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watching palestine declassified, our twice-weekly program exposes the israeli regime's global war against solidarity with the illegally occupied people of palestine. in today's show, we'll be looking at the consequences for the zienist entity of its year long genocide, which has turned the whole world's population against it. 12 months after the alaxa flood operation by palestinian resistance factions, it looks increasingly like the end is nigh for the zionist project, as latifer will explain in our first report. the year anniversary of an unprecedented military operation against the zionist entity, the al-aqsa flood, how settler society addicted to killing, eventually killed itself. where are we today? israel has launched a fire genocide on the population of ghazza, killing over 40,000 people, mostly women and children. it has continued to besege the landlocked people of gaza, many of them refugees from within the zionist entity. the lancet medical journal.

estimates that around 200 thousand deaths in ghazza can be attributed to israel's genocidal campaign. this situation has led to an outporing of support for palestine across the world. never before has the palestinian flag been as ubiquitous as it has become today. in trying to white palestine off the map, israel has rendered the whole world palestine. tens of millions of people have been mobilizing on the streets across the world. capitals in support of the palestinian people. in seeking to besege the people of razza, zionism has besieged itself and seems to be in terminal decline. the humanitarian interventions of yemen and lebanon have led to the bankrupting of the keys port of ilat and the displacement of over 100 thousand settlers from the north of occupied palestine. the export of goods and services from israel fell by almost 20%. and almost

60,000 israeli businesses are expected to go bust in 2024 due to the war. the israeli gdp also lost 20%. the company intel decided to withdraw a $25 billion investment away from designist entity. israel's power grid is reliant on coal from colombia which has now stopped. the other key suppliers are south africa and russia and one of those states is prosecute. israel in the icj for the crime of genocide. we have also seen waves of israelis leaving the entity and seeking citizenship elsewhere. even zionist historians like uval, noah, harari, are predicting the end of zionism. was that faithful day last october, the beginning of the end for the zinist project in palestine? joining me in the studio, as usual is residence expert david

miller who's widely regarded as the uk's preeminent scholarly critic of israel. david's a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul zame university and is a co-director of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch. our of guest contributor today is the investigative journalist patrick henningson who founded the independent news and analysis website 21st century wire. welcome to the show. david the alaxa flood was an unprecedented operation by the palestinian resistance wasn't it? it certainly was. i mean. let people forget, they think is being hamas and of course hamas is the leading force in the resistance, but there are six or even seven armed groups were engaged in a flood, including the pflp, the popular front for liberation palestine, the democratic front for liberation palestine, second biggest group of course is the palestinan islamic jihad, and there are other armed groups as well, and they they all collectively uh operated uh, now that was an unprecedent thing, they broke out they and they actually traveled very quite far into 48 israel as as it's called uh before they were

uh driven back by by the uh the occupation fortes patrick um hamas has claimed that russia said they would teach the alaxa flood operation in their military school. what do you make of that? well, i expect uh, what i'm about to say would probably deeply upset supporters of of israel and neoconservatives and the like, but it says a lot that the world's preeminent military institution recognizes the impact, the historical impact, the geopolitical impact of this important event, and you know the israeli occupation forces were definitely caught unawares. by this operation alexa flood on october 7th, how it was conducted, how effective the insurgency was and i would add this as well, history will also record and even more importantly the reaction by israel after this, the unhinged over the top, almost you

could say psychotic reaction by the israeli regime and its occupation forces, they have effectively sprung a trap of their own, making and which could very well turn out to be really epic falter that leads to the complete demise of the entire israeli colonial settler project uh that's been supported traditionally by the british and then taken over by the us and by other european countries to prop up this situation in the middle east, so it could be something that leads to its own demise, only time will tell. well david, it was also claimed that uh "hamas obtained licenses from russia to locally produce the klashnikovs that were used in the operation. well, the the russian role in this is not well understood. i mean, russians are clearly supportive for the palestinians, but they actually have done specific things to support the access of

