How can Israel defeat Hezbollah, while it couldn’t overcome Hamas?

Tehran, Qodsna - Kevin Barrett, an Islamic scholar and former American academic, said in an interview with the Qods News Agency that the Lebanese resistance could force the Zionists to withdraw from Lebanon in 2006, today’s Hezbollah is in a position to inflict an even more resounding defeat on the arrogant Zionist entity.

Asked about the future of Gaza war following the potential intensification of clashes between Israel and non-Palestinian resistance groups in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, the analyst argued:

“There is a strong likelihood that the Zionists will shift the focus of their war from Gaza to Lebanon. Netanyahu needs continuing war to stay in power and out of prison, but he has been manifestly unable to accomplish his stated objectives of “freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas.” So, to distract from his failure in Gaza, the Israeli PM may very well escalate the war on the Lebanese front.

But the results there will be the same, because the same dynamics will be in play. If Israel has been unable to defeat Hamas in Gaza, how could it possibly dream of defeating Hezbollah? Hamas is lightly-armed, and Gaza consists of only 140 square miles. Lebanon covers more than 4000 square miles and Hezbollah is vastly better-armed than Hamas. Indeed, Hamas learned its tactics, including how to dig and use tunnels, from the master, Hezbollah. And Hezbollah has more than enough rockets to amount to an equivalent of a nuclear deterrent. If circa-2006 Hezbollah, armed with a minuscule fraction of its current rocket force, could force the Zionists to withdraw, today’s Hezbollah is in a position to inflict an even more resounding defeat on the arrogant Zionist entity.

So, any Israeli escalation against Lebanon is likely to go even worse for the Israelis than their genocidal campaign against the women and children of Gaza has gone. While all-out war on Lebanon might give Netanyahu a way to prolong hostilities and stay in power until, he hopes, Trump takes over the US and saves him through insane moves that the US high command would be unlikely to allow (and that Trump quite likely wouldn’t want to do anyway, regardless of his promises to Miriam Adelson) the most likely outcome is an outright Zionist defeat. If it plays out that way, Netanyahu’s tombstone will carry the epitaph. “It was either me or Israel. I chose me."