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tv   Documentary Black Water 1  PRESSTV  September 27, 2024 11:02am-11:31am IRST

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now netanyahu is very much against that approach, and very much against that democratic approach. he doesn't believe in the palestinian authority, he rejects giving the palestinian authority any role whatsoever, so that's a major point of disagreement between the democrats and netanyahu, now trump think with netanyahu when it comes to that part of the palestinian, trump also would share and would have no problem in netanyahu's approach. of not not recognizing a palestinian partner, if you remember in trump's term he shut down the plo's office in washington, so trump would be much more in agreement with netanyahu in terms of not having or not recognizing any palestinian partner, even if if it's a palestinian authority. should harris come to power, i think that she's going to pursue that approach of having of the necessity of having a palestinian partner, and so the disagreements with netanyahu are going to continue. in that regard, in fact i think
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that harris would be even uh more extreme if a you would like, or would be more pressuring on netanyahu than biden is, because trump or harris's advisers, one of her or her national security advisor right now is philip gordon, philip gordon is a person who very es in the palestinian authority and at least verbally he speaks about two-state solution, so philip gordon, i think is going to be much more... of focused compared to jake sullivan for example on the issue of the palestinian partner and on the two-state solution, so i would expect, bearing that in mind, i would expect that there would probably be tensions between a netanyahu government and the harris administration should harris win, if trump comes to power, trump is going to go along with the israelis in not recognizing a palestinian partner and basically allow the israelis to do whatever they wish, just like we... in trump's first term, however,
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however, i think that when it comes to iran, because some people say that netanyahu is also pinning his hopes on trump, because trump is going escalate much more against iran, like he did in his previous term when we saw the assassination of the former commander in the revolutionary guards, qasim sulaimani, but i don't think that necessarily is going to be the case that that trump is going to pursue a very extreme anti-iranian agenda. should he come back to power? uh, you're not talking about john bolton, for example, one of the iranian hawkish, one of the more hawkish voices against iran, he's in a state of animosity and hostility, he's now an enemy of trump, mike pompeo, his name isn't being raised to be candidate or to take up a senior position in a future trump administration, the people, the individuals who we're seeing right now with trump are the likes of robert kennedy, the likes of t you
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recall the former democratic member of congress, she was the only member of congress who visited syria during the syrian crisis and actually met with syrian president bashar al-assad, so if these names were to reach senior positions in a trump administration, i find it hard to believe that trump is going to go to that very extreme anti iranian policy which we witnessed during his first term, so when it comes to palestine, yes there is going to be an... with netanyahu into not recognizing a palestinian partner, but when it comes to iran, i don't think you're going to necessarily see that very extreme anti-iranian policy which was totally in agreement with netanyahu's policy that we witness in trump's first term. okay, thanks for that, please stand by let us play two minutes soumbite part of the speech by yemen's leader and it will be back.
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concerning the fronts, the support front and the developments in lebanon. it is clear everyone that the israeli enemy has gone for escalation on the lebanese front, also taking the same method, using the same method, the barbaric method to target on everything a full scale basis, destruct destroying homes, just what they were doing in. and what they also did in lebanon in past times and previous phases, if we go back to the support of ground, the support front of lebanon, everyone knows the role that has been playing in support of the palestinian people and the fighters in gazza and the beginning of the gidal war on ghazza, that this role played by hazballah is the strongest and the most effective. and the for most influential on
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the level of fighting the israelis and that fight in facing and confronted confrontations against the israeli enemy has lasted for 40% two years, the balance of hazballah, the history of hazballah, the heroic and courageous senses of hazballah in fighting and confronting the israeli regime and the victories which they have reached, and god has achieved this for them in 2006 and 2000, also in other forms and also their support and their role as a support front in the last 12 months, this shows their pivotal role in for the sake and the interest of all the muslim nation and for the sake of the palestinian cause and for lebanon, which is the first country that was targeted by the israeli regime through occupation and killing
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and the theft of resources and confiscation of freedom and independence and god has given hazballah through hazballah has achieved the biggest defeat against the israelis in various phases where it seemed that even hizbullah at that time did not have the capabilities that it had then it had today that it has today and today it is stronger than any time in the past hasb with its framework all right there was an exerpt highlights uh the latest speech by yemen's leader. now speaking of yemen, let's bring in from yemen capital sana our correspondent. we had these live images, i don't know what it was raining or it was too hot, people were caring their umbrellas there in sada, and
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they were out in their support, and this we have been witnessing every week, of course, especially every friday. so, abdul latif, let us know about the latest. the yemeni armed forces anti-israel operations, thank you so much, the yemen army has repeatedly announced that it will continue targeting the occupied territories as long as the israeli enemy keeps killing our people in gaza, and you know for year now, the operations of the yemen army has been ongoing, not only just against the occupied territories, but also the naval operations of the... many army has been ongoing and we heard the recent statement by the leader of ansarullah movement that the red sea and the arabian sea are now banned areas for the israeli, british and american enemies and i believe that this
