welcome to spotlight. the genocide of palestinians in the gaza strip and the occupied west bank and the frequent deadly of strikes on syria don't seem to be enough for the israeli regime. now the regime who has failed miserably in gaza seeks to create more havoc by assassinating resistance figures in of of the region. heswella says that it will avenge the death of a... recent fallen commander and

iran has pledged to punish uh the zionist criminal ring for assassinating hamas leader ismail hania while he was guest in tehran. western countries, however, only call for restraint from the side that's affected by the israeli crimes and refused to take action to reign in the aggressive regime. now the question is, will these latest events become a turning point in the history of the region and un? fight west asian nations in giving a collective and decisive response to the israeli regime. we'll try to figure that out in tonight spotlight. daniel yegic, author and researcher is joining us from the lebanese capital beirot. and also we have spokesperson of the masar badle movement, mr. khalid baricot joining us from vancouver.

well gentlemen, welcome to the program to the both of you. let's start off with mr. yegic a and beirot, tell us about the repercussions of this terrorist act and uh the assassination as iran has vowed a crushing response. yeah, so the israeli actions in the last days have once again shown that there is of no logic in israeli behavior uh beyond the log colonial logic of elimination trying to set on fire. the entire region and kill, assassinate everything that stands uh in its way, um, and it is one more of many escalations that the israeli regime has incited in the region by um killing um high ranking leaders of the resistance throughout the region in addition to of course its brother aggressions beyond palestine against lebanon, iran, syria, uh, yemen, and the

entire region and uh it really just shows that there is no red line for the israeli regime and that it is itself taking risks and always going a step further uh but eventually there is no strategy in uh israel's approach other than destruction and the latest uh events of course have sparked another uh will lead to another response from the uh axis of resistance of several responses in retaliation uh in order to of course show the israeli regime that it cannot... continue this aggressive violence across the region. the israelis have revealed their true nature. that nature is destabilize, destabilize, destabilize. the assassinations back to back of in tehran further show that. share your views on the implications of the israeli actions which threaten engulf the region in further conflict and by many accounts is also endangering international. security and

global order? yes, i think that the zionist regime is in chaos and divided and they're not thinking straight. this is strategic and fatal mistakes that they have been doing, and this fascist government of netanyahu will not be able to win this war through. assassination, if we learn anything in the history of the conflict with designist regime is that assassination was always a constant pillar and policy in their behavior and their you know relationship with the palestinian people, hundreds of leaders were assassinated of at the hands of the mosad and the israel

agencies, the same in lebanon, the israelis have killed the founder of hizballah, said abbas musawi, they have assassinated the founder of hamas. sheikh ahmed yasin and this did not weaken the resistance, in fact these kinds of operations only makes the resistance stronger and the popular support of the resistance uh goes higher and higher. now of course you know israel was successful in assassinating said shukr and brother ismail hania but on the calculation of the on the ground, what did they really achieve? did they defeated anyone? did they you know weaken the resistance in lebanon? is the region more more stable or less stable now?

is israel more secure or less secure now? all these questions, they don't think about it, but now they are, they are thinking about... the that not only israel is going to face a retaliation, but israel is pulling all of its western camp into a strategic defeat, we know that these kinds of assassinations does not happen without us and israel allies approval, and some of them, if they don't know, they didn't, they didn't know in advance, but they... didn't condemn the crime, i did not see any condemnation from you know britain, from canada, from the us, from any other western allies of israel, which means that they are complicit in the crime, also israel,

we know that it depends its aggressions on intelligence and information provided to them by their backers and by their... uh allies, especially western agencies. mr. yegit, about response, at the un iran said it reserves the right to give decisive response to the regime and to this aggressive act against its sovereignty and territorial integrity. the white house national security advisor john kirby uh, he said that the recent warning by iran's leader khameneie regarding the revenge for the assassination, it must be taken seriously. what kind of a response? you envisage will come from iran, from hamas and from the resistance front in the region? what is difficult to speculate and predict, but i think there has been a very clear communication from iran that there will be a response, and i think the also reactions to

that in the west show once again how nervous israel's western backers are about this expected response, someone also has to say here that as we mentioned there is... ever any condemnation against these israeli acts of terrorism and the violation of the sovereignty of iran and other countries in the region, but whenever any movement or people or government, in this case iran um identifies that it has the right to defend itself against israeli violence, then we hear reactions of concerns and warnings from the west, so that very much fits very clear pattern of western support and... city uh in this genocide and all of this again is to say that uh if there were no genocide at this point, if the israeli regime would not uh continue its uh aggressions, we wouldn't be in this current situation, and if we look at iran's communication in the past months, it

