South Lebanon – Noamchomsky has long warned against the temptation of power when exercised without political rationality and against stories of imperialism that obscure the facts behind flimsy pretexts such as “deterrence” and “self-defense.”
This is exactly what Israel fell, and the euphoria surrounding Iran’s lightning strike last Friday morning will cost a large price to it.
Israel’s enemies and the Washington behind them are deceiving themselves to believe that they can impose a balance of power on the superiority of their empire through a surprising attack on regional states of Iran’s size.
However, reality is complex, open to unexpected surprises, and is revealed in succession by creative and innovative Persian carpet weavers.
Certainly, Tehran exposed his enemy. The enemy flees from one predicament to another after failings in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Yemen. The fight against Iran is even more dangerous and complicated!
Since the first day, Hebrew and Israeli Arab media have demonstrated an attack on Iran as a restoration of Israeli enemy honor following the humiliating slap they received on October 7, 2023.
Nevertheless, what happened was not a victory, not a slip to greater danger, not a victory.
The difference between Iran’s strategic patience and Zionist-American hype is that the former approach prioritizes the aftermath, and the latter continues to humiliate the humiliation that continues to humiliate throughout history due to the functional presence that has been attempting for decades to markets where Iran’s Islamic Republic can be ejected on a single strike!
This is exactly what Chomsky warns when he speaks to his enemies about the “oriental flattening” of the Western mind.
Iran is not a hybrid or a composite state, but rather a civilization built on an intertwined cultural, philosophical, military, ideological and economic foundation, and most importantly, it has memories of years of war.
The euphoria of victory soon faded under the weight of heroic Iranian operations and heavy losses at Israeli home front. Experience once again proved that wars are determined by the outcome over time.
Yossi Melman, intelligence reporting analyst at Haaretz, revealed that Israeli professional groups are currently paying high prices as a result of Iran’s missile attacks and unprecedented destruction of infrastructure.
Citing the war experiences in Vietnam, Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, Melman argued that “a regime ruled by deeply rooted religious institutions based on a long history of thousands of years is not possible, but is based on a long history of thousands of years.”
He also cited the experiences of the Iran-Iraq war between 1980 and 1988, saying that Iran would postpone eight years, unify its rank despite bombing and chemical weapons, and even establish a solid doctrine of missile deterrence.
Harletts’ intelligence news analysts warned that Israel could slip into a war of attrition that they might not be able to win, and warned against causing a global oil crisis that could require the intervention of a major power like China.
Melman wrote to X: “The sense of happiness didn’t last long. On Friday, I asked if there was a need to wage a war with the Iranians, especially the ones. Historically, Shiites want to endure their suffering, as demonstrated during the eight-year war of attrition with Iraq. When they beg for a ceasefire, Iran refuses.”
Michael Millstein, director of the Palestinian Research Forum at the Dayan Centre at Tel Aviv University, emphasized the need to avoid bold slogans such as “destroy the nuclear program.”
Israeli academics are not satisfied with Iran’s reach, but have confirmed that from October 7, 2023, they will seek to build an effective balance while Israel’s home front is increasingly eroding.
In the same context, Nachman Shay, dean of the Hebrew Federal University at the Institute of Jewish Leaders in Jerusalem, warned of the vulnerability and fragmentation of the Israeli Colonial Association, writing to Maalif.
In his opinion, Israel needs to restore its internal unity so that external “effects” do not become a prelude to internal collapse.
Therefore, it appears that Israel is not doing the basic calculations that Chomsky repeatedly emphasized. Make decisions based on the fantasy of technical superiority and ignore the historical, political and cultural complexity of your enemy, and you create your own disaster.
Iran may extend the conflict on several levels, such as closing the Strait of Hormuz, as if the aggression that Netanyahu intended as a way out of the Gaza crisis turned into a more serious and harsh curse.
Essentially, the claim that Israel can restore local order through its forces is pure foolishness. Veteran Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea wrote to Yedios Afronos: