Slow response!

Slow response!
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Hassan Rashidi)
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February 28, 1446
September 1, 2024 AD
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Did Hezbollah’s recent military strikes achieve their objectives? Why are the Zionist enemies satisfied with the situation and not seeking to expand the war or respond? What credit does Hezbollah claim for supporting the Palestinian resistance?

Pale is derived from faded, a pale color being a dark color, and is the opposite of transparent, as transparent is a natural color except that it is transparent, that is, what is underneath is visible.

Slander is falsehood and lies, just as a liar paints his words with a paint of shame to cover up the truth.

We can describe Hezbollah’s reaction to the assassination of its military commander Fuad Shukr this way.

This lackluster response following a Hezbollah drone attack on Zionist military targets in northern Lebanon prompted a Zionist official to say in a statement published today in an Israeli newspaper: "If Hezbollah is satisfied with today’s response, Israel will not expand its operations and the assassination case of Fuad Shukr can be closed."

The newspaper added "Israel" It sent messages to some foreign groups to help prevent an escalation and said it had taken action to stop Hezbollah’s attacks but had no intention of turning them into an all-out war.

But others believe that Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of its military commander Fuad Shoukr by the Zionist Entity State Army in Lebanon a few weeks ago was successful.

So, was Hezbollah’s response successful? Was the party able to penetrate Israeli defenses and direct its drones to strategic targets, as it claimed? Did the drones successfully bomb Zionist military bases in northern Palestine, as it claimed?

Or was the Zionist entity able to launch a preemptive strike by bombing the party’s military targets before they were launched? Indeed, the entity’s military was able to shoot down many of the party’s drones and prevent them from reaching their targets, as Netanyahu said in his statement after the explosion?

Where is the truth, who is honest and who is a liar?

To understand what happened and its impact on the Palestinian resistance, we must trace the details of the Zionist preemptive attack and Hezbollah’s response to it, and then we discuss the objectives of that entity and that party in the ongoing conflict since the Al-Aqsa flood.

The reality of hitting each other

At dawn on Sunday, Zionist Army Radio announced that the army had discovered Hezbollah’s intention to launch hundreds of missiles into central Israel at 5 a.m., and had therefore launched a preemptive strike half an hour earlier using 100 participating aircraft. More than 200 targets in Lebanon were hit.

A few days after the Al-Aqsa flood, Hezbollah announced that it would engage in battle on its own terms, namely by launching missiles and advancing on Zionist military bases within a specific geographical area in northern Palestine, in accordance with the rules of engagement that both sides adhere to.

Russia’s RT channel reported that Lebanese sources and the entity confirmed that the Zionist army carried out more than forty attacks in southern Lebanon.

The US newspaper The New York Times cited a Western intelligence official as saying that Israel’s preemptive strike targeted missile launchers in Lebanon and was scheduled to be fired at Tel Aviv at 5 a.m. All target platforms were destroyed, the official added.

The Hezbollah story begins with the Zionist entity releasing news of a preemptive attack, with the party quickly issuing a statement saying that 320 Katyusha rockets had been fired at it, and as the party’s statement says, there were more. And its targets, in addition to important targets, were 11 military camps, which were delayed in being revealed.

Israel’s Channel 12 said Hezbollah planned to launch 600 missiles at Israel in this attack.

The party added in a subsequent statement that the missile strikes included bases in Meron, Gadon, Plains, Yadun, Ain Zetim, and military camps in Kaira, Yoaf, Nafah and Ramot Naftali, and that new details would be released shortly after Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech.

Hezbollah later broadcast images of military bases and barracks it said were targets of the first phase of the response.

Next came the speech of Hassan Nasrallah, who, with his own sectarian overtones, said, “We will call today’s action the (fortieth) day action,” meaning the forty-day anniversary of Hussein’s killing, may God be pleased with him.

He then spoke about this process, denying the Zionist narrative and describing it as "Israel" “Our operation was completed in all details as planned,” the party’s secretary general stressed, stressing that the entity does not possess any intelligence information.

His success was demonstrated by the resistance’s attack on the headquarters of the Gilillot base, where the intelligence base of the 8200 spy unit was located, after which the Zionist army quickly denied having attacked the headquarters.

