Israel has three main intelligence-espionage and counter-espionage organizations:
MOSSAD: The main intelligence agency under the Prime Minister’s Office;
AMAN: The seven-departmental intelligence agency of the Israeli armed forces;
SHIN BET: The counter-terrorism agency, known by its initials in Hebrew. As the details of the mass assassination in Lebanon via pagers and radio-telephones became known, many sources published questionable analyses and comments about Hezbollah’s strength, organization and its own security. In these columns, I have expressed the difficulty of understanding how Hezbollah was able to buy bomb-laden communication devices from Hungary and then facilitate their delivery both to its militants and to the civilian population.
Hezbollah, which from 2013 until earlier this week fired more than 18,000 rockets (according to one source, 26,000) from Lebanon into Israel, killing 33 Israelis. Hezbollah, whose founder and leader Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel last Friday, in addition to 17 of its leaders in the last year.
That Hezbollah which, on the day of the assassination of its leader, was virtually deposed by Mohammad Javad Zarifi, Iran’s foreign minister from 2013-21 and now vice-president, who founded and developed it, with the following statement: “We are not going to avenge anyone. We gave a lot of support to Hezbollah, but Israel has penetrated them so much that it is impossible to recover.”
The New York Times, citing Israeli officials, reported that Israeli intelligence agencies had known Nasrallah’s whereabouts day by day for a year and decided to kill him last week.
If Zarifi really said these words, which he allegedly told CNN, then a Shiite cleric speaking to Al-Arabiya television a few days ago was right to say to Nasrallah: “Write your will. Iran sold you and your group out. If you knew what deals Iran made in exchange for your head, everything would turn upside down. Those who showed you Jerusalem sold you out. I hope you will soon see what happened…”
The question is: Was Hezbollah such an easy target? Hezbollah scored a major victory in the 2006 Israeli offensive. Perhaps this defeat was the reason why Israel did not launch a ground invasion of Lebanon in response to Hezbollah attacks, which recently led to the evacuation of villages near the Lebanese border. But it seems that Israel has worked on Hezbollah in earnest since then. Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel after the Hamas raid on October 7 were not a real war of support, but a theater in which Israel played Hezbollah like a puppet.
It turns out that the Mossad has infiltrated not only Hezbollah but the entire Lebanese state apparatus to such an extent that no official in Lebanon is safe anymore. If you don’t consider this a bit extreme, it is even possible to say that the security networks have been turned into a shredded cage, not only in Lebanon, but wherever Iran is organized to wage a proxy war, in Syria, Iraq (and perhaps Yemen).
It turns out that the Mossad has infiltrated not only Hezbollah but the entire Lebanese state apparatus to such an extent that no official in Lebanon is safe anymore. If you don’t consider this a bit extreme, it is even possible to say that the security networks have been turned into a shredded cage, not only in Lebanon, but wherever Iran is organized to wage a proxy war, in Syria, Iraq (and perhaps Yemen).
In Palestine, first “Sharing,” The theater in Lebanon is, to put it bluntly, nothing compared to the “Two-State Solution” projects since 1967, which have been an attempt to dazzle and accustom the Arabs, and more generally the Muslim peoples, to the “Greater Israel” project.
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