hello, this is international review, in the studio is fyodor lukyanov. today on the program is international review, events of the week, chronicle, facts, comments, the leader of hezbollah has been eliminated, long live the new nasrallah, the party of allah has chosen its next leader, a mestreran with delivery to israel, out of a hundred rockets only a few hit the target, in tel aviv they promise that their response will be...

interview with hassan nasrallah in ninety-seventh year. he believed that he was being hunted, because his predecessor was destroyed by the israeli missile. 27 years later, this week, the leader of the lebanese shi'id military-political organization hezbollah was killed in a massive israeli strike on its headquarters in beirut, along with other members of the leadership. the situation escalated after the massive explosion. iran

launched 180 ballistic missiles at targets in israel. the damage was moderate, but the fact itself is unprecedented. they started talking about a real big war in the middle east, with long-suffering lebanon again in the center. most of beirut and southern lebanon were controlled by the organization's troops liberation of palestine, yasser arafat. they were forced out of the palestinian territories as a result of the arab-israeli war of sixty -seven. in lebanon, they provoked a civil war that began in seventy-five and lasted for 15 long years. the country was divided into two camps. on one side were the supporters of the christian party of the phalangists - kataep. and president

camille chamoun. they were oriented towards european countries. they were opposed by the muslim community, which generally supported the palestinians and the druze kamal jonblat. in april of 1976 , syrian president hafiz al-assad also intervened in the war. his troops entered lebanon as an inter-arab deterrent force by decision of the arab league . the lebanese capital became the main epicenter of the confrontation. observation posts and combat positions of the opposing sides were located on the upper floors of luxury hotels. the city was divided into two sectors: the eastern christian and the western muslim. in the summer of 1982, israel once again invaded lebanon and its army reached beirut. arafat's fighters left the capital of lebanon, but the civil

war did not end. at the headquarters of the christian fallangist party, its leader, bashir shmeigel, who had just been elected president of lebanon, was killed. the blame for the murder was placed on palestinian militants who were hiding in the refugee camps of sabra and shatila on the outskirts of beirut. the kataep fallangists, with the support of the israeli army, entered the camps and , according to the un, killed more than 700 people. the palestinians say the figure is 3,500. on october 24 , 1983, in beirut, a truck with explosives, controlled by a suicide bomber, broke through security cordons, drove into the territory of the headquarters of the american marines, crashed into one of the barracks and exploded. 241 infantrymen were killed. and in november , the barracks of the french troops were blown up in a similar way. nato peacekeepers, americans, french and italians.

"all that people see now is misfortune and destruction, they only want peace and quiet, because everything that has happened since september 17, the terrorist attack with the pagers, is a nightmare, last night, for example, we did not sleep until 4 a.m., the constant roar of combat aircraft, which hits poberut too, for the first time they strike specific targets or people, as they say, but i can tell you responsibly that most of the targets are civilian. the task that israel sets, if not the destruction, then the radical suppression of hezbollah, this is not just the largest paramilitary organization in the region, but a pillar of iran's influence, its closest ally. in mid-september, israel decided that the time

had come, basta. the time had come to change the rules of the game with hezbollah, since september 17 pagers exploded, israel decided to radically change the reality.

headed its executive committee, replacing nasrallah, who by that time headed the entire group, oversaw the political affairs

of the organization, social, cultural and educational activities of hezbollah, even served on the jihad council, responsible for the military operations of the group. sofia. has many representative relatives, in eighty- three he married the daughter of one of the members of the legislative council of the shiite islamic council of lebanon. his brother represents hezbollah in iran, and his son is married to the daughter of former islamic revolutionary guard corps commander qassam soleimani, who was killed in a us airstrike in iraq in 2020. safieddin had been preparing to take the top post in the movement since... eight years ago, when he was elected head of the executive council, which meant official recognition of the future successor. in public, the brothers appeared in identical black turbans, indicating their descent from the prophet of islam muhammad. as hezbol has repeatedly stated, during the liquidation

their leader will be replaced by an equally effective leader. incidentally, nasrallah's predecessor, abbas al-musawi, was also killed in an israeli special operation in the 1990s. hashim safieddin took over as hezbollah's military commander in southern lebanon. the us authorities declared him a terrorist and imposed sanctions on him a year later. he consistently supports the hamas movement and openly criticizes washington without mincing words. according to him, us pressure on hezbollah will only strengthen the shiite movement's resolve. and we need to get rid of israel, their artificial fabricated entity.

