resolutions have to be violated, how many more children have to be annihilated, this is not a war, it is systematic genocide, but whatever, palestine will never die, hello, i'm chris williamson, in this special edition of palestine declassified, we're going to examine the extraordinary armed uprising of the... palestinian people against the zionist

entity, which has repeatedly and flagrantly spurned every single peaceful attempt to secure justice for palestine. first up is latifa abochakra with a special report about this audacious military offensive by palestinian freedom fighters that began in the early hours of saturday morning on october the 7th. as fragile as a spiders web. the zionist entity is shaking with fear. in early morning shock. palestinian resistance factions from gazza launched an unprecedented three-proged attack on the entity. first, armed fighters sailed over the israeli fence to ghazza using hand gliders. simultaneously 500 rockets were launched into the zinist entity from the open air prison of ghazza, disabling that much vaunched iron dome system. at the same time, palestinians broke down the fence, which fighters had sailed over using bulldozers. what? ensued was the

homecoming of at least 1,000 palestinians from the resistance factions into the fragile zionist entity. military bases were seized by the resistance and israel's markar tanks were captured and taken back to ghazza. settlements like stearth, whose zionist guests had previously watched from hilltops while gazza was bombed, were seized by the resistance. over 100 settlers have been taken as prisoners of war by the resistance. the vast majority are members of the occupation forces. an area of occupied palestine larger than the ghaza strip was taken and held by the resistance factions, who reached within only 10 kilometers of the west bank city of al-kalil, known to settlers as hebron. it is documented that resistance factions were able to fashion weapons from unexploded munitions dropped on them by the israelis, but did weapons from nato escapades in afghanistan and ukraine really end up in gazza, time will

tell. the fear of south lebanon is palpable among the satellites, so much so that an israeli occupation unit opened fire on an approaching truck, close to lebanon. they discovered that the vehicle carried seven israely fighters. all had been killed by the ziners friendly fire. overall, in a space of 48 hours, at least 700 settlers were killed. the vast majority were part of the occupation forces. to put the figure into... perspective, in proportion to the size of the population of the colony, that is the equivalent of over 20,000 people in the united states. in the midst of it all, russian hacker group kill net took down the site of the israeli regime administration, further spreading panic and fear. nearly all major stocks in israel are in the red with the benchmark index recording the biggest loss for over year. poland and bulgaria have sent military planes to evacuate their citizens and bring them back home. to europe.

as always, we're joined by our residence expert david miller. david is academic and a former professor at bristol university and is now a non-resident senior research fellow at the center of islam and global affairs at istanbul zaium university. he's also a co-director of the lobbying watch dog spinwatch and he's a leading british scholarly critic of israel. our guest today is samy alariyan who is a public affairs professor and a longstanding political activist whose roots are in palestine and sammy has campaigned for palestinian liberation for many years and he was blacklisted in the united states because of his political views and he joins us today via skype from istanbul. welcome to the show. sammy, perhaps you could start with you, are we witnessing the death spasms of the zionist idea, do you think? well, we have to go back to the origins of of zionism. zionism was the political movement of jewish lates at the end of the 19th century, and it was their response. to europe's anti-semitism that

existed at the time, particularly in russia, the programs and continued, to what the experts would call the jewish question, and of they tried to answer. that by basically creating an exclusivist, sitler colonial, racist state that has been trying for over a century to approat the native people of palestine from from their native land and try to replace them with jews around the world. this is what zionism is about, and i think it has failed, but it continues to be strong in terms of the state because of the support it has been receiving from mainly western governments, particularly the... united states, but i think now it's it's becoming very clear that that kind of response would not be accepted in the 23st century, particularly with the steadfastness of the palestinians and the resistance to this racist exclusivist movement and entity, no

indeed. i mean david, do you think israel was caught completely unawares by this operation? it does seem so, i mean there's been some reporting hasn't that the egyptian intelligence services said something was going to happen, but they were ignored, so i mean, i've seen the various other theories, let's not title them conspiracy theories that have said that this is false flag, that the the the science let it happen, let all these hundreds of people be killed or they thought that maybe a lesser number, but no, it's it's clear that that's not what's happened, what's happened clearly has been a an operation planned for many many months in gaza and with other resistance factions across the territories uh? and it's it's taken them entirely by surprise, but also more importantly, it's inflicted an extremely significant military intelligence and psychological defeat on this is, they didn't think that this could ever happen to them, and the fact that they've had to evacuate people, thousands and thousands of people

