of peace be upon you and welcome to eye on islam. the show where we look at current affairs through an islamic lens. each week we consider a trending news story and we break it down from an islamic perspective. this week our hearts, thoughts and prayers are still focused on the people of palestine, amidst israel's ongoing attempt a genocide of the people of gazza. the israelis have now launched their ground invasion but are facing stiff resistance. incurring major losses

before they've even reached into major urban areas. in this episode we will be exploring the outporing of support for gazza from across the muslim ummah and compare that to the ridiculous positions taken by the rulers of most of those nations. we begin by having على a look at which muslim governments have relations with the zionist entity and which ones still stead fastly refuse to normalize. ever since the founding of the zionist entity. in 1948, its leaders have waged an obsessive campaign to seek the approval of the international community of nations, and one area of focus has always been on the muslim world. a year after the entities of founding, turkey established ties, making it the first muslim country to do so, although of course the turkish republic at the time was furiously anti-islamic, and aggressively secular, more so than it is today. it was in 1978 with... the first arab state recognized

israel, with the signing of the camp david accord by the egyptian president anwar saddad, paving the way to a treaty between the two neighbors. jordan followed suit in 1994 with king hussein signing the washington declaration on the white house law during the presidency of bill clinton to establish his country's ties with the entity. it wasn't until 2020 with the intense lobbying pressure of president donald trump and his zijn his son-in-law. jared kuschner that more arab countries normalized ties with israel with the uae, bahrain, morocco and sudan, all signing up to the so-called abraham accords. of but of course, many muslim and arab countries refuse to sign deals with israel, with iraq passing a law last year, criminalizing any attempts to normalize with israel, while countries like lebanon and syria still have land that is occupied by israel, and they refuse to engage at all with designs. entity,

but perhaps the most consequential position taken by a muslim nation visavy israel is that of the islamic republic of iran. following the overthrow of the iranian prime minister muhammad musaddeq in a us, uk instigated cou in 1953, the reinstated shah muhammad riza pahlavi quickly established ties with the zionist regime. those continued until 1979 when the return after 15 years in exile of culminated in the victory of the islamic revolution in iran, and with it, not just the total cutting off of all ties with the zionist regime, but a story of almost 45 years of political, financial and material support for numerous anti-israeli resistance movements, which leaves one glaring question about another major power in the region, of before the alax operation, reports emerged of impending normalization. deal between israel

and saudi arabia, but with the muslim world enraged at israel's genocidal massacres and saudi placing the blame for the latest violence squarely at the door of israel, it would appear for now, at least that those moves to normalize are dead in the water. joining us today on the show are two very special guests, sister noor fekri is business owner and politics graduate with keen interest in west asia, use social media to shine light on religious and political events in a way that is accessible to the everyday person, and we are very honored to have of joining us today in the studio dr. ali al kabani, who is an egyptian journalist based in london and former director general of the islamic press agency with a specialism in middle eastern affairs. salamu alalaikum to you both, thank you so much for joining us, doctor, if i can start with you, so let's set the scene a little bit, especially as an egyptian yourself, um, they egypt hasn't cut ties with. israel yet, um, you have cc who

you know, constantly um makes comments about his time with the jewish community and how he grew up with them and normalizes those kind of links. "and then you've also got the people of egypt being suppressed from protest and on and it took weeks for the crossing even be opened. um, why, why has egypt taken this position? bismillahirrahmanirrahim, first we have to recognize that the egyptian regime does not represent the egyptian people, so are all arab regimes, they are put in their place by the united states and they are acting as the united states called them client states who take their dictates from the white house and they implement it and the day they don't do that they will be out of power in their countries. donald trump said it clearly the saudi regime would not stand

for one week without the american support, so it's very clear that those arab regimes, they do not represent the people, they rule. that's one. thing, the other thing, egypted the so-called peace treaty with israel in 1979, which i call surrender treaty, because they got back the egyptian land of sinai, but they lost sovereignty, and the egyptian army is not allowed to go into part of the land, which is sinanai without the permission of the israelis until now, after 45 years of... signing this surrender treaty, the same king hussein of jordan signed a surrender treaty without getting anything, he could have insisted of getting back the administration the west bank or jerusalem, he didn't, he just signed this surrender treaty for

