of 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 u.s. 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. more power and popularity and

now uh palestinian resistance in gaza has been impeding the israeli war machine. yemen's operations in the red seaford israel's economy and iraq's resistance groups target american bases in iraq in syria demanding the expulsion of us forces from their country. all tonight we're going to look into the root causes of this popular growth of the resistance front in the region on press tv spotlight. joining us on the program. program we have writer and political analy was joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut and also we have journalist activist and political analyst john joining us from belgrade. well gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. ris in the lebanese capital beirot. army says that the us and the uk bear. 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... iliation we might expect from the movement or from ansar allah, ansar allah has revealed that 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 of emirati coalition which enjoyed strong of western backing, but i think that the latest operations reveal even more military expertise if you would like, the operation, for example, 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 um the hutis do have the ability uh to launch a pretty strong attack and it has to be pointed out that there will be lot of targets, um these sea are. is the arabian of sea, there are a lot of quite a lot of targets for the 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 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 yemen 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 eminies will do it, but no doubt they do have some strong military capabilities, asked your question about the um the message of defiance which was delivered, i think that the yeminees have prov them proven themselves mentioned in his speech yesterday to be at the forefront in defending the people of gaza who are being subject to these uh daily killings and i believe that all of this is part of the new middle east uh 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 sector. secutive 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. 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. 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 lot to america and to england as well. risk in beirot, how important has the unified response been from the resistance in the region and retaliation for the gaza war, there's lebanon's, hezballah, yemens and resistance moving and the armed forces of the country, resistance groups in syria and iraq as well, well i think that most important of all it's making the situation more costly for the israelis, if you were to talk about 2006 for example, example, i remember back then, hazballah was basically standing alone in confronting the israeli side, um, of course, we have to mention that iran did support hasbullah, syria also, but set those two countries apart, there was other, real

support for hizballah, indeed some of the arab countries back then were even against hazballah and rooting for the israeli side, so things have changed lot, um since 2006, yemen in particular has emerged as a force to be reckoned with. um, the syrian 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, hazballah were played a... part and now we have hazbullah model if you would like present in syria uh in iraq as well you have a group which is called kat or the hazballah brigades so you have what i would call the expansion the hazballah 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 hizball 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 that the uh in particular the iraqi side has been targeting american bases not only in iraq and in syria uh 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 they don't appear to be backing down for the time being, they don't appear to be raining in israel, you 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, we are, to this question, why this american support for israel, whilst this support is actually? backfiring and harming american interest, and so the big question raised is for how long will america tolerate its interest being put in jeopady 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 said attack on yemen with iran and resistance movements in the region. strongly condemning the attacks. iran has uh, 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 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 openly 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 a 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... 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, 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 signify a turning point in the history of the region. 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 movement also said that the aggression is yet. another proof of the us complicity in 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, the most the brightest minds when it comes to the middle east, all these voices or the high majority of them have been focusing on the necessity of the american administration responding to the huties, 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 mand, the yemani 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 uh in response to what was taking place, and this operation again it was violation, yes, but it was quite small scale operation as if the biden often administration saying, look, i've done

something, i've taken action. it seems to be it was more attempt to silent certain critics more than it was to accomplish anything else. um, 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. uh, the american side takes action just to show it's taking action. if you recall donald trump. 'when he launched to tom missiles against syria, the main motive for him for doing that was to distinguish himself from his predecessor 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 bashar al-assad, 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 amenies 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, the iraqi prime minister has said that baghdad wants a quick withdrawal of the quote unquote destabilizing us forces from iraq now baghdad has not yet set a deadline but still uh iraqi politicians uh uh 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 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 start this, and then to 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. i risk with all the years of the us and its allies trying to exert their hegemony in the region, point now has been reached where the people of the region are quite unified in the demand that

the us and foreign forces must leave the region, how important and... significat is this unison that's being seen now? well, i think yes it is significant, and it just goes to show you how israel 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, there were 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 you, 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 iran 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 far-fetched. john uh john bosic uh, in spite of all the efforts to weaken the resistance, why is the resistance front still thriving in 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 the 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... 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 the implement? 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 israel 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... but israel's lobbing power in washington and i'm very much looking forward to seeing american democracy overcome the piles of money that israel has been using to bribe members of congress. all right, mr. risk, very briefly, if you may i saw you noting there, do you agree with with mr. boznic? yep, yes, very, very important points, indeed, if, they can overcome the israely lobby uh, that would be something. monumental or very very new phase in american politics, because american policy in the middle east is very much dictated by israel, it's very much to serve the israeli side, what biden has done, the approach he's taken with the current conflict does not b well for american interest in any way whatsoever, it

only serves israel, very quickly, just an example about yemen, yemen is home to aq in the arabian peninsula, that is considered to be the most dangerous branch of al-qaida to the us, if you recall there was an attack in pensacola in florida which was... adopted or the aqyp 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 you our viewers for staying with us tonight spot. it's good night for now and see you next time.

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day 99 of usraeli genocidal war in palestinians with the death to on gaza now exceeding 23,800 mostly women and children. yes army conducted. another missile attack on yemen as sanabows to continue blocking israel ships from sailing to the red sea. and russia's un ambassador warns at us in uk of feeling a regional war condemning strikes on yemen as unauthorized.