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is of course a part of the yemani support for the palestinian people and also is in response to the aggression, the israeli aggression against the enemy territories, the leader of ansarullah movement has made clear repeatedly that they will never hesitate in supporting the palestinian people, it is a humanitarian commitment, uh, it is a religious commitment also, they believe that they have to support the palestinian people as muslim brothers and we believe that the advancing capabilities of the eminy army will now be utilized in attacking the occupied territories and the these attacks will never stop until the aggression. against our brothers in gaz stops, okay, appreciate that, abdul latif, our correspondent in sana, yemen, now let me continue our discussion with our guests, adi resk in bayrut, and we have ali hussein in sydney, now i think it's
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ali hussain's turn, ali, let's now talk about the prospects of an, let's say pause, maybe, if not an end. to this israely aggression against lebanon, do you see that feasible these days or do you expect this to further escalate? i don't expect it a minimum to settle because the secretary general of did say we won't stop until the aggression on gazza and palestine does not stop, so if that doesn't but there definitely isn't going to be a halt of attacks coming from lebanon in retaliation and in support of palestine, and if the attacks continue into lebanon, i don't see another stoppage from there, because uh lebanon, i mean there was a broadcast that
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came out few days ago that actually changed the wording um on the official slogan, so now it says not only in support of palestine, but it says in defense of... leban and its people and it was highlighted in red, which isn't exactly declaration of war, but it is subliminary so, so that's where you see that, okay, well now... now it's more of an open war front um, maybe not outw declaring it, but it is so, and that's why i don't see it kind of deescalating or pause or a cease fire anytime soon, because i don't see israel stopping or reducing any attacks, not before the elections, and maybe to ensure that whoever does get voted in they also hype them up and kind of stick to their word in the early months of their campaign um and presidentship in terms of... kind of keeping their word and keep the trust and keep backing israel until uh they kind of feel the
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heat and maybe need to back off and say hey uh calm it down a little because you know god forbid you actually stop arming them it will just be you know protect the civilians which they've said so many times before right now ali risk in beirotuh you've been women uh witness uh that these road officials have been citing you know such pretex actually continue this aggression against the palestinians, now against the lebanese, that uh, well, they are trying to take out the resistance uh commanders, of course, alias gaz you've been uh witnessing, we did not have many hezballah commandersuh killed, we have mostly women, children, men, civilians getting killed in this aggression, and even if that's the case, history has shown that the you know... elimination of number of commanders would not change anything on the battleground. i want your take on that.
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indeed the the israelis have carried out assassinations for very long time. indeed they've been if you would like the masters of assassinations, but that hasn't born fruit. the former hizbullah commander was killed in 2007 uh that that didn't weaken hazballah its former secretary general. musawi was also assassinated in 1992, that did not weaken hazballah, so i think that um, what israel appears to fail to grasp is there's an ideology involved, and ideology isn't just related to one individual, it's stronger than individuals, and it appears that the israelis either don't understand this or that they have no choice, they have, they don't want to understand this, they carry out these assassinations because it's the only thing that they can. the only way which they can inflict a harm on hizballah and here i'm not trying to minimize the challenge is facing an
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unpresidented challenge there's no doubt about this and never have the israelis assassinated people in such manner particularly the operation targeting ibrahim there were number of commanders there so this is a challenge like the likes of which hazballah hasn't seen yet but at the same time look at the missile capabilities look at how hazballah continues to strike uh strategic israely military installations, how it's gradually increasing its firepower, and hezballah deliberately showed its missiles being launched over the past few days, just to send the message to the whole world, to israel included that its missile launching capability remains untouched, so indeed this won't achieve anything, and i think that regarding the israeli strikes on civilians, this is standard practice for the israeli side, from the start, i recall in 1996, if you remember the k massacre back then where they targeted a un shelter where civilians had had sought refuge, we saw that in gazza,
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that is israeli military modest operandi, they target the enemy and they believe that civilians, women, children are legitimate targets in their military approach, but ironically, ironically that only helps the resistance movements, whether it be hamas or even in lebanon, some well-known american scholars have... said that what israel did in gaza, for example, will lead to new generation of recruits for hamas, because they will grow up with this feeling of intense hatred towards israel, giving the damage and the killing israel carried out, so the israel is unbehaving in any strategically sane or rational way at all, they are behaving out of rage, maybe attempts to score to score some political victories or some tactical victories, but in the end strategically speaking, i think there are... "there are severe severe shortcomings in the israeli approach. all right, now ali hussein
