The 25th of May 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of the victory of the resistance in Lebanon against Zionist occupation. This day also marks the first time that the Zionist Entity suffered a humiliation at the hand of the Arabs and Muslims. A humiliation that even ten years later, it is unable to recover from.
This day marks a major milestone in the struggle of the Resistance bloc against Zionist occupation and American hegemony, it revives the hope of the millions of Palestinians living across the world, who have been forcibly evicted from their homes, have had their inheritance stolen, and who now live in perpetual exile, without a nationality, without a nation.
To understand this, we must examine a little history:
When the Zionist Entity was initially established in 1948, the Arab and Muslim world was caught off guard. History is a witness to the various ill-conceived knee jerk reactions of various Arab and Muslim leaders. For the most part, the strategies employed by the various Arab and Muslim leaders failed, in some cases miserably, and didn’t lead to any positive or tangible gain for the Muslims, Arabs and above all the Palestinians. Indeed in some cases these actions led to results that were detrimental to the Palestinians overall wellbeing.
In the midst of all of this, at the start of 1979, a movement that had started well before 1963 within the cloisters of the Islamic Seminaries in Iran attained victory. The Islamic Republic of Iran was established under the leadership of the late Imam Ruhullah Khomeini.
The stance taken by Imam Khomeini, and the Islamic Republic of Iran provided a new injection of morale to the beleaguered Palestinian resistance movement, and dealt a massive public relations blow to the Zionists and their allies – at the very least within the Arab and Muslim world.
They felt they were “comfortable” in Lebanon. Amongst the reasons that analysts cite for this was the fact that Lebanon was unique in the Arab world in that it had a significant non-Muslim population, as a result it was felt that Lebanon saw it’s alliances more with the so-called Christian West, and less-so with the Muslim East.
What the Zionists didn’t count on was a fundamental truth that holds for any person, from any creed, from any nation, from any culture; when invaded, when violated, when harmed, after the initial shock of the trauma has dissipated, the oppressed people will fight back. Initially they will be few in number, but over time, as the atrocities and crimes of the invader multiply and the length of occupation increases, that resistance will grow, indeed it will grow exponentially.
At this point it is crucial to understand what exactly constitutes a resistance. A resistance is not merely the soldiers who go to the battle field and fight the invading enemy, the resistance is the mother, the wife, the child, the grandfather, the grandmother and so on, who give succour to their youth, who give their full support to the fighters, who dress their sons, husbands and fathers in the clothes of resistance and with an open heart and happiness encourage them to go to the battle front and fight the invaders and those who have usurped the land from the innocents.
The resistance is an organic movement that grows with every second the invaders stays, that growth is exponential. With each passing day the resistance becomes stronger and stronger. Once it reaches critical mass, that growth becomes unstoppable, both locally in the occupied lands and abroad, as its influence spreads to its neighbours and even further to all the oppressed people who are fighting to liberate themselves from the yoke of occupation. Be it a direct occupation as is the case in Palestine, or a psychological occupation like that in the Western World.
The struggle of the Lebanese, their subsequent victory in 2000, the eviction of the Zionist occupier from the bulk of occupied Lebanese territory is testament to this absolute truth.
Indeed in 2006, they saw that they were no longer fighting a faction of the Lebanese community, rather they were fighting the entire nation, the Army, the People and the Resistance were all together as one in defending their nation against the Zionist aggressors. They were now fighting an enemy capable of surprising them, and hitting them where they felt most secure.
Even with the world’s media supporting the Zionists in its so-called “War on Terror”, with the full backing of Washington, London, Paris and indeed Cairo and Riyadh; the Zionists saw that the people were looking constantly to the local Lebanese channels for accurate news, and above all they were looking at al-Manar TV, the television channel of the Resistance.
In places where al-Manar couldn’t be received for reasons that are part of the larger psychological and technological war against the Resistance; the masses were moving to the new media; to the internet and obtaining their news and information from places like YouTube, various blogs and independent news sites, as well as from people on the ground in Lebanon through emails and SMS messages.
