two assassinations within hours of each other that have pushed the middle east to the brink of an all out regional war. the first one claimed. by israel killed hisbullah chief of staff fuad shukr in bairut and the other one took the life of hamas political bureau chief ismail hania in the iranian capital, tehran. now israel hasn't claimed responsibility for that one, but the killing has israeli fingerprints all over it. joining me now to in discuss all this, is a man who knew ismail hania personally and has put in a lot of blood, sweat and tear. to the palestinian

course throughout his political life that spends decades. george gelowe, thank you so much for joining us. who was ismail hania? you knew him quite well and why was he key for palestinian liberation? well, over the last 303, four, five days, uh, he's been the chief negotiator for the palestinian side in the apparent attempt. by israel to free what it calls its hostages, palestinians would call them prisoners, or the prisoners in the israeli jails should also be called hostages, because they're both the same, they're being held against their will, for no good reason, they were taken by either side, so they're either both prisoners or they're both hostages, and he was the chief negotiator on behalf of the palestinian. side and not since

medieval times has a more high-profile negotiator been killed by the people he was negotiating with. this is i think the first thing to say, but his proper title was the head of the political bureau. that's an important title, an important post, but it is a political post. he wasn't a military leader, neither when i met him. in 2009 uh when i took a siege breaking convoy from britain as a matter of fact he gave me his palestinian passport which i have in a safe at home uh because he wanted to give me a palestinian passport but he had none to hand so he gave me his and it was touching at the time point of course now and i will uh of treasure it and pass to my children he was

"the head of the political wing of hamas. i'm not myself a supporter of hamas, i'm a a supporter of the arafat wing of the palestinian uh struggle, but i greatly respected him, and more importantly, the palestinians greatly supported him, and they voted for him, and if there were elections in the west bank, he would win those elections by a country mile." so this was very important palestinian political leader and i take the old fashion view that you can't pick other people's political leaders for them, you have to negotiate, deal with the people that they choose, and they chose him, they would have chosen him again, he was very significant and really quite philosophical gentleman, he was anyone's idea of... a good

uh a good partner to talk with, which is why it was such success in the position that he in held. you just mentioned he wasn't a military person, he was political uh bureau chief. why then was he targeted and why particularly in iran? well, the second is easier to answer, it was a provocation to iran, because netanyahu's whole stick is to draw. the whole region into all-out war in the hope that might be well founded, might not be, that the united states will follow them into that war and will make war against all of israel's enemies simultaneously with russia and china of on the side of the enemy. i'm not sure that netanhu is right about that, but that's why it was done. if they wanted to kill him, well... could have killed them in doha uh

anytime uh, but they waited until he was guest of iran, and knowing that in iranian culture, in islamic culture, to kill an honored guest in your house demands the highest level of revenge, retaliation, and i think that we're going to see a retaliation of new kind, we're going to see something which in quantity and or in quality uh will be quite unprecedented in the middle east, as to why him, just because he... was there because he was high profile leader of a resistance movement, which is taking a great tool on the invasion force of netanyahu, just this day, seven israeli officers of in some

cases quite senior rank, have been wounded and some of them critically wounded in hamas resistance operation. in rafa uh, this is a daily occurrence, this uh hamas resistance has not been beaten, of course nearly every house has been destroyed or damaged, hundreds of thousands of people have been murdered or mutilated, all institutions have been destroyed, schools, universities, hospitals, anything civic or civil has been systematically destroyed, but the... have not destroyed the fighting spirit of the palestinian resistance and he was an emblem of that resistance and the best known one, yeah, so it looks like almost like you know they needed some kind of a win and through his assassination they feel like they can

tell their people that there something that they have achieved, but the other question, george is, we are well aware of how the western media spreads propaganda, but in this particular case before any investigation was even begun by tehran, of course the incident happened in tehran, we had you know new york times for example, talking about how the bombs were planted, how you know it was through whatsapp, what was the aim of trying to spread that propaganda before any investigation? well, it's the tel aviv times rather than the new york times, i'm afraid they disgraced themselves throughout this conflict and for many decades before that, there are... not a reputable newspaper, if they ever were, they are not one any longer, and they were quickly out the traps with story that is completely false. uh, the iranian sides say, and this is bad enough,

uh, that the murder was carried out by a handheld projectile firing seven kilogram uh warhead, in other words a kind of rpg type weapon uh, and that required the murderers to get very close to the building, to carry it out. that's bad enough, and uh, i have no doubt the iranians are doing their best to learn from the security failure that that is. uh, there was earlier talk about a submarine launched missile, but the iranian side have ruled that. out and definitely they've ruled out the planting of explosives in the building allegedly two months before, which is what the new york times uh claimed falsely, i have no uh doubt. uh, it's to so confusion to so uh doubt about the loyalty of

