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hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and the zineted. planted in palestine by the british has been involved in terrorist acts from its inception until now, leading up to the kockbunn afterwards, zionist gangs not only killed palestinians, but british and americans, even diplomats and sailors who they felt were standing in the way of their objectives. well, from diplomats to scientists to resistance leaders, all have been targets of the regime, without any global blowback has the monster the collective west created now is now putting them at greater r. we'll look at this and all aspects of this on this spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guests to this program. jamal wakim, professor of international relations, lebanese university. thanks so much for being with me, jamal. i mean, do you think that

there has ever been another entity in modern times that has involved in such terror and violence while simultaneously boasting about its uh crimes and claiming. that it's the victim uh and that all the murders have been done in self defense, well actually the the the zionist entity is the culmination and the sum of all misdeeds and evils of the the colonial west actually, so if we go back to the history of the colonial west during the... past five centuries, and we see how many crimes were committed by various western empires against humanity, we see that all this is concentrated in the acts of the zionist entity, and is actually which is

breaching every single international law, human rights. act and every every humanitarian and rights principle, so and it's not worthy that israel or the zionist entity the that was invented by the united nations itself is the one that has killed most the the employees of the united nations, starting with court bened, count benedot in 1947, all the way to the crimes committed against un employees in gaza and elsewhere in

the occupied territories, in the latest onslot on on gaza. in addition, it's the entity that has breached most. un resolutions throughout its history and of course this was all with the backing of the united states of america which is which poses itself as the savior of humanity and of human rights and democracy etc. so we see that the acts of designity of course culminate with the acts the united states establishment and committing crimes against humanity. okay, well with the uh regime, the zionist regime, saying with you jamal, it has assassinated over 2,700 people, and that's what we know about, um, in various covert operations and

assassinations. i mean, the problem with it all is that it feels that it has a sense of immunity from international law, and i guess. it does if we look at what's going on right now, and let's talk about that side of things and how responsible the collective west is for this priya entity and its crimes, in your perspective. well of course the zionist entity has infringed every act in the international law, every act in the humanitarian law and every resolution passed by the and by the united nations, so the west has supported uh the collective west actually has supported ' science entity and its crimes throughout its history, ever since it was the

the passing of this balpur declaration onward we had all these crimes being sponsored by the various colonial powers starting with the with the british empire at the time all the way to the united states and of course we should not forget about for example the french colonial power at one point, the support by western powers now, so and every time israel commits a crime for example, we see that the collective west intervens and ask asks for let's say for other parties to calm down and to retain themselves from reacting uh to the israeli aggressions uh instead of asking uh the ziist entity not to

commit crimes and not to commit uh acts of aggression. the assassinations that took place just this week of hezbollah commander fuad shuk in beirout hamas leader ismal haniah in tehran, of course the two of the latest high profile assassinations by the regime. now "it has taken responsibility for shook's assassination, it has not said anything about honey a assassination, remaining silent. um, why do you think that's the case? why do you think it hasn't officially taken responsibility for hanya's assassination? well uh, it it took officially this stance because for to many many reasons, first netanyahu..." wanted to present achievements to the zionist audience who and

public who was disappointed with his misdeeds not being able to achieve any of his promises and objectives that he declared on himself to free the prisoners of war, israeli prisoners of war to wipe out the... islamic resistance and other resistance groups and to let's say take over the gaza st, all these they he were objectives that he failed to achieve, so that's why he wanted to present some achievements especially with the dire situation that he's facing internally, and this was the reason why he claimed responsibility, another in addition, he wanted... to fail all attempts for a cease

fire, so that's why he did his act by assassinating, and of course with regards to, the reason why he declared this achievement was because he wanted also to present such a trophy for his audience. and at the same time escalate the situation in lebanon with with lebanon hoping for implicating the united states in a regional war, so this is is what we had in mind, of course he fears the retaliation of iran and for this purpose we have various western powers that are trying to send the messages via the... to the iranian government in order to let's say refrain from acting or in order to let's say

react symbolically actually, whereas at the same time they are threatening lebanon with lot of sanctions on one hand and at the same time they are mounting the internal opposition against. within certain lebanese factions for the time being, the new york times, which is known to be very pro israeli had said that bomb was put inside of where hania was staying months ago and then activated while he was there. islamic republic guard corgc has said that's not true, and hania was killed by the firing of a short-range projectile outside of his residence. it appears that the regime is afraid to take direct responsibility for killing the hamas leader in tehran. i mean, how do you see it overall? well, the the the

