LONDON – Over the past two years, the Israeli occupation regime has waged a massive military operation spanning seven fronts, but no single front has won victory. The ceasefire strengthened and strengthened avenues of resistance.
Once the ceasefire lasts for a while, it will be difficult to regain the momentum gained during the war. The limited operation in Gaza targeting resistance forces, like the operation in Lebanon, serves as a continuing response to earlier explosive battlefield dynamics. Now that the end of this war has been recognized worldwide, it has become extremely difficult to return to full-scale war.
These operations are a matter of continuity, not new attacks. This is the end of a failed project and campaign, not the beginning of a new one. The new Middle East is over, not starting now.
These operations will end and gradually subside, but in a world climate that denies this genocidal war, it is unlikely to flare up again. Therefore, this phase is over. Even if the second phase is treated as an attempt to convert the effects of a large-scale destructive military operation into political results, it does not correspond to the reality on the ground, given the existence of resistance movements.
The Resistance has proven its resilience and cannot be removed from the scene. It cannot be excluded from decisive movements that will affect the fate and future of this region. The issue therefore becomes a political struggle. The very actors who prevented a decisive military victory on the ground will also prevent that military achievement from being translated into political outcomes favorable to the Trump-led Western project. These are obstacles and knots in the way of achieving the political results sought by the West, results that are inconsistent with stubborn realities rooted in the inability to remove resistance from the political, military, and security scene.
The matter will move to a political stage, where the Axis of Resistance will help rebuild and expand resistance movements, consolidate the gains accumulated against genocidal wars, and mobilize political action around the world. This will bring pressure from a regime that considers the expansionist project of the Israeli entity inconsistent with world sentiment that rejects a government that spares no means whatsoever, including genocide, to secure Western interests drenched in the blood of its people in a cruelty unknown in human history.
This situation has become globally unacceptable, and the Axis of Resistance will accumulate it.