now is already prime minister netan yahu said yesterday. that he experienced one of the most difficult days since the invasion of gaza. two dozen iof soldiers were killed on monday. israel media also reported at least 4,000 troops have become disabled. now palestinian sources of course saying that a regime underects his losses, fearing rising public anger. now 109 days past since the us israelity genocidal war on gaza and tel aviv has not been able to achieve any of its estated goals and netanyahu has been under intense pressure from both his. really public

and officials over his handling of the war on gaza. welcome to the spotlight. i'm snafi and these are our guests in today's edition of this spotlight. political analysts is joining of me from lebanese capital. charlot cates of international coordinator with osamidun palestinian prisoner solidary network is also joining us from vancouver, canada. good to see you both. now beginning with ali, many of these uh iof soldiers are getting killed or wounded, as you just hear in reports, especially yesterday, and at the hands of palestinian fighters in gaza, the number is rising more and more, what does this say about the so-called invincibility of the israeli military? ali, well, i think one of the things that... just um crowning if you

would like or the culmination of what happened previously on october 7, the all oxustorm operation. i think that since then since before then, actually, since the july 2006 war with hazballah, this invincible invincible reputation of the israeli army uh greatly diminished, but i think it was dealt on knockout blow on october the 7 uh these latest losses which we're talking about right now as as i said, i think they're a culmination of that, and it just goes to show, i think that the israeli military without american support uh, would be easy prey uh for the opposing forces, you know, for whether it be hamas, hazballah, other allied countries and forces in the region, and it just goes to show that um, america is all the more israel's lifeline, israel used to be perceived as... a country or an entity

which could defend itself, and i think that has now that equation has come to an end, and that makes israel more of a strategic burden, because i think that the american mindset, burden for america, i'm saying, because the american mindset was that if we could withdraw from the region, focus on russia and china, and israel maybe can take care of itself along with some other, along with taking care of other arab countries like... saudi arabia etc. this is one idea behind the normalization of ties, so all this, i think has been dashed away as a result of the fact that the israeli army turned out not to be invincible and turned out to suffer from very severe weaknesses, and this has, i think a lot of strategic repercussions even a worldwide stage. okay, charlotte, your stands on the same question. yes, well, it's very obvious that the mythology. that the zionist

regime has sought to promote about the invincibility of its army has fallen down in the face of very strong, organized and powerful resistance that's deeply rooted in the palestinian people, and the same is true of the the defeats that the same so-called invincible army has taken from the resistance in lebanon and is currently facing you know in terms of the ongoing resistance in yemen and iraq is... as well, wherever there is resistance that is deeply rooted in the people, um, the fact is that the occupation army relies solely its ability to bomb people and kill civilians from the sky, wherever they're forced into actual ground combat with resistance forces, they take loss after loss and they show extreme cowardice in battle, especially in comparison to the bravery and heroism of the resistance forces, and ali, there are reports that the a large number of israels... are not willing in the present

circumstances to join the military, and those to avoid joining the israel military may end of up serving repeated prison services or be forced to return to recruitment centers. so what's netanyahu trying to do, getting all iuf soldiers killed, so he could have stay in power, i think that netanyahu is very much focusing on his own uh political future, that's what we're seeing with the current israeli approach, i did see those reports regarding um some of the israeli youth refusing to join the... and i think that this indeed is a big dilemma uh for the israeli side, the israeli defence minister, you of gallant actually, i i believe i'm not mistaken, made some reference references to this, you have to remember, i recall a statement here from leader say when he said

that the israeli citizens don't lack that attachment or connection to the territory, because there aren't the original inhabitants. of that territory or the rightful owners, let's say of that territory. i think the same can be said about the israeli military, i think that there are some youth who no longer feel this connection to the israeli military, and that uh is a big strategic, i think, danger for the israeli side given how much israel used to rely on military power. uh, you recall how israel appears to be addicted indeed to... military action, how it waged wars of aggression on new numerous neighboring countries, so when this military power diminishes, israel has lost a lot of that strength with strength which it used to possess, but i think netanyahu is behaving in a quite an unrealistic way, and at the same time, you're

