these really 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. not one of those fronts, gallen mentioned was iran. on monday a top commander of iran's irgc in syria was assassinated in an israely missile strike targeting his house in damaskus. at the meantime, the resistance front in the region is adamant to respond to the israeli american cr. being perpetrated in gaza. that

are more topics in this episode of the spotlight today. i'm your host. all me to introduce our guests. analyst is joining us in from brussels. also with us is 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 know iof soldiers have no regard for any religion, muslims, christians are like, rituals, nationalities, what your job is, you're a journo, you're a doctor, whoever you are, they hit mosk, they hit churches, so and anybody standing in their way as the war minister was saying, is legitimate target as

the israeli 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 killing christians or muslim is exactly the same, because they consider any palestinians according to the manifest of 1977 of the party, any 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 his objectives, to destroy hamas and to... occupy gaza and to of

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 veto 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 uh were saying that this shouldn't be christmas as usual in their protest the other day, anyway now khalid is really officials are still talking about being attacked from multiple friends so... fronts, he mentioned

iran, syria, you know, 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 blatantly against palestinians a daily basis. yes, um, thank 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 palestiny christians are not just condemning the israeli atrocities and war crimes, but also there were no celebration in palestine this year in christmas and "there has been calls by

palestinian christians to the world and to churches, to people of conscious, especially, you know, 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 victim, 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 and does not care whatsoever about any you know international in fact just yesterday you know the international you know 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 design history. reg 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, the us you know cover, now in term of the seven fronts which is important because they're trying to bring you 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... the palestinian people rights and the palestinian people cause, but also to protect the region from us, germany and from israel, 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, a classic is... israi 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 yemenis, they are conducting operations, they're intercepting and targeting all ships destined for israel or somehow having to do

with 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's bringing insecure? the us or the yeminies, yemen is saying, 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 victim on the contrary, they trying to attract the americans into the battlefield, and they telling the americans, as benyamin 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 israel is 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 causes and saying, well our war actually is not with the palestinian that have been 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 of the children and women of gaza and the yemen ask the israelis to stop and lift the siege and impos a cease fire 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 the zies. what israeli's 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 terrorism, "iraq resistance are doing exactly the same, hisbullah 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 israel." yeah, and it was a stress just an hour ago, the army spokesman was there making the statement. now khalid,

this multi primed 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, 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 facilities 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 there is us military bases in our region, whether in iraq or in syria or in jordan or anywhere in west asia? why there is united states bases now? 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. uh contrary to the willing 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 hegemony over the... the people and they talk about democracy, you know, this crime that they just committed in

syria, killing, you know, an iranian official, mr. radhi musawi, just imagine if a country assassinate an israeli minister or an israeli ambassador, israel invaded labanan 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 a palestinian uh 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 uh elijah speaking about uh mr. musavi i want to ask you uh what is it that gives uh the telaviv regime this audacity to openly make announcement? "and then take out anyone with opposing views in broad daylight like brigador general razi musavi, how could they

assassinate iranian military commanders who helped the 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 israelies. the support that iran is giving to the uh to the lebanese haizbullah to hamas to the islamic jihad to the syrian to liberate the territory 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 iraqis to free themselves from isis and stand with yemen, all these are act that putting obstacles in

front of the americans and the israelis 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, it because they know the value that this man was bringing to the palestinian resistance and to the lebanese resistance and to the iraqi. "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 the americans

that they can hit or send message to iran, they don't understand that the..." "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 khalid, there are some observers arguing that the recent assassination of brigador general musavi, iran's rgc commander, is an open invitation to iran to try to kind of pull iran in and to force. want to take some military action against the telaviv regime, do you share that standpoint? absolutely, this is exactly what netanyahu wants, netanyahu is wants to continue the sorry, the 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's following the steps of... the united states when let's not forget that they are the one who killed general qasim sulaimani 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 uh 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 that this is what netanyahu is trying to do, is trying to create chaos and shift the cards by doing these crimes against

iranian leadership. now elijah netanyahu is this reminds me of... uh the israel prime minister is 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 called us voluntary, or so what is force displacement then? well, 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 cause. because of what's happening in gaza and people are more enlighted about all the lies that are eminating from all the israelies who started by saying we want to defend ourselves and they are occupation forces that can defend themselves and secondly they ask the palestinian to move from the north to hun units in the south and then they bomb them in the north and in khan units and then they ask them to move to rafa. and they bomb them exactly, yeah, so you see how the israelies are really driving the population to their death, they not trying to look after them, they not trying to minimize the casuality, and they not trying to watch voluntarily exodus of the palestinian.

ladies and gentlemen, we're interrupting the uh normal course of programming to go live to the iraqi city of nazaretf if i'm correct uh where this is taking place right now, we will be showing you any moment, and uh, as we know, veteran member of iran's islamic revolution guards core the irgc, was serving as a military advisor in syria. has been murdered an israeli air strike uh in the sa zainab neighborhood of damascus uh we are supposed to be showing you um live images of uh the process of the transferring of uh the uh the body of uh the veteran member of the irgc through iraqi cities and uh in

continuation of that funel procession he will ultimately be transferred to uh iran and will be laid to rest uh there, but what's taking place right now is uh the uh funer which is being held for the iranian military. advisor, general musavi who was assassinated by israel in syria on monday. earlier in the day, the spokesman of the islamic revolution guards core, which we covered for you right here on press tv, stated that iran will respond appropriately to the israeli regime's assassination of the senior military advisor in syria vowing to take revenge for this terrorist attack at an appropriate time and place.

well that's all that we have for you right now, stick around though, there's plenty more to come here on press tv. 1779.

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region. the headlines, israel launches more deadly attacks. on palestinians in the occupied west bank as the regime's genocide in gaza enters its 82nd day. hamas says israel has stolen the organs of 80 palestinians whose dead bodies were abducted by the regime's forces during their onslot on the territory and an irgc spokesman says the assassination of top iranian military advisor by israel reveals the regime's death.