Is Israel, stuck in Gaza, looking for a way out in Lebanon?

How should we read Israel's simultaneous assassination attempt targeting thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah members? As the magnificent comeback of the MOSSAD legend, which was razed to the ground by the Al-Aqsa Flood that began on October 7? Or as the tragic collapse of the Hezbollah legend, which for so many years has managed to promote itself in the region as the greatest symmetrical resistance force or savior power against Israel?

Before reading it as the comeback of one legend or the defeat of another, we must of course begin by noting that Israel, in every stage of the attacks it carries on, raising the bar of crime ever higher and lowering the level of humanity ever lower, in any case surpassing itself in criminality, has crossed a new threshold.

What is understood up to this hour is that what Israel did in this incident was not an operation carried out through software espionage over pagers, a technology left over from the nineties. On the contrary, it is an infiltration achieved by the simplest possible mechanical intervention: seizing, at one link of the supply chain, the thousands of devices Hezbollah had bought from a company, and placing an explosive inside them. To carry out this infiltration, it suffices to gravely abuse a trust in international trade, which rests entirely on trust, and to slip into that gap like a thief.

Perhaps, saying that all is fair in war, one might even tip one's hat to this infiltration. But an operation whose result was the killing of civilians, doctors and nurses, and which above all is a vile abuse of trust in a commercial process, shows not Israel's greatness or its refined espionage but only its vileness and its blind fury. It shows that Israel cannot be trusted in any way, not only in war but in peace. That neither it nor any partner that cooperates with it can ever be trusted... The necessity of boycotting the products of companies that support Israel emerges here as a far more urgent duty. For these companies can at any moment, in Israel's favor, do any kind of harm to everyone else, and can place in their products any kind of biological or chemical poison, explosive or substance. There can be no trust whatsoever in companies that support Israel. They can do any kind of harm to their customers.

We said that Israel's ability to do so much evil does not show its greatness or the legendary skill of its intelligence. Indeed, to carry out these operations it is enough simply to be evil. Otherwise this skill and technology exist in every country that could bear to do this evil. Let alone the simple technology of pagers, today turning phones into weapons through software has become more or less one of the easiest jobs in the science of software. But not every country would dare to do it. Because it is a crime even worse and more inhuman than a chemical attack.

With this incident everyone once again saw what Israel is capable of daring. And what a great threat Zionism poses to humanity. But it is unwarranted to accept this attack as the magnificent comeback of the legend of MOSSAD's celebrated intelligence skill, which was made a laughingstock by the Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7. Truly, it is not only with this incident but also with operations such as the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in the Hezbollah-controlled neighborhood of Lebanon, the same kind of assassinations of other Hezbollah leaders, and the precision shooting and martyrdom of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a house controlled by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran, that there emerges, in a way, an appearance of MOSSAD's image, disgraced on October 7, being repaired. It is very clear that these operations were carried out with serious and effective intelligence, infiltrations or help from the inside. But none of these operations lifts Israel out of the disgraceful state into which it fell on October 7.

Meanwhile, the fact that all of these operations of Israel's MOSSAD that are counted as successful are also being pulled off thanks to Hezbollah's intelligence and security gaps sticks out like a sore thumb. Of course no one can say that Hezbollah, which is constantly taking a beating, is cooperating with Israel in taking beatings. But it does not escape attention that Hezbollah, which leaves no ashes in the brazier when it comes to talk, and which, when the Syrian civil war was at issue, worked like an extremely capable and skilled massacre machine, is only taking beatings from Israel and has so far not displayed a thousandth of the skill it displayed in Syria. Hezbollah was not this helpless, cannot be; so then what?

Quite apart from the extreme disproportion in the resistance Hezbollah has shown, there is a situation created by the position that Iran and the Houthis, in the course of the process, keep falling into against Israel. Since October 7 there had been a confrontation between Hamas and Israel that determined all perceptions, feelings, views and political attitudes throughout the world against Israel and in favor of Palestine-Hamas.

In this confrontation, the Palestinian cause caught a wind in explaining itself that it had not caught since 1948. The Palestinian cause, which even among its friends had nearly become taken for granted, forgotten and neglected, became once again the most important issue in the world. Moreover, this time with the true face of Israel and of all its political, media and ideological supporters exposed. This was the situation while the matter was unfolding between Hamas and Israel.

Yet Iran, Hezbollah and the Houthis, as it were, give Israel back the very source of might or rightfulness that it so badly needs. Perhaps it is not they but rather Israel that does this, by targeting them and constantly keeping them on the agenda. In fact, whenever Israel is squeezed in Gaza it runs to this front, because it is easier to score here, both in terms of military intelligence and in terms of setting up this equation as it wishes.

Of course, meanwhile, Israel's genocidal attacks on Gaza are also continuing. There, every day, again dozens, hundreds of children, civilians and women continue to be massacred in the most savage way, and Gaza's valiant sons continue to resist this criminal power. This resistance continues to drive Israel mad and to make it more aggressive. And this drags Israel into ever more mistakes, into a vise of mistakes that will go all the way to its own end.