THE BITTER FLAVOR OF THE GREATEST DEFEAT SALMAN RAZA ALI QASIM Translated, Edited and Annotated by ABU YAHYA AL-HUSSAINI International Association of Muslim University Professors The Bitter Flavor of the Greatest Defeat The Sixth War: Beginning of the Downfall of the Zionist Regime The Bitter Flavor of the Greatest Defeat The Sixth War: Beginning of the Downfall of the Zionist Regime Salman Raza Ali Qasim Translated, Edited and Annotated by Abu Yahya al-Hussaini International Association of Muslim University Professors Name of the book: The Bitter Flavor of the Greatest Defeat: The Sixth War: Beginning of the Downfall of the Zionist Regime Authors: Salman Raza and Ali Qasim Translated, Edited and Annotated by: Abu Yahya al-Hussaini Graphics: Fazila Rahman Publisher: International Association of Muslim University Professors Year: 2021 Copyright © 2021 International Association of Muslim University Professors All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of International Association of Muslim University Professors. You [Zionist regime] will not see next 25 years. Insha’Allah till next 25 years, with Divine opportunity and Divine support, there will be no such thing by the name of Zionist regime in the region. [Ayatullah Seyyid Ali Khamenei, 9th September, 2015]1 1http://farsi.khamenei.ir/news-content?id=32622 In this book words ‘Israel’ and ‘Zionist Regime’ are used for “Occupied Palestine” It is a concrete historic reality that Israel was built on “Palestine” by terrorism, massacres and forced mass displacement of the Palestinians and the continuous occupation of the Palestinian Lands and exists today only as a rogue and fake state. Israel has no existence in the legal and real sense of word in the civilized world. Contents PREFACE .......................................................................................................................... 1 A BRIEF COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE PAST ARAB-ISRAEL WARS ............................................ 1 THE ZIONIST MILITARY OFFENSIVES AGAINST LEBANON ........................................................... 3 THE WAY THE 33 DAY WAR BEGAN ..................................................................................... 4 SECTION I: THE POLITICAL ASPECTS OF WAR ................................................................ 7 PREFACE ..................................................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1: ANALYSIS OF THE CONDITIONS BEFORE THE WAR ............................. 11 CHAPTER 2: DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS DURING THE WAR .......................................... 23 CHAPTER 3: POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR ........................................... 39 SECTION II: THE MILITARY ASPECTS OF WAR .............................................................. 49 PREFACE ...................................................................................................................... 51 CHAPTER 1: THE MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND THE WAR STRATEGIES OF THE TWO SIDES ......................................................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER 2: THE TURNING POINTS OF THE WAR ..................................................... 63 [ISRAELI MILITARY DEFEATS] .................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER 3: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATIONS .......................................... 69 CHAPTER 4: THE DEPLOYMENT OF UNIFIL IN SOUTH LEBANON ......................... 73 CHAPTER 5: THE MILITARY CONSEQUENCES OF WAR ........................................... 77 SECTION III: ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF WAR ........................................ 95 PREFACE ................................................................................................................... 97 CHAPTER 1: POPULAR VIEWS ON THE WAR FROM THE TWO SIDES .......................... 99 CHAPTER 2: ECONOMICAL DAMAGE ..................................................................... 107 CHAPTER 3: CONSEQUENCES OF WAR .................................................................. 111 ENCLOSURE ................................................................................................................. 123 APPENDIX I: MESSAGE OF AYATULLAH SEYYID ALI KHAMENEI TO SEYYID HASSAN NASRULLAH ON HIZBOLLAH’S VICTORY IN 33 DAYS ISRAELI WAR AND AGGRESSION ON LEBANON ................................................................................... 125 APPENDIX II: FULL TEXT OF SEYYID HASSAN NASRULLAH’S SPEECH AFTER THE VICTORY OF HIZBOLLAH ........................................................................................ 129 APPENDIX III: UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION # 1701 RELATED TO ISRAEL’S WAR WITH LEBANON ............................................................................................. 147 APPENDIX IV: TIMELINE OF DAILY EVENTS OF THE SIXTH WAR .......................... 153 APPENDIX V: A BRIEF HISTORY OF EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS BETWEEN ARABS AND ISRAEL ............................................................................................................ 161 INDEX ...................................................................................................................... 167 Preface For an explanation and analysis of the dimensions and causes of the 33 days war of Israel against Lebanon, it is necessary to shed some light on the earlier Arab-Israeli wars and the strategies of Israeli offensives against Lebanon in the previous decades. In addition, a reference to the goals of the two sides which they pointed to at the beginning of the war, will assist us in drawing conclusions regarding the victory or the defeat of each of the two sides. A Brief Comparative History of the Past Arab-Israel Wars The Arabs, since the time of the formation of the Zionist regime till now, have had five main wars with this regime and the latest offensive against Lebanon is considered as the sixth Arab-Israeli war, of course in this war, only Hizbollah was facing Israel and all the chief Arab countries except Syria, censured Hizbollah’s measures to defend Lebanon and blamed them as Hizbollah’s “adventurousness” against the interests of the Arabs in the region. Before the 2006 conflict, the Arabs had five wars with Israel in the years 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982 and each one of them will be described briefly to explain the importance of the victory of Hizbollah in the most recent conflict with Israel. The 1948 War The year 1948 was the year of the establishment of the illegitimate seed of the Zionist regime in the Middle East. In this year, the United Nations officially recognized Israel and this regime announced its existence as a new country to the world; but the Arab countries didn’t accept the vote of the UN and came at the verge of a war against Israel which finally resulted in a great defeat for the Arab governments by Israel. This war, due to the lack of unity among the Arab forces and the use of Israel from the support of the Western countries, especially America, ended in the defeat of the Arabs and the Zionist regime, for the first time, succeeded in establishing a dominantly Jewish population in the areas under its control by forcefully seizing around 80% of the Arab land via the policy of the forceful expulsion of Arabs. During the war of 1948, 700,000 of the Arab 1 The Bitter Flavor of the Greatest Defeat Palestinians were made refugees and were expelled to West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, which then were in the possession of Jordan and Egypt. The 1956 War The announcement of the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt caused a second war of Egypt with England, France and Israel in the year 1956. But this war was condemned by the US and the Soviet Union and as a result, England and France withdrew from the area of the Suez Canal and Israel was also forced to leave the Sinai Desert and the Gaza Strip. The 1956 war clearly revealed the bitter truth that, without the support of the US, Israel does not have the ability to attack and kill the Arabs. The 1967 War In the year 1967, Israel’s expansionism put the region on the brink of another war. Israel, in May 1967, sent its troops to the border of Syria which resulted in Egypt’s taking the same measure and finally, on the 4th of June, the cabinet of the Zionist regime approved an attack on Egypt and on the dawn of the 5th of June, the war started. Following this attack, Syria and Jordan also entered the war and 5 days later, the war of 1967, which became known as the 6-day war, ended with the victory of Israel and the occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. The absence of resistance in the Arabs, the lack of military facilities, and the prevalence of submissive political culture over martyrdom-seeking caused the 6-day war to turn into one of the worst defeats of the Arabs through the hands of Israel. From this time on, Israel’s domination of the Arab land gave this regime the opportunity to grab more land for peace, allow possibility of negotiation for the aggressions and occupation it carried out earlier in the region. The 1973 War Despite the inclination of Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt at that time, towards the West and his conspiratorial nature, the US and the other Western powers, under no circumstances, were