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the us and israel are now known as genocide perpetrators. in the us, president is called genocide joe, and israel is committing all types of war crimes from using food as a weapon to forced displacement, just to name a couple, but the anti-israel us front is also growing exponentially with each palestinian that is being murdered. the resistance fronts in the region are all playing a part in countering israeli crimes like hezbollah in lebanon and resistance groups in iraq. meanwile iran has been active getting countries to act against israely atrocities while yemen. targeted israeli link vessels in

the red sea. lot to cover in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests. great's historian and journalist joins us from hasselt belgium. also joining us is uh julia casem, journalist and political analyst from baybrids. welcome to of you both. i'll start with you breakers. we're taking a look at the anti-israely block and asia, i mean it was kind of there obviously, but ever since this uh genocidal war has broken out and has continued, it's grown stronger, we can mention hisbolla in lebanon, or you can mention them for us, i'm just naming few here, or the uh movements in yemen, how important do you think their role is at this point when it comes to having an impact on not only this genocidal war, but also maybe making a difference in... israel's

calculations when it comes to the their future moves uh in this uh war, genocidal war. i think the importance of these organizations cannot possibly be overstated, that is how influential and how how capital they are to the situation in the area right now and the position that the zionist entity finds itself in in general, we have to always bear in mind that israel is always calculating on the idea that palestine stands alone, because for so long palestine has had of the support of certain countries of course, such as iran primarily and few countries in the in the arab world such as syria, but for the majority of the world they have either been rather silent, maybe vocally supporting palestine, but not really doing much in support, or as is the case for the majority of the west of course, being absolutely on the side of the scienest entity, so when when

this operation started, i think that what syinists believe that they could do is just strike back without with impunity, without any retaliation internationally speak. and fight one-on-one let's say against the people of gaza, now even this one-on-one battle with on the on the streets of gaza itself, it's a battle that are already losing, but aside from that, we see that this calculation was completely wrong, because not only have the countries that have always stood by palestine spoken up louder and louder than ever before, but you see organizations and movements actively supporting, militarily supporting the palestinian resistance, you see heizbollah stepping up them. missile attacks on the north of uh designers entity, you see yemen firing missiles at the far southern reaches of des entity, this is something that has never happened before, because they have the capacity to do so, and even maybe more importantly we see news being tighten around

the economic viability of the signist entity, for example the near complete shut down of the port of island due to the fact that red sea traffic to and from israel has completely... shut down thanks to the fearless and brave attacks of the yemini people, so when this west asian block uh of mukawamino of resistance fighters has united even more than ever before, this has really put designist entity a spot that they i don't think they really expected to be at and that this is wider repercussions as well because you see even here in the west um you see lot of sympathy arriving for yemen for example for the fact that yemen stands up in such a way and by default of course the sympathy for the palestinian cause and the hope that palestine can win has increased to thousandfold here in the west and it ever existed before. yeah and uh to expand a little bit more on this uh we're looking at the way that uh um iran has actually gone all

out in one form or another, whether it's going to the un or un affiliated organizations uh or in any other shape. reform trying to gather steam uh to have countries actually join in its uh views and share its views when it comes to this genocidal war. i think as the war progressed from the initial stages on, iran was able to do that. for example, the ipu, um, is is a global organization of national parliaments, there um is gentleman who represents the iranian parliament who said that iran and number of other states actually were able to uh gather support for pal for. palestine and made some of the country's position change, actually propelled them to change, let's listen to what this representative says, and i'll come back with the question. um, i actually made a group of countries together,

we called it, like minded leaders, we made a group about like let's say year ago, and two month ago and um you know 10 countries we got together we had a meeting and the leader was of this uh act was iran actually it was me actually and um you know we have some arab countries in this group we have we had um some african countries and now the president the ipu is one of those countries that we have you know we had a group together we made that. group because we thought you know the european countries and european parliaments are trying to get as much as they would they could and then if we uh if we don't make this alliance we cannot get anything in the ipo and i think you know the one of these one of

the results that we got is was the in the wars that we got in the last summit about the gaza situation. in the ipu we have emergency item and we witnessed that you know in the last like let's say i have attended like six uh ipu summits i have witnessed that you know um uh they bring uh emergency item proposals and they get let's say more than two-third of the votes for their proposals but in this summit we have witnessed something else they couldn't even get half of the votes and uh the proposal by the indonesia was you know supporting the uh people of the palestine got more than half of the votes so yeah something happened in this summit all right there uh you were listening to the uh iranian representative there um of which uh he was

really mush is his name representing the iraning parliament where i don't know if he caught that uh ending there which is really important of what uh transpired there. uh brandy onkers uh from 75 votes down to 50 in terms of countries that changed their stance when it came when it came to designist regime. this type of change a political level is... unprecedented, this is just one incident and there are many others that are happening across the political spectrum when it comes to different countries and of course uh their the divisions that it has caused, what is your reaction to what has happened in this particular point at the ipu? i think this is very good representation of the the fact that sit that global opinion and and public opinion in general in the many many countries around world and especially amongst political representatives of of the population of many different countries, it

