hello and welcome, tonight on spotlight, we dive deep into the history of what could be called israeli sponsored terrorism, from the 1954 levan affair to more recent attacks, including the assassination of a smile hania in tehran and the deadly pajor explosions in lebanon, we will be exploring israel.

controversial tactics and how they have evolved over the past decades, we will be asking whether these are cases of self-defense, as israel claims, or simply blatant acts of terror. join us as we bring these issues to light. to do so, we have with us mr. kariem sharara, political analyst joining us live from beirot, and als so mr. saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert joining us live from belfast. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen. let's begin with our guest from beirot, how do you see these acts of terrorism? that's the only way it can be described, but how do you interpret israel's long history of covert operation? um, does this indicate some kind

of policy, a larger policy, agenda, which the israelis are after? do all of these acts of of terrorism fall in the same line, forming a bigger agenda? well, as you've described it, of in it's uh, it's only blatant acts of terror. this is what the israeli regime was. founded upon, even way before its beginnings, such, of well what they like to call them security operations were quite the known for the israelis, this is this is what enabled israel, pure act of terror, it's it's something they actually have in common with isis, the fact that they use terror, demoralization in order to get to their ends, so these act in and of themselves, if you take them out of context and... study how

they came to be and what were the determinants that led to such acts, you would just say that the these are acts that through which israel plans to commit mass murder and regardless of the civilian tool, and this is something that we've seen recurrently throughout, mean you you don't just have to take decades, we don't have to delf decades into the past, we can just see how israel has been dealing with gaz. over the past 11 months, almost a year now, the complete disregard of international law, the impunity that has been granted, and you can see that this is quite the norm, this is look, yes, although the what we've seen in lebanon over the past two days has been nothing short of horrible, it's, i don't think it's anywhere close what israel, what the what the people of gazas have experienced. so uh, i don't

know how else to put it, the these are just acts that aim to uh spread terror and panic among the people, thankfully the the resistance here has very, very, very steadfast uh supporter base, and that doesn't easily succum to such uh act. of uh again pure terrorism in the in every sense of the word. okay, so let's bring in our guest from belfast, mr. saib shath, if you could please tell us how how is it possible to balance israel's claim to have the right to defend itself, with such acts of terrorism, booby trapping uh objects that are of daily use of ordinary civilians, such as this uh pager incident that we witnessed happening in

lebanon: to start with on the level of international law, right to right to self defense when you are an... buyer is denied, so these zinest entity accurying farms of shabha and parts of lebanon, apart from talking about the whole historical of palestine and the golan heights and others, so this idea of self defense is a manufactured lie by united states of america and the west to impose that on the back of the international law which have no legal legal existence. whatsoever saying that this all operation of attacking civilians by rogue state a mass terror deploying a mass terror techniques uh it came on the back of the on the 25th of august when the lebanese

resistant targeted the the intelligence units in galilot base in the serbart of tel aviv and this is it's a message by this intelligence saying we are uh existing, we wouldn't be destroyed by by the libanese resistance, while the hizballah at the time on the on the night after the attack, the the secretary general sad hasan nasallah stated that the resistant s controls in in its response that the target should not be civilians or civil infrastructure. "the the target should only be military and connected to the assassination of mr. fad shukur, that's how precise the resistance were, and that is the orders which they adhered to by the leader of the the lebanese resistant, and

that's exactly what happened, we seen then the the tel aviv were saberb of telaviv were targeted in response with the dahya which is of beirot targeting. "then the zianist entities military intelligence base called galilot was hat and the unit 800, 8,200, which is are connected both with the collecting information, targeting dahya and targeting the civilians at the at the time in the hospital or the flat and killing the lebanese leader at the time, so in the other hand, what we see from this" we see mass terror are unleashed against the civilian population in lebanon, deploying the same style the us developed in its wars on iraq, the shock and all tactics and as well keep the slow genocide this time deploying it on

the civilians of libanon. we know, if i want to just connect the dots together, if you allow me, lebanon as a country suffer from economical stagnation in. engineered by western powers, us and france and design entity as major player in here, lebanon suffered from electricity shortages as as a result of that, and that this is why you see lot of the people resort to solar panels, resort to batteries, power backs and all of that, which is to keep their lives running, and this is where's design entity implanted itself with the chain of... wise to sabage lebanon, and that's how we seen the lebanese life, to make the people of lebanon cannot, you know, want even be able to sustain their everyday existence in them, with the help of their west in europe,

like what happened in in a company in hungary, i don't know how they managed these companies to be a tool to thesign musad intelligence services. and to reback the whole devices, we are not talking about pages now, we're talking about even tokyo walkies, we're talking about radios, we talking about the batteries even in solar panels and we talking about even ipads, we're talking about everything having batteries in it, so this is a mass terror campaign waged by ' kind of rogue estate and the the the the disgusting things we trying to the people in the west or in the united states of america, they they are not criticizing even the zianist entity and they are making it look like it's a war

