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welcome to spotlight. western imperialism has been exploiting the western asia region and looting its resources for decades at the least. the western is led by the us of waged wars on countries in the region. they've created and supported terror groups to reak havoc in west asia and wreck its people's lives. but the equation seems to... be changing in recent years and decades, resistance groups in the region have been gaining more power and popularity, and now uh, palestinian resistance in gaza has been impeeding the israeli war machine. yemen's operations in the red sea of hurt israel's economy, and iraq's resistance groups target american bases in iraq and syria, demanding of the expulsion of us forces from their country. all tonight, we're going to look into the root causes of this uh popular growth. the resistance front in the region on

press tv spotlight joining us on the program we have writer and political analyst ali risk was joining us from the lebanese capital. root and also we have journalist activists and political analyst john bosnic joining us from belgrade. well, gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. risk in the lebanese capital beirot. mr. risk, the emmy army says that the us and the uk bear full responsibility for the attacks against their country pledging to retaliate. give us your thoughts on the nature of that. retaliation and what you will be expecting, also tell us more about this defiant message that the yemenes are sending to the us and its allies, as they've been clear that these attacks will persist until israel ends its crimes against palestinians in gaza.

regarding the first part of your question about um what kind of retaliation we might expect from the houti movement or from ansar allah, ansar allah has revealed. it is indeed a force to be reckoned with, of course it going this reputation given that it was able to achieve victory against the saudi emirati coalition which enjoyed strong western backing, but i think that the latest operations reveal even more military expertise if you would like, the operation, for example, the more recent one, which targeted some american and british ships, this was very sophisticated attack which combined. between drones and missiles and by the way, it bears a lot of similarity to the methods employed by hazballah here in lebanon, so i think that the hitis do have the ability to launch a pretty strong attack, and it has to be pointed out that there will

be lot of targets, um, these sea areas, the arabian sea, mandib, there are a lot of quite a lot of targets for the ansar law to choose from. so i do expect that there will be retaliation and it could very well be, it depends, it could very well be um a strong retaliation, on the other hand it might be a proportionate retaliation because the operation you saw last night or this morning actually ear very early this morning from the americans and from the british, it was violation of yemeny sovereignty yes, but it wasn't like very harsh operation if you would like five people being killed, the british side said that it indicated or hinted between the lines that this it was after war, so we have to see how the amenies will do it, but no doubt they do have some strong military capabilities. asked your question about the the message of defiance which was delivered,

i think that the yemenese have prov proven themselves as he mentioned in his speech yesterday to be at the forefront in defending the people. of gaz who are being subject to these daily killings and i believe that all of this is part of the new middle east, you know yemen, iraq, what we're seeing, the reaction which we're seeing is part of new middle east which i think the americans hadn't hope for, i recall in 2006, then of state condol said it was time for new middle east, but this middle east which is which is emerging right now is totally. different, i think than the one the americans had in mind. john bosic, hamas has called the us and uk attacks on yemen, an uncalculated terrorist act, a political commentator that we spoke to here on press tv also believes that the move was a miscalculation. was this a

miscalculated attack in your opinion? well, it's obviously a mistake. i wouldn't go, i wouldn't call it such such a small thing as a miscalculation. it's a grievous error in international law. "and it's an act of aggression, unlawful, illegal, state to state aggression, so definitely the united states and england are making more mistakes, and i use the word more there, because they are the major powers behind the israeli operation and slaughter of countless palestinians, so they are tying their fate more closely to israel, and since israel is losing this conflict. "this is going to cost to america and to england as well. ali risk in beirot, how important uh has the unified response been from the resistance in the region and retaliation for the gaza war, there's lebanon's, hezbollah, yemen's ansarla resistance moving and the armed forces of the country, resistance groups in syria uh and

iraq as well. well, i think that most important of all it's making the situation more costly uh for the israeli." um, if you were to talk about 2006, for example, i remember back then, hazballah was basically standing alone in confronting the israeli side, you uh of course, we have to mention that iran did support, hasballah syria also, but set those two countries apart, there was other, real support for hazballah, indeed some of the arab countries back then were even against hazballah and rooting for the israeli side, so things have changed lot since 2006, uh, yemen in particular has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, um, this... crisis ironically has actually strengthened the access led by iran whilst

