[News] Resistance pact signs 'Israel’s' death warrant

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Resistance pact signs 'Israel’s' death warrant
Kit Klarenberg
October 14, 2024
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All the pact’s signatories will provide “comprehensive” economic, military,
and political assistance to one another, should they come under attack from
the Zionist entity or its allies.
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   - Even as the war goes on and on, the threat to Israel will only grow
   (Illustrated by Zeinab al-Hajj; Al Mayadeen English)

On October 7, it was announced
<https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/504686/Iranian-parliament-drafting-Resistance-pact-to-bolster-regional>
that Iran’s parliament is drafting a defense and security pact, which will
formally bind the Resistance, “and their supporting countries,” together in
a common, collaborative military structure to counter external threats,
“particularly from the US and Israel.” Unremarked upon in the West, this is
a seismic move, representing the most monumental nail hammered into
"Israel’s" coffin since Palestinian freedom fighters struck deep inside the
Zionist entity’s putrid heart a year prior. The proclamation’s timing was
absolutely no coincidence.

All the pact’s signatories - be they governments or Resistance movements -
will provide “comprehensive” economic, military, and political assistance
to one another, should they come under attack from the Zionist entity or
its allies. Significantly, a dedicated joint military headquarters, to
“facilitate coordination” between members of the Resistance, will also be
established. This will serve as a “central command for managing military
operations and crisis response, reinforcing operational capabilities
through planned joint military exercises.”

The pact “aims not only to enhance military cooperation,” but also “bolster
infrastructure development” for the Resistance - “collaboration in building
military bases and training centers is expected to improve readiness
against potential threats.” If implemented, Islamic Republic lawmakers
believe “this alliance could significantly shift the balance of power in
the region, presenting a formidable counterweight to Western influence
seeking to wreak havoc in West Asia to Israel’s benefit.”

Of course, recent events have made it clear that West Asia’s “balance of
power” has already decisively shifted in favor of the Resistance. The scale
and severity of Iran’s unprecedented
<https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-iran-throws-down>
October 1 strike on the Zionist entity amply indicated Tehran not only
didn’t expect retaliation of any serious kind to be forthcoming from
"Israel" or its Western puppetmasters but had calculated that in the event
Tel Aviv was sufficiently foolhardy to declare all-out war in response, the
Resistance would inevitably prevail.

In the wake of that devastating assault, this journalist postulated
<https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-iran-throws-down> Tehran
had thrown down a gauntlet to its regional and international adversaries,
safe in the knowledge any resultant conflict would mean the Zionist
entity’s final end and the Empire’s concomitant retreat from West Asia more
widely. The rapid emergence of a formal Resistance military alliance tends
to confirm this analysis. Now, it is up to "Israel" to make the next move,
which could well be its very last.
‘Military Response’

Hours before Iran struck the Zionist entity, Israeli occupation forces
criminally launched an expanded aggression on Lebanon. True to form, the
IOF have savagely targeted
<https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-10-10/hezbollah-backlash>
civilian areas and infrastructure ever since, claiming at least 1,400
innocent lives to date and injuring countless more. Initially framed
<https://dhaabanews.com/tech/israel-has-told-the-us-it-plans-to-launch-a-limited-ground-intervention-in-lebanon/>
by Israeli leaders and pliant Western journalists as a “limited ground
intervention," based on
<https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-lebanon-border-warfare-has-decades-long-history-2024-09-26/>
“precise intelligence” on Hezbollah, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu
is already openly seeking
<https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-expand-invasion-south-lebanon/> to
escalate it into an all-out war.

Netanyahu is evidently unconcerned that many statements he and his
ministers have made since October 7, 2023, rank highly
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/top-us-law-schools-present-israel-gaza-genocide-report/287642/>
among the voluminous mountain of evidence the Zionist entity is acting with
genocidal intent toward the Palestinians and may have contributed
significantly to his ICC indictment
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/historical-us-israel-abuse-icc-leads-netanyahu-indictment/287477/>
for “crimes against humanity." On October 9, the Israeli leader unreservedly
threatened <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3x1w0595o> Lebanon’s
population with “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza" if they
failed to rise and help the IOF “free” their country from Hezbollah.

Such belligerence and depravity play well with Zionist entity audiences.
One Israeli newscaster proudly toasted
<https://nypost.com/2024/09/30/media/israeli-tv-newscasters-toast-death-of-hezbollahs-hassan-nasrallah/>
the September 27 assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
live on air, while Tel Aviv’s education ministry actively encouraged
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-09-30/ty-article/.premium/israels-education-ministry-advised-schools-to-celebrate-nasrallahs-killing/00000192-443e-d07b-aff3-57fec9f00000>
schools to stage celebrations. Netanyahu’s approval ratings have soared
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c243zempn6zo> since the IOF attempted to
invade Lebanon. A sense that the settler colony had finally redeemed itself
and regained an upper hand against the Resistance, after being dealt
relentless economic and military blows since October 7, widely pervades
locally.

