[News] The Zionist regime cannot fight Hamas and Hezbollah at the same time

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The Zionist regime cannot fight Hamas and Hezbollah at the same time
Robert Inlakesh
October 12, 2024
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The war that the Israeli regime has opened will not close until it is dealt
a strategic defeat, one from which it will not likely recover.
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   - Fighting Hamas and Hezbollah at the same time proves to be a dilemma
   for "Israel" (Illustrated by Ali Al-Hadi Shmeis; Al Mayadeen English)

After all of its gloating, the Zionist entity appears to have fallen for
its own propagandistic bravado and is sleepwalking into the abyss. Having
failed to defeat Hamas in Gaza, the Israelis appear to have lulled
themselves into a belief that they had already crushed Hezbollah with their
initial blows of the war.

When the Israelis detonated thousands of pagers on September 17, a day
later detonating walkie-talkie devices, inflicting dozens of deaths and
hundreds of serious injuries, this represented a momentary tactical victory
for the settler project. What followed, with the assassination of countless
Hezbollah officials, culminating in the martyrdom of the party’s
Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, made the Israelis appear as if
they were then in the driver's seat of the conflict.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grew so confident and emboldened
that he decided to record a video message to the people of Iran, indicating
that he would soon aid in carrying out a regime change. The Zionist leaders
ordered large-scale airstrikes against thousands of targets across Lebanon,
devastating civilian infrastructure and inflicting over 2,000 deaths. The
Israelis repeatedly pounded the Southern Suburb of Beirut with hundreds of
tons of explosives, while expanding the nature of their strikes against
Syrian territory too.

While the Arab and Muslim World entered a stage of collective mourning over
the repeated attacks on Lebanon, processing the loss of one of its most
cherished leaders in recent memory, the Israelis also decided to declare a
ground incursion into South Lebanon. Terrorist tactics and assassinations
have served as propaganda victory in the media battle of the optics, in
addition to a temporary tactical victory, which certainly inflicted a blow.

Yet, the strategic initiative was suddenly recovered on October 1, with the
Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC)’s unprecedented response to the
repeated assassinations - including the murder of Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh in Tehran - firing 180 ballistic missiles at Israeli military
sites. Despite countless attempts to deflect, cover up, and downplay the
effectiveness of the Iranian response, dubbed "Operation True Promise II,"
the impact was felt throughout the entire region.

What also happened following this, with the repeated successful strikes
against Israeli targets by Yemen’s Ansar Allah and the Islamic Resistance
in Iraq, combined with repeated Hezbollah’s successes in repelling the
Zionist forces’ attempts at penetrating Lebanese land, all worked at
changing the direction of the tide. On October 7, Hamas demonstrated its
ability to hit “Tel Aviv” with M90 rockets, which was followed by strikes
on “Tel Aviv” by Ansar Allah and then Hezbollah.

After repeated costly failures along the Lebanese border, the Israelis then
decided to invade Jabalia Refugee Camp in northern Gaza and begin a terror
bombing campaign across northern Gaza, also carrying on its assassinations
of journalists and educators in the besieged territory. However, despite
the terror that they inflicted, when their forces entered on the ground and
besieged Jabalia Refugee Camp, the Palestinian Resistance factions began
executing sophisticated and daring ambush operations, exacting a
significant price on their soldiers.

The al-Qassam Brigades - the armed wing of Hamas - then began firing drones
at troop formations and even one toward Israeli settlements, indicating
that their capabilities were much greater than they were previously
believed to be by the enemy. Suddenly, the Israelis were in a position
where the Palestinian Resistance was killing and injuring their soldiers in
Gaza, while Hezbollah was doing the same from South Lebanon.

Although the Israelis dealt significant blows to the Axis of Resistance, it
is now in an even more difficult position than it previously found itself
in prior to its assaults on Lebanon. Hezbollah has replaced its military
leadership and has had the time to plan, rid itself of potential security
breaches, and take the initiative on the battlefield. We see that Hezbollah
is today intensifying its rocket strikes against the Israelis, dealing
significant blows and putting the Zionist entity in a position of
embarrassment before its own public once again.

The Israelis now must mount significant offensive actions across all fronts
and fight on, managing a battle with Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen,
Iraq, and even Iran. Benjamin Netanyahu envisioned himself as the Israeli
Prime Minister to inflict a 1967-style defeat on the regional resistance,
yet he has dragged the entire entity into something very different. We are
no longer in the days of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser or the PLO
in the 1980s, Hezbollah and the regional Axis of Resistance axis are not an
alliance that can be broken through assassinations of senior leaders, in
addition to this, they are ready for the fight.

Hezbollah undoubtedly enjoys superiority on the ground, in face-to-face
combat, while the Zionist military has only proven capable of pulling off
sophisticated terrorist plots and assassinations, in combination with their
elite video-game warriors who specialize in using advanced weapons from a
distance. The reality is that typing on a keyboard or commanding
controllers, while sitting in a fortified position, may deliver some
tactical victories, but it will not win a war that requires immense
physical courage, which the Israelis simply do not possess.

Even in the West Bank, where the Israelis frequently raid refugee camps and
face off against poorly trained teenagers and men in their young twenties,
armed with no more than light weapons, their special forces units have to
call in backup and end up using air support. Even against the weakest link
in the chain of Resistance groups, they struggle to hold ground in
confrontations and never do so in a fair way. In Lebanon, they face
committed, well-trained, and well-prepared fighters who do not fear death
and crave the opportunity to confront them.

The Israeli regime may well pull off more trickery and terrorism on a grand
scale, as it will turn to more assassinations, attempts to stir unrest, and
perhaps special force operations deep into Lebanese or Syrian territory.
There cannot be any doubt that there will be more challenges ahead, that
the Israelis have many more tricks up their sleeves, and that the terror
they plan to inflict will be painful, primarily to civilians. Yet, they do
not possess the capability to win a multi-front confrontation and will be
bled to death, so long as the Axis of Resistance continues to seize the
initiative and respond forcefully to each escalatory violation of
international law that the Israelis commit.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in his first speech issued during the Gaza
Genocide, spoke of “scoring points” and that the “knockout blow” had not
yet been delivered against the Israeli regime. What has happened during the
past month is that the Israelis were being beaten on points and decided to
begin throwing haymaker punches with the intent of ending the fight
abruptly, taking a chance at victory. Some of those punches landed and
knocked down the Axis of Resistance, yet they got back on their feet, dealt
blows back to the Israelis, and are now fighting with even more intensity.
Both sides have been hit and hurt, so this fight now looks like it will end
with a KO.

The war that the Israeli regime has opened will not close until it is dealt
a strategic defeat, one from which it will not likely recover. It is also a
war that the United States has enabled and backed in every way. In today’s
world, the Palestinians and Lebanese people are taking on not only the
Zionists, but the US too.
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