counts, this is not the the purpose of the attack, it was very specific and hence i believe said hasan nasaralah is saying that in the next few days we will see the results and if the results are not satisfactory we will see second round of these right right manson do you think that this attack was not only a show of force but also a warning that hazbullah has lot more information and capabilities than they have shown and that it can up the anti any time, yes i believe so, i think clearly these are secret facilities and facilities that israel don't want exact locations for or capabilities on, these are the most sensitive sites within the israeli regime, so for for even the attempt, even regardless of the percentage of success or whatever, the attempt at them alone is is really shocking to the israeli regime, and in anticipation of the exposure, israel already started to declare certain things that turned out to be not true, for example that they have destroyed 8,000 rockets and things like that, which turned out to we not true, so israel is trying to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat so t

counts, this is not the the purpose of the attack, it was very specific and hence i believe said hasan nasaralah is saying that in the next few days we will see the results and if the results are not satisfactory we will see second round of these attacks right right, and do you think that this attack was not only a show of force, but also a warning that hazbullah has lot more information. and capabilities than they have shown, and that it can up the anti any time. yes, i believe so. i think clearly these are secret facilities and facilities that israel don't want exact locations for or capabilities on, these are the most sensitive sites within the israeli regime, so for for even that... attempt even regardless of the percentage of success or whatever, the attempt at them alone is is really shocking to the israeli regime, and in anticipation of the exposure, israel already started to declare certain things that turned out to be not true, for example that they have destroyed 800 rockets and things like that, which... turned out to be not true, so israel is trying to snatch victory out of the jaws

they really do not understand, as you said, one, the culture in the region, again, like sayid hasan nasaralah said, about honor about islamic honor, about islamic traditions, and also that the leader of the islamic revolution had promised them that they would uh, they would have a uh, it will indeed entail major attack. well, well this is let's say well versed in the colonialist culture, the racist culture of the western colonial powers that who think that they are the only ones to enjoy the sense of dignity, the sense of honor and that other people who are less rational or who are - national, they don't have a sense of honor, they don't have a sense of dignity, and that they act upon instincts. this is too bad, the the basis of their prejudges against us in general, against not only the arabs and muslims, but also against all non europeans, well, even if they were christians, catholics, let's say... buddhists, hindu, or even christian orthodox in russia. right, this is the the problem and dilemma of the west, and that's why the west would never be able to met fences with other cultures and c

they wanted to achieve, but we have to wait until the secretaries general of hizbullah, sayid hasan nasaralah to tell us when he speaks several hours later, what what was the real target of the of the retaliation and what the resistance achieved? uh and obviously israel is trying to to to say that the new and advance about the uh uh about the uh attack and they in a way bched it but this is uh this is a mere misinformation and i think that the rockets and and uh drones reach their targets in in in northern palestine and as i said this is the the the mere first phase of the uh of the retaliation there will be i think there will be there will be uh other phases do you think that um the next phase or phases as you just indicated will be um either uh equal to what we saw today, more or less, or even stronger in terms of uh, for example, the number of missiles and drones that were used? no, i think uh the resistance uh will not will not tell until the uh the word see itself uh what's happening as it was the case this time this morning this uh down uh i think that israel, it it's it's obvious that

his fascist society and his fascist government and that is not going to happen because as said hasan nasaralah the general secretary of hizballah said yesterday that you can laugh a little because you will cry uh you know lot and that everyone knows that the response is coming and it's going to be a unit. response from lebanon, yemen, from iran, from everyone. mr. gegic, the us had constantly claims it doesn't want a broader war or any dangerous escalations, but its words and its actions surely are in contradiction, describe for us the us as constant inconsistencies regarding the gaza genocide and now israel's most recent regional crimes. well, one could actually argue that the united states has been quite consistent by allowing. israel to do whatever it wants um, but as you say, yes, there is a discrepancy between the official political communication from the biden regime and effects uh on the ground, we've heard quite often from the white house, they are not interested in a broader escalation or a broader expansion geographically of this ongoing war, at the same time they were doing everythi