depends very greatly on the amount of attention that is given to a certain subject and to the amount of of of trust and hope that there is in the potential for change and that is why that is i think that is what happened here like when you see that 75% generally of the countries were to quote support um israel in the past in some of these "i don't think that necessarily means that all of them are great supporters of zionism, but you have a great deal of countries that kind of just go with the status quo, and if there is no hope for change and if there is no real indication that anything is going to change, then it is very unlikely for countries, for example countries maybe in africa or in latin america or even in europe itself to really change their stance on the situation that seems to them to be relatively far removed from their immediate concerns, i'm not entirely sure about the ex vote representation by country and the latest vote in the ipu, but i can imagine that it has something to do with the

fact that iran in particular and many other countries within the pro- palestinian camp have made so much have put so much information out, so much emphasis on gaza and on palestine, that lot of these countries that have no immediate let's say dog in the fight, now have realized that like what is happening there is absolutely unacceptable, and the only moral thing for them to do now is to switch their position. to the side of humanity, which in this case is the side of palestine. okay, uh, we uh have uh julia sent back, we lost her temporarily. thank you uh, julia for staying with us. uh, i'd like to uh, ask your reaction about the stance that the yemen has taken. uh, obviously the whole world is aware of what has transpired in the red sea regarding yemen and the way that it is targeting um israely linked vessels or ships. um, at this point, uh, we're looking at the impact that that has made. um, instead of just talking about the, i guess the figure, the financial figure here um that uh

is being lost from the israeli regime's economy, let's focus as to the way that the us is actually militarizing the region, which even the yemen was taking a back saying, what why are you doing this? um, and it's quite incredible that the us has formed this coalition to go against yemen, which obviously one of the things that that means is it wants this genocidal war to continue, at the same time. see militarizing the region is not what something yemen uh intends, they just want the war, genocidal war to stop. exactly. yemen's only condition for ships that are passing through the red sea is that they're not going to support the zionist entity during genocide, that's its only condition, and even with that condition, billions in losses, and about 11 at least. companies, international companies have stopped operations. um, israeli ships are now

not even being insured or premiums are skyrocketing 250%, and now the re routing arounds the around africa that these ships destined for the scientis entity have to take, is adding additional two weeks at least to their travel time, so this is contributed to the... um the tens of billions in in losses and in um negative impact that's uh that's really struck the us and and and zianist entities economy um in addition to the losses that they're taking on the battle front so this is all part of the the strategy to really hit the pockets and hit the capabilities of the the us zionist beast here uh so not only you know out of n-year war where uh the the yemeny resistance uh

successfully fought um saudi arabia coalition uh which is backed by the us um but now they're even more ready to take on the us uh and israel itself uh as one of their uh their leaders just said um so uh this this this escalation here represents a uh readiness that the the the ansar allah resistance has in confronting us that um cannot even really get the the gulf states that it had put to fight um the yemenese for nine years onto its coalition so it's it's pretty much um the they pretty much are are ready to really take the the us on as um you know despite the the west's um material capabilities uh they're pretty much exhausted right now in in in having stretched themselves in in israel and

in ukraine um so as far as the the the fighting equation yemen has got the the upper hand in strength and um they're not really um it's really putting the the us actually in a disadvantage disadvantages situation sure um i'm going to ask you another question and i'll come to you breters uh the consequence the move by uh yemen has been a positive one uh julia because we are seeing how malaysia uh actually is taking a stance when it comes to israely own ships and has announced that uh any vessels heading um guess to israel from docking at all the domestic ports there uh in that country um so this is a development that may actually have a contagion effect. do you think that it will and what do you think about the fact that malaysia um just like yemen in some sense has stepped up to the plate? yeah so the the political power um that has that's now in

turn enabling and emboldening the rest of the muslim world to take mat imperial stances against the zionist entity that they weren't so embold and empowered to do for before comes from the this this strength that that yemen has now opened up in in the entire muslim and in arab world where they have incurred enough of a of a loss and enough of a threat to international capitalism itself to the us to the zianist entity that now materially all of these muslim nations feel it's materially possible to really uh join in on the on taking um actionable steps to um to confront this uh genocide that's happening uh and and yemen and the palestinian resistance that you know set the ball in motion uh have in turn will in turn have an effect in

