in hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, thanks thanks so much for being with us. well, things are not looking bright for the zinanis. iran has announced that it will definitely attack the entity after israel's assassination of the hamas political bureau leader in tehran. iran has not even attacked yet, but the israeli stock market plemet it on monday from just the expectations of attack. besides the stock

market, the overall economic situation in aziness entity is not looking good, though the regime has devastated gaza with his inhumane attacks and killing anyone moving, even if it's a newborn, the regime itself is starting to fall apart. i'd like to welcome my guests to the spotlight. ken stone, executive committee member hamilton coalition to stop the war out of hamilton. jamal wakim, professor of international relations, the lebanese university, out of bayrut. well, thank you both for being with me, starting it off with ken in hamilton. i mean, can, what do you make of that major drop on the israeli stock exchange on sunday and monday? i mean, what does it indicate to you? israel is under a growth. pressure, economic pressure,

political pressure, international pressure, social pressure, all kinds of pressure, but the the main fact is that the using witnessing the sterling example of the economic blockade of the red sea and now of the eastern mediterranean, and the the... evacuation of settlements near gaza and in the north near lebanon, the israeli economy is in a nose dive and it is suffering greatly, and this is part of the the war picture, the the total war picture, of course we have to note that the international stock market also plunged yesterday and today, and to my mind this is part of not just the...

israeli society coming apart at the seams, but it appears to me that the us empire, this house of cards that they have built for 75 years on sand is about to fall apart as well, and you can see it in the stock markets most recently in the stock market declines in japan, in asia and now in north america, so we are dealing with a empire. in the decline in decline and its proxy uh state in the in israel, palestine also in decline. okay, well jam, your assessment, mean let's talk about the checkle which has reached this lowest level since last year, mean in your perspective, why is that the case when despite being in the middle of committing a genocide, mean the regime continues to get financial support from the us and and other countries, mean how do you see it, do you

agree with ken that this is related to this international what we're seeing appears this downfall are are your overall assessment of what's going on? of course what we're of witnessing in the zianist entity is not only caused by the genocidal war that it's waging against gaza and by the paralysis actually of... segment of its economy, but it's also related to the downturn in the western economies, especially that there are reports that the united states is facing major setbacks in its economy, its real estate is witnessing huge crisis as a result of this, and at the same time we're witnessing high rates of inflation that the biden administration is trying to... to contain by

high rates on the us dollars, which is sky rocketing, actually it's total that. that are estimated now at around 35 trillion us dollars, which is almost 10 trillion dollars more than the us gdp, so and we know that the united states economy is the engine of the global economy and the mainly of the western economies, if we talk about for example russia, china and iran, due to the us sanctions, these countries were forced to let's say create a certain protective economy that would certain extent save it from the

international economic fluctuations as for israel which is very much attached and integrated into western economy then this downturn in western economy and especially of the united states is adding to the pressures on the zinest economy which is suffering from 10 months of war and by the way for example intel company has decided to close more than 15000 jobs only in designist entity uh not to forget. about thousands of jobs all over the world, so this is affecting the zinest economy. okay, stay with me, stay with me, jam, let me get ken back in on this uh conversation, and can the society seems to be, as you said, coming apart by the seams, i

mean, there are range of perspectives that which are clashing inside of the regime itself, i mean we saw an example of it last week with the of course soldiers and others protecting the soldiers who had gang rape palestinians and and there was actually a conversation uh about if it's okay to rape palestinian prisoners and there was a clash in perspectives, mean the level of deprivaty inside of the regime um and just overall i mean it just seems just beyond imagination, it is as if the whole regime is just rotten to the core. i mean, how do you see these clashing perspectives actually um taking effect inside of the entity? i see number of

clashing uh uh perspectives as you put it inside the zionist entity, including the one you mentioned where there's a a collapse of the social order in which um in which horrible criminals who were torturing prisoners at uh the detention facility in israel were allowed to go free because a bunch of settlers invaded the the invaded the the prison grounds and rescued them essentially and they walked free which was disgusting. um, i see the clash between the uh religious uh zionist jews and the the government. after the government ordered after the supreme court decided that they would no longer give military exemptions to religious jews. i see the fighting, the the disagreements between those who want to maintain a western style secular state and

