Resistance Pact Signs Israel’s Death Warrant

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On October 7th, it was announced Iran’s parliament is drafting a defence and security pact, which will formally bind the Resistance “and their supporting countries” together in a common, collaborative military structure to counter external threats, “particularly from the US and Israel.” Unremarked upon in the West, this is a seismic move, representing the most monumental nail hammered into Israel’s coffin since Palestinian freedom fighters struck deep inside the Zionist entity’s putrid heart a year prior. The proclamation’s timing was absolutely no coincidence.

All the pact’s signatories - be they governments or Resistance movements - will provide “comprehensive” economic, military and political assistance to one another, should they come under attack from the Zionist entity, or its allies. Significantly, a dedicated joint military headquarters, to “facilitate coordination” between members of the Resistance, will also be established. This will serve as a “central command for managing military operations and crisis response, reinforcing operational capabilities through planned joint military exercises.”

The pact “aims not only to enhance military cooperation,” but also “bolster infrastructure development” for the Resistance - “collaboration in building military bases and training centres is expected to improve readiness against potential threats.” If implemented, Islamic Republic lawmakers believe “this alliance could significantly shift the balance of power in the region, presenting a formidable counterweight to Western influence seeking to wreak havoc in West Asia to Israel’s benefit.”

Of course, recent events have made clear that West Asia’s “balance of power” has already decisively shifted in favour of the Resistance. The scale and severity of Iran’s unprecedented October 1st strike on the Zionist entity amply indicated Tehran not only didn’t expect retaliation of any serious kind to be forthcoming from Israel or its Western puppetmasters, but had calculated that in the event Tel Aviv was sufficiently foolhardy to declare all-out war in response, the Resistance would inevitably prevail.

In the wake of that devastating assault, this journalist postulated Tehran had thrown down a gauntlet to its regional and international adversaries, safe in the knowledge any resultant conflict would mean the Zionist entity’s final end, and the Empire’s concomitant retreat from West Asia more widely. The rapid emergence of a formal Resistance military alliance since tends to confirm that we are in check mate territory. Now, it is up to Israel to make the next move. Which could well be its very last.

‘Military Response’

Hours before Iran struck the Zionist entity, Israeli Occupation Forces criminally invaded Lebanon. True to form, the IOF has savagely targeted civilian areas and infrastructure ever since, claiming at least 1,400 innocent lives to date, and injuring countless more. Initially framed by Israeli leaders and pliant Western journalists as a “limited ground intervention”, based on “precise intelligence” on Hezbollah, already Tel Aviv is openly seeking to escalate into all-out war.

Netanyahu is evidently unconcerned that many statements he and his ministers have made since October 7th 2023 rank highly among the voluminous mountain of incontrovertible evidence the Zionist entity is acting with genocidal intent toward the Palestinians, and may have contributed significantly to his ICC indictment for “crimes against humanity”. On October 9th, the Israeli leader unreservedly threatened Lebanon’s population with “destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza”, if they failed to rise up and help the IOF “free” their country from Hezbollah.

Such belligerence and depravity plays well with Zionist entity audiences. One Israeli newscaster proudly toasted the September 27th murder of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah live on air, while Tel Aviv’s education ministry actively encouraged schools to stage celebrations. Netanyahu’s approval ratings have soared since the IOF invaded Lebanon. A sense the settler colony has finally redeemed itself and regained an upper hand against the Resistance, after being dealt relentless economic and military blows over the past 12 months, widely pervades locally.

Yet, as The Guardian acknowledged on October 6th, the IOF’s invasion of Lebanon has already proven deeply ruinous. It has lost scores of soldiers, while Hezbollah “retains a potency fighting on its own terrain…where it has had almost two decades to prepare for this conflict.” Elsewhere, the outlet observed that Iran’s October 1st strike on the Zionist entity was:

“Not…as inconsequential as initially claimed by Israel’s leadership, and instead [shows] that a large-scale strike could not only overwhelm Israel’s anti-missile defences but that Tehran could accurately explode warheads on the targets it was aiming for, in this case several military bases. All of which raises serious questions as Israel prepares for a ‘significant’ military response to Iran.” 

