The zionist butchers have failed in their declared aim of destroying the Hamas-led resistance in Gaza. They have succeeded only in the wholesale slaughter of the civilian population, in the process plumbing new depths of genocidal depravity that would make Goebbels blush.
Failing in Palestine
From the outset, the resistance has run rings round the Israeli military on the ground, whilst the misnamed Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces have revealed themselves to be lacking in training, courage and common sense, brave enough when it comes to shooting up women and children but hopeless when confronted with an adversary more equally matched.
Despite all the weapons and support it receives daily from the west, Israel has failed to break the back of the Palestinian resistance struggle, even when cowardly assassination plots claim the lives of such courageous leaders as Ismail Haniyeh.
Indeed, every such martyr who sacrifices his life in the struggle against imperialism is inspiring countless others to join the battle.
As if the war crimes that the Benjamin Netanyahu regime has already committed were not enough to earn it the contempt and loathing of all civilised people, Israel is, in the full glare of self-publicity, wanting to do it all again, but worse if possible. Truly is it said that whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
Since last October, the Netanyahu government, in open coordination with the IDF military and the fascist settler lynch mobs, has in effect been staging a sick replay of the original 1949 Nakba (Catastrophe), when zionist death squads terrorised millions of Palestinians into abandoning their homes and fleeing.
Here is how the trick works: The IDF orders the evacuation of such and such an area, but seemingly “softens the blow” by designating an alternative “safe” refuge further down south. As wave upon wave of displaced Palestinians, refugees in their own homeland, are driven from one fake sanctuary to another, the migrant numbers swell and their conditions worsen.
“Situated to the west of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, al-Mawasi is a ten-mile (16km) strip of sandy farmland that stretches along the Mediterranean coast, with dunes and a beach close to the sea, and a scrubby plain further inland. It was first designated in early December last year as a ‘humanitarian zone’ by the Israeli Defence Forces, where it was suggested that Palestinians could find safety and the provision of international aid in the midst of Israeli military assaults on Gaza’s main urban areas.
“Amid evacuation orders for other areas, Palestinians have been told to relocate to al-Mawasi on multiple occasions, leading to the emergence of a substantial camp of temporary shelters.
“The designation of al-Mawasi as a safe zone, but with little infrastructure, was criticised by senior United Nations aid officials, including the head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who called it a ‘recipe for disaster’ that would significantly increase health risks for those seeking shelter in an area with minimal infrastructure.” (What is al-Mawasi and why did Israel attack a ‘safe zone’? by Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, 10 September 2024)
Having made the whole of Gaza into a free-fire zone, the zionists concentrated their fire on al-Mawasi, with the worst of the destruction (so far) peaking on 13 July with 90 dead and over 300 injured as reported by the Palestinian ministry of health. Three huge bombs caused three enormous craters within which whole families were wiped out.
Further attacks were made in July, August and September. Insanely, the attacks also included the use of 2,000-pound Mark 84, the so-called ‘bunker buster’. Using a bomb like this, a bomb that is designed to penetrate concrete and steel, against a site consisting of flimsy tents and zero infrastructure, could not better sum up the futility of trying to crush a risen people with the latest in weapons technology.
You can vaporise someone’s body (as was reported by eyewitnesses), but you cannot vaporise the spirit of the resistance. In the end, wars are not decisively won or lost by weapons, but by the masses.
Failing in the regional war
Meanwhile, as we write, Middle East Eye has reported that “By blowing up devices in Beirut supermarkets, moving cars and homes, and in densely-populated civilian areas, Israel has decided to adopt cyberterrorism and its collective punishment policy in Gaza as part of its military strategy against Hezbollah.” (Lebanon pager blasts: Israel’s cyberterrorism signals a new warfare strategy by Ameer Makhoul, 19 September 2024)
But while Israel gloats over having thus “successfully” murdered dozens of people (including several children) and injured at least 4,000 more by detonating the batteries in their devices, it will take more than some exploding pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon and Syria to put Hezbollah, or any other arm of the anti-imperialist resistance, out of action.
Indeed, the ‘win’ thus obtained is hardly likely to wipe out the terror struck into the hearts of Israeli war planners when a hypersonic missile, named the ‘Palestine 2’, fired from Yemen and reportedly travelling at a speed of Mach 10, reached its target 2,000km away in Tel Aviv in 11 minutes, bypassing all early-warning and air defence systems, which were only triggered (too late) after citizens on the ground spotted the incoming warhead.
Moreover, if Israeli news is to be believed, fighters from Yemen – the country that, more than any other, has demonstrated to the world what true solidarity with Palestine looks like – are now arriving in Syria, close to the Golan heights, in preparation for a “new escalation”.
While the zionist lunatics continue to greet all such failures with defiant bluster, the carefully calibrated message is clear: You, the occupiers and your western backers, have lost your technological supremacy. Proceed further against us at your peril. We, the forces of resistance, do not court Armageddon. We live here and wish to preserve the lives, land, homes and livelihoods of our people. But if you provoke us too far, you will be sorry, and nothing you can do can avert your defeat.
Whether the zionists in Tel Aviv or their imperialist masters in Washington have the capability to heed such messages seems doubtful, blinded as they are by supremacism, driven to desperation by a global economic crisis of epic proportions and apparently determined to drown the world in blood rather than to allow their senile rule to come to a less sanguinary end.
Either way, no matter what steps intervene along the way, their doom is advancing, from the refugee camps of Palestine, from the northern border with Lebanon, from the Bab-el-Mandab strait … from the land, from the air and from the sea.