resistance. people don't know this, but the russians have observation posts on the border uh, in in syria with the they they occupied goan heights, which the designists took in 1967, which is..." which is actually syrian territory, the russians have observation towers all along that border, including new ones that they've set up in the last couple of years in the raids that the uh ziners have been doing on damascus and other parts of syria, russian planes have been patrolling the the mediterranean coast of syria to dissuade the occupation forces, so russia is heavily invested in this this conflic, but they have tried to keep out of direct a direct involvement in in the actual conflict, but it's not clear how how how far that can be sustained in the the potential of a incursion into lebanon and and even perhaps further incursions into syria, so we will see what happens with that, but russia clearly is on the side of the palestinians, it just hasn't taken the the direct actions which some of some people have been hoping for, right? okay, well patrick, um, we've

previously reported on palestine declassified that it appeared that israel implemented the hannibal directive on october the 7th last year, what do you know about that? well the forensic evidence is clear, um, the the hannibal directive was implemented on october 7th, and not just the hannibal directive, by the way, this has been admitted by top uh israeli military experts, former uh military commanders from different branches of of the israeli forces, uh, and this was a mass hannibal on october 7th, in other words, uh, what the israeli occupation forces carried out, is something that they've never even done before, and if you look at the specifically the forensic evidence of all the automobiles um that were burned out and torched, clearly uh the palestinian resistance fighters didn't have the type of weaponry uh to do that sort of fire bombing with hundreds of vehicles containing, many of

them israeli civilians, some of them fleeing uh the scene at the nova music festival nearby the the border wall there, and what it shows us is that clearly this is... israeli reports, i'm talking about herets, i'm talking about the times of israel, there's been various admissions in especially in the hebrew press, afterwards that apache helicopters basically did the damage there, and what this does is it destroys the core narrative of october 7th from the israeli and american and allied israeli side, which is that 1,200 people were slaughtered or civilians were slaughtered on october 7th by hamas and it's simply... not true, the evidence doesn't actually reflect that, what we see is that there are a potentially hundreds of israeli civilians that were killed by the israeli military. well david, the the operation included other factions, as you mentioned, haven't you, like the pflp,

and um, they've haven't been prescribed by the uk government, so i mean, is there a case in your opinion for the government? to unprescribe hispalah and and hamas, so the the there are four armed groups who have been prescribed who are involved in this, been prescribed by the british government, hesbolah, hamas, palestinian. islam and jihad and the pflp general command, which is separate organization from the pflp, which is not prescribed, the dflp is not prescribed and various other of the other organizations, they are the marters brigades who who are not not prescribed either, so there's an inconsistency there, now so what what should happen of course is that they should be deprescribing all of them because the prescription makes it very difficult for the british to play any kind of role in in ending this conflict even even uh role on behalf of the zionist, they can't play any proper role because they can't talk directly to hamas, to

palestinians lahat, and really they should be able to do that, there should be a question of of a of a of involving directly in a peace process which will have to come uh once the zianists are defeated, yes indeed, well well patrick, i mean how will this all end do you think? that's not an easy question to answer uh, how is it? going to end, i think from an israeli point of view they would like a swift and decisive victory, that's pretty clear, but they're not getting it, if you think about it, we're 12 months later, they haven't defeated hamas, in fact israel hasn't even eliminated uh any of hamas's top military commanders, they've done as well as seeming to, they've done well to assassinate uh other leaders around in other countries uh either assassinations in iran, syria uh and lebanon, but they haven't touched anything uh in gaza

in terms of the top command structure, and what does that tell you? that tells you they haven't defeated uh hamas, now they're in a protracted, entrenched uh conflict there, with no clear decisive victory, taking huge losses, they've done a lot of damage to gaza and the people of gaza, but they haven't achieved any of their military objectives, the same could be true now with their potentially protracted... conflict with hesbollah, with lebanon, potentially with syria and and iran and yemen, with ansar allah, so from from israel point of view, this is the worst possible outcome, it could be death by a thousand cuts, slow bleeding, slow sort of demise for israel as a regional hegemon, but it's never been a regional hegemon, always been propped up by the united states and its allies, it can't defend itself, israel can't quote, defend itself without the us providing all the artillery,

all of the reconnaissance, all of the assistance technically, and all of the bombs and all of the aircraft for that matter, and all the engineering and technical support, they can't do anything without the united states, so israel its own can't defend itself, what does that tell you? by definition, this is a colonial project, it always was and now we can really see to what degree it's absolutely. on other foreign superpowers in order to prop up, what is essentially a protectorate for western imperialist interest at this point? well, our next report looks at the zionist illegal operation in south lebanon that resulted in the assassination of. part of the domino effect that was set into motion by the alax of flood was the events leading up to the assassination of hezbollah secretary general hasannasrollah. on the 27th of september 2024. it is believed his decision to stand