from all the settlements around gaza, and indeed they're talking about evacuating all the settlements in near the northern border, should hezbollah into the conflict much more significantly than they have so far. we're seeing defeat for zionism and a crisis for them really because they're they're they're facing a real difficulty now of the possibility of the end of the scienist entity indeed and people cuwing up at the airport weren't they to to actually be evacuated yes indeed some some prominent figures actually in the z sentity as well as understanding but david i wonder if you could say a word or two as well about the the conditions that people in gaza have been living in over the over the years well people know the phrase don't they this is an open a prison and and of course it's been an attempt by the zionis in the last week or so, 10 days to say, oh no, it's not occupied, look, we we we left gaza in 2005, this is not an occupation, but of course it's entirely surrounded, it's it's surveiil 24 hours a day, and you that

underlines the scale of the achievement that that they that to the resistance could undermine all of that, but this is a an open air prison, and they've and they've even in the last few days intensified the sige, no water, no electricity, nothing is going in or out, they've even closed rafa cros crossing into egypt, despite saying to people in gaza, you must leave, the raf of crossing is open, it's not anymore, and they're talking about bombing that as well, so this is an open prison, has been for for many years, most of the water in gaza is not drinkable, there are there are shortages of shortages of everything, including medicines, the food problems, it's it's been bombed so many times. is that there's so much rubble there that they've had to actually start to use the rubble in ingenious ways to build new buildings, so it's it's appalling st, it's the worst place in the world uh under constant military supervision and yes occupation by the israelis, yes, mean you say that obviously it's well-known that it's it's

an open air prison, yet you know the corporate media if you actually read the corporate media or listen to the broadcast channels and the corporate media that they don't really talk about it in those terms do they? well thankfully i don't. depend on the corporate media, of course many people still do, yes, that's true, although of course many, many mores in the last 20 years have turned off from that, yes, the corporate media pre presents a systematically distorted and skewed view and version of what's happening, although in the question on the question of occupation, the the designers have been complaining in the last little while about cbc, the canadian broadcasters uh saying that journalists should not use the word should use the word occupation because it still is occupation, so that's even the mainstream media. no, indeed, indeed, indeed, but sami, i mean in what way would you say, is this war different from previous wars on gaza? it's quite different, i mean if you

look at the previous four five wars starting from 2008, 2009, all of them were initiated by the sign state, this time it was different, it was surprising, it was the uh, you're describing as an open air prison, it was basically a prison break where the palestinians themselves took the initiative and attacked and always you have that benefit the surprise and therefore what happened with insued after that... was huge success, huge victory for the resistance, they were able to actually dismantle this myth of the invisitability of the israeli army, that this is not a invincible army, but in fact it's an army that was caught flat-footed and they were shown by few fighters, mean these fighters were basically not a regular army, these are mostly volunteers palestinian resistors, but they're determined and and they they have the will to fight. until they gained their freedom and independence and liberation, and we've seen in the in the

first 60 hours how they were going attacking the military bases, the settlers, the settlements, they were bringing back all kinds of prisoners of war in order to force the exchange and free their comrades in prisons. yeah, mean david, it said that was 11 us citizens were killed in the in the operation, mean what do you think explains you know so many foreign nationals? being present in in palestine, and this be a british uh person being confirmed now, being killed, over the weekend, well what explains this of course is something quite different to the explanation about civilians uh or american citizens or british citizens even being killed in ukraine, because they are everybody understands they are mercenaries, but here these people are either settlers or they're actually involved directly in in being enrolled in what's called the israel defense forces, the israel occupation forces, the the the british guy for example, 19 or 20

years old, was actually in the idf, now this this is about british citizens as foreign fighters, we call these people foreign fighters if they were in syria or somewhere else, but we don't call them foreign fighters, in this case of course when those people who regularly go from britain or from the us to join the oppressive forces of of israel come back, they're not interrogated as being terrorists, they're not interrogated in the structural uh violations of international law which israel day by day is committing and so there's a real question here about how we actually change the way in which our society works so that people from the uk are not allowed to go to fight for uh for israel no indeed i mean the shadow uh foreign secretary david lammy was saying our thoughts are with the... citizen who was who was killed, but surely the question should be, why are

