The forbidden resistance to the Zionist enemy will continue.
By Khaled Ghannam
I certainly love freedom. I dig a castle for it with my mind, and a tear in my eye. My freedom is occupied, flowing like a waterfall, springing from an abandoned well. I declare it resistance to disorder and confrontation with occupation. I hear them lying to you. They describe me as a terrorist who stole a loaf of bread from his enemy. A terrorist who deals with the enemies of the occupied homeland. They want you lost between my enemy and your enemy. As if my enemy is not enough for me until I enemy someone else. I will resist my enemy until I feel that I am a human being who must be liberated. And I draw a map of resistance in the midst of your crowds. And I raise the flag of my dignity.
The Arab and Islamic nations were in turmoil following the brutal Zionist aggression against Iranian cities, and everyone’s eyes lit up with hope when they witnessed Iran’s ballistic missile response, which shattered what remained of Israel’s deterrent power.
Over the past fifteen years, Benjamin Netanyahu has destroyed Israeli democracy by restricting freedom of expression and persecuting all left-wing groups that reject his approach of rejecting any political settlement with the Arabs, especially the Palestinians. The Israeli political landscape has become a monolithic one, the extreme right, with an unchanging, authoritarian ruler who imprisons all who oppose him in a dictatorial, authoritarian manner.
In contrast, we have not seen in the Arab region any project to resist this escalating aggressive approach except through the gateway of anesthetic diplomacy that promises to improve the situation in the future, without meaning that the aggressive Zionist approach will stop. Rather, it has become more ferocious in expanding illegal settlements in the West Bank and the Jerusalem area. Moreover, the policies of racial discrimination against the Palestinian minority within Israel have taken dangerous turns within Netanyahu’s project to establish a purely Jewish national state, followed by the brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip and the practice of the most heinous forms of genocide.
The Palestinian people found no weapon other than the Axis of Resistance to contribute as much as possible to their rejection of the Zionist project. The fronts in southern Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran constituted a true support front for the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, offering thousands of martyrs, most notably the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
However, this approach was rejected by many Palestinian and Arab political elites due to the lack of strategic balance, which would render armed resistance to the Zionist project a collective suicide, leading to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians without achieving any victory within the framework of scientific military concepts.
This prompted the Palestinian leadership to work hard on the diplomatic level within the axis of Arab moderation (Saudi Arabia – Egypt – Jordan) in order to obtain international support for recognition of an independent Palestinian state despite Israeli intransigence. However, the defeat of this plan came within the framework of what is known as the deal of the century, which created another axis in the region, the axis of the Abraham Accords, which supports Netanyahu’s approach to the necessity of eliminating the armed factions of the resistance axis in Palestine and outside Palestine, with an explicit call to agree to end the conflict through the Arabs’ surrender and acceptance of the Zionist project.
The axis of the Abraham Accords considers that the alliance between the armed Arab factions and the Iranian government’s true goal is to overthrow the thrones of the ruling families in Arab countries. The real plan emerged in the so-called Arab Spring, which initially appeared peaceful in North Africa but was transformed into an armed coup in the Gulf states.
The Gulf states responded by creating their own armed factions in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, and Somalia, plunging the region into a cycle of civil wars with no real objectives other than to distract political opponents and destroy the regional unity of Arab states.
These factors combined have led the right-wing Israeli government to attack Arab countries and interfere in Arab-Arab wars. We have become accustomed to Israeli warplanes violating Arab airspace, and Mossad agents have begun killing Arabs inside their cities without deterrence, everywhere from Morocco and Tunisia to Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and even the United Arab Emirates.
The justifications for the Abraham Accords axis are to end the Iranian threat and Shiite expansion. They sought to support coups in several Arab countries and to arm Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, and Iraqi factions, without mentioning the obvious realities of the resistance project, which led to the liberation of southern Lebanon and the formation of Palestinian armed forces in the Gaza Strip.
Perhaps the biggest lie in the Middle East is forced religious conversion. The Zionist plan does not include any program to force Palestinians to convert to Judaism. However, the Zionist movement works day and night to expand the number of Arab Zionists who believe in the necessity of fully realizing the Zionist political project. On the other hand, the Islamic Revolution in Iran has supported all those who believe in exporting the revolution to change the corrupt Arab reality that prevents the fight against the Zionist entity. However, it has no program to force Arabs to convert to Shiism. Perhaps the only exception has been some ISIS militants who have killed religious minorities because of their religious affiliations.
Although Netanyahu personally called for a media blackout of the Iranian strikes on Israeli cities, and the Israeli government even explicitly announced that it would arrest any journalist who published any image of the strikes, claiming that doing so would serve the Iranian enemy, Israeli social media activists took the risk of publishing numerous photos documenting the Iranian strikes and the extent of the destruction they caused. This was accompanied by a misleading media campaign about the extent of the Iranian military’s losses, followed by the bombing of the Iranian television building, as part of Netanyahu’s fascist approach of killing journalists and media professionals who oppose his policies everywhere.
Most significant of all is the extent of popular sympathy in Arab countries for Iran’s response. The Arab peoples want Israel punished for its war crimes, and they refuse to see all this destruction in Palestine, as well as in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, without demanding a military response to halt Netanyahu’s policy of shedding Arab and Muslim blood.
