of war minister is saying that the regime is being attacked from seven different theaters in the midst of the genocidal war on gaza. yof gallan says that israel has responded to six of those fronts and threatened that anyone who acts against israel is a potential target. now one of those fronts gallan mentioned was iran. on monday top commander of iran's rgc in syria was assassinated in an israeli missile trageting his house in damascus. a mean time the resistance front in the region is adamant to respond to the...

the american crimes being perpetrated in gaza. that are more topics in this episode of the spotlight today. i'm your host naja. allow me to introduce our guests. elijah magner, journalist and analyst is joining us from brussels. also with this is khalid barakat, the spokesperson of the masar albadil movement in vancouver, canada. welcome to the show, gentlemen, elijah, beginning with you uh, let's talk about christmas celebrations this year and how different they could be given this genocide going on, and you now iof soldiers have no regard for any religion, muslims, christians are like, rituals, nationalities, what your job is, you're a journal, you're a doctor, whoever you are, the they hit mosk, they hit churches, so and anybody standing in their way as the war minister, was saying, is

legitimate target, as the israely authorities actually, they themselves proclaim, so let's talk about the atmosphere of the christmas holidays this year to begin with, for israel, there are no christmas holidays, because for them uh killing christians or muslim is exactly the same, because they consider any palestinians according to the manifest of 1977 of the party, presence of any palestinian regardless his religion is a threat israel, therefore what they are doing, what the israeli occupation forces are doing in gaza is to destroy as many possible as homes and infrastructure and kill as many civilians, many children and women. that is because israel has failed to achieve its objectives to destroy hamas and to occupy

gaza and to free all the prisoners, this is why for them there is no consideration of the christmas holidays or to any religion holidays, because for them they have the superpower, the united states of america, supporting them at the united nations, blocking any v to decision of a cease fire and will also put obstacles against any investigation. of israel war crime that israel has overtly admitted on televisions, therefore for the israelis being a christmas or any other holiday, for them it's exactly business as usual, nothing has changed and nothing will change, and the new yorkers were saying that this shouldn't be christmas as usual in their protest the other day, anyway now is really officials are still talking about being attacked from multiple friends?

seven fronts, he mentioned iran, syria, lebanon, gaza itself, yemen, and they're talking of self-defense and all jazz, and they're playing the victim while they're attacking incescently, and the world is watching what's happening in gaza, how could they then ignore all the savage crimes that they are committing uh blatently against palestinians a daily basis? yes, um, thank of you for having me, and before i answer this question, i just want to mention that palestinians in general and palestinian christians in particular are not celebrating christmas at all, and we know that palestine is the place of the birth of christianity, across the board, palestinian christians are not just condemning the israeli atrocities and war crimes, but also there were no celebration in palestine this. in christmas

and there has been calls by palestinian christians to the world and to churches, to people of conscious, especially christians and and others. to condemn israeli war crimes, as for your question, which is i think it's the central question in term of israel behavior, israel always behave as the victims and at the same time, i haven't seen any victim who possess you know 300 nuclear war heads and commit atrocities and war crimes, you know 24/7 uh and does not care whatsoever about any uh international law, in fact just yesterday, you know, the international, international figures around the world, especially in the human rights sectors were saying that israel have violated every law in the book of international law,

now the reason that israel get away with it is because israel is supported by the united states and the western colonialist power, israel is their project and the zionist regime have always rely on the united states for protection, for support, for financial and military support, that's why we view this genocide that is taking place in ghazza as a us and israel genocide, because it is happening with the us support, with us weapons, with us uh you know cover, now in term of the seven fronts which is important because they're trying to bring you know to to... to bring back some biblical methodology about the seven fronts as well in order to mobilize their society based on a religion you know war and religion you know conflict and at the same time we know that these

fronts that israel is talking about is the camp of resistance in the region that is trying to protect the palestinian people rights and the palestinian people cause, but also to protect the region from us germany and from israel to germany. israel wants to dominate in the region and it looks you know you know it is a temporary regime, it is a western colony and yet they're looking at yemen, iran, iraq, lebanon as if they are visitors in the region, and this is really you know... classic israeli and colonialist behavior. okay, now uh, elijah khalid mentioned yemen as one of those friends that israel is uh talking about and saying that it's being targeted and playing the victim there and yemen is they are conducting operations, they're uh intercepting and targeting all ships destined for israel or

