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Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, attacks War Minister Gallant: “For months, I’ve urged the Prime Minister to dismiss him. The decision must be made in the North, and Gallant is not the right person to lead.”
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Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) Dr. Mustafa Barghouti said the criminal Israeli attack on Lebanon, which resulted in the martyrdom of about 10 citizens and the injury of thousands of others, is a terrorist act and an attack on innocent civilians before fighters.
He said it represents the implementation of the conspiracy of the Prime Minister of the Zionist occupation Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist government. He added it aims to ignite a comprehensive war on Lebanon and drag the region into a regional war and prevent reaching an agreement to stop the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip.
Barghouti added to Jordan24 Netanyahu would not have dared to commit all these crimes without the absolute American support and Western silence on the war crimes he is committing.
The head of the PNI added Netanyahu will fail in the face of the steadfastness and resistance of the peoples of the region, especially the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples, and his plans will be shattered and destroyed as the conspiracies of the aggressors who preceded him were shattered.
Barghouti criticized the shameful Arab and international silence on the crimes committed by the occupation in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, which will lead to the outbreak of a regional war and ignite the entire region if it continues.
Barghouti called on free countries to pressure the International Criminal Court to investigate the crimes committed by the occupation, the latest of which was yesterday, especially since it affected thousands of Lebanese citizens and is considered a blatant attack on the sovereignty of the Lebanese state.
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Military expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said Washington trusts what Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant says rather than the utterings of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Because of this, it will not allow his dismissal at this critical time after 347 days of the extermination war on Gaza.
Disagreements
Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 the ongoing disagreements between Netanyahu and Galant confirms the structure of the occupation army is eroding. It shows Netanyahu’s move to dismiss Galant is linked to the latter’s view there is a need to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu and the ruling right however, see stopping the military onslaught on Gaza now would be an unacceptable defeat.
The military and strategic expert pointed out “all indicators support the option of the dismissal of Galant infavor of the proposed alternative, which is the appointment of Gideon Sa’ar,” to take his place. But “if Galant, who has a military background, has failed to achieve any noteworthy achievement in Gaza, how will Sa’ar succeed,” he asks.
Changing circumstances
Regarding the possibile launching of a military operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Abu Zeid believes all circumstances indicate Israel is unable to launch a large-scale ground military operation against Hezbollah.
He added if it did so, it would be an ill-considered military adventure, noting the occupation army, after its major losses in Gaza, is now unable to launch a successful military operation “at least for the time being”.
Abu Zeid added that the statements of the head of Hamas Yahya Sinwar, confirms that the resistance, after 347 days, remains cohesive. This is in contrast to a state of disintegration shown by the media discourse of the Israeli military.
Can of worms
It shows the army in a complicated situation between a northern front it is unable to control, an intractable Gaza front and a new front in the West Bank that may lead to a security deterioration among Israel’s Arab population inside the Green Line, in addition to the Houthi penetration that has taken out Israeli deterrence from a distance of 2000 kilometers away.
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Dr Marwan Asmar
The Israeli government and army are in a shocked mood, Sunday morning, over the ballistic missile, all the way from Yemen – that landed in the east of Tel Aviv and just six kilometers from Ben Gurion Airport.
The defense missiles, some the best in the Israeli military, including the Iron Dome, the Arrow and David’s Sling, saw the route of the Hatem 2 ballistic missile but failed to intercept it as it crashed in the surrounding forest areas of Tel Aviv causing mass fires with its shrapnels reaching the airport and a train station on the outskirts of Modi’in in central Israel with reports of damage according to the Israeli Haaretz.
Social media video clips show a train was hit on a rail line with smoke billowing out of it with one suggesting it was a “direct hit to Israeli infrastructure” and that “Israel on fire.”
Shock psychology
The incoming surface-to-surface missile created havoc in the psychology of Israelis, most of whom were still asleep.
As they heard the sirens warnings triggered in all areas of the so-called Greater Tel Aviv, all Israelis – reported to be 2,365,000 by the Hadshot Bazman website – tried to get to the underground shelters as quickly as possible with nine people being injured as a result of the “stampede-like” situation and “crush” that happened for sirens started bellowing at 6 pm in the morning.
Israeli security expert Yossi Melman said the single Yemeni missile breached the entire layered defense system of Israel as the Yemen missile was able to bypass 22 defense posts and whose counter-missiles were unable to shoot the single ballistic down, and turning Israel’s top-dollars defense systems into a laughing stock.
Israeli media reports say the military has already opened an investigation into the missile but they point also this is the third Yemeni success whose ballistic missiles targeted Tel Aviv, Eilat and now the Ben Gurion Airport.
The Houthis are saying nothing can stop us now for continually targeting Israel until the war on Gaza is stopped.
The Yemenis are saying this is just the beginning.
The Yemeni Defense Minister and Chief of General Staff in Sanaa issued, Saturday, a stern warning to the “enemies of the nation and the evil trio of America, Britain, and Israel,” stating what is coming will be “harsher and more severe than anything they have faced in the past,” as reported in the almayadeen website.
Israeli Army Radio reported “the ballistic missile launched from Yemen traveled a distance of approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles), taking around 15 minutes of flight time according to Anadolu. Yet it was not detected in time. The Israeli army says it is investigating why.
But this is surely to be a psychological blow to the Israeli military which is already under intense pressure from Hezbollah trajectories from the north to stop the war that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to.
Dr Marwan Asmar
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The current Israeli leaders come from everywhere around the world but not from these indigenous lands: Collectively termed Palestine! Theses immigrants have no connection to these territories, yet they are forcing themselves here as if they are the owners while colonizing its real people which include Muslims, Christians and Jews.
