Syrian civil war is reignited.

[Botak]

1 minute ago, Diaz said:

And how would I know it’s ai? That content below the pic was not added when I saw it. 

Fair enough

Still just surprising how easy it  is nowaday to fall for fake news. Wonder what the future would look like

[Abu Nur]

Good analysis:

 

[Jaabir]

9 hours ago, Eddie Mecca said:

Resistance Axis isn't a fraud by any stretch of the imagination... they're doing your job for you while you sit in luxury on your La-Z-Boy recliner and give your play-by-play commentary 

It's the definition of fraud when you look up the word in a dictionary. A fraud by every stretch of imagination. If they were doing my job for me, as you say, they would be protecting the lives Shi'as in Parachinar, Afghanistan, Homs, and everywhere in the region the Shi'a are threatened. Instead it has piled up the pure Shi'a lives into dead bodies to fight Israel while our backs are exposed to other threats. Such is the height of stupidity, imbecility, and a suicidal ideology which actively opposes the teachings of the Ahlul bayt.

9 hours ago, Eddie Mecca said:

Iran isn't stupid...may Allah continue to guide and protect Iran

I argue Iran is stupid for its relationship with Hamas and list reasons for it, and all you have to argue is "Iran isn't stupid"... Fantastic reply brother. Very convincing.

Have you ever been to Iran? You'd think after 1979 Islam in Iran would be strengthened. And yet, Islam itself is hated by so many average Iranians. I myself have stories seen how much the average Iranian in Iran hates Islam (not diaspora). Khamenei himself said you won't see Israel in 25 years, and yet this fraudulent Axis is the one begging for a ceasefire. Israel killed almost 10 Artesh in an open attack on Iran and IRI has only killed Palestinians in it's "retaliatory strikes" since Oct. 2023. If that's not humiliating enough, they spent 10 years to prop up Bashar, thousands of Shi'i lives lost, only for it to be undone in a week.

IRI and those who follow it's misguidance has made "anti-Imperialism" some sort of Islamic jihadist duty. The Sunnis of the region don't play by Mr. Rahbar's rules. They care about their own people before the plight of others (such as Palestine). As every sane person should. It's only insane entities like IRI who'd willingly use Shi'a as cannon fodder for a plight that has nothing to do with them.

May Allah wake them up to reform themselves. And if not, may Allah destroy them, and free our Shi'a from the destruction they have brought on us.

Edited December 6, 2024 by Jaabir

[Jaabir]

It seems the Shi'a villages of Homs will be lost soon. Without going into detail, this one personally hurts. It's still too soon to know if these former ISIS and AQ leaders will treat them humanely. There was a siege on Shi'a villages of Homs in the past, and they faced some very tough times. This time it doesn't look like there'll be a siege but a full blown takeover.

It's truly saddening how Shi'as are cursed with such incompetent, foolish leadership, who've always had the ability to work for our own interests but squander it away for others.

Edited December 6, 2024 by Jaabir

[Revert1963]

Has Russia and Iran abandoned Syria? This seams to be the analysis of Mahmood OD. Is it all over for Syria and Hizbollahs supply route? Or has Iran made a deal with the takfiri terrorists in Idlib?

 

https://youtu.be/WpEkIFpgSC0?si=TJNALkUK_JmcMV2b&t=190

 

Edited December 6, 2024 by Revert1963

[mahmood8726]

1 hour ago, Jaabir said:

It's the definition of fraud when you look up the word in a dictionary. A fraud by every stretch of imagination. If they were doing my job for me, as you say, they would be protecting the lives Shi'as in Parachinar, Afghanistan, Homs, and everywhere in the region the Shi'a are threatened. Instead it has piled up the pure Shi'a lives into dead bodies to fight Israel while our backs are exposed to other threats. Such is the height of stupidity, imbecility, and a suicidal ideology which actively opposes the teachings of the Ahlul bayt.

