narrative. of hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, well the prison break on october the 7th by palestinian. fighters from gaza marked new

day in history for the palestinian people. it was victory after facing some many defeats since the balf war declaration 1917 in which the british promise palestine to the zinanis. the native population has been fighting the europeans and their american cousins. in 1948 israel was declared as state on the land of the palestinians. from wars to diplomatic attempts, the palestinian nation has faced a lack of success. success in regaining the right to their land, but on october 7th, 2023, new era was begun with palestine now becoming the top news story in the world, but i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. khalid barat, spokes person by the movement out of beirot, and is author and journalist

out of montreal. well, thank you both for being with me. i'll start off with harlet. um, prior to allox of flood, could you have imagined the palestinian people having such success an operation against the highly equipped iof troops the way they did on october the 7th. hello, good evening, sister merzia and hello you and to your guest. and viewers, actually the central question for palestinians before october 7th was how to go about confronting designist enemy and their policies in palestine, particularly we saw, you know, theft of land, attacking al aqsa, confiscating homes, you know, in al-quds, continuing the siege on ghazza. "the

oppression against palestinian political prisoners, the racist comments a daily basis by ministers like smoterich who said you know palestinians either they have to be our servant or they have to leave the country, statements like this, and then you know we saw netanyahu you know addresses the united nation with his you know stupid man." basically saying that you know this map represent israel from the river to the sea and basically ignored any rights for palestinian people so the central question for the resistance was what is the action that palestinians can take now in order to flip the table and change the equations of the conflict because the way it was going you know also the normalization you know path

with israel by arab governments and saudi arabia and israel was getting ready to bring their relationship into the public and say that you know basically to normalized relationship between both you know entities and so october 7th was the response to all of that but it also came in a qualitative and ' very say sophisticated palestinian resistance action against you know the israeli one of the most you know developed and sophisticated israeli yo units called gazza unit and they were defeated the israelies were defeated and the palestinian resistance marked a historical day on october 7th and change the world um not just change the... shook the

foundation of designers project, but also exposed it to the entire world, particularly since october 7, the world has been watching what this uh... is all about and that israel is nothing but settler colonialist racist entity in the heart of the muslim world and the arab world and that you know israel wants to dominate the entire region and i think that the muslim space if you will swallow the israeli time, the zahist time, they will not be able to force themselves as dominant force against you to... billion muslims across the world. all right, well arnold, the spokesman the hamas military wing, abu ubed says that operational flood was a massive preemptive strike against israel, which was finalizing a plan for major attack against the gaza

resistance. he also called it the most professional commando operation in modern times. your thoughts. yeah, firstly, i like to uh... hello to you, one of my favorite journalists in the world as well as to the other guests who i not yet had the pleasure to meet. allow me to say that i fully agree: october 7th was a historic move for the palestinian people, for the people in the middle east against united states and zionism. it was a surprise attack. i read lately that even some of the other. revolutionary movements in the region, islamic movement and other movements in the region was not aware of it, so was very secretive, very well planned, and it was a great success. i would say that it did changed the course of history in a very

positive way, it put palestine on the map as never before, yes there are many hardships, but in any case those hardships against the palestinian people were being. planned by united states in israel against palestine before october 7th. in fact, on october 6th, 2023, the day before the october 7th defensive attack against israel, design is carried out one of the most horrific attacks against the people of gaza, and everything was indicating that they were going to increase the attacks against the people of gaza as well as of... of course the people in the occupied territories, so that was, i would say it was defensive action, but first and foremost, it is valid, it is history has shown that the heroic resistance, the heroic breakout of the biggest concentration camp,

closed concentration camp in the world, they broke out of it and they took israel by surprise, and in a matter of 24 hours completely deconstructed the... myth that united states and zionism has been fostering over the last few decades, that israel is invincible, united states, israel together, they are invincible, nothing could touch us, they the palestinian people showed on that day with great heroism that this is false, and since then the zionism has never really recovered, they have not one year later they have not been able to defeat hamas and they admit that, all right? stay with me arnold, well uh khalet, i mean did you expect this level of relentless atrocities to take place by the israeli regime after the october the 7th operation? i don't think uh anyone did, because uh, as much as we have witnessed

israeli crimes since 1948 and even before that, in the 30s, you know, zianist militias have carried... many massacers against our people in palestine and in the arab world, i mean, but to this level, no, because i think that without a full us and western support to israel, i don't think you know that could have been possible, this is a us genocide, this is the united states war crimes against the palestinian people, and it's israel is backed up by this full military, financial. and political support that it enjoys from the western colonialist powers, particularly germany, britain and france, and so you know this is a genocide that that is being watched you, live, where where the people of the

