this is from palestine, gaza, this is for the child that is searching, why do you think little boys are going stones at tanks and well never really know how many people are dead? the drop bombs on innocent girls while they sleep in their bed in israel is a terror state the terrorists that terrorize i'll testify my television television how many more resolutions have to be violated how many more children have to be annihilated this is not a war it is systematic genocide but whatever they try palestine will never die free palestine free palestine. hello, i'm

chris williamson and you're watching palestine declassified, broadcasting twice a week, we're the only tv show that's dedicated to investigating and exposing the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with illegally occupied people of palestine. with hesbolah striking deeper into israel than ever before, today's edition of palestine declassified considers the consequences for of the zionist entity where it to embark a full-scale military invasion of lebanon. in our first report, latif farachakra onpics a paper. by a sionist think tank warning of dire consequences for israel, should his political leaders decide to proceed with such a potentially ill-fated military adventure. what is the risk to the zionist entity of attacking hizballah and invading lebanon? according to a zianist think tank, the institute for national security studies with close links to the security establishment, the risk is very significant. a report from the think tank issued on the seven of july

this year was titled, "how would a full-scale war with hizbillah affect the resilience of israel's civilian front?" it makes very of depressing reading for supporters of zionism. in summary, it anticipates severe damages expected in such a war to israel's civilian homefront and its functional continuity, and consequently, to the resilience of the israeli society and its ability to recover from the war. it doesn't quite envisage. the collapse and the end of the zionist regime, but there is a clear concern for the future of the entity. let's look at the main points of the report. it admits that more than 60,000 settlers have been forced to evacuate 28 separate settler colonies and the town of kiriachmona, near the lebanese border. the settlers are being accommodated at government expense elsewhere. it states that so far, hisbullah has launched more than 5,000 high trajectory and direct fire projectors.

towards civilian and military targets in israel. above all, it says there is a growing sense of futility regarding the future of the northern border. it says that the 500 missiles fired so far are only just over 3% of hizbillah's estimated armory, and some estimates put the stock of missiles and drones much higher. it goes to state hizbillah's arsenal consists of at least 150,00 missiles, rockets and... and other lethal weapons, including hundreds of precision guided, medium and long-range missiles, covering israel's entire populated areas. these include cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, advanced coastal anti-ship missiles, thousands of uavs and other drones, and precise short-range and anti-tank missiles. this arsenal, they write, can cause massive fatalities, and critical national infrastructure destruction. the

civilian and military targets in israel. in a full-scale war with hizbillah, they say, not all can be intercepted and could overwhelm air defenses. this represents a military and civilian threat that israel has never experienced. while the onsult in ghazza continues, the inss say that israel should not attack lebanon. whatever happens, they say, there should be significant coordination of expectations with the public. so far, they conclude no steps have been taken to prepare the public for this severe scenario. the military establishment in the setaller colony is scared of being defeated by hizballah. professor david miller, who's an eminent scholarly critic of israel joins me in the studio as usual. in addition to his role as our resident expert, he's also a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul zaham university and a co-director of the lobby watch dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today. is

the independent investigative journalist richard medhurst who specializes in covering us politics, international relations in the middle east. welcome to the show. david, that's a real bombshell report isn't it, that the teafer... referred to in her report there, isn't it? yes, and that report that she's just giving us is based almost entirely on the the uh report from the institute for national security studies, which is a uh zionist think tank in tel aviv. now you might think from in listening to it that if you were just listening to it without knowing that that this was very pro hisballah report, but actually this is a sionist report and it indicates really doesn't it the difficulty of the legal situation in the uk where hisballah is a prescribed organization is illegal or... organization, but can you come imagine the institute of national security studies in tel aviv being subject to police action to be arrested for being pro hisbolah? of course the thing is ridiculous, but what we're doing here is we're discussing uh the the assessments of others and indeed there assessments on those assessments of the strength of hezballah and hesbolah clearly is

major threat to the science entity as the science entity themselves are saying and factions within the science entity are saying so we can see that the military especially are very... option to go in against hisb because they know that they would be they would be defeated and of course they're facing pressure from the the ultra extremists from the vengaviers and smotricks and of course to to go in and to do that but they want what they want to do to do that is to bring the us in the sight yes indeed well richard come whether you could just remind us the history of of hespel's previous victorious campaigns against the zionists well i remember when the last war happened in 2006, i was uh in damascus just next door and everyone was glued to the television, we were all afraid that the war would spill over and syria would get involved and so on, and then you know within 33 days, which which is still relatively long, but compared to what we're

