Israel cannot stand such humiliation.

By Aboo Mohammad (Jamal Dookhy)

26/01/09

For over Sixty years of occupation Israel has been barbaric to its neighbours. It has more recently unleashed
some unbelievable madness in terms of violence on the Palestinians. Either Israel considers itself or is
considered by its supporters as the 4th most powerful and mighty army in the world. What yardstick is used to
determine that?

Financed by American taxpayers’ money, it has an arsenal of some of the most sophisticated weapons in the
world. Let us for a minute minus the American aid of most deadly weapons and we find that as it stands by
itself Israel is not a most powerful army. One cannot judge an army’s might by the most civilians it has killed
and the amount of buildings it has destroyed; no matter how much it may claim it does not target them. It is
not an Issue of body count. One distinguishes the men from the boys, as far as a mighty army is concerned,
when it comes to real confrontation, between two mighty armies, there were such battles in the past and the
mighty army stood out like a sore thumb. They swept from battle to battle victorious and honorable. Not
killing innocent women and children nor blasting buildings that cannot fight back. If we go back in history
and look at some of the warriors we find some who were so brave and courageous some of them are well
known even today. People like Khaleed bin al waleed, Salahuddin Ayubi, Izzedin Kutuz, Gengis Khan to
name just a few. Israel the 4th mightiest, most powerful army in the world today, as it and its supporters claim
has no unsung hero who the world can place among these notaries mentioned above. All it has in its forces are
soldiers who kill innocent women and children and bomb buildings. For forty years no proper army has stood
up to Israel and actually taken them on. They have not actually fought any country after the 6 day war against
the Arabs in 1967. There have been de facto wars fought in the Middle East involving parties that were
backed by Israel, there were skirmishes with the PLO and other resistance factions, but no actual war itself
until new millennium where it was given a good kicking by a rag tag Hezbollah of south Lebanon in the year
2000. However, Hezbollah was not the army of a particular country that possessed a mighty arsenal, with
tanks and aircraft power and ships and so on. This has tarnished the image of the so called 4 th most powerful
army in the Middle East ever since and it cannot stand the humiliation. It keeps coming back and attacking
these same rag tag armies, Hezbollah in 2006 and Palestine in Jenin and just recently Gaza all to be defeated
and run away humiliated. It is only good in committing massacres on unarmed or poorly armed people and
then claim victory. So how can it still claim to be the 4th most powerful army in the world when it has not
confronted anyone powerful enough to determine its might? Just because it has an arsenal of the most
sophisticated that it unleashes on innocent civilians does not make it powerful. Look what happened to the red
army who was a super power. Although there are claims that the US helped the Afghans with finances but the
Afghans did not have tanks, planes and ships and so on. Yet they gave a massive blow to the Russians and
drove them out of their lands humiliated never to come back again. The US was considered one of the most
powerful and mightiest armies in the world, with all the arsenal one can think of yet that did not help them so
that is not a yardstick to distinguish what is a powerful army. That battle, one can say distinguished the men
from the boys, it was war on a large scale. Even America today in the US has resorted to the same tactic of
killing innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan that it kills soldiers. Yet claim to the world it is the mightiest
army. The Taliban on one side and the Iraqi resistance on the other are far mightier than Hezbollah and
Hamas or should we say “khamas” as the Israelis put it. “Khamas” is equipped with very light to medium
weapons in its arsenal. Equipped with a few RPGs, Kalashnikovs, Grenade and some flimsy homemade
rockets that most of the time fall in the desert and hardly cause any injury to any soul, they put up a resistance
of 23 days against and Army that has and uses Chemical weapons and causes, Hezbollah for 33 and both
inflicted heavy punishment on the Israeli army contrary to what the Israeli government want the rest of the
world to think. Hezbollah in 2006 blew up tank and amoured vehicles, attacked a ship, killed and maimed
numerous IDF solders and captured some too. In December 2008 to January 2009 Israel tried its bully boy
tactics on “Khamas”, thinking it can boost it image again after the 2006 humiliating defeat in 2006. What
rubbed salt to the wounds of Israel’s image was the prisoner exchange of 2008 where Hezbollah called the
shots of who, what where and when the prisoners were to be released. Although there were German
mediators, Hezbollah came up trumps and had the last laugh. They received Samer Kuntar and 4 other
Hezbollah soldiers were released after so many years for the remains or the corpses of Eldad Regev and Ehud
Goldwasser, who were captured in 2006.
This was a mighty blow for Israel as it likes to be seen by the rest of the world as the one who caused shock
and awe on the Lebanese and Palestinians and not the one receiving the dead bodies of 2 captured soldiers
while having to give back to one of it worst enemies some of its prized possession. Israel could not handle that
as it like to take but not give as we saw with Gaza how it was not happy to give back Gaza to the Palestinians,
that is still partly occupied it and came back last month and unleashed on the Palestinian people rather than
“Khamas”. “Khamas” (the cause of all evils in this world and on Israel according to Israeli spokesmen) holds
Gilat Shalet an IDF Corporal captured in 2006.It seems that Israel “misunderestimated” Hezbollah and
“Khamas”, thinking that attacking them would be a walk in the park, a picnic. Israel left Gaza after 23 years
unable to achieve its objectives contrary to what it tells the world. It serious needs the release of Shalet but it
is not prepared to give, having to give as much as it gave for 2 dead bodies to Hezbollah or even more would
be a serious blow again to its reputation. “Khamas” is asking for lifting the siege, opening border crossings
and the release of thousands of prisoners, including some of its democratically elected ministers and women
and children from Israeli Jails. That is a price to high for the Israelis to pay. That would herald a greater
victory for “Khamas” and humiliation for Israel, who were prepared to kill it own soldiers when they were
captured in Gaza rather than face the humiliation of negotiating their release. It even went as far as forging
figures of dead and injured IDF soldiers claiming only 10 had died in battle in Gaza and that included friendly
fire, however “Khamas” revealed and showed they had blown up tanks, houses and military vehicle with
personnel in there amounting to more than just a flimsy 10.That also undermines the great supposed might of
the US and Israeli army, since they pretend to be so powerful they fake the casualty figures in their ranks, but
are then humiliated when the truth comes out.

According to History Germany unleashed unspeakable punishment on the Jews, denial of that makes one an
anti Semite. In order to try out its might to prove whether it really is the 4th most powerful army in the world
may be Israel should take them on and try to defeat them, after al they were the ones who put them to so much
hardship, not Hezbollah and “khamas”. Then may we can really say who is a might not to reckon with rather
than pick on ragtag armies and in the end get so humiliated. The Arab states have become blinded with such a
myth that Israel is a powerful army and will unleash havoc on them unless they bow to them, that even some
of them do not see the power of the resistance armies in Lebanon and Palestine.