you're top sort here on press tv army says the targeted an american ship in the gulf of aiden warning against any new aggression on the arab country over the past week there's been a series of us that strikes on yemen over what washington describes as threats against ship. in the red sea. iraq's prime minister reiterates his government's opposition to the presence of us forces in iraq. muhammad shi al sudani says that american troops must leave as daesh is no longer a threat to the country. he says ending us military presence is crucial for iraqi security and stability. 17 palestinians are killed in latest israeli air strikes on gaza, five loster. lives in a strike on a

residential building and khan unis, other 12 were killed in an air raid near al-shipa hospital in gaza city. overa on gaza has topped 24,600. a un rights experts slams israel's measures in gaza as violation of international law, describing them as highly illegal and highly unlawful. un special repertoire on occupied palestine says regime used over 12,000 bombs. during the first two weeks of its aggressional lung, another palestinian journalist is killed following israeli strikes on gaza, while abu fanuna, the chief executive officer at algod today satellite channel, was killed in israeli strikes in central gaza city, nearly 120 journalists have been killed by the israeli regime's occupation forces since october 7th.

memories are sweet and heartwarming, but they also bring along the regrets of loss. people of usually visit relics to alleviate this feeling, they visit the old neighborhoods, people and houses that are full of memories. but reviewing the past torments, my family, my compatriots and me, not only can we not go back in time, but we can't go back to where our past was formed. all that is left for us are movies that open our old wounds. our house was lost in history and right in front of people's eyes.

i am edward said, i was born in 1935 into a christian family in this house. my father was successful merchant who imported stationery from egypt, not only the elder. but he was also the only boy in the family, so i think we thought of him, his sisters a bit as - he was getting a good deal as they say. i was 10 or 11 years old when i little by little realized the presence of jewish immigrants in the city. our city was experiencing a chaotic situation in those days. our house was not far from king david hotel. "i was terrified

when that king david hotel bombing happened. jewish terrorists bomb the king david hotel in 1946. the wreckage could be seen from our house. i recall the rising sense of danger, british soldiers on the alert and use of impending war between palestinians and jewish forces. a year later, we went to cairo with all our relatives and family members because the situation became too difficult. that was a one-way trip with..." no return date. most of my family left jerusalem because they had to. our house was an area that was uh totally unprotected and it was an area that fell to the haganah in i think february of 1948. there was to my recollection there was no militia, there was no organized resistance of any sort. by the time the fighting began in in the latter part of 1947 uh it became impossible to live there and and there was a

general sense of panic, and my family left at the end of december of 47. in cairo, my father sent me to an english language school and i found my... in literature. my father was a wealthy man with aristocratic morals. he was proud of his us passport and asked everyone to call him william. he was very organized and cared so much about discipline. in relation to me, he was rather, he was very severe. i had four sisters, he was much more partial to my sisters, and for him, was constantly to be. formed uh and in many ways he focused on certain parts of my body, for example my back, he was very upset at the fact that i didn't have a military posture, so there was a lot of my childhood was devoted to training my back, training it, he would say, and so on and so forth, so there was a lot of that, there was always my mother

who of course counterbalanced it, and she she tried to spoil me, my mother was gentle and kind woman, she took me to the best music teachers. classes of that time and she motivated me to learn about music. all of the things that matter to me today, music, literature, ideas really are, i owe to my mother. i was old enough to go to university and i studied medicine for few years, but did not like my field of study. for this reason i was expelled from victoria college in cairo in 1962. my father was disappointed with me and sent me to the united states to study. it was the same decision that my grandfather took for my father in bulgarian ottoman wars period to keep his son out of it. my father sent him because in those days american law, we were american citizens. american law was

such that if he didn't go by a certain age, he would lose his citizenship, so my father wanted to make sure that he kept his citizens. i happened to be a... student at the american university at the time from 60 onwards where edward sister was a classmate of mine, so i got to know the family, i got to know her, and then in the us, i chose what i was interested in and studied english literature. i was really interested in literature and made lot of effort. finally, i got my phd from harvard university. i wrote my doctoral dissertation on joseph conrad about 20. 21, i read literally everything he had ever written, and then of course i knew that he wasn't english and he was an outsider, and i didn't make any association with myself, although obviously he was answering to some very deep um affinity that i felt with him. like me, joseph conrad was