between this zianist entity and hizballah, we have to remember one thing, hizballah is part of from the lebanese government, is part of the lebanese parliament, hizballah is not just... a resistant group, hizballah have its own hospitals, have its own institutions, have its own members of parliament, have its own politicians, have his own teachers and doctors as well, so we see this damage which is inflicted in lebanon, it didn't target as they claiming only hisballah, it targeted, we seen children being killed in here and murdered, we see civilians being targeted, we seen doctors, we seen nurses, we seen paramedics, we seen ambulances, the police and the military force in lebanon execute a controlled explosion devices in it to to make it safe the these. explosions so we see devices is exploding in syria in north

lebanon, so this is a wide range terror mass terror attacks on lebanon and in syria, and the international community, if there is international community left have to be concerned with this, because in the future industrial level as well, what the people going to think when they're going to buy electric cars, when is this electric cars going to? be sabataged or their ipads or their cell phones or that as long as there is rogue states like the zinest entity in this world. okay so mr. sharara back to you uh we just heard our guest from belfast discuss the uh international aspects of this in terms of international law basically which is what uh israel only when it benefits from would prefer to it here to uh but why do you think that? international law and the international community is failing to address israel's

actions, is it due to simple geopolitical alliances, what is exactly behind that other than the us, because israel has relations with for example countries of the global south as well, uh, failing is an understatement, usually fail fail at least when you want to try to do something, the international community or the... this case particularly we're not talking international community, that you that word when it's used by western powers, it usually means the collective west, they're the international community, which is sort of a - i don't, it's it's it's a bit ironic when when they say it, any case the the fact that they don't address it basically look, one share of it is because their relations with the with the united states, another share of it is their feeling

of, if you take germany for example, it has to do with their with their world war i guilt, another share of it is complete and utter interest based politics and some some of it is are remnance of colonialism, so if we're talking interest-based politics, we're talking the fact that they can't stand to benefit so much from israeli arms contracts, from israeli security development, because let's face it, the israelis have spent decades fortifying and developing their security, their security infrastructure and their technological infrastructure to get where they got today, to get to the point where they could basically target an entire country with the with such an operation, so this is... is not only un unheard of, this is this also, i mean this, this, this, this is

also testament to how israeli security apparatuses and how israeli technology, how far is really technology has come, so in terms of military, pure, pure, pure military, military talk, this... is not just an operation for israel, this is also an advertisement for israel, just like that, my god, the name has escaped me, that earlier program that they used to spy on politicians and journalists, i can't i can't remember the name at the moment, but in any case these are these aren't just testaments to israel's technological development and security development, there are also advertisements, so if you want to coop with us, this is what we've been able to do, this is what we've been able to achieve, so the fact that israel

has come so far in terrorism is is huge testament to what countries would cooperate with it, what what governments, what what corporations are willing to to cooperate with it, just looking at corporations, the sheer amount of money that they stand to make from military arms. contract is huge, just look at h for example, look at caterpillar, look at what some oil and gas corporations have have been able to gain from the fact that the israel were occupying palestine and they they've been enabled to go ahead and make use of this infrastructure. look at uh france and their and their arms contracts with the israelies. again, this isn't germany we're talking about, this isn't the united states, it's other countries, other european countries that saw this as an opportunity to better their security infrastructure, no

values, no regard for international law, it's uh... it's purely interest based for them and basically that's it, there there are no values at stake here, there are there are new, this talk of human rights of international of international law, it's it's what they use to preserve their own order, it's what they use to get the upper hand over other countries, it's their way of achieving the moral high ground which they're so fond of ever since their colonial days, it it's... just a remnant of colonial days, it's just how they appease themselves of of how they pat themselves on the shorder shoulder and sleep better at night. that's the extent of it. uh, pure and simple moral high ground. thank you very much. mr. shot, let's bring you back in this discussion. uh, well, israel uh stated certain goals before uh launching

its genocidal operation in gaza, and of course it's not the first time we look at the history of... the israeli regime it's been the same way, do you believe that israel's reliance on covert and overt military tactics? has it helped it move forward to its stated goals? uh, they still adding goals, like and gallant said today, they are entering new phase of the war on the north, which is given the impression, they are moving to the north, we have and said capabilities ' not even unleshed on hisballah and galan said well they are moving more military assets to the north and the center the gravity as he said is shifting that all you know all of what he's saying is a result the the cabinet work cabinet meeting couple