british citizen serving in the uh israeli occupation forces, but we'll just pause there for moment uh, because we've got another report now, looking at the strategic implications for the united states and israel, as a result of the military operation by the palestinian resistance factions. as the palestinian resistance factions prepared for their operation early on saturday morning, they must have known they were about to embark on. what will surely be seen as the most historic mission of any palestinian resistance fighters, they broke out of the open air prison of gaza for the first time since gaza was occupied in 1967. of course, the zionist regime has answered the challenge with a bloody onslot on civilians, killing more than 100 children in little over a day. they deliberately and openly targeted civilian infrastructure in a frenzy of revenge that. guides the strategic vacuum, they've diverted personnel from the west bank and have laid siege to gaza, nothing can go

in or out, but the chess game can easily end an existential threat, never has the idea that israel is a temporary entity been so palpable. the united states has issued bellacose warnings and says it is moving forces closer to the entity, but this has drawn fiery repose from the resistance axes from. from hizballah and from the iraqi resistance making it plain that escalation means that us personnel will be legitimate targets across the whole region. president joe biden gave nod to the difficulties faced by the much vaunted us hejemon when he warned supporters of the palestinians not to take advantage of the circumstances. he didn't say it, but the circumstances are a decline of us power, notable shortage of us weaponry which has been effectively destroyed in ukraine, a little-known us stock pile of ammunition held

in israel has been depleted by supplies in ukraine. current pentagon plans to increase production will not even keep pace with the 6,000 shells expended each day by the ukrainians. the entry of hazbollah into conflict from the north is an indication of the strategic vice that israel finds itself in. by monday zinis radar station was decommissioned and the border fence at the north. border with lebanon was blown up, any ground war in gaza will face stiff resistance, and there will be many more occupation force casualties. does the entity have the appetite for this? and will it mean the foundations of zinism begin to crumble? since the beginning, the security of the zionist entity has depended on having enough jewish citizens to win the demographic struggles against the palestinians, with so many settlers fleeing from the airports and settlers from poland and bulgaria being evacuated, how long before the entity

crumbles and the dismantling of zionism begins in earnest. if the special military operation in ukraine... was the first act of the age of multipolarity, the prison bust from gaza is the opening of the second act. the future is unwritten. sammy, your family was expelled from palestine in 1948, wasn't it? i mean, can you tell us about how you responded to the gaza breakout over the weekend? i mean, generations of palestinians had their hope, the hope of the return. into their ancestors lands, my grandfather and my father, both passed away years ago, had that hope, it was not fulfilled, i have that hope, which hope that it would be fulfilled during my lifetime, but if not certainly my children would have that hope, what we witnessed this weekend was that this is possible that this myth that the palestinians would forget over

generations that the old would die and the new would forget is just a myth, is not true, the fact of the matter is: that millions of palestinians outside palestine, inside palestine, yearn to the time where we would enter palestine and and and and be in that land again, you know the the this notion of two state, one state solutions where it will basically exclude millions of palestinians from going back is not going to succeed. i think our our goal, our objective should be the dismantlement of designed state because of it. racist, exclusivist, colonial structure, but this is an apart system that cannot survive the change in this world, and therefore when this crumbles and we have seen a glimpse of how could that be, when that happens then we could truly then talk about peace and talk about harmony and solve by the way the jewish problem, because zionism redefined judaism, and i think we need to

save judaism from the evil and from the ideology of zinism. indeed, indeed, david, i mean, would you say that, this was an explosion of of ang anger from gaza and response to the endless provocations from the zienist entity, or or do you think something more strategic's going on here? well, it would be no surprise to say that people in gaza are a little bit angry, indeeds, but this is not some spasm, some emotional outburst, uh, this has been planned for a long, long time. at least year it seems that uh hamas and the other resistance factions who we don't talk about enough people talk about this being hamas doing this or hamas doing that it's hamas yes it's the palestinian islamic jihad it's the popular front for the liberation of palestine the democratic front for the liberation of palestine were involved and indeed even armed groups uh the armed have been involved in some of these actions not to mention the the

