hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashemi, thanks so much for being with us. oh, as palestinian, fatality surpass 40,100 in gaza, thanks to the relentless attacks by the israeli regime against palestinian civilians, hamas and the islamic jihad have vowed to increase their anti-israel operations inside of the occupied territories on sunday, bomb. exploded in tel

aviv and resistance groups have taken responsibility for the attack, they say that such attacks will continue as long as the scientis genocidal war on gaza continues. i'd like to welcome my guests to the spotlight. out of bethlehem, mazen komsayi, palestinian scientist and author, and out of london said of mosan abbas journalist and political commentator, thank you both for being with us to start this off in bethlehem with mazen, i mean the resistance groups have gone to the next phase with these attacks, what is your perspective of uh what this could mean for israel as the resistances promising more attacks inside of the regime? it must be very worrying for the elites of the israeli regime to see what is going on in towns like jin and

karim and napolis and now the potentiality of developing bombings similar to what happened between 2000 and 2004 or even in the late 1990s, this must be very very worrying for the israeli leadership because they thought that they had the west bank at least under some control because of the support to the palestinian authority and the oslo accords and their obligations, but it seems things are getting out of hand and they must be very, very worried about this. well, said moson, the lack of security inside of israel is increasing every day, what does it do to the psyche of its people? mean, officially the israeli regime says over 500,00 settlers have left, which they reported back in

december, since then, other numbers, but there's speculation that over 1 million settlers uh maybe more have left the zianist entity. your perspective overall, if this trend continues exactly, what does it mean for the regime? well, i think you've touched a very underrated aspect of this war, uh, i think everybody obviously has primarily their attention on the the deaths and the murder and the genocide and the extermination that's going and... rightly so in many ways, because that's a violation of human rights a scale, biblical scale really that we've never seen before, not in my lifetime anyway, so on the one hand that's where the focus is, the other focus of course is on on uh the the military struggle between the the the zionist uh idf uh forces, occupation forces and the palestinian resistance, there's been clearly of course focus on that uh from many

quarters, but the bit that is being ignored is the is this is the is the more subtle psychological war that you've raised, and the psychological war clearly happen is taking place on both sides. in fact, i would argue that from the axis of resistance perspective and the palestinian resistance perspective, the the the psychological war is equally as important and if not more so than even the the military armed struggle, because what's at play here is really uh how how israel will finally fall? will it fall through military means? will it fall through a direct military battle? they have nuclear weapons, they have military arsenal and hardware in a conventional war, which is which is massive, and of course the have the american fleet on on standby and american support on the ground already with about 2,0 troops that that are are there, we know off the re'. record that

they are there operating, but actually they haven't formally entered the fray, but that could happen uh, and that's what netanyahu wants to happen, but of course this this aspect of of a military uh... if you like struggle from the resistance point of view i don't think is the is the uh is the one that is preferred, i think what is preferred is a war of attrition, a war of psychological if you like undermining of the israeli population and their their their moral and that is in that they're becoming more and more successful and this latest if you like boming uh shows that number one the israeli security services are in control, number two uh the west bank is rising and increasingly beginning to take on this struggle and number three, it's very effective uh in in that uh process of of building the the power of the palestinian resistance outside of gaza as well, so the war will not finish with gaza, whatever israel does. well, mason, your take,

i mean, with the type of aggression that we have seen on the west bank since uh, well of course prior to october 7th, but especially the last 10 months, i mean, why wouldn't the israel? regime anticipate something like this um because of the absolute terror um that they are the way they're dealing with the palestinians and the west bank every day government is acting like uh the people who go and play poker and are addicted to losing and so they keep putting more and more chips on the table hoping against all odds that they will win something, so they keep investing more and more in their relentless effort to do more and more horrible things. just as i speak to you in berhane area, for example here, there are two new settlements

that are being built, one on the western area of bethlehem, one on the eastern area of bethlehem, and of course there has been programs by the settlers supported. by the israeli military in the west bank, so they seem to be just plugging along against the wishes even of their own intelligence and military service was telling them that this will just aggravate the situation, this will not bring any sort of security, that the reverse is happening, that more and more people are joining the resistance because of the israeli actions, not being in imidated by the israeli action, so i think you know the the rational behind it is, as i said, like addicted person on gambling that keeps putting more chips, hoping something will change by additional investment, but nothing

will change, and in fact it's accelerating the end of israel, as you pointed out to the economic situation, tourism is shut down, businesses are shut down, 60,000 businesses probably will close this year forever inside this regime, and and i think you know the wast is beginning to lose patience with israel, and i think uh soon they this regime is bound to end, let me just jump in here buse you are sitting in bethlehem, there would be some would say, well uh... "if the regime is in the way that uh you're saying uh, how come you're able to speak freely from bethlehem? are you uh concern about your safety when you're talking to uh, for example, a station like press tv? uh, well, i have an exceptional circumstances, one thing,

