of hello and welcome to spotlight. as israel's genocidal gaza continues with full support from the united states, the two allies have not backed down from carrying out acts of terrorism in the west asia region. only recent days uh, the israeli regime has assassinated two important figures of the regions resistance front in operations in syria and uh lebanon, and washington has also shown its disrespect for other nations sovereignty by conducting deadly drone strike on the headquarters of iraq's popular mobilization. it's in baghdad, we'll try to

bring to the spotlight the ramifications of washington and tel aviv's acts of terrorism in tonight's show, we have don debar activist of in commentator joining us from auseny, new york, and academic and commentator daniel shaw, gentlemen, welcome to the program, start off with mr. debar uh in ossitting uh and uh we're going to kick off uh this in segment with the recent terror attack uh in kermon in your opinion uh who benefits from such deplorable acts and uh from attempts of creating this type of insecurity in the region? i mean the thing was done on speculation, okay? there's an expectation that this act will create that effect, the uh

question is of course who did it and what did they intend? uh, pretty clear it was the us or israel, the intent to create instability uh in iran uh to uh provide some sort of domestic uh satisfaction for people in israel who are looking at iran through the propaganda machinery there as an enemy or the enemy um and so you can tell who benefits basically if they benefit. uh by what happens? well, several things could happen. iran shows in fact that it's a stable country, which it is, um, and it, hunkers down and deals with the effects of this, and makes a counter move that, is satisfactory to the people in iran, and also satisfactory lesson, perhaps, of the cost of doing these things to israel and or the united states. the other is that they're successful and somehow it creates instability in run. i doubt that's going to happen though, because um, israel is... a much weaker foundation

than iran, the the people of iran are sitting on land that they've been on, going back to the persian empire, um, and the people of israel are sitting on then that they've been in since the late 19th century from europe, um, and and surrounded by enemies that they've created by inserting themselves into the middle of this region, so i i don't think the intended effect is going to uh, you know, express, and uh, and i think... is pretty clear who did it and why. daniel shaw, regardless of who was behind uh this attack, many analysts that we've spoken to here on press tbc the israelies is having role uh in the terror attacks and it's not unprecedented of course uh for the uh israeli regime. what do you think? i agree with mr. debar uh the same way that us imperialism has used israel since 1948 as a proxy force to do its dirty work in the area. against the lebanese,

against the syrians, against the iranians, against the palestinians first and foremost as they carry out a genocide, uh, likewise they have used isis, uh, jake sullivan's infamous quote from 2015, when he said that of uh, isis were not their uh, the state department's enemies in syria, how many times have they uh, and this is what wikileaks and all of those cables, and that's why julian asange and others... are in exile or uh in in in jail because they were able to shed light on this topic, because what the us wants to try to do with their war propagandars wiped their hands clean of what happened about uh some 60 hours ago in tehran uh there's nothing that can convince us that it wasn't uh the masad in the central intelligence agency which has an undisclosed budget uh it's an unvoutured budget meaning they don't

have to leave any uh paper trail for all of their dirty work around the years, a budget somewhere in the range of 50 billion dollars uh per year for the cia and this is right up there at they strike one day in beirut, they strike the next day in tehran, and then they strike in baghdad. the arrogance of this empire, and of of zionism is almost unparalled in history. donabar, looking at the recent israeli attacks in the region, the assassination of the iranian military advisor, said razi musavi in syria, hamas senior official salahuri in lebanon, are these israeli attempts at expanding their onslot? on gaza into a wider regional conflict and maybe trying to get uh the the united states more directly involved? the individual actors have their individual motivations. netanyahu first of all has his own personal motivations, which is basically

a single one, stay out of prison. he has to stay in office in order to stay out of prison. um, he is sitting top of a coalition where he's really not the the leading partner. "and he's become a liability even to them over his handling of this entire affair, and then there was the interest of the state of israel, quote unquote, whatever elite that actually is in terms of making and expressing policy. um, there's certainly the geopolitical interest of the united states, which israel is a proxy for, it said they referre to it as an aircraft carrier and and whatever a battleship, um, and behind that, even, you, the oil companies basically that..." have a large chunk of the stock of the us government, so um, we're looking a war over the resources there, and and over not just the oil and gas and those resources and not even just the human resources, but also the you know the geographic resources, the

