Nasser Kandil
Albinaa’ Newspaper July 20, 2024.
Yemen carried out a qualitative special operation which changed many of the standards in the ongoing war. Although it was a single operation by a drone which only resulted in a fire, one fatality, and several injured, it was far bigger and far more important than these results, because the target was the entity’s political and economic capital. Despite the talk about Jerusalem as the capital, Tel Aviv is the entity’s heart and soul, holding its tourist companies and establishments, and is the residence of banks, global enterprises, and the stock exchange. The success in targeting it says that no place in the entity is safe from being targeted, and that no place is immune or out of Al Mukawama’s reach, and that the large residential communities packed in Tel Aviv can no longer trust that they are under the protection of a security system which boasts of being the best system made in the West and possessed by its armies.
Until yesterday the entity was selling its anti-aircraft missiles and missile systems, David’s Sling, Hetz, Arrow, and Iron Dome, as the best worldwide, and which constitute one of its most important economic resources. This system was put to the test in the jewel of the entity’s crown, Tel Aviv, where all means of surveillance, tracking, radars and missiles are amassed. The Yemeni drone successfully penetrated this concentrated, multi-level, complicated system covering the most heavily defended circle, which is the case in all capital cities where defense circles are doubled in comparison with defense of other cities and areas.
The Yemeni drone which traversed more than 2000 kms, crossed this distance over a number of hours, and under supposed American, Israeli, and other tracking sensors, which on April 14, partnered in confronting the Iranian deterrent response. Yemen’s success in reaching its designated target implies a maximal failure of such supposed systems, at their head the American ones, which boasted in a declaration that they intercepted 4 Yemeni drones, but failed to mention that the drone intended to reach its target was successful, and that America failed to intercept it. The question is what if Yemen were to send over a formation of tens of drones?
While Netanyahu talks about the ultimate victory in Gaza, after swallowing his tongue about the ability to wage war on multiple fronts, and evading the dangers of a confrontation with Lebanon’s front which has been pouring its lava on the settlements in North Palestine, hitting military facilities and causing the displacement of more settlers, the Yemeni drone comes in full eloquence to emphatically tell the entity that it is, in fact, more fragile than a spider’s web.
The message carried by the drone of the auspicious Yemen, is a continuation for what Al Sayyed Nasrallah said in debunking Netanyahu’s talk about the proposed Third Phase bringing de-escalation to the combat fronts, especially the supporting fronts. What he stated was that Al Mukawama is unconcerned about the names and numbers given by the entity to phases in its war, and that Al Mukawama’s unique concern is exerting more pressure on the entity until it accedes to the terms of Al Mukawama in Gaza, and an agreement is reached ending the war in Gaza under Al Mukawama’s terms.
In tandem, the Yemeni drone says to Arab states, spectators of the devastation in Gaza, that their military arsenal is nothing but scrap bought at exorbitant prices with no other purpose than giving work to industries in the West, and not an arsenal purchased for the protection of a cause, or to lift injustice, or to liberate a land. It also says that Arab effectiveness is not decided by the size of a country or its population, and not by its riches, economic stature, or the quantity of arms in its military depots, but in the minds, hearts, consciences, and will power of its leaders. For these reasons it is apparent that the effective Arabs today are the poorest and least in number among Arabs, whose people are confined and besieged, whose countries are devastated. They are headed by Yemen, who just like it stands at the head of the suffering, it also stands at the head of magnanimity and chivalry.