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aly just mentioned something and i want to draw on that and ask you this question. mean, let's draw a comparison between you, speaking of uh uh israely regime trying to eliminate resistance fighters, no matter if it is hezballah, khamas or other resistance fighters and the commanders especially, and that we don't see much change, and i was just uh ellicidated that." so um let's draw a comparison between uh the palestinian side, the palestinian fighters, resistance front and the israeli side, the iof is forcing the... uh israel is to join uh the army, the uh national yahoo administration is trying very hard based on their constitution, ultra orthodox jews for instance, they are exempt from military service, they say we are men of god, we belong to the seminary schools, we are not for the battlefront purposes, but they are forcing them, and you've seen those pictures of soldiers dragging them on the
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ground and try to draft them and force them actually to join the israely military and on the other hand we have these really fighters, we have everyone like you also mentioned yourself, hamas is is not only an organization, it's an ideology, so when a commander no matter at what level is assassinated, there are many others, even kids, women, they take up arms and they continue on their path, so let's draw a comparison between these two sides, yeah, so i mean, i was actually going to mention the orthodox jews because i was i think well over a month or two ago that was the first announcement of actually them trying to force w netanyahu releasing a statement to try and force them into fighting and and they were well against it and i think that just shows you that the occupier versus the occupied someone who has this bond with this land with for generations someone who values the land as opposed to so many settlers who have two
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passports i mean how many of them have actually gone to so-called israel as as that's from external countries whether from europe or brooklyn and many other places in the states, lot of them don't actually belong there, sure, there is a younger generation growing up there, because their parents or grandparents might have occupied someone else's home, however they don't have that bond, they don't understand the value of the ground, they, they don't understand the value and the pricelessness of the olive trees that they just so indiscriminatly burn and decimate, whereas... "i mean you can look at not just, i know we're comparing directly to hamas and um, you know, is the islamic jihad in palestine, however when you grow up in those conditions, i mean if take a very simple comparison of school, if someone was to hit you, you would kind of hit him back or at least push him away in self-defense, um, so what do you do when it's been for 76
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years, how many generations of occupation is that, how much can so many..." people take before they take up arms, whether when they young throwing stones or until they actually take up weapons and rifles and actually stand up to an oppressor, and this is definitely unprecedented because of the build-up and how widespread the resistance and different resistance factions with within palestine are, this uh ideology of resistance and resilience has now become inherent, it is passed on, it is this person or this state and these soldiers dressed in these colors who are now builting me when i go to pray whether it's or otherwise all of these are like this is the people that have pressed me killed my family and they take that as the form of we're not going to let this happen to our sisters or our brothers or our future kids and that's when you win still mean
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everyone wants to support resistance when it's fiction uh you know when it's the hunger games or otherwise but when they say on the ground, they're like, oh no, you're unjustified in doing that, so it is very inherent, they are born with it, they see it, and it is born out of a situation, things like this do not come out of nothing, and out of israel, it's out of complacency, and many people in israel were actually given status there because they're running away from other crimes they committed in the states or otherwise, right, okay, thank you, ali hussein and ali res, please stand by, let me bring in our correspondent in the gaza strip, let's see what the situation is like in gaza as we're discussing these israely aggression against lebanon so muti bring us an update yes first of all let me say that we are covering live from this place the yards of the alax samatas hospital right now this place as you can see right now behind me was
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struck over the last night by the israel war planes a tent here belongs to one of the palestinian evacuees taking shilta in the alaxaamatas hospital was hit relentlessly by the israeli fighter jets as you can see leaving at least abonan civilian uh killed in addition to scores of injuries and as you can see right now we are documenting this kind of uh wide scale devastation and ruins left behind this horrifying attack that uh has shaken the entire area over the last night while the palestinan people here were sleeping uh in this evacuation camp here, let me say that this place was overcrowded with dozens of the palestinian tents taken shilta by the displace. palestinians, however as you can see right now we have we are witnessing and we are documenting this kind of massive and wide scale devastation and damage uh that
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uh that was inflicted to these stints here uh so it is a continuation of the israeli attacks sorging the palestinian people including as you know those evacuation camps and the displacement centers wherever they were, i mean we are talking about the alamatas hospital, this place uh has to be it is supposed. to be protected by the international laws and legislations, however, it is not the first time for the israel incubation forces to target alata's hospital, let me remind you that over the past couple of weeks the israel cubition forces carried out an air strike against the same place, the whistling part of the yards in the alaxas hospital, killing then at least for palestinian civilians and leaving dozens of the palestinian injuries, so the israel incubation forces are still insisting on shedding more blood of palestinian people, these attack... actually or that that attack that took place over the last night was simultaneous to other attacks that was that were carried out against various spots of gaza c, particularly when it comes to uh gaza