the aim maybe of some of those who were behind the crisis in syria was to weaken the iranian that lead block. what's happened actually is that this block has further strengthened um hazballah were played a part and now we have hazbal law model if you would like present in syria uh in iraq as well you have a group with which is called all the hazballah brigades, so you have what i would call the expansion of the hazbillah model in in the region, and this um unified or the united fronts, i think, that reflects that very issue, the spread of the iranian dash hizballah model in this region, and that's costing the israelies lot, and i think more importantly it's costing the americans, because what you've seen is the uh in particular the iraqi side has been targeting american bases not only in iraq and in syria,

go back 10 years ago for example, i don't think that the americans would have been subject to such retaliation or such a response, so uh the united front, i think one the most important impacts it has is to make us support for israel more costly, now the americans at the same time it has to be said the... don't appear to be backing down for the time being, they don't appear to be raining in israel, you know, there are some attempts, but the american pressure, i think is hasn't still reached that very, very firm level, and this takes us back, you know, we are you to this question, why this american support for israel, whs this support is actually backfiring and harming american interest, and so the big question raised is for how long will america tolerate it? interest being put in jeepady just for the sake of the israeli ally, that i think speaks

a lot to the dilemma or the major problem us policy in the middle east suffers from. john boznic, reactions are pouring in following the us attack on yemen with iran and resistance movements in the region strongly condemning the attacks. iran has as you mentioned earlier denounced the violation of yemen's sovereignty and territorial. integrity and it also says that the attacks will foment insecurity in the region and beyond, so in the region and beyond was uh the highlight of that statement coming from tehran, please unpack that for us. well, when we talk about in the region and beyond, first of all we're talking about the actual conflict affecting yemen and the region around yemen, but what has to be understood here is that the american military presence in the region is open. exposed and becomes legitimate target once they take aggression

aggressive actions against other states, we know that american forces are unlawfully, both against the law of syria and against international law, present and stealing oil from syria, one should expect some kind of a targeting and a response to those unlawful american occupation forces. american forces are still present. and american interests are still present in iraq, those should most likely be coming under some kind of pressure in the near future, and what has happened is the anglo-american imperial influence in the region is bringing the local nations together, and there is no reason why palestine cannot enter into a military self-defense pact with yemen, which requires yemen. to come to the military defense of palestine, if palestine continues to be attacked by israel, backed by england and

america. so what england and america have done by giving kart blanche to israel is they have created a situation in which all of the victims of their colonial era and of israel's aggression will now be drawn organically together to defend themselves, and as history will teach you, those who are defending their own land generally defeat those who are attacking from outside. this does not look good for the anglo-american empire. it looks... worse for israel and it does signif a turning point in the history of the region. ali risk islamic jihad resistance group says that the aggression on yemen is part of western support for israel and shows that washington is managing the gaza war. lebanon's hesbollah moven also said that the aggression is yet another proof of the us

complicity and what it called catastrophes in gaza and the region. was the attack on yemen even more? of a revelation of how the us fully supports the massacre in gaza? is that a question to me? i think that i've been following um this issue for quite some for the past week or so what's been written in the western press about the hi movement and and about the yemani front. there are some senior scholars, very senior scholars, people like kenneth pollack, katherine zimmerman and other well-known american scholars who are at least in the us considered to be you know the most the brightest minds when it comes the middle east all of these voices or the high majority of them have been focusing on the necessity of the american administration responding to the houties when it comes to iraq when it comes to syria i haven't noticed

these calls or this very vocal atmosphere calling to take action but when it comes to berbal m the yamini front, there have been a lot of calls to take action, and not to mention calls coming from within congress with some members of congress, i'm not generalizing, so i think that the biden administration felt that it had to do something in response to what was taking place, and this operation again it was violation, yes, but it was quite a small scale operation, as if the biden administration saying, look, i've done something, i've taken action, it seems to... me it was more attempt to silent certain critics more than it was to accomplish anything else, that's how i view the situation, i might be mistaken, and that's not something which we're not used to for the americans, often the american side takes action just to show it's taking action, if you recall donald trump when he launched atom

missiles against syria, the main motive for him for doing that was to distinguish himself from his. barack obama, at the very end withdrew or didn't go ahead with a strike he had promised to, because if you recall they spoke about the chemical weapons red line etc. and then where there was a chemical weapons attack which they pinned on syrian president, but obama backed down, he didn't go ahead and implement that red line, and i think what you're seeing now with yemen is quite similar, you have a president who's responding to certain domestic pressures. "now i think the danger lies in the fact that after carrying out this operation, what if the emines retaliate, what will the american response to that be, because biden, particularly now in an election year, i think wants to be seen as being some kind of tough guy, promoting that tough guy image, so if the yeminies retaliate, you might see,