israeli tanks being destroyed in ghazza, and everyone remembers the famous statement by said hasan nasaralah that israel will no longer have tanks if they there to invade. right, now mohen nag, let's have your thoughts on the the efficacy of what the resistance front is doing, and the retaliation operations that they are conducting, also there is this huge difference between the motorcyperandi, i mean heizballah hits military barracks, military targets, the are in dome structure, but but you see that the iuf is hitting villages and towns and actually uh taking civilian lives in addition. first to uh the commanders of the resistance front and the resistance has been standing strong no matter how many of the commanders they have lost, this is what they have proved so far. well absolutely the resistance is as strong as ever, um, these small the small escalatory actions that are that we see by the zinanis regime are are nothing, they are equal to needle in a hay, but as far as the letter is concerned that that the leadership of... hammas has written to the leadership and to the fighters of hisbu

i mean after said hasan nasaralah, general secretary of hizballah speech last time, you know, smut say, we should kill hizballah, we should kill nasrallah, and it is not that they didn't try, is these kind of statements just... to cash more votes from the fanatic settlers, criminals like smat rich and at the same time to look like as if he is you know the defender of the uh you know zianist project, but in reality they are failing and they are divided and they don't have any other options but to uh declare their defeat, israel and the united states are marching forward to their... very deep strategic defeat, yep, mr. bar, the double standards is uh very obvious, like how come smodrich can come out blatantly talk about starving garzans, two million people, which is against international law against humanity, and nothing is done, imagine if it were the other way around uh, they would be called terrorists, barbaric and so on, but it's okay for them, in some cases, i could give an example, you get arrested for saying from the river to the sea, "and yet, as you said just earlier, they can s

number of these drones reached these two targets, but the enemy is covering up as usual, say hasan nasaralah said hizbullah launched some 340 confusion missiles to assist the drones reach their targets through the iron dom. thisbullah leader added that israel tried to change the narrative and carried out what a called a preemptive attack on southern lebanon. nasrolah said that those attacks did not thort hisbullah strikes and were a failure for the israeli army. early on sunday hisbullah launched its large-scale attack against israel. the regime has confirmed one soldier was killed and two others injured in a naval boat which was hit by hesbullah. israel has also declared a 48 hour state of emergency as authorities ordered all universities and beaches in the port city of hyf to be closed until further notice. dozens of flights have also been suspended. the correspond mariam salah joined us earlier from beirot with details on hisbollah's retaliatory operations against the israely regime. um the the situation was generally calm. we only know of some instances where the israelis use drones to t

israeli tanks being destroyed in ghazza and everyone remembers the famous statement by uh sayid hasan nasaralah that israel will no longer have tanks if they there to invade lebanon right now mohen nag, let's have your thoughts on the the efficacy of what the resistance front is doing uh and the retaliation operations that they are conducting also there is this huge difference between the motus operandi, mean hezbollah hits military barracks, military targets, the iron dome structure, but but you see that the iof is hitting villages and towns and actually uh taking civilian lives in addition of course to uh the commanders of the resistance front and resistance has been standing strong no matter how many of the commanders they have lost, this is what they have proved so far. this goes to show the kind of unison hammas, hizbullah. islamy jihad and the entire axis of resistance has. it also goes to show the kind of respect that the fighters and the leadership of hammaz they have for sayrullah. they are quoting him, they quoted him in this letter by saying that truly israel, the zinast regime is as

said hasan nasaralah's threats of retaliation for the assassination of marter commander fuad shukud inn know what will happen based on their retaliation, so basically we can see a wider war in both cases, correct? it depends really on how israel wants to react towards hizballah and iran's retaliation, israel has two choices, evil either to uh stop what it's doing after hizbolah and iran's retaliation and they israel is being deterred, or it continues? the escalation and then the region will be going towards regional war. mr. dr. mohammed based on your experience and expertises of course uh could we in fact see because you're mentioning the iran's retaliation hisballah retaliation could we in fact see a unified retaliation from not only iran and hizballah but let's not forget the yemenis. you know one of the best things the acts of resistance do is to always be vague this access has so many choices and today inside of israel. thinking, well, what will happen in the next couple of days? will iran retaliate alone, will hizballah alone? will it be axis retaliation? will they be assassinati

hisbollah secretary general said hasan nasaralah in his most recent speech issued threats against israel for a string of assassinations saying these actions will cost the regime heavy price. in our explainer program we have discussed the threats and hesbollah's capabilities to carry them out. the hezbollah secretary general has delivered yet another powerful speech, but this one had more power to punch in what was said to be one of his greatest presentation sayid hasan nasrulah made sure that the israeli regime and its backer, the us understood his main points. he first said, our loss of syd mohsen for shukr is very great. but this does not shake us at all. combined with the assassination of ismaal hania, hamas political bureau chief, these losses will not weaken the movement's resolve to continue down the resistance path or alter the fundamental nature of the resistance front either. yavash, yavash, slowly, slowly, said the lebanese resistance leader when it come came to the response to iran and the resistance front. he said, not responding was part of the response and punishment becaus

