According to Al Jazeera, Lebanese Allah forces recently fired 62 rockets at an Israeli military base in northern Israel, and the Israeli side later confirmed the attack.
Only in the number of rockets attacked, there is a difference from what Allah announced. In response, Israeli forces also hit a number of Allah targets in southern Lebanon that day.
As everyone knows, since the outbreak of the current round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Allah in Lebanon has always stood on the position of Hamas. But in order to avoid igniting the flames of war on itself, Allah Lebanon has been acting with restraint.
Leader of Allah in Lebanon
To put it figuratively, the thunder is loud, the rain is small, and the effect of public opinion and psychological pressure is far greater than the actual military pressure. But this time Allah attacked Israeli military bases, and dozens of rockets were used at once, and the meaning of-for-tat is more obvious.
According to information released by Allah in Lebanon, the reason for this relatively fierce military action is that Israel had previously crossed the border in the Lebanese capital and attacked Saleh al-Aruri, deputy chairman of the Hamas Politburo.
This is a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty, and if it does not respond, Israel may perceive Lebanon as weak and invade Lebanon directly.
Unlike other Iranian-backed armed forces in the Middle East, Allah Lebanon has grown over the years and has participated in the governance of the entire Lebanese state, becoming a recognized political party by all sectors of Lebanon.
Israeli army
At present, in order to crack down on the leaders of the Hamas organization, Israel has directly attacked the leaders of the Hamas organization in Lebanon in disregard of Lebanese sovereignty.
In this sense, it is not an exaggeration for Allah to say that they raided Israeli military bases in order to deter Israel and safeguard Lebanon's own interests.
But this incident is obviously not just a matter of Israel crossing the border to attack the Hamas leader and not giving face to Lebanon, but also a game between Israel and Islamic countries in the Middle East that it wants to reassert its hegemony.
To put it in layman's terms, with the withdrawal of the US aircraft carrier USS Ford from the Middle East and the withdrawal of several thousand Israeli troops from Gaza, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, although it is still ongoing, has actually basically turned into a "law and order war."
American aircraft carriers
On the one hand, before the Hamas rocket raid on Israel itself on October 7 last year, the Israeli intelligence service, which had always been proud of it, did not receive information in advance, thus shattering the myth that the Israeli army was "invincible" in the Middle East.
On the other hand, the Israeli army is now effectively under international pressure to end its large-scale military operations in the Gaza Strip and have essentially turned into a "law and order war" before they have achieved their intended operational objectives.
In fact, this also confirms from the side the fact that the current Israel and the United States behind Israel cannot dominate the Middle East.
In this context, Israel still wants to use force to maintain its right to speak as a "little bully in the Middle East", but the surrounding countries have actually clearly seen the decline of the United States, and after shrinking its forces from the Middle East, Israel is in a bad situation, so naturally they will not be too afraid of Israel.
Take Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel has crossed the border against Hamas targets in Lebanon, both against Hamas leaders and, in fact, against Allah in Lebanon.
Because during the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Allah in Lebanon sided with Hamas and carried out many attacks on northern Israel, it cannot be ruled out that the Israeli army is deliberately carrying out retaliatory actions.
And the response of Allah in Lebanon is undoubtedly to tell Israel that if the Israeli side believes that this round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict has entered the stage of the so-called "law and order war" and Israel can free up its hands to deal with Lebanon, Allah will be afraid, then it is very wrong.
For the overall situation in the Middle East, this kind of intransigence between Israel and Allah in Lebanon is obviously very dangerous, because it means that Israel is really likely to fight Allah Lebanon in the future.
The situation in the Middle East
However, Allah in Lebanon is different from Hamas, it is an important political party organization in Lebanon with its own armed forces, controlling a vast territory and population, not only in terms of the number of armed personnel, the level of weapons and equipment and other military strength, but also the influence of the entire Islamic world, is much stronger than Hamas.
If Israel and Allah in Lebanon finally break out into a fierce conflict, it can be said that the larger war that the international community has been fearing since the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict will almost become a reality.
At that time, the Middle East will inevitably face even greater chaos, and the contradictions between Israel and the entire Islamic world will inevitably intensify further.
This is actually not in the interests of almost all parties, and the United States does not want to see it, nor does the rest of the Middle East, nor even Israel and Allah in Lebanon themselves.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
It is precisely for this reason that the US side has been a little anxious recently, for example, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently visited the Middle East for the fourth time. According to foreign media reports, after visiting Greece and Turkey, Blinken said that it is in the interests of almost all Middle Eastern countries to contain the war, and that Middle Eastern countries "must use" their respective influence to prevent the region from falling into an "endless cycle of violence".
In fact, this is the hope that Turkey, Egypt and other regional countries can dissuade the Islamic resistance armed groups in the Middle East, exercise restraint, and avoid a full-scale war with Israel.
However, the idea of the United States is very good, but the problem is that the Islamic country is the one who is violated and bullied, and the United States, as a mediator, does not put pressure on Israel, but asks the bullied side to exercise restraint and patience.