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"the israeli war minister is saying that the regime is being attacked from seven different theaters in the midst of the genocidal war on gaza. ufgallan says that israel has responded to six of those fronts and threatened that anyone who acts against israel is a potential target. not one of those fronts gallen mentioned was iran. on monday top commander of iran's rgc in syria was assassinated in an israeli missile strike targeting his house in damascus a meantime the resistance front.

region is adamant to respond to the israeli-american crimes being perpetrated in gaza. there are more topics in this episode of the spotlight today, i'm your host berrus najafi. allow me to introduce our guests. elijah magner, journalist and politica analyst is joining us from brussels. also with us is khalid baraka, the spokesperson of the masar albadil. movement in vancouver, canada. welcome to the show, gentlemen. of elijah, beginning with you. uh, let's talk about christmas celebrations this year, and how different they could be given this genocide going on, and you know, iof soldiers have no regard for any religion. muslims, christians are like, rituals, nationalities, what your job is, you're a journal, you're a doctor, whoever you are, they hit mosk, they hit churches, so and... anybody standing in

their way, as the war minister was saying, is legitimate target, as the israeli authorities actually, they themselves proclaim, so let's talk about the atmosphere of the christmas holidays this year to begin with. for israel, there are no christmas holidays, because for them killing christians or muslim is exactly the same, because they consider any palestinians according to the manifest of 1977. party, any presence of any palestinian regardless his religion is a threat to the of state of israel, therefore what they are doing, what the israeli occupation forces are doing in gaza is to destroy as many possible as homes and infrastructure and kill as many civilians, many children and women, that is because israel has failed to achieve its

objectives to destroy hamas and to occupy gaza and to free all the prisoners. this is why for them there is no consideration of. the christmas holidays or to any religion holidays, because for them they have the superpower, the united states of america, supporting them at the united nations, blocking any veto decision of sease fire and will also put obstacles against any investigation of israel war crime that israel has overtly admitted on televisions, therefore for the israelis... being a christmas or any other holiday, for them it's exactly business as usual, nothing has changed and nothing will change, and the new yorkers uh were saying that this shouldn't be christmas as usual in their protest the other day, anyway, now khalid is really officials are still talking about being attacked from

multiple fronts, seven fronts, he mentioned iran, syria, lebanon, gaza itself, yemen, and they're talking of... self-defense and all jazz and they're playing the victim while they're attacking incescently and the world is watching what's happening in gaza, how could they then ignore all the savage crimes that they are committing uh blatantly against palestinians a daily basis? yes, thank you for having me, and before i answer this question, i just want to mention that palestinians in general and palestinian christians... in particular are not celebrating christmas at all, and we know that palestine is the place of the birth of christianity, across the board, palestinian christians are not just condemning the israeli atrocities and war crimes, but also

there were no celebration in palestine this year in christmas and there has been calls by palestinian christians to the world and to churches, to people of consciouss especially. christians and and others to condemn israeli war crimes. as for your question, which is i think it's the central question in term of israel behavior. israel always behave as the victim, and at the same time, i haven't seen any victim who possess you 300 nuclear war heads and commit atrocities and war crimes, you know, 24/7, and does not care whatsoever about any you know international law, in fact just yesterday - you know the international you know international figures around the world, especially in the human rights sectors were saying that israel have violated every

law in the book of international law. now the reason that israel get away with it is because israel is supported by the united states and the western uh... colonialist power, israel is their project and the zionist regime have always rely on the united states for protection for support, for financial and military support, that's why we view this genocide that is taking place in gazza as a us and israel genocide, because it is happening with the us support, with us weapons, with the us, cover, now in term of the seven front which is important. because they're trying to bring you know to to to bring back some biblical methodology about the seven fronts as well in order to mobilize their society based on a religion you know war and religion you know conflict and at the

same time we know that these fronts that israel is talking about is the camp of resistance. in the region that is trying to protect the palestinian people rights and the palestinian people cause but also to protect the region from us germany and from israel to germany. israel wants to dominate in the region and it looks a temporary regime, it is a western colony and yet they're looking at yemen, iran, iraq, lebanon, as if they are visitors in the region. and this is really uh you know a classic israeli and colonialist behavior. okay now uh elijah khalid mentioned yemen as one of those friends that israel is uh talking about and saying that it's being targeted and playing the victim there and yemen is you know they are conducting operations they're uh intercepting and