psychological level, the israel are really really in the last few days, they are you know, as as hasan nasaralah, sayid, he said, they will be standing on one and a half leg, which is true today in israel, as we can see from the israeli media as well as what we know from what's coming out from the israeli leaders or previous leaders, generals and also officials and politics" who was talking about this was kind of a without saying it clearly, but they indicated that it was a mistake, a big mistake, the outcome of the assassination of haniah, to the contrary, make the man more and more popular and make him more and more, if you like, dear everyone, which means that by the end of the day he is representing hamas, it means that hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is freedom fighters who are trying to liberate their country from an occupation which was there for the last 76 years right where well there there have been many protests of course not just in islamic world um but in various western countries also i want to talk about the significance though of uh uh like when slogans are saying norma

should be no uh escalation the lebanese resistance and especially the yesterday's speech by sad hasan nasaralah, i think that he draw kind of road map where people and the popular cradle of the resistance understand very well that what next steps the resistance is going to be taking, although there was no revealing of the tactics, when, how, where, but he said iran will respond, yemen will respond. and the libanese resistance would respond and that has been a decision made. indeed the speculations are are pretty um there's so many of them say most of us, i'm sure you agree uh only time will tell when that's going to happen. i'm curious uh as to the way that uh we're going to see the cooperation of regional countries that cooperated last time around when it came to the us uh and his positioning militarily trying to uh i guess hit the uh incoming missiles of which there were some countries that... with it such as jordan, what what do you think, do you think i mean there's some news that jordan is not going to do that this time around uh, but i'll leave that up to you to answer, and other countrie

say hasan nasaralah's a threat of retaliation for the assassination of mardor commander fuad shukud in continue escalation with hizballah and this may drag us towards a war, and also at the same time israel may continue escalation with iran, which is which could drag the whole region towards the war, so the situation is really so tough today, there are two... that are willing to retaliate and we can see, we can know what will happen based on their retaliation, so basically we can see a wider war in both cases, correct? it depends really on how israel wants to react towards hizballah and iran's retaliation, israel has two choices, evil either to uh stop what it's doing after hezballah and iran's retaliation and they israel is being deterred, or it continues in the escalation and then the region will be going towards ' general war uh mr uh dr. mohammed based on your experience and expertise of course uh could we in fact see because you're mentioning that iran's retaliation hizballah retaliation could we in fact see a unified retaliation from not only iran and hizballah but let's not forg

, all these factories to go down in one hour or less, if the hezbollah secretary general said hasan nasaralah wanted to do that. all right, those were uh some of the points that we made uh, looking at the way that the israely economy is suffering. let's bring back our guests to see what they think. uh, we have, leonitas vati kyototus who rejoins us. she's an economist, journalist and documentary, um, films writer. welcome back to the program, leonitas, when you take a look at the israel's economy, one of the things that uh fitch has indicated is that uh, israel's... projecting to run a budget deficit, putting the focus on that, 7.8% of the gdp, you're also looking at the fact that you have 60 thousand israeli businesses, so shut down for the year 2023, and more for the year 2024, and israel's, there's so many israelis that are migrating out of the occupied lands, how bad a shape is israel's economy in at this point ? wanted to add two points, if you permit it in what you said, to now, the first point is that israeli problem is not only the budget deficit, equally serious problem is the high p

ask me, they're absolutely restrained, uh, perhaps a little too much, but again, i'm not sayid hasan nasaralah, who is master strategist, and i, i, i, tip my hat, i take my hat off him because what he has done is he's managed to uh, trash the israeli economy, trash their military, trash their image, uh, and and keep them in a corner psychologically, paranoid, uh, not knowing what's going to happen, and and help the palestinian. so basically drawing fire away from from the the south, so he's done all that without turning it into a full-blown war and and that deals that alleviates some of the criticism that you hear from um these uh uh elements in lebanese society who who constantly keep playing the same record you know over the years that hazballah going to cause uh more war and that they're dangerous for lebanon, he has shown them that that's not true, they have they have nothing to to back these criticisms up with. and you know, by the way, these are the same people who who did nothing to liberate south lebanon. let's be clear. well, david, just just tell us about this axis of resistance war