nothing, and i would say that israel never withdrew from arab land, deoccupy after the war of 1967. without such a humiliating negotiation for years. the yasir arafat gave up armed struggle with israel after signing the oslo accord, oslo accord said that the palestinian will have a state after five years of signing this treaty. again, 40 years passed and the palestinian plo got nothing. the only withdrew without any humiliating treaty or... any negotiation from gaza and from south of lebanon, thanks to the islamic resistance in both areas, so when there is occupation, there should be arm struggle,

when you give up the arm struggle, you get nothing but humiliation and ignorance, so egypt to come back to your question, of course the egyptian people support as 100%, but the regime cannot do anything. the cies's regime allowed the people to express their feeling and demonstrate only because of the pressure put to him by the western government to open the rafah crossing and implement the so-called deal of the century by the transfer of the palestinian from gaza to sinai to leave their permanent. israel is saying temporarily, but the idea is to transfer the palestinian and let them live in sinai and leave gaza, for israel to annex gaza like they did with all the occupied arab lands and speaking of pressure, so it's not just the

pressure that the people are putting on their governments in egypt, it's also the pressure the people worldwide that are now having an effect. not if i can come to you, you've seen the you. question of um are protests and boycots working, what's the use? we've got thousands of people on the streets, they're taking days off of work, do they really have an effect? um, what can you tell us about these kind of protests across the muslim world? yeah, um, so the the protests that have been taken place aren't just across the muslim world, we've also noticed all of these protests taking place in europe, for instance, in london, where we had over 500,0 people marching together to stand in solidarity with the palestinian people, and the way i saw... the effectiveness of these protests and these boycots is by looking at the reaction of elites, look at the reaction the israeli lobby, look at the reaction of suwella braverman for example, by trying to ban the palestinian flag, or for instance the reaction of key starma that um that fired andy mcdonald for simply asking for a ceasefire, these are sort of extreme measures

and and the reaction from these um from from sort of the israeli lobby and from western governments goes to show how effective these protests are, and that's because as well the the israeli regime will, you will attempt as hard as they can to make sure that the um western public opinion remains pro israel, so when this sort now that they're losing the monopoly on the narrative, that then puts pressure on western governments. changed their stance towards the israeli occupy and entity and we saw that with kese starmer for instance when he um sort of did that you turn when he went onto lbc and incited genocide and said that palestinians don't deserve water, electricity um and fuel and then had to utain the next day and go for photo-ups with um with leaders of mosks for instance and so these protests um sometimes can actually create tangible change on the ground and me was all the iraqis that went to the the border with jordan and and said that you know they refused for subsidized oil to go from um from iraq. into the israeli occuping entity, we saw protest happening in egypt where people are camping by the by the

border, by the uh occupied palestine border, asking their government to open a rafah crossing to allow aid um and the injured to come in, and you now these protests have um erupted um for instance in jordan where we've got you, a massive population of of palestinian people, and that sort of you, we saw that even queen ranya had to come into cnn to to to now, even though jordan takes a position of you know normalizing with israel and... you know has has ties with them, but what was almost felt obligated to come out and speak for the palestinian people because it was almost embarrassing not to, the same with um turkey's erdogan, he has he has um you know open relations with the israeli entity, but had to sort of come out and say the palestinians have the right to um, you know have the right to resistance, because it simply would have been embarrassing not to say that, and when it comes to sort of creating real tangible change on the ground, we you know the us may or may not call for a ceasefire if people you know start to step on the us toes, if for example... people in west asia begin storming the us embassies, you know they they wouldn't want their interests um sort of jeopadized so they they then might

call for a ceasefire and in terms of sort of um boycots as well, boycots have also been extremely effective, mean we saw mcdonalds and starbucks and handing out you know free burgers to the idf as if you know you know lot of the idf soldiers are actually obese, they don't need any more burgers instead of giving you know um you know food food and fuel and donations to the people of gaz that are literally facing genocide, they have decided to you know um offer freebees and and goods and you know these are capitalist multinational corporations and where it hits them and hurts them the most is in their pockets, so i would say continue with protests, continue with boycots because they are effective. acenty, i i think that uh, you mentioned quite a lot of the uh effects that have um been um enacted on the ground in lots of not only just in the uk, but obviously and you didn't mention lebanon, i remember. seeing this video of the people just literally like in their thousands in their cars just rushing to the embassy to kick

