welcome to spotlight. leader of the islamic revolution. said ali khamenei has called for muslim unity in the face of israel's crimes in gaza and lebanon. in his words, any blow to the regime is a service to all of humanity. these remarks come as israel is continuing with its full-scale aggression attacking gaza and lebanon from ground and air. the regime also continues spilling blood in the occupied west bank, syria and yemen, and has shown zero will to entertain avenues that could need to an end of hostilities and a restoration to some com in the region. meanwhile, resistance groups are continuing their retaliatory attacks on the israeli regime. those topics and more will be discussed tonight's edition of spotlight. here our guests. author and political

activist eve angler joining us from montreal and we also have independent international affairs analyst gilbert doctor who's joining us from brussels. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. angler in montreal, the leader of iran's islamic revolution, ayatollah khamenei, he made address today uh urging muslim unity. against israel, how pivotal can that unity be when uh unity among many regional countries is the missing component in confronting and shutting down the israeli crimes in the region? well it could be, it could be uh, i don't know that it will be, it certainly hasn't been, mean if you look at even the uh bordering countries uh, they've basically been complicit with israel's. or number of them

have the different regimes in the region, but it obviously could be, mean it's a large part of the world's population and and there there obviously is affinity, but if you look at how the us and israel have been able to divide the region, weaken countries, destroy efforts at development, subordinate different governments, um, it's it's difficult uh, so uh, but but it certainly, it certainly could be, and i think that one of the things that could change the dynamics is if some of these governments that have been complicit in the normalization process, have have, diff diplomatic relations and trade relations with israel, uh, if they if they fall, whether that's in jordan, whether that's in egypt uh of or or elsewhere. gilbert doctor uh staying

with uh khamini's address today, the leader hailed the retaliatory missile strikes by the iranian armed forces and he said that tuesday's response to israel was legitimate and lawful. now under article 51 of the un charter, tehran exercised self-defense. that's a notion stressed by many iranian officials. do you agree that this was a proper and justified response? yes, unequivocally. this that's exactly what it was, it was also very moderate, it was sending a clear message about iran's capabilities about its hypersonic missiles, their accuracy, it was not intended to do vast damage, and it was definitely to avoid causing civilian or even military casualties, it was to to to to show an unmistakable way that israel's air defenses are incapable. of

countering the offensive weapons that iran possesses, in that sense was success, but for the general public, for the readers of the new york times, this is too subtle message. in the pentagon, i think there may be few acute minds to understand it, and that they were the ones the audience of this attack by iran. right, and mr. angler, share with us your opinion on iran's operation true. to that was carried out carried out against the israeli regime on october 1st, it's being considered as a failure for the israelis which can no longer boast their military superiority, and that goes for the us as well, which could not fully protect israel. uh, have the iranian operations, true promise one and true promise two, have they changed some of the military equations in west asia in your opinion? well, they certainly changed the couple of week. of one-sided israeli

successes in terms of obviously killing nasarala, the the communications devices. is blowing that up, clearly a whole bunch of israeli successes in in in lebanon. um, and so i think that there's no doubt about it that, this show that israel is exposed, israel can can cause lot of damage, but if it gets into a full-on war with with iran, iran can cause a whole lot of damage to to uh to israel, um, the leader of the canadian uh... opposition party who's going to probably be the next prime minister of canada, pierre poliev, he said in response to this these iranian missiles, he said, all of these attacks were targeted at civilians, none of them were pinpointing military targets, so as per my colleague, the this is a canadian

politician with the absolute lie, the lie upon lie, it's a absolute complete reversal of reality where they targeted military targets very... very clearly did everything they could to avoid civilian casualties and were very successful uh in in those two uh objectives, but canadian public is so uh ignorant of what's going on that this politician can lie so flagrantly and there's even you know there's no kind of response to it, there's no political pushback, there's no media pushback um so so this is the and it's the same dynamic goes on in the u.s. of course. um there's a small number of people who are following this uh properly who are seeking out uh alternative information, but the dominant media is just totally one-sided, and if you were to listen to the dominant media, it's as if there was you know they israel shot all everything down uh it was a big failure and then simultaneously they were