the location itself is an important strategic asset in in fighting russia and china, which is also part of may perhaps their ultimate goal, so looking at how these things are playing. out here, clearly you look to what the interest of the us and and of israel as its you know local partner are, and how these things fit into it, i think that again, you consider the fact that there's a war going on, not the war that began quote unquote on october 7th, and not even the war that began uh in with the knockba in 1948. this is the war that's been going on since imperialism came to that part of the world to try to and for a long period of time to have. seized uh the resources or control of the resources there, you're looking at the british changing the form of imperialism in 1948, in the face though of most of the day coming to uh power and and the iranian people really taking control of their fate up until the cia cool

in 1953 and then nasa um and uh first the construction of egypt and syria and uh and rock which was coming on, you're going to see a united arab republic across the arab world, again another anti-imperialist rise, the war that took all of those things down um and then has has saw a reversal with the iranian revolution 1979 is ongoing and this is just another battlefield in that entire you know in that larger war right uh mr shaw regarding the assassinations leader sasan earlier today said that the blood of the marters of the resistance will not go in will not go in also said that the killing of salahuri will not go unpunished, there were similar comments from iran regarding the assassination of razi musavi in syria, are these actions producing the results that israel and the us were seeking, or are they in the words of hasan nasula further igniting the resistance front

in the region? first off uh, it's very clear that israel is a western imperialist creation, it's a frankenstein. but is this frankenstein slipping out of the control of their very handlers of the dr. frankenstein that called them into existence. it seems that the us does not want the upper summits the us ruling class. do they really want a war with iran, nation of almost 100 million people, rich civilization that goes back, um, millennia, they can't handle the economic rise of china, uh, russia. is whipping there behinds uh in in this nato us proxy war against russia with the ukrainian people trapped in the middle, do they really want to open up another massive front uh against the iranians, against the access of resistance, but there can be no doubt that there's an

israeli and a us hand uh behind these terrorist bombings in tehran, um, they bomb into iraq, they bomb into syria, they bomb... syrian airports in in aleppo and in damascus, they bomb the militias, the anti-imperialist militias in iraq, they they they bomb it will, so the israelis. in the us are in a very cavalier way, they're inviting the resistance to strike back uh, of course it's the military industrial complex that runs the media in this country, and what we saw yesterday at about 2 p.m. was the most synchronized uh statement from the new york times and the bbc and the israeli times inherits uh wiping, washing their hands clean as if the west had nothing to do with these terrorist bombing. but there's an abundance of proof, we have to read the gray zone and we have to read aaron matte in in the

geopolitical report and these other outlets who've been tracking isis in their handlers from bengazi and libya to the ports of turkey back back syria uh wikileaks revealed this uh israel, us, isis, nexus, now yesterday when they made that statement of course uh rules across the us and everyday us people thought, ah, this is surely a shiite sunni dynamic, but it's important to ask at the moment of of the ultimate muslim unity of pan-arab and muslim unity in defense of the people of palestine who are up against the genocide, who benefits from this terrorist bombing? don debar, uh, the resistance front in iraq, it continues to put pressure on the us administration with its anti-israel. the anti-us operations, but hasan nasolah today earlier said that following the recent

targeting of a leader of the popular mobilization units in baghdad, iraqi politicians now have a historic opportunity to expel all us forces from iraq. now let's go rewind to the uh assassination of general uh sulaymani in 2020. iran also said that one way of avenging his death would be the complete withdrawal of us troops from the region, how close are we to seeing that day? i forget what the official count is, 2,500, i think, or supposedly, you know, recent events have actually uh, exposed the fact that the us still occupies iraq, occupation is fact, not necessarily, set of individual uh, situations, for example, "if the united states is exercising control at gunpoint of the you know the nation state or or policy