originally from another country and was born in poland. he traveled to many countries and finally came to the us and wrote his famous novels in english just like me. "i had a good life in the us and everything seems to be in order until the event of 1967, that came as a great shock to me and completely changed the course of my life. israel attacked the egyptian army in the sinai peninsula, so six arab states went to war with israel, the war lasted only six days and resulted in the tripling of israeli territories." " فکر می کرده که چند تا عملیات انجام میکنی اسرائیل به کشورهای عرب حمله میکنه ارتش عرب مجبور که چی از خودش دفاع میکنه و اینطوری اسرائیل نابود میشه فکر می کرده که ارتش عرب قوی هست و می

تونه جنگ ۶ روزه وقتی اومد نشونشون داده که نه ارتش عرب همش لطمه خورد و بالعکس اسرائیل زمینه های کشورهای دیگه اشغال کرده نه فقط فلسطین. "that was important for understanding this shift in attitudes towards israel and zionism, because as the us faced defeat um in southeast asia, the victory that israel represented in defeating the arab states in 1967 was this seen as this incredibly positive sign of the west recovering its sense of purpose and its military prowers and so on, and i first met him, he he was just an american professor, but..." his connection with the with the palestinian movement was after 67 and then when the war broke out in 1967 was desolated, was in new york at the time and i was completely shattered, the world as i understood it and knew it had completely ended at that moment, and it was

shortly thereafter that began for the first time, i had been in america already for 15 or 16 years and began for the first time to be in touch with other arabs, i think between 67 and the 1973 war um when israel expanded again. uh he became increasingly concerned with uh the question of palestine and the situation uh of of palestinians and of the arab world in general. by 1970 i was completely involved. i had started to write uh in this country and uh i was immediately politically involved up to my neck. edward also at that time began to realize that he is damn palestinian and so okay to stand up for the downtrodden and to actually regain that end. it was in that environment that i think

because i discovered then that had to rethink my uh my life and my identity even though it had been so sort of sheltered and built up in this completely artificial way. i had to rethink it from from a start. we did exactly what you expected to do. we were just modern, we talk your language, we studied your language and then..." sudden this society here slapped them, they said, no, you are dirty arabs because you couldn't even war, you couldn't even fight, the whole, the whole war lasted only six days, that kind of immediate collapse of the of the of the arab armies at that time had very, very deep influence and those and they felt insulted. now, after few years of a seemingly successful life in the united states and teaching at one of america's best universities, i felt like nothing more than a fugitive, nothing was the same as before, he

said that directly, i'll never be home, when someone like edward said says, i never be home, that's something strange, but if you think, if you think like a palestinian, you will understand, the idea of being a fugitive is just like being affected by leprocy, you feel alone in the... the crowd. a fugitive can never be expelled from his homeland and can never return to it. a fugitive feels like a parasite. a fugitive is uninvited guest who has got nothing in common with his place of residence and is always considered a stranger. all palestinians feel the same sense of exiled. هي شغله اثنين الفلسطيني غير قادر على العوده لفلسطين يعني ثلاثه اي مكان

بالنسبه للفلسطيني هو غربه يعني هو غريب باي مكان بالعالم حتى بفلسطين هو غريب لقد جئتكم يا سياده الرئيس بغصن الزيتون في يدي وببندقيه الثائر في يدي. i met him for a long period of time when he came to the united nations here in november of 1974 and he had the speech that was cobled together and i... was asked by him to put it into english, which he gave at the general assembly, and then from then on i started to

see him regular, معروف انه احد الذين ترجموا خطاب ياسر عرفات الذي القاه في سنه 74 امام الامم المتحده هذا الخطاب المشهور جدا الذي قال فيه تلك الجمله الجميله التي صاغها الشاعر الكبير محمود درويش جئتكم حاملا وصل الزيتون بيد وبندقيه الثائر بيد فلا. after this famous speech, the palestine liberation organization was granted observer status at the un, and the palestinians were given the rights to determine the fate of their inhabited territories. however, this situation did not last long. i became member of palestinian national council for the first time, three years before this speech.

