Existential War…!

 

By Ali Feddah

Often, narratives surround us like bedtime stories. We form concepts that quickly dissipate as we mature. This maturity is not necessarily measured by years but by the emergence of truths that, if we want to root them, become certainties, apart from faith and ideology. I’m talking about knowledge in all its dimensions… Specifically in this article, about Israel, the frail spider's web, which, despite the fragility of its home, still instills fear in some, and is dumber than Hani Ramzi's character in the film “Gabi Menha We Fih”—this description came to my mind.

After the incident in Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan, it seemed that investment in deception and falsification was taking the form of an "excuse." When we say "excuse" today, it wasn't a term we used in the past, especially in our confrontations with the Israeli enemy. They did what they wanted whenever they wanted without the slightest semblance of an excuse, which is not a trivial detail, but…

Today's crux is different. It involves targeting two pivotal capitals and assassinating key leaders in the axis of resistance: Tehran and Beirut. The martyrs, and those with them, include the senior leader in "Hezbollah," Hajj Fouad Shaker, and the head of the political bureau of the "Hamas" movement, Ismail Haniyeh.

The automatic questions, like an "automated responder," begin: Will there be a response, and what kind? Where are we headed? Is there a change in the rules of engagement? An open war?… Questions, some legitimate and some malicious at the same time, depending on who asks them—some seek guidance, some mockery! There are the expected, the knowledgeable, the understanding, and, most importantly, the aware.

“Al-Aqsa Flood” and “Support Fronts”

Before we begin, let’s establish a fact: anyone who chooses the path of resistance knows their awaited fate. They are projects of martyrdom, aware of this, and their organization operates on this basis. This means that at any moment, they are exposed. Therefore, all tasks, no matter how sensitive and important, do not stop or are confined to one person.

The time has come to reinterpret definitions. For example, "support" and "distraction" aren't to be taken literally if we look at the scale—the scale of support and the method of distraction from the first moments of October 7th and 8th and afterwards. There is a war, with new measures and strategy, functionally defined terms that are more political-media than military. Why?

“Al-Aqsa Flood” and its fronts are like a deep philosophical or intellectual book, with interconnected ideas and plots. Another example might be a robust cinematic film, not a "spectacle," unique with coherent event dimensions from root to outcome, like "The Godfather," for instance. One cannot start the book or the movie from the middle; if we finish them with great concentration, we won't understand them as required, in their dimensions and the reason for their presentation, aside from their events or ideas—they are a whole, not parts.

It was clear that the axis of resistance avoids a comprehensive or open war due to the following:

Their experience with the entity's structure, where the contest of winners and losers is measured materially and morally. The resistance has preferred to adapt multiple fronts to confuse the enemy's decisions, which necessarily requires using its destructive power and attracting loud Western support, primarily American, because it will portray the occupying entity as "defending itself." Considering the cost size, we might face a significant material loss and a morally debatable one. Here, the resistance preferred not to leap in the air, maneuvering between the pretexts, not out of fear—they are basically ready for all possibilities—but in response rather than initiation, or rather avoidance, especially since there are other more effective alternatives in the context of the conflict… this is the most important…

Wars with the occupying entity are clear. If we put them under the microscope of dissection, especially the military situation and the so-called internal front of the entity, which is its core and reason for existence, it shows that there are other ways more effective and less costly. It's "bleeding it dry." That is, more clearly, drowning it in its destructive superiority and choking it with its arrogance and bleeding. The evidence is that we are on the brink of a year of "the flood," and any knowledgeable analyst of the enemy's existential structure in all its directions sees clearly that the current results, which will continue, could not have achieved parts of the current ones if the resistance had fought with a comprehensive attack mentality. To this moment, the entity hasn't experienced darker existential days like those it lives today since its establishment, as described by Netanyahu and many Israeli elites.

The pragmatic generation in this entity is gone. Netanyahu offers free services to the axis. Yes, what the fool did in the past days, apart from the painful, tormenting response that will strike him, is prolong the war's duration, meaning the continuation of the bleeding. Perhaps this is the resistance's first demand, as I mentioned earlier.

If Netanyahu considers this war existential, we should share his view, honestly, because he removes many obstacles before the resistance.

As for those who measure the war with this criminal entity by the number of buildings and casualties, they might be right in the face of the painful humanitarian scene, but their malicious exploitation is rejected and refuted. The resistance is fighting a war for humans, not stones, for dignity and away from existing slavery.

As the Secretary-General of "Hezbollah," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said, "We are facing the greatest battle the nation has fought since 1948, a battle with a bright future, a battle that will change the face of the region."