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hello and welcome to spotlight. as israel's genocidal war on gaza continues with full support from the united states, the two allies have not backed down from carrying out acts of terrorism in the west asia region. only recent days uh, the israeli regime has assassinated two important figures of the region's resistance front and operations in syria and uh lebanon. and washington has also shown its disrespect for other nations sovereignty. by conducting deadly drone strike on the headquarters of iraq's popular mobilization units in baghdad, we'll try to bring to the spotlight the ramifications of washington and tel aviv's acts of terrorism in tonight's show, we have don debar activist of and commentator joining us from auseny, new york and academic and commentary.

welcome to the program uh let's start off with mr. debar uh in offining uh and uh we're going to kick off this segment with the recent terror attack in kermon in your opinion who benefits from such deplorable acts and uh from attempts of creating this type of insecurity in the region i mean the thing was on speculation, okay, there's an expectation that this act will create that effect, the uh question is, of course, who did it, what did they intend? pretty clear, it was the us or israel, the intent to create instability in iran, to provide some sort of domestic satisfaction for people in israel who are looking at iran through the propaganda, machinery the... as an enemy or

the enemy, and so you can tell who benefits of basically, if they benefit uh, by what happens, well, several things could happen, of iran shows in fact that it's a stable country, which it is, um, and it, hunkers down and deals with the effects of this, and makes a counter move that, is satisfactory to the people in iran, and also satisfactory lesson, perhaps of the cost of doing these things to israel and or the united states. "the other is that they're successful and somehow it creates instability in run, i doubt that's going to happen though, because um, israel is a much weaker foundation than iran, the the people of iran are sitting on land that they've been on, going back to the persian empire, um, and the people of israel are sitting on then that they've been in since the late 19th century from europe, um, and and surrounded by enemies that they've created by inserting themselves into..."

middle of this region, so i i don't think the intended effect is going to express, and and of i think it's pretty clear who did it and why. of who was behind this attack, many analysts that we've spoken to here on press tv see the israelies is having role uh in the terror attacks and it's not unprecedented of course uh for the israeli regime, what do you think? i agree with mr debar, the same way that us imperialism has used israel since 1948 is a proxy force to do its dirty work in the area against the lebanese, against the syrians, against the iranians, against the... first and foremost as they carry out a genocide, likewise they have used isis, jake sullivan's infamous quote from 2015 when he said that isis were not there uh the state department's enemies in syria, how many times have they

uh, and this is what wikileaks and all of those cables, and that's why julian asange and others are in exile or in in in jail. because they were able to shed light on this topic, because what the us wants to try to do with their war propagandars wiped their hands clean of what happened about uh some 60 hours ago in tehran, there's nothing that can convince us that it wasn't uh the masad in the central intelligence agency which has an undisclosed budget, it's an unvouchered budget meaning they don't have to leave any uh paper trail for all of their work around the years a budget somewhere in the range of $50 billion dollars uh per year for the cia, and this is right up their alley, they strike one day in beirut, they strike the next day in tehran and then they strike in baghdad, the arrogance of this empire and of zionism

is almost unparalled in history. dabar, looking at the recent israely attacks in the region, the assassination of the iranian military advisor uh sayid razi musa. in syria, hamas senior official, salahuri in lebanon, are these israeli attempts at expanding their onslot on gaza into a wider regional conflict and maybe trying to get uh the the united states more directly involved, the individual actors have, their individual motivations, netanyahu first of all has his own personal motivations, which is basically a single one stay a prison, he has to... stay in office in order to stay out of prison, um, he is sitting top of a coalition where he's really not the leading partner, and he's become a liability even to them over his handling of this entire affair, and then there is the interest of the state of israel,

quote unquote, whatever elite that actually is in terms of making and expressing policy, um, there's certainly the geopolitical interest of the united states, which israel is a proxy for, it's that they refer to... as a an aircraft carrier and and whatever a battleship um and behind that even you know the the oil companies basically that have a large chunk of the stock of the us government so um we're looking a war over the resources there and and over not just the oil and gas and those resources and not even just the human resources but also that you the geographic resources the the location itself is uh an importance to casset in in fighting russia and china, which is also part of perhaps their ultimate goal, so looking at how these things are playing out here, clearly you look to what the interest of the us and and of israel as it, local partner are, and how these things fit into it, i

think that again you consider the fact that there's a war going on, not the war that began quote unquote on october 7th, and not even the war that began uh in with the kockbot. 48, this is the war that's been going on since imperialism came to that part the world to try to and for a long period of time to have seized the resources or control the resources there, you're looking at the british changing the form of imperialism in 1948, in the face though of most of the day coming to power and and the iranian people really taking control of their fate up until the cia cool in 1953 and then um and uh first in the construction of egypt and um syria and uh and iraq which was coming on, you're going to see a united arab republic across the arab world, again another anti-imperialist rise, the war that took all of those things down um