Yet, as *The Guardian* acknowledged on October 6, the IOF’s attempted
invasion of Lebanon has already proven
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/06/israel-iran-war-idf-lebanon-military-doctrine>
deeply ruinous. They have lost scores of soldiers, while Hezbollah “retains
a potency fighting on its own terrain… where it has had almost two decades
to prepare for this conflict.” Elsewhere, the outlet observed that Iran’s
October 1st strike on Tel Aviv was:

“Not…as inconsequential as initially claimed by Israel’s leadership, and
instead [shows] that a large-scale strike could not only overwhelm Israel’s
anti-missile defences but that Tehran could accurately explode warheads on
the targets it was aiming for, in this case several military bases. All of
which raises serious questions as Israel prepares for a ‘significant’
military response to Iran.”

*The Guardian* went on to record that due to Israel’s “fast metastasising
multi-front war” against the Resistance, the Zionist entity’s “military and
intelligence superiority is faltering on several fronts.” The past year has
also “seriously exposed Israel’s newly minted operational doctrine, which
planned for fighting short decisive wars against non-state actors…with the
aim of avoiding being drawn into extended conflicts of attrition.” Instead,
“the opposite has happened.” And the ranks of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other
Resistance groups have swelled every step of the way.
‘Deterrent Effect’

The secret of the Resistance's success was spelled out in a little-noticed
article published in June by the elite imperial journal *Foreign Affairs*.
Unequivocally titled "Hamas Is Winning," it sets out in forensic detail
<https://archive.is/hQqCO> “why Israel’s failing strategy makes its enemy
stronger,” and how “according to the measures that matter, Hamas is
stronger today than it was” on October 7, 2023. The “growing” group has
since “evolved into a tenacious and deadly guerrilla force in Gaza”,
launching “lethal operations” in areas previously "cleared” by the IOF
“easily”.

*Foreign Affairs* attributes such “overarching failure” to “a gross
misunderstanding of the sources of Hamas’ power.” The Zionist entity has,
to its “great detriment”, failed to comprehend that “the carnage and
devastation it has unleashed in Gaza has only made its enemy stronger.”
Hamas’ “key source” of support is its “potential to gain supporters from
the local community” and “ability to recruit, especially its ability to
attract new generations of the fighters and operatives.”

This support means Hamas can “replenish its ranks, gain resources, avoid
detection, and generally have more access to the human and material
resources necessary” to wage war against the Zionist entity. Average
Palestinians, “often either angry over the loss of family members or
friends or more generally enraged at [Israel’s] use of heavy military
force,” have joined Hamas in droves or provided assistance of some kind to
the group due to its “tremendous support” among the residents of Gaza.

Cited surveys of Palestinian opinion reinforce this conclusion. Five polls
conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research over the
12 months from June 2023 “present a striking finding” - “on virtually every
measure, Hamas has more support among Palestinians today than before
October 7th.” In all, “twice as many” Palestinians favor Hamas over its
primary rival Fatah - 40% compared to 20%. And 73% of Palestinians overall
believe Hamas “was right to launch” that historic attack.

There has also “especially" been a rise in support for armed resistance
against the Zionist entity among Palestinians in the West Bank. There,
surveys find backing for the group is now “on par with the consistently
high levels of support” for Hamas strikes on "Israel" in Gaza. No wonder -
60% of Palestinians in Gaza report having a family member killed in the
current war, while over three-quarters report having a family member killed
or injured, both numbers significantly higher than in December 2023.

Accordingly, *Foreign Affairs* records that Hamas has swelled in size to
“roughly ten times the number of fighters” who carried out the October 7
operation. Meanwhile, “more than 80% of the group’s underground tunnel
network remains usable for planning, storing weapons, and evading Israeli
surveillance, capture, and attacks,” and “most” of its “top leadership in
Gaza remains intact.” The IOF’s “punishment” of Palestinians “is not having
a significant deterrent effect” on residents of Gaza or the West Bank, or
“[reducing] their support for Hamas.”

*Foreign Affairs* concedes this phenomenon is not restricted to Hamas, but
all components of the indefatigable Resistance. Support for Hezbollah
“flourished” among Shiites during the Zionist entity’s savage 1982 - 1999
occupation of South Lebanon, the outlet notes. This resulted in the group
“evolving from a small clandestine” armed faction “into a mainstream
political party” in Beirut, with a dedicated military wing comprising at
least 40,000 fighters today. *Foreign Affairs* closed out its damning
appraisal of "Israel’s" war against Hamas with a stark conclusion:

“The war will go on and on, more Palestinians will die, and the threat to
Israel will only grow.”

The horrors of the Zionist entity’s invasion of Lebanon will likely endure
apace for some time. But so too its total economic
<https://thecradle.co/articles/blowback-the-gaza-wars-massive-toll-on-israels-economy>,
military, and political collapse. Meanwhile, every day the Resistance is
galvanized, pullulating in strength, its mere existence winning hearts and
minds within and without West Asia in ever-greater numbers. The new,
dedicated pact binding anti-Zionist governments and Palestine freedom
fighter movements together finally signs "Israel’s" death warrant for it
was already written.
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