Information now had a grassroots distribution channel, not organised but rather organic, which made it that much more resilient and reliable; there were no ulterior motives; only to get the information out of the crimes that the Zionists were committing. Like the internet it relied on, this information chain was and indeed is virtually unbreakable, as long as one person with a cell phone remained in Lebanon, as long as one person had an internet connection, the information and news could be given to the people. The lies of the Zionists could be exposed.
The Zionists aware of the impact of al-Manar TV, the television channel of the Resistance, chose to target the channel directly – an act that is clearly a violation of international law and without a doubt a war crime – but they saw that their flattening of the al-Manar Television Complex in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs, resulted in the channelling being off the air for less than 5 minutes.
The Zionists on the online front, also attempted to take down web sites and email groups that gave out information on what was happening in Lebanon during the 2006 campaign (and also during the 2008/2009 Gaza adventure), but again these attempts by groups such as the “Internet Haganah” and “Sofir” and others such as the IDF Spokesman to cover the truth of the Zionist atrocities were futile and never achieved their goals and indeed will never achieve their goals.
In the opinion of many analysts, the morale of the heroic Gazans was boosted by the fact that in the 21st Century, it was an absolute fact that even a small resistance movement – while ill equipped militarily, but with determination and the sheer will to not be subjugated – could hurt and bring to its knees the well equipped Zionist Entity.
At this juncture, I am reminded of a speech, delivered in 2002 by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, wherein he said (and I’m paraphrasing):
“When a person thinks of resistance against an aggressor, the person must not think that they will see victory themselves, rather they should work in a manner that victory may take generations, but that every action will make that victory closer and closer.”
It was this philosophy and mentality, that gave Lebanon victory, and it would be this same mentality that will guarantee victory to Palestine.
The liberation of Lebanon in 2000 heralded a paradigm shift in the entire balance of power in the region; it proved that the people DO have the power; that might is NOT right; and that resistance IS the way to remove the yoke of occupation and secure freedom and dignity for the people.
Within the Zionist Entity itself, it is clear that the morale of the Israelis is weak and weakening daily. According to several reports there is a massive exodus of people from Israel to their home countries. There is a growing movement of refuseniks, Israeli military personal who refuse to serve in Lebanon, or the Occupied Palestinian territories, and generally there is uneasiness and insecurity in Israel, people do not feel comfortable, some reports suggest there is a correlation with the increased isolation of the Zionist Entity, and the rise in organised crime within Israel, in particular the Israeli Mafia. There are also reports indicating a rise in the rate of suicides in Israel, especially amongst soldiers who have served in Lebanon or the Occupied Palestinian territories, since 2000.
Israeli analysts are also in agreement, they know that Israel cannot tolerate another defeat such as those in 2006 in Lebanon and 2008/2009 in Gaza, where countless millions of US taxpayer dollars were spent and all types of banned and illegal munitions were dropped on innocents, yet not a single solitary war objective was achieved.
This is why, Israel, while constantly sabre rattling and threatening, deep down knows that it must not blindly go into war again, as it doesn’t know the capabilities of the Resistance bloc, but it does know that it has been defeated twice in succession in the last 5 years. It also knows that the era of its military superiority over its enemies has passed. It knows that it has been over 30 years since Zionists could say that they have won in a military conflict.
Previously the war was asymmetric in favour of the Israeli side, since the 2000 victory of the resistance in Lebanon this is no longer the case. If proof was needed, then 2006 and 2008/2009 are clear examples that Israel can no longer consider itself as “untouchable” in warfare, even with its multi-billion dollar weaponry, it cannot fight against the will of a people to survive and hold their heads up with dignity.
Thing reminds us of something that Condoleezza Rice, the former US Secretary of State had said during the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon in 2006. She said that these were the “birth pangs of a new middle east”.
A middle east (and indeed world), that chooses resistance over humiliation. In this new world, we will see justice and dignity prevail, following a time when the world is filled with injustice and tyranny.
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