30th August, 2024
- Israel Arrogance Underestimates Hezbollah
- Operation Arbaeen
- Other fronts – Cyprus, Yemen, Syria & Gaza
- Vaccination Campaign in Gaza: Polio Eradication or Transition to Bio-Warfare?
Israeli Underestimated Hezbollah Arrogance
The threat of war has been looming over both Lebanon and “Israel” since October 8th, with Zionist leaders threatening to bomb Beirut back to the Stone Age or to make Lebanon’s south resemble Gaza. In other words, if Lebanon continues to support the Palestinian Resistance, Israel will implement a scorched earth policy in Lebanese villages and cities.
These threats were nothing but hot smoke being blown out of puffy-faced Zionist officials who feared Hezbollah attacks against their northern settlements since pulling out of the previous war fought against Lebanon. Now, their blood pressure has only risen as their forces have been left weakened and barking with no bite, as we will show.
The fact of the matter is that after Israel’s defeat in two previous bouts against Lebanon, during which Hezbollah was still in the early stages of developing its capabilities, Israel now struggles to prove itself after 10 months of war against guerilla fighters in Gaza. With an exhausted army, a damaged public image, and a weakened economy, Israel cannot afford to open up another front against Hezbollah.
Prior Bouts against Lebanon
1982
Zionist forces invaded Lebanon in July 1982 in the midst of Lebanon’s bloody civil war as part of its “Peace of the Galilee” operation. Publicly, the objective was to protect their northern settlements from their main rivals at the time, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). Privately, in order to crush the resistance in the West Bank, the IOF needed to eliminate its support base in Beirut. However, given the PLO’s lack of capabilities during the invasion, “Israel” went on a rampage all the way to the Lebanese University campus on the outskirts of Beirut, where they would set up base in the campus’s science building. The invading army would clash with Resistance fighters from the Amal Movement, Palestinian fighters, the Lebanese National Movement, and Syrian forces who oversaw the Aramoun area.
Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s second-in-command, wrote in his 2005 book Hezbollah: The Story from Within: “Beirut lived its toughest, most grueling days under destructive Israeli aerial bombardment. The capital’s numerous points of entry fell under siege, supplies grew scarce; life came to a halt; a great number of people were displaced, died or were injured, and many a building collapsed on those inside.”
Following a US-brokered deal between the PLO and “Israel” following the invasion of the Lebanese territory, Yasser Arafat’s party departed Lebanon, taking with them small arms. This would be the first of a number of knots that the PLO leadership would later tie with “Israel”. On August 12 of that year, US, French, British, and Italian troops arrived in Lebanon to oversee the implementation of the deal.
The other objective of “Israel’s” operation, not outright spoken of, was to prop up its allies in Lebanon, namely their proxy, the South Lebanese Army (Lahad), and to see that their allied Kataeb Party candidate Bashir Gemayel succeeded as president. The situation in Lebanon continued to escalate rapidly, Gemayel was elected as the Lebanese Republic’s seventh president under the supervision of the invading Israeli forces on August 23. After 22 days, on September 14, he was assassinated, leading the Zionist army to expand its invasion of Beirut, and taking over the Sabra and Shatila camps. Zionist troops would later invade Palestinian camps and allow allied Lebanese Forces troops to enter, leading to the massacre of the Palestinian and Lebanese civilians residing there.
Throughout this invasion and crimes perpetrated by Zionist forces, a small group of revolutionaries viewed the cancerous Zionist cell in the region as a goliath that needed to be struck and taken down by David’s humble slingshot. This was the birth of Hezbollah. The group was relatively small, a barely-trained group of men with modest Soviet weapons. They came together driven by their religious values, love of the land, and a sense of duty to protect their people against the invading oppressors. Since the start of their battles against the Zionist entity, Hezbollah knew that attacking the minds of the enemy would help them crack the foundation of the army, which had beaten the great armies of the Arab nations in years prior.
On November 11, 1982, following these prompt developments, the Resistance would carry out its first martyrdom operation against an Israeli barracks in Tyr, South Lebanon. This operation shook the Israeli invader to the core. A Peugeot 504, packed with explosives, drove into the 11-story Israeli base and exploded, leveling the building and killing 74 Zionist troops stationed there. It was later revealed that the driver was Martyr Ahmad Qasir. Hezbollah took credit for the operation in the following years when they went public with the details.
“Israel” kept the incident under wraps for 45 years, claiming that the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Tel Aviv waited until global attention was focused on the developments of Al-Aqsa Flood before secretly announcing that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack. Many operations under the Hezbollah flag would be carried out against the Israeli enemy who was occupying South Lebanon. After 20 years, the party succeeded in expelling the occupying force along with their allied Lahad army who, as Sheikh Qassem writes, “fled after realizing they had been left behind by the Israeli forces with their food still steaming on dinner tables”.
