Although the two-week Zionist onslaught on Lebanon has inflicted colossal human and material losses on the people of that country, the cruel aggression will eventually end in more humiliation for Tel Aviv.
For now a non-government and highly popular group in a small country like Lebanon has managed to take on the Zionist occupiers and almost confined its forces to the border regions. This is while the well-organized resistance group, Hezbollah, is short of conventional means and equipment to confront the brutal enemy.
Compare this to the Israeli military that has access to the most sophisticated arms including weapons of mass destruction by the courtesy of the Americans. The controversial and most lawless state in the world also enjoys military, political and economic backing from the major western powers.
On Monday Lebanese President Emile Lahoud added his voice to growing international concerns that the Israeli Defense Forces were using banned weapons against his people including “phosphorous and laser bombs.“ At the weekend a UN envoy condemned the usurper state of “violating international law“ in the two-week bloody conflict. The charge is more than enough to send Israeli politicians and generals to the international war crimes tribunal.
It must be noted that Ehud Olmert could not launch the devastating war without being green lighted by George Bush.
Observers of different persuasions contend that Washingtonian neocons desperately needed a new adventure to help them save face as things are going very wrong in occupied Iraq whose quagmire has gravely tarnished American credibility or whatever is left of it.
The White House seems to have miscalculated again. It was thinking that by underwriting Israel’s latest crime it could move a step closer to the so-called Greater Middle East Initiative.
Bush and company thought they can also ’save’ Israel from the political upheavals that emerged after the huge electoral victory of Hamas by creating a new crisis in Lebanon and consequently destroy Hamas.
Tel Aviv and its paymasters conceived that by strong-arm tactics like what we are seeing in Lebanon and the Occupied Palestine over the weeks would serve to also intimidate regional countries.
However, what has happened so far is the opposite of what had been perceived by Bush, Olmert and in all likelihood Tony Blair. Now, global public opinion has added Lebanon’s name to the growing list of US failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Somalia...
The present reality, in stark contrast to the US-UK-Israeli calculations, the Palestinian occupied territories are deeper in chaos, Hamas has consolidated its position and Hezbollah is visibly more popular than it was two weeks ago.
Hezbollah is the first group in the Arab world that succeeded in targeting the heart of Israel with long-range weapons and make its people and politicians understand that they cannot have safety when they slaughter Arab civilians from the land, sea and air.
In light of its uncompromising attitude and no-nonsense approach, Hezbollah and its leaders proved once again that Israel despite its evil power is vulnerable, to say the least.
Hezbollah’s resistance against the Zionist regime and its resilience and steadfastness has indeed upset major international and regional equations.
The ongoing war coupled with the group’s strong will and determination to kick out the occupiers for good will certainly lead to developments in the near future which will play itself out in regional balance of power.
Hezbollah’s defensive war has forged solidarity among the Lebanese people and within the Islamic world. It has reinforced the spirit of confronting imperialists, colonialists and their patrons.
More nations are seeing the true worth and value of America’s power and how it can spread death and destruction in the Muslim-Arab regions to protect Israel and its unquenchable thirst for supremacy.