and then saw a reversal with the iranian revolution 1979 is ongoing and this is just another battlefield in that entire you know that larger war right uh mr. shaw, regarding the assassinations, hisballah leader, said hasan nasal earlier today said that the blood the marters of the resistance will not go and in will not go in vein, and he also said that the killing of salah al aruri will not go... punished, there were similar comments from iran regarding the assassination of razi musavi in syria, are these actions producing the results that israel and the us were seeking, or are they in the words of hasan nasula further igniting the resistance, front in the region? first off, it's very clear that israel is a western imperialist creation, it's a frankenstein, but is this frankenstein slipping out of the control of their? very handlers of the dr. frankenstein that called them into existence, it seems

that the us does not want the upper summits the us ruling class, do they really want a war with iran, nation of almost 100 million people, rich civilization that goes back, um, millennia, they can't handle the economic rise of china, uh, russia is whipping there behinds, in this native. us proxy war against russia with the ukrainian people trapped in the middle, do they really want to open up another massive front against the iranians, against the access of resistance, but there can be no doubt that there's an israeli and a us hand behind these terrorist bombings in tehran, they bomb into iraq, they bomb into syria, they bomb the syrian airports in in aleppo and in damas is they bomb the militias, the anti-imperialist militias in

iraq, they they they bomb it will, so the israelis in the us are in a very cavalier way, they're inviting the resistance to strike back, of course it's the military industrial complex that runs the media in this country, and what we saw yesterday at about 2 pm was the most synchronized statement from the new york times, the bbc in the israeli times inherits uh wiping uh washing their hands clean as if the west had nothing to do with these terrorist bombings, but there's an abundance of proof, we have to read the gray zone and we have to read aaron mate and in in the geopolitical uh report and these other outlets who've been tracking isis in their handlers from bengazi and libya to the ports of turkey uh uh back back syria. uh wikileaks revealed this uh israeli, us, isis,

nexus. now, yesterday when they made that statement, of course, uh, liberals across the us, and everyday us people thought, ah, this is surely a shiite uh, sunni dynamic, but it's important to ask at the moment of of of the ultimate muslim unity of pan arab and muslim unity in defense of the people of palestine who are up against the genocide. who benefits from this terrorist bombing? don debar, uh, the resistance front in iraq, it continues to put pressure on the us administration with its anti-israeli and anti-us operations, but hasan nasolah uh today earlier said that following the recent targeting of a leader of the popular mobilization uh units in baghdad, iraqi politicians now have a historic opportunity to expell all us forces from iraq. now let's go rewind to... the uh uh assassination of general qasim suleymani in 2020, iran also

said that one way of avenging his death would be the complete withdrawal of us troops from the region. how close are we to seeing that day? i forget what the official count is, 2,500, i think, or supposedly. you know, recent events have actually uh, exposed the fact that the us still occupies. occupation is fact, not necessarily set of individual uh situations, for example, if the united states is exercising control at gunpoint of the you the nation state or or policy making of of iraq, whether they have million troops there or two, the occupation is an occupation, um, the fact that it's still occupied has been again exposed. by the recent events there and the attacks on on the us military assets by

the iraqi uh forces and by the iraqi people. um, one of the things that gets sort of offiscated in in conversation about these matters is the word terrorism. we're talking about warfare, okay? terrorism is a term that came into usage when there were articles or acts of warfare committed by either non-state actors or by the other. in terms of propaganda, in fact uh and and it's even more complicated uh given the uh sort of the political the legal political situation exists on the ground in that region and in a number of other post-colonial regions um you have contradictions between the you know the states themselves that are former colonial states and some semi-colonial states now um and you have contradictions in some cases like in saudi arabia between the population that's there and and the you know the government particularly in terms of relations with the united states and israel um and so

uh if you look at lose all these you know other terms that are the popular ones and think of it in you know strategic terms in terms of warfare, you have you know the the populations in you know the population of the nations around um israel, around palestine uh that are all in favor of protecting the palestinian people and adamant about this um and now look witnessing like the worst genocide, certainly since there have been tv cameras to recorded in in human history um and and their governments debating at the united nations. about it and finally one uh nation uh submitting a claim at the uh icj um there are a lot of those contradictions that are going to be resolved over the course of this you know whatever conflict um and i think in some of some of the more reactionary states you're going to see the governments change including i don't mean just the

