While global attention is focused on the 14-point Iran-US agreement and its implications for ending the war across West Asia, including Lebanon, as well as the economic impact of reopening the Strait of Hormuz under Iranian management, the Israeli regime continues to violate the ceasefire and pursue aggression across the region. It appears determined to normalize this behavior and exempt itself from the principle of ending hostilities on all fronts.
Although this may appear to reflect strength on the part of the regime’s leaders, particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, a more realistic assessment points to a deepening domestic and international crisis. Under the impact of Resistance achievements and growing global awareness, even Israel’s Western allies have increasingly found themselves compelled to confront it. While this trend represents a positive step, it must be accompanied by concrete international measures to punish and restrain the Israeli regime from continuing its occupation and crimes. Otherwise, the Resistance will impose limits on its actions.
Deep Internal Divisions: A Regime Nearing Political Exhaustion
The Israeli regime has been compelled to hold early elections in order to determine its political future before the US midterm elections. However, current indicators suggest that Netanyahu and the ruling Likud Party have little chance of remaining in power. Polling data indicate that 69 of the Knesset’s 120 seats could go to Netanyahu’s opponents, effectively ending his political career.
At a broader level, continued warmongering, despite the failure to achieve its declared objectives, has intensified social and political fragmentation within Israeli society. Ultra-Orthodox protests against military conscription, anti-war demonstrations, and reports highlighting the heavy economic costs of continued conflict have all contributed to a tense and crisis-ridden atmosphere in the occupied territories.
Growing Isolation: World Turns Against Tel Aviv
Although the Israeli regime has long relied on extensive lobbying networks and media influence to escape regional isolation and project influence beyond its immediate surroundings, global awareness of the Palestinian issue has grown significantly since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. As a result, not only populations but also governments have increasingly been compelled to take positions against Israel.
Western countries, from Europe to the US, which supported the Israeli regime across virtually all sectors for decades, are now adopting critical and, in some cases, punitive positions toward it. These moves stem less from humanitarian concerns than from mounting political realities.
During high-level talks in Mexico, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas compared Israel to South Africa’s former apartheid regime. In response, Israel announced that it would sever relations with her.
Meanwhile, in a rare criticism of Netanyahu, US Vice President J.D. Vance stated: “Over the past three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons protecting Israel were built by Americans and funded by American taxpayers. Israel’s problem is not Donald Trump. Anyone in Israel who believes the President of the United States is their greatest problem needs to wake up and recognize the reality of the situation facing their country.”
Trump also recently commented on his relationship with Netanyahu, saying he may support him in the upcoming election, but emphasized that the Israeli prime minister must adopt a more rational approach.
Although such positions are rooted partly in US interests and domestic political considerations, they ultimately reflect broader transformations within the West and the international system. Even Trump, seeking to reduce criticism, manage upcoming elections, and distance himself from the failed campaign against Iran, has found it necessary to criticize Netanyahu and condition his support.
The extent of Israel’s international crisis is evident in reports by Haaretz, which revealed that Israel spent $40 million on efforts to repair its image in the United States. Likewise, Nahum Barnea, a columnist for Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, acknowledged in a recent article that, contrary to how Israelis view themselves, dozens of organizations and institutions across the Western world now regard Israel as a threat to global peace and stability, a perception that intensified sharply following Tel Aviv’s role in the war against Iran.
Survival Through War: A Strategy for Preservation
A historical examination of the Israeli regime’s decades-long existence shows that its leaders have consistently sought political survival and the preservation of the regime through occupation and warfare.
For this reason, even as the US and Europe, its principal backers, call for an end to conflicts on all fronts, Israeli leaders continue to view war and occupation as central to their survival. Netanyahu has openly spoken of maintaining the occupation of parts of Lebanon despite US acknowledgment that the war must end on every front.
It appears that if compelled to honor such commitments, Israel may seek to sustain its strategic posture through continued aggression in Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank.
Resistance: Reshaping Regional and Global Power Dynamics
A crucial point is that Israel’s growing isolation and the increasingly confrontational posture adopted by Western states are not the product of diplomacy or accommodation. Rather, they are the result of actions taken by the Resistance front.
The Resistance disrupted US and Israeli plans for a “New Middle East” based on fragmentation, coercion, and the subjugation of nations, creating a new regional balance of power.
Iran’s achievements during the Ramadan War, including its effective management of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as Hezbollah’s extensive operations that constrained the enemy and the support provided by the Iraqi and Yemeni Resistance movements, have contributed to this strategic shift. These developments demonstrated that regional stability can only be achieved through resistance grounded in a diplomacy of strength, not through accommodation.
From Verbal Condemnation to Concrete Action
The key principle that regional and international actors must recognize is that verbal criticism of the Israeli regime, and limited measures such as sanctions on settlers or travel bans on certain officials, are positive steps toward regional peace and security, but they are insufficient to deter a regime that no longer even shows restraint toward its own Western sponsors.
Today, the US and Europe must move beyond rhetoric and employ their military, economic, and political leverage to confront the Israeli regime. Ending its occupation of Lebanese territory could serve as the first practical step in that direction.
The West must demonstrate both its good faith and the sincerity of its opposition to the Israeli regime by acknowledging its criminal nature and imposing meaningful punitive measures. Otherwise, the Resistance remains prepared, as it has in the past, to force aggressors back into line.
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