right, he is focusing on his own political future, but the problem is that um, the americans who remain, the you know, they are... the ones who keep israel alive if you would like, they are persevering or continuing with this support, that's what's keeping israel going, and i think that um, in that particular issue, netanyahu, we have to confess, has succeeded in preserving that american support and therefore preserving the continuation of the war and keeping himself out of prison, right, and charlotte, the is really goal, one of the goals they stated was eliminating. hamas, it's proved to be pipedream, hasn't it? palestinian fighters are resilient, they are taking out more invading troops, resistance fighters in lebanon, iraq and yemen also uh, conducting the retaliatory uh operations, inflicting more damage and fatalities on the occupation

regime, your take, the zionist regime has always declared that it is going to eliminate the leadership of the palestinian resistance um. "you know, when it was the plo organizations leading the resistance, they vowed to eliminate and never deal with, and never recognize the plo, the and that of that failed, their attempts to destroy hamas are failing, their attempts to destroy the resistance are failing, because it's a targeting of palestinian resistance, and that's of course part and parcel of the attempt to force the palestinian people from their land and and confiscate their land and resources in future, and obviously..." this is a failed project, no settler colonial project is going to be able to erase the palestinian people and their resistance forces whatsoever, and we have seen that, not only have they failed to eliminate the loyalty to the resistance, and the active

military operations of the resistance, which are you know striking significant blows against the occupation forces a daily basis, but the fact is is that the adherence to... to and support for armed struggle as the mechanism for the liberation of palestine, probably has greater support than it has had, you know, in a long time, because it's be, it's very clear that the palestinian people are facing an absolutely genocidal enemy force that is not willing to accept the existence of the palestinian people, because the any people that are determined to exist on their land are going to... against their own genocide, and this is the case for all of the forces in the region that are standing together and resisting zionism and imperialism, and they have not been able to destroy any of them. now back to bayrut, ali, you live in lebanon, so let's talk a little bit about how hisballah has been acting and

it's kind of managed to uh get engaged maybe a third or a quarter of the iua forces and of course they are losing more on the ground special. since they started this ground invasion in gaza, hezballah in here, along with yemenes and iraqis, they have been playing their own role, haven't they? uh, yes, they have. i think um, one of the most important aspects to take in mind in hazballah's approach right now, is the it's a firm but calculated strategy whichball is pursuing. it initiated the cross-border operations against israel as part of solidarity with the palestinian hamas movement or with the other palestinian factions as well, but it also. aimed partially to protect lebanon itself, because according to how sees things and not just but

others in lebanon, if hamas was to be defeated and if other palestinian factions were to be to be defeated, will be the next target of the next in line, so there's an ideological solidarity, support for hamas and also we have that strategic angle of taking the fight to the enemy before the enemy. comes and attacks you and i think that is quite a sane approach given the ideological mindset of this current israeli government, people like bengavir and sm rich, i think that they could be compared to the neocons if you recall in the bush administration and the aftermath of september 11 whereby they not only targeted al-qaida in afghanistan but also went to target you know iraq and elsewhere and i think that um "if this israeli government were to it succeed against hamas, i think it will take a similar

strategy, so that is an important aspect to bear in mind in hazballah's approach, and i think also another important aspect is the fact that hazballah is not allowing israel to drag it into an all-out war which would suit israel's timing, that's one of the main reasons why we have hazbullah being very calculated in its approach and being proportionate to the israel." responses, it has to be also admitted that right, if you were talking about this situation 20 years ago, any small cross border operation from hazbullah would invited would have invited huge retaliation, that isn't taking place now and that ows very much to the deterrance which hazbullah has succeeded in, right, exactly. now charlotte, the longer the aggression drags on, the more pressure is being heaped on prime minister netanyahu, his early families are angry, has not been able to bring their loved ones back home, some israeli captives have even been killed in iof

