“Under Netanyahu, Israel is in existential danger” was the title of an article published by the Zionist newspaper, Haaretz.

With this extent of fear and anxiety the Zionist circles have commenced to reflect on the gloomy and bleak reality of the occupation entity. One of the key newspapers in ‘Israel’ describes the performance of the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as posing an existential danger, highlighting the sources of perils besieging the entity.

Netanyahu has rejected all the proposals submitted by the US-Qatari-Egyptian mediators in the context of the ceasefire negotiation rounds, jumping from one item to another. This procrastination has pushed the talks into an inevitable deadlock, leaving the entire region in face of narrow possibilities of escalation.

Regardless of the internal considerations as well as private political interests of the Zionist premier, the certain outcome of his rejection is that the military confrontation in Gaza will continue. The situation in the occupied West Bank is also expected to escalate dramatically.

Meanwhile, the open front between Hezbollah and the Israeli enemy is inflicting heavy losses upon the occupation forces to that extent that Tel Aviv can never keep accepting such a scene in the North.

Hezbollah has maintained since October 8, 2023 that it will stop the border battle whenever the Israeli enemy ceases its war on Gaza.

It is the Israeli dilemma.

If it stops the war on Gaza without eradicating Hamas military power, it will be seen as an unprecedented defeat in the history of the occupation entity. After one year of massacres which have left more than 41 thousand martyrs in the small besieged Strip, the so-called most powerful army in the region is holding a prisoner swap deal with the resistance groups in Gaza.

If it continues its war on Gaza, Hezbollah will keep attacking the Zionist military posts and settlements in northern Palestine. This may lead to a wider escalation.

In this regard, the Israeli officials have raised their rhetoric of threats against Lebanon. Neanyahu told Israeli Channel 12 that he ordered the army to prepare for “changing the situation in the north”. DM Yoav Gallent said that ending Gaza battle must be soon in order to move the military power to the North. Chief of Military Staff Herzi Halevi also underlined the fight against Hezbollah. The former minister Benny Gantz called on the political and military command to launch a war against Hezbollah.

Scrutinizing those remarks leads the observer to realize the depth of the crisis that ‘Israel’ is undergoing. It has failed to settle the situation in Gaza, in the occupied West Bank, on the borders with Lebanon, and in the Red Sea. It is also expecting an Iranian response to its crime of assassinating the former Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, 2014, and a Yemeni response to its aerial aggression on Hodiedah on July 20, 2024.

Can such a crisis-hit entity add to those loads an all-out war with Hezbollah whose military power, in accordance with Israeli reports, is 10 times greater than that in Gaza?

Hezbollah’s elite troops, strategic precision missiles, and combat drones are ready to give the answer.

Source: Al-Manar English Website