with gaza and refuse to relinquish his support is the reason for his killing. the assassination took the form of 85 tons of bunkerbuster bombs being used to level six residential buildings in the southern suburb of beirut, al-dahia. the operation is thought to have caused the killing of hundreds of innocent civilians, with many being vaporized on impact due to the... power of the bombs used, the body of hassan nasrolla was found 40 mes underground in full form, the cause of death is believed to be shock from the power the explosion. israel claims units 9900, 8200 and 504 were the sources of intelligence for the illegal operation. unit 9900 is known for visual intelligence gathered by satellite, and it is believed information was obtained. by following the activities of hisbollah figures in the area around the residential

complex. unit 8200 is known for signal intelligence and the monitoring of communications. by constant surveillance of phone calls, the unit may have been able to discern that nestrala was expected at the location. unit 504, which israel claims to have drawn information from the operation is responsible for human intelligence, thus implying that there was someone in the vicinity of the buildings passing information on the meeting to the israelis. assuming this assassination spells the end of hisbollah would be wrong-headed. when israel killed. abbas musawi, the previous secretary general and the founding member of hisbollah in the early 90s, zianist newspapers exclaimed that hisbullah was over. there is a deep lesson in this refusal to die, as imam khumeini once said, killing us will only increase our people's awareness. well, david, just

explain, will you, hisbolla's role in the gaza war? so, as the palestinian resistance confirmed, they they hadn't told heizballah or iran or the uh resistance in iraq that they were going to do the operation, so it was it was, it was a surprise to them to some extent, but with within a day of it happening, hezballah was engaged with the zionist entity uh in trying to support what was uh the people in gaza. patrick, what can israel expect, do you think now that it's launched its ground operation into south lebanon? i think... history is going to look back potentially at israel's attempted invasion of south lebanon as one of its biggest uh missteps uh in all of the events we've seen over the last 12 months and maybe in its history um it really shows you that there is absolutely some sort of a political timeline or expiration date um for how the

regime intel aviv feels that it has to conduct affairs to get results for put perhaps domestic political reasons for the uh sustainability of the regime, and it's going to make huge mistakes as a result, this is this is a perfect example, um, israel hasn't destroyed, israel hasn't destroyed hezbollah's military command structure, they have assassinated its leadership and some of its top leaders, but the military command structure is still in place, all of its many thousands of missiles are still... uh ready to be deployed, and if you think about what's happened recently with iran's missile uh retaliation against israel, this could be coupled with uh massive salvos coming from south lebanon, also coming from uh yemen with answer allah, drones and missiles. oh, david, tell us about the units involved in the

bombing of those six residential buildings that that killed nasrala. well, the is said three. separate units involved now obviously first of all we have to say you know we take this with a massive massive pinch of salt, we do we don't believe what they see, but let's look at the at them, mean five or four is the is as we said in the film human intelligence, now human intelligence is in form actually it would have to be informers who are in the vicinity, it would might be informers who are in other parts of of the machinery of of or indeed the access of resistance as as as the the designers have been tried to say oh there is informers everywhere. but we've penetrated the organization, i wouldn't take that seriously, but they clearly do have some informers, so but we don't know where they were uh, in the the apparatus, but also it's clearly the case that hezball have had plans for what to do in the event of decapitation strikes, this would be seen us and so it's not, it's not clear that the penetration goes so far as as to have put action, in fact of

course we can see from the the uh response of hisbolah in firing. huge numbers of rockets across the border in the last few days that that that hasn't happened, they haven't been put out of action, so that's human intelligence, and the extent to which they have penetrated hisb, i think we must be slightly skeptical, but unit a 200 is of course the signals intelligence unit, and that is of course the the the unit within the uh occupation forces, it's military intelligence, but it's a signal intelligence units, so in in the uk for example that's gchq, and in in the us, that's the... security agency, but held within military intelligence uh in israel, which is not in the other two countries, so that that's the their operation and the they have this massive base in the golan heights, they have another base near tel aviv, and these are the bases which are being attacked on a regular basis now by both the iraqy resistance and indeed yemen, yes indeed, but patrick, i mean