 

1 hour ago, Jaabir said:

I argue Iran is stupid for its relationship with Hamas and list reasons for it, and all you have to argue is "Iran isn't stupid"... Fantastic reply brother. Very convincing.

Have you ever been to Iran? You'd think after 1979 Islam in Iran would be strengthened. And yet, Islam itself is hated by so many average Iranians. I myself have stories seen how much the average Iranian in Iran hates Islam (not diaspora). Khamenei himself said you won't see Israel in 25 years, and yet this fraudulent Axis is the one begging for a ceasefire. Israel killed almost 10 Artesh in an open attack on Iran and IRI has only killed Palestinians in it's "retaliatory strikes" since Oct. 2023. If that's not humiliating enough, they spent 10 years to prop up Bashar, thousands of Shi'i lives lost, only for it to be undone in a week.

IRI and those who follow it's misguidance has made "anti-Imperialism" some sort of Islamic jihadist duty. The Sunnis of the region don't play by Mr. Rahbar's rules. They care about their own people before the plight of others (such as Palestine). As every sane person should. It's only insane entities like IRI who'd willingly use Shi'a as cannon fodder for a plight that has nothing to do with them.

May Allah wake them up to reform themselves. And if not, may Allah destroy them, and free our Shi'a from the destruction they have brought on us.

 

Let's be real here, the only reason you're posting all of this is because you're bitter your expectations of Iran were not met in 2021 and now that the SAA like idiots and cowards made Syria fall, you come out of nowhere and start preaching about how you told us it was suicidal. Then you start making stupid claims about hezbollah begging for a ceasefire, not realizing Israel did worse than in 2006 (they couldn't even get past my village) or how you saw a bunch of idiots who hate Islam in Iran and concluded that must mean the majority hate it there or how you blame Iran for killing a palestinian who got killed due to Jordan shamelessly intercepting the missile. This is disgusting and shameless on so many levels, you can be bitter about Iran in your opinion not helping Pakistani shias and afghani shias without being disignenious, no one here predicted this would happen every informed source on this said this is unusual behaviour for the SAA, so stop pretending like you know what you're talking about by comming out of nowhere and telling us "I told you so!" when Syrian cowards leave their cities, just stop. If you're deluded into thinking Israel and America weren't going to eventually allow these takfiri terrorists to take Syria without Iran intervening or take Lebanon, it's your delusion. When anything happens to Lebanon, I don't want you to speak for us, the only reason I'm even not in an israeli prison being tortured and rotting away is because of these resistance kicking Israel out, if Israel or al quaeda invades Lebanon and overruns us, then so be it, atleast the lebanese people tried fighting back and delayed the inevitable.

 

You too @Eddie Mecca, take it somewhere else, I made this forum to keep it about the civil war in Syria reigniting and what outcomes could we expect, I didn't make this, to turn this into some debate about shia vs sunni or the axis of resistance is a failure, etc... that's not what this forum is about. 

Edited December 6, 2024 by mahmood8726

[mahmood8726]

Israel is about to invade southern Syria now to make a "buffer zone" despite them having collaborated with these al quaeda types before, this is an excuse to steal lands from Syria as they have intended since their inception. 

What's worrisome is Lebanon now, they will try and beseige Lebanon to weaken hezbollah and potentially one of them takes Lebanon, either these al quaeda like thugs or Israel. Syria itself seems to be finished, we can expect Damascus to fall soon because idiotic SAA soldiers were cowards and wanted to save their lives instead of holding their ground and fighting these takfiri thugs. 

Edited December 6, 2024 by mahmood8726

[Diaz]

The city of daraa is under control do the terrorists. Now they can reach Damascus if they want. 

