hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashemi, thanks so much for being with us. well, it has been almost 11 months of the ongoing israeli genocide against the palestinians in gaza. there has not been much action from the international community, nor international law, but the palestinian resistance has been non-stop in its witten.

fight against designs, not only the palestinian resistance, but we've seen the whole resistance front fighting against design genocide, and today it was the lebanese resistance front hezbollah, which sent shock waves through out designist entity as it launched operation arba ain on sensitive military targets. stay with us as we take a look at the significance of what took place today on the spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guests to... the program out of bethlehem, and palestinian scientists and author and out of johannesburg, author activist and political analyst zakir ahmed, oh thank you so much both of you for being with us said today, i'd like to start this off in bethlehem, i mean ha's operation just didn't target. yet the israeli regime, it

targeted very important military bases where musad and other intelligent units are headquarters. how significant is this attack on these types of target and what does it say about hezbollah's military and intelligence capabilities? well, it is an interesting phenomenon, what we observe basically after israel has been put on. for weeks now waiting for the strike and basically it's economy has suffered significantly waiting for us to see this this surprise attack of course um what we observed is significant capabilities of of planning and organization as it seems as an analyst observing this i can only wonder the level of deterrence that israel claimed to

have caused and that hizballah basically has decided that it will strike and it did strike when it chose to strike um and it was kind of with two stage process one is the 300 and some rockets that were shot catusia rockets on 11 military sites and while this was happening, some drones were launched and for the first time from al baqa valley, this is quite a distance inside lebanon, and they managed to cross the border according to hazballah, and israel has not denied that this these drones cross the borders, israel of course denies that there is any damage and that this was not a very productive operation which you would... expect them to do that,

and now you know that of course we cannot of have independent journalists or observers visit those sites to see what actually transpired, right? okay, well z, mean the secretary general of hezballahsanlah said in a speech on sunday that this operation was successful and it was executed while the israelis along with their american and european supporters were under the highest alert, as man just referred to, and they were anticipating retaliatory actions from the resistance front, and still couldn't prevent it. your thoughts, most definitely, i think this indicates very complex and sophisticated operation by the resistance movement as well, if we look at what said, it was very clear indication that israel was baited into a preemptive strike, depends on how you want to frame it. is it a preemptive strike if you

drawn into a trap? they were drawn to strike empty launch bases, launch pads and goes further even give valuation of. uh the israelies start this an hour before and basically empty the magazine in a figurative way and as the planes are going back uh you have this launch of multiple rockets 340 is the the value that i heard last and striking 11 bases opening the way for these drones uh to strike one of the most sensitive sites uh this particular base is the home the 8200 and the aman military intelligence unit, so this indicates that there is feedback loop in the intelligence system, that means that they were capable of putting false information out to feed into the israeli system, together with the americans and the europeans, they

were not able to sift out that this was false information, it forced them to strike and this was to their detriment, it's very clear, the issue is would this create equation now in the region that would prevent israel from taking the military adventurism steps that they have been taking both within beirot and tehran, that it becomes the question now, or is it just a attack that is answer for answer, because it's very clear what this was, this was attempt to assassinate the the senior leadership of aman and the 8200, that is why there were no ballistic. mas that were used, it was drones and these are for specific targets, ballistics are for for larger damage counts, this is not the the purpose of the attack, it was very specific and hence i believe said hasan nasaralah is saying that in the next few days we will see the results and if the results are not

satisfactory we will see second round of these attacks right right, and do you think that this attack was not only a show of force, but also a warning that hazbullah has lot more information. and capabilities than they have shown, and that it can up the anti any time. yes, i believe so. i think clearly these are secret facilities and facilities that israel don't want exact locations for or capabilities on, these are the most sensitive sites within the israeli regime, so for for even that... attempt even regardless of the percentage of success or whatever, the attempt at them alone is is really shocking to the israeli regime, and in anticipation of the exposure, israel already started to

