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palestinians, now meanwhile yeminies to the streets across the country to celebrate both the successful retaliatory operation and the birth anniversary of islam's prophet muhammad. the leader of yemen's ansarlah movement has valved that the resistance front will continue retality operations until the israely occupation regime stops the genocidal war on gaza. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host that let's see who our panelists are in this episode. karim sharar political analysts is joining me from beirut. also with us is glyde menz is researcher and commentator in london. okay, just introduce uh our guests. so let's begin uh with karim

if possible, now karim, they missile flew more than 2, kilometers, it took 11 minutes before reaching its target inside tel aviv, so let our viewers know what this would mean in terms of the yemini armed forces military prowess. well, so far what we've come to know about the yemeni armed forces is that they've been... able to amas a good amount, a sizable amount of drones, not so shabby amount of ballistic missiles, which they've used a number of occasions, but they fact that they used a hypersonic missile, mean this is this is game changing for many reasons - mean even the the americans if you want to take them into account, they're years away from developing good. hypersonic missile

technology, if you want to talk about who the hypersonic players are in the world, you have basically russia, china, iran, and now you have yemen, and well, i mean yemen out of all countries, because yemen is a country traditionally looked down upon by the richer arab countries, mainly, mainly gulf countries, so you have one of the poorest nations in... arab world now in possession of hypersonic missiles uh, that's one, that's that's one thing, that's that's a huge one, but it's the first one uh the first thing to take into account, the second thing to take into account is that when you when you talk hypersonic, again it's not we're not talking supersonic, we're talking hypersonic, we're talking of speeds going above 300 kilometers ranging between 300 kilometers per hour and 15 thousand kilometers per hour. "the fact

that they've been able to achieve a missile that flew to flew to the occupied palestine uh within 11 and a half minutes flying 2ous kilometers, i mean that suggests speeds of over 10,00 kilometers and this is, i mean it's not like they started with their uh with their lower tier hypersonic missiles, they showed that they have good technology, they showed they have good military technology." not only that, it's technology that the israeli aero systems, which are supposed to fend off ballistic missiles, it's it's a missile that they could do nothing about, and meanwhile the israelis are flabbergasted, their security chiefs are sleeping at the time, they knew nothing of what was going to happen, mean this completely hit them upside the head, this was huge, right, now clive, the algasam brigades commander abubaida says

the designist regime is buged down in the gaza quere even with the help of his allies they failed to intercept a single missile. it's an indication of weakness. the israeli regime, so as 11 months past since the war on gaza, we've seen a large number of operations and stronger retaliation by the resistance and more vulnerability on the part of the israeli entity, don't you agree? well, yes, i think from the outset this look like um an intent to hit the self-destruction button by israel, i mean irrespective of what people believe, it's pretty... clear that the 7th of october attack was false flag provoked by israel, um, which is habitually their style, um, but they're now fighting fighting on multiple fronts. um, in what since they hope to achieve any sort of strategic advantage is

begger's belief. i think for the time being they should be grateful that both hezballah and iran specifically. have been quite measured in their response, understandably, hammus are fighting for lives, so so they are less restrained and and certainly yemen has been at war with saudi arabia for some years and really has no fear of escalation, whereas i think both lebanon and or hezball in lebanon and the the iranian government have been quite measured and restrained in their retaliation for the atrocities that have been... unleashed upon them, so this does seem to be a war of self-destruction, and i think there are multiple facets to to this, and clearly the cult that runs israel is intent on um self- self-destruction in the

sense that divide and conflict is what the cult thrives on, but also there is a theme amongst the more extreme religious uh jewish fraternity that they are... the end times and they are bringing it on, and i think there are some fundamentalist christians who who share a similar ideology, so i think there are multiple strands to this, but it does seem that israel is determined to destroy itself, um, but this has a global context in that conflict and division is is what's driving the world at the moment, and when we talk about hypersonic missiles and... this again is fueled by money, um, you know, the the whole way in which we've organized is that everything is seen through the prison of money, so weapons are now driving this, the more weapons you can unleash, the more money is made, so the arms industry, be it on

