israel carries out another excuse me terror attack on the searing capital damascus assassinating number of people, including five irani military advisors, the tag targeted a three-story residential building in the city's mesa neighborhood, which houses several diplomatic missions. the death doll from israely onslot on the gaza strip is nearly 25,000 as the regime continues with a steady carpet bombing campaign. according to new report published by an independent human rights watch, israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers. israel

forces have carried out fresh raids on two refugee camps and the occupied west bank, ducting several palestinians. one of the camps is near alcots, and the other is located in northern west bank. israel has intensified his raids and arrests across much of the occupied territory since october the 7th. worldwide rallies are held in solidarity with palestinians in gaza as israeli protesters call for an end to the regime's genocide in the coastal territory. in the israel city of hifa, the regime forces attacked anti-war demonstrators and sought to confiscate the parkards. iraq's islamic resistance says it has launched a barrage of missiles at the us run anlalsad base in western iraq. reports say this is the biggest anti-us operation by the rocket resistance since october 7. there have been no immediate reports of casualties.

memories are sweet and heartwarming, but they also bring along the regrets of loss. people usually visit relics to olivia. 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 eldest, 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 هذا in immigrants in the city. our city was exp'.

experiencing a chaotic situation in those days. our house was not far from king david hotel, so 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 news 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 totally unprotected, and it was an area that fell to the hagana 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 uh latter part of 1947 uh, it became impossible to live there, and there was a general sense of panic uh, and my family left at the end of the..." september of 47. in cairo, my father sent me to an english language school and i found my interests 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 i was constantly to be reformed, the 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, uh, music, literature, uh, 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 cit. citizenship, so my father wanted to make sure that he kept his citizenship. i happened to be a student at the american university at the time from 60 onwards, where edward's 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 or 21, i'd 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 u.s. 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.

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 military prowes 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, i was desolated, i 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 i began for the first time, i se and the 1973 war um when israel expanded again uh he became increasingly concerned with 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 i was immediately. politically involved up to my neck. edward also at that time began to realize that he is damn palestinian and it's

okay to stand up for the downthodden and to actually regain that end. it was in that environment that i think because i i discovered then that i had to rethink my 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 us to do, we were just modern, we talk your language, we studied your language, and then all of 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'll understand the... the idea of being a fugitive is just like being affected by leprosy. you feel alone in the middle of 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... الفلسطين اول شيء من دون بلد 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 بغصنز. 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 uh general assembly, and then from then on i started to see him regularly. احد الذين ترجموا خطاب ياسر عرفات الذي القاه في سنه 74 امام الامم المتحده الخطاب المشهور جدا الذي قال فيه تلك الجمله الجميله التي صاغها. الشاعر الكبير محمود درويش جئتكم حاملا وصن الزيتون بيد وبندقيه الثائر بيد فلا تسقطوا غصن الزيتون. after this famous speech, the palestine liberation organization was granted observer status at the un, and the palestinians were given the right to determine the fate of their inhabited territories. however, this situation did not last.

what do you think of when you think of an arab? somebody with towel on their head, 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 as professor of english colum 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... is if you want to negotiate some kind of peace with justice, you cannot legislate in advance who's going to represent whom. the 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 palestinian except the plo. after all, it was the israeli government a that dispossessed the palestinians, that destroyed lebanon in 1982, killed.

"and i in this, i think most palestinians are like most people, it's very hard for the palestinian who feels himself 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 our 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, you look, i would, nobody can understand that, i mean, you can, you can

grasp the first fact, the fact of the holocaust, but you can't translate that into your own, um 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, inextric. 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, i know it's a charge

which created outrage when it was first raised, i think the un, they tried to dubyanism 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 bagan, i mean, 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 palestinians are animals walking on two pores, or you remember his chief of staff at the time raful talked about palestinians being cockroaches a bottle, it is the default option of europeans that the...

time of the subranchatila he would say he said ifim what concern is it of ours now that it seems to me is 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 anglo-saxon protestants can emigrate and get a citizenship, then you as a

jew and i as a palestinian would object. now, the same law in inverse formulation of the same law, which says that only a jew can emigrate to israel, uh, 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 let me to the theory that i presented in orientalism. همه چیز واقعا از آخر ده 1970 شروع شد که در اون سال کتاب شاخص ادوارد سعید به اسم اوریتالیزم چاپ میشه.

it speaks with me, the saint of the soil,

from the blood and the ashes, it's fixed with me the sound of the rain, from the battle and the victory, victory. i free you, oh palestine, i free you, oh

palestine. i free you, oh palestine, i free you, my every prayer is a cry to my enemy, and i cry out, cry out, cry out to the evil enemy, the flame within my heart will burn you, i cry out and the thunder in my voice will defen you, i cry out and the tornado within my soul will will you away,

my... bleeding wound once felt those unforgotten, but the aching sorrow in me never gone. i 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 dead, wounded by hatred, i'm breathing, breathing, breathing, the

magic purple. to mark my homeland palestine, wonded in love, my hands 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... storm crown of evil force, i'm a flaming thunder and tornado, and i cry out, i cry out, i pray you, need you, oh my son, i pray you,

10 years of chaos and war in syria, the ruins of left in syria, who benefits from the continuation of this war? what is the view of the west, particularly america towards war in syria and the support of many countries for creating chaos in syria? why syria, a different narrative?

press tv headlines: iran says it reserves the right to respond to israel's organized terrorism, which proves the regime's profound ties with terrorist groups in the region, including daesh. any report says israel has killed hundreds of university professors and teachers in gaza as the death goal from the regime's genocide nears 2500. also in the headlines, the yemen's prime minister tells press tv that anti-israely operations started in the red sea after arab regimes shund their responsibility to protect the people of gaza.