has shown lot of restraint and patience, and we we can say throughout the decades actually lot of patience and restrained when it comes to uh reacting to this, because at the... same time iran has been a factor of stability uh in the region, so um we can of course it's difficult to speculate what kind of a reaction uh there will be, but there will of course be a clear uh response because i think the entire axis of of resistance is also uh interested in uh of course showing the israel regime that there are red lines, because again we are in this situation because the so-called international community continues to watch this genocide unfold. uh and live streamed without any uh intervention of major powers outside of this region. mr. baraka, former lebanese lawers said israely prime minister benyamin netanyahu's recent visit to the us featured coordination between televiven washington concerning assassination

operations against senior resistance figures and illegal assassination of this magnitude could not have happened without a nod from the us, could it? no, i think yes, i think the united states is definitely complicit in this, i think the united states have carried itself a criminal act. similar to the killing of ismail hania, we know that they have been complicit in assassinating iranian scientist, iraqi scientists, we know that they are the one who stood behind publicly the assassination of qasim sulaymani and abu mahdi muhandis, we know that the united states declared publicly their involvement in the assassination of imad mughnia. and many, many others, the united states is the head of

the snake in the region and in the world, it is the head of imperialism and western colonization, and they are feeling that iran power in the region is on the rise, they keep trying to present the relationship between palestinian resistance and iran or leban. resistance and iran as if they are proxy to iran, because they don't understand the meaning of allies. also, we see that the west is so ignorant about even understanding the history of and the relationship between iran and the resistance front in the region, they also westerns are ignorant about killing hania in tahran and... the implications of this on popular level, on historical level,

on what it means for muslims to have their guest killed in their homes, they don't understand any of these things, they think that by just killing a leader in the resistance that they can uh, you know show some kind of a photo of victory or or a... you know victorious act that netanyahu could sell to his fascist society and his fascist government and that is not going to happen because as said hasan nasaralah the general secretary of hizballah said yesterday that you can laugh a little because you will cry uh you know lot and that everyone knows that the response is coming and it's going to be a unit. response from lebanon, yemen, from iran, from everyone. mr. gegic, the us had

constantly claims it doesn't want a broader war or any dangerous escalations, but its words and its actions surely are in contradiction, describe for us the us as constant inconsistencies regarding the gaza genocide and now israel's most recent regional crimes. well, one could actually argue that the united states has been quite consistent by allowing. israel to do whatever it wants um, but as you say, yes, there is a discrepancy between the official political communication from the biden regime and effects uh on the ground, we've heard quite often from the white house, they are not interested in a broader escalation or a broader expansion geographically of this ongoing war, at the same time they were doing everything in their power um to uh allow the israeli regime to continue this genocide uh while continuing to shield. the israeli regime from any criticism or potential accountability um on in this world, so israel

very much continues to be able to do uh whatever it wants and the united states uh will continue to protect uh israel, while it commits uh this genocide. um, we you can look at the ongoing conversations about the cease fire talks and there has been of course lot of um distraction while the situation, the genocide in gaza continues, people are now starving, diseases are spreading. this is an unprecedented situation in a human history, and yet there has been not even attempt even restrained the israeli regime from its ongoing aggression even after 10 months and at the same time of course the united states benefits from this network that it has constructed diplomatically and militarily across the world, because it als so um obviously has seat in a un security council, it has organizations like the european union

and nato as its proxies and instruments of foreign policy, so has very much constructed all of these barriers and limitations in within the the the un and the framework of the so-called international community that would allow the israel ali regime to continue this genocide and the slaughter of however to this illegal act, russia described it as an unacceptable political crime, and by many accounts this is a war crime under the geneva conventions. the western powers are very much complicit in all of israeli crimes, we know that they are the powers that establish the zionist regime in palestine,

and they are the one who build its nuclear. weapons like in the case of france, we know that germany constantly justify every crime that israel commits and protects israel and fund israeli crimes and military and even nuclear submarines, we know that the uk is, i mean the list goes on and on of how much these western uh powers are complicit and even when they sometime condemn an israeli massacre, they do it, and at the same time they make sure that israel gets away with it, so yes, israel have committed hundreds of massacers in the last 10 months and sometime when the massacre is very hard to you, cover, they'll some of these countries might say

