During the commemoration of Ze’ev Jabotinsky on 14 July 2026, Netanyahu invoked the doctrine of the “Iron Wall,” threatening: “Anyone who misjudges our determination will pay a very heavy price.”

Very well, then. According to data released in 2026 by the Rehabilitation Department of Israel’s Ministry of War, the department has received approximately 30,000 wounded personnel from the military and security services since October 2023, 63% of whom suffer from psychological effects.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army recorded 22 suicide cases in 2025 alone, and a Knesset report disclosed 279 suicide attempts between January 2024 and July 2025.

By contrast, perhaps the first to offer an official narrative of the pager operation within the resistance were the severed fingers embracing their triggers in Awli al-Ba’s (Those of Great Prowess), and others caressing their drones in al-Asf al-Ma’kul (The Eaten Chaff), as an initial tactical response.

The philosophy of war teaches us, through history, that any army that overlooks the smallest details of its operational theatre is destined for defeat.

In practical terms, the sons of Zion have worked diligently to count the breaths of the world—especially those of their enemies, whether individuals, organizations, or states—and have excelled in data science as no one before them.

Yet when it comes to our blood, veils shroud their hearts, preventing them from understanding it. And even when our blood speaks eloquently, the Zionists will never comprehend its creed, whether before the pager operation or after it.

Ours is Hussaini blood, untouched by either Nakba or Naksa.

As usual, the Zionists misread the consequences. Children asking why their fathers’ eyes have gone dark, and an entire society—mothers and fathers alike—that will surely remember the pager, just as it has remembered its hero al-Abbas for nearly fourteen centuries.

Perhaps the possibility of forgetting might once have been entertained, had no living trace remained.

But today, after the folly of the pager operation, this society cannot forget. Indeed, it is determined to remember.

Yet the question Netanyahu overlooked, as he waved his device with triumphant delight, is this: How will “Israel” remember it once the spectacle’s brilliance has faded and the operation is weighed against the results it has produced?