either side, have incentive to encourage people to use these weapons, whereas if we discriminate between the structure, the governments and the authorities and people, the majority of people don't want this, uh, they need to turn their backs on their governments and say, we are not going to put up with this, and there is a there's a strong historical truth that when a population is disaffected with its government to war, then war doesn't happen, but it's going to take a lot more momentum than we currently have, but it is growing, so that's encouraging. uh, all right, now uh, karim, let's now have assessment of the yemeni antizerral operations, beat by the yemen navy or the missile force of the yemini armed forces, how big an impact have they been able to leave on

the israeli economy? um, again, there's a number of ways to look at this uh... "if you just sift through us and israely media, you can see that first of all, as far as the us goes, this is one of the harder battles that they've had to fight over the past decades, not since world war ii, have they seen so much action and so much threat to their own navies, and it's clear from the tactics that the yemini armed forces are using, that they're learning from the us defenses, they're learning how to..." the def these defenses and how best to develop technology that can uh adapt to the battle in such a way as to deliver the maximum amount of damage with the least amount of cost and this is a

this is this is a recurring team in the access of resistance low cost maximum damage that way in case you are forced into a war of... nutrition just as you're just just like the war you're in now uh you can you can sustain this uh you can sustain yourself for longer while draining the enemy. so when you read into what's happening in israel at the moment, it becomes clear that this is a winning strategy, so looking at the israeli economy, again you have economy that has been built on technology, on investments, on the idea of israel being under threat, but able to deter, yet this economy, which... the backbone of which has been the army has been forced to, if if you want to say it just

nicely downsiz, so the hafa port is more than 50% down at the moment, ilat port is shut down, you have a minimal amount of uh of action in terms of ports because the yemeny armed forces are capable of striking ships from take, mean from the indian ocean to the... mediterranean sea, so there is that threat, so not only have premiums gone up in terms of insurance and of costs in the occupied territories, but they mean there's only so much you can do to sustain this, mean even iron zone missiles if in the scenario of a war with iron breaking out or or with hisballah for that instance, there is no sufficient amount of iron zone missiles and world that can deter the uh that can intercept or be prepared for the thousands of

rockets that hezbulah can launch every day on israel right, so opening up a multifront war is not economically feasible for israel, nor is it militarily feasible, sooner or later they're going to have to do one thing, either self-destruct or take a step back. yeah, both carim and clive you're both mentioning self-destruction part of israel. all right, clive, uh uh now israel's much boasted of defense system, the iron dome, which was not able to detect uh this yemina missile that hit televive in the hours of this morning, and yemenis have proved this way, this is what many experts are telling is that yemenese are able to hit these really enemy what it hurts if they really wish to. now there was a military target, it could be a refinery, it could be vital targets inside televiv and elsewhere. sorry, your question is, the iron dome and how vulnerable is

proved, sure, well, i think it's become apparent that, with so much in the world um, on whatever topic you're talking about, we're dealing with illusions and the creation of illusions of of israel's impregnability was one such illusion, um, and i think it's also worth reflecting back on the economics. situation which you asked your other guess, i mean let's face it, israel would not exist if it wasn't for the amount of money that's been bored in by the us specifically, um, it used to be $3 billion dollars a year, i think it's gone up quite a lot since then, but israel has control of congress, it virtually controls uk politics, it controls uh with the israeli lobby your program exposed exactly how that works and across. um western europe and there is, i think the fear of israel and

it's the myths surrounding israel, israel, and the mythology of antisemitism and all of these, all of these aspects to this conflict are beginning to penetrate the vast majority's consciousness that, perhaps israel is not the victim that it's always always purpted to be, it is not the impregnable - zone um, it is, it is actually fighting in desperation, um, as i say, it looks like an operation of self-destruction, but whatever they're trying to do, and arguably they were trying to execute the plan for a greater israel as articulated by the yin on plan in 1982, but it's madness, um, and their eye and done is shown to be just that, illusion, um, so i don't think there's any doubt. about that right now, karim, resistance uh leaders

have warned that in case the televive regime expands the war to other regions, thousands more such rockets and also surprises will go its way, so what do you see on the horizon in terms of retaliatory operations that have been growing as you see both in terms of quantity and quality? uh, it's just as you said keyword there is surprises because as we seen the yemini armed forces had huge surprise in store to say the least so and hisbullah every every now and then likes to remind the israelis that they have lot up their speed and that's an understatement uh as we've seen from their past uh videos which have caused a complete rucus in the israeli intelligence community and the and israely media so what we can can expect to see from now on look there's a lot that that's going