In his Victory Day speech, Nasrallah proclaimed that David had conquered Goliath, striking a decisive blow against the colonial beast; “Israel, which owns nuclear weapons and the strongest air fleets in the region is, by God, weaker than a spider web”.
2006
Battered and humiliated while coming off the back of the Second Intifada from 2000-2005, the Israeli Army was itching to restore its image and retake the spot of the undefeated regional power.
On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah carried out Operation True Promise. This operation used tactics similar to what we are witnessing today in Al-Aqsa Flood, including disabling the Zionist’s video surveillance systems to blind them before launching the attack. Hezbollah’s 2006 operation featured an ambush of Israeli soldiers patrolling the border area, under the pretext of initiating a prisoner swap with Tel Aviv. After a less than 10 minute-ambush, the Resistance captured two Israeli soldiers and killed 8 others. Hezbollah’s attack on the initial Humvee, combined with the Israeli army’s misguided attempts to bring back the captives, led to further exposure to IEDs and mortar fire.
“Israel” went ballistic following the successful operation launched by the Lebanese Islamic Resistance, invoking their Hannibal Directive in an attempt to limit Hezbollah’s movements with the kidnapped soldiers. This protocol dictates that the Israeli army would do everything to limit the movement of an opposing force if their soldiers are captured, even if it means killing their own personnel. Speaking about the incident in which soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah fighters, a senior Israeli official “If we had found them, we would have hit them, even if it meant killing the soldiers.”
The Zionist army faced many humiliating losses throughout the multiple battles that occurred in the 2006 July war, most famously in the battle of Bint Jbeil, where 5,000 Israeli soldiers failed to occupy the South Lebanese town protected by 100-150 Hezbollah fighters (per Israeli figures). Israeli state-owned media harassed the army for this embarrassing failure, denouncing the operations as “idiotic military maneuvers.”
By all accounts, the Israeli army was undertrained and unprepared for what they faced in Lebanon. Hezbollah was no longer the same group of young fighters cutting their teeth at resisting what was once considered an unbeatable force. It had evolved into a battle-hardened resistance, with new technology, weapons, and tactics to confront the invading enemy. After 33 days of resistance from guerilla fighters against trained military personnel, Hezbollah achieved victory against the Zionist entity, once again raising their heads against the spoiled child of Western colonialism, humiliating it.
The Israeli regime has been attempting to redeem itself against Hezbollah for showing the world that the IOF are vulnerable, and could have their heads cracked open through the faith of revolutionary men.
“We are the children of that Imam who said: Do you threaten me with death? Death is normal for us and our dignity from God is martyrdom”, Nasrallah said during his Victory Day speech on September 22, 2006. “Today, we celebrate the significant historic divine and strategic victory”, he reiterated. “How can the human mind fathom that a few thousand of your sons from the Lebanese resistance… would stand in the open ground for 33 days, exposed to the open skies without air cover, facing the strongest air force in the Middle East, aided by an air bridge to deliver smart bombs from America, via Britain to ‘Israel’, facing 40,000 officers and soldiers, four brigades of elite forces, three battalions from the Army Reserve and challenging the strongest tank in the world and the most powerful army in the region.”
The 2006 war would remain a nightmare for the Israeli soldiers, with severed limbs and psychological scars lasting a lifetime. Recorded evidence shows that Zionist soldiers know that another war against Lebanon since 2006 would be fatal, as the hand of Hezbollah was pressing the Zionist entity’s throat. The images of overturned, burning Merkava tanks remain engraved in the minds of Israeli foot soldiers.
Following this war, Hezbollah became known on a global scale, both pro and anti-Resistance media admitting the fact that Hezbollah had shattered the knees and ripped out the tongue of the Zionist entity. In an interview with Glenn Beck, Netanyahu stared on with disgust and contempt, as he was faced with the harsh reality that the world believed Hezbollah won the war. “For you to lose that war was pretty significant. And I don`t know if you perceive it as a loss, but it certainly was a shift of perception by the rest of the world”, Beck asked the Israeli prime minister, to which the latter responded, “It certainly wasn`t a victory. I think basically, the war was not won because we lacked a strategy.”
Since the second Israeli retreat from Lebanon, the entity largely withdrew from expansive military operations. The only wars it engaged in were against growing Palestinian Resistance groups, which, in terms of their strength, were reminiscent of Hezbollah in its early days, though not in their history.