attacks, and uh, the question is if netan yahu cares at all about the release of these captives? well, i think it's very clear that netan yahoo doesn't care about the release of the captives, netan yahoo only cares about extending his political career and keeping himself out of jail, um, and so he's determined to continue, the genocide and he's willing to kill tens of thousands of people in order to maintain his political career and in order to maintain himself as prime minister. i think it's um very clear that the um, it's very clear that netanyahu doesn't care and is more than willing to kill the captives of the resistance in order to prevent himself from losing office and also stop the release. of palestinian prisoners, which is of course the reason why there are zionist captives in the first place, because

there are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of palestinians locked up in israeli occupation jails and it's been proven time and time again that the only insured way of assuring their release from occupation jails is by conducting a prisoner exchange, and netan yahoo is trying to prevent that from taking place, and the occupation forces have been arresting. thousands upon thousands of additional palestinians in the west bank in the past weeks in addition to all of the civilian captives that they've taken from gaza and have held and have held in the most torturous and horrific conditions possible uh because of the fact that they're trying to delute the potential of a prisoner exchange, which fundamentally is nearly inevitable and it's time for the occupation regime to face reality and release and empty designist jails if there is an actual... demand to receive their uh the the captives that are being held by the resistance, and of course the whole

reason why there are captives being held in the first place is because once again the occupation has shown throughout the decades and decades that the only way that the palestinian people can reliably secure the release of the thousands of political prisoners held in zionist jails is to conduct an exchange. now ali opposition officials and other opponents uh of... they demand the war stop and the deal be clinch with hamas, some them and of course a large number of people, they want an election to be held as soon as possible to get rid of netanyahu once and for all. so of course there was this uh no confidence motion and it was rejected by the kineset, they cited the reason that the election is not possible in war time. so i want to see how you anticipate this process heading for, where is it directed at? well, netanyahu wasn't very popular to begin with, even before operational storm and that was

due to the proposed judicial reforms, which by the way were recently rejected. um so i think that will be interesting. i think by the way that the biden administration might pursue an approach to undermine netanyahu with the goal of replacing him with someone who would be more attentive to the american advice or to what the americans want, someone for example like benny gunts. the reason being that if you notice over the past few days, the the big disagreement between. and netanyahu has emerged about the so-called two-state solution, uh, biden has been focusing on the two-state solution, speaking about the necessity of that, netanyahu has refused and he has bluntly rebuffed biden, and i think that even before that things appeared to be a little bit tense, so i think that in addition to that domestic opposition

you're referring to, i think you also have some opposition which is beginning to take shape on the part of the... american administration, now the question is, will it push forward more pressures to work for example on a replacement for netanyahu, or will it continue to toe netanyahu's line or to try to provide him with incentives, like for example, proposing normalization with saudi arabia, in exchange for a cease fire, we have to see, but i myself, i don't think that things appear too promising regarding how far the americans would go, in pressuring or pushing netanyahu now charlotte, how do you look at things, so what do you predict for a future israel cabinet, given you now all the divisions that we see among these really officials themselves, the economy being entatters and it's receiving more blows out of this ruinous and bloody war they have launched, and also we have this great public

discontent, so i think one of the things that's very clear is... that the zionist project, you know, it has no legitimate project, it's a settler colonial, it's a settler colonial project that works as an agent of imperialism in the region and aims uh to divide the people from each other and from their landed resources, and this kind of ongoing uh political rivalry that we see in the middle of what is ostensibly and what they will label in existential. war, you know, if you compare that to on the other hand, the extremely high level of national unity by the palestinian people confronting genocide, it's it's very obvious where people are unifying around cause and around a program of liberation, um, the one of the things that all of these quibbling zionist forces agree upon is the uh impulse to

slaughter more palestinians, try to steal palestinian land, and uh confiscate palestinian resources and defang and defuse all of the resistance forces in the region and i mean they just want to take different ways of doing it. so people like smotrech and ben gavier are unhelpful in many ways for this project uh particularly in their dealings with the united states, the europeans etc. in their kind of global marketing campaign and propaganda campaign, these kinds of people are not necessarily helpful to that project. um, but the interests that they're serving are the same, it's a it's a dispute over how best to serve those interests, and so we can't expect anything good from any of this, but all of it is a clear sign of the decay of the zionist project, um, and it's you know, long-term inability to hold together in the region.