that we're concerned about the developments in gazza, but if one israeli soldier is killed, we don't hear the end of it, and that's because israel and the west are actually one front, and that's why netanyahu keeps talking about how he is defending the western uh interest and that how israel is part of the west, and if israel is part of the west then what are you doing in the east? this zionist regime has to be dismantle and the western colonization of... the region and the hegemony of the united states has to be stopped and the only power today in our region who can defend the people wealth and resources and the people's right to self-determination is iran and the uh unity the uh resistance front and they understand

this and that's why they are targeting iran not just by killing brother ismail hania not just by you know these smir campaigns, these fabrication of lies against iran, but also real war against iran that has been happening through the decades with economic sanctions, with trying to isolate iran in the region and worldwide, and they have been failing in doing this, in fact iran power is by the day it's becoming more and more... the region and in the world and iran have case when these assassinations happened in the in in iran, it means a violation of every international law in the book, and we did not hear any condemnation from the western powers. iran took its case to the international community

immediately this time and the time that the the iranian embassy was attacked. in damascus and we the vast majority of the people and the states in the united nation condemn israeli aggression against iran and iran have the right to defend itself, it's very important that we always see this relationship between the west and israel as one united front, that's why we need also a united front led by iran. mr. yagic, about the double. standard in hypocrisy, i saw you notding there, if an arab or muslim majority country did what israel has done over the past 72 hours, how would have uh would have the west responded to it? depends whether this country uh is a client state of the west or not, but if it weren't of course the west would have responded uh very aggressively and

i think um this uh again shows very clearly that as was mentioned these israeli regime is part of the west um and the west has enforced diplomatically at least a global apartite in which and we need to keep in mind that the west when we talk about the west europe or mostly western europe, the united states, north america and israel regime and other settle colonies are a minority in this world that have a overproportional political power that they use to police and sanction the rest the world and i think the uh example of uh there was also mentioned when the iranian diplomatic representation in damascus was attacked by the israeli regime and when iran responded, the west condemned iran for responding and defending itself and... additional uh sanctions, so what we can see very much here is that any opposition to this genocide or any attempt to intervene in the ongoing western back genocide in gaza results

in more aggression uh from from the west, so it is of course double standard, but it's the only way for the west to keep its um to keep its minority powerful status alive, because even here if we go back you know into history, there are so many examples we can mention, but of course what we see today um is a continuity of colonialism and imperialism and we need to remember that the wealth of the western world is based on the back and the bloods of the rest uh the rest the world and palestine because of that of course uh is also represents all of these um all of these circumstances and anxieties uh the west that we see on fold today lot of criticism has has been directed at arab governments for their inaction and passivity in the face of israel's crimes, most notably the ongoing massacre in gaza. many believe that a joint effort by some arab governments

in the form of sanctions and cancelling normalization agreements would have gone a long way and pressuring the israelis. why has that not happened? because most arab governments are complicit with israeli crimes, especially those who have signed uh... treaties with designist regime like egypt, jordan, bahrain, united arab emirates and others, they also have, that's why we always say that signing these agreements and normalization is not just about having an embassy or a mutual recognition, it means in the case of the zinest regime that those who have signed these treaties are now in the camp of israel and the united states. they are in daily coordination with the zionist regime on the security matters, financial, military, so on and so forth, and so for

palestinians, these regimes are part of the enemy camp, palestinians understand that their enemy is the united states, israel and these arab reactionary regimes who wouldn't even blink to commit massacers against the... people of yemen as we saw in 2015 until today with the siege imposed on yemen, saudis and emaratis regimes were you know massacring the people of of yemen, they are destabilizing sudan, they are trying to divide the muslim nation and the arab nations to be you know complicit and silent, just imagine that arab league until now after 10 months of genocide and you know these war crimes that israel is committing in gazza and we did not hear anything from this arab so callalled arab

league or from the you know state of organizations on muslim organizations that that saudi arabia is is is is blocking any real efforts to actually assess the palestinian people. well, these regimes are poppets to the united states. right, that's all the time we have for tonight's show. thanks to author and researcher daniel yegic, joining us from the lebanese capital bayrut. thank you, mr. khalid barakot, spokesperson the massar battle movement, joining us from vancouver, and also special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time.

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your headlines on press tv: iran once again condemns the assassination of the hamas leader in tehran warning it dangers, regional and international peace and stability. yemanies hold another friday of mass rallies to hold to honor the late hamas. as many and reiterate their support for the palestinian people, and more civilians are killed in israel's attacks on gaza, where the total death toll from the regime's onsload nears 39,500.