i, i do have a us passport, so i'm an american citizen, that affords me some protection, unlike of course the vast majority of palestine." but even then there are some american citizens like me who have dual citizenship who ended up being shot or injured, i a little more willing take risks because of my age and so forth and i have accomplished what i want, so i don't really care what i do, but for the majority people of course they are intimidated, but still, you know, intimidating people for free speech, this is another action that's stupid on the part of israels, they have arrested people for facebook posts or for reaching out to gaza or for talking to people in gaza, and

they have tortured them in jail for such things, when you do this, when you prevent even the modicum of free expression, what it does is it leads people to arm the resistance and indestin resistance, it does not help your cause again, this is counterproductive even to ziist agendas, if you want, i sometimes think the... israeli leaders are so much lunatic sort of like hitler was towards the end of his reign thinking that he's going to win the war against russia and all the allies and uh and this is ridiculous but that's what i think okay is they are disconnected from reality okay well said most can the regime handle attacks coming from all directions i mean first inside of the occupy. territories itself and then from hezbolah and the northern areas and possible attacks from

yemen, iraq and iran, no, they they won't be able to handle it, and uh, it's really worrying that they seem to to think that they can, but you see, they're predicated on the notion of annexation and ethic lensing, that's what this kind of extreme far right, super racist establishment is doing, i mean to be honest with united. 7% of israel, israelis are supporting it, so i can't say it's just the government, they all seem to have this kind of genocidal view, but the thing is, what, they're a hiding to nothing, you're you're taking on over 10 million, 11 million palestinians, you're taking a population of the resistance access which covers syria, iraq through to iran and yemen, there is uh, which and that resistance has a military capability, which is far beyond anything the palestinian resistance has. "and if the israelis can't contain the palestinian resistance, which is minimal in its in its

armed abilities, uh, how on earth are they going to take on an entire axis? i can't really see the logic of it, but of course what the empire is doing is it's crumbling, the us zionist empire in west asia is crumbling, so they're getting increasingly desperate, the us is pushing for fake seasfire constantly on the just to keep some modicum of credibility on the world stage." has none, it's vetoed any kind of uh solution on palestine five times since october the 7th, it's it's continue to pump out over 70,00 tons of of of weaponry, maybe even more, that's just the some calculations, you know, it's continuing to support israel to the hilt and it's it's it's completely not only complicit but actually involved in this this murder, what they really want, mariza is the abraham accords as a sort of a diversion, they want to still try and... put this two states solution nonsense up uh for for for grabs as a backup to the failure of netanyahu

to do what he said which was that he was going to clear hamas out within two or three months he's not done that they're all panicking now well mazen on monday the alcots brigades the arm wing of the palestinian islamic jihad says its fighters have successfully shot down an israeli drone in the occupied west bank city of nabl how significant is this in your perspective? "i think it's remarkable that israeli intelligence services work in collaboration with some palestinians of course collaborators to thort any form of resistance, still encounter capabilities in the west bank that are, as i said earlier surprising to the israeli leadership, when you have armored personnel carriers being you..." booby trap basically along the roads near the refugee camps and things like that

and this is in the west bank which is one of the most surveyable areas on earth you know in terms of drones and and imagery and high tech facial recognition all this radio every every telephone is being monitored it's remarkable that there are still some resistance able to not only bring in some weapons, but actually achieve some results with them against the israeli army, such as attacking, as i said, the bulldozers and arm personnel careers, so again, it must be putting, and i think that's part of the reason for the military to be very, very worried and is trying to tell the israel leadership, give us a break. do sess fire because we, i'm sure behind the scenes i tell

them, we cannot keep this on forever. okay, you know, this depletion is just depleting palestinians depleting us. will stay with me on that, i'm going to get back actually to that to that scism that's taking place inside the regime itself, but said moson when we look at, well first of all we looked at the uh palestinian resistance, now i want to look at the lebanese resistance um and and uh the price that hazbullah has made the regime pay since october of last year to now, i mean your assessment of what the leban. his resistance has done? first of all, they've knocked out most of the capability of the iron dome and you saw the violation of their their sort of security mechanisms even uh with the iranian retaliation retaliatory attack, you you've seen it with hesbollah's own drones etc. uh just this week for instance uh panic ensued when a drone was

spotted hovering near uh bb netanyahu's residence. right, perhaps, so you're seeing is a complete breakdown of israeli intelligence, lot of that's to do with hesbollah's destruction of of those those facilities. the other thing you've seen is that at least two or three divisions of the israeli armed forces had to immediately move north, because on october the 8th hezbulah upped at the anti as soon as the israeli started retaliating, they gave them something to think about in the north and they continued to do that with daily bombing. "they've exactly, they they've killed far more israeli military personnel and installations than the israelis want to admit, of course the israeli propaganda tries to play it down, but they've been extraordinarily affected, and that's without using hypersonic uh missiles and and all the latest ballistic technology that they have at their disposal, and uh, i think that that has shaken israel as well, because there are two