liberating the entire muslim and arab world in enabling them to also rise up against uh designist entity and rise up against us occupation in material actionable ways um because of the the loss that they've been able to incurr to them as of now. um, we're looking at bright yanker's um news that doesn't really make sense when it comes to the israeli regime stance uh and what's been now uh thrown around in terms of a ceasefire or the possibility of one? um we we've uh noticed that the momentum was being built that there is a possibility of one. uh that may happen, even uh um israel indicating to qatar that they are ready for the talks to continue on this uh issue a pause fire pause, i guess, but then you had the prime minister coming out netanyahu saying that uh, there's no way that the cease fire is going to come into effect unless we eradicate and get rid of hamas, the what's showing from the

battlefield doesn't indicate that israel has a standing to make such a... uh bolt stance when it comes to a ceasefire wanting it or not. um, what do you think about the way that uh they're losing on the battlefield based on what's coming out in terms of the loss of israeli soldiers, equipment and what have you? well, of course, uh, a person like netanyahu knows that his role uh in in many ways is being the bombastic uh propagandistic leader of what what he considers to be a country, um, in reality of designist entity, so obviously a person in his in his position who has started an aggressive war of total anniholation um has no real has has given he has given himself very little room for recourse, yes they have agreed in the past of course to a cease fire that has happened um

last month and there the most important reason of course that he used to to justify that to his that's his extremist electorate the extremist z settlers is of course and he said that it was to get the the prisoners who were still being held as prisoners of war in gaza to have them released in reality or to have them exchanged of course because in in exchange for design settlers who were released palestine the people in gaza got way more in return of palestinians who were released in uh in in the exchange agreements and i think that at this point uh netanyahu has dog himself kind of a bit of a hole in which at the same time the people who are more let's say to the if you can call it the center or left of the azionist spectrum in as far as that exists especially nowadays. within israel, they already hate him anyway uh and the like the what is often called the religious right of the the designist settle movements etc. the people who want to for

example take over the alaxa complex and build the third temple and all those those kind of people they are of course their demands are so extreme that they will hate netanyahu uh and try to probably drop his the support for him if he were to relax his war against gaza so... really have from his own perspective, i think netanyahu doesn't really have much of a choice than to continue until and code until total victory, but the problem is, and i think he knows that very well, the problem is that this total victory is not happening, in fact there they are bombing of course and they are massacring 2000 people so far, sure, but majority of these massacres are of course committed from the air because they have airal superiority, they can bomb, but you see the images coming out the moment they send in troops, the moment they send in... and apcs and ifvs, they get blown up, they get destroyed, there are thousands of most likely already thousands, according to recent reports of of zionist soldiers who have died

and and wonded, this is an extent that the zionist entity and the zionist political structure cannot fathem and that can they cannot bear, so that is that that hole that netanyahu has has dog for himself, because he can't really do anything else anymore, since you're talking about these strikes, julia, i need to ask you about um, it seems like israel is very keen on boasting about the fact that they're hitting so many targets, just in the past 24 hours uh, the news uh came out where they the israely military regime forces claim to have struck 300, 300 targets in gaza in the past 24 hours, there was one instance where they uh said that they had hit 600 targets in the gaza strip, when you think about the numbers and the hundreds of bombs that are being dropped, yes there are... ion casualties, but it also sounds like they're really out to destroy the the land there, at least that's what it sounds like, i just sited two examples, this war has been going on for 74-75 some od days, do you

think they're out to destroy the gaza strip when it comes to the bombing campaign? it's obvious that the zinis entity has zero military strategy, their capabilities in being able to recover. from the the the the palestinian resistances offensive on october 7th had been completely decimated, so the only option that they see in their perspective is to completely level, sports the grounds, make the gaza strip completely uninhabitable, which is why by targets they mean homes, buildings, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, which have been mainly the targets we've seen from from from all of these videos and all of these reports. on on the ground and uh completely move in and reoccupy the the gaza strip, otherwise there's there's no military strategy because

there's no military uh fighting capability on on their end on the end of the designs capability, all they could do is commit massacers, all they can do is commit a genocide in hopes of first um moving in the so-called security zone in the north of gaza and then pushing the... the palestinians out of of the gaza strip, the problem is even if they wanted to go from the route, which is what the the intention was from the beginning into just the genociding all the palestinians level leveling the earth and then coming in and and reoccupying and building new like like it was kind of going around on social media that there's some settlement development company that was setting setting up that sets up settlements in the west bank now. company wants to to build in in gaza, this this plan has also failed too, sure uh 700,000 gazan still remain in the north and

uh the any level of air bombing and decimation cannot change the equation on the ground, that designs and to be lost militarily, thank you so much and that the resistance and within palestine is growing stronger indeed, thank you so muchsam journalist and political analyst from beirot, bret yonkers from uh belgium, historian journalist, thank you with that. come to an end for this edition of the spotlight from me cover and the team, it's goodbye.

on thursday, january 29, 2004, a plane carrying lebanese prisoners landed on the runway at beirot airport. but in this celebration, the chair of the only prisoner that was not released was empty.

the mission to make israel regret was assigned to the jihadist representative.