trying to target civilians though no civilians were killed um but it's um it speaks to it and then and and if you look at canadian us politicians like i just listened to joe biden. he's basically giving the us giving israel a green light to to major uh attack against iran uh and canadian politicians are doing the same this is um hopefully the more sober-minded military strategists in the israeli government uh realize that that's uh a big mistake and it's just going to lead to all kinds of damage in israel but but uh clearly there's a lot of support among um the political elite in these uh g7 countries for um even more uh escalation by by israel in the region, right? gilbert, doctor, let's uh, um, turn our attention to the attacks that are taking place in lebanon. israel is bombing hospitals, clinics, medical personnel, just like it did in gaza, many are seeing the

aggression against the lebanese as basically a continuation of the gaza genocide. the world watched israel flatten and demolish gaza and murder over 41,000 palestinians. 'the international community basically did nothing, will it do something this time around? let's leave the international community out of it, even coming back to your first question regarding the the muslim nations and what they can do to to alleviate the pain that that their brethren are experiencing in palestine, in lebanon and so forth, the the the to understand the situation we have to take a step back from what we've been talking'. talking about in the last few minutes and ask who is driving this? the assumption i assume from the question and from the answer of my fellow panelist is that israel is driving this and the united states is supporting it. i deg to differ with that. united states is driving it. israel is the proxy of the united states

and the united states is practicing in the middle east through israel exactly the same proxy war that is that is carrying on with through by means of ukraine against. that has to be clear either to understand how the countries around will react and what are the limits on iran's possibility of meeting the challenge. iran is facing the united states, not just israel, and i think your leadership knows that perfectly well. the general public does not aware does not know that, because they think mr. netanyahu is is drawing mr. biden around by the nose, that isn't the case. all right, and what about the issue of?

on october 24th of the general strategic cooperation between russia and and iran, because then it will be perfectly clear that united states. not iran, but russia. eve angler, uh, let's focus more on the us's position regarding uh, not just the gauza genocide, but israel's regional crimes. how can washington at the same time, um, claim that it's pushing for a ceasefire and say that it doesn't want a broader regional escalation, but at the same time it's providing israel with the tools with the arsenal and the all-out support to continue killing innocent women and children, and it's... not just in gaza anymore, well they can say it because they lie uh, that's uh,

they they of course have provided all kinds of material support, intelligence support, diplomatic support for all the crimes obviously in gaza, which keep going on, and the you know the killing still is remarkable level of killing uh, and there's just new couple different reports out showing that there sort of a minimum of 100 thousand. people that have been killed in gaza is the is the correct number contrary to the numbers we hear um and uh and almost everything's destroyed the buildings of un satellite two more than two-thirds of buildings 68% of the demand um so the the crimes are really you know remarkable and then as we're seeing you know it's picking up with with ' with uh in lebanon and they can claim that uh, they just

blow up roads between lebanon and syria and you know because there was a hezballah truck that used the road, i mean it that if you use that basis of justifying uh you destroy infrastructure, i mean basically you could destroy all the infrastructure in lebanon um and that's that's certainly where where israel's going and and so when you talk about us complicity i mean it's endless. i mean, the fact that it was, i just think on thursday, there was a new shipment of agreed to of 8.7 billion dollars, i think it was, on uh, about a week ago of of of new weapons, right after israel's, all the uh walkie and other killings in in in lebanon, um, so so the us is totally complicit, and we're seeing that, just the rhetoric uh, that i just listened to with biden, he's not even putting any kind of breaks. i mean even at the rhetorical level right, like beyond the arms and all the other forms of support, but he

he's putting very minimal kind of breaks uh rhetorically on um on what he's you know going to support in terms of israel uh uh hitting hitting iran uh and he's almost there's almost no you know threshold he's not saying anything about threshold of of blowing stuff up in in in lebanon it's all oh this is defend they have the right to defend themselves and and on and on. so um, it is remarkable to see it, it it it's kind of surprising to me at some level, because i do think and that was the first question asked of biden was basically, is israel intervening in the us election, or is netanyahu doing what he's doing right now, because he prefers donald trump, and i and i am of the agreement, i agree that the us is totally complicit in all of this, but i do think that from the uh camala harris's perspective, huge war in the region is... not going to be good for her electoral chances, so and i do think that netanyahu is using this time frame in