[Jaabir]

28 minutes ago, mahmood8726 said:

 

 

Let's be real here, the only reason you're posting all of this is because you're bitter your expectations of Iran were not met in 2021 and now that the SAA like idiots and cowards made Syria fall, you come out of nowhere and start preaching about how you told us it was suicidal. Then you start making stupid claims about hezbollah begging for a ceasefire, not realizing Israel did worse than in 2006 (they couldn't even get past my village) or how you saw a bunch of idiots who hate Islam in Iran and concluded that must mean the majority hate it there or how you blame Iran for killing a palestinian who got killed due to Jordan shamelessly intercepting the missile. This is disgusting and shameless on so many levels, you can be bitter about Iran in your opinion not helping Pakistani shias and afghani shias without being disignenious, no one here predicted this would happen every informed source on this said this is unusual behaviour for the SAA, so stop pretending like you know what you're talking about by comming out of nowhere and telling us "I told you so!" when Syrian cowards leave their cities, just stop. If you're deluded into thinking Israel and America weren't going to eventually allow these takfiri terrorists to take Syria without Iran intervening or take Lebanon, it's your delusion. 

 

You too @Eddie Mecca, take it somewhere else, I made this forum to keep it about the civil war in Syria reigniting and what outcomes could we expect, I didn't make this, to turn this into some debate about shia vs sunni or the axis of resistance is a failure, etc... that's not what this forum is about. 

You made this thread, not this forum. We're discussing Syria's failure in recent news, and by extension Iran's failure. You don't dictate what people on random forums get to say bro. If you think there's rules being broken, tell the mods and have them remove comments.

And the only delusion is blaming all your failures on Zionism. The sooner you people wake up and realize the papercut you had years ago, the stubbed toe you had months ago, or the Sunnis rampaging in Syria days ago, is not some sort of Zionist conspiracy, the sooner your failures will end

Edited December 6, 2024 by Jaabir

[mahmood8726]

19 minutes ago, Jaabir said:

And the only delusion is blaming all your failures on Zionism. The sooner you people wake up and realize the papercut you had years ago, the stubbed toe you had months ago, or the Sunnis rampaging in Syria days ago, is not Zionists' fault, the sooner your failures will end

No one is blaming every failure on zionists, zionists play a big role in destabilizing the area, but so do disgusting takfiri al quaeda groups and so did syrias Army's incompetence and stupidity. 

 

The takfiri terrorists invading Syria is a result of Turkish, American, Israeli, European planning to perform a regime change in Syria and turn Syria into another takfiri tyranny ruled by Al joulani(la) that will also potentially normalise with america and israel. Agreeing with your misguided take that "it's only sunnis" won't change anything at all, were still against the same takfiri group. Telling us "I told you so" wont change anything, it will just make you feel better about yourself, I doubt people are paying less attention to al quaeda because zionists also had a hand in this. 

it certainly won't change the fact that Israel, America, turkey and takfiri gulf states planned to overthrow bashar and have a takfiri tyranny in his place since atleast the late 2000s. 

Syria was bound to fall at the hands of takfiri lunatics or zionists who also want to take part of its territory without Iranian intervention a decade ago.  

As for dictating, I just suggested both of you stop wasting everyone's time with these pointless debates.

Edited December 6, 2024 by mahmood8726

[mahmood8726]

14 minutes ago, Diaz said:

The city of daraa is under control do the terrorists. Now they can reach Damascus if they want. 

Well Syria is falling unless some miracle happens. So the western world and these takfiri lunatics got what they wanted, Syria has officially been regime changed. 

 

Now the focus will be on iraqs borders and Lebanon borders and a potential Israeli invasion of southern Syria. 

[mahmood8726]

Video:

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/26069

 

Why are Gulf-funded media outlets burning the credibility gained covering Gaza to whitewash a former ISIS and Al-Qaeda warlord?

 

[mahmood8726]

https://t.me/thecradlemedia/26070

Israel's Channel 13 correspondent:

"Within days, Hezbollah will be surrounded in Lebanon from all directions, and its air will be cut off from the eastern and northern sides."

Can't they make it anymore obvious? 

[Irfani313]

There is a lots of doom and gloom happening here. Please wait to hear from the right sources. Don’t speculate. 
 

