Albinaa’ Newspaper August 26, 2024
Nasser Kandil
A concurrent face-off took place between leaders and minds, with the contest being about the ability to tell the truth and fulfill promises, the whole world watching this contest. Then came a historic moment deeper and more resonant than the action of the warheads exchanged in the war operations, making the war a war of truth, credibility, minds, and leaders. It was a moment in which wars are won and lost, and where the spirit, values, competence, fortitude, cohesion in people and leaders and their holding steadfast to constants and principles are representative of a deep-rooted collective consciousness.
At dawn yesterday (August 25, 2024), each of Al Mukawama and the entity were at their highest levels of command and decisions, getting ready for the decisive moment. Al Mukawama was preparing the promised response in retaliation for the entity’s crossing of the red line of the attack on Al Dahieh Al Janoubieh (Beirut’s southern suburb) and the assassination of the High Commander in Al Mukawama, the Martyr Fuad Shukr, while the entity was preparing for what its Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu described as a preemptive strike to prevent this response. During the day, and by its end, we were before a narration presented by Al Mukawama through her leader and master, Al Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, saying that the occupation army’s air raids targeted and hit missile launch pads, but not preemptively or preventively, because they failed to inflict any damage to the launch pads readied for the response’s execution; a response which was in fact carried out.
Al Mukawama also narrated her account of the hundreds of launched missiles, acknowledged by the occupation, covering the area of Northern Palestine, and said that the mission of these missiles was the attempt to hit important military targets in North Palestine, but their prime mission was to confuse radars and defensive air missiles to secure pathways for the drones towards a qualitative target located inside the entity’s depth, which the drones passed through and hit their target. Then came the Israeli broadcasting service’s announcement of a strike on a strategic establishment in the center of the entity confirming
Al Mkawama’s narrative. However, the entity’s narrative about a preemptive and preventive strike was glaring in its lies, requiring its modification several times, and pushing the media and analysts in the entity to sarcasm and professional embarrassment at its adoption.
How could it be believed that Al Mukawama was building her response on sending 8000 missiles to strike Tel Aviv, and how could it be believed that the entity destroyed these strategic missiles, their explosive power which would have shaken the earth in Beirut and
Tel Aviv, considering that they will have amounted to 4 million tons of explosives if we consider 150 kg of explosives for each warhead, while some of the missiles mentioned have warheads reaching 500 kgs and 1000 kgs.
Al Mukawama concluded her narration by speaking about a follow up to see whether the results of the operation were to her satisfaction or not, while the entity’s leaders came out speaking in a manner defying logic to any rational individual about their success in intercepting thousands of strategic missiles, begging the question about the winner in the war of true narrative. Al Mukawama consistently scores wins in the war of truth, and has accumulated a big balance in her narrative’s favor among the entity’s settlers.
The war of credibility is that of promise fulfillment, i.e. for deeds as proof for what is said. In this context, Al Mukawama first promised a response, then responded. She promised a courageous response. Is there any more proof of courage than the entity’s acknowledgement that a strategic target in its center was hit, i.e. a red line not crossed in the July 2006 war was crossed for the first time from Lebanon’s border by
Al Mukawama, in the midst of Israeli threats of a war in response to any response, and in the midst of unprecedented American military amassment which arrived under the headline of defending the entity from any expected response by Iran and Hezbollah according to the American President? What Al Mukawama is in effect saying is that she is undaunted by Israeli threats and all the American support.
Al Mukawama said that her response will be thoughtful and well studied, and responded in kind to the attack on her capital’s southern suburb with an attack on the entity’s capital’s northern suburb, and on targeted a strategic establishment, as announced by the Israeli broadcast service, in retaliation for the targeting of a security symbol in
Al Mukawama represented by Commander Fuad Shukr. Al Mukawama revealed the headquarter of the military security establishment (Aman) and a facility belonging to Unit 8200 specialized in spying and special operations, assassination operation in particular, as having been hit. The response was a studied one from a geographic, symbolic, and technical aspect, evidenced by the compatibility between the missiles and drones and the mission of each, and also in terms of not drawing a war which Al Mukwama repeatedly said it does not want. Here comes the entity’s leadership confirming that the response will not draw a war, through its statement that it does not want a war or escalation, and considers the matter at an end if Al Mukawama considers the same. Al Mukawama embodied her credibility with precision, but what about the credibility of the entity’s political and military leadership which over the last 11 months continuously threatened war on Lebanon, with all its leaders taking turns making such threats, and increasing the rate of their threats when Al Mukawama announced her decision to respond?
Even if we hypothetically concede the entity’s operation as a preemptive action, Al Mukwama drones’ mere penetration of
Tel Aviv’s airspace, even if no damages were inflicted, is supposed to have been considered sufficient reason to translate into action the threats that were awaiting a sufficient reason. Could there have been a reason stronger and more clear? This is how Al Mukawama won, along with the war of truth, the war of credibility, with her words manifested in deeds, while the entity’s statements, when put to the test of action, evaporated.
As for the war of minds, the war between drones and the air dome missiles and air defense radars formed a war between hundreds of minds lined up on each side of the confrontation, where hundreds of university graduates and electronic specialists in front of their screens, in Lebanon operating drones and finding pathways to guarantee reaching targets, and on the entity’s military side exerting equal efforts to down these drones and prevent them from crossing. When the morning hours came to a close, and the drones reached their targets, victory in the war of minds was decided for Al Mukawama. As for the war of leaders, a survey of the entity’s settlers about who constitutes, in their opinion, the role model for a leader, Al Sayed Nasrallah or Benyamin Netanyahu, will suffice, while in the Palestinian, Jerusalem, and Al Mukawama public this question is redundant.
