Short-lived joy of Tel Aviv

Mehdi Shakibayi:

The exceptional Thursday operation by an armed Palestinian activist in a military training center in West al-Qods provided some consolation for the grieved hearts of thousands of Palestinians who are under 24-hour attacks by the Zionist regime.

It also harbored several messages considering the current developments in the region, especially a security message for the Zionist regime; their security is no longer guaranteed.

The location of the operation was west al-Qods where the Zionist regime has completed the judazation process and therefore security is tight. The infiltration by a single lightly-armed Palestinian proved the structure of the Zionist regime is vulnerable.

The Zionist regime by assassinating Imad Mughniyeh, a top commander of regional resistance was intended to cover up its own vulnerable security apparatus, but the situation turned sour for the regime following the operation.

Time of the operation sent a second message through the regime. The operation took place after the deployment of the USS Cole destroyer at the doorstep of Lebanon, Syria and the Zionist dwelled areas of the 1948 occupied Palestine. The deployment was aimed to boost mental conditions for the regime's policy makers to escalate atrocities against the Gaza resistance and to weaken Hezbollah and Syria.

It also occurred after the Zionist war minister Ehud Barak ordered its army to prepare for the resumption of attacks against Gaza to destroy the resistance infrastructure.

The parties of the Arab-Zionist conflict in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine were all on state of red alert especially after the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh.

It is clear that the operation was conducted as the warlike conditions had prevailed peace situation.

Thursday operation was not a typical martyr bombing in which a martyr seeker detonates his or her explosives inside a group of Zionists. The operator was s trained and could conduct the mission skillfully, firing over six hundreds bullets at the targets without facing any major hurdles.

He was a resident of East al-Qods of the 1948 occupied Palestine. The Zionist regime is now gripped with nightmare thoughts that the high capacity of the Palestinians residing in East al-Qods would join the Palestinians residing in Gaza and West Bank against the regime.

The Thursday operation seems to have changed the equation of relations in favor of regional resistance.