possibly, i'm not certain, you might see another american retaliation and then the situation could snowball, i think that's the..." dangerous scenario. john boznic, the iraqi prime minister has said that baghdad wants a quick withdrawal of the quote onqute destabilizing us forces from iraq. now baghdad is not yet set a deadline, but still iraqi politicians, they have a historic opportunity to expel uh us from iraq. how close are we to seeing that day? i think we're looking a departure demand. from iraq within the next two to three months, i think it's that close, and i think that this is going to further destabilize the ability of the united states and its english backers to project power into the region. i think this is a critical, historic step forward for iraq and for the people of the region as well, and i think that a properly delivered legal

demand that they american forces recognize the sovereignty of iraq is the way to... this and then pursue this through all of the existing international organizations, and this puts america in the place that it used to say the rest of the countries in the region were, and that is, it makes america an international rogue state. with all the years the us and its allies trying to exert their hegemony in the region a point now has been reached where the people of the region are quite unified in the demand that the us and... forces must leave the region, how important and significant is this unison that's being seen now? well, i think yes it is significant and it just goes to show you how. is becoming a burden for for the united states, these popular demands for the americans to leave, you might might not have heard them, had america not taken this very

supportive stance of israel in the current conflict, you know there are disagreements amongst lot of amongst the people of the region when it comes to certain issues, but when it comes to palestine, the populations at the very least appear to be united, and so against that backdrop, the american support for the israeli unslaught on gaza is costing america and is leading to the demands for the americans to leave, i would however be cautious about expecting america to withdraw within a few months, america will not withdraw without a fight. you have this addiction, you have the deep state which is deeply committed to having a presence, america having a presence, and one of the main motives, let's be clear of the american presence in iraq is to counter. to have a presence near iran because iran is considered the main competitor of america and most importantly the main challenge towards israel, so the americans are not going to

leave without a strong fight and i think that expecting them to leave in a few months, i think that might be a bit farfetched. john basic, in spite of all the efforts to weaken the resistance, why is the resistance front still thriving? the region. oh, i just want to correct something. first, i'm expecting a request for the departure of the american forces to come within next two to three months. how long it takes for the us forces to leave is another matter, and i agree with your other commentator on that point, but the request has to come from iraq as a sign of solidarity with the palestinian people, and i believe that the crisis in palestine is going to rise to such level within the next two to three months that such a request will be made. how long it takes to? that's another question, but back to your question, i do think that we're seeing a shift in the entire geopolitical situation in the region, i think

israel has gone too far, i think that america is used to taking orders in the region from israel, and i think that the blowback that nobody is talking about is that the crimes being committed by israel now in palestine are going to hobble the influence of the... lobby in the us congress, and if that happens, if the israel lobby loses its predominance in us politics, it could change the nature of us politics and it could change the actual behavior of the us empire. this is serious and major challenge to israel's influence, not just locally, but israel's lobbying power in washington, and i'm very much looking forward to seeing american democracy over. the piles of money that israel has been using to bribe members of congress. all right, very briefly if you may, i saw you notting there, do you agree with with mr. yep, yes, very, very important

points, indeed if you can overcome the israel lobby that would be something monumental or very very new phase in american politics, because american policy. the middle east is very much dictated by israel, it's very much done to serve the israeli side. um, what biden has done, the approach he's taken with the current conflict, does not birdwell for american interests in any way whatsoever, it only serves israel. very quickly, just an example about yemen, yemen is home to aqa p, alqida in the arabian peninsula, that is considered to be the most dangerous branch of alqida to the... us if you recall there was an attack in pensacola in florida which was adopted or the iqap claimed responsibility for that attack, now they're launching a war

against the party which has a history of fighting al-qaida and that i think is completely contradictory to american interests. okay, that's all the time we have for tonight, thanks to my guests ali risk wider and political analyst joining us from beirot, and mr. john bosich, journalist activists and political analyst speaking to us from. belgrade and special thanks to your viewers for staying with us tonight spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time. الجهاد الجهاد كل الشعب على الاستعداد

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the headlines: yemenes have held nationwide rallies to pledge their support for the armed forces and wake of strikes by the us and uk on their country. reactions pour in following the us at aggression on yemen with iran and the resistance front warning of threats to regional and international. peace and the united nations says israel prevents delivery of aid to people in the devastated gaza strippers death tool from bombings rise past 23,700.