world have just seen that israel is willing to not just kill tens of thousands of people and destroy all the entire strip, but also they are willing to put the entire region into a you know very dangerous. situation israel today is being looked as a entity that it's willing to jeopardize the entire uh you know uh west asia and the world and and that's why israel needs to be stopped and the only force that could stop israel and its war crimes against the palestinian people is the camp of resistance and the steadfastness of the palestinian people and of course you know um the people of the world who have been in shock to see what israel is all about and i think one of the strategic you know uh

benefits and achievements of october 7th was that israel will not be able to wash itself or wash its crimes you know uh ever right well arnold um immediately after the alaxa flood operation i mean we saw corporate media condemning the fighters and saying that hamas had killed raped and kidnapped uh many israelis during the operation, however later when video footage was reviewed, it became obvious that most of the israeli colonial settlers who had been killed, they were murdered by the regime itself. your thoughts about this, one how corporate media, mean some of them still continue with the original story, um, and then also do you think that israel implemented the hannibal directive in dealing with their own people? yes, it's it was very clear from day one that united

states and israel fabricated a whole series of lies with regards to that defensive action uh carried out by the palestinian resistance as you mentioned so-called babies heads cut off put into you ridiculous things rapes uh people's uh babies uh put in a oven and cooked in front of their mother all of these things were debunked. several months later, even by the new york times, even from much of the mainstream media, but what is disgusting today, one year later, much of the media, and especially israel, they keep on repeating that lie as if it's true, now i think that we talk about holocaust, there's the holocaust, the physical holocaust against the palestinian people, i think there's another kind of holocast that we have to take into account, looking from october 7 to today, and that is the holo cost of the narrative of the us ziner's narrative to dehumanize the

palestinian people, to have people around the world think that the palestinian people are not human, they do not deserve to live, and israel and united states has every right to do anything it can against it, that's why they keep on repeating these lies that have been debunked even by the mainstream media, that you know so-called atrocities that were carried out again. the the forces uh in israel, i just like to you know as far as those like my first reaction when that took place in october 7th, i didn't know much about it, i never heard of that kibut, but my first gut reaction was that when they said that there was a music festival taking place there, i said to myself, how can i have a music festival next to a concentration camp, it would be the equivalent, how would the jews have felt if the nazi german german nazis in the second? world war had a music fest festival outside of ashwitz prison concentration camp, it amounts to the same

thing, and i think that who were those people anyways, we know that the vast majority of israelis are conscripts, they have been in the army, or they are in the army, they're actually, i don't believe that is really a civil society in israel, it's mainly very much made up of very militarized, and most of the people have been or are in the israeli army and... cannibal directive, yes, it's been proven, we know now, they of course denied it, us and israel denied that at the beginning, but has it has come to light even by mainstream media, even media in israel, that the israel executed the hannibal directive, which comes from ancient greek times, but the basic thing is that the most important thing for in this case israel and and the united states is to... kill the hostages, the israeli hostages before they're captured by hamas, by the palestinian people,

so they cannot be used as a wedge, a bargaining chip to free political prisoners that are festering in the palestiny in the jails in israel, they yes they kill their own people with apache uh helicopters, we saw that, this is what happened, people have to realize people who are not sure sitting on the fence, they have to think back that the most of the people killed there was carried out by the israeli army in order to avoid their prisoners being captured by hamas, that is a real crime against humanity. right, indeed, and we we saw how that narrative... was repeated to get the world worked up against uh hamas and the palestinian nation in general khalid, the israeli regime immediately started as genocide in gaza after the operation, shocking the world, i mean the regime started targeting old and young, alite, sick and healthy with bombs and missiles and just about anything imaginable,

at the same time cutting off their electricity, water, food, supplies, i mean, why do you think that we have witness? is such levels of barbarism continually carried out by the regime during this last year, not that they did not deal in atrocities before, but it's been a whole different level during the last year and shown live in many cases. that's a very important question, because it actually shows the zionist regime uh... in term of its foundation, the culture that guides it, the fascism even their education system, palestinian lives are important and they can do whatever they want to palestinian or arab or muslim or african or anyone without feeling that they did anything wrong,

in fact you know you read that in their newspapers in their... books in their you know even the the stuff they they they teach children and when you you know conduct surveys or questioneers and you see that how you know the society is being fabricated, you feel like they're living in a different world, like the entire population lives in a different world than the one that we live in, they basically have managed to not just you know produce a fascist. political system, but also a fascist society, you know, it is absolutely horrific to see how you know this entire you know regime is in the heart of the you know our homeland and then they would always say that they're westerns and they have western culture and they share western