now, ali, any prospect of a cease fire, you know, palestinians have announced it clearly that they want... all other the detainees, all those palestinians held in israely jails to be freed in return for israelt in gaza, they want an end to the war once and for all, but this is not what qatar and egypt actually conveying the message and proposal from the israeli regime is saying they just want to give them two months time, and they said that in different phases we would have an exchange of prisoners and capters, whatever you call them, nothing yet. so what's the plan that is trying to follow? ali, are you there? so we have lost connection with ellie charlotte, go ahead with the question, well i think that you know it's the this push for the zionist

occupation to stop the bombing is a popular call, like being echoed everywhere around the world, every day, literally every day, there are dozens of demonstrations and vigils and rallies where you know people, whether they're calling for a ceasefire and into the genocide, they want these you know zionist bombs to... stop dropping and the reason why netan yahoo is refusing to do so is both of course because the zyatus project is committed to carrying out the genocide of the palestinian people, but also because of the fact that it has not received any meaningful consequences. sure, we can see that european powers in the united states are a bit unhappy with the propaganda aspects of this genocidal campaign, but their response rather than to sanction the occupation, has been to attack yemen um and so you know so long as these forces are you know committed to this project

the destruction of the region and the confiscation of people's wealth and resources. it's really critical for people in those countries to continue to get organized to continue to build upon the tens and indeed hundreds of thousands taking to the streets and the capitals and the major cities i mean. new york, london, paris, uh, berlin, these are the capitals of the countries that are supporting the zionist genocidal project, and this kind of pressure can help to uh, meaningfully support the palestinian people's struggle in bringing this ongoing genocide to an end. hopefully. all right, thank you so much, appreciating my guest contribution. ali resk, political analyst jo me from beirut, charlotte cats, international coordinator with the samidon palestinian prisoner solidaire network from vancouver. and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i've been your host najafi. i'll see you next time.

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لا لا يا عم شهيد شهيدكيد spite the catastrophic toll it has inflicted israel is losing on the ground and in the court of public opinion there's no way that this ends that doesn't leave israel paria state with occupation and apartite on borrowed time and they know it, so they're

doing everything they can, desperate acts of aggression to provoke a wider conflict with lebanon, with iran, with anybody to draw in the us, to save them from the consequences of their own actions, and as yemen shows butcher biden is reporting for duty, with europe's proud genocide by his side, they are the ones who have enabled the continuation of israeli terror, without them, it would already be over, so take note, butcher biden, the ancestors of the ireland that you claim to be from, this own you, keep our country out of your mouth, and as for vanderlion and genocidal germany with your words and deed, supporting israel in the icj, not in our name, the people of europe stand with... palestine and with south africa, who does he think he is? kicks me out of my house, locks me in the shed without enough to survive and then bombards the shed. i know it's mental,

isn't it? hate him! solidarity, what we need right, is a united front to stand up to him, to fight for our rights and freedom. oh man, couldn't agree more, if i ever get my hands in him, i'd be like, yeah, well let's go and confront him, whoa, whoa, whoa, what the heck, man, i thought you hate him, i do, totally, um, it's just that he has got some good qualities, like what? good lads, good lad, solidarity.

in this week's show we'll be looking at south africa's momentous application to the international court of justice. in his comprehensive 84 page submission, south africa sets out the legal basis for its contention that israel is perpetrating genocide in gaza. you you have this pattern the the west uh uh, obviously not just germany, but you fully expect that the british government, the us government, of course, has been completely dismissive of what south africa has done. uh that continue this uh imperialist posture and of course it was south africa at first and it was only that for quite a while and then all of sudden a trickle other countries join bolivia amongst them and then of course laterally bangladesh joins and you've got a whole list of countries i think um around about 20 i possibly more.

press tv headlines: the hamas condemnes delivered targeting gaza hospitals by israel. as a war crime, urging the international community to take immediate action to put a stop to it. the chief science israel's collective punishment of palestinians in gaza, saying scale and speed of the territory's destruction has no parallel in recent history. the yemeny army says fresh us let air strikes on multiple targets in yemen will not go unanswered.