Yemen Monitor/ Reports Unit:
A growing voice is promoting the idea that Israel’s destruction of Iran represents a “historic opportunity.” This narrative reveals a dangerously naive understanding of geopolitical realities and paves the way for full submission to Zionist dominance—at a time when the Arab nation is in dire need of an effective liberation project.
The fall of Iran or the dismantling of its regional power will not bring stability; rather, it would grant Israel uncontested supremacy over the region. The current balance—between two hostile powers, regardless of their motives—serves as a barrier against unilateral regional control. The presence of rival powers expands the maneuvering space for weaker actors. But when that balance collapses, so does the ability to resist and endure.
Israel does not wait for permission to expand; it moves when a vacuum appears. The retreat or disappearance of Iran would undoubtedly create such a vacuum. Tel Aviv would then move to impose a comprehensive security architecture over our region, especially in light of many Arab regimes having already shown full willingness to submit to Zionist will. Without a force to worry about, Israel would expand unchecked and assert its influence unopposed.
The Israeli project is guided by a deliberate plan of domination and fragmentation. This plan predates the Iranian revolution, continued as Tehran’s influence grew, and accelerates whenever a vacuum emerges. Israel strikes Gaza, infiltrates Beirut, sends fiery messages to Damascus and Baghdad, and coordinates—both secretly and openly—with Arab regimes, even with Iran still on the field. So what would the scene look like if that rival disappeared?
The belief that Israel would stop at Iran’s collapse is a political illusion. This entity feeds off weakness and advances whenever the threat recedes. The fall of Iran would not liberate Arab capitals; it would hand them over to full Zionist penetration and exclusive hegemony. Once our countries lose their own deterrent forces, their regimes become submissive agents in a system of dominance and dependency.
Iran—with all its ugly sectarian project and malicious expansion—is not the sole obstacle to revival. The greater obstacle lies in the absence of an independent Arab project, and the lack of political will that rejects being crushed between Iranian expansion and Western dependency. The Arab nation doesn’t need “a single enemy”—it needs a balance of power that allows for the rise of a third force capable of redefining national independence and reclaiming political agency.
Seeking protection from one enemy to eliminate another does not build sovereignty—it entrenches subjugation and dependence. The way out of this entrapment does not lie through Israeli firepower, but through building internal strength, mobilizing popular will, and reclaiming sovereign decision-making from the grip of dual submission.
The nation will lose what remains of its capacity to resist when Israel alone holds regional power, and Arab regimes turn into mere executors with no autonomy—implementing directives from foreign power centers, playing the role of local proxies in the hegemony project, and channeling their resources to protect foreign interests instead of their people. This weakens them further and suppresses any aspiration for freedom or resistance, reducing the nation-state to a hollow shell—lacking in will, decision, and sovereignty.
The real struggle is not limited to Iran or Israel. It is a broader confrontation with a system of domination that has besieged our nations and peoples since the moment of independence and the formation of the modern Arab state.
— Whoever bets on Israel to achieve salvation is, in doing so, handing over the keys, signing a blank check, and losing themselves before even losing their enemy.