My reading, AOR will make a stand from Deir uz Zoor line till Homs and maybe Latakia, and then the push back would start. Likely a major purge is coming all the way to the Turkish border and maybe the Kurds would be folded back to their size as well. 
 

Look at the risks, if Dimishq falls, the Republic of Kurdistan becomes a 100% reality, right now it’s just an autonomous conglomerate of some political families, Lebanon would fall to Wahabiya, parts of Syria would become zio settlements, Iraq would be halved into two separate countries, and the barbarians would be at the Persian shores of Persian Gulf. 
 

Would it let be after a clear AOR victory in South Lebanon and when the AOR is at the peak of its strength in last two decades? Let’s watch and see!!!
 

I’m just thankful many masks are off even when the wahaibya media mafia is quiet from Malaysia to Albania, the history is being written right in front of our eyes. 
 

There are lots of lessons learned in this. 

[mahmood8726]

5 minutes ago, Irfani313 said:

There is a lots of doom and gloom happening here. Please wait to hear from the right sources. Don’t speculate. 
 

My reading, AOR will make a stand from Deir uz Zoor line till Homs and maybe Latakia, and then the push back would start. Likely a major purge is coming all the way to the Turkish border and maybe the Kurds would be folded back to their size as well. 
 

Look at the risks, if Dimishq falls, the Republic of Kurdistan becomes a 100% reality, right now it’s just an autonomous conglomerate of some political families, Lebanon would fall to Wahabiya, parts of Syria would become zio settlements, Iraq would be halved into two separate countries, and the barbarians would be at the Persian shores of Persian Gulf. 
 

Would it let be after a clear AOR victory in South Lebanon and when the AOR is at the peak of its strength in last two decades? Let’s watch and see!!!
 

I’m just thankful many masks are off even when the wahaibya media mafia is quiet from Malaysia to Albania, the history is being written right in front of our eyes. 
 

There are lots of lessons learned in this. 

Its best to wait and see, eventually the AOR will be forced to intervene, if they fail, then they fail, atleast they delayed the inevitable which was supposed to happen a decade ago or decades ago.

 

I'm happy myself i didn't grow up under Israeli tyranny in southern lebanon like my parents did. 

Edited December 6, 2024 by mahmood8726

[AbdusSibtayn]

29 minutes ago, Irfani313 said:

There is a lots of doom and gloom happening here. Please wait to hear from the right sources. Don’t speculate. 
 

My reading, AOR will make a stand from Deir uz Zoor line till Homs and maybe Latakia, and then the push back would start. Likely a major purge is coming all the way to the Turkish border and maybe the Kurds would be folded back to their size as well. 
 

Look at the risks, if Dimishq falls, the Republic of Kurdistan becomes a 100% reality, right now it’s just an autonomous conglomerate of some political families, Lebanon would fall to Wahabiya, parts of Syria would become zio settlements, Iraq would be halved into two separate countries, and the barbarians would be at the Persian shores of Persian Gulf. 
 

Would it let be after a clear AOR victory in South Lebanon and when the AOR is at the peak of its strength in last two decades? Let’s watch and see!!!
 

I’m just thankful many masks are off even when the wahaibya media mafia is quiet from Malaysia to Albania, the history is being written right in front of our eyes. 
 

There are lots of lessons learned in this. 

 

24 minutes ago, mahmood8726 said:

Its best to wait and see, eventually the AOR will be forced to intervene, if they fail, then they fail, atleast they delayed the inevitable which was supposed to happen a decade ago or decades ago.

 

I'm happy myself i didn't grow up under Israeli tyranny in southern lebanon like my parents did. 

That is what I think too. It is too costly, rather suicidal to let go of Syria like that. Maybe they'll be forced to act. 

[realizm]

1 hour ago, Irfani313 said:

My reading, AOR will make a stand from

We should have faith in Allah (سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى) to handle our affairs the Best way. 

If that means Bashar falls, then be it. 

But I suggest we stop our fantasies about AOR now. 

