illusory victories, has changed the face of its cities. He has also threatened to change the face of the Middle East, driven by a burning ideology.
Scenes of unprecedented destruction inflicted on Israeli cities were the primary reason behind Trump's intervention to halt the war, contenting himself with his alleged and undocumented achievements regarding the destruction of the Iranian nuclear project.
The "Midnight Hammer," Washington's nickname for the surprise strike it delivered to Iran's nuclear program, may have destroyed it on the ground, but it will not be able to destroy it in the minds of Iranians, who will be even more determined to continue working on it after the cracks in its walls are repaired.

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