making of of iraq, whether they have million troops there or two, um, the occupation is an occupation, um, the fact that it's still occupied has been again exposed by the recent events there and the attacks on on the us military assets by the iraqi forces and by the iraqi people ' "one of the things that gets sort of offiscated in in conversation about these matters is the word terrorism. we're talking about warfare, okay? terrorism is a term that came into usage when there were articles or acts of warfare committed by either non-state actors or by the other in terms of propaganda. in fact uh and and and it's even more complicated uh given the uh sort of the..." political, the legal political situation that exists on the ground in that region and in a number of other

post-colonial regions. um, you have contradictions between the, the states themselves that are former colonial states and some semi-colonial states now, and you have contradictions in some cases like in saudi arabia, between the population that's there and and the, the government, particularly in terms of relations with the united states and israel, um, and so uh, if you look at lose all these other terms that the popular ones and think of it in you know strategic terms in terms of warfare, you have you know the the populations in the population of the nations around um israel, around palestine uh that are all in favor of protecting the palestinian people and adamant about this um and now look witnessing like the worst geneside you know certainly since there have been tv cameras to record it in in human history. and and their governments debating at the united nations about it, and finally one uh nation uh submitting a claim

at the uh icj, um, there are a lot of those contradictions that are going to be resolved over the course of this, whatever conflict, um, and i, i think in some of some of the more reactionary states you're going to see the governments change, including i don't mean just the individuals in the government, but the nature of the governments in relation to people change. and that is going to happen under conditions of of active warfare, in a number of these states and what they call the state of israel, so it's difficult to predict what's going to happen. other than if some way isn't found to put this fire out and to provide justice and safety for the palestinian people, it's going to be a blood bath there. daniel shaw, the yemeni armed forces continue targeting israeli linked ships and vessels bound for the occupied territories, despite the formation of the us naval coalition in the red sea and

washington's threats and warnings, tell us more about this defiant message that the... yamenese are sending to the us and its allies as uh they've been clear these attacks will persist until israel ends its crimes against scazans all of humanity has yemeni people with uh who we call in the west the the hoothies these forces of resistance i mean this is a small country of only 30 million people and to stand up empire and their zionist underlings is extremely impressive and this is on the heels of over seven years of horrific uh us proxy war of using the saudis uh to really um wage a campaign of of starvation of horrific bombing uh against the yemeny people. this was um horrific violence that we almost never learned about uh here in the united states and now they're doing the

same thing to the palestinian people. the us has almost single-handedly destroyed iraq, destroyed syria through a covert dirty war, they've dismembered and destroyed uh libya, a big part of the foreign policy establishment wants to iraqiize or libize or syriize iran, one of the strongest uh countries in in the region, and the spearhead of this axis of resistance, which counts among its uh kadre, the yemenes, the iraqi militias, hezbollah, there's no question that israel wants... every excuse, every pretext to continue bombing the daylights out of their neighbors, but as mr. dabar has indicated, there's a half million, half billion uh arab people in the arab world uh watching on, uh, eight billion members of humanity watching this horrific holocaust of the palestinian people, so when would israel

ever have peace with its neighbors, when for 75 years they've treated their neighbors with genocidal violence. sure. don debar, in spite of all the efforts to weaken uh the resistance uh in in the region, why is the resistance front still thriving? this is what human beings do. um, we don't die easily, um, any of us, as as a group, as individuals, it's in our nature to try to live. um, it's the way this thing is taking shape. is an unusual, historically unusual methodology um being expressed, it's kind of like at an individual national or regional level where you would have garial war um as bevolutionary uh spear um only this is the falling together of those aspects of the various nation states