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city whereas the israel cubition forces scaled up their attacks against multiple neighborhoods in the inside the city particularly when it comes to ashat refugee camp when the israelicubition uh forces targeted and destroyed at residential building their killing at least two palestinian civilians and leaving the scores the... injuries meanwhile another attack took place in zaittoon neighborhood whereas the israel incubation forces also intensified the artery shelling against multiple uh corners and parts of neighborhood needless to mention that azaton neighborhood is still under heavy bombardments and attacks of the israel incubation forces we are talking about roughly seven consecutive months and this area has been hit relentlessly by the israeli incubation forces particularly when it comes uh to the continuous and the seas this artillery shielling hitting that meanwhile another attack took place over the past couple of hours in the eastern part of neighborhood when the israeli fighter drones attacked a group of the parecinian people who
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were attempting to gathering as you know some kind of wood in order to help them to cook some food or something like that uh so the israeli attacks are still ubiquous against various areas of of gassip and even when it comes to the southern bart of gaz strip we are talking about the eastern part of khanunis in particular al fukari area. which is still witnessing uh a limited ground offensive carried out by the israeli incubation forces there, the israeli tanks managed to push forward against those areas - amid heavy gunfire and continuous as you shelling towards the presidential areas there, needless to mention that al fukare area alongside abasan and multiple areas there including khuzaah and man have been completely and totally destroyed by the israeli incubation forces over the repetitive and the frequent ground offensives and the non-stop israeli air strikes and shielling targeting those areas and moments ago by the way the israel drones uh dropped multiple
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bombs targeting gatherings of the palestinian farmers in the isimbard of abasan town there at least five palestinian farmers were reportedly injured as a result of the attack and so generally speaking we can see that the israelicubition forces are still intensifying their attacks against multiple areas of gaza strip "as you taking more lives of the palestinian people inflicting more destruction and devastation in every corner of gaza strip and if we want to talk about the general and the entire number of the palestinian casualties we are talking about at least as you 41,00 palestinian uh civilians, 41,500 palestinian civilians have been reporttedly killed since day one of this genocidal onslot, this number is rising incrementally and exponentially with the ongoing and insistent israeli u strikes and attacks are still hitting and the are still targeting ill swearing gaza strip. all right, thanks for that uh a live uh reporting and
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coverage that was our correspondent better yet in the ruins of terrabella in central gaza city and as he said the latest that we have and you saw that in the news sticker you still have it there 41,500 uh 34 palestinians this is the official uh actually uh stat that we have uh we have uh thousands of 1000 11 12 thousand people who are uh believed to be under rubble and they're presumed to be dead. this is the number that's announced by the health ministry there, they have identified the bodies and they say that these are the number of actually the identified uh palestinians have been killed and more than 96,00 have been injured so far. so there was the latest about the guys. let me go back to my guests got to uh ali res to begin with, so ali let's - now that we uh saw those pictures, live pictures there uh, in gaza, you know, the whole place is in ruins, tents
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are even being... uh hit and people inside those stens are losing their lives and they are palestinians, mostly civilians seldom commanders, so uh let's uh take a look at the motus operandi that we're just mentioning of the two sides the israel regime, the targets in terms of targets and in terms of the population that's targeted, now in lebanon hizballah has said that we are targeting and hit military sites of the israel regime, some structure, some iron dome structure, some telecommunications facilities, and if maybe one day if there is some collateral damage or whatever because of the iron dome, maybe they hit the hisballah missile and it goes and hits another target, which is not intended, and if there is only one is really that's a slightly injured, then just just look at the propaganda and the ball that are raised all
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over the world, if you remember those uh six israelis killed held in gaza and that was as result as hamas announced of the israeli fire, not what the resistance fighters did, and also it's interesting to see the world reaction, so in terms of modus operanding, the places hit and the people who are targeted, let's talk a little about this, and what kind of justification, what kind of mindset, i mean is this, why, why should the israeli regime consider uh that maybe the live of israel are much much dearer than lives of the palestinians. well, i'll add another incident to the one you mentioned, if you recall the incident in majd shams, which was used as a pretext for the israelis to assassinate forard, who was a senior hazballah commander. that in that incident, the israelis said that the liberty targeted, hazballah said it was a result of an israeli intercepting missile, that's right, but
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regardless israel did take the... pretext escalate, now regarding how the israelis view other people as people who it's legitimate to shed their blood. look at what the off galant, the israeli defense minister said early on in the war on gaza, he stated that in gaza there are the people there are human animals, that is indeed a mindset which is very much prevailing amongst the israelis, israeli ministers, particularly with this government which is the most fascist right-wing government in israel's history, that's becoming more and more prominent in the israeli discourse, so basically israel is being exposed as racist entity, and along with that the americans are being exposed, because the americans appear that they're supporting racist apartied regime, and i don't think that boats very well for the americans when they're trying to compete with other.