various factions across the west bank so this is a thing which has been in planning for at least year and a strategic uh um a strategic activity, so it's not as if this is over, there are other sorts of things which are going to fall into place, we've seen already from the north, hezballah and to some extent other factions like palestinian islamic jihad in lebanon making a breach of the defense at the border, this is a strategic thing, and there are there are all sorts of structural questions in this chess game about who next comes into the... into the frame, and that's what we have to see, that's what the the future uh tells us here, this is not going to be something where the designers can just crush the resistance, because there are all sorts of consequences for their actions, yes, yes, indeed, of course, the focus just being on hamers by the corporate media is another example suppose of the misreporting by uh the mainstream press and broadcast media, but samy, what do you think the strategy of the

resistance factions is? well, i don't think there is. illusion among the resistance fighters that this was a war of liberation, i think they had several objectives in mind, five in particular, the first one would be to stop this daily encroachment, incursion, desecration of aqsa mask and the holy places that have been taking place throughout the year, particularly in the last three weeks. secondly, it was attempt also to stop the incursion and the daily attacks on palestinian youth in different. west bank cities, killing them, imprising them, detaining them, kidnapping them, which has also claimed over 240 lives this year, in the west bank alone, 40 of them are children, third it was attempt also to, because israel has been refusing to to to exchange its prisoners for the few prisoners in gaza, so

there was attempt to to make it basically get more prisoners of war to force israel to make that since 5500 palestinians including many women and children in prison, and their lives have been even made much worse when bengafier became the the the the person in charge of the prison system and fourth, it is to lift the siege on the 16-year blocade and siege against gaza, two million, over two million people have been under siege, now without the the word, really caring or given much attention to this to this tragedy to this genocidal policy, and fifth and last, which is very important is to show the world that the palestinians are determined, are determined and resolved to continue fighting and resisting the occupation. uh, including fighting, but also including to show the world that they are capable of defeating an enemy on the ground, and i call also that our

fight is not just militarily, that we need to engage design groups and zienist ideology and zianist supporters and governments, those who support it, on in all fields, politically, economically, commercially, legally, human rights, artistically, media wise and all all spheres in all geographies, yes indeed, but david, i mean, what do you make of the response of the uh, the remainder of the resistance axis, do you think that will deter the zinis? well, think people need to understand that the resistance axis is an actual thing, that the resistance in in lebanon, the hezballah, in syria, in iraq, in yemen, the ansara in yemen, and of course the the islamic republic of iran, this is an actual functioning organiz set of organizations who work together. "they don't plan each other's uh um activities, but they are coordinating each with each other, and that's the the key, the key to this is that, if there is escalation from the americans,

the the resistance in in hezballah, in in in iraq have said that they will regard us targets across the region as legitimate. now that is a big question, what does that mean in terms of by the confederation? it's also a question about about what happened. if there is a ground invasion of gaza, if there's a ground invasion, the the idf, the israel occupation forces will take very, very heavy casualties, and it will also mean a massive escalation, heisballah will almost certainly come in from the north, and and that of course is something which will be concentrating the minds of netanyahu and his cabinet about what, how far they can go to pursue their goals of eliminating and expelling all palestinians, sure, yeah, well that's it, i'm afraid for another. show today, so i'd like to thank our guest, samy al ariyan and of course our residence expert professor david miller. palestine declassified will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis. in the

meantime, you can help us to spread the truth about the palestinian uprising by sharing today's program on your social media platforms and remember, you can also follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates. so until next time, this is chris williamson, saying bye for now. it's a dire situation in in the gaza strip that we're we're seeing evolve. we've got the israelis that have have clearly uh not followed uh obligations, particularly the

people in the ghaza strip, there's a huge amount of sympathy in the air world for palestinian. i think the israeli economy will have a significant hit just because the market uncertainty around israel based on where it is in the region and what its economy relies on.

the headlines israel's onslot on the beside gaza strip enters is 15th day with nearly 4400 people killed, most of them women and children. palestinian president against any attempts to displace palestinians, saying the people of palestine will not leave their land. and people around the world take to the streets to condemn israely atrocities against the people of palestine.