seeing in gaza, the uh, entire israeli force had been kicked out and repelled, and one of the moments that that really stuck um uh that really stuck out to me and i remember is the uh ship, there was this israeli not just random ship in their navy, but their flagship at the time, the hatit and hizballah almost sunk that ship with a c701 missile, that was such humiliation um in addition to everything else, and so that was i think really sobering moment for the americans and um for the israeli occupation, they had no idea what was going to happen, they really did not expect that, and i think if we if we look at 2006 compared to now, what hasbela can can do and possess now is even far greater? david uh 60,00 people evacuated from northern settlements, mean pretty significant isn't it? it's extremely significant. now this happened very early on the 60,000 were evacuated, and indeed uh uh kiriat shimona

city or town up in that region in the north east uh was entirely evacuated as well, there are still some settlements which are within about 10 kilometers of the border which have not... being evacuated and that's because they haven't been attacked at all by hezballah, but what happens of course is that as these things escalate as the designers insist on attacking civilian targets, then hezballah will escalate as well, and in the last few days we've seen for example attacks and new settlements which will now be evacuated, so what we see is that there are 60 thousand people, it will it will now become more who are being put up at the expense of the government in effectively in airb and b. many occasions that they will not go back until they're given security guarantees, there are no security guarantees that can be given, no indeed, well richard, um, what do you make of these estimates then

that hezballah has at least 150,00 missiles at its disposal in addition to drones and anti-tank weapons? well, i think that's a... "it's a very, very conservative estimate um, but nevertheless even if you take that number it's it's it's quite enormous. um, you, looking at looking at their capacities, i mean, i've been watching very, very closely what they've been doing uh, on the uh northern front or the you know front of south lebanon, and what they have set out to achieve which is draw out israeli forces away from gaza, so they uh, can help uh people in in palestine alleviate that suffering as much as possible, they..." succeeded in doing that because we know the israelis have been drawing their forces north and they've also succeeded in doing many other things, they've completely destroyed all of the iron dome defenses um and as a result of that they've set on fire several settlements. now obviously hasb not setting out to uh uh you

know put all these settlements and trees on fires because they belong to them originally, the they are lebanese lands originally anyway, but in order to drive out the israelis uh that's what's uh... to be done and we've had 100 thousand, at least 10000 occupation settlers that have been pushed away and evacuated, which has never been done before, and they're getting taste of the... listen although they're still being put up in hotels instead of the streets like palestinian refugees, but nevertheless we've never seen that happen before and all these reconnaissance and early warning systems that the israelis invested so much money in like the sky dew system, the skystar balloons, hasbala made mockery out of them, i mean they shot down the balloons and then shot down the drone operators and and the the crew on the ground, it's and filmed all of it as well, it's never unprecedented in in in warfare, david i mean of course just from richard there, but i mean a of those 150,00 missiles

includes medium and long-range precision missile doesn't it, so i mean basically hisbalar is capable of targeting anywhere in israel, the entirety of israel is potentially vulnerable isn't it, that would appear to be the case, and also it slightly depends on which uh versions of which missiles it said that they have, so for example the idf in 2016 said that they had the most advanced. forms of scud missiles, the scud sea which can reach way beyond the territory of of israel, map which shows that most of the other maps show that they can reach almost to the very south, almost to ilat in the very south of of what occupied the whole territory of occupied palestine, but in either case they can they can reach almost the entire territory and of course let's remember as we've seen just in the last few days thatuh and indeed the iraqi resistance can of course reach all of the south as well from from there. territory, so there is no part of the territory of what's called israel, which is which is not vulnerable to the the kind of

weaponry which which anala and many other of the resistance factions have, so that's really potentially damaging for for the science if it comes to that kind of conflict, well richard, i mean do you think a full-scale intervention by hezbollah could finish the job that's been started by the palestinian resistance? i really think that if they try anything the israelis try to um... going to lebanon or spark something larger, which which is weird to say already, because you look at how much they're being hit, their economy is also taking a massive blow because of what hazballah have been doing, which is in and of itself economic warfare, it will be the final nail in the coffin, um, once again, we should look at what hamas are doing in gaza under siege, and after 10 months they're undefeated to this day they're still making you wiping the floor with the israelis on the battlefield, so um, if they were to test hazballah and and spark original war um, i think they're going to

cause the true demize, it's going to be the end of the israeli occupation, the real end. well, our next report outlines the growing collaboration since october the 7th last year, between the different forces that make up the axis of resistance. from outside it seems to many incomprehensible why hisbollah and the other elements of the... axis of resistance don't just actively target and collapse the whole zionist entity. even zionist think tanks appear to suggest that hezbellah alone may be capable of such feat. the answer is the escalation ladder. while it is plain that the various elements of the axis of resistance are not proxies of the islamic republic of iran, it is also clear that the period since october the 7th has created the axis of resistance into a functioning regional military entity, the fact that all of these many groupings work

