Today’s date is registered in the calendar of the Islamic Republic as the day of Islamic resistance. This is the last day of the 33-day war in Lebanon. The war, which began in 2006 with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and ended 33 days later with a ceasefire between the two sides under Resolution 1701. Given the important effects that this war had on regional developments and equations, it completely changed the course of developments.
From the perspective of the United States and the Zionist regime and their Western and regional allies, this war was the first step in changing the map of West Asia. The subject was referred to in American literature as the New Middle East, and then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the war “the pain of giving birth to a new Middle East.”
According to reports from the positions of Western and Zionist political figures on the war at the time, the primary objectives of the war were to remove Lebanese Hezbollah from the regional equation, and in this regard, the infrastructure of the resistance, the hardware of the resistance, the brain were to be Destroy the resistor and the resistance software at the same time. The next stage was the attack on Syria, and the next stage was the attack on Iran. But the war did not go as planned. Although coordinated with some governments in the region to control public opinion, they were surprised by widespread popular protests in the region and around the world against Israel. The King of Saudi Arabia explicitly condemned Hezbollah and accused it of adventurism.
The Saudi muftis not only forbade helping Hezbollah, but also did not allow praying for Hezbollah victory! But the Saudi people protested against Israel in various cities, and for the first time, the Hezbollah flag and photos of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah were seen in the hands of protesters during the Saudi popular protests, and even anti-government slogans became so strong that Saudi Arabia was forced to take a stand. Correct to some extent. Jordanian cities and more than 80 Egyptian cities were the scene of protests and clashes with security forces.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has effectively challenged Israel’s war machine by launching an asymmetric war. The use of military power in the framework of the psychological management of public opinion caused the public opinion in the Zionist society to collapse in various dimensions. It was not until a few days after the war that anti-war demonstrations began in various cities in the occupied territories. Hezbollah’s stage-guided rain rocket displaced more than a million Zionists from the north to the south, and for the first time in its fake history, the Zionist regime encountered a phenomenon called war refugees. Since the Zionist army was always successful in all wars, the Zionist society did not feel the dangers of war, but for the first time, the war had reached a strategic depth and the government was not ready for such a situation.
The belief in the invincibility of the Zionist army was also challenged and the Zionist military was in a state of despair, and this was so deep that it forced the Zionists to go to the end of the war. The Qatari ambassador to the United States later said that John Bolton called me at midnight to visit him, and when I left I saw the Israeli ambassador, who was worried and confused, and without any introduction asked me to do everything I could to stop the war. They said that if the war continued, the Israeli army would collapse.
Although Israel attacked all the targets it had set in the war, and even after the second week when its target bank ended, it ordered blind attacks, but Hezbollah remained the same as on the first day. He was much stronger on the scene than in the early days of the war. Therefore, Israel had to move towards the end of the war.
After the end of the war, the Zionist regime formed a fact-finding committee consisting of a large number of senior officers to assess the course of the war and the causes of Israel’s failure. The committee, known as the Vinograd Committee, formally acknowledged Israel’s defeat in the war in a very detailed report.
Experts believe that this war was a turning point in regional equations and changed the course of the region’s history. Israel, which has always won all wars, saw its first defeat in its record. This completely changed the view of the actors in the region towards Israel, and Hezbollah’s model of war had become a successful model against Israel, to the point that Bashar al-Assad, in his speeches, considered the use of this model to liberate the Golan and a suitable model for the Syrian army. He wanted to prepare himself within the framework of this model.
Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the Zionist regime and the one under whose command the occupation of Palestine began, has always insisted that Israel should not lose any war, and if it loses, it will not be able to win any more war. The result of Ben-Gurion’s prediction can be clearly seen in the wars that Israel has entered into since 2006. Israel has not succeeded in all its wars with Gaza (from 2008 to 2021), but the balance of power has changed completely to its detriment. In the regional sphere, wars have started with Iran, but according to the Zionists, they have failed in this war so far, and there is no clear horizon for it.
The Zionist regime is currently under siege by the resistance, and the resistance is waiting for a final order. More than 150,000 missiles are in the possession of Lebanese Hezbollah with high accuracy, speed, intelligence and radar evasion. Gaza also has a large stockpile of upgraded smart and anti-radar missiles. In Syria, too, the Syrian missile power equation has been strengthened. In Iraq, too, a large number of resistance missiles, such as the Shahab 4, are ready for offensive operations, according to Zionist intelligence sources, with a range of more than 1,000 square kilometers. In Yemen, resistance missiles have more range, accuracy and destructive power every day. However, in all these areas, advanced attack and suicide drones are also available.
Finally, we come to Iran as the main axis of the resistance, whose weapons capability alone can destroy not only Israel but also large targets in an area of more than 7,000 square kilometers. This is apart from Iran’s naval capability, which is now considered an advanced and powerful naval power.
Accordingly, this day not only commemorates the victory of the Lebanese resistance and the defeat of Israel in 2006, but also marks the beginning of the field decline of the Zionist regime and its regional and trans-regional allies, and the history of the region after this war must be narrated. A history that has accelerated the process of Israel’s collapse, and Israel is rapidly coming to an end, and its efforts in the last one or two years are not only saving but also accelerating.