We are still hearing, even in the turmoil of these days, about an ineluctable and magistral response of Iran to Israel.

I will repeat myself, but there was a moment we really needed a help not even two months ago on a very precise front. That's an Axis : you got my back I got yours. It did not come until after we lost the major asset of the resistance. And even at that point, what came out - 'The Response' - was not only extremely badly timed, but it also was done only because of what Israel had done to Iran in particular. Just as the 'ineluctable answer' we are supposeldy waiting for. 

Nothing like the 'You kill our Friends in our Capital cities and you destroy our countriesq and homes, so here is a major destruction for you in the heart of your Capital Tel aviv'. Just 'wait and you will see'. Like in 2020 post-Soleimani martyrdom. Even though the Response can be very well executed and bring hope and make the enemy feel like a bully who got smacked by someone stronger.p

My point is, AOR was a great regional project, leaded by great jihadi figures, but is was sandstuck politically. Because you can do whatever you want to intimidate and repell an enemy fighting you on the ground, or oppressing the weak, but you cannot do anything against the big bosses that are paying that enemy and who play on the international scene.

Edited December 6, 2024 by realizm

[realizm]

True question actually.

We are shias, most of us abiding to a hadith litterature comprising such events. 

Should we not feel hope that this chaos leads to what we are waiting for, even though we might lose some temporary comfort ?

[AbdusSibtayn]

1 minute ago, realizm said:

True question actually.

We are shias, most of us abiding to a hadith litterature comprising such events. 

Should we not feel hope that this chaos leads to what we are waiting for, even though we might lose some temporary comfort ?

I agree. It's actually our fault that we are not mentally prepared for this. 

We had grown careless. It is time to take stock of things and concentrate on the bigger picture. 

Maybe what we are awaiting is to come. Maybe not. We should be prepared in either case. 

[Abu Nur]

29 minutes ago, realizm said:

True question actually.

We are shias, most of us abiding to a hadith litterature comprising such events. 

Should we not feel hope that this chaos leads to what we are waiting for, even though we might lose some temporary comfort ?

If it leads to Imam Mehdi (عليه السلام) appearance, then this chaos will be increased and many believers will die. Here the believers are the Shias, so when the narrations refers the massive death of believers, it refer to Shia Muslims suffering.

[realizm]

15 minutes ago, Abu Nur said:

If it leads to Imam Mehdi (عليه السلام) appearance, then this chaos will be increased and many believers will die. Here the believers are the Shias, so when the narrations refers the massive death of believers, it refer to Shia Muslims suffering.

Point made. So maybe hope will be hard to attain, but we need to find patience and steadfastness because that is part of our fate.

[Abu Nur]

It is highly possible that Aleppo falled is because part of syrian army submitted to these terrorist for money. There is high corruption in Syria.

[Guest Realist]

3 hours ago, Irfani313 said:

Would it let be after a clear AOR victory in South Lebanon and when the AOR is at the peak of its strength in last two decades? Let’s watch and see!!!

So as always from the time of our foundational martyrdom until today we should fantasise that defeats are actually victories and counsel each other that all we need to do is keep waiting patiently for the promised eventual victory?

[mahmood8726]

1 hour ago, Guest Realist said:

So as always from the time of our foundational martyrdom until today we should fantasise that defeats are actually victories

AOR won in south Lebanon, but by the looks of it failed in Syria. 

1 hour ago, Guest Realist said:

and counsel each other that all we need to do is keep waiting patiently for the promised eventual victory?

We're a bunch of random people on the internet who have 0 effects on the outcome on this conflict, all we have is hope, patience or panic.  

Most of us have understood that patience is the best course of action instead of panic or overtly optimistic hope.

Not so realist are you now? 

Edited December 6, 2024 by mahmood8726

[Muhammed Ali]

21 hours ago, Muhammed Ali said:

 

My apologies for posting this. I should have been more careful.

[Diaz]

27 minutes ago, Muhammed Ali said:

My apologies for posting this. I should have been more careful.

