Albinaa’ Newspaper August 24, 2024
Nasser Kandil
On three successive days, the Gaza, Red Sea, and Southern Lebanon fronts have witnessed unprecedented conflagration. A quick tally will reveal 6 vessels in the Red Sea tracked and hit by the Ansar Allah Movement, a harvest of close to 20 armored vehicles and 100 casualties in soldiers and officers in Gaza in these 3 days, in addition to a return of missiles targeting the Gaza envelope, while about 300 missiles and 20 attack drones were launched from South Lebanon, so that no command center, operation room, artillery position, iron dome, or intelligence center, extending from the border to the Golan with a depth of 20 kms to the south in the Galilee, has not been hit by Al Mukawama. If the defensive nature of the strikes from the Lebanese front come in the shadow of the occupation’s airstrikes targeting civilians and
Al Mukawama fighters, accompanied by the escalation in Gaza in response to the massacres committed by the occupation, their concurrency along with Yemen’s participation in this conflagration requires an additional explanation.
Viewing the matter from one angle, there is a political and media attempt in the form of a programmed campaign aimed at sowing doubt about the credibility of the intention of Iran, Al Mukawma forces in Lebanon, and Yemen to respond forcefully to the occupation’s aggression on Hodeida, Tehran, and Beirut, and the assassination of the top Commanders, the Martyrs Ismail Hanieh and Fuad Shukr, spreading information about the chances of reaching an agreement to end the war and the people’s suffering in Gaza. It accompanies the skepticism with a narrative that Al Mukawama forces fear the confrontation with the entity, while ignoring Al Mukawama and Iran’s care not to appear as sabotaging the negotiation course. Thus came this fiery momentum at the wait and see time regarding the negotiations, to say that
Al Mukawama is ready for confrontation and willing to go all the way, that the response is beyond doubt, and that it is only a matter of time.
From another angle, there is a clear and malicious attempt to ignore Al Mukawama, represented by Hamas, declaring the boycott of the negotiations, because what is required is an implementation plan for the proposal offered to and accepted by Al Mukawama this past July 2nd and which the occupation rejected. This implies that the negotiations are taking place about new conditions added by the occupation, such as the talk about the Philadelphia Axis. What is occurring on the negotiation front says that Hamas’ position in unimportant and can be ignored, and that negotiations can proceed with the occupation’s government in order to arrive together to a marketable text to say that Hamas should accept it or take responsibility for the failure. The military upsurge comes to say that the burning flames will refute any suggestion of negotiation advancement, and that that the position of the one with mastery on the battlefield, and who has an interest in negotiations, cannot be ignored. This is especially the case because what is going on in the negotiation scene wants to suggest that a partial matter such as the future of the Philadelphia Axis which was not originally proposed in the whole course of prior negotiations can abbreviate the original elements under negotiation such as the complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a prisoner exchange devoid of pre-conditions by the occupation, and the declaration of an end to the war and not a mere cease fire for a few weeks. The conflagration is a reminder to the manipulators that they are playing with fire.
From a third angle, the threats of the entity’s leaders about a war on Lebanon have gotten louder, along with more escalation in Gaza, while the American suggests that he is ready to confront challenges different from past challenges with his sending an amassment to the area, both quantitative and qualitative. Here the conflagration comes to say: show your proof if you are believable, here is Al Mukawama facing you on the field, bring with you the best of what you have, and if the occupation is able to withstand more challenges on Lebanon’s front to go ahead, and if it is capable of defeating Gaza to proceed, and if the American is able to change the Red Sea formula let him show us the best in his possession. This conflagration exposes the state of weakness in the occupation’s front and that of its American sponsor, and proves that in spite of the major aggressive acts which will be responded to with what suits, the initiative in the battlefield remains in Al Mukawama’s hands, and that she retains the upper hand.
