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On April 8th, the Zionist entity struck a\u00a0demonic blow<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to the heart of Beirut, dropping 1,000 pound bombs in densely packed residential areas, killing untold civilians and injuring many more. One of Lebanon\u2019s most dire mass-killings since the end of the 1990 civil war, it marked the resumption of Israel\u2019s\u00a0avowedly genocidal<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>invasion. With bombs\u00a0raining down apace<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0even as rare in-person talks between the pair near, Zionist Occupation Force-backed settlers are\u00a0moving quickly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to establish a permanent presence in the country\u2019s south.<\/p>\n Whatever\u00a0abrupt pause<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the war on the Islamic Republic can be sustained by duelling Iranian and US blockades of the\u00a0Strait Of Hormuz<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0must be viewed in the context of the Zionist entity\u2019s longstanding determination to annex Lebanese territory, in service of\u00a0\u2018Greater Israel\u2019<\/a><\/strong>. Tel Aviv\u2019s criminal incursion ignited\u00a0<\/a>March 16th<\/a><\/strong>, Orwellianly dubbed by officials a \u201ctargeted ground operation against key targets.\u201d It was not until\u00a0<\/a>10 days later<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that major news outlets deigned to call it an invasion.<\/p>\n On\u00a0<\/a>March 23rd<\/a><\/strong>, Tel Aviv\u2019s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich – a\u00a0<\/a>self-proclaimed fascist<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– urged the ZOF to formally annex southern Lebanon. Since then, over a million people have been displaced, thousands killed, and civilian infrastructure razed en masse. While a significant chunk of the country is now occupied, the cost for Tel Aviv was substantial. Unrelenting Hezbollah fire produced\u00a0heavy casualties<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and record equipment and vehicle losses, including 21 Merkava main battle tanks in a single day on\u00a0<\/a>March 26th<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n On April 2nd, Israeli media\u00a0openly advertised<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the impending ceasefire in the war on Iran. It was revealed the Zionist entity was preparing to intensify its air campaign against Lebanon, due to enormous damage inflicted by the Resistance upon the ZOF. Tel Aviv reportedly planned to \u201c[reduce] the current focus on Iran,\u201d in order to support \u201cIsraeli ground forces attempting to seize Lebanese territory.\u201d Were it not for hell being unleashed from the skies, the ZOF would currently be in big trouble.<\/p>\n On\u00a0<\/a>April 5th<\/a><\/strong>, the ZOF\u2019s Northern Command chief admitted Tel Aviv had grossly overestimated damage inflicted upon Hezbollah during its October 2024 invasion of Lebanon. Entity political and military chiefs had long-claimed the Resistance faction\u00a0was obliterated<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by the illegal intervention. The\u00a0<\/a>ZOF estimated<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>70 – 80% of Hezbollah\u2019s rocket capabilities were destroyed during the conflict. This reverie was comprehensively shattered by hundreds of the group\u2019s projectiles successfully targeting Tel Aviv daily, throughout the Zionist-American war on Iran.<\/p>\n No wonder that conflict is now on hold. Hezbollah remains a redoubtable adversary, which can independently, and in tandem with its Resistance comrades, thwart Tel Aviv\u2019s seizure of Lebanese territory, and\u00a0permanently expel<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Zionist settlers from northern Palestine. This wreaks havoc with Greater Israel\u2019s construction, which Benjamin Netanyahu\u00a0<\/a>openly yearns<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to be his enduring political legacy, and literal \u2018get out of jail free\u2019 card. Hence, southern Lebanon must be annexed, and Hezbollah neutralised. But attempting to do so will, as before, end in fatal catastrophe.<\/p>\n \u2018Forced Expulsions\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n In\u00a0June 1982<\/a><\/strong>, Zionist militants invaded Lebanon, ostensibly to drive Palestinian freedom fighters away from the entity\u2019s claimed northern border. Quickly, it became apparent ethnic cleansing, massacres, and land theft were the ZOF\u2019s true goal. As a declassified\u00a0July 1983<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0US National Intelligence Council assessment noted, ultra-Zionists then as now were aggressively demanding outright annexation of Lebanon\u2019s south. Which is precisely what temporarily came to pass, until Hezbollah expelled the ZOF decisively in 2000. Along the way, obvious lessons weren\u2019t learned by Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n The Council predicted the ZOF would create a puppet state in the south, to fulfil \u201csome day-to-day governing tasks,\u201d while \u201creal power will remain in Israeli hands.\u201d Despite judging the costs \u201cof semi-permanent occupation\u201d to be \u201cnot inconsequential,\u201d they were nonetheless \u201cmanageable\u201d, due to the entity\u2019s \u201cproven track record\u201d of suppressing \u201cunrest\u201d in territory it illegally occupies. \u201cForced expulsions, use of local surrogates, and ruthless counterintelligence operations\u201d by the ZOF were correctly forecast, which the NIC believed would negate \u201cincreasingly\u201d hostile local opposition.