together is increasingly recognized internationally. it was revealed in 2021 that officers from hisbollah and the islamic revolutionary guards core coordinated the military confrontation in gaza in that year. the commander of irgc's al-gut's force, general ismail gaani visited lebanon twice to attend the meetings. the center involves hamas and some sources claim that the other palestinian factions also participate. it seems likely that there is additionally information and intelligence sharing with the government of syria, with the islamic resistance in iraq, and of course with the yemeni armed forces under ansarola. the creation of a formidable and quite new regional army has been a remarkable achievement of the zionist genocidal strategy in gaza. since october 7th, the... escalation ladder had involved very significant restraint from hisbollah. all of the data on

the military struggle shows first that the zionists have expended much greater firepower and have confined themselves to a far wider geographical area as well as extensively targeting civilians. hisbolla has by contrast focused almost exclusively on military targets within a 5 km distance of the border. the strategy of hezbulah. has been to systematically destroy the zionists vast array of listening equipment, rendering the occupation forces blind and making it much easier for hisbollah or others to target. the north and other areas of the interior of the occupied lands. escalations from hezbulah have only occurred when zinist provocations call for increased deterrance. two examples are when hezbulah deliberately responded to take out iron dome batteries following a zionist escalation in order to show that they could do it at well. a second response was

the fire bombings that left large areas of the northern occupied lands ablaze. psychological warfare tactics have included circulating two long clips of footage filmed by hezbulah drones at close range over scores of zionist military installations and bases. the more recent responses to zionist escalations hold out the prospect of further significant escalatory exchanges, which will seriously challenge the stability of thesignist entity. david, a report there referred to this thing called the escalation ladder, um, it's not a term a thing lot of people are familiar with, just just say a bit about what it actually means, so in in the context of the conflict here, it's about seeing uh and about the being an understanding between the partners who are engaged in conflicts, there effectively communicating each other, so that will say

that we will only uh target five kilometers uh underneath the border uh and we'll try and remove the idf, the the so-called israel defense forces from that region. we will not go any further than that unless there is escalation by the by the israelis, if they target civilians then we will target civilians, if they go further, if they go up to beirot or sejon or other places, then we will also go further, and that's what you saw with the when the attack that there was on the the iron dome battery, so the iron dome battery is supposed to be invulnerable or practically invulnerable, and what has boladed in that particular. the case was to show that they knew where the iron tome batteries were and they could strike them at will cuz it it didn't take out the missiles that were coming for it so that's that's that's how it works so it's a kind of balance of deterrence and if the if the zionists escavate as they have been showing showing a tendency to do then there will be equal response from hezbolah and that of course keeps them to some extent in check but of course there have been significant

escalations and that's when you step up the water and that's what we're seeing in in the last few weeks stay. eyes up the escalation ladder right indeed, well richard, i mean, look, we've often referred to the axis of resistance on on this program, but i wonder whether you might just summarize what it is for our viewers, perhaps unfamiliar with the term, well uh, it comes from originally, the axis of evil, which is of course a george bush term which he used, when he was giving a speech once, it was coined by david frum, who was neoconservative as well, and was flipped its head to to become the axis of resistance, and i think that's it's a very appropriate and very funny way to you, take a jab back at the americans and show them that what they think is evil is actually resistance to their occupation and their foreign policy, and it's it's not an official alliance by any means, but it just it represents this dynamic that

you have between countries in the middle east who are not all arab, for example iran, but who work to... to fight occupation by the americans and by the israelis and if i could perhaps draw a parallel uh or an analogy to make people better understand this, you can just think of um iran's role in the access of resistance, the way that uh the united kingdom helped countries that were under nazi occupation uh fight their occupiers in world war ii, it's the same exact principle, it's not an official alliance, it's just you know people helping each other out against uh to... fight against the pressers, well david, i mean, when netanyahu arrived in in washington the other day, i mean, i just was he exaggerating do you think to to drop up more financial aid from the us, when he was saying that the zinist entities facing seven different fronts, well, he's not exaggerating, it is true, of course he was

saying it in order to drum up more aid, but the extraordinary thing is that they have opened these seven fronts, they didn't need to attack the iranian. in damascus, they didn't need to uh deliberately uh escalate in in the south in bombing the the the oil supplies in yemen, they didn't need to escalate in in the north and in against tespalar by in particular bombing civilians, but they have done it on every single occasion, that's put them into conflict with the west bank, with gaza, with yemen, with with hisbala, with syria with the iraqi resistance and of course with the islamic republic of iran, which i think is seven fronts right? 'that's the way it operates, they've put themselves in this very dangerous position, and it's a position which will see them be see them defeated if it escalates any further, and the reason that they're doing it is, yes because they've got crazys in the government, but also because they want to drag the americans into conflict with them, the americans are reluctant, and we've seen that in many examples, they're reluctant to do that, yes they've put boots on the ground,