to be kept. of war: one thing that's in com that resist access of resistance powers have in common is that they uh keep their cards well hidden and they only reveal them as a method of deterrence uh and i think that this strategy has helped has helped keep the war the israeli war on lebanon at bay so far, mean of course we have lot of destruction in the south there a lot of... civilian casualties, but i'm talking about a wide scale war in which the israelies would would want to actually do an operation inside lebanise territory. hezbullah's uh surprises have and the revelations have kept this war at base so far, and this is huge point of discussion in israeli media, mean you have

you have former uh intelligence apparatises uh leaders of intelligence apparatus is basically howling, pleading with netanyahu not to go forward with this step, the same goes for other access of resistance factions, so what applies for hezbollah applies for yemen, it applies for iraq, and it applies for iran, which has and speaking of iran, iran has done, has played its, has get cards well hidden uh and the israelies are still still talking about an iranian response, they they still don't know what it's going to be like, when it might be like, how it's going to be like uh, if it's anything like what we saw in april in terms of the implications and how iran and what the israely response then

it's going uh... how can i say this? it's it's just like the yemeny hypersonic missile today shaped the was it it could be called a game changer in the war and could help and could push toward the cease fire it is expected that the iranian response would do the same okay uh clive senior hamas official osama hamdana said that the palestine resistance movement uh has a high ability to continue fighting israel despite the lot. has sustained over the more than 11 months of this war, so i want to ask you, what's the key to palestinians resilience? they are standing against the most powerful armies of the world, israel is not alone, the us is there, complicent and partner, part of the war and other countries, western countries fueling this war. well, i think it's a lot to do with what have you got to lose, and you

know, are you fighting, are you fighting for your survival, and in the case of the palestinians? "they are undoubtedly not just fighting for survival, but they're fighting against the oppression and the the genocide that's effectively been going on since 198, 1948, so they have very high stakes in this in this conflict, and they have no real choice um other than to accept defeat, which i think is holy unrealistic, in the case of..." israel, israel has shown itself to never honoring agreements and it has expanded its territory progressively at the expense of the palestinians, but sooner or later certainly amongst the general population it must become apparent and presumably amongst those serving in the idf and and israeli forces that they are, they are fighting

unjust war as far as they are concerned, now whether? that realization would hit sufficient to truly disintegrate the israeli defense force is debatable, because i think, they've been so indoctrinated over so many years since since their youth that you know the world hates them and they have to fight for survival, that seems to be the predominant atmosphere in which they they've been raised, and how one reverses that i don't know, but clearly deep down in in their heart of hearts they must... know that this is wrong, to put it bluntly, um, because they are not fighting for survival in spite of their claims to be destroying. ask for their security, the usual nonsense that they they sort of trip out every time there is conflict, but i think at the end of the day

there is moral case, the moral case for the palestinians is their survival and the cessation of the genocide that has been running for decades, in the case of the israelis, they do not have moral case, yeah, okay, we're out of time, unfortunately, let me thank my guest. in beirot and clive menzis in london and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on pr being your host najafi and i'll see you next time. the israeli society is turning up. at his fabric, fact that netanyahu has basically showed no remorse ever since is just despicable and it makes me ashamed to be in the same place that he is. the turn of dead

captives and body bags sparks the largest protest since october 7. i myself have just come back from traveling in the region and you can see the range of businesses that have been shut down, not just on the palestinian side, but also the israeli side. israel's largest union, is the biggest strike action involving over 200 businesses, tel aviv and other major towns shut down, another massive economic end, the people who are protesting are not supporters of netanyahu, there's a very strong division within jewish israeli society, will this be the new norm?

"what happened today is no accident, it is the continuation of the killing of 17 of of beta's residence during demonstrations since 2021. it is intentional king that is now receiving the light of day and receiving that receiving the light of day because she is an american citizen, it was intent." killing that cannot be justified.

your headlines on press tv, the leader of the answer allah movement says yemen's anti-israely operations will continue until the regime ends this. genocide in gaza. israel's incessant strikes across gaza killed dozens more palestinians raising the overall death toll to nearly 41,200. an says it is seeking new path to relations with europe based on.