Ronen Bergman

the operatives of Hezbollah at the other side.

So this is about punishing Israeli enemies, showing strength for local consumption.

And it's happening as we speak today.

I think even much deeper.

Shortly after the Khomeini clerical revolution in 1979, Iran started to invest in proxies, in forces and organizations outside of Iran,

And the first one and the closest ally was Hezbollah.

They founded Hezbollah in 1983-84 and then invested so much for basically three reasons.

One is that they come from the same blood.

They go to the same religious schools in the holy city of Qom and Najaf.

They are relatives.

They are Shiites.

And it's not just about Iran and Hezbollah.

And the word that we are looking for is Mukawama.

Mukawama in Arabic means resistance.

Iran and its proxies, Hezbollah and the Houthis and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the militias in Iraq and in Syria, they call themselves Jabal Mukawama, the axis of resistance.

And this case is a test of how much Iran is willing to risk in order to save

the other partner of this axis.

This is the core of their partnership, the core of their brotherhood.

And so Israel wants to break the alignment.

Israel wants to destroy the axis.