of days ago in the night before the attacks or what we call the the the pager massacres in lebanon netanyahu. stated that they will return the settlers back and he is adding this fourth like goal of the to the war they are launching now which is in gaza and they they the betraying they going to the to the to the north of lebanon so the military trying to to say that they are prepared to reck havoc in the region and this is in a way the trying to regain the balance of power back and to the deterrance commands again against hisball since they lost it. if they talking about let me explore a minute about my friend what is elaborated about the technology this the zin entity always the western universities united states of america

all the western elites and all of that but the the latest of the... own technologies in a golden blate and had to thesign entity for free, so the the design entity claim it's on the edge high tech and the the the leader of this unit 8200 you say or something his name who we don't know what happened to him after the attack once we heard he resigned once we heard he disappeared some zin say he was killed in the attack and they they these people want to merge the military on the ground with high take like artificial intelligence and that to to control the the the the region and to develop like cyber wars on us, which is they trying to show us this backward attack is some sort of sophisticated attack, replying to that with two two two points, one of their top commanders was

because they opened so many investigation now about the 7th of october failure as this say he stated last week to the zinist media that the the leadership told them the barriers around gaza underground or in top of the ground, nobody can penetrate them, don't they are very high tech, very sophisticated with lot of sensors and all of them and they said as well, we didn't know as as a commander we gaza's gaza's battalions around gaza uh they they said didn't know that what? they were defeated except from the tv after four months, gaza's trip under the seage for the last 17 to 18 years okay, manage the resistance with around. 1200 command commandos from the palestina resistant infiltrate deep inside the zinis entity and nearly taken over not just settlements even

some cities in there and they came back with the the tub elite of the commanders who controlling the the gaza envelope as they call and they having them as a prisoners right now okay so what is the high tech they talking about the the the well of the fighters is more important and stronger than their high-tech, they managed this time to through dirty tricks, through hungry greedy europeans who are participated in sabotaging these devices which people buy on a face value and we seen a lot of dirty tricks being weaved around the region by that's the dealers and the countries and the western powers because to them the zilus entity which was hit on the 7th october by the palestinan resistance, it checked not just thesiness

entity and destroyed its reputation on high-tech and all this facade they talking about, it's had the united states of america's hard in in projecting its dominance in the world and it's influence and the the sphere of influence in the heart of the world which is the arab world and west age is is shaking and they want to restore back their influence and their control in that region by attacks terror attacks like that to install fear and terror in the lebanese people or the palestinians or the syrians or the yemanies they failed one one rocket from yemen went in the heart of tel avib made them belivous towards happening right to them right now so all of this about the high tech, it's hyd. okay, so back to mr. sharara, and of course, considering what our guest from belfast just mentioned, um, in light of historical

operations, like the front for the liberation of lebanon from foreigners, the fllf, um, the less, what are the lessons that we should draw from israel's secretive strategies, this has been going on for so many years and now we see similar strategy and booby trapping ordinary objects that ordinary people would use every day. um, well, i guess i could say a couple of things. first of all, in terms of israel in and of itself, and we've already covered this, israel is prepared to use any and all kinds of uh... of tools of it will not refrain from performing any action that will lead to it getting what it wants, pure and simple, whether it be terrorism, whether

it be the murder of thousands, as long as it achieves its goals, and of course it's afforded international impunity and protection for its leaders, then they're prepared to do everything, after all it's a colonial outpost, it's uh basically there to it's basic, it basically currently still exists because it's been enabled by the west, because it's still so important for the western political order to remain active in the middle east, uh, that's what's enabled it so far, so uh, of course, israel will do what it can in order to preserve that, uh, that's one of the lessons we should learn as people in the region from what israel is capable of doing, uh, as for the resistance uh look earlier in 2008, now close to 16 years ago, i'm not sure many of your view, many of your

viewers can probably remember this, we in lebanon had a little something known as the seven, the day of 7 may is what we call it here, basically at the time the government of prime minister for senura basically conspired. uh to eliminate the resistances communications under under a large amount of pretences and what they plan to do is involve the interner security directorate in lebanon and the army in order to dismantle the the resistances communications network so sorry apologies so at the time there were few scuffles but not between the internal security directorate and the army and the resistance because they knew what was going on and sideline themselves uh at the time what happened was basically militas and from

parties that were loyal to the... americans were the ones who participated in the in the battle and there was every time there was and the the resistance managed absolutely right mr. sharad and i'm very sorry to cut you off right there, we got carried away with this discussion because there's such a long history of uh this type of terrorist activities coming from the part of israel, we could go on and on for days and i'm very sorry that i have to cut you off right here, mr. karim sharara, political analyst joining us live from beirot also. mr. saib shout, author and commentator and west asia expert from belfast. thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight. and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. this year, iranian students achieved astounding triumph securing. third

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