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Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
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Haaretz - November 28, 2024 - by Hussein Ibish
<<Opinion | Iran and Hezbollah May Have Lost, but Israel Hasn't Won
The strategic landscape and balance of power in the Middle East has been
redrawn, greatly in Israel's favor and very much at Iran's expense. But
if Israelis were seeking security they certainly don't have it - and
won't, until the Palestinian issue is resolved
The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah means that the war in
Lebanon is almost certainly over for now. Hezbollah and its Iranian
patrons are most certainly the losers. But that doesn't mean Israel has
won in any meaningful sense. The Israeli public has been told the
country went to war for security. And it will now be told that security
has been greatly enhanced, deterrence restored, the balance of power in
the region corrected.>>
Watch video here:
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-11-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/iran-and-hezbollah-have-lost-but-israel-has-not-won/00000193-74af-d2d1-a3b7-fdff8f230000
and read also the below article:
BBC - November 28, 2024 - By Robert Greenall
<<The Lebanon ceasefire is a respite, not a solution for the Middle East
For most of the people of Lebanon, a ceasefire could not come quickly
enough. A leading Lebanese analyst at a conference on the Middle East
that I'm attending in Rome said she couldn't sleep as the appointed hour
for the ceasefire came closer. "It was like the night before Christmas
when you're a kid. I couldn't wait for it to happen. You can see why
there's relief. More than 3,500 citizens of Lebanon have been killed in
Israeli strikes. Displaced people packed their cars before dawn to try
to get back to whatever remains of their homes. Well over one million of
them have been forced to flee by Israeli military action. Thousands have
been wounded and the homes of tens of thousands of others have been
destroyed.
But in Israel, some feel they have lost the chance to do more damage to
Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met the heads of Israel's
northern municipalities, which have been turned into ghost towns with
around 60,000 civilians evacuated further south. Israel's Ynet news
website reported that it was an angry meeting that turned into a
shouting match, with some of the local officials frustrated that Israel
was taking the pressure off their enemies in Lebanon and not offering an
immediate plan to get civilians home. In a newspaper column, the mayor
of Kiryat Shmona, close to the border, said he doubted the ceasefire
would be enforced, demanding that Israel creates a buffer zone in south
Lebanon. In a poll commissioned by the Israeli station Channel 12 News
those questioned were roughly split between supporters and opponents of
the ceasefire.
Half of the participants in the survey believe Hezbollah has not been
defeated and 30% think the ceasefire will collapse.
People returned to their homes after the ceasefire was announced
Back in late September, at the UN General Assembly in New York, a deal
looked as if it was close. Diplomats from the US and UK were convinced
that a ceasefire very similar to the one that is now coming into force
was about to happen. All sides in the war appeared to have signalled
their willingness to accept a ceasefire based on the provisions of
Security Council resolution 1701, which was passed to end the 2006
Lebanon war: Hezbollah would pull back from the border to be replaced by
UN peacekeepers and the Lebanese Armed Forces. As they moved in, Israeli
forces would gradually move out. But Prime Minister Netanyahu went to
the podium at the UN to deliver a fiery speech that refused to accept
any pause in Israel's offensive. Back at his New York hotel Netanyahu's
official photographer captured the moment as he ordered the
assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, along with
most of his high command. Netanyahu's office released the photos, in
another calculated snub for American diplomacy. The assassination was a
significant escalation and a blow to Hezbollah. In the weeks since,
Israel's military has inflicted immense damage to Hezbollah's military
organisation. It could still fire rockets over the border and its
fighters continued to engage Israel's invasion force. But Hezbollah is
no longer the same threat to Israel.
Netanyahu: Time to 'replenish stocks'
Military success is one of several factors that have come together to
persuade Benjamin Netanyahu that this is a good time to stop. Israel's
agenda in Lebanon is more limited than in Gaza and the rest of the
occupied Palestinian territories. It wants to push Hezbollah back from
its northern border and to allow civilians to return to border towns. If
Hezbollah looks to be preparing an attack, Israel has a side letter from
the Americans agreeing that it can take military action. In a recorded
statement announcing his decision, Netanyahu listed the reasons why it
was time for a ceasefire. Israel, he said, had made the ground in Beirut
shake. Now there was a chance 'to give our forces a breather and
replenish stocks,' he continued.