targeting all ships destined for israel or somehow having to do with uh israel but the us has formed this coalition of 1920 countries and trying to uh blame the emines for uh bringing in security for maraton transportation, who's bringing in security, the us or the yeminies? yemen is saying that we are just targeting israeli related ships and that's be... because of what they're doing to the people in gaza? well, first of all, the israeli, i don't think they playing the victim on the contrary, they trying to attract the americans into the battlefield, and they telling the americans, as benyamin netanyahu told president biden, from day one, everybody is attacking us, and this is why a coalition was formed to support the israelis and this is again the reason why the... send their carriers to the middle east, so what the israel are desperately trying to do is to

open more fronts, so to make it not the palestinian cause as a reason of this war, but to divert the attention away from the palestinian causes and saying, well our war actually is not with the palestinian that have been attacked, killed and imprison. for the last 75 years, but it is actually with iran and all his allies. well, so far it has succeeded. in relation to yemen, yemen said specifically that this act is only to protect the people of gaza and in the name of the children and women of gaza, and the yemen ask the israelis to stop and lift the siege and impose a cease fire otherwise this will continue. actually it is the human duty of every single country, not only the muslims

but other christian and muslim countries around the world to stand with the palestinian cause, there are muslim and christian in palestine, including jews, the problem is not with the jew, the problem is with the sis and what israel are doing, so this is when the poke stood up and said, what israel is doing is terrorism, yemen is fighting terrorism, is fighting the israeli terrorism. iraq resistance are doing exactly the same. hisbullah is doing the same. iran is encouraging his allies to stand against the terrorism of the israelis against 2.3 million palestinian in gaza. and yemen said it very clearly, stop the war, stop, lift the siege, and everything will return to to normality. and yemen didn't say that is going to... stop every ship, but only the ship destinated to israel, yeah, and it was a

stress, just an hour ago, the army spokesman was there making the statement. now khaled, this multi pr the resistance front uh taking action against israel, it also consists of iraq, like elijah just mentioned, and and you know just recently in response to iraqy resistance fighters, anti-us operations, they have drones uh targeting us bases both in iraq and syria, now we have the us. command confirming that american strikes have hit three facilities belonging to iraq's anti-terrorist pmu affiliated groups and baghdad is saying that these attacks harm relations between the two countries. let's have your take on this. well, first of all, why are the there is us military bases in our region, whether in iraq or in syria or in jordan or anywhere in ' west asia, why there is united states bases? now they say that

these these military bases are there based a mutual agreement with the government, but this is not really the situation, if you do a referendum today in iraq, most people in iraq wants to see these us bases leave iraq, in syria it's the united states is occupation and occupied power ' "the united states have military bases across and it is there contrary to the willing to the to people's choice, and the other thing is that why is these united states bases are in the region, we have to go back to the roots of the problem, the united states is viewed by the vast majority of the people of the region as a colonialist power, they're trying to..." you know impose their hegemony over the will the people and they talk about democracy, you

know, this crime that they just committed in syria, killing you know an iranian official, mr. radhi musawi, just imagine if a country assassinate an israeli minister or an israeli ambassador, israel invaded lebanon in 1982. under the pretext of one of its ambassadors have been subject to attempt of assassination in london and they invaded the west bank because an israeli because a palestinian uh resistant group assassinated in israeli minster, and yet they get away with these crimes and we know that they have been behind all these assassinations against arab and iranian scientists. exactly. now, elijah, speaking about uh, mr. musavi, i want to ask you, what is it that gives the televif regime this audacity to openly make announcement and then take out anyone with opposing views in

broad daylight like brigador general razi musavi, how could he assassinate? military commanders who helped west asia, they helped iraq, syria, others at their own invitation overcome the scurge of terrorism. for israel, anyone who stands with the oppressed people around the world is considered as a threat, for the israelis, the support that iran is giving to the to the lebanese hazbullah. to hamas, to the islamic jihad, to the syrian to liberate the territory from isis and the attempt of fail state that was carried out by the americans and their allies, and for the americans to support the iraqis to free themselves from isis and stand with yemen,