<\/p>\n The Council assessed the ZOF would \u201c[get] a handle on the guerrillas in the next six – 12 months.\u201d This prediction couldn\u2019t have been more wrong. Unmentioned by the Council, Hezbollah was\u00a0quickly founded<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>following the Zionist entity\u2019s invasion. Inspired by the Islamic Revolution and assisted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the group rapidly gained in strength, spreading radical fervour among Lebanese citizens of every faith, until forcibly purging ZOF militants from Lebanon outright in\u00a0May 2000<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Hezbollah\u2019s success – repeated with an\u00a0unprecedented battering<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of Zionist invasion forces in 2006 – inspired new generations of Resistance fighters,\u00a0including Hamas<\/a><\/strong>. Today, the faction is the most popular and potent political and social force in Lebanon, embraced by citizens of every faith. Bashar Assad\u2019s fall also did not, contrary to widely-held assumptions, make it remotely difficult for Iran to equip and coordinate with Hezbollah. A failure to comprehend these inconvenient truths has led the Zionist entity into disastrous ruin in Lebanon, yet again.<\/p>\n On\u00a0March 27th<\/a><\/strong>, ZOF chief of staff Eyal Zamir issued a grave warning during a security cabinet meeting. Namely, Israel\u2019s military \u201cis going to collapse in on itself,\u201d due to \u201cmounting operational demands and a deepening manpower shortage,\u201d which could rapidly prove catastrophic. Already, an infantry battalion intended to be deployed to Lebanon had been redirected to the West Bank, to \u201ckeep the peace\u201d as armed settlers carried out violent if not murderous attacks on Palestinians. The ZOF would\u2019ve struggled to field further forces in either Greater Israel theatre.<\/p>\n Then on\u00a0April 3rd<\/a><\/strong>, the ZOF openly admitted \u201cits goal of disarming Hezbollah\u201d was \u201cunrealistic, as it would require the military to launch a full-scale invasion of Lebanon,\u201d which Tel Aviv wasn\u2019t able to wage. In other words, the Resistance was undefeated, and Lebanese territory couldn\u2019t be stolen. Having been engaged in perpetual, multi-front war since October 7th 2023, the exhausted Zionist entity lacked the muscle to achieve its Lebanese goals while\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>targeting the West Bank and Iran, contrary to intelligence, military and political forecasts.<\/p>\n \u2018Last Minute\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Israel was so ruinously overextended attempting to wage all-out war on the entire Resistance – without AnsarAllah even having fully joined the fight – it was reportedly considering an extraordinarily desperate solution. Namely, inviting Syria\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>MI6-installed<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0extremist government to battle Hezbollah. Ahmed al-Sharaa\u2019s regime is maintained in power exclusively via a brutal, repressive domestic security and military apparatus. Forces could not be deployed in sufficient numbers to counter Hezbollah, without risking major domestic upheaval. However, Hebrew-language outlet\u00a0Maariv\u00a0<\/em>reported\u00a0April 5th<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0this suicidal pact was being seriously contemplated:<\/p>\n \u201cOnly two actors want to fight Hezbollah – Israel and the new Syrian regime headed by al-Sharaa. According to Israeli officials, this is an intersecting interest, even if not an alliance in the classical sense. As far as Israel is concerned, this is a regime that hates Hezbollah, sees it as an enemy, and may actually become a partner of interests in the Lebanese arena\u2026Understandings between Israel and Syria will be formed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Under the auspices of these \u201cunderstandings\u201d, the ZOF would \u201ctake over southern Lebanon, while the Syrians will act in northern Lebanon against Hezbollah.\u201d However, the US reportedly \u201cvery much [preferred] not to reach such a scenario.\u201d After all, it would be a deeply hazardous Faustian bargain, imperilling al-Sharaa\u2019s already brittle rule. While he and his army of\u00a0ISIS fighters<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>may detest Hezbollah, the overwhelming majority of Syrians reject alliance with Israel, at a time local Resistance elements\u00a0are growing<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in strength.<\/p>\n A key source of al-Sharaa\u2019s domestic unpopularity is his relentless, servile quest for\u00a0cordial relations<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with Tel Aviv. Behind-closed-doors talks that began upon his\u00a0December 2024<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>seizure of power culminated\u00a0<\/a>this January<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with the signing of a \u201cjoint mechanism\u201d. Through it, Syria and Israel were to share intelligence, and peaceably resolve grievances old and new. This astonishing capitulation by al-Sharaa laid the foundations for formal normalisation of relations between the two countries, which successive Syrian governments\u00a0<\/a>steadfastly refused<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0ever since Israel\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n\n\n![\"Rescue](\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!4081!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb97f97f6-83b9-4723-a995-660ce87bcd8e_1200x800.jpeg "\\"Rescue")
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