declare certain things that turned out to be not true, for example that they have destroyed 800 rockets and things like that, which... turned out to be not true, so israel is trying to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat so to speak, in in trying to analyze this just as an observer, i think the fact that israel also said we are satisfied and we're okay meaning please don't hit us again, you know, this this is kind of interesting that they don't want escalation. nobody of course wants escalation in this in this war because wars are always devastating to all sides and certainly you know hasan nasaralah today explained that basically you know we're not we never said the the

hizballah never said that they have matched capabilities of israel or that they have the same tools and equipment that israel had. but they will resist and that they have that will and that they will do it, right? what about that will ask cared? because mason just mentioned that as sassan said today that yes of course we're not on par if you want to look at as far as the military um equipments and other uh things that of course the regime have been given, but what they have is that will, that dedication, that steadfastness. and the courage, i mean, your assessment of how the regime sees this, when they know that in so many ways they have superior force, but they have not been able to stop the lebanese resistance in the way that they wanted to. i think it's by design, the resistance has

studied very carefully different forms of attack against a larger power, they've looked at algeria, they've looked at the vietnames and the viet. how they fought, they've drawn numerous experiences from around the world in numerous parts of history to develop the plan that they currently have, we look as an example, we look a very small force in the larger scheme of things that is besieged and is delivering massive damage to the occupying force, they have leveraged trition and this is the failure of israel, israel is a is a armor heavy air superiority uh military based on a reservist force, it is built for kinetic short term operations and not built for these long-term wars. and this is what the resistance has leveraged, what this has shown, if we break this down into its basic

terms is that you have incredibly high tech latest developments, latest equipment in the military sphere enemy, and you have a relatively low tech response that is capable of dealing tremendous damage, if we verse the two off, look at the tamir interceptor, anywhere between 50 to 10000 usd per interceptor. 20 in a launcher and then you look at the 340 catusha rockets that are fired by hisballah as a destruction these are not even comfortable, however when you look at the effect that has had and spoke about this, forced all these individuals to go into the bunkers in gujdan to open up the ministry of defense, bunkers etc. getting all these individuals to run and flee. from hizbillah's attacks, i think this indicates that despite the qualitative edge that the enemy may have,

it is the will, the ingenuity of the resistance, and it is always the truth that will prevail, and i think this is what has been demonstrated over these very many months. yes, indeed. well, man, there are images on social media and some mainstream networks showing how israel intercepted hezbollah's rockets saying. that none of them hit their targets and hesbollah says the launching of the rockets of course were on purpose was done on purpose to busy the iron domes missiles in order to allow the drones to actually reach their target. i mean, what are your thoughts on how hezbollah seem to have figured out how to get around not only the iron dome, but all the obstacles that the americans and others have created in order to protect the regime. well, we uh have not seen of course. everything and hizballah claims that they have much more capabilities than

what they have shown so far and that their ballistic missiles for example and guided missiles which have not been used so far are still in their stock piles. israel claims to have destroyed some rockets but we don't see any evidence of that. we do see the bombing from the air but it's not clear what they are h. thing according to two launching sites were attacked that these launching pads cost anywhere between whatever 60000 or 6000 or 8000, i don't remember number, but a small number in military terms in terms of cost, as mentioned by your other guess this contrasts with the iron dome coasts and the course of these interceptors, but of course israel has

the backing of the united states, which has supplied it with everything it needs and much more, even at the expense of depleting the american stock piles of weapons, so if there is any conflicts in other parts of the world, the us military is in short supply for some of this, so i think it's interesting to... see the dynamics of what's happening in terms the military balance, if you want to call it, but really again we're not talking about armies of big countries, we're talking about gorilla forces, whether it's hizballah in lebanon or hamas in the gaza strip versus the fifth strongest army in the world right, that spends hundreds of billions of dollars and really, it is quite amazing, muss and when you put it like that, when we put in the terms of uh, basically gorilla forces, um,

