October 23, 2024
By Nasser Kandil
• Two stories dominate the media and statements from leaders in the occupying entity. The first is about the resistance’s drone reaching Caesarea two days ago and striking the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which was described as an “earthquake” and framed persistently as an assassination attempt. The second revolves around yesterday’s resurfacing of the alleged assassination attempt on Hezbollah’s Executive Council Chairman, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, discussed under the headline of confirming the assassination.
• The fear of assassination has gripped the entity’s mindset, revealing a deep-seated anxiety. This fear has led to extraordinary security measures for ministers, some members of parliament, and key military and security figures. Yet, the irony is that these security measures – such as personal escorts and protective protocols – do not address the true challenge posed by the new threat: drones. Yesterday was marked by a frantic search for a drone that had slipped past the entity’s radar, with the hunt continuing late into the night. No one knows, and no one can guarantee, that the resistance will not continue to send drones targeting leadership figures and vital institutions within the entity.
• The effort to project an image of invulnerability doesn’t stop at calling the Netanyahu incident an assassination attempt and providing protection to prominent figures. The renewed focus on Sayyed Hashem Safieddine and the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah fits into the same narrative of trying to paint the entity as shielded from harm. This, despite the fact that the entity has been exposed as unable to secure itself fully, particularly in the face of continued drone strikes and the looming threat of precision missiles, which, as the limited and calculated strikes suggest, are still in a testing phase and have yet to fully enter the battle.
• The phobia of assassinations, in all its forms, is a reflection of the entity’s weakness. On one hand, it has been exposed as incapable of providing the absolute security it once claimed to have. Meanwhile, the resistance has shown it can deliver its message through the drone strike in Caesarea, which achieved something far more significant than merely attempting to assassinate Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the entity’s insistence on labelling it a failed assassination attempt. For the resistance, the operation’s success lies in its original objective: demonstrating that if it can reach the prime minister’s bedroom, nothing stops it from reaching every settler’s bedroom. The message is clear: your entity is exposed, and the era of feeling secure has ended.
• On the other hand, when the entity’s only way to display strength is by rehashing past operations, it is an admission of failure, a desperate attempt to cover its weakness. Meanwhile, the resistance is focused on something else – whether it chooses to confirm or deny the rumours surrounding Sayyed Safieddine is irrelevant. What matters is that the resistance has moved past the difficult phase brought on by the assassination era and has regained the initiative. This is an undeniable reality on the battlefield, no matter how much the entity tries to play clever media games or persist in its denial.