camel and maybe some sand, want to throw a pyramid in there? well, guess who's here? right on our stage, this itself. would not have been possible not long ago. edward said joins us, professor of english, columbia university, member of the palestinian of the palestine national council, to which umbrella organization belongs, the plo. i spoke loudly about the reality of the palestinian problems and i even had to speak in front of pro israel jews. i think the main point is if you

want to negotiate some kind of peace with justice, you cannot legislate in advance who's going to... represent whom? the israeli position and the position of the adl is that we are not only entitled to decide what to talk about, but we're going to decide who to talk to. now the palestinians have their own representatives, and that's they've never found, nobody has found any other representatives of the palestine except the plo, after all it was the israeli government a that dispossessed the palestinians that destroyed lebanon in 1982, killed, no, i'm saying.

or herself to have been the victim of injustice by jews, israeli jews, to sympathize or imaginatively incorporate the history of the holocaust and say, well, we forgive them for what they did. i mean, after all, they suffered this enormous, this, this colossal historical tragedy the jews did, and the fact that they are evicting us from. territory, that they are placing us under occupation, that they're treating us as third class citizens, that they are killing our people, that they are confining us to camps, etc., etc., etc., we understand. look, i would, nobody can understand that. mean, you can, you can grasp the first fact, the fact the holocaust, but you can't translate that into your own - doom. my mind has always been

busy with this question, what is the reason behind? the occupation of palestine and the western support for the occupier. in my opinion, this issue is rooted in the way the west looks at the east, and the palestinian cause emerges in this point of view. this war between peoples, a war which has been fought for generations and which concerns the whole world, is, i believe, inextricably entangled with the fantasies, dreams and ambitions of the west to rule and possess the east. "there's also a question of how zionism conceives arabs and it has become current for arabs to call zionism a racial, racist ideology. now what, patrick seal is the basis of that charge? well, uh, i know it's a charge which created outrage when it was first raised, i think the un, they tried to dublism as a racist thing, but you see,

unfortunately, i think there is something in it, i mean, much as one hates to say so, but if you you just look at some of the statements..." say of a man like like begin, he's always ranting about jewish blood and how precious it is with the implication of course that arab blood is much less precious, he says things like palestinans or animals walking on two pores, or you remember his chief of staff at the time, raful etan talked about palestinians being cockroaches in a bottle, it is the fault option of europeans that the perfect and normal man is the same european man who has existed since ancient greece, in the subconscious of

absolutely racial remark in another way i'd like to reformulate and say that had there been in the united states for example immigration laws which said that only white angle sacks and protestants can emigrate and get a citizenship, then you as a jew and as a palestinian would object. now the same law, inverse formulation of the same law, which

says that only a jew can emigrate to israel, whereas a palestinian who is born there, so for him "the writing of orientalism was actually shaped by his engagement with the question of palestine. my years of research in literally and historical texts led me to the theory that i presented in orientalism. همه چیز واقعاً از آخر ده 1970 شروع شد که در اون سال کتاب شاخص ادواد سعید به اسمین.

it speaks with me, the saint of the soil, from the blood and the ashes, it speaks with

me the sound of the rain from the battle and the victory, victory, victory. oh palestine, i free you, oh palestine. i free you, oh palestine, i free you, oh

palestine i my every breath is a cry to my enemy, and i cry out, cry out, cry out to the evil's enemy, the flame within my heart will burn you, i cry out, and the thunder in my voice will... to death and you, i cry out and the tornado within my soul, will rul you away, my bleeding wonn once felt those on. forgotten, but the aching

sorrow in me never gone, raise it will, my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your deeds, i raise it with. my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your d, wounded by hatred, i'm breathing, breathing, breathing, the magic perfume of my homeland palestine, wonder in love my hand. and turn

around the branches of the olive tree, seeking peace, seeking peace, but as long as the pillows of our children are drenchi in blood, as long as you have the though brown of evil force, i'm a flame and thunder and turn. and i cry out, i cry, oh my, i lease you, oh my son, i pray you,

a plot hatched by zinus to occupy to disintegrate. to plunder palestine. this documentary tells in five parts how the israeli regime kickstarted its sinister project in palestinian lands through the gradual strategy of settling the so-called jewish colonies.

rest of your headlines, yemy army says is targeted an american ship in the gulf of aden with appropriate enable missiles in support of palestinians in gaza. iraq's prime minister once again calls for the withdraw of us forces from his country saying it is crucial for iraq's security and stability and several palestinians are killed in new israely attacks on gaza with the death toll has already passed 24,600.