claim by the new york times, first we should... note that the new york times have always been associated with with the cia since its establishment in the late 1940s, that's a fact that we should acknowledge. the second thing, actually before you quote, i was reading a commentary by a friend by a journalist, famous egyptian journalist who unveiled the reality of and the identity of those who wrote this article, all three were associated with the mosad on one hand and with the with the cia, one of them is iranian who is a proshah iranian, actually or we can call her a self-hated iranian, these were the ones who wrote the article and the new york

times actually like uh apologized for such foolish article, the reason why this article was written written was that the united states and the cia are trying to tell iran that this is the assassination of is part of the shadow war which by israel against iran and that the reaction should be by a shadowy act but by iranian intelligence rather than by the revolutionary guard who are planning on bombing israel with hundreds of ballistic missiles so that was the reason so in this case it's it's known for fact that was killed

by by missiles launch from some people from say or some reports say from a neighboring country to iran and some others say that it was through israeli plains that crossed the the air space of some arab countries so that was another reason why the new york times fabricated this story because they the americans fear that the iranian i ation would not be confined to the israeli entity, but it would also touch all countries implicated in such an attack. okay, again, the irgc's investigation has found that it was a short-range projectile right outside of the residence that was fired, but the leader of

the islamic revolution, said ali khamenei regarding the assassination of hani in tehran has reiterated that "the regime will get major response, and it is the responsibility the islamic republic of iran to avenge the blood of hania. i mean, would the zionist regime know that iran would not set idly um, while such a crime has been committed inside of its borders, wouldn't it expect a response, or did it do it to get a response from iran? i mean, how do you see it? uh, the problem is that the z entity is let's say saturated with prejudges against iran, against the arabs, against muslims in general and against the the oriental civilizations, this is part of this orientalist approach by

the west towards misunderstanding our culture, our civilization and our identity. so designist entity thinks that it could wage attack against iran and that iran would just accepted by assassinating ismail and there are a lot of signs by the iranians by the iranian government and by the iranian people that this assassination not only infringed on the national security of iran not only it violated the let's say sovereignty of iran, but it also harmed the... the iranian sense of honor, this is what saydsanlah, the general secretary of hizballah said that, and

he he continued saying that this is one of the reasons why the iranians were more upset, more angry at this attack than being angry at the bombing of the iranian consulate in damascus by the israelis. so if the the israeli bombing of the iranian council in damascus led to retaliation by iran 10 days later with hundreds of drones and missiles then with such an act committed by israel we would would see much bigger retaliation and this time with no limits and with with no ceiling so this is reason why the israelis now are afraid, this is the reason why they are trying their best to implicate western governments to pressure iran or to pressure

iran or send messages to iran in order to limit its retaliation and this is the reason why we see that we have lot of let's say us careers warships and troops being sent to the region in addition to troops by other actually western powers in order they claim that it's to contain the situation, but actually it's to defend israel, which is something that the us defense secretary admitted right after the israeli aggression against iran. well let's look at that, i mean because we know back in april when iran um uh sent missiles to the israeli regime that the

us was there, the warships were there, they were trying to help them, the arab regimes in the region try to um shoot down the drones and we're helping them, i mean so why do they think it's any different this time around, do they think that iran would be intimidated because they're saying they're sending warship? or trops to the region, it seems that they really do not understand, as you said, one, the culture in the region, again, like sayid, about honor, about islamic honor, about islamic traditions, and also that the leader of the islamic revolution had promised them that they would, they would have a, it will indeed entail major attack, well, well, this is... say well versed in the colonialist culture, the racist culture of the western colonial powers that who think that they are

the only ones to enjoy the sense of dignity, the sense of honor and that other people who are less rational or who are irrational, they don't have a sense of honor, they don't have a sense of dignity. and that they act upon instincts, this is too bad, the the basis of their prejudges against us in general, against not only the arabs and muslims, but also against all non europeans, well even if they were christians, catholics, let's say buddhists, hindu, or even christian orthodox in russia. right, this is the the problem and dilemma of the west, and that's why the west

would never be able to met fences with other cultures and civilizations, and this is one the things that would speed up the process of decline of the west in general. yes, it seems like they still haven't understood that that unilateral world is no more. well, thank you so much for being. with me, jamal wakim, professor of international relations, lebanese university out of beirot, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye.

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