Bulletins and News Discussion from January 20th to January 26th, 2025 - Viva La Resistance

Image is of many Hamas soldiers supervising the handing over of Israeli hostages to cars heading out of the Gaza Strip.

After 15 months of genocide - and resistance to it - the Israeli regime realized that they could not win a military victory against Hamas, and were forced to sign a humiliating ceasefire in order to get their hostages returned.

With much of Syria under the control of Al-Qaeda, and an increasing level of covert infiltration into Lebanon, the crisis in the Middle East is not over, and we may still be in its beginning stages, as the center of hegemony continues its gradual shift away from the United States. Their navy, once considered the best in the world, is likely also not very happy about their ships and aircraft carriers being forced to retreat by Yemen, one of the poorest countries; and all eyes are on Iran, who has, over the last year and a half, demonstrated a newfound confidence and strength to directly strike Israel.

The recovery for Gaza will take, at a minimum, decades; it could indeed never fully recovery to even how it was before, considering it is not in Israel's interests to see their concentration camps recover. But Hamas has proven to be steadfast and the tunnel network has proven its resilience, despite facing some of the most powerful conventional bombing in history. This shows that Palestine's liberation is a when, not an if; and hopefully a much sooner "when" than expected before October 7th.

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After the end of the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel this morning, the Lebanese people are bravely confronting the the Israeli military occupation units that remain in south-eastern Lebanon, walking right up to Israeli tanks, going ahead of the Lebanese army and past their fortifications to confront the Zionists, and returning to their towns and homes. This has resulted in confrontations between the Israeli military and Lebanese civilians with Israel shooting at the Lebanese people to try stop them from returning, with ~~15 dead and 83 injured~~ 22 dead and 123 injured, including 9 minors and a paramedic, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. This has also forced the Lebanese army to actually fulfill their mandate and protect the people, as the people went ahead of the army to confront the occupation. One Lebanese army soldier is also set to have been killed.
There are too many videos and photos to post individually, but they are astounding to see.
My favourite two, very contrasting emotions:

The Middle East Observer twitter account has compiled a bunch of videos and photos on his account, if you want to see more. Even a makeshift shrine for the martyrs has been erected.
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- Lebanese Army shows why Hezbollah exists in the first place.
  
  And today was an act by the southern Lebanese people to actually protect the resistance and Hezbollah. They know Hezbollah cannot fire a shot right now (situation internally in Lebanon is complex), so the people go and confront the occupying Israeli forces themselves, while unarmed, showing that they are prepared to risk their life and die for their land, just as Hezbollah is with their guns and missiles. The people of the south and the resistance are unified in their goals and actions.
  Imagine if, in an alternate reality, the ceasefire agreement ended and no one confronted the occupation. What message would that send to both Israel and the armed resistance in Hezbollah (and all the groups outside of Lebanon of course)? In such an alternate reality, Israel would feel emboldened, the resistance would feel as if they are distanced from the people. Instead we live in a reality where the people did confront the Israeli occupation, so the resistance knows that the people support them and are prepared to risk their lives for the resistance, just as the resistance is prepared to risk their lives for the people (and did so for many days, at a great sacrifice). They are unified.
  
  Can you expand on the complex internal situation? I recall Hezbollah putting out statements implying the conflict would reignite if the occupation continued
  
  It's to do with the ceasefire agreement and it's clauses, UNSC 1701, the political situation in Lebanon with the new president, and the US funding the Lebanese army, and how all this effects Hezbollah's position and ways to respond. Remember, just a week ago we had the Lebanese army destroying Hezbollah fortifications and confiscating their weapons under Israeli pressure, as Israel would bomb these positions themselves if the Lebanese army failed to tackle them. And this was encouraged (and permitted) under the ceasefire agreement by the mediators (US and France). Now, the Lebanese army is stepping in to protect Lebanese civilians (after being forced to by the civilians actions themselves in returning to their homes) and standing in front of Israeli tanks, confronting them. It's hard to explain in a single comment.

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