Israel had also broken the connection between Gaza and Lebanon. After
the late Hassan Nasrallah ordered the attacks on Israel's north, the day
after Hamas went to war on 7 October last year, he said they would
continue until there was a ceasefire in Gaza. Now, Netanyahu said, Hamas
in Gaza would be under even more pressure. Palestinians fear another
escalation in Israel's Gaza offensive. There was one more reason; to
concentrate on what Netanyahu called the Iranian threat. Damaging
Hezbollah means damaging Iran. It was built up by the Iranians to create
a threat right on Israel’s border. Hezbollah became the strongest part
of Iran’s axis of resistance, the name it gave to its network of forward
defence made up of allies and proxies.
Why Iran wanted a ceasefire
Just like Hezbollah’s surviving leaders, their patrons in Iran also
wanted a ceasefire. Hezbollah needs a pause to lick its wounds. Iran
needs to stop the geostrategic bleeding. Its axis of resistance is no
longer a deterrent. Iran’s missile attack on Israel after Nasrallah's
assassination did not repair the damage. Two men, both now assassinated,
designed Hezbollah to deter Israel not just from attacking Lebanon – but
also from attacking Iran. They were Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds
Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who was killed by an American
drone strike at Baghdad airport in January 2020. The order was issued by
Donald Trump in his last few weeks in the White House at the end of his
first term. The other was Hassan Nasrallah, killed by a huge Israeli air
strike in Beirut's southern suburbs. Hezbollah and Iran’s deterrence
strategy matched Israel's own deterrence for almost 20 years after the
end of the 2006 war. But among the profound changes caused by the 7
October attacks was Israel's determination not to accept restrictions on
the wars it would wage in response. America, its most important ally,
also put almost no restrictions on the supply or use of the weapons it
kept on providing. Nasrallah and Iran failed to see what had happened.
They did not understand how Israel had changed. They sought to impose a
war of attrition on Israel, and succeeded for almost a year. Then on 17
September Israel broke out of it by triggering the miniature bombs built
into the network of booby-trapped pagers its intelligence services had
duped Hezbollah into buying. Hezbollah was thrown off balance. Before it
could react with the most powerful weapons Iran had provided, Israel
killed Nasrallah and most of his key lieutenants, accompanied by massive
strikes that destroyed arms dumps. That was followed by an invasion of
South Lebanon and the wholesale destruction of Lebanese border villages
as well as Hezbollah's tunnel network.
Trump, Gaza and the future
A ceasefire in Lebanon is not necessarily a precursor to one in Gaza.
Gaza is different. The war there is about more than security of the
border, and Israeli hostages. It is also about revenge, about Benjamin
Netanyahu's political survival, and his government’s absolute rejection
of Palestinian aspirations for independence. The Lebanon ceasefire is
fragile and deliberately paced to buy time for it to work. When the 60
days in which it is supposed to take effect ends, Donald Trump will be
back in the Oval Office. President-elect Trump has indicated that he
wants a ceasefire in Lebanon, but his precise plans have not yet
emerged. The Middle East is waiting for the ways he might affect the
region. Some optimists hope that he might want to create a moment akin
to President Nixon's sensational visit to China in 1972 by reaching out
to Iran. The pessimists fear he might abandon even the hollow
genuflection that the US still makes to the idea of a creating an
independent Palestine alongside Israel - the so-called two state
solution. That might pave the way to annexation of those parts of the
occupied Palestinian territories Israel wants, including much of the
West Bank and northern Gaza. What is certain though is that the Middle
East has no chance of escaping more generations of war and violent death
until the region's fundamental political ruptures are faced and fixed.
The biggest is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, along with most Israelis believe
it is possible to dominate their enemies by pressing on to a military
victory. Netanyahu is actively using force, unrestrained by the US, to
alter the balance of power in the Middle East in Israel's favour. In a
conflict that has lasted more than a century both Arabs and Jews have
dreamt repeatedly of peace through military victory. Every generation
has tried and failed. The catastrophic consequences of the Hamas attacks
on Israel on 7 October 2023 ripped away any pretence that the conflict
could be managed while Israel continued to deny Palestinian rights to
self-determination. The ceasefire in Lebanon is a respite. It is not a
solution.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ygn5579gvo
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