those who wish to have a jewish only um settler centered um racist. state, so the country is being riven by number of factors, and for the first time in my life, i actually see the possibility of the end of the zionist regime in the state of israel, and the removal of the apartide government and the establishment of a palestinian state as a possibility, and i wish to thank and commend the chinese government. which uh recently organized a meeting in beijing a brilliant stroke of diplomacy that brought together 14 palestinian factions to represent all of the palestinians in national unity government and this is very important because uh the us has

been allowed by the arab uh rulers with the notable exception of the assad government in syria to make to have the... sol franchise over the peace process for a post war settlement in gaza, and while the united states is a party to the war, to the genocide in gaza. it's... completely unbelievable and what we want to see is the end of the shuttle diplomacy uh of blincon from arab capital to arab capital we would like to see the post-war settlement in the hands of the united nations or the great powers of the world such as russia, china, iran etc. so that the the post war settlement has the palestinians its center and it's a just settlement for the palestinian people uh in the future. well, jaman. um, i mean, designist colonialist settlers of course, are anything but settled these days, as their

nerves are on edge in the northern occupied territories due to hezbollah's continued retaliatory attacks and fears that have peaked out all of the occupied territory because of iran's promise coordinated attack on the area. well, why have the regime's rulers then put their people in such a predicament where there is such fear and anxiety and such worry about? their safety? well, this is due to many reasons, the the existential crisis and the structural crisis that designist entity have been suffering from days back to the date of its establishment almost eight decades ago, because it was established on stolen land from the palestinian people, it was stolen on, it was established on false claims,

historical claims and at the same time it was established based on objectives that it would never be able to achieve, not only to establish national homeland for the jews, safe haven for the jews, as it claims, but also it considers itself as the forefront of a western civilization, that is trying to triumph against all non-western civilizations, this is what the zinist project have been made of, and it it tries to, it's it's an extension of the colonialist era in europe, and it's mainly the last colonialist project that is trying to reshape the whole arab east, not only palestine, but the whole arab east, including egypt, syria, lebanon, palestine, jordan, iraq and even kuwait in order to let's say live in harmony,

let's say, in a region that is trying to fit to its own image, and this could never happen, because we in this region have a longstanding history, despite our dire situation in the past century, we have a longstanding history that dates back to pre islam, not only. to the rise of islam in the seventh century, we when we talk about iraq, for example, we're talking about thousands of years of civilization, same, same applies to syria, egypt, lebanon, jordan, palestine, iran, turkey with its pre turkish ottoman history, greek, hellanic etc. so all this is trying. the designs are trying to reshape an imagined false identity which is which makes

them live in a continuous deep crisis and lately with their genocidal war on the palestinians they are aiming to achieve the impossible which is to approve the palestinians from their land not only in gaza but also in the west bank even in the land that was occupied back in 1948 and also to reshape the identity of the neighboring countries, so how would the such an entity be able to achieve peace to its own people and to the rest of the people of the region? okay, so that's why israel is living in a state of continuous war, and this is something that wouldn't give security to the zionists who would aim for. stay with me, jama, so sorry to interrupt you uh, but we don't have that much time. uh, going back to

ken, amajor bunker for the leadership of the regime was created in 2007 after the regime lost its 2006 war against hezbollah. now, the bunker, which is said to be able to hold hundreds of high-ranking leaders of the regime for months have been reactivated upon iran's threat to attack. um, one, uh, basically, uh, referring even what jamal just said, why would the regime put itself in such a position that even its leaders are running scared, and did his leaders not think that the resistance front would... respond to such heinous crime which took place in tehran? i'm afraid that the uh leaders of the zionist entity today are um, they have taken uh some steps that are absolutely not only rehensible reprehensible toward the palestinians, namely

the genocide that's taking place in gaza, which has been recognized by the... international court of justice and most countries of the world, but they have taken uh steps that are absolutely uh desperate, they and a reckless, and these steps include the assassinations of the hamas leader in recently in beirot, and of course mr. hania himself in tehran. i would like to say that, i do not believe that these leaders took these... steps on their own, they such such gross and reckless steps, such desperate moves must have been sanctioned by the usa before or during netanyahu's most recent visit to the united states where he received 58 standing ovations in a 55 minute speech. the united states is a part and parcel of

this of this atmosphere, the spiral. of violence that is leading probably to a confrontation uh which might uh engulf the whole of west asia and what the united what why the united states would do this is because in their imperial arrogance, their declining of their declining empire, they have thrown caution to the winds and the united states wants desperately for their not to be a peace agreement in gaza, and so they had their israeli henchman. or another or other proxies assassinate the lead palestinian negotiator, well let me just jump in here, ken, i mean, again, then, did they not expect that they would get a reply that the resistance front or iran would not react to such a crime taking place inside of its sovereign territory? uh, they did, uh, they

