Lessons from October 7: The Big Mistake Israel and the Compromisers Made About the Resistance.
According to the Tasnim News Agency International Group, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the historic battle of Al-Aqsa Storm, in continuation of the regional circles’ analysis of the dimensions of this operation and its results, Ibrahim Amin, editor of the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, examined the lessons that this historic battle had, as follows:
The roots of Zionist racism against Arabs and Muslims
The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish used to always joke about the speeches of Yasser Arafat, the late head of the Palestinian Authority, and he always said, “Thank God that Israel does not believe Yasser Arafat’s words, otherwise the Zionists would bomb us every day and leave no one alive.” The story here is that the Zionist mindset has always been based on claiming their great superiority over Arabs and Muslims in general and the Palestinians in particular.
In fact, the Zionists treated the Arabs, Muslims, and especially the Palestinians as if they did not deserve to live at all, and they always said that they neither deserved to live nor could they fight Israel.
In all the wars that the Zionist regime waged against the Arabs since the beginning of its occupation of Palestine, its goal was to remind the Arabs and Muslims that they were far inferior to Israel and had no right to have the Palestinian dream. The level of Zionist brutality varied from war to war, and their real goal was to end the existence of Palestine from the very beginning; so that the idea of forming a Palestinian state would not even take shape and the Arabs would not even think that they had rights for themselves.
The shock that Hezbollah gave the occupiers in Lebanon and Palestine
However, the Zionist regime has faced different realities over the past quarter of a century and realized that there is no solution to the Lebanese problem. Following the humiliating withdrawal of the Zionists from Lebanon in 2000, they were oblivious to the impact of this achievement of the Lebanese resistance on the Palestinians, and less than a year later, with the beginning of the Second Palestinian Intifada, they realized that the Palestinian people had no choice but to intensify their resistance and that resistance was the only realistic option for achieving their rights.
Even Yasser Arafat himself, who believed he had deceived Israel through the Oslo Accords, realized that the regime was not willing to reward him and that no one was interested in strengthening his fledgling government. In fact, he could see the progress of the Zionist regime’s project to occupy all of Palestine before his own eyes. So he decided to release resistance fighters from the Fatah movement and resume contact with resistance forces in Lebanon and Palestine.
At that time, Yasser Arafat told those who were worried that “Hezbollah’s victory over Israel in Lebanon had paved the way for the Second Palestinian Intifada.” In effect, Arafat thus told the Palestinian people and the entire world that armed resistance was an inevitable option. However, he knew that the enemy was suspicious of all armed forces affiliated with the Palestinian Authority and had killed and captured hundreds of people, and ultimately assassinated Yasser Arafat himself.