The Axis of Resistance This Year: A Growing Segment that Clinched Equations
Amine Hoteit - al-Binaa newspaper
In the last week of the year, at the threshold of 2015, and four years after the aggression that targeted the entire region in general and the axis of the Resistance in particular, it is useful to engage in a sort of evaluation of the results of the confrontation in the East between two projects: a Western aggressive one that sought to take over the region in a mischievous way, and another regional one that is resisting the colonization and seeking to clinch the identity of the region and to preserve its history.
Without venturing into the graphic details which we have lengthily dwelt on, we shall stop at the situation of each component of the said axis and that of the opposite side of the confrontation.
Start is in Syria, which the scheme has targeted and turned into the key arena of its hostile flames. There, tremendous defensive achievements were made on four levels:
The first was on the strategic level and embodied by blocking the essence of the aggressive scheme aiming to toppling the state and changing its strategic position. This achievement was made after the project of the Muslim Brotherhood and their crescent, led by Turkey and Qatar, was dealt a blow. The next setback was overthrowing Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi scheme. US President Barack Obama has even eulogized the two schemes together when he said, "Thinking of toppling Bashar al-Assad has become an illusion."
The second achievement was made on the field, with the Syrian government having controlled the state's strategic political, economic, and demographic central focuses, in addition to the coastal area and the connection with Homs, which gives reassuring signs over the state's unity.
The third is a political one that was embodied by an international recognition that trespassing the current existing legitimate Syrian government is an impossible and unrealistic matter. This is why the scene witnessed the return to Syria of many countries. Syria's positions in many international organizations were also consecrated and remorse spread out among Arabs for having frozen Syria's seat at the Arab League.
The fourth is a military organizational logistic one, as the Syrian army managed to recuperate the pattern of recruitment which was affected with the beginning of the events, as weapons and equipment started to flood from the friendly countries and the allies in order to preserve the army's capacities.
Turning to Iran, 2014 was the year of the special strategic change whereby the idea of an armed attack on the Islamic Republic was completely and definitely quelled away, and the thought of a western or "Israeli" clampdown became a folly with absolute sequels. The West then reneged on the sanctions policy and started to break the siege. As a matter of fact, ending the siege means enabling Iran of venturing into building its own vital strategic space with utmost freedom, in line with an international recognition of its right to the nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. This year is hence the year of the recognition of nuclear Iran.
Moreover, Iran scored more than an achievement on the political level, such as the presidential polls which the West admitted, for the first time in four decades, that they were transparent and legitimate. On the military level, Iran made huge steps in the fields of military industry and fighters' marshaling. It thus became a regional linchpin with an influence on the international relations.
As to the Resistance in Lebanon, led by Hizbullah, 2014 may be considered the year of the quality leap and success on the fronts with "Israel" and terrorism. This year, the deterrence balance was sternly clinched and the Resistance managed to create a state of constant fear in the enemy's political, popular, and military milieus.
On the ground, with its involvement in the defensive war of the Resistance axis in Syria, Hizbullah dealt a shocking blow to the "Israeli" enemy as it executed quality operations in the outskirts of Golan in the occupied Shebaa farms. The upshot of the operations constituted an extension to the ambush of Labbouneh and brought back to mind the operations of detention of enemy soldiers.
In terms of planning and psychological war, Hizbullah managed to make of the idea of fighting on the very territories of occupied Palestine and entering Galilee a realistic one, leaving the Zionists fearing the Resistance might have built tunnels under their houses or would unpredictably attack them.
As to armament, and despite all the sieging measures the enemy is espousing against Hizbullah, the Resistance managed to beef up its defensive capacities to the extent that its weapons can reach any spot in occupied Palestine.
Lastly, the salient security achievement made in Lebanon against terrorism should not be elapsed, especially that it was made through the interaction of the golden People-Army-Resistance equation.
In Palestine, The Palestinian Resistance proved the failure of the siege and confirmed that it detained various military capacities which enabled it to reach Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and to spread fear among the Zionists. It also proved to be able to deal with any land attack on Gaza which led the Zionists to fear descending into a war. A new equation was set between "Israel" and Gaza, that is the equation of "mutual prudence in confrontation." This per se is an achievement for the Resistance.
Therefore, the axis of the Resistance has drawn an ascending line for its path, accumulating power, until it became a difficult number in an influential regional equation that is part of a newly-fangled multi-polar world system which currently under reshaping. This is the first time that such a thing takes place, where a group of victorious warriors penetrate through the western monopoly of the world decision-making. Nonetheless, one shall not shrug off what remains of stalking dangers and confrontation that is likely to extend this year.
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