yes they've given intelligence support, yes the british have allowed spy flights, yes they've tried df officers, but both of those countries, the us and uk are reloctant to get directly involved uh openly involved in fighting hisbolah or indeed ancer because they know that that would be a disaster indeed, it's not just crazys in the government because they seem to have kind of mass support from the israeli pop. seems to be very restrained doesn't it in its targeting compared to the zionists. if you ask me they're absolutely restrained uh perhaps a little too much, but again i'm not sasanlah who is master strategist and i i you tip my hat, i take my hat off him because what he has done is he's managed to uh trash the israeli economy, trash their military, trash their image uh and... and keep them you know in a corner psychologically paranoid uh not knowing what's going to happen and and help the palestinians so basically drawing fire away from from the the south so he's

done all that without turning it into a full-blown war and and that deals that alleviates some of the criticism that you hear from um you know these uh uh elements in lebanese society who who constantly keep playing the same record you know over the years that hasball going to cause uh more war and that they're dangerous for lebanon, he has shown them that that's not true, they have they have nothing to to back these criticisms up with, and you know by the way, these are the same people who who did nothing to liberate south lebanon, let's be clear, well david, just just tell us about this axis of resistance war room will you, so in 2021 it was revealed um by lebanese tv channel, i believe, that there was this war room in bay. which um was attended and staffed by people from the kuds force, the the jerusalem force the iranian uh revolutionary guards core by

the the palestinian factions and by hezballah and this was coordinating a daily basis what the actions would be, this is 2021 when there was the conflict there, now one one would presume that it's still there, one hears tell that there is mobile war room as well and it meets in different places, but we also understand of course that there is coordination. in baghdad between the uh islamic resistance of iraq which itself is 23 or or more factions which are all engaged in a united fashion to to to target uh the zianist entity and with ancerolla so of course they're also uh coordinating we saw the other day this drone which hit uh tel aviv or yaffa as it used to be called and everyone assumed this was hezballah's uh revenge for escalation in the north but no it was a drone which had come at some incredibly low speed uh 2,300 kilometers from monzerella uh and as the as they announced later you this was a drone specifically required and

and designed so that it would never be detected by the radar of designer so this is psychological warfare game which has been played uh deliberately and in coordination by the resistance factions right okay well richard finally what's your view on how this will play out? well to be frank i think it's the end for these radies i i think there's no recourse for them anymore uh, they have uh fallen into a trap of epic proportions, truly epic proportions. i know most people see it as, well the the um, there's one front and it's gaza, and and principally yes, that's true, but but when we talk about the military uh aspect of things, you the israelis have been fought on the front with hazballah, so that's the second front, they're being fought in the west bank, that's the third front, they're being fought from syria. the so the fourth front the being fought from yemen, from iraq, from iran, i mean it's seven fronts in total, and not to mention the americans and their bases in syria and iraq are also being hit, which is another

dimension, so the they're taking massive hits everywhere, their international reputation, if they even had one to begin with uh has been destroyed, their propaganda which they've cultivated for 75 years destroyed, everyone is finally seeing israelis for who they are uh, and it's it's thanks to the resistance access, it's thanks to the the marters who have given. their lives and sacrificed over the years, not just now, but over the years and their families uh uh for this moment, so i think it's the end for the israelis, there is nothing they can do, so whether this happens quickly or happens slowly, it's all going downhill from here, well i'm afraid that's all we've got time for today, so thanks for watching and thank you to our guest richard medhurst and of course our residence expert professor david miller, remember you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates and you can also help us to counterat the... information pedaled by the corporate media about palestine and the resistance to the scionist entity by showing today's program on your social media platforms. so until next time, when i hope you'll join us again on palestine

declassified. this is chris williamson saying. life and now the west bank economy is in a crisis. israel wants to take over the west bank and they also want to take over whatever is left of gaza and they want to rebuild and make it their own. "the us-israely genocidal war is taking a toll on the economy, many shops and businesses have closed down. what if palestinians were shut off from the banking system? i'm particularly concerned by israel's threats to take action that would lead to palestinian banks being cut off from their israeli correspondent banks. these banking channels are critical for processing transactions that enable almost. $8 billion a

year in imports from israel, including electricity, water, fuel, and food. camela has didn't turn up, she thought better of it. had no idea what was going on, where he was, what country he was in, but hundreds of american congressmen and women, clapped or how they clapped for the blood stained mass murderer benjamin netanyahu, standing ovation after standing over, what's wrong with these people, find out and have it out with galloween?

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