in the area that see the emergency that that that has to be... and rolling up the sleeves and and going to do it, um, any one of these individual states declares war on israel, the united states and israel focus their whatever the power they have, their militaries on that to make an example of them in front of the others, that's the traditional model, looking to the vietnamese war or the american wars they call it vietnam, the resistance there was not conventional resistance, and this... that we're seeing develop here is an unconventional resistance also kind of that sort of model um that uh you know may well produce some unexpected results that the not they hadn't planned on in the pentagon or in langley uh or wherever whatever rathole they uh make these plans on in the so-called state of israel. danny shall find a question for you as well uh why is the resistance front

still thriving in the region in spite of all the efforts to weaken it? hochiman said no amount of modern uh war technology could defeat a people's will to be independent. this is about uh sovereignty, this is about indigenous dignity. uh, the us and israel would have to wipe every last iranian, every last arab, every last alawite, every last kurd off of the face of the earth. um, people are going to continue to resist, and how could we ever forget the chief of the masad as well who said publicly? that i'll news for a front that the worst terrorist outfits operating in the syrian theater in the iraqi theater were allies of the israelis and deserved compassion and and he said this publicly on on jazira, so we have an abundance of of of proof that the israelis in the us have indeed kept al-qaeda in isis a short leash, and this is something that the

american public has to look into closely as well as the western, the western world. mr. dubar, i saw you notting there, would you like to share with us your final thoughts? yeah, i agree completely. i think citing, as dan just did is exactly appropriate. all right, thank you gentlemen, uh. activist and commentator don dabar joining us from aussening uh new york and uh also uh from new york academic and commentator daniel shaw gentlemen thank you for contributing uh to our program and also a special thanks uh to you our viewers for staying with us tonight's spot night it's good night for now and see you next time.

on the ground you see too much holes small holes.

israel's economy is now in a crisis as it was hit by double whamy this year, the so-called judicial overhaul and the us-israel genocidal

war. the uh slaughter in gaza, the uh ethnic cleansing which borders on genocide, i think is costing israel a great deal in terms of of money. the regime is also suffering. massively due to the boycott campaign, these are young professionals, lot of college students, uh, they're going to have an impact on this region for the uh years down the road, there'll be the new generation that will join people like malaysia. join us in this edition of economic divide where we look at how israel's economy is suffering.

يا شباب ديروا بالكم حاجه هي ايدها ايدها خليك تقلقيش تقلقيش خلي نفسك قوي بس خلي نفسك قوي هي الشباب شغالين يا حجه توكل على الله يا شباب امل خلف الاسبوار يتسلن بين النار زرعت فيه الالام بعزيمته اعصى وتساممى one event we covered was the return of something like 80 to 100 corpses to uh the gaza strip to a

cemetery in the southern city of rapa, these were... corpses of people whose bodies had been stolen by the israeli military from many them had been stolen from the shifa hospital in the gaza in gaza city from other cemeteries ostensibly because the israelis were looking for their own hostages, but we have this history of israeli organ theft, of the theft of body parts which is well documented and admitted by for example dr. yahuda his, an really state pathologist at the abu kabir. institute in israel, um, there is, there are reports even by cnn about this, dating back decades, israel is an international center of the illegal organ trade. israelis have been prosecuted in israeli courts for this, and the gaza ministry of health and euromed human rights monitor have alleged that these corpses, when they were returned to israel to be buried in a mass grave, because there's no room left in the cemeteries, had body parts missing, i

know personally judge uh from knowing the family of rachel cory who was killed by an israeli bulldozer uh while defending the home of a palestinian friend of hers in the gaza strip in i believe 2000 three um they alleged that her uh parts of her body were taken by that very figure that notorious figure dr. yahooda hiss when she was her body was returned to her family so there's a... history of this is very unsettling.

your headlines on press tv iran's intelligence ministry says it has identified and arrested several people involved in wednesday's deadly terrorist attacks in the southern city of kerman. pastinian politician says violent attacks by israeli settlers against palestinian people have increased since the beginning of the onslaut on gaza. and lebanon's hezbol lah resistance movement says it has carried out hundreds of anti-israel operations in support of palestinian resistance in gaza.