part um uh to basically help donald trump win, and um so so you know that's a variable in this whole mix, but clearly the us is uh has enabled, has supplied, has in some cases encouraged, i mean they there were political reported they encouraging israel to attack uh uh lebanon, um so u.s. complicity goes to every different level in this... in these crimes, mr. doctoral, yes, do you agree with what? no, i don't agree, the very, the very exhibits that he produced, that united states encouraged the attack, but let's take it to the logical. "the united states is not complicit in this, the united states is directing all of this, and

therefore it is very understandable that iran is moving very cautiously, iran is not going to take on the united states by itself, that's clear as can be, however, the russians have already put their cards on the table, some of them, and those cards are favoring the implementation of defense alliance with iran, and that is..." where things are headed, and it is only when the situation in the middle east comes a little bit closer to the situation in in ukraine, russia, that there will be a... end result that we can look upon with some favor. russia is winning that war, iran will win its war, and they come back to your first question about the muslim world, all states, muslim or not muslim tend to like winners and tend to abandon losers. if iran wins clearly its contest with israel and behind israel, the

united states, the whole muslim world will unite with iran. shiite, sunni will make no difference. okay, eve angler, israel has a history of assassinations, but uh, it's been evident that eliminating individuals, even high-ranking figures has not defeated the resistance, and the core concept of the resistance, it will not just go away, it's not worked in the past and it hasn't worked now, give us your perspective on that. i mean, of course, i mean, so long as the injustices of... are so flagrant there's always going to be resistance, there's no doubt about that, and you kill, you kill so many people in gaza and you're going to have more people that join amass forces and and similar dynamic in lebanon and elsewhere in the region. it was just reported that the iraqi resistance was able to kill two israeli soldiers in the golan, i guess probably few

hours ago, which is apparently withdrone withdrone. a couple drones um and and obviously the the israelis they have such superiority in the sky and they've been able to and they also have clearly very good infiltration of hezbulah's uh communications and they've been able to you know succeed on that front in those fronts very clearly but they've had you know the first few days of trying to trying to kind of prod uh uh hezbillah's ability on the ground has a whole bunch of israeli soldiers have been killed and whole bunch of tanks have been blown up and and and things aren't looking very good uh at least in the initial phase on that on that front and i think that the you know the hezbillah fighters no um know the train they know how to fight and um i think that the israelis are don't have the same kind of um uh you know will uh to fight um and then of course with what we've seen with the iran's

uh missiles um there's you know that on that front that level also israel is uh is vul um, but i, but i think that i don't think israel is going to be defeated militarily at all, i think that the best case scenario from from the resistance forces is is some degree of of of of a bit of a stalemate with of course israel uh unleashing mayhem in obviously already in gaza and to a certain extent in lebanon, um, but uh, but but yeah, the the the issue is and then this is the long-term issue with with you, a whole region of... over billion muslims, uh, hundreds and hundred millions of arabs in the region, is that so long as israel chooses expansionism over security uh, it's eventually going to collapse, it has to collapse, it can't go on forever, this level of of of land theft and apartide and racial superiority, it can't go on forever, uh, and so you know, eventually

what the form of of it being defeated, and and i think there's... one of the things that israel is just so drunk on uh on jewish supremacism and and expansionism that the people who are lot of people who are running israel are not actually kind of shrewed thinkers in in in their more messianic than they are sort of th shrewed thinkers in terms of being more sensible uh and and and so i think they they may very well have bitten off more than they can um than they can eat. gilbert doctor, your thoughts on the uh the persistence uh of the resistance, even when we see a high ranking leaders and officials being assassinated by the israelis, which is it's common practice by the israelis and we've seen that in the past, but yet even with the situation right now in lebanon

following the assassination of said hasan now, we see we see hesmoll resistance forces still um putting up. resistance against israelis. i think you have to look at the audience for these assassinations, and you have to say consider that perhaps the israeli leadership is not very different from the american leadership, in which pragmatism has disappeared several decades ago, in which government policy is led by ideal ideologues and they are in the game of public relations. the israeli public... was ecstatic over the assassination of the the hezbulah top leadership, ecstatic, mr. netanyahu's government received addition. members in in the war cabinet, which is sure mr. netanyahu of continued rule for at least another year, so this was not, the assassinations are not