After the propaganda presentation, Nasrallah spoke about the significance of his exit, saying: “We said in our initial response that this file is closed? I told you that we will follow up with the results of the enemy’s confidentiality, and if the results are satisfactory, we consider the response process to be complete, and if we consider the results to be inadequate, we reserve the right to respond until another time.”

Nasrallah’s statement was in response to the Israeli information we mentioned earlier, in which the Israeli newspaper Hayom reported that Israeli officials had reported that "If Hezbollah is satisfied with today’s response, Israel will not expand its operations and the assassination case of Fuad Shukr can be closed."

Policy Conflict

A few days after the Al-Aqsa flood, Hezbollah announced that it would fight in its own way, i.e., launching missiles and advancing on Zionist military positions within a certain geographical range in northern Palestine, in accordance with the rules of engagement of both parties. The party’s announced strategy, which was followed by all parties in terms of the types of weapons used and the geographical depth of the targets, was based on what I call support and attention, which means supporting the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and strengthening its position. It is leading a guerrilla war aimed at distracting the Zionist entity from committing all its forces to fight the resistance.

Hezbollah’s second strategic loss is the decline of its role and function as a Trojan horse among the Sunni masses and its declining popularity as a resister and supporter of the Palestinian resistance.

It is noteworthy that Hezbollah’s intervention in the fighting did not lead to the end of the Gaza war, as the Zionist entity continued its campaign of genocide and starvation against the people of Gaza without deterrence.

But from time to time, the army of the Zionist entity, for its own reasons, broke the rules of engagement and the confrontation with Hezbollah went beyond the exchange of bombing sites and infrastructure and turned to assassination operations, pushing the conflict to a new stage. Instead of successfully targeting Palestinian resistance leaders located within the party’s geographical strongholds in Lebanon, the assassination campaign expanded through military and security operations to the southern border of Lebanon to Syria and within the party’s strongholds in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Until the entity army’s violations of the rules of engagement reached the point of assassinating the party’s military commander, Fuad Shukr.

The question remains: Why did the entity take such a provocative step?

It is obvious that the Zionist entity wants to drag the party into a new front in the conflict, and if the party remains silent or reacts in a slow manner, the entity will regain and realize the deterrent power lost since the Al-Aqsa flood. If one side responds with a full-scale war, then the Zionist entity with the support of the United States will have a reason to launch a full-scale war in Lebanon, which will push the military forces of the party north of the Litani River and thus restore calm. On the contrary, this will put the party in the face of other sects of the Lebanese people, including Sunnis, Maronites and Druze, who are certainly affected by the Zionist explosion caused by the adventures of the party, who realize that this is not their purpose. The purpose is to sympathize with the Palestinians, but because the party is a tool for Iran to implement its plans in the region.

Thus, after the assassination of Fuad Shukr, the party found itself in a dilemma where all options were harmful in their own way, so it chose the one that was least harmful, which was a bland response.

This is what Nasrallah tried to hint at in his speech after the response, which he said verbatim: He was the cause of the escalation and bombing of the suburbs. "Israel"In order to stabilize the situation, it was natural for us to announce our response to the aggression.

The Party has also expressed this through action; otherwise, why not use the precision smart missiles in its inventory?

But the party could not go before the people and say this, so the party propaganda machine and the trumpet blasted in the area saying that we responded and won, our march achieved its purpose.

But the failure of the party at the strategic level is a reality, which is the decline of its functions, for which it was created and the goal that its cultivators in the region aspire to achieve, who are, of course, Iranians, because it is to achieve this goal. The first is the decline of its role as a tool of Iran’s focus on confronting the Zionist entity so that the West recognizes Iran as the main regional player in the region with which it has the right to share influence, and the second strategic loss of Hezbollah is the decline of its role. And acting as a Trojan horse among the Sunni masses, its popularity as a resister and supporter of the Palestinian resistance has declined. His tricks and subterfuges were exposed, the weaknesses of his military performance and intelligence exposed, probably on the same day that the party reacted by bombing Tel Aviv, the capital of the Zionist entity, with missiles. Was launched from southern Gaza, where the Zionist army’s actions are most intense, where the sky is filled with moons and spy planes day and night, which is the most powerful response to this so-called support. The resistance expressed disappointment with this so-called support and said that it would continue the resistance with its own capabilities and unite the people of the country who sympathize with it and see in it the hope of a new future.

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