people involved to start a witch hunt for escape goats as to how this dreadful thing was allowed to happen. was able to happen, but the israelis are accomplished killers, you know, they have, they have killed so many people before, and in so many different ways, as i told you, i'm an araphatist, president arafat was almost certainly murdered by them uh, by poison uh, by by polonium, uh, which of course would have required someone close to him to administer it, but i have no doubt that it was an israeli operation. i was with him at his death bed in paris uh when he passed away and i could clearly see that this was too rapid and too total a collapse to be uh just through normal illness or ill health

uh so they have they've assassinated palestinian leaders all of uh hania's predecessors were assassinated by israel um mr. rantisi, uh, the founder of hamas, sheikh yasin, they were all murdered by israel, but it doesn't seem to have. gotten through to israeli propagandists that you can cut down the flowers, but you can't stop the spring. you can kill the leaders, but you cannot kill the cause. indeed, to a remarkable extent, hamas has got stronger and stronger and stronger after each of its leaders have been murdered by israel. yeah, is this case of you know when they say a marchier is actually more dangerous than when he is living because? because if we look at the case of haniah, if we look at the way the world has reacted to it, the classical sunni shia

divide that the west has always played it, do you think that he is actually more dangerous now in that in martidom than when he was alive? well, i don't think he was dangerous any military sense, he was dangerous because he he seemed to embody the hope of negotiation that could end now 76 years of disaster, catastrophe uh, which has plunged the region into war after war, after war, ideologically, yeah, undoubtedly his uh stature will have been enhanced, in the pantheon of marterdom, uh, he will loom larger, and someone has already picked up his mantle, uh, i have no doubt the youth. that followed uh ismail hania will follow the next leader too uh so if they kill them because

they thought he was dangerous i suspect they haven't seen anything yet now of course there is a question of the reaction that will come uh especially from iran and lebanon um there's a lot of questions of uh now the west asking iran uh don't escalate uh and we've seen it in united nations and asking iran not escalate this war, why did they not tell netanyahu to kill h which has actually escalated things? yes depends when they want to start the clock uh for the escalation uh what israel has been doing for the last 300 plus days is beyond the word escalation uh the murder and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of people, most of them women and children, one would have... thought was the ultimate definition of escalation, murdering

political opponents in other people's capitals, is very big escalation and was deliberately designed to be so, uh, so they keep coming with what they call or don't call, but they're all the same, mediation efforts, whilst iran has, i think made clear that what is there to mediate about this great crime was committed in our capital city as deliberate insult to us, and we must answer it. now if someone came along, i mean, imagine this was the bazar in in tehran, if they came along and made some exceptional offer, the the abandonment of all occupied territories, the imprisonment of... the end of this war and all fother wars, the freedom

of palestine if that's what they were offering, i'm sure iran would be ready to trade that kind of deal, but that's not of course what they are offering, the americans are offering uh to return to the nuclear deal, well we're way past the nuclear deal, way way past it uh, out of washington today it said uh that sanctions on iran will be lifted, but these are uh false promises and any case would not expiate a sin, a crime of the magnitude that has been committed, and it isn't just iran of course, the lebanese resistance are mulling their response, the iraqi resistance, the yemeny resistance, the syrian government whose territory was so long ago, now there's not that many people around unlike me who've actually been there and seen

the crime that they committed in 1967 when when the beatles were top of the hit parade, that's how long ago, the crime of the seizure the golan heights dates back to, so it's it's the whole region, it's the whole cresent of resistance, and crucially it's the... masses inside the arab states that are not in the axis of resistance, who are boiling with rage and desire for uh for. retaliation, that's why the foreign minister of jordan had to go to teran, because they have to show their people uh that they are not enemies of iran, friends of israel and the united states, of course whether they are will be seen in the next hours, days or whenever the retaliation

happens, ditto, the president of egypt, making it clear that he would not be part of any anti-iran at. axis and so on, well we'll see about that, but these leaders are only saying these things because of the public pressure inside their own countries. that that's a very interesting, think assessment, especially given the fact that you know the west has always divided the muslims in order to be able to conquer them, so the sunni shia divide is what we see iran against all the other arab nations. do you think this time they have failed? because even among the common... men all the countries we are watching, we can see a united front in morning, ism khania for example, do you think that this time this tactic has failed? i hope it's failed, you can always count on some sectarians to continue to uh consider it more important, whether you pray like this or pray