somehow having to do with uh israel, but the us has formed this coalition of 1920 countries and trying to uh blame the emines for uh bringing in security. for maritime transportation, who is bringing in security the us or the yemen is saying that we are just targeting israeli related ships and that's because of what they're doing to the people in gaza. well, first of all, the israeli, i don't think they playing the victims, on the contrary, they trying to attract the americans into the battlefield, and they telling the americans, as benjamin netanyahu told president biden from day one, everybody. is attacking us and this is why a coalition was formed to support the israelis and this is again the reason why the americans send their carriers to the middle east, so what the israelis are desperately trying to do is to open more fronts, so to

make it not the palestinian cause as a reason of this war, but to divert the attention away from the palestinian cause and saying, 'well our war actually is not with the palestinian that have been uh attacked, killed and imprison for the last 75 years, but it is actually with iran and all its allies, well so far it has succeeded in relation to yemen, yemen said specifically that this act is only to protect the people of gaza and in the name the children and women of gaza.' and themen asked the israelis to stop and lift the siege and impose the seasfire otherwise this will continue, actually it is the human duty of every single country, not only the muslims but other christian and muslim countries

around the world to stand with the palestinian cause, there are muslim and christian in palestine, including jews, the problem is not with the jew, the problem is with z and what israel are doing, so this is when the poke stood up and said, what israel is doing is terrorism, yemen is fighting terrorism, is fighting the israeli terror. iraq resistance are doing exactly the same, hizbullah is doing the same, iran is encouraging its allies to stand against the terrorism of the israelis against 2.3 million palestinian in gaza, and yemen said it very clearly, stop the war, stop, lift the siege, and everything will return to to normality, and yemen didn't say that is going to stop every ship, but only the ship destinated to his. yeah, and it was a stress just an hour ago, the army spokesman was there making the statement. now khalid, this malti uh

resistance front taking action against israel, it also consists of iraq, like elijah just mentioned, and and you know, just recently, in response to iraqy resistance fighters, anti-us operations, you know they have drones uh targeting us bases both in iraq and syria, now we have the us center command confirming that american strikes have hit three. he's belonging to iraq's anti-terrorist pmu affiliated groups and baghdad is saying that these attacks harm relations between the two countries. let's have your take on this. well, first of all, why are the there is us military bases in our region, whether in iraq or in syria or in jourdan or anywhere in west asia? why there is united states. bases now they say that these these military bases are there based a

mutual agreement with the government, but this is not really the situation, if you do a referendum today in iraq, most people in iraq wants to see these us bases leave iraq, in syria it's the united states is occupation and occupied power, the united states have military bases across and "it is there contrary to the willing to the to the to people's choice, and the other thing is that why is these united states bases are in the region, we have to go back to the roots of the problem, the united states is viewed by the vast majority of the people of the region as a colonialist power, they're trying to you know impose their hegemman." over the will of the people and they talk about democracy, you know, this crime that they just committed in

syria killing you know an iranian official, mr. radi musawi, just imagine if a country assassinate an israeli minister or an israeli ambassador, israel invaded lebanon in 1982 under the pretext of one of its ambassadors, have been subject to attempt of assassination in london and they invaded the west bank because an israeli because the palestinian resistance group assassinated in israeli minister and yet they get away with these crimes and we know that they have been behind all these assassinations against arab and iranian scientists. exactly. now elijah, speaking about mr. musavi, i want to ask you, what is it that gives the telavif regime this audacity to openly make an... announcement and then take out anyone with opposing views in broad daylight like brigider general, how

