Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Zahraa al-Derzi: Hezbollah’s Response Indicates New Deterrence Equations

Zahraa al-Derzi: Hezbollah’s Response Indicates New Deterrence Equations
TEHRAN (FNA)- Zahraa al-Derzi, journalist, says the operation by Hezbollah shows the Resistance Front is in a new defensive stage, in which Israel will receive military responses for every assault it launches on any member of the Resistance Front.
In an explosive interview with FNA, al-Derzi said, “This is not the first time for Seyed Hassan Nasrallah to keep his promises and Israelis know that very well. Thus, they know from now on, they cannot commit an assault without getting a response, unless they want to take risks to face new surprises, or to enter a war they cannot handle.”
Zahraa al-Derzi is a Syrian freelance journalist based in the Lebanese capital. Her reports from the war fields in Syria were published by various media. As a field correspondent, she extensively covered the war against Daesh [ISIL, also known as ISIS] in Syria.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Hezbollah’s attack came in response to an Israeli air raid that killed two of its fighters. It sounds Hezbollah can shatter Israel’s sense of impunity?
A: First, thinking out of the box, Seyed Hassan Nasrallah is an official speaker not only for Hezbollah, but for a whole axis of resistance and expresses the policies of the axis, then we can consider the latest operation of Hezbollah, is a stern message to Israel announcing new deterrence equations for Lebanon primarily in addition to Syria, Iran, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen too. Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in his latest speech a day after the operation verified that there are no red lines anymore and the current phase of deterrence makes the whole occupied territories as a target for Hezbollah. This is not the first time for Seyed Hassan Nasrallah to keep his promises, and Israelis know that very well. Thus, they know from now on, they cannot commit an assault without getting a response, unless they want to take risks to face new surprises, or to enter a war they cannot handle.
We are probably coming to a new stage of defensive equation to respond to any new Israeli assaults on Syria, which means that any offensive may get response from any of the axis parties.
Q: How do you view Hezbollah in terms of its defense policies?
A: Since the establishment of Hezbollah in 1982, it was established for a cause, to face the Israeli occupation who invaded Lebanon’s capital Beirut and occupied one third of the country’s territories. Form the beginning they took responsibility of defending Lebanon against any aggression.
Israel is a military entity, not a civil society; because they all serve at the occupation army, at least once each year. In addition, their state was established to protect their army, not the opposite. Although Hezbollah was aware of the composition of Israeli community, they do not target civilians for ethical law they built their ideology on.
Q: As ISIL was existing only a few kilometers away from Israeli forces, they would target Syrian soldiers and Hezbollah fighters. How do you view Israel’s military policies?
A: Israel was considering itself as an unbeatable state, and this illusion got shattered by the defeat they faced in 2006’s war against Hezbollah. Then, they had to change the way of functioning. Later, proxy wars became preferred for Israel over direct battles, and they depend on tearing societies apart and erase any values that lead to consider Israel as the enemy, as well as dividing countries without losing any soldiers and avoiding battles inside the occupied soil. This strategy is related to the weakness of the Israeli society, which cannot afford being shelled and staying in shelters, and it was proven in the war of July 2006, when public pressure was assessed on the Israeli government to go to a ceasefire.
They created and supported Daesh (ISIL) and other radical terrorist groups as a tool in the hand of Israel, and that was documented in many places, especially in Southern Syria, where the borders of the occupied Golan Heights were opened for the terrorists who were in control of the parallel territories to receive their support (funds, ammunitions, weapons and logistics) and to get the health care. Their main role was to destroy the state of Syria, weaken the Syrian Army and topple not President Assad as a person, but to topple his orientation of supporting resistance and cutting Syria’s ties with resistance factions and Iran.

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