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The late secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad movement, Dr. Ramadan Shalah, told me years ago: “Israel’s arrogance will lead it and the region to disaster. The nuclear bomb will not protect it against rockets raining down from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Yemen and even Iran itself. I am not talking about Israel’s total collapse, but it will be dealt a painful blow. People who emigrated to Israel will think about leaving because they won’t feel safe anymore.”
I also heard a similar statement from someone else and realized that the Iran-allied factions were preparing to launch a “major strike” against Israel with all their might, one that Gen. Qassem Soleimani had dreamed of dealing.
There were whispers that the spark would be lit first in Lebanon and that Hezbollah’s elite forces would infiltrate the border and fight in the land of Galilee. Hezbollah’s opening of the “support front” in solidarity with Yahya Sinwar’s Al-Aqsa Flood operation was evidence of this major strike. The Houthis then followed and Israel and Iran traded strikes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Sinwar’s “flood” with a total earthquake. And so, we bore witness to a Palestinian-Israeli war, Lebanese-Israeli war, Houthi-Israeli war and an Iranian-Israeli war. These wars changed the balance of power in the region. With the ceasefire in Gaza, the people in power in the region are confronted with difficult missions.