It's ok brother, the op on X did not add the context when you posted it. And still, even if the picture is fake, that doesn't mean these terrorist do not support Israhell. 

[Abu Nur]

According to Lavrov, Iran, Russia and Turkey are going to work out to preserve Assad government. He also said behind HTS advance is US and UK.

[Diaz]

1 minute ago, Abu Nur said:

According to Lavrov, Iran, Russia and Turkey are going to work out to preserve Assad government. He also said behind HTS advance is US and UK.

Sorry but I don't trust turkey, I'm sure they are up into something evil. Erdogan is terrorist, he won't stop until he gain what he wants. 

[Abu Nur]

2 minutes ago, Diaz said:

Sorry but I don't trust turkey, I'm sure they are up into something evil. Erdogan is terrorist, he won't stop until he gain what he wants. 

Politics is mostly very dirty game. Yes, what he wants is control upon the Turkey borders.

[mahmood8726]

Not so fun fact, this is all joulanis millitary career, he's a serial backstabber and serial terrorist:

[Irfani313]

I see lots of us here seem to be losing hope, finding faults with those who in their limited means resisting (resisted) the global mafias just because it’s easy to criticize weak and downtrodden. 
 

Wars are like a boxing match, you win some, you loose some, you get bloody nosed, your eyes bleed, your lips get torn, you loose a tooth or so, taste your own blood in your throat, but end of the day you survive because your will is stronger than your muscles and techniques.

Now let me quote something from our history on that word of “loosing”. 

In Hudaybaya ceasefire, RasoolAllah ((صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم)) lost. 
In that sad month of Safar, the whole kingdom of God lost when they killed Zahra (عليه السلام) and usurped khilafat.

In Siffin ceasefire, Imam Ali lost when they raised Quran on spears. 
Then came the darkest night of the murder of Imam Ali in Kufa. 
Seven months later, Imam Hassan lost and signed a ceasefire. 
Ten years on, Imam Hussain lost in a Karbala. 
From then till next 180 years, remaining 8 Imams lost to prisons and poisons.

Among all of those events, there were those who said, “I see just beautify” and there were those who said, “haven’t doubted you more than I doubted today.”

Let’s don’t blame those who saved Ahlulbayt’s most sacred sanctities with their blood and their livelihoods. Let’s pick the language and faith of Zainab (عليه السلام), and not of the Laeens ibn Laeens. 
 

Allah promised victory to the Momineen in life and death, no matter the results, let’s don’t lose our faith while comfortably sitting in our rooms. Ain’t worth it. 
 

Hope +Patience
PeaceV

Edit: Naudhbillah for attributing the word “loosing” for Rasool and Ahlulbayt (عليه السلام). May Allah forgive me, but this was the line of thinking of those weak in faith. 

Edited December 6, 2024 by Irfani313
Naudhbillah for attributing the word “loosing” for Rasool and Ahlulbayt (as). May Allah forgive me, but this was the line of thinking of those weak in faith

[mahmood8726]

This is current map of Syria as it stands. Daraa has been taken by closeted traitors who got emboldened by the advances of the terrorists in homs, same traitors who border israel and do nothing. Some terrorists also infiltrated southern Syria from jordan, same terrorists who again did nothing to Mr tomato king in Jordan  or Israel. 

[mahmood8726]

https://t.me/AussieCossack/29400

Israeli channel i24News confirms that Israel warned Iran via a third country that it would "ruthlessly" stop any attempt to send Iranian weapons or troops to Syria to fight the Turkish backed rebels.

[IraqiFeyli313]

2 hours ago, mahmood8726 said:

This is current map of Syria as it stands. Daraa has been taken by closeted traitors who got emboldened by the advances of the terrorists in homs, same traitors who border israel and do nothing. Some terrorists also infiltrated southern Syria from jordan, same terrorists who again did nothing to Mr tomato king in Jordan  or Israel. 

