Hezbollah is the new Middle East Army

Written by Nasser Kandil,

The West and the Zionist movement strived during half of a century since 1947 to make Israel alone the power which possesses an actual army in the Middle East, to be the feared army of the Middle East, which is capable to wage a war whenever it wants and wins due to two criteria a swift war and a decisive victory. Therefore the war of 1967 after twenty years of the birth of the entity was the actual reflection of that aspiration, but after confused experience with the Israeli, French, and British tripartite aggression on Egypt in 1956 Washington was obliged to intervene immediately in order not to enter in a war of attrition through stopping the war. In the war 1973 the image of army of the Middle East has distorted through the achievements of the Syrian and the Egyptian armies in the war of October and the fall of the Israeli defenses armies, surprising them by the decision of war. But Washington has intervened once again to get Egypt out of the war in a way that was neither a winner nor a defeated as Washington wanted in preparation for the final exit of Egypt from the state of war and where Israel can regain the feature of the Middle East Army. The invasion of Lebanon was a sign of the recovery of Israel from the complex of the war of October. Thus the Agreement of Philip Habib of the withdrawal of the Syrian troops to Bekaa, the final exit of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, having a Lebanese President for the Republic within the confines of the occupation, and signing a peace agreement that devotes the high control to Israel which was known by the agreement of the Seventeenth of May are the outcomes of the return of the spirit to the project of the Middle East Army which sticks to the decision of war.

The importance of the Israeli army has been increased according to the West and the Americans in particular especially after the Iranian Revolution and the disintegration of the army of Shah, which was considered the most advanced army among the armies of Washington’s allies. The coups which ravaged of Turkey have encouraged keeping the focus on the Israeli army which has received fixed military aids entitled; that the military superiority must be kept in its favor among the armies of the region. Because of its army Israel has received financial and technical aids that help it to breathe economically. Furthermore, the Israeli aggressions have received legal and diplomatic protection in order to keep the army able to wage wars, using the banned weapons, and committing the  atrocities and the brutal crimes, they have disrupted all the projects of the settlement of the Arab- Israeli conflict which do not meet the essential condition which is keeping the high control to Israel, normalizing the relation with Israel as well as legitimizing what it occupied of the Palestinian territories, as a condition for any peace , but even a condition for any distinctive relation with Washington in the region. The US documents which were published of how to deal with the rule of the President Mohammed Mosseadegh in Iran and preparing for a coup against him after the popular revolution which brought him and the desire of his rule to make good relations with Washington clarified that. The reason is his refusal to make relations with Israel as the Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes who was toppled by planned coup for the same reason, despite what the US documents mentioned of American preference of each of Mossadegh and Menderes to Shah and the Turkish military, as what Boutros Boutros-Ghali the former Secretary-General of the United Nations said about the birth of Camp David accord and the visit of the Egyptian Former President Anwar Al Sadat to Jerusalem, he said that the intention of Al Sadat was to visit Washington to sign a cooperation agreement, but the American response was that the way to Washington passes by Jerusalem. The meaning here is the satisfaction of Israel.

Since the eighties of the last century the Middle East Army entered a war of attrition which the Americans tried to save it from in the war of the year 1956, when Syria and Iran despite their concerns and preoccupations they put their importance for its success, they supported without limits the Lebanese resistance which Hezbollah has formed its matured outcome and its pivotal strength, and which its rise has been culminated by two successive victories in the years 2000 and 2006. The Israeli has entered in a historic strategic impasse where it lost its inherent characteristic as the Middle East Army. The war on Syria has occurred to form the challenge and the opportunity for both Hezbollah and Israel to win the title of the Middle East Army. Israel betted on overthrowing Hezbollah through the gate of this war, by a direct confrontation with the force which tried to compete it for the title of the global Middle East Army. The meaning here is Al –Qaeda organization and its factions. After years of the war of Syria it seems that Al-Qaeda organization is at the last gasp, and Israel looks fading, while the hour of raising the sign of victory by Hezbollah by announcing the winning of the title seems close.

Hezbollah’s achievement in Aleppo’s fields and all the war arenas in Syria coincides with the military show which combines between the regular structure, the semi regular structure, the structure of the war of the secret resistance for an army that includes thousands of fighters or ten thousands of fighters, and which forms the center which fights with the capacity of allied and supportive formations, it does not include the regular armies of the allied countries as Syria and Iran, but the popular formations which are similar to armies, from the National Defense in Syria and the Popular Crowd in Iraq and the Popular committees in Yemen that are estimated with approximately million fighters that spread in the Middle East, They participate Hezbollah in its wars, positions, and issues, putting its leader in a special status as a reference in the wars of the Middle East. The new army which is equipped with the latest weapons technology and which perfects the arts of war emerges after it had exceptional experiences from all of its wars with the regular wars, with the modern air weapons, without compromising of the privacy of war of people and guerilla warfare, and having distinguished skilled courage capable elite forces. While Hezbollah proves this capability within a network of allies, the President of the Republic arrives to the Lebanese presidency from the confines of the resistance, Hezbollah responded to the overthrowing of the Syrian return to Beirut by Washington through tearing the agreement of Philip Habbib through the decision of 1559, and what has led to the exit of the Syrian troops by tearing Sykes Picot Agreement which divided the entities of the region, so it performed its military show with the consent of the Syrian country and its blessings inside the Syrian borders, making the extent of the eastern borders toward Al Qalamoun and the northern borders toward Al Quseir a vital extension of the resistance outside the range of the Lebanese political game and its attractions with the consent and the encouragement of the Syrian country and the protection of its common missile networks with Russia, as the Popular Crowd and Ansar Allah create similar situations in the geostrategic areas in the Middle East. The Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Jayad Zarif in a conference held in Tehran read the new balances of the phase which he described as the international regional transitional phase from the site of Iran which canceled the golden American rule of making Israel a mandatory way to make an agreement with it, Washington was forced to sign the understanding on the Iranian nuclear file without the knowledge of Israel and despite its desire not to sign. Zarif said that the most prominent feature of this phase is the emergence of Hezbollah as a capable force and a force of safety to the movements of the people of the region and the world.

While Israel is losing the title of the Middle East Army, Al-Qaeda organization falls as a supportive project to Israel, the Saudi financial and political role retreats, and while Saudi Arabia and its army sink in the swamps of the war of Yemen, Hezbollah and the network of its allies proceed as a fragile country that lives in the confines of many countries, that does not compete them however integrates with them, coexists with them as a deterrence force and strategic additive value. So it becomes the most important fact which born in the early of the twenty-first century in drawing the equations of the strategies, while the Russian capacity takes the responsibility of paralyzing the regional capabilities such as Turkey, the American capability regresses, and its regression is culminated by the presidential elections that devote the regression to the inward. So there is no longer power that can threaten the growth of the new Middle East Army which is extended from Lebanon to Afghanistan and from Aleppo to Bab Al Mandab.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

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