is a war of attrition on the cards then, it's hard to predict what the regime... uh in israel will do um, if it feels it's backed up against the wall and this is an existential moment, because let's face it, the the whole settler colonial project isn't looking very good at the moment in terms of guaranteeing the security of people emigrating from all around the world to to israel, it's not looking great, so if they feel they might need to deploy weapon of mass destruction uh to send message to iran, but that might end up is another escalation and that might bring in other superpowers, we might have uh some kind of a perhaps a third world war, but either way this is going to take a long time, so that war of attrition, i think... is more likely scenario um either way, because i think there's this huge underestimation by the western press, by western political actors and people in the pundanty class, that

somehow all of the resistance in the middle east, opposing israeli occupation, whether it's occupation in palestine, whether it's occupation in south lebanon, whether it's the occupation of syrian territory in the golen heights, that they're all just basically going to bow down and sort of give up. and capitulate to intimidation by israel and the us, and that's simply not the case, we can see that now, so that means we're going probably going to have very long protracted conflict, it's going to be a managed conflict, certainly that's in the best interests of the united states, but it's really up to how israel's going to conduct its decision making in the near term as to how badly this whole crisis could spread? "well david, tell us about the the last two times that israel was defeated in south leben, it seems like they're engaged in a sort of forever war, because you know when they when they sort of you took the leader of

of hispalah out previously, as we heard in the film, they were claiming this was the end of of hisball, it clearly wasn't, they've done the same strategy now - is it forever war the into what's going on? well, they want to expand into a greater israel, don't they, they invaded in 1982, they were..." kicked out in 2000 and kicked out again in 2006, so i mean what happ, what happened in 2006, i mean you can you can read this in some in some of the uh the us military accounts of what happened in 2006 and how how it happened, what eventually happened was that hisballah defeated the occupation forces in 2006 with simply 3,000 men, now they had more men, they had they had reserves, but they didn't call them up, the the israelis called up their own reserves, but hisb decided against. calling up their reserves and they defeated the the whole of the occupation forces with 300 men in south lebanon. well, patrick, what do you think the role of the united states is in all this war? certainly

the israelis would like to uh believe that they are the masters of their own destiny, and i think in terms of the uh internal propagandizing of israeli society and of the sort of... uh is you the world jewish diaspora, many of them zionists that look at israel as their kind of last resort homeland, um, i think they'd like to look at it like they're the masters of their own destiny, but in many ways the sustainability uh of their existence in the region really depends on the support by the united states uh in their european partners. well, i'm afraid that's all we got time for today, so thanks for watching and thank you to our guest patrick hanningson. of course our resident expert professor david miller. you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates and if you're dismayed by the corporate media churning out relentless misinformation about

palestine, just share our content on your social media platforms to provide an antidote to that prozionist propaganda. so until next time when i hope you'll join us again on palestine declassified. this is chris williams for saying bye for now. firstly i want to tell the journalists who want to report from the frontlines that they shouldn't go there in search of fame, instead they should bear a message and have cause to defend. the media warfare is essential because the camera has become a weapon aik into the... rifle and the missile used by the resistance fighters. media is double edge swirt and we should wield it carefully.

indeed, rifles and cameras have become complementary weapons. we can't separate them. our message is to support the truth against the falsehood. a blinding flash of white light lit up the sky over gaza tonight, people running for cover, not knowing whether they're dead or alive, they came. came with their tanks and their planes, ravaging fiery planes, nothing remains, just the voice. rising up in the

smoky haze, we will not go down in the night without a fight, you can burn up our masks and our homes and our schools, but our spirit will never die, we will not go down in gaza tonight. women and children alike murdered and massacre night after night, while the so-called leaders of countries afar debated on who's wrong or right, but their powerless words were in vain, and the bombs fell down like acid rain, but through the tears and...

in the blood and the pain, you can still hear that voice through the smoky haze, we will not go down in the night without a fight, we will not go down agaza tonight. gaza tonight!

that minds hispalla carries out new anti-israel operations. targeting the regime's military positions and forces with rocket brages and artillery fire. un officials worn about the repetition of gaza's humanitarian disaster in lebanon, where israel continues to attack civilians. and also on our headlines, nearly two dozen palestinians are killed in the latest israeli air strikes on gaza where the overall death turneers 42,00.