individuals in the government but the nature the governments and relation at people change and that is going to happen under conditions of of active warfare, in a number of these states and the state, and what they call the state of israel, so it's difficult to predict what's going to happen, other than if some way isn't found to put this fire out and to provide justice and safety for the palestinian people, it's going to be a blood bath there. daniel shaw, the yemeni armed forces continue targeting israeli linked ships and vessels bound for the occupied territories despite the form. the naval coalition in the red sea and washington's threats and warnings, tell us more about this defiant message that the yemenes are sending to the us and its allies as theyen clear these attacks will persist until israel ends its crimes against scazens. all of humanity has debt with the yemene people with who we

call in the west, the the houties, these forces of resistance. "this is a small country of only 30 million people and to stand up empire and their zionist underlings is extremely impressive and this is on the heels of over seven years of horrific uh us proxy war of using the saudies uh to really um wage a campaign of of of starvation of horrific bombing uh against the yemeny people, this was um horrific violence that we almost never learn." about uh here in the united states and now they're doing the same thing to the palestinian people, the us has almost single-handedly destroyed iraq, destroyed syria through a covert dirty war, they've dismembered and destroyed libya, in a big part of the foreign policy establishment wants to iraqize or libyaize or syriize iran,

one of the strongest countries in in the region, and the spearhead of this axis of resistance which counts among its uh kadre, the yemenese, the iraqi militias, hezbollah, there's no question that israel wants every excuse, every pretext to continue bombing the daylights out of their neighbors, but as mr dubar has indicated, there's a half million, half billion uh arab people in the arab world uh watching on 8 billion members of humanity watching this horrific holocaust of the palestinian people, so when would israel ever have peace with its neighbors when for 75 years they've treated their neighbors with genocidal violence? sure don debar, in spite of all the efforts to weaken uh the resistance uh in in the region, why is the resistance front still thriving? this is what human beings do, um, we don't die easily, um,

any of us uh as as a group? as individuals, it's in our nature to try to live. um, it's the way this thing is taking shape is an unusual, historically unusual methodology, being expressed, it's kind of like at an individual, national or regional level, where you would have gariael war um as you a revolutionary spear, only this is the you know falling together of those aspects of the various nation states in the area uh that see the emergency that that that has to be addressed and rolling up the sleeves and and and going to do it, um, any one of these individual states declares war on israel, the united states and israel focus their, you know, whatever, the power they have, their

militaries on that, to make an example of them in front of the others, that's their traditional model. looking to the vietnamese war, or the american war as they call in vietnam, the resistance there was not conventional resistance, and this that we're seeing develop here is an... conventional resistance also kind of that sort of model um that uh you know may well produce some unexpected results that they not they hadn't planned on in the pentagon or langley or wherever the whatever rathole they uh make these plans on in the so-called state of israel. danny shall find a question for you as well uh why is the resistance front still thriving in the region inspite of all the efforts to weaken it? hoshiman said no amount of modern uh war technology could defeat a people's will to be independent, this is about uh sovereignty, this is about indigenous dignity, the us and israel would

have to wipe every last iranian, every last arab, every last aloite, every last kurd off the face of the earth, um, people are going to continue to resist, and how could we ever forget the chief of the masad as well who said publicly that i'll news for a front that worst terrorist outfits operating in the syrian theater and the iraqi theater were allies of the israelis and deserved compassion and and he said this publicly on on al-jazera, so we have an abundance of of of proof that the israelis in the us have indeed kept al-qaeda in isis a short leash, and this is something that the american public has to look into closely, as well as the western the western world. mr. dubar, i saw you notting there, would you like to share with? your final thoughts? yeah, i agree completely. i think uh, citing hochi men as dan just did is exactly appropriate. all right, thank you, gentlemen. uh, activist

and commentator, don debar joining us from ostening uh, new york, and uh, also uh, from new york academic and commentator daniel shaw, gentlemen, thank you for contributing uh to our program, and also a special thanks uh to you, our viewers for staying with us tonight's spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time.

israel's economy is now in a crisis as it was sit by double wamy this year, the so-called judicial overhaul and the us israel genocidal war. the uh slaughter in gaza, the uh ethnic cleansing which borders on gen side, i think, uh, is costing israel a great deal in terms of of money. the regime is also suffering massively due to the boycott campaign. these

are. young professionals, lot of college students uh, they're going to have an impact on this region for the years down the road, there'll be the new generation that will join people like malaysia, join us in this edition of economic divide where we look at how israel's economy is suffering. les bombardements qui ciblent des civil et des infrastructures.

i'm deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in gaza. let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.

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