After 2006, “Israel” launched wars against Gaza on four occasions: 2008 to 2009 under “Operation Cast Lead”, 2012 in “Operation Pillar of Defense”, in 2014 under “Operation Protective Edge”, and in 2021 under “Operation Guardian of the Walls”. Throughout these years, the Israeli army also conducted terrorist attacks against the Lebanese Resistance and Syrian government-allied groups in Syria. Whereas “Israel’s” battles were sporadic or cheap shots against Resistance forces, Hezbollah joined the fight on the ground against the Western-backed ISIS militants in Syria.
Recently, Nasrallah revealed that Hezbollah units had gone to Iraq to take up arms against the militant force wreaking havoc on Iraq. Hezbollah officially joined in the fight against Western-backed proxy terrorism in 2012, and proved itself vital in the fight, taking over eight bordering villages in the Qusayr District in Syria to prevent terrorist forces from bleeding into Lebanon. The Lebanese Resistance’s fight would continue, ensuring to Lebanon’s population and politicians – some of whom may have opposed involvement – which this struggle was for the greater good of the region. It aimed to prevent Lebanon’s largest neighbor from falling into the hands of the US, British, and its proxy forces.
As the years went on in the war in Syria, Hezbollah proved itself vital in turning the tide, preventing Syria from nearly falling into the hands of the West and shifting the momentum back in favor of the government. Without Hezbollah and other allies, the outcome of the war may have been devastating for the region.
Hezbollah is not the same group of guerillas from the 80s. The Israeli Army quickly learned that Hezbollah was now much more advanced than it was in previous battles. After the first four months, on January 18, Israeli media reported that “The Israeli army is surprised by the size of Hezbollah’s infrastructure along the border with Lebanon.”
Al-Aqsa Flood was successful because the Israelis underestimated the Palestinian Resistance, viewing it as a bug they could easily squash. In Hezbollah’s case, Israel fell into every trap set on the battlefield. The operations carried out by Hezbollah in plucking out the eyes of the Israeli army during the battle, showed that their projectiles have been made and developed in a way that can deter the millions of dollars of radar and surface-to-surface defense systems the Israeli society relies on. Hezbollah tore apart the image of Israel and depicted it as a wet rag dancing in the wind. Tel Aviv was once considered to have all the intelligence it needed on Hezbollah.
However, they fell into the major trap that is key to avoid in the book of war; never underestimate your enemy. The Israeli army fell right into the trap set by Hezbollah, conducting mock operations over enemy territory with cheaply made drones specifically designed to be targeted and shot down by Israeli defenses. The Zionist regime boasted about their superior air defense systems; unaware that the Islamic resistance was playing the long game – taking notes and finding out ways to make their projectiles undetectable by air defense systems and immune to jamming devices. Through this method of research and development, not only have Hezbollah’s attack drones become stronger, but Hezbollah’s surveillance capabilities have also reached unprecedented levels. The Hoopoe drone has completely exposed the occupied North, and the intelligence it gathered has been shared with the rest of the Resistance Axis, which have also proven to be much stronger than what the Zionist regime once believed. Settler social media posts have also been used by Hezbollah to find, bypass, and destroy defense systems like the Iron Dome, turning settlers into pawns as a means towards the Lebanese Resistance’s goals.
The nightmare of Hezbollah is etched in the minds of Israelis. A weakened and exhausted army unable to even carry out training drills, with a depleted arsenal, including their esteemed Merkava tanks, would be unable to take on a group like Hezbollah, which stands as a much more mobilized and professional fighting force than in the past.
Israel has bitten off more than it can chew by attempting to open up a multi-front war. In Gaza, none of the goals set since October have been achieved by the Israeli army, and Hamas, along with other Palestinian Resistance factions, is only growing more organized with each passing day.
The three major players in the Axis of Resistance are all waiting for the right moment to strike. Until then, they’ve opted for psychological warfare intended to break the Israelis’ mind. For Hezbollah, the recent reveal of a tunnel missile base, Imad 4, has made headlines, not only due to the fact that it shows the professional and high-class capabilities that this non-state actor holds, but also that their missiles are at the ready if Israel decides to make the foolish mistake of fully opening a front against Hezbollah.
Nasrallah had warned Israel two months prior to the launch of Al-Aqsa Flood, that the effects would not be like the decades-long fight at the end of the 20th century, nor would they be like the 33-day war in 2006, “I say to the enemy: According to all evidence, you will be returned to the Stone Age if you go to war.”