values and you know the question becomes what are you doing in the... and they're mostly coming from these you know european societies where colonization is already something that it's embedded in their you know history, mean when you look at you know how this how they view for example the people of the region they feel that they they're enemies and they look at not just palestinians but lebanese, syrians, egyptians, all the people of the region. they look at them as you know that they should be destroyed. in fact, i was reading today an article about how this textbook for children about a boy, an israeli boy who looks at lebanon and ours and they're trying to teach children that lebanon belongs to them, and basically, you know,

orchestrating the minds of children for generations. to come that lebanon is basically and you know an israeli territory, the same goes on golanhights, i mean it is, it is absurd to see how they talk of golanheits, the international, the world knows that golanheid is a syrian occur territories and it belongs to the people of syria, but you know israel considered the golan heights to be theres and trump said that he donated the golan heights for israel you know. himself, i mean as if he owns it, there is a property that he inherited from his father, i guess it goes back to the the the british and and thinking that they can just give anything away, even things that do not belong to them. well, arnold, uh, i mean, from the beginning, because call just mentioned lebanon, and from the beginning we know that uh, after the palestinians were targeted in gaza, lebanon's hazbolah opened

another front against the zionist regime to help relieve some... the pressure that the people in gaza was uh was going under. i want your perspective of uh how significant do you think the move that hezbulah made was? reason like united states and israel did not succeed in achieving its main objective to smash hamas, on the contrary, the hamas became even stronger. and so, in order to divert attention from that... defeat, they took up another front, that is lebanon, by attacking the people of lebanon, as we seen over the last few weeks, now i think inevitably as... "hamas was able to defend itself against israel and united states, against all odds, hezballah and the lebanese people, with the help of the access of resistance, will also

succeed in defeating the attempt by the united states and israel to take over lebanon once again, now we asking ourselves, how how come this is happening, first one year of genocide in in gasa, and now we're starting another..." side in lebanon, how come? here's my take, one of the main reason is i live in the heart of the empire, canada and united states, that is, it is behold on me to watch very carefully the corporate media in this part of the world and north america and i'm specifically referring to the cnn, the liberal cnn, and this is my take, how did how come we got here when there's you know virtually no, you know the opposition to israel is so to united states is so minimum and here's how it operates from the beginning after few months when it was obvious that palestine was able the palestinian and the

people in gaza were able to resist united states with the help of the media cnn said oh we are for a ceasefire israel is terrible they're doing these thing nethaniho is very bad person you we the united states we are in favor of peace we are in favor of a cease fire every day that kept they kept on injecting this image that israel and specifically netanyahu, not israeleli society, netanyahu is a bad guy, and we, united states are the good, reasonable americans, you know, and we want peace, this, and i think that this actually seeps into the minds of the peoples of the world, in the middle east perhaps as well, but certainly in the west, that the real guilty party is netanyahu, but it's not the case, it's the united states, but the... use of the media is very very specific, for example cnn, they use what i call a three jewish supremist journalists, that is dana abash, jake tapper,

jake tapper and and wolf blitzer, those jewish supremists are in the forefront of the cnn to project the image that we, united states were the good guys and we're we're against netanyahu who does not want sease fire, that that is i think one of the... reasons that united states and israel are able to carry this out for more than year and even taking out another country when we know very well, if united states was really in favor of a ceasefire, ending the hostilities, ending the genocide, they could cut off israel right now, because israel will not exist more than few days without the military, political backing of the united states of america. right, well last question really quick, i mean khaled, "we have seen uh so many people killed and of course we look at the international system that basically have failed uh the palestinians and now the

lebanese uh but but when we look at the israel stated goals going into gaza it said that one of the main goals was to destroy hamas uh we see today october the7 2024 that algasm brigades fired rockets that hit tel aviv" um, at the same time, i was just reading that the united states has put more sanctions against hamas, i mean your take on all of this, one, the failure and the complicity of the international um, international community, i only have one minute, but go ahead khalid, yes, well there is the israeli public intentions and declarations and there is the one that they don't talk about much and that is the displacement of the palestinian people and pushing the people of ghazza out in the desert of sai in order to reoccupy gazza, and the other thing is because israel is you know

failing in destroying the resistance, failing in on all fronts, they they have only one option, either to continue what they're doing or to you know agree to the conditions of the resistance now patient here. is the most important weapon because the resistance is steadfast and the people of ghazza is also understand these israeli intentions, but at the same time the whole world is uh, you know, watching, and we want to see more of an international pressure against israel, but unfortunately the balance of power today still in the favor of the us, and the united states does not care. at all about international law, the united states only cares about its colony, israel, and on that note, i appreciate both of you uh being with me khalid barakat out of beirout, arnold

august, out of montreal. my pleasure, thank you viewers for staying with us on another spotlight. i'm marza hashim, hope to see you right here next time. goodbye.

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