Today, Quds Day is being observed around the globe with mass
anti-Israel protests. The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam
Khomeini, initiated the day of solidarity with Palestine on the last Friday of
Ramadan.
Israel is witnessing growing resistance against its
colonialism, most significantly over the past year, from the occupied West
Bank.
Gone are the days when Israeli troops enjoyed the freedom to
raid West Bank towns and villages to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians
residing there.
Today, newly formed armed resistance factions by the West
Bank youth have changed the equation and are taking the battle to Israel's
occupation troops.
They are conducting armed retaliatory operations against the
regime's occupation including at its many military checkpoints scattered across
the West Bank. Those retaliatory operations have struck the heart of the
occupied territories, Tel Aviv.
They are also refusing to surrender to the regime's almost
daily pre-dawn invasion of Palestinian towns and villages. Instead, these
youths are confronting Special Forces in armed clashes, battles that usually
last several hours.
Their refusal to surrender explains the high Palestinian
death toll. Israeli forces have murdered around 100 Palestinians so far this
year.
It's no wonder Israel plans to set up a "National Guard"
(described as a settler militia) to handle the West Bank resistance.
That's how Israeli media described a photo published on
April 9, 2023 of a meeting between the Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah
Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the
Hamas political bureau.
The two leaders met in Beirut to discuss the readiness of
the axis of resistance and to further expand their cooperation in light of
Israel's terrorism these days at al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds
(Jerusalem).
The meeting between Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Hamas
movement in the besieged Gaza Strip to expand and improve cooperation will be
seen as a major concern among the security apparatus of the Zionist entity.
The salvo of missiles fired from Palestinian refugee camps
in Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in response to Israel’s desecration
of al-Aqsa Mosque (Islam’s third holiest site) indicated one key element.
The regime responded by striking farmland in Lebanon and
airstrikes in the Gaza Strip for one night. In both attacks it was careful
not to kill anybody as it cannot afford a wider conflict with the Palestinian
resistance.
It also cannot embark on a war with Hezbollah as it knows
very well the powerful resistance movement has weapons that can strike deep
inside all occupied territories, including precision missiles that can hit very
sensitive sites, including Israel’s Dimona nuclear weapons plant.
The same can be said about the Gaza Strip. Israel cannot
afford a conflict with the Palestinian resistance in the blockaded coastal
enclave as the resistance has missiles in its hands that can hit vital Israeli
infrastructure and humiliate the regime.
With the power of the resistance in Lebanon and Gaza
significantly growing, Israel can’t even wage a war to divert attention from
the crisis the entity is witnessing from within.
There have been mass protests by Israelis against their new
coalition’s plans to overhaul the regime’s so-called judicial system.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets
and clashed with forces in protest against the proposed measures by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-orthodox and fascist cabinet.
Such is the extent of the fighting within Israel and
warnings by the regime’s President and other officials of a civil war,
Netanyahu’s cabinet was forced to postpone the plans for a month.
But as the English say, he is stuck between a rock and a
hard place.
If Netanyahu drops his overhaul plans, he could end up in
prison for corruption charges as well as members of his fragile coalition
withdrawing, which would mean an end to his majority in the Israeli Knesset.
That would result in fifth election in less than five years.
There has never been so much internal division within Israel’s 75 years of
occupation of Palestine. Nevertheless, Netanyahu needs to keep his cabinet at
any cost. This explains the vicious storming into al-Aqsa Mosque and committing
terror on innocent worshipers in a desperate bid to appease the settlers.
If there is anything that brings a smile on the settler’s
faces, it is footage of the occupation troops mercilessly attacking women and
men inside al-Aqsa Mosque. But again, this comes with its ramifications that
Israel will face in the near future.
So much is the division over Netanyahu’s overhaul plans of
the judiciary that even segments in nearly all of the regime’s military armed
forces and units withdrew from crucial training, which Israeli military
officials, in turn, said poses a direct threat to the existence of the
occupation.
In another major setback for Israel, its staunchest
supporter, the United States has lost its clout in West Asia as witnessed by
the recent detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia as well as the steady
restoration of ties between Syria and the Arab world.
In a sign of how developments are quickly changing in West
Asia, a Saudi delegation travelled to the Yemeni capital Sana’a for talks with
the head of the popular Ansarullah revolution, not the other way round.
This was not the case two decades ago, when Washington had
major influence on the region. That influence is now shifting to the countries
in West Asia itself.
Alongside that, such is the fascist language being publicly
broadcast by the minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet, that it has forced the US to
end its decades long protocol of inviting a new Israel’s Prime Minister to the
White House within two or three months.
Netanyahu, who assumed power again in January is still
waiting for an invitation to hold talks with President Joe Biden. And he may
have to wait longer.
On March 28, when Biden stressed he is not going to invite the
Israeli prime minister to Washington “in the near term”, Netanyahu publicly hit
back at the US President, underscoring the tense relationship between the
current White House and the Israeli occupation.
However, it all goes back to the indigenous people of the
land.
On Sunday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pointed out that
the Palestinian nation’s perseverance has pushed the occupying regime to the
brink of collapse.
Israel has never been in a fragile state (pardon the pun) as
it is now, facing so many crises from within and from the developments in the
region as well as the international community as it continues to pursue its
extremely racist agenda.