fighting this entity that has such global at least support from the western hegemonic front, and as you said, not only hezbullah, but we look at what hamas has been able to accomplish in almost 11 months, it is, it is quite amazing, i mean, staying with you, mazen, what is the key here, what do you think is the difference? well, the difference is, on the one hand, you have a colonizer who is interested in maintaining profit for big corporations and individual. was like prime minister netanyahu, and on the other hand, you have people who are defending their land and defending their country, they have much more motivation, much more energy and much more perseverance, and also a faith, i believe in what they are doing, this is what many israeli generals and actually previous

head of the shinbet, israeli intelligence services, domestic ones, have said it's it's gone, it's it's impossible to win against such such people, so they suggest intelligent people among even the israeli elites suggest that it is time to think of politics and negotiations and not using this hammer of the military all the time, because military is not going to be able to achieve much, and this has been shown. in 2006, 2014, 2020, 2023, now 2024. i mean, i think people should understand that the military is not a way to subjugate people. well, speaking of negotiations, zakir, said hasan has said that after today's operation, this will give the palestinian resistance more to bargain with

at cease fire talks. i mean, your take on that, what do you think he means? it's very clear that the duration for the israeli entity is quite short, if israel continues on this trajectory, it will be ground down by attrition, if they go into military adventurism in the north, as you have gallant has said that the center of gravity is now shifting from the south to the north, it will result in israel's destruction despite the protective hand that the united states has extended. over the zionist entity, therefore it pushes only one direction in which to solve this matter permanently, and that is to sustainable, long-term permanent cease fire, that is the only option on the table, the the position that is being put before the israelis is to rip netanyahu apart or to allow him to drag the entire region into a

regional war if not a global war, and i think that is the pressure that said is referring to is that this gives the resistance further bargaining chips on the table and let's see how it develops, the problem is that the israelies don't negotiate in good faith, they haven't negotiated in good faith, in fact the maps indicate that they are not willing to withdraw from neat a moment, so this is an indication that they are not intending to act in good faith, but this will only spell out the destruction of the zinus entity, it is a temporary entity and has to be... as the part regime washed away here in south africa. well, and do you see what happened today as major intelligence failure by the zienis and not only by the zinanis but also by the americans and other parts of the western hegemonic front in not being able basically to to stop this. your assessment of it? i

think there was some leaks and some st. in some western media that indeed the us tried to support israel by gathering intelligence and so forth, if one is to believe that they have intervened as indicated by some american officials by supplying intelligence on this particular event in the past 24 hours, then indeed it's a failure not just for the israeli intelligence, but for the... american intelligence and i think the failure is also not a matter of just tactical issues on identifying sources and places a potential launch of catusias or of of drones, but it's also a failure on the idea that having vast military power will deter hizballah from

seeking retribution for the killing of 'hisballah commander in beirot, this calculation was and americans have said this, israels have said this, they said hizballah will not dare, they will not dare attack us, because that could trigger a war in which leban will be destroyed etc. this is a miscalculation of the enemy if you want, and and and that is why i think also they cannot calculate what's going to' happen next, they don't understand how far hisballah is willing to go, how far iran or hamas or anybody else or the hies for that matter who are still of course? blocking ships going into the mediterranean into the red sea, so i think there's there's miscalculation about the potentiality of response from the axes that

opposing israel, what's called the axes of resistance, and i think the american and the israeli intelligence, and they are partners of course, full partners, they really need to reassess what they know. about these forces that oppose them and try to understand what can drive them and what doesn't drive them, and so far they have not faired so well in calculations along those strategic lines. all right, on that note, i'm afraid we're out of time. i appreciate both of you being with us, and palestinian scientist and author out of bethlehem, ahmed, attorney, activist and political analyst out of johannesburg, and thank you viewers. being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimy, signing out for myself and all the crew right here in tehron, hope to see you next time, goodbye,

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