A full-scale war against Hezbollah will backfire on Israel and America’s Arab vassal regimes

By Iqbal Jassat

As the Lebanese Hezbollah movement raises the stakes in its fight against the Israeli settler-colonial regime, alarm bells are ringing in despotic Arab regimes.

Finally, many of these reactionary governments, led by tyrants with Western allies, have in vain tied their fragile security to the equally weak and battered military power of the apartheid regime of Israel.

It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the fact that Zionism and imperialism are closely linked to the rule of reactionary Arab despots whose power depends entirely on the malign aims of the West.

Western Europe, especially the USA and Great Britain, has a military, economic and geopolitical interest in keeping its illegitimate Zionist entity alive at all costs. And so they also have a great interest in maintaining the ties of the Arab vassal states to them.

The message to Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), Mohammed bin Zayd (MbZ), General al-Sisi, “King” Hoosein and the rest of the Gulf oligarchs is clear: You cannot survive without Israel!

This brutal reality is confirmed not only by the cruel repression of Muslim activists, scientists, academics and journalists, but also by their complete inability to intervene to protect Palestinian lives – neither militarily nor through boycotts.

Indeed, it is wishful thinking to even think that Arab regimes could intervene in any meaningful way to protect the honor and dignity of mothers and babies, of the elderly and the infirm, of the injured and the seriously ill Palestinians.

Since the wars of 1967 and 1973, Arab armies have evidently lacked the will and conviction to confront Israel’s aggression, its occupation, its settler colonialism and its looming threats to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The fact that Arab governments have collectively turned their backs on the Palestinian freedom struggle and instead placed all their security potential on Israel’s side will continue to haunt them if they are able to see through the fog of Zionist myths.

One of the most important myths that has been thoroughly and definitively refuted is that of the so-called “invincibility” of Israel.

The other prevailing myth is that of “deterrence” based on military “power”.

Perhaps the myth that has suffered the most, and is therefore most severely damaged, is that public opinion unquestioningly “supports” every evil Israel commits.

Hamas’s earth-shattering event of October 7, also known as the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” has clearly exposed the true character of Zionism and the threat it poses to global security – not to mention the well-being of Palestinians under its racist yoke.

Nine months after its merciless assault on Gaza, which left over 120,000 martyrs and injured, the Zionist regime has failed to achieve any of its military objectives. It has not been able to achieve the “release of the hostages” or the elimination of Hamas.

These are the mantras that Benjamin Netanyahu and his criminal gang of warlords repeat ad nauseam – to no avail.

To justify brutal massacres of innocent Palestinians, he not only invoked the biblical story of the “Amalekites,” who in Jewish tradition embody “pure evil,” but Netanyahu also disregarded every international convention and law to wipe out Gaza and reduce it to rubble.

Even the myth of a “united Israel” has been shattered as the world watches cracks, fractures and growing disillusionment among Jewish citizens.

Zionism has produced a regime that is incompatible with civilized values ​​and has created disagreement among its diehard followers about the so-called “day after.”

In addition, many observers point to the conflicts between the political gurus and the military.

Alon Mizrahi, for example, alludes to this when he tweeted: Netanyahu insists that the Israeli military has received orders to “destroy Hamas’ operational and governance capabilities” and must carry out this order. The Israeli military, on the other hand, claims that only a political solution can solve the problem.

“An Israel Defense Forces spokesman said today that the war aims outlined by Netanyahu were unattainable and deceived the Israeli public.”

Having failed to defeat Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Israel is now at a loss when it comes to deterring Hezbollah.

Regardless of whether or not the Zionist war cabinet has considered the likely consequences of a full-scale war against Lebanon to “eliminate” Hezbollah, it is clear that the entire Islamic resistance movement in the region will not stand idly by.

After his defeat in Gaza, yes, a real defeat, Netanyahu is putting his bankrupt legacy at risk by promising to reduce Beirut to rubble.

What he fails to acknowledge, or prefers to remain silent about, is that Hezbollah’s iron determination and response will mark the “biggest decolonial shift in world history.”

And the Arab regimes fear that the next day “there will be no more American bases in this part of the world.”

– Iqbal Jassat is a board member of the South Africa-based Media Review Network. He wrote this article for The Palestine Chronicle. Visit: www.mediareviewnet.com