like that uh was your the hands of both of you are being cut off uh always find such people, but i hope uh certainly in the region that this has marked a significant turning point. after all, the forces that are striking israel are shiite militias, shiite armies, shiite countries. the country's states, i differentiate between the country, the state and the people, that are collaborative. with israel uh call themselves sunnis, though they are a pretty poor example of that, so let's hope that the sacrifice made uh by the remaining family, by the way, ismael hania has lost 60 members of his family, 60, six zero, so any hanes left, and

i i can... them now uh, the the blood will not have been shed in vein if it marks an historic turning point of placing a side uh doctrinal differences for the sacred cause of palestine absolutely now i mean you've mentioned iran a shia country in the forefront really of fighting for the rights the palestinians why do you think that is the case i mean this can be at the detriment. of iran itself, but they are the strongest voice, they have been for a long time um, for a sunni population really of palestine, why is that? yeah, i mean, as far as i know, and if there is one, i've never met them, there is no single shiite in gaza, everyone there is a christian or a sunni muslim, yet iran

has done everything humanly possible, and some things that most people thought were... impossible to come to their aid, and this is surely very significant, it will be significant on the judgement day for sure, but it should be significant before that in the history that is being written now, the resistance that we spoke about earlier in gaza is only able to resist because of the support from iran, and they have said so many times, many, many, times, hania said it, khalid mishail said it, all of the leaders of the resistance organizations have paid tribute to iran for the help that they have been giving. i doubt, and i've never met one if there is, if there are any sunnis in heizballah, but hazballah has now given

hundreds of martters and is ready to give thousands, maybe tens of... thousands more uh to resist israel and if possible to help to liberate palestine, this is undeniable, and that which cannot be denied uh will eventually silence even the most foolish sectarians who continue to uh seek to exate differences, absolutely, and i think it is very much part of the shia islam to... stand up for the truth and to stand up against the oppressed, i think this is seen through the history of shia islam, it doesn't matter who you are standing for, as long as people are oppressed, you will stand for them, i think that's why... it springs for, but again, given what we are watching here in the uk at the moment in terms of the riots, the anti-muslim protest, islamophobic messages on

the streets of london, do you think that has got anything to do um with the death or the martydum of ismail hania? well, the leader of these race riots who ironically is right now sitting a sunlounger in a five star hotel in cyprus, paid for by the israel lobby that pay him a monthly stypend of 160,000 pounds per month. that's a lot of money, serious lot of money. uh, he himself said so that people like him have moved into the actions they're now taking because of the weekly marches in london and elsewhere around the country in support of the... the palestinians, so we don't need to look in the crystal ball, we can listen to uh the leader of these riots himself, that's what he said on video, uh, so

uh, these race riots, for that's what they are, of course, they hate muslims most of all, but really, if there were no muslims, the rights and the mentality behind them would still exist. "they hate people of color, that's why african people who are not muslims, siks, who are not muslims, hindus who are not muslims, uh, black people of all kinds have been attacked savagely by mobs over the last few days in england, there's no pretense of uh, of finding out what religion they are before they try to lynch them, uh, and they set up..." road block in a town city really called middlesborough and they were literally saying on camera that white drivers could come through, but black people would

not be allowed to drive through and god knows what would have happened to them if they'd fallen into their hands, so their race riots, but of course uh the existence of a thriving muslim community in britain is a particular thumb in the... for them because the muslims in britain have made success of their lives, despite government policies of neglect and deindustrialization and so on, the muslim population in britain has done very well through hard work, building small and medium-sized businesses into big businesses, they have the fruits of their success sitting out. inside the door and in the in the carriage way and the the drive, the they they have a community, they have strong family

ties, extended family ties, the children might one day be with their grandma, but the next day be with their aunt as likely as to be with their parents, they they have mosques, they have community organizations, all the things that many... the uh people who are on the rampage over the weekend don't have, they don't have community, they don't have extended family, many of them don't have any family at all, many of them have many times been in jail, uh, many of them are on drugs, most of them are on alcohol, uh, they are people who have failed in life, and that bitterness is what you see coming out in these riots. very interesting bause you know we watched one of the radio presenters interview, guy who was blaming immigrants for not getting a job, and when they probbed him it found out that he was sex offender and

that was the reason he wasn't getting the job, but of course it was the fault of the muslims, it's such an interesting discussion george, but we are out of time, thank you so much time and thank you all for watching, goodbye. this week on expos day, no shocker here. western media had already falsely painted hisbullah commander fuad chuker as villain before even knowing his name, justifying zyanus israel's lethal strike in the capital bay route regardless of the civilian casualties, including children. meanwhile, digital outlets are spinning iran's lawful retaliation to zianist israel's braise and illegal attack on it. soil as attack on israel, ignoring the fact that iran's move is fully protected by international law, and get this, a mar shows a staggering 69% of israeli entity settlers

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