The impact of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ballistic missiles has established a balance of terror with the Zionist entity far greater than its pursuit of a nuclear bomb. It has been proven that the Iron Dome project is incapable of protecting Israeli cities, and it has also been proven that the Iranian military has acquired advanced technologies from Russia and China. We witnessed the superiority of Chinese military technology in the face of American military technology in the recent India-Pakistan war.
The slogan “strike the oppressors with the oppressors” repeated by some Arab fools is a self-defeating conspiracy that leads to more subservience and surrender to the Zionist project. However, considering the Iranian-backed resistance project as an unjust project for the Arab region, which is suffering from five civil wars, none of which can be resolved, and that the turmoil in the Arab street stems from transforming the Arab region into a mere subservient follower of the Zionist project, this is something that no honorable Arab would accept.
What makes me laugh and cry is the role of the Arab mediator between the axis of resistance and the Zionist entity. This part of the Arab nation is politically neutral to the point of being fit to serve as a neutral mediator. This historical farce achieves the most difficult equation of distracting Arab awareness from the reality of the subservience of the Arab mediators, who consider themselves neutral and not hostile to the Zionist project.
In the 1950s, the Arab region suffered from the dilemma of international alliances. There were Arab regimes linked to American imperialism that worked to resist Arab socialist parties and prevent the spread of communist atheism in the Arab region. They even justified the alliance with the Zionist enemy within the framework of what was known as the Baghdad Pact, which included many countries and ultimately led to the Shah of Iran’s recognition of the Zionist entity and the beginning of his project to control the Arab countries, with full support from the United States of America and the Zionist entity.
Recent leaks published by Israeli media websites indicate that the change in the region will not be limited to changing the regime in Iran, but will include the reoccupation of the Sinai Peninsula and the destruction of the Egyptian army, the occupation of Jordan to establish an alternative Palestinian homeland through the forced deportation of all Palestinians from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and even the Palestinian minority inside Israel to the east of the Jordan River, a complete occupation of Lebanon with the forced deportation of Lebanese Shiites to the Jabal al-Alawite region in northwestern Syria, the occupation of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and the expulsion of Syrian armed factions from it, a painful blow to Pakistan and Afghanistan, i.e., the complete subjugation of the region to Zionist influence.
But this will not negate the right to resistance, and no matter how weak its impact, it will continue. We can read in Jewish history itself about the Maccabean Revolt, which lasted for more than a hundred years for a persecuted Jewish minority within the Seleucid Empire. This is if we speak of an internal, self-made Arab resistance to the Zionist project. Resistance grows in humans everywhere, and the Arab person is no exception.
Internationally, a dangerous escalation is underway between the US administration and the Chinese government, potentially leading to economic crises, financial tensions, and proxy wars between the two powers. This could lead to a major financial recession. This will push the Chinese government to become more involved in preserving the resistance capabilities of its allies, particularly Pakistan and, to a lesser extent, Iran. This, in turn, will feed the resistance in the Arab region. The same applies to Russia’s efforts to support the Iranian government to maintain its strongest alliance in the region, especially after the collapse of the Syrian regime.
For their part, European countries believe that the collapse of the Iranian regime would not serve their own interests, but would instead turn Iran into a satellite of the American economy. Therefore, they do not support the imminent American attack on Iranian cities. They believe that this dismantling of the region will reshape the resistance within it, toward viewing the Western project in general as the true enemy of the region, after having previously been limited to viewing the direct enemy as the Zionist project.
It remains to examine the concept of support from Israel, which is that some forces in the region receive support and funding from the Israeli government in order to achieve shared political gains. Perhaps the most famous example of this is the Syrian Democratic Forces, which were trained and supported by the Israeli military. In Kurdistan, there are numerous groups that receive financial and military support to destabilize the ruling regimes in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Within Iran, there are numerous opposition groups that receive assistance from the Israeli military and Mossad, perhaps the most famous of which is the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Whatever the justifications these groups offer for accepting Israeli aid, they are viewed by their communities as mercenary armies fighting only for money but not serious about bringing about real political change in their countries.
The doctrine of resistance is born within man as an intrinsic quality that rejects being a submissive slave. It is what drives him to be the bearer of a message in this universe, qualifying him to build civilization in order to develop the way of life. It also teaches him that his natural right is to defend himself against all aggressive forces, especially the aggression of greedy global imperialism, which seeks to oppress peoples and rob them of their capabilities to prevent their advancement. There are no acceptable limits to the greed of global imperialism, which continues to suck the blood of the oppressed and is never satisfied, demanding more subservience and humiliation on an ongoing and escalating basis until the weak peoples are annihilated.
From there, resistance becomes a natural human trait imposed by human dignity, which rejects injustice and slavery. No matter how weak that resistance may be, it is rooted in a firm belief in the necessity of continuing. This weak resistance can be found in the eyes of a Palestinian child walking among heavily armed Israeli soldiers in the streets of occupied Jerusalem. He looks at them with the strength of truth and the resolve to believe that resistance is ongoing and will continue.