2. Operation Arbaeen
After 27 days of keeping all of Israel on a knife’s edge, Hezbollah launched its first phase of its retaliatory military operation in response to the assassination of military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood late last month. The timing of the strike was unexpected, targeting specific qualitative Israeli military facilities and symbolic sites, and coincided with the latest negotiations between Hamas and Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo and the religiously significant day of Arbaeen. Hezbollah’s statements confirmed the success of its strikes, indicating that they achieved several strategic objectives, including reestablishing deterrence and long-term rules of engagement.
This is the timeline of this attack, and why it was made at this time. The cease-fire negotiations were going nowhere. Hamas decided not to attend any more of these negotiations, as they know Israel will obstruct any deal as this would mean Israel’s defeat. This statement was made a week ago. Then, Hezbollah decided the response for Fuad Shukr’s assassination would be on Sunday morning. The launch time would be 5.15 am, just after the dawn prayers. At 4 am, many fighters began going to their designated posts. This activity was picked up by the ISR systems of the US, which relayed this info to the Israelis. In panic, Israel launched 100 fighter jets to south Lebanon. None of this affected the launch time. The Lebanese resistance’s Arbaeen Operation was conducted in two distinct phases. In the first part , 340 Katyusha rockets – not the 8,000, then 6,000 claimed by Tel Aviv – targeted various northern Israeli military bases and barracks, including Meron,. The rocket salvo served one purpose – to act as a decoy, engaging Israel’s air defenses, while Hezbollah’s actual targets were struck elsewhere using a fleet of armed drones.
This paved the way for the second phase: an aerial assault deep inside Israel using a significant number of attack drones that struck at strategic military sites like the Ein Shemer base, a multi-layered missile air defense installation, and the Glilot base, home to the Mossad headquarters and Israeli Military Intelligence, often abbreviated to ‘Aman.’ According to Nasrallah, this target was “110 kilometers from the Lebanese border and on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, an unprecedented penetration of Israel’s strategic depth into the heart of the occupation state’s military assassinations and psychological warfare swat team, Unit 8200- which is similar to the NSA in the US.
The complex attack – which mirrors Iranian tactics displayed on 13 and 14 April this year – demonstrated Hezbollah’s professionalism executed with high precision to achieve its intended objectives. Despite Israeli denials and claims that it launched a massive pre-emptive strike to thwart the attack, Nasrallah says the sites were successfully struck. The Israeli military censor immediately banned the publication and dissemination of any video and imagery of the targeted sites, so evidence of the strike’s success is likely to be found more in the future actions of the warring parties.
Outmaneuvering Israeli Intelligence
In his speech, the Hezbollah leader revealed that the hangars and launchers designated for the attack remained unharmed and were all operational when the attack commenced. He further disclosed that some drones were launched from Lebanon’s northern Litani and others from the country’s Bekaa region, which had not been affected by Israeli strikes. This indicated a lack of Israeli intelligence regarding the locations of the munitions prepared for the attack. He also highlighted a significant intelligence feat achieved by Hezbollah. He recounted the efforts of Shukr, who, before his martyrdom, successfully transferred rockets in a misleading operation that bore similarities to the “qualitative weight” operation executed by Israel during the initial 48 hours of the July War in 2006.
In that operation, Israel claimed to have destroyed 80 percent of Hezbollah’s long-range rockets, only to discover later that Hezbollah had relocated its rockets without detection. The revelations in Nasrallah’s latest speech about this suggest that Hezbollah may have orchestrated a disinformation campaign over several years, complicating Israeli calculations and undermining their pre-planned strategies for aggression against Lebanon. This disinformation operation was further supported by Hezbollah’s “Imad – 4”video which showcased a highly sophisticated underground missile facility intended, in part, to demoralize Israel’s military brass and, in part, to challenge false Israeli claims that the Lebanese resistance fires its munitions from civilian areas.
He stressed that the waiting period was also meant to allow the Resistance to assess whether the response would be coordinated across the Axis of Resistance or handled by each front individually and to make way for the negotiations, as the ultimate goal was to halt the aggression on Gaza. He confirmed that “a significant number of drones hit their intended targets, but the enemy is keeping all relevant details concealed, but the days and nights will reveal the truth of what happened there.”
He explained that the operation entailed two phases. The initial phase was focused on targeting sites and barracks in northern occupied Palestine with the hundreds of intended rockets to exhaust and deplete the Iron Dome and interceptor missiles, paving the way for phase two, which saw the swarms of drones heading toward their intended targets.
Meanwhile, in an early attempt at establishing damage control, Tel Aviv rushed to shape the narrative on Sunday’s early-morning events, touting its so-called “pre-emptive strike” as a military and intelligence success.
