Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged for years that he will deliver “total victory” across his multi-front regional war. He now faces total failure across the board and his inability to accept defeat is dragging him down further.
The Israeli Premier, after overseeing the most devastating and humiliating military defeat in the Zionist regime’s history, sought to turn the blow of October 7, 2023, into a resounding strategic victory. Instead of simply focusing on Gaza, the decision makers in “Tel Aviv” pursued a different strategy entirely, they had set their sights on fast-tracking the “Greater Israel Project”.
This is why Netanyahu began to speak about a “seven-front war”, later adding the media war as his eighth front. In order to succeed, the goal was to take down every enemy, the most important being the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In his mind, the Israeli Prime Minister was implementing a strategy that would not only restore the shattered “deterrence capacity” of his military, but edging his name in history as the man who finally achieved the Zionist dream of expansion. This isn’t just about achieving an Israeli victory and securing its regional dominance, it is about Netanyahu achieving what Levi Eshkol oversaw during the June 1967 War or what David Ben-Gurion did between 1947-9.
However, the Israelis have so far proven themselves incapable of achieving even a single one of their goals. The explanation as to why is very simple, they don’t have a real army and are incapable of accepting the inevitable consequences of their actions if they seek to achieve any strategic victory.
When it comes to Gaza, they inflicted a full-scale genocide on the Palestinian civilian population, yet did not dismantle a single one of the territory’s dozen Resistance groups. The strategy they implemented in Gaza was not that of a real war, it was to destroy the besieged enclaves’ infrastructure and mass murder a significant portion of the population.
This is why the Israelis were incapable of producing any real battle footage from Gaza, despite their soldiers being equipped with cameras. With the exception of a handful of special forces raids, there were no zero-distance clashes that they actually initiated. The Israeli army’s soldiers instead hid away from the Palestinian guerrilla fighters and fought from a distance only.
Today, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza has not turned out the way they had hoped. The people remain on their land, while Egypt and Jordan refuse to absorb them. From the point of view of the Zionist leadership, they cannot allow the reconstruction of Gaza or any level of Palestinian autonomy in Gaza, because that is an admission of defeat, so instead they stall and test the limits of what they can get away with.
Up until September of 2024, the consensus opinion was that the Israelis were losing the regional war they had engaged in. Yet, their terrorist indiscriminate pager attacks, followed by the assassination of Hezbollah’s senior leadership, changed that perception dramatically and by November of 2024 made it so that Hezbollah had to go back to the drawing board.
With the fall of the Syrian government in December of that same year, it appeared on the surface that not only had Hezbollah been badly damaged, but that its supply lines were going to be severed, thus preventing it from rehabilitating.
Having gone from being viewed roundly as weak and ineffective, the Zionist regime entered 2025 very differently, dramatically altering its posture too. In many ways, they had simply fallen for their own propaganda, forgetting the position they were in prior to September of 2024. With their favourite puppet having just entered the White House, now they felt unstoppable.
The US Trump administration quickly took to launching an air war on Yemen, completely on behalf of the Israelis. They did this because of the difficulty that “Tel Aviv” had experienced in doing any real damage against the Ansar Allah government and its military there. It was a complete failure, leading to an American retreat.
Then came the Zionist assault on Iran, which became the 12-Day War, during which the Israelis took a beating and failed to pull off anything significant past the first 24 hours. An air campaign launched by the US ended the round, but failed to even achieve its goal of destroying Iran’s nuclear program.
In the meantime, the Israelis were expanding their occupation of Syrian lands, pursuing a deal with the new leadership in Damascus that is controlled by the US, while committing 15,400 ceasefire violations in Lebanon. All of this fed into their fairy tale that they were close to securing “total victory”.
Although the Resistance in Gaza was still active, the elimination of the other fronts would mean that the besieged Palestinian groups would be isolated and easier to deal with over a longer period of time, also taking away any potential leverage they still have. The only thing left to do, was to destroy Iran and overthrow its government, but that was going to require the US, as the Zionists had learnt from their first war with the Iranians back in June of 2025.
However, this time, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) were ready for everything that was being thrown at them, implementing retaliatory measures within hours of the initial US-Israeli attack on February 28 of this year. Then came the biggest kicker, Hezbollah entered the war only a few days later.
After bragging to the world that they had defeated Hezbollah, for 15 months, the Lebanese group implemented an attack strategy that left the Zionist regime stunned. Coordinating attacks with both Iran and Yemen, Hezbollah dragged the already drained Israeli army deeper into southern Lebanon. When the temporary truce between Iran and the US was declared, the Israelis sought to return to the 15-month ceasefire status quo, but it was too late.
Hezbollah has now unleashed a guerrilla war on the Israeli occupying forces, bogging them down and making them bleed, while ensuring that the Israeli public understand that they had been lied to. The Lebanese Resistance was never defeated, instead it was waiting for the right time to implement their defensive strategy, designed to liberate its land from the occupying regime.
The Israelis failed in Gaza, failed in Lebanon, failed in Yemen and failed in Iraq, or anywhere else, with the possible exception of Syria, depending on how things turn out. On the media front, the Zionists have suffered a strategic defeat, one from which they are unlikely to ever recover.
Here the Israelis stand, exposed before the entire world for what they truly are and incapable of beating their enemies, despite the horrifying atrocities they have been carrying out.
Robert Inlakesh
Source: Al Mayadeen