these uh to kick these ambassadors out of um their offices um and do you know what uh as someone who regularly goes to these protests and actually asks peoples for their opinion i definitely feel that that um feeling is coming to the uk um and what we're going to be seeing now is in contrast to how many... muslim leaders have reacted, ordinary muslims have also been active in showing their solidarity to the palestinian people. i on islam spoke to some attendees a recent protest in london to ask them if they felt these leaders were failing in their responsibility to the muslims of gazza. as a muslim, it's is shameful, it's absolutely shameful that these major world powers um with lot of wealth, lot of oil, all all they could have turned done was. turn off the black taps, yeah, that's all they had to do, and they could they could have helped the narrative, okay? um, i think you know,

turning off the tops to countries like america and israel, that would have had major impact, okay, um, and i think all the muslim countries have been very slow talking about it, never mind the actions, the actions have not come at all, if anything, qatar has been outspoken about the whole thing, but again, there's a lot more they could do and it's shameful, it's as a muslim, i'm completely ashamed of the action or the... of action or reaction from the powerful muslim leaders of this world. i don't believe this is a war just against palestine, but it's an injustice and a war between the evil and the good, because that's what we're fighting, and i just want to say that we are not scared as a muslim, as a convert, and we are not scared, we trust in allah subhanahu wa taala, we trust in god, we trust in the humanity and the all united that to this to end with the sionists and that we know that even in the... says this has to happen, so we just have to keep our faith strong and remain together as

humans, it does it matter what the big countries are doing or not doing, the main thing is that we remain together and we have our faith strong, now the muslim nation, there are 56 muslim countries that could do lot more and so far really happy to see what qatar is doing, it's a small nation and yet is very involved, very vocal, they are keeping with hamas, with the brothers as well, with other muslim countries, and that's how you going to get support, whereas other muslim countries have broken the ties with hamas, which you cannot have negotiation if you can't have a tie with. them really disappointed with other countries, yesterday united nation had a resolution to push through for a sizefire, as much is not binding and it's probably just a little uh sound bise, you see in countries like iraq abstain from it, tunisia abstain from it, it's it's very shameful, at least speak out, we're not going to see anyone act on it, anyone, we're not going to see any sort of support from any muslim countries, but for

god's sake at least speak out when you have a voice, speak out and say something, well no one can doubt that. views of the london population are definitely with the people of gazda. um doctor, if i can come back to you, you um nord mentioned slightly about the oil and iraq is going to jordan, why haven't the countries cut the oil? i remember that um there was a statistic that said something like um a sixth of the world's uh oil um is with the countries, you know if they were to cut the oil that would cause a shock to the global economy surely and it would put the west on notice. why haven't they done that? because. don't have statesmen in the gulf area to do that like what we saw after the 1967 war and 1973 war where faisal of saudi arabia cut gradually the oil production he didn't boycot completely but cut the oil production by 5% every month and we saw the

effect on the west on putting pressure on israel so we don't have statesman to do that now we don't have a arab unity and muslim unity to see that killing and the genocide we see in gaza today affect every arab citizen in the whole of the arab world and every muslim citizens in the muslim world. so if they have that feeling they would have certainly hurt the western interests because the west is blindly supporting the... israeli genocide, and we heard joe biden saying that we will stand with israel today, tomorrow and every day, it means that forever they are supporting israel blindly, which make biden, the united states and the western governments, complicit to the war crimes committed by the zionist entity. so this is

the situation now, while all the west are supporting the israel. is none of the arab world supporting the palestinian really strongly and effectively. okay, the arab street is protesting and demonstrating, which is good in exposing their own regimes and their failure to help the palestinians, but there is no action really to support the palestinians by oil ban to the west and also boy. as nur said rightly, where is the arab boy which we used to practice until the 73 war? yes, it made lot of international corporation change their attitude towards this arab israeli conflict. you know the arab, the question of of arab unity is definitely something that lots of people are