fronts they're fighting on, they've also don't forget created a huge psychological impact on the israeli public." hundreds of thousands of israeli settlers, illegal settlers in that northern area have evacuated, the towns up in that northern region are now basically empty, and that's crippled of course the economy, more people, more more psychological demoralization of the israeli citizen tree, and that's why you're seeing so many people uh leaving uh israel, and you know bengurian airport is very busy place and the exidus has already begun and as my colleague earlier said the impact on the economy, the tourism etc. all of these is primarily because of uh hezbulah's uh fear factor right, right? well, uh, mazen, there still talks about sease fire. of course, at the same time while the zionist regimes continuing killing more palestinians in gaza and the west bank, now more talks are set to take place in cairo, to be attended by the egyptians, kataries, americans and israel, i

mean, your thoughts about the possibility of some type of agreement out of these... cease fire talks, i mean hamasis accused netanyahu of being the main obstacle to a cease fire as he continually changes the conditions, your thoughts, mason, can you hear me? yeah, i can hear you, sorry, the line cut off for a while, should i repeat it, should i repeat it, i got the question, in brief, what is happening is very clear, the us made the proposal, they claim it came from the israels and it could have well have come from the israels and hamas to their surprise accepted the parameters of that proposal, they just wanted more detail to be flashed out, and they accepted this two months ago, and still

the israeli side came up with new conditions that they wanted regarding necessary... you corridor and philadelphia corridor along the border with egypt, when it was clear from the parameters that even president biden himself had articulated israel is to withdraw from the gaza's trip and the first stage of this of this offensive and of this basically agreement, and the israel military is telling the... own leadership that we with the help of egyptians, they met with the egyptians, the egyptians assured them they will work with them to ensure that the philadelphia corridor, while not under israeli direct control, will have enough equipment from the americans and censors and so forth that they will ensure that no hamas will cross the

philadelphia corridor, so there was ways to circumvented. so-called on the security issues, but the israel leadership keeps coming up with more excuses, because as i said, they're so heavily invested in this losing enterprise of a war on gaza, which is really a war on the people of gaza, the civilians of gaza, not the war in hamas, because they are losing that war, gorilla warfare, as we see, we regularly see videos of hamas and and other factions, in or really hunting israeli tanks and bulldozers and armored personnel carriers, so they are losing that battle with the gorillas. small gorilla force in in the gaza strip, and instead they are killing as many civilians as they could, of course, now average between 40

and 100 civilians every day. this is what they intended to do, which is to commit genocide and try to finish off the resistance by finishing off the people of gaza, right? which of course the children become resistance when they grow up? up having lost their fathers, their mothers, whatever. well, seid, do you think the israeli regime as a whole wants a ceasefire as increasingly the zinast public is under major pressure as we've been talking about already, from security perspective as well as economic one, and there's a major riff in the society, your assessment overall, they can't survive, mean they know that the israeli population. the zionist imported uh fake uh people of of of occupied palestine, no that they don't belong there, they aren't the majority, the

palestinians continue to uh outgrow them, so that they even from a population point of view, they'll never be the majority, they have so therefore they'll have to continue imposing an occupation, having all the kind the racist uh racist apartide style laws to to differentiate and suppress uh the... the rights of the palestinians, the diaspora of the palestinians is waiting to return, which is another burgening mass which needs justice, so of course israel also is living on the money that they get from the americans and from their corporate zinist networks around the world, that's how israel survives, otherwise it wouldn't even economically be be viable, they're now increasing, losing friends, their allies like the saudis and the the even the kataries and the the b, all of the gulf. arabs who've capitulated and been puppets of the americans and the zinists for decades, even they're beginning to have second thoughts and are worried about their own uh uh governance being uh toppled because

the feeling in the arab world is of course rising up in support of the palestinians as well so i think on so many levels and of course the general public around the world basically hates israel now they hate them for what they've done and that the lies the hasbrow of israel being the only democracy in that part of the world and being being some sort of of bastion of western liberalism it is all now lying tatters already and that's only going to get worse on one minute i have left can the regime be trusted at abiding by any possible ceasefire agreement and will anything but the resistance front bring victory to the palestinian people in your perspective? in one word no and the best evidence of this is even in the last release of exchange of prisoners with israel "there are some female prisoners, palestinian prisoners who were released as part of the deal, they have now been re-arrested here in the west bank, so israel cannot be trusted to

keep any kind of deal, and certainly the allies that israel thinks are its side, like the united states and egypt and qatar, supposedly guaranteing this will not be able to guarantee anything, because israel has..." repeatedly lied to the same allies, same friends of israel, if they lied to their own friends, how do you expect them not to lie to their enemies like the resistance forces? and on that note, i think both of you for being with me here on this spotlight, palestinian scientists and author out of bethlehem, said mosan abbas journalist and political commentator out of london 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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