Author: Ouyang Lin
There is a proverb: "How arrogant it is, how miserable it is now." This is no exaggeration to describe Israel today.
There is also a saying that goes like this: "God will make you mad before you perish!"
As recently as September this year, at the UN General Assembly, the Israelis still pretended to have a "Middle East dream" in their hearts: We in Israel and Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other Arab countries have reconciled; they pretend not to see the Palestinian state-building and humanitarian issues; India has pulled a line and made a lot of money through our port of Haifa; and finally, of course, the most important thing is that we are the boss of the Middle East, and let other countries obediently kneel down and be the little brothers, and we will work together to engage in Iran.
At the conference site, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proudly took out a map in public and showed it to the people at the scene. In fact, this is the huge ambition of the Jewish state of Israel.
As a result, on October 7, Hamas's unhesitating sneak attack was like a thunderbolt from the blue, completely shattering the Israelis' "sweet dream" of the Middle East.
Recently, Israeli Defense Minister Gallant issued a stern warning and said with deep concern: "Israel today is facing a serious threat from seven battlefields!"
"It's going to be a long, hard war, and it's going to be very costly," he said. ”
The seven battlefields mentioned by Gallant are: the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, the West Bank, and the Houthis in Yemen.
To make matters worse, the United States, as Israel's traditional ally, has recently been changing its stance on Israel, supporting and defending Israel, which has weakened Israel's support in the international arena to a large extent.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalated, with a sudden attack from north to south, which intensified Israel on all fronts.
First, let's start with the fierce offensive of Allah in Lebanon to the north.
Since the 28th, the Lebanese Allah attacks on Israel have been unusually intense, and unlike the intermittent attacks of the previous wars of harassment, this time they have been carried out without interruption. Many Israeli cities were ablaze, smoke and artillery roared, and people fled in all directions to escape the relentless fighting.
Second, let's talk about the street fighting in the middle of the Gaza city.
In the past few days, the videos that have been transmitted from the Internet have also accelerated significantly, and some battlefield plots are even extremely outrageous.
For example, if an Israeli tank is parked on the street or in a corner, someone will jump out of a hole in a smashed house or a ruined wall, grab an explosive device, and when they rush to the tank along the wall, they quickly jump out, stuff the device under the tank, and run away.
These scenes of Hamas's peculiar tactics in the war are exciting!
Hamas attacked the Israeli army, successfully routed tanks and armored vehicles invading Gaza, and repeatedly sniped Israeli soldiers searching in the Gaza Strip.
Third, let's talk about the "Red Sea operation" of Yemen's Houthi rebels to the south.
In the past few days, the world's attention has been focused on the Houthi "Red Sea operation", which has declared war, issued warnings, attacked aircraft carriers, and attacked merchant ships. This place is also very lively.
The US Central Command issued a statement on the 28th, saying: The US destroyer and the fighter jets on the USS Eisenhower stopped 12 suicide drones, 3 anti-ship ballistic missiles, and 2 cruise missiles of the Houthis in the Red Sea alone, but fortunately all of them were intercepted by the US military.
This is the official saturation attack of the Houthis on the US aircraft carrier battle group.
Recently, in order to attack Israel, the Houthis have flown all over the Red Sea to Israel and merchant ships, in addition to firing missiles into Israeli territory.
Although the Houthis attacked the US aircraft carriers, they were all intercepted by the US military, but they were not very harmful and extremely insulting!
This is the "rallying call" for the armed forces of the Middle East to strike at US aircraft carriers.
Fourth, Israel's "beheading" operation has stabbed a "hornet's nest", and the attacks on Israel have increased with intensity.
It has to start with December 25, local time in Syria. In the southern suburbs of the Syrian capital, there is a small town community called Saida Zainab, and that afternoon a major event occurred that shocked the whole Middle East.
In the afternoon of the same day, Israel fired three precision-guided bombs that accurately hit a house here. As soon as the news came out, the entire Middle East suddenly became nervous.
Because this time Israel killed Mousavi, a senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was Soleimani's comrade-in-arms, and his status was quite high.
Israel has long targeted Mousavi in order to uncover the scars and get Iranians to return to that anger as they did when they heard about Soleimani's assassination, to create strong pressure in Iran, and then to retaliate directly against Israel.
Fifth, Israel ushered in a full-scale "siege" of Islamic countries.
Why has the Middle East changed in the past two days, and on the three fronts that Israel has to face, the northern, central, and southern fronts, suddenly everyone has come together to give Israel strength, that is, to take revenge on Mousavi for being assassinated by Israel.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Bagheri, issued a stern warning: by attacking Mousavi, Israel is trying to "get out of the quagmire created by the Israeli side in the Gaza Strip", but it will only cause "the resistance front to tighten its encirclement of it."
What will the outside world see now? Israel's assassination is a "pit jump" between Iran and the United States.
Why did Mousavi die? The United States gave me a bomb. Why did the people of Gaza die? The United States gave me bombs.
What would happen if Iran was really so impulsive, if it really did so directly to kill Israel?
The United States can only end up in person! Use the last vestiges of the empire to fill this "big hole" for Israel.
In the face of the multi-pronged "siege" of Islamic countries, Israel is in a hurry not to mention on the front line, but also in the rear, first because of the lack of ammunition supply, and then there is an extreme shortage of living materials in the country.
On 8 December, just a week after Israel tore up the cease-fire agreement, it was short of ammunition, and the US State Department actually issued an emergency statement to Congress in the middle of the night, demanding the sale of 13,000 tank shells to Israel. Because such arms sales have to be reviewed by the US Congress, the time is usually 20 days, and there is no time at all.
Conclusion
After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israel originally wanted to carry out a preemptive strike against the Lebanese Allah Party and disrupt the entire Middle East situation, but Biden refused to intervene at a critical moment, and the result was that Israel did not succeed.
The big move of the Israelis is: pull the Americans into the pit, fight and be busy together, win and go crazy together, and die together if you lose!