i will say that it was necessary to protect the borders and maintain the military balance, but there is a political side, we opposed active support for gas after october 7, we are on the side of the palestinians, naturally, they have the right to their own state, but why should lebanon take on the burden? hezbollah's approach is primarily gas. lebanon is second. why? true, hezbollah did not provoke. the provocation was the terrorist attack with the pagers on september 17, then the assassination of hassan nasrallah. no lebanese, no matter what his views, can accept this. yes, we should not forget that the current aggravation between lebanese shiites and israel is connected with the war in gaza. on monday, exactly one year since the attack by hamas committed by him. the massacre caused the beginning of a large-scale military operation by israel in the palestinian sector.

the war is still raging today. the military operation in gaza after october 7 became the longest in the history of israel. as a result, last week at the un general assembly, prime minister netanyahu said that the idf had destroyed almost all of hamas's battalions, 23 out of 24. two of the group's top leaders were also killed: ismail haniyeh in tehran and mohammed deif in gaza. it was deif, according to the israeli army and intelligence, who planned the october 7 attack on southern israel, which killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostage. the numbers of palestinians killed in the gaza strip vary. for example, according to the gaza ministry of health, it is more than forty thousand people, and international organizations, including the un, generally believe

this figure is correct. in gaza city itself , almost 70% of all buildings were destroyed. the total losses of the israeli army as of july amounted to about 700 killed and about 14 thousand wounded, including civilians. fleeing the bombings, almost one and a half million residents of the gaza strip moved from the north to the south of the enclave to the border town of rafah. in may, the israeli army surrounded it, but did not storm it, and limited itself to anti-terrorist raids and pinpoint air strikes on hamas militants. at the end of may , israeli troops took the rafah checkpoint on the border the gaza strip with egypt, and also occupied the border itself, or rather its buffer zone - the philadelphia corridor, 20 km long, which had been under egyptian control since 2005. dozens of tunnels were discovered under the corridor... linking the gaza strip with egypt. one of the main goals of the operation in

gaza was the release of israeli prisoners. hamas had already released 110 of them last fall, but this was not done as a result of military action, but during negotiations during a week-long humanitarian pause. in exchange, israel released 240 palestinian militants. now, a year later, about 100 hostages are still being held captive, and several dozen have died. back in may, hamas agreed to a ceasefire proposal put forward by mediators qatar and egypt, but after the israelis captured the philadelphia corridor, all negotiations broke down. the entire enclave is in a catastrophic humanitarian situation. if in january an average of 62 trucks a day entered the enclave, then after the closure of the rafah crossing, humanitarian aid supplies have decreased by 70%. now aid in gas comes only through israel, partly

through the kerem shalom checkpoint, and partly through the erez checkpoint. the past year has confirmed that no military operations go as planned, and it is never possible to maintain a limited character. true, in israel they say that there was no talk of limitation, the question was in the sequence of actions. israel began the operation a year ago with the firm intention of destroying hamas as an effective player in the gaza strip. by losing ground in gaza, hamas is thereby significantly weakened in the entire palestinian community and, as part of the iranian proxy network. israel chose not to immediately engage in an equally intense confrontation on two fronts: in gaza in the north against hezbollah. in a sense, we adopted the model proposed by hezbollah to intensify

military actions and retaliatory actions from time to time. hezbollah periodically raised the bar, but in general the interaction. remained in the same pattern, but when israel achieved very significant successes in gaza, it became possible to allocate more forces, resources and attention to the north. canadian del cumings on the topic of the middle east conflict. the dove of peace with only a thumb down, flying over the middle east, an unusual image. ahmed rama from turkey. the arab position. in iran on the israeli conflict, we stock up on popcorn and nothing more, glasses, apparently, especially for 3d pictures. patrick chapat from switzerland, a man similar to joe biden, shouts at netanyahu, what exactly did you not understand in the term "de-escalation". it is not clear what "de" is, he answers.

another expressive work by ahmed rama from turkey. harovod around the general war in the middle east. characters from iran and israel are easy to recognize, and uncle sam is between them with a stop sign. a drawing by emmanuel del rossa from italy with a very short title "zalazniki". laconic, all the characters are also easy to recognize, including the dove of peace. joe heller is a cartoonist from the greenby press. the action takes place in a bomb shelter. on the tv screen , the candidates are debating.

second-order, it means changing the existing system as such, and not making a correction within this, which is, this is a first-order change, when israel such a statement, then the entire regional system will be rebuilt so that the iranian axis, which was an extremely influential force in the region, will be radically weakened. to some extent, it was simply destroyed, thanks to this, the foundations of another regional architecture, peace, stability and prosperity are being laid. it's funny, at the beginning of this century in israel they were already talking about the miraculous transformation of the region, which will happen thanks to the elimination of tyranny and the advent of democracy.