The Guardian went on to record that due to Israel’s “fast metastasising multi-front war” against the Resistance, the Zionist entity’s “military and intelligence superiority is faltering on several fronts.” The past year has also “seriously exposed Israel’s newly minted operational doctrine, which planned for fighting short decisive wars against non-state actors…with the aim of avoiding being drawn into extended conflicts of attrition.” Instead, “the opposite has happened.” And the ranks of Hamas, Hezbollah and other Resistance groups have swelled every step of the way.

‘Deterrent Effect’

The secret of Resistance success was spelled out in a little-noticed article published in June by elite imperial journal Foreign Affairs. Unequivocally titled Hamas Is Winning, it sets out in forensic detail “why Israel’s failing strategy makes its enemy stronger,” and how “according to the measures that matter, Hamas is stronger today than it was” on October 7th 2023. The “growing” group has since “evolved into a tenacious and deadly guerrilla force in Gaza”, launching “lethal operations” in areas previously “cleared” by the IOF “easily”.

Foreign Affairs attributes such “overarching failure” to “a gross misunderstanding of the sources of Hamas’ power” by Israeli Occupation Forces. The Zionist entity has, to its “great detriment”, failed to comprehend “the carnage and devastation it has unleashed in Gaza has only made its enemy stronger.” Hamas’ “key source” of support is its “potential to gain supporters from the local community,” and “ability to recruit, especially its ability to attract new generations of the fighters and operatives.”

This support means Hamas can “replenish its ranks, gain resources, avoid detection, and generally have more access to the human and material resources necessary” to wage destructive war against the Zionist entity. Average Palestinians, “often either angry over the loss of family members or friends or more generally enraged at [Israel’s] use of heavy military force,” have joined Hamas in droves, or provided assistance of some kind to the group. After all, Hamas enjoys “tremendous support” among Gazans.

Cited surveys of Palestinian opinion reinforce this conclusion. Five polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research over the 12 months from June 2023 “present a striking finding” - “on virtually every measure, Hamas has more support among Palestinians today than before October 7th.” In all, “twice as many” Palestinians favour Hamas over its primary rival Fatah - 40% compared to 20%. And 73% of Palestinians overall believe Hamas “was right to launch” that historic attack.

There has also “especially” been a rise in support for armed resistance against the Zionist entity among Palestinians in the West Bank. There, surveys find backing for the group is now “on par with the consistently high levels of support” for Hamas strikes on Israel in Gaza. No wonder - 60% of Palestinians in Gaza report having a family member killed in the current war, while over three-quarters report having a family member killed or injured, both numbers significantly higher than in December 2023. 

Accordingly, Foreign Affairs records, Hamas has swelled in size to “roughly ten times the number of fighters” who carried out October 7th. Meanwhile, “more than 80% of the group’s underground tunnel network remains usable for planning, storing weapons, and evading Israeli surveillance, capture, and attacks,” and “most” of its “top leadership in Gaza remains intact.” The IOF’s “punishment” of Palestinians, the outlet laments, “is not having a significant deterrent effect” on residents of Gaza or the West Bank, or “[reducing] their support for Hamas.”

Foreign Affairs concedes this phenomenon is not restricted to Hamas, but all components of the indefatigable Resistance. Support for Hezbollah “flourished” among Shiites during the Zionist entity’s savage 1982 - 1999 occupation of southern Lebanon, the outlet notes. This resulted in the group “evolving from a small clandestine” armed faction “into a mainstream political party” in Beirut, with a dedicated military wing comprising at least 40,000 fighters today. Foreign Affairs closed out its damning appraisal of Israel’s war against Hamas with a stark conclusion:

“The war will go on and on, more Palestinians will die, and the threat to Israel will only grow.”

Similarly, the horrors of the Zionist entity’s criminal invasion of Lebanon will likely endure apace for some time. But so too Tel Aviv’s total economic, military, and political collapse. Meanwhile, every day the Resistance is galvanised, pullulating in strength, its mere existence winning hearts and minds within and without West Asia in ever-greater numbers. The new, dedicated pact binding anti-Zionist governments and Palestine freedom fighter movements together finally signs Israel’s long-overdue death warrant. For it was written.