PNN – Many experts and observers consider one of the important reasons for Hezbollah’s victories in the war against the Zionist enemy in different periods to be the skill of this party and its leadership in managing the second front of the battle, i.e. “psychological warfare”.
According to the International group of Pakistan News Network, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as the first front from the axis of resistance, which entered the field to help the people and resistance in Gaza during the Al-Aqsa storm battle, in addition to managing the field battle in the best way, also has skills in another field, which is no less important than the military battle.
How did Hezbollah’s skill in “psychological warfare” confuse the Zionists?
All those who are familiar with war affairs know very well that “psychological war” is actually the second battlefield with the enemy and in many cases it can even determine the fate of the war. Various experiences throughout history prove that great armies may have lost victory due to lack of skill in psychological warfare.
Hezbollah is considered one of the main parties of the axis of resistance, and the enemy, in addition to fearing its military power, is also afraid of this party’s intelligence and skill in psychological warfare. The expertise of Hezbollah and especially Seyed Hassan Nasrallah himself in managing the psychological war against the enemy was something that the Zionists understood very well during the July 2006 war.
Of course, we do not mean that Hezbollah only uses the idea of ​​psychological warfare and does not pay attention to the military battle, but rather, the Lebanese resistance reveals the dimensions of its military power, especially to the Zionist settlers, by using psychological warfare techniques. Unlike the army of the occupying regime, which only resorts to empty and false threats and propaganda in psychological warfare.
“Ron Shlaifer”, an expert and specialist in psychological warfare, who previously held the position of the deputy head of the media department of the “Yudeha and Samaria” college (West Bank) and was a professor at “Bar Ilan” University of the Zionist regime, in the field of Hezbollah and Seyed Hassan Nasrallah’s skill in Psychological Warfare says: Thanks to Nasrallah, we understood that psychological warfare is important and that only mortars and airstrikes are not decisive in war. The Secretary General of Hezbollah is focused on this war against Israel. The basic idea in psychological warfare is this; “If you are not able to influence your enemy’s gun, you should influence the finger that is on the trigger.”, Nasrallah is a master in this matter.
He said: The biggest tragedy is that we consider the Arab world to be backward, but we are very wrong, the Arab world is full of communication media, and psychological warfare is another dimension that war needs.
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The penetration of Lebanese resistance in the northern front of occupied Palestine
Recently, news sources reported that videos and text messages have reached the phones of settlers and officials of Zionist settlements in northern occupied Palestine warning them about the consequences of war with Hezbollah. The interesting point is that when these messages reached each of the settlers or officials of the Zionist settlements in the northern region, it became clear that the sender of the message was fully aware of the identity and characteristics of his audience, and this means that the Lebanese resistance has accurate information about the situation on the northern front.
Psychological war of resistance on 2 fronts against the enemy
In the meantime, the psychological war of the Lebanese resistance against the Zionist enemy is going on in 2 fronts: The first front is related to the military media of the Islamic resistance, which documents all the military operations of the fighters of the resistance in a detailed way and delivers its images and videos to the settlers, which has a high psychological impact on the public opinion of Israelis.
This message is proof that Hezbollah’s intelligence department is closely monitoring the residents and officials of the northern settlements of occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah’s psychological warfare messages
Omar Kaid, an analyst of Palestinian affairs, believes that the most important of these messages is the weakening and destruction of the authority of the leaders of the occupying regime.
In these messages, the resistance convinces the Zionist settlers, who support the occupation regime’s war against Gaza, that the Israeli army is unable to provide their security and cannot return even a single Israeli prisoner from Gaza.
In addition to that, Lebanon’s resistance by managing psychological and media warfare affects the will of the Zionist military to continue the war.
This is what the Palestinian resistance has done well in this war and following the example of Hezbollah, it has shown remarkable performance in terms of psychological and media warfare.
Influencing world public opinion
Al-Mayadin’s analyst in international and European affairs, Moussa Asi, says in this context, public opinion around the world went through 2 stages in the Gaza war: The first stage is related to Israel’s false propaganda on October 7th, which of course was very temporary, and when the claims of this regime were revealed to be false, the public opinion of the world turned in a different direction.
In this context, the English newspaper Middle East Monitor announced in a report: Israel has lost its credibility as a result of the false claims and many baseless accusations it made against the Palestinian groups during the Gaza war, and on the other hand, we are witnessing an increase in the credibility of the Palestinian resistance groups; where these groups provide evidence for their narratives.
This English media emphasized: Israel’s lies can no longer resist the disclosure of documents related to its crimes and the truth that exists in Gaza; Even though Israel has used many media people in the world and influential media parties to show an anti-human face of the Palestinians. The authenticity and documentation of the Palestinian narratives in this war forced even the American officials, who initially doubted the number of casualties in the Gaza Strip, to finally admit that the Palestinians are telling the truth.