all these are act that putting obstacles in front of the americans and the israelis, would like to see the middle east divided, so sayid musawi in in syria was a coordinated, was coordinating with all these allies to support them with the logistic and with the support, this is why it is not unusual for the islamic jihad and hammas to come out and condemn the israely assassination, it because they know the value that this man was bringing to the... palestinian resistance and to the lebanese resistance and to the iraqi, and this is why israelis believe anything that is happening today in gaza and what used to happen in the west bank and the strings of hizbollah, all that comes from iran, and because that puts obstacles in front of the

israelis, then they look for a target where they think the israelis and the the americans. that they can hit or send message to iran, they don't understand that the leadership in iran is horizontal and is not vertical, if one person goes away, there are 10 or 100 others that can replace the same person and the past continued, a good point, and khalid, there are some observers arguing that the recent assassination of brigador general musavi, iran's rgc commander, uh, is an open invitation to iran to try to kind of pull iran in and to force iran to take some military action against the telaviv regime, do you share that standpoint? absolutely, this is exactly what netanyahu wants, netanyahu is wants to continue the sorry, the war against people in ghazza, and he wants to

also expand the war in other fronts and invite the united states into this, and he thinks that by... carrying these assassinations that he's following the steps the united states when uh let's not forget that they are the one who killed general qasim sulaymani and you know but the united states i think they're aware of netanyahu's uh you know attempts and not because the united states is nice but because they actually don't want to have uh be involved in a war because of netanyahu personal interest, if there was a united state interest in the manner, i think they would go for it. now, i think that iran is aware of israel attempts and israeli blocks and it is really a general wisdom in the region, this is what netanyahu is trying to do, is trying to create chaos and shift, you know, be cards by doing these

crimes against iranian leadership. now elijah netanyahu uh is this reminds me of the israely prime minister is speaking about voluntary migration of people from gaza voluntary, i mean you hit civilians, you hit their homes, mosks, churches, hospitals, everybody, everything, every living thing, and then you starved them to death, and then you called us voluntary or so what is force displacement then? well, i think one of the blessing of this... war on gaza is to reveal the real face of the israelis and how they lie on television and nobody believe them. actually, i think this war was... for the people to return and embrace the palestinian cause once again tostanding the atrocity of the killing of children and women,

nevertheless, the people today support the palestinian cause unlike their leaders, there is a big difference of the popular support of the palestinian cause because of what's happening in gaza, and people are more enlighted about all the lies that are ' eminating from all the israelis who started by saying we want to defend ourselves and they are in occupation forces that can defend themselves and secondly they ask the palestinian to move from the north to hun units in the south and then they bomb them in the north and in khan units and then they ask them to move to rafa and they bomb them exactly yeah so to see how the israelies are really driving the population to their death, they not trying to look after them, they not trying to minimize the casuality, and they not trying to watch voluntarily exodus of the

palestinian, on the contrary, they wanted to kick them out to egypt, exactly, and recently they have been doing something else, they have been killing civilians at point blank range, how they could justify that, i don't, now we have one minute, if you could tell me how likely do you think this us is already genocidal war on palestinians, how could that uh, could that actually engulf the whole west asia region, because they don't seem to be, willing to stop this anytime soon, then the united states are heading towards a strategic defeat, the palestinian people have gave so much sacrifices in the last three months and willing sacrifice for the uh protection of their rights and their cause and their resistance, we have to look at ghazza and see these atrocities and war crimes that israel is committing and support the palestinian

people struggle, but at the same time we have to look at the brave palestinians, resistance that is um, you know, really showing the ability of the palestinian people and the people of the region to be able to fight colonialism, to fight racism. to fight this uh you know zionist regime and defeat this zionist regime, i think palestinians are going to come out victorious from this confrontation. okay, on that note we come to the end of this show, thank you my guest elijah magner in brussels, khalid barachad and vancouver, and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i'm being your host behrus, see you next time.

the un expresses grave concerns about the constant israeli strikes on central gaza, the palestinian dead tool from the aggression approaches 2100. as senior hamas official condemns as a cowardly act the israely assassination of top iran. and commander and damascus and iraq strongly condemns deadly usa strike its major anti-terror force near baghdad. it says those attacks harmed relations between the two.