intended or they wished for, but they will not have a pragmatic consequence of weakening, of weakening hamas and i think some people in israel understand that, however, that's not what they're interested in, they're interested in keeping their own power within israel, and for that purpose the assassinations were fantastically successful. mr. angler, would you like to add anything to that? yeah, i mean, i agree to a large extent, i mean i do think the the the assassinations and the specifically the comm disrupting the communications of hezbulah, i think that that does have damaging impact on on the organization, i i wouldn't go completely in that. far, but but no, the infrastructure is basically intact, it's a much more robust organization than just even assassinating dozens of of of top leaders and

and and so you and and the people who are you know on the ground they know what to do, when israeli troops come in, they they they've fought and they know the the their objective, their objective is to drive the israeli troops out out of lebanese territory, so so they don't need some command from on high. to uh uh to do that, but but yeah, i think that there is a important part of this is politicking for netanyahu um, and and and they believe themselves too, right? i mean, i think that the the us officials and some of the israeli officials saying that this is the opportunity to, change the map of the middle east and all this kind of stuff, they do believe their own kind of rhetoric and they believe that that they you know can just just i don't wipe out hezball, wipe out. wipe out iran uh and it's just going to be some uh some new middle east of of everyone's going to love the us and everyone's going to love israel and uh and everyone's going to be

happy ever after that's i think they believe that at some uh you know there's a lot of people who understand that's that's ludicrous but there's a lot of the people who have lot of power who actually believe those kind of crazy ideas and uh mr doctor let's um end it on this note about the double standard and that we're seeing from the united nation from the united states and from international institutions, even like the united nations as well when they the security council fails to condemn the ongoing israeli crimes and aggressions, if an arab or muslim majority country had done what israel has done over the past few weeks, not even the whole year the gaza genocide, just the past few weeks, how do you think the west would have? wanted to it? well, your question assumes a just world. sadly we don't live in a just world. the hypocrisy is the small currency of

diplomacy everywhere. that is not the objectionable issue here. the objectionable issue is the genocide, is the mass murder that's going on? and that is, that is shocking beyond description. i don't worry about hypocrisy, i worry about genocide. all right, gentlemen, we can have. to leave it there uh author and political activist eve angler joining us from montreal. independent international affairs analyst gilbert doctor uh joining us from brussels a thank you gentlemen for contributing to tonight's show and a special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight spot night. it's good night for now and see you next time. the netherlands, the hague near the sorflet national park, peace palace. the most

important case of the court was dealing with humanitarian disaster between the eastern part of the jordan river and its mediterranean coast. israel has been at war in the gaza strip since october 2023. killing civil. the elderly, women, and children. they all presented the world with dramatic moments that had not been shown in any historical genre movie. it was a massive genocide that israel engaged in. if the legal campaign continues, it can spell the end of israel. this is an opening of justice that can turn the world upside down. انا بدي اختم بكلام معنويا شوفوا نحن بثقافتنا نؤمن بالله عز وجل.

وان الله سبحانه وتعالى بيده ملكوت السماوات والارض وكل شيء في يد الله سبحانه وتعالى ونحن بنعتبر انه عم نقوم تكليفنا نحن عباده ونعبده نعبده في الصلاه ونعبده في الجهاد وعندما نطيعه ونعبده نكون جندا له وعندما نكون جندا له نصبح جزءا من جنوده في هذا الوجود وفي هذا الكون وما يعلم جنود ربك. الا هو وما يعلم جنود ربك الا هو انتم تخوضون معركه خائبه فاشله لن تؤدي الى اي نتيجه القتل يزيدنا وعيا وعنادا واصرارا.

over the past four decades, the islamic revolution guard core has made great strides in developing its missile capabilities, defense program to guarantee the country's deterrance power. but can iranian missiles deter the country's arch enemies from serious invasion or... they punish them in case of invasion, one you're watching,

the headlines says iran's later. retaliatory response to israel was legitimate and lawful, and the least punishment of the regime for its aggression. iran's foreign minister, she says tehron will support any effort for a cease fire in lebanon and the gauza strip, and the world health organization is raised the alarm over the growing number of casualties among the medical workers amid israeli.