did calculate that there would be a retaliation, but uh, the there's two ways to look for them to look at it, is that the retaliation might not be severe enough to cause uh cause them to change course, or that the retaliation might provide a pretext for a further retaliation, a counter retaliation by the state of israel uh with the help of the us and order to launch an all-out war on the resistance front, so the the us, it's a gamble, it's a desperate damble by the us to rescue themselves and their proxy. from a situation where they are losing in gaza, where they are being attacked successfully by ansara from yemen and hezballah from lebanon, the iraqi islamic resistance and sof and from the uh from iran of course and my feeling is, my my sentiment today is having looked at the

statement of our foreign minister here in canada, melanie xali in concert with the other. members of the g7, i am personally, once again, embarrassed to be a canadian, because what they said was that, what they said was that they expressed deep concern at the heightened level of tension in the middle east, which threatens to ignite a broader conflict in the region, but then in a typical double standard, they go to say they urge all parties to refrain from retaliatory violence, saying no country stands to gain from further escalate. in the middle east, but this is hypocrisy, because the canadian government has had 75 years along with the other members the g7, not to call on the the victims of the oppression by the us empire and a zionist proxy, but to put pressure on the us government and a zionist proxy over the last

75 years and especially in the last 30 years since the oslow accords to come to the table and uh establishh a justing, lasting and permanent ceasefire in israel palestine with a establishment of a palestinian state in jerusalem, ending the occupation, assuring the safety of the alaxsa mosk and so on, and they have consistently failed to do that, so i call this hypocrisy. all right, yeah, well, jamal, the number of israelis who had left the entity permanently. has increased 285% since october, now people are unsatisfied with the regime uh as prices are rising, jobs are loss, money is losing value and... along with lack of security, but at the same time of being on the edge of imploding, the regime doesn't want an end to his genocide, and it has even killed the main palestine negotiator

to try to bring about sease fire, but an extension of this genocide seems to mean an expedited into the regime itself. i mean, your thoughts about this, of course there are too many reasons for the immigration of the zits back. countries they came from in europe, north america, australia and elsewhere. actually, there are too many reasons for this: first, prior to the genocidal war waged on gaza, there was this process and the the designist entity was worried about that, because in light of this immigration which was bypassing the immigration to. to occupied palestine, and in light of the increase in the palestinian population whether in the territories that were occupied in 1948 or in the west bank and

gaza, the the zints became concerned about the possibility of them losing the battle to occupy palestine to the palestinians even without a war, because with the natural let's say process things were going to the favor of the palestinians added to this with this genocidal war that seem to reaching a deadlock with no hope for designs to reach seas fire than many of them are opting for going to europe, north america, australia, which are already open for them and where... they they have better economic and social and even cultural opportunities for them to get

integrated, so why would they remain in such a parelous region? so all these factors are pushing them to leave, and of course the targeting of the zinc settlements, the instability in the situation and all these factors, the killing... of zinist soldiers at the hands of the palestinian resistance, all these are factors that are making and even the political crisis inside the zianist entity, all these are factors that are making the many zianists leave palestine uh back to europe, north america and elsewhere. all right, and on that note, i think both of you for being with me on this spotlight, kenstone, executive committee member of hamilton coalition to stop the war out of hamilton. jamal wakim, professor of international relations, lebanese university, out of beirot, and thank you viewers for staying with us uh for another spotlight. i'm

marza hashimy, signing out for myself and all the recruit right here in tehran, hope to see you right here, next time, goodbye.

if i stop. you must live to tell my story, to sell my face, to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, make it white with a long tale so... let a chine somewhere in gaza, looking heaven in the eye, awaiting his dad. to left

a blaze and bit no one faill well, not even to his flesh, not even to himself, sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for moment, an angel is there bringing back. like love, if must let it bring hole, let it be a tale.

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tops here on press tv, the israeli war machine in gaza claims the lives of 40 more palestinian civilians. a single day with overall death hole now exceeding 39,600. european union slams destruction of civilianan infrastructure in gaza as a war crime, calling for an independent probe into international law violations in the territory. and several american troops are reportedly injured after us occupied anel assad base in western iraq is hit by rocket attack.