Israel, not just Netanyahu... from one impasse to another

Israel, and not just Netanyahu, is going from one predicament to another, regardless of who accepts this view and who rejects it, despite all the “achievements” it has achieved and celebrated, including distributing sweets in the streets following the assassinations of senior resistance leaders, headed by Nasrallah and Sinwar.

The first dilemma related to Hezbollah: It may have discovered that Hezbollah has recovered its health at a record speed, through the heavy losses it inflicts on its soldiers daily on the southern edge, and through the bombing of its major cities from Haifa to Acre to Safed to Tiberias to Nahariya to Tel Aviv, which forces millions of these cities to hide in shelters, rushing like herds, the strong does not care about the weak or the big or the small, the important thing is to reach the shelter first. This scene, which cameras are forbidden to capture, is enough, when we imagine it, to see it as more of a dilemma than a shelter, so what about when it is repeated more than once a day. There is another dilemma, not only the failure of the displaced who fled to their homes in the north to return, but the expansion of their number to more than double, when the party recently announced placing dozens of other villages on the targeting map and "in the line of fire".

The second dilemma concerns Gaza. The Chief of Staff of the Army, Herzi Halevi, recently announced that the Jabalia area had fallen, after about a month of siege, bombardment, destruction, and “liberation” for the third time in 13 months. This is a clear admission that it had never fallen before, and what applies to it applies to Khan Yunis and Rafah as governorates, cities, villages, and camps. Jabalia is nothing more than a camp, occupied since 1967. Sharon announced its fall in the early 1970s, when he went to suppress its resistance led by Muhammad al-Aswad, “the Guevara of Gaza.” He demolished its homes and widened its streets so that his tanks could enter it quickly and easily. Halevi will of course find those who will congratulate him and bless him for the fall of Jabalia, and those who will distribute sweets in the streets. Halevi’s announcement of the fall of Jabalia means that it will never, ever fall. Another dilemma related to Gaza is that your prisoners are still in the resistance tunnels for the second year, but their harsh conditions have become more difficult and harsh, and each one of them has understood after all this time that they are no more than a feather on the scales of their government and people. What awaits them at the beginning of the second year is not only the cold winter, but also the terrible death.

The third dilemma is related to Iran. This is not Gaza or southern Lebanon. This is a semi-superpower regional state in terms of its area, population, wealth, and most importantly, its ideology and weapons. An “armed ideology.” This is not an Arab state that fears, terrifies, deters, and resents. And here you are, dragging it into a direct confrontation. Or did you think you could eliminate its allies in Gaza and Lebanon without it intervening?

There are dilemmas that come to you from where you do not expect, the latest of which was embodied by Ibn Qalansawe in the triangle near the Mossad military air base in Tel Aviv, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries. This qualitative operation was not the first of its kind, as it was preceded by operations in the Negev and Afula, and the rope, it seems, is still on the tractor.