The Cat is out of the Bag

No more milk and honey in Israel

By Hassan Hanizadeh

Israel has not been able to eradicate Hezbollah or occupy south Lebanon after 27 days of ground, air, and sea strikes.

The Israeli military, which has bombed Lebanon’s residential areas and infrastructure over 6000 times, has lost all its military and political trump cards, and, according to military experts, Hezbollah is the winner of the war so far.

The Israeli military has lost two of its high-tech warships, a Saar 4 and a Saar 5, and Israel’s navy was not able to continue its sea siege of Lebanon and was forced to leave following heavy losses.

The Israeli military’s commando Golani Brigade and brigades 27 and 33 were defeated in Bint Jbeil and Maroun al-Ras. According to initial reports, 37 advanced Merkava tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed and many Israeli commandos were killed.

Hundreds of Hezbollah’s long-range and medium-range missiles targeted Israel’s economic and military installations in the cities of Haifa, Safad, Nahariya, Tabaria, and Kiryat Shimona. Over 1.7 million Israelis have been forced to move to cities in the middle of the occupied territories.

This situation and the war, which is becoming a war of attrition, have inflicted so many casualties and economic losses on the Zionist regime that if a ceasefire is declared now, Israel will definitely be the loser.

Why is Israel the loser? Israel had intended to achieve all its objectives within one week and implement the new Middle East plan with U.S. support, but it has had to face a war of attrition for the first time in the past sixty years.

The Israeli military has proven that it has the capability to fight for at most fourteen days. A protracted conflict would be detrimental for the regime’s ground forces.

In addition, Israeli society cannot tolerate the casualties that the Zionist regime has suffered so far. Thus, the pace of emigration from the occupied territories to Europe and North America has significantly accelerated.

This is going to be a bitter pill for Israeli leaders to swallow, since they have been encouraging Jews to immigrate to the occupied territories for years by promising them milk and honey.

So, the old saying that Israel is the land of milk and honey, which was preached by Israeli rabbis for decades, is now relegated to the dust bin of history.

In addition, the myth of the invincibility of the Zionist regime’s military has been shattered by the resistance movement, and Muslim nations will humiliate this defeated army in the future.

Furthermore, Israel is becoming more politically isolated with every passing day as global animosity over the attack on Qana grows.

If a ceasefire is declared, Israel and the United States will no longer be able to impose conditions on the Lebanese government and nation. Therefore, the U.S. Greater Middle East Initiative, which was supposed to start in Lebanon politically and strategically, has failed.

The destiny of the Middle East will be determined in the next few days, and the political and military victory of Hezbollah will alter all regional equations and open a new chapter for the Middle East.

Original article posted here.