An appeal to the West to support Israel not only to defend itself, but also to prevail in its confrontation with Hezbollah and Iran, so that an air of freedom can finally breathe in the Middle East, is addressed by the French thinker and writer Bernard-Henri Levy with his article in the magazine La Rule Du Jeu.
Commenting on recent shocking developments in the Middle East with Hezbollah's evisceration from Israel, its forces' ground operation in Lebanon, attacks on yet another Iranian proxy in the region, the Houthis, and the plight it has found itself in the regime of the ayatollahs in Tehran Bernard-Henri Levy talks about the "relaxing vise" and the ray of hope that now lights the faces of the oppressed from Lebanon to Syria and from Iraq to Iran.
The article by Bernard Henri Levy
"There are moments in History when the survival of peoples is at stake, when a dynamic energy can reverse the course of things, redraw the map of forces.
According to Lenin's famous saying, arcane but so true "there are decades in which nothing happens and there are weeks in which decades happen".
Well, that's exactly what happened, and is still happening, in the Middle East and beyond, with the trapped bombers of September 17, the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon on September 29, and a day later, the advance of Israeli ground troops into southern Lebanon .
A terrorist army, stronger than Al Qaeda and ISIS combined, weakened over time and currently decapitated.
The Iranian regime, for which Hezbollah was the spearhead, the jewel in the crown, or to continue the Bolshevik metaphor, its most valuable asset, is weakened by a defeat that comes after the bombing of its embassy compound in Syria, the execution of the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in the heart of Tehran, and the failure of his general attack, on April 17, against Israel. Kia, for the first time in almost half a century, is huddled in a position of defense, fragile.
The ports of Hodeinita and Ras Isa in western Yemen were targeted by a squadron of fighter jets after the Houthis, another puppet of the ayatollahs, made the mistake of striking Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had just landed. Netanyahu.
Lebanon on the road to decolonization
Yes, Lebanon, that glorious land of Adoni (Syrian-born poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber) and (Khalil) Gibran, which inspired the admiration of (Gérard de) Nerval, Lamartine and Chateaubriand and was, for a long time, example of cosmopolitanism and tolerance, then became nothing more than a colony of Iran, a pawn in its imperial strategy and, because of it, a failed state – now it sees the vise loosening and the Lebanese people, if they wish, can take back his fate in his own hands…
Israel breathes a sigh of relief…
Women in Iran are smiling…
What's left of the democrats in Syria remember that Hezbollah was at the forefront of Bashar al-Assad's slaughter of hundreds of thousands of their own, and in Idlib there were great outbursts of joy…
The families of the 58 French paratroopers and 241 US marines killed in the two 1983 suicide truck bombings in Beirut, the survivors of the 1986 Paris attacks on the Tati department store, the Renault pub, the police station, the regional RER train, the Paris-Lyon TGV high-speed train and so on, they believe, like American President Joe Biden, that justice was done by killing Hassan Nasrallah.
In short, the free, real world from New York, Paris and Rome, to the masses from Tehran to Ankara and from Moscow to Beijing and Kabul do not give up hope living under stupid and bloodthirsty dictatorships, they breathe a little better and see the signs of a possible change.
Of course, nothing has been decided yet.
Hezbollah has thousands of missiles aimed at Israel. And the "five kings" - Iran, Russia, the Islamic International, Turkey and China have not been left without resources.
A lesson in determination from Israel
But the Israelis taught a lesson in determination and courage.
They did the opposite of what Europeans and Americans repeated like broken gramophone records at the Munich Security Conference: “de-escalation! De-escalation!” forgetting that, according to War theorists and Von Clausewitz, that there are situations in the world where, unfortunately, escalation is necessary.
And they reminded us that there are moments in history when survival (in this case of Israel) is at stake, when entire peoples (in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and the Kurds in Iraq and Syria) are held hostage and threatened, when the strategy of compromise interpreted by the enemy (from Nazi Germany in the past, today from Iran) as an invitation for even harder blows - there are, therefore, moments when one of those strong actions, which the cowards call "escalation" can change the course of things, redraw the power map and save lives.
The Israeli army acted alone because this is its current situation. But he did so -- contrary to what armchair generals everywhere repeat, who decry an "unruly Israel" -- in moderation. It shattered the operational capabilities of a state-within-a-state that terrorized the world and did so, as always, while trying to save innocent civilians.
And, as anyone should know from the fall of great empires and, more recently, the USSR, dictatorships fear not just failure, but external humiliation that exposes them to their internal opposition—so Israel can function in the process fulfillment in Iran itself of the great dream of the Western democracies, the moderate Arab countries and, again, of the heroines of democracy who marched bravely in Tehran for two years shouting "Woman, Life, Freedom".
For these reasons, Israel's allies must urgently regroup to support it, not only to defend itself, but also to prevail."
SOURCE: Iefimerida.grLa Javie, 9.10.2024