talking about, and i think when yemen um kind of said that they're going to be, they've declared war against israel, so many people in the muslim community felt very empowered by it until they realized it was the houthies who did it and then yet again you know that that brief moment of unity was like oh no they're the wrong type of arab the wrong type of muslim um because the west call and israel propaganda any resistance to the occupation is terrorism any resistance to oppression is terrorism when was resisting occupation and oppressors and land called terrorism, so at least the again as noor said, the protest in the western capitals exposed their regimes again that what we are seeing in palestine is legitimate resistance, it is not terrorist act, and as the secretary general of the united nations said that hamas attacks did

not come out of vacuum, and that's definitely something that now um the... public um are starting to acknowledge you know that they're they're moving away from this narrative of oh it's just started on the 7th of october they're looking it in in a greater vacuum absolutely sorry in in a greater context um what if i can come to you about iran you know we were just briefly mentioning about arab unity muslim unity um you know has iran done enough okay um well iran unlike a majority of arab countries has stood by the palestinian people from day one if i can just remind everyone that during the 1980s when iran was through one of the most brutal wars where the world powers conspired against iran an eight year brutal war and they still sent men to lebanon to south lebanon and to palestine to fight the israeli invasion so the... always um stood by the palestinan people and always been extended a helping hand um and never fell short in that sense. compare that to for example the palestinian authority themselves mahmoud abbas when the madani hospital

happened and the people in the west bank went out to protest and you know um it was a televised genocide a televised war crime that took place and he shot out his own um protesters killing and wounding quite a few them egyptan saudi arabia the uae they've all involved in sort of stopping the yemenis from um launching missiles into the israeli occupation and see almost protecting it, just want to remind iran, remind the world that iran actually spe had the resistance access, what is that consist of lebanon, um, syria, iraq, yemen, the palestinian resistance in lebanon, lebanon is involved in a direct confrontation with the israeli occupation on the southern lebanese border and the northern occupied palestine border, they have literally covered the entirety of the lebanese border for for the first time ever, who funds and who supports the lebanese resistance on the lebanese border? iran, you, we've got the yemenis, who has supported them throughout their um struggle, when again the wild powers conspired against the yemeni people, they quite literally starved them to death, they were boiling and eating leaves

for eight years, and yet they still stand in solidarity with palestinian people and and and stand with justice, and so iran, you know, when you ask netanyahu for example, who's the greatest threat to you, he will repeatedly say iran, iran, iran, and therefore that should be a clear sign that iran is the only entity that is standing in the face of the israeli occupation entity, it has also funded the palestinian resistance that for before the axis of resistance used to support the palestinian resistance, now it says the palestinian resistance that supports the axis of resistance, because they are positioned in such a you, a strategic location within the belly of the beast, the heart of design this entity, and they've gathered so much strength, now when we say you know is gaza standing alone, does anybody, is anybody supporting it, it doesn't even need anyone to support it, is it is now a forced to be reckon, but the palestinian resistance is a force to be reckon, we can now call the palestinian resistance arab leaders are standing up for the palestinian cause and we said nour but i want to interfere here that we have to remind ourselves and the viewers that iran from day

one of the islamic revolution when imam khumaini went back to tehran, he cut all diplomatic relations with israel, he expelled the israeli ambassador and he gave the building of the... israeli embassy to the plo at the time when nobody in the whole world recognized it as an embassy for the plo in tehran, so the support of the israeli, the support of the palestinian case is a clear strategy of iran from day one. i don't think that there's any question on the fact that um the resistance globally wouldn't be where it is if it wasn't for uh for for iran's stance um on this matter. um, what an incredible discussion, i wish we had time for more. thank you so much to both of you, um, and thank you at home for watching, uh, i hope to see you again next week for another edition

of i on islam. assalamualaikum.

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tops here on press tv, israel carries out fresh air strikes on several areas in the beside gazas trip, 36 palestinians were killed and the jabala refugee camp while 22 lost their lives. khan units total death tools from israely war on gaza is now over 11,300, mostly women and children. a senior hamos official rejects israel's claim the resistance movement use hospitals as bases calling them naive attempts by israel to cover up its failures in gaza. officials said israel is continuously targeting gaza's infrastructure and hospitals to push gazans out of the strip and to repeat na.