it was born by the administration of george w. bush, by persuasion and force. one of sources. the american president's inspiration was a book by former soviet dissident and then israeli politician natan sharansky in defense of democracy. both bush and netanyahu spoke beautifully about the magical, transformative power of democratic governance. it didn't work out very well, but one of the results is still very much alive. the americans imposed democratic elections on the palestinian territories. hamas won. since then... everything has gone awry, right up to the collapse a year ago. incidentally, iran is also rapidly growing its influence owes to the united states. the destruction of saddam. iraq, the main counterweight to iran, and the general chaos in the region due to american intervention, allowed tehran to play the shi'id trump card to the fullest. another

surge of hope for a general transformation was associated with the arab spring, at the beginning of the last decade. it turned out that they had overdone it, deciding that democrats were coming to replace autocrats. and democracy did not work out, the influence of some dried up. france, unfortunately, unfortunately, does not play the same role in regions, even vlivan, even vlivan, it is an influence, but, but the real role is no longer, why? i think that this is the key question, the key answer, it is in syria, from the moment when we changed - connections with eremi, initially, when i was there, around 2005, it was during bush,

bush junior, remember, the minister of foreign affairs of france, the un security council against the us war in iraq, but then between, for...

assad is better than the islamists, a valuable insight, it, however, has not visited everyone yet, but how much was warned, what is happening on the middle east is capable of plunging an outside observer into aschatological horror. those who have been studying this part of the world for a long time and deeply are trained people with strong nerves, and have seen even worse. our guest is one of the real hyperboreans, a remarkable russian diplomat. gennady tarasov. gennady pavlovich, hello, good afternoon. let's, if possible, start with something lofty, with democracy. you were ambassador to israel in the first half of the 2000s, just

when the united states was enthusiastically promoting the idea of ​​transforming the region through its democratization. there palestine was blessed with elections, iraq and so on. then how did you think, did you really believe that it would change, or was it just a game? i had to study a little later. "either you change, or your regimes will fall like a house of cards, and we will..."

politics, which again ended with the famous episode when the americans insisted on elections in gaza, the israelis, i was there then, i saw that this caused great rejection among them, but the americans stood firm, demanded, candida rice called, which means that prime minister sharon demanded it directly and the elections were held - as a result, hamas came to power completely legally. the palestinian issue seems to be an absolute dead end, inescapable, and has been going on for a long time.

now there is another surge that reminds us that there is no escape from it, but there were periods, well, at least, of expectations and hopes, like the nineties, and if you remove emotions, if you remove all sorts of, that is, political manipulations, over these 30-odd years, have we made any progress in this question, if we talk specifically about the palestinian problem, then the answer is negative, no, no, in the sense that i won’t even move it back. that is, what was, is, or some negative dynamics, perhaps thanks to very intense work and ours, it must be said that the american, american administration, especially the bush bicker administration, when it was possible to convene the only such unique forum in history, the madrid peace conference, where all the participants in the negotiations were at the same table and a real mechanism that was supposed to lead to

a comprehensive regulation. including a fair solution to the palestinian problem, unfortunately, as often happens in life, things did not go quite that way, or rather not at all, the palestinian problem was taken out of the umbrella of the madrid conference, they went down the path of such bilateral, trilateral agreements, which at times seemed very welcomed by the world. 2, but this spring did not last long, so prime minister rabin, who took these steps, killed israeli extremist, in general, this bullet, it was also a kind of nail in the attempt to solve the palestinian problem, i will not even talk about the fact that according to the oslo agreements, palestine was supposed to become an independent state in 1998, well, as you understand, since then

many...

a national subject, a state that operates according to approximately the same principles, this is clear, theoretical relations to help us, but at the same time each state is defined by its history, culture, experience, and sometimes i it seems that we somehow underestimate some specifics that dictate israelis to behave differently from the textbooks, or or i attribute this, in fact, everything is like everywhere else, israel is really very unique.

countries of the world, which are traditionally divided into ashkenazi, ashkenazim, that is, people from europe, sephardim, people from, so to speak, spain, portugal, the consequence of this famous episode in history, but also a very significant part, the so -called mizrahim, whom we hear less, these are people from arab countries, from iraq, yemen, morocco, and there are hundreds of thousands of them. well, in addition to this, we cannot discount the religious factor, and approximately, now more than 10%, if i am not mistaken, of the population of israel are the so-called haridim, these are such ultra-todox jews, and who represent a significant political force, because they are in favor of democracy issues.