hello and welcome, tonight on spotlight, we dive deep into the history of what could be called israeli sponsored terrorism. from the 1954 levan fair to more recent attacks including the assassination of ism hanya in tehran and the deadly pajor explosions in lebanon. we will be exploring israel's controvers. 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 also mr. author and of 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 beirut. uh, how do you uh see these acts of terrorism? that's the only way it can be described, but how do you interpret israel's long history of uh covert operations? um, does this indicate some kind

of um 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 uh, well what they like to call them security operations were quite the known for the israel, this is uh, 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 acts in and of themselves, if you take them out of context and that 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, regardless of the civilian tool, and this is something that we've seen recurrently throughout, mean 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 gaza 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 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 what the people of gaza have experienced? so i don't know how else to put

it, these are just acts that aim to spread terror and panic among the people, thankfully the the resistance here has very, very, very steadfast supporter base and that doesn't easily succum to such acts of. the 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 pajor 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 equipier? is denied, so the zinest entity occurying 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 illegal legal exist 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 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 stated that the resistance set 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. fuad chukur, that's how precise the resistance were, and that is the orders which they adhered to by the leader of the lebanese resistants and that's exactly

what happened, we seen then the the tel aviv were server tel aviv were targeted in response with the dahya which is sub of beirot targeted, then the zin entities military intelligence base called galilot was hat and the unit 800 8200 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 the sign 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 lebanon. we know, if i want to just connect the dots together, if you allow me, lebanon as a country suffer from economical stagnation 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 designus entity implanted itself with the chain of supplies to... sabatage the lebanese life to make the people of lebanon cannot uh won't even be able to sustain their everyday existence in lebanon and that's how we seen 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 the zinest 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're 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 zinist entity and they are making it look like it's a war

between this zinus 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 its own teachers and doctors as well, so we see the... 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 see 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, 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 same 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, failing is an understatement, usually fail at least when you want to try to do something, the international community or the in 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 there the international community which is sort of i don't know 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 with 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 ii guilt, another share of it is complete and otter interest based politics and some some of it is remnant of colonialism, so if we're talking interest based politics we're talking the fact that they can't 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... not only un unheard of, this is uh, this also, i mean, this, this, this, this

is also testament to how israeli security apparatuses and how israeli technology, how far israel technology has come, so in terms of military, pure, pure, pure military, pure military talk, this is... not just an operation for israel, this is also an advertisement for israel, just like uh uh that, my god, the name has escaped me, that earlier program that they used to spy on politicians and journalists, uh, 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 cooperate 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 the sheer amount of money that they stand to make from military arms contracts, for example, look at caterpillar, look at what some oil and gas corporations have have been able to gain from the fact that the israeldes were occupying. palestine and they they've been enabled to go ahead and make use of this infrastructure, look at 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 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... of colonial days, it's just how they appease themselves of of how they pat themselves on the shoulder shoulder and sleep better at night, that's the extent of it, pure and simple moral high ground. thank you very much, mr. shot, let's bring you back in this discussion, well israel stated certain goals before launching its genocidal

operation in gaza, and of course it's not the first time we look at the history of the israeli. 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 galant 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 unleashed on hisb and gallan said well they are moving more military assets to the north and the center the gravity as he said is shifting that all uh you know all of what he saying is a result the the cabinet war cabinet meeting couple of days ago in the night before the attacks 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 the the 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 they're trying to he gain the balance of power back and to the deterrents commanded again against since they lost it if they talking about let me explore a minute about my friend what is elaborated about the technology this the zilas entity always the western universities united states of america

all the western elites and all of that but the the latest of their own technology a golden blate and had to the zinus entity for free, so the the zinus entity claim it's on the edge high-tech and the the the leader of this unit 8,200 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 tech. 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. replied 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 they say he. stated last week to the zinis 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 censors and all of them and they said as well we didn't know as as a commander we gazas 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 strip under the siege for the last 17 to 18 years okay manage the resistance with around 1200 with command commandos from the palestina resistant infiltrate deep inside the zinest 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 throw dirty tricks, through hungry greedy europeans who are participated in sabotaging these devices which people buy on a face value uh and we seen a lot of dirty tricks being uh waved around the region by that's the dealers and the countries and the the western... powers because to them the ziluce entity when it was hit on the 7th october by the palestinan resistance, it checked not just the zinus entity and destroyed its

reputation on high tech and all this facade they talking about, it's hit the united states of america's hard in in in rejecting its dominance in the world and it's influence and the the sphere of influence in the heart the world which is the arab world and west asia 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 to what's happening right to to them right now, so all of this about the high tech, it's hybes. 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 a... similar strategy and booby trapping ordinary objects that ordinary people would use every day. um, well, 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 of tools.

international impunity and protection for its leaders, then they're prepared to do everything, after all it's a colonial outpost, it's basically there to it's basic 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 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 of seniura basically conspired, to eliminate the resistances communications under under a large amount of pretents 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 resistance because they knew what was going on and sidelined themselves uh at the time what happened was basically militasuh from parties that were loyal to the

americans. were the ones who participated in the in the battle and there every time there was and the the resistance managed that is absolutely right mr sharat 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 is we could go on and on for days uh and i'm very sorry that i have to cut you off right here mr. karim sharara political analyst joining us live from beirout also mr. south 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. apartite and the global north. south divide.

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