The situation seems quite dire. And the weird thing is "Syria refused Iran to send two brigades of troops into Syria, out of fear that it would 'tarnish Assad's domestic support' and that it would 'provoke Israel to enter Syria". Like what the heck is going on within the Syrian leadership?

[Ibn Tayyar]

I agree with brother @Jaabir in that the lack of "Shi'a-Centrism" in our geopolitics is to blame for our losses. While I do believe that helping all suffering Muslims is ideal and praiseworthy, we ought to not place the plight of others in a status where they are above or equal to ourselves. 

The news regarding the suffering that our brothers & sisters go through in places like Afghanistan & Pakistan is sickening. It is even worse that they are neglected, hardly ever discussed, and certainly not supported during their struggles.

The Shi'a should always be the priority. 

Those who claim the war in South Lebanon was a victory are simply coping and unable to admit to reality. The attempt to present anything as a victory is a sign of desperation, and a reminiscent of the failing Arab armies during the Arab-Israeli wars of the past.

The Zionists said that their aim was to delink Gaza from Lebanon. Hezbollah said they would fight the Zionists as a support front in order to pressure Israel to submit to a ceasefire. 

Gaza has been destroyed and is still under bombardment. Israel completely destroyed South Lebanon and killed most of Hezbollah's Leaders and Commanders. It is also very likely that alot of Hezbollah's rocket stockpile was either used or destroyed, as is normal in a war against an opponent with air superiority. All Hezbollah achieved was it showed that it has the ability to damage Israeli border towns, and hit Israeli cities with drones and missiles. Something Israel and the world already knew anyway. Visual damage in Israel is relatively minimal - certainly compared to South Lebanon. 

Israel was also able to kill some of Iran's most senior commanders with hardly any damage recieved in retaliation.

What does this tell you? Israel is not deterred. It was not "defeated". It achieved its objective that it announced prior to the pager operation, which was 1) de-link Gaza and South Lebanon/Hezbollah 2) return the Northern Settlers home.

Now, did it achieve ultimate victory, as in "destroying" Hezbollah? No it did not achieve that. But how does this prove that Hezbollah's sacrifices - of thousands of martyrs - was "worth it"? Hezbollah did not achieve any of its stated goals and objectives since it joined the war in support of Gaza. All it did was "survive".

And what happened subsequently - the weakening of Hezbollah and Iran generally, as a result of the Gaza War - is obviously being exploited by Turkey and its rebels to fulfill their ultimate goal in Syria. The Shi'a in Syria will suffer greatly if this offensive remains as hot as it is, in addition to our Holy Shrines being in grave danger.

And if the regime in Damascus does fall and Iran's route to Hezbollah is compromised, then yes, Israel has just achieved a geopolitical victory of the ages. 

The believers should be honest with themselves. Learn from your mistakes and do not paint everything as a victory. Be open about where you have failed.

One thing I wish we learned from our enemies, especially the US, is when they train their troops or simulate wargames, they make it so the enemy is incredibly strong, perhaps much stronger than the enemy really is or stronger than even themselves.

This is why the US Military regularly loses in war game simulations. They try their best not to underestimate their enemy. 

And what happens when the US or the West (including Israel) fail? Instant self-criticism and internal debates. They don't try and sugarcoat their failures. They try and learn from their mistakes. You don't think in Israel there won't be a critical investigation into the failures of their military and intelligence when it came to October 7? There will be for sure. Just as there was following the 2006 War. And after the 1973 War.

Unfortunately in our Shi'i political circles all you see is positivism and talks of how in mere minutes we can wipe our enemies out. Even right now, some are people have convinced themselves that what is happening is in Syria is some sort of 4D master plan.

It is not haram to be critical or to mention how tough your enemy is. It is stupid to belittle the other side and convince yourself your much superior - even if you actually are, let alone if you aren't.

This is not a video game. This is war. 

May Allah grant us patience and foresight. 

Edited December 7, 2024 by Ibn Tayyar