could the assassinate iranian military commanders who helped west asia? they helped iraq, syria, others at their own invitation overcome the scurge of terrorism. for israel, anyone who stands with the oppressed people around the world is considered as a threat for the... really is the support that iran is giving to the uh to the lebanese hazbullah to hamas to the islamic jihad to the syrian to liberate the from isis and the attempt of fail state that was carried out by the americans and their allies and for the americans to support the iraqies to free themselves from isis. and stand with yemen, all these are act that putting obstacles in

front of the americans and the israelies who would like to see the middle east divided, so said musawi in in syria was the coordinated was coordinating with all these allies to support them with the logistic and with the support, this is why it is not unusual for the islamic jihad and hammas to come out and condemn the israeli assassination and because they know the value that this man was bringing to the palestinian resistance and to the lebanese resistance and to the iraq and this is why israelis believe anything that is happening today in gaza and what used to happen in the west bank and the strengths of hizbollah all that comes from iran and because that puts obstacles in front of the israelis then they look for a target where they think the israelis and the americans

that they can hit or send message to iran they don't understand. that the leadership in iran is horizontal and is not vertical, if one person goes away, there are 10 or 100 others that can replace the same person and the past continued. a good point, and uh khalid, there are some observers arguing that the recent assassination of brigador general musavi iran's rgc commander uh is an open invitation to iran to try to kind of pull iran in and to... force iran to take some netanyahu is wants to continue the sorry, the military action against the tel aviv regime, do you share that standpoint? absolutely, this is exactly what netanyahu wants. war against people in ghazza, and he wants to also expand the war in other fronts and invite the united states into this, and he

thinks that by carrying these assassinations that he is following the step. the united states when let's not forget that they are the one who killed general qasim sulaymani and you know but the united states i think they're aware of netanyahu's you know attempts and not because the united states is nice but because they actually don't want to have be involved in a war because of netanyahu personal interest if there was a united state. interest in the manner, i think they would go for it. now i think that iran is aware of israel attempts and israeli blocks and it is really a general wisdom in the region, this is what netanyahu is trying to do, is trying to create chaos and ship, be cards by doing these crimes against iranian

leadership. now elijah netanyahu is this... me of the israely prime minister speaking about voluntary migration of people from gaza, voluntary, i mean you hit civilians, you hit their homes, masks, churches, hospitals, everybody, everything, every living thing, and then you starved them to death, and then you call this voluntary, or so what is force displacement then? i think one of the blessing of this war on gaza is to reveal the real face. the israelis and how they lie on television and nobody believe them. actually, i think this war was necessary for the people to return and embrace the palestinian cause once again tostanding the atrocity of the killing of children and women. nevertheless, the people today support the palestinian cause unlike

their leaders. there is a big difference of the popular support of the palestinian. because of what's happening in gaza and people are more enlightted about all the lies that are emanating from all the israelis who started by saying we want to defend ourselves and they are in occupation forces that can defend themselves and secondly they ask the palestinian to move from the north to hun unit in the south and then they bomb them in the north and in khan units and then they ask them to move to and they bomb them exactly, yeah, so you see how the israel are really driving the population to their death, they not trying to look after them, they not trying to minimize the casuality, and they're not trying to watch voluntarily exodus of the palestinian, on the contrary, they wanted to

kick them out to egypt, exactly, and recently they have been doing something else, they have been killing civilians that... point blank range, how they could justify that? i don't, now khalid, we have one minute, if you could tell me how likely do you think this us is already genocidal war on palestinians, how could that could that actually engulf the whole west asia region cuuse they don't seem to be you know willing to stop this anytime soon? th the united states are heading towards a strategic defeat uh the palestinian. people have gave so much sacrifices in the last three months and willing sacrifice for the protection of their rights and their cause and their resistance we have. to look at ghazza and see these atrocities and war crimes that israel is committing and support the palestinian people struggle, but at the same time we have to look at the brave palestinian resistance that

is um, you know, really showing the ability the palestinian people and the people of the region to be able to fight colonialism, to fight racism, to fight this, you know, zionist regime and... defeat this zionist regime, i think palestinians are going to come out victorious from this confrontation. okay, on that note we come to the end of this show, thank you my guest, elijah magner in brussels, khalid barad in vancouver, and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i'm being your host, i'll see you next time.

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