🔻 *ISRAELI ARMY FOOTAGE TESTIFIES TO THE HEROISM OF THE MUJAHIDEEN* This is not your typical video. The event itself might be similar to numerous other events: a fighter emerging from a tunnel, placing a bomb under an Israeli Merkava tank, and returning to his tunnel before a massive explosion takes place. This is what is called an operation from zero distance. But the video, this time, is different, as it was not released by the Al-Qassam Brigades or any other group. There is no foreboding soundtrack in the background, no slick edits, no red triangles. The reason? The video was released by the Israeli army itself. This raises many questions, including why the Israeli army would report the bravery of a Palestinian fighter and the successful blowing up of the pride and joy of the Israeli military, the Merkava. The answer might lie in the sense of despair in the Israeli military, an army that knows well that it has lost the war or, at best, is unable to clinch victory, even after it laid Gaza to waste and exterminated nearly 10 percent of its population (between the killed, wounded, and missing). This sentiment is now very well-known among Israelis, as Israeli media, which initially touted the idea of ‘total victory,’ is now the one promoting a version of Israel’s own total defeat. Writing in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, Itzhak Brik wrote that Israel is on the verge of “collective suicide” and that the army has effectively been defeated by Hamas in Gaza. “With a political and military echelon of this type, there is no need for external enemies; they will bring disaster upon us in their stupidity,” he warned, adding: “We may soon reach a point of no return, and the only thing left for us to do is pray to our God to come to our aid, and then we will all become messiahs who pray for miracles.” (Via Palestine Chronicle) *Palestine Information Network*