But in his widely televised speech that same evening, Nasrallah debunked Israel’s shifting narratives point by point, saying that the true impact of Hezbollah’s response would be noticeable in its future strategies – not in the “lies” of occupation officials like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He emphasized that the Israeli account of events was “full of lies,” reflecting the inherent weakness of the Israeli entity. He pointed out that no rocket launchers were targeted before the operation, adding, however, that only two were struck, yet only after the operation was completed.
Meanwhile, the entirety of the drone launch platform remained intact both before and after the operation.
Debunking Israeli claims of carrying out airstrikes that nipped Hezbollah’s operation in the bud, the Lebanese Resistance leader affirmed that the enemy had no intel whatsoever, stressing that all its raids an hour before the operation were the result of the natural movement of the fighters on the ground in preparation for the operation.
Hezbollah hit a Dvora patrol boat of the Israeli Navy during its large-scale attack against Israel early on August 25th
The Super Dvora is a high-speed class of patrol boats that is used for a variety of naval missions from typical off-shore coastal patrol mission profiles to high-speed, high-maneuver littoral warfare. Two boats of the MK II version and 13 from the newest MK III version are in service with the Israeli Navy. Each is usually crewed by up to a dozen mariners.
Western Intelligence Agencies Unremitting Spying on Hezbollah
By now, the readers know that France is determined to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon. Along with Britain, Germany and Spain, there is an unrelenting pressure placed on Hezbollah. The UNIFIL entity is a Rothschild construct. Its main task was to muzzle Hezbollah with the aim of keeping Israel safe. UNIFIL has been operating in Lebanon since the first Israeli invasion of 1978. Despite this, their forces failed to end an 18-year occupation and have attempted to expand their areas of influence without proper authorization.
Many in Lebanon have for years accused UNIFIL of acting to suppress resistance in the south on behalf of Israel. Last year, Washington and London had been trying, on behalf of Israel, to secure Lebanon’s approval for a UN Security Council resolution ensuring freedom of movement for UNIFIL across the country, without accompaniment from the Lebanese army as is the law.
“The US and Israel were unable to implement the freedom of movement clause despite the enormous pressure on Lebanon,” Munir Shehadeh, Lebanon’s former government coordinator for UNIFI”- – So if a UN organization stationed in Lebanon to keep the peace helps Israel with gathering intelligence the IDF then uses to strike its enemies and kill people, we’re supposed to feel that’s fine. But if an UN organization tries to help Palestinians stave off starvation and death, that’s an abuse of power and the IDF are free to slaughter its member. These people make me sick…”
French and Spanish radars installed by UNIFIL in the south of Lebanon are being used to target the resistance on behalf of Israel. A week ago, an Israeli drone targeted two Hezbollah fighters in Naqoura. Eyewitnesses said the drone was not noticed or heard before the surprise attack, which directed attention to the new French radar that was raised above the UNIFIL base in Mount Naqoura, and whether it was used to monitor the movements of the resistance. The French radar, the “marine radar” as the daily refers to it, was installed in the south two weeks ago at the request of UNIFIL Chief of Staff, Frenchman Cédric du Gardin, it says. “Before the end of his term at the end of July, the former French Chief of Staff sent a letter ‘reprimanding his officers because of their failure to detect any drone, air defense missile or rocket’ launched by the resistance,” the report adds.
Prior to this, a Spanish radar was installed in the Blat Plain in southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun. Israel “asked the current UNIFIL commander, the Spaniard Arludo Lazarro, to install the radar immediately after his appointment two years ago. However, local Lebanese pressures postponed the decision until Army Commander Joseph Aoun and the government expressed their approval of it, with Defense Minister Maurice Slim refusing,” sources told the newspaper. The Spanish radar monitors the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfar Shuba hills on the Lebanese border.
The two radars “complement the French radar system installed since after the July 2006 aggression on Lebanon” in the vicinity of Bint Jbeil, the daily reported.
According to the report, UNIFIL’s navy has also joined the intelligence campaign to make up for the blind spot created by Hezbollah on Israeli surveillance sites and equipment. “A German warship, which has been in command of UNIFIL’s naval forces since 2001, is stationed off the coast of Naqoura. No one knows who is boarding or disembarking off of it or using it for reconnaissance, especially in the area extending from Tyre to Naqoura, which has witnessed several assassinations,” field sources told the newspaper.
France and Spain cannot and must not be allowed to set up radar installation on Lebanon soil and certainly in a war zone where Hezbollah fighters are defending Lebanon. Since Hezbollah decided to fire the first round of Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGM) against “Israel’s” military positions in northern occupied Palestine on October 8, hot smoke has been blowing out of the ears of the Zionist entity ad nauseam.
