as you said, the idea was heard before the call sept of greater israel. but shame is how prevalent would you say this idea, this plan is among israel, the society. is that something that was confined in the corridors of power in the coalition government, or is it something that people, general people in general israel is, are actually talking about and believing in if we're talking about the maximum list idea from the nile to the phrase. i don't think that that's something that menus really is typically think about, but the idea of expanding is really into the gaza strip and the west bank into the sign. and then so in that sort of loving on, that is absolutely something that is within the normalized fabric of his really society when in a eulogy for an id, a soldier killed in lebanon, and my husband law, when the you will just can say that 11 dollars hours causes hours and not bad, and i can use really media. i think that speaks to how this is a really out of the ordinary for anyone to here. oh indeed. so i mean, do you agree that this is not an idea that i

they do have a plan and the plan is kind of greater israel territorial maximum. elizabeth, this is seen as something messing amec, palestinians were now considered to be. ironically as in europe, the jews were, were considered to be the enemy within the palestinians, and now considered to be the enemy within the trajectory of uh, is there any policies but not just policies of this really aspirations of returning to the story clubs of where the israelites were they, they weren't living in tennessee. they were living in a number of they were living in hebron there were they conquered jericho and suddenly all these places. and it's really rule the trajectory is how do we keep it? that's sort of once the territories and its problem is what to do with the people living in the. another thing that happens after $67.00, which is on the sort of geo political level. if the 67th united states sees that israel as opposed to the military power and it starts investing. and in the 1st thing that i would mention is ro, changes the country. itself changes, it becomes that much more comfortable upon it a

and the idea ology of greater israel in the movement becomes the government itself. which is why nothing. y'all was very open and saying there will never be a palestinian state. so has slanted garza and tommy this being tug as to the destruction of universities, of hospitals, of places of worship. schools, parliament just eradicate the whole place. making it impossible for them to come back because there's nothing to come back to this community being was trying to get to me and that will be any other way to coordinate the genocide to continue to destroy the post and it people didn't go. so then meanwhile, in the west bank under the leadership of the 2 extremes, ministers smoke h, who is not only minister of finance, but also minister within the ministry of defense and binfield, who is the minister of internal security and police are under the leadership of these to people there is a creeping ethnic cleansing of the west spoke. benjamin netanyahu, whose coalition government is propped up by right wing. fanatics, like a tom are been v or, and best allows motor each the

the settler movement uh who want to expand the settlements and want to expand towards this uh greater israel uh people talk about the balance of deterrents that's why israel" spanded israel has proven that it can basically from what i've seen destroy uh large parts of the israeli military uh infrastructure and suppose my equation is all around with until potentially it's attacked before it uses those uh weapons uh in a preemptive strike but we've always seen from the israelies are these preamptive streaks because they have superior uh uh par uh we saw that in the sixth day war when along with the americans, they bomb the syrian planes on the ground, they bombed the egyptian plans, they born the jordanian planes, israel is uh is very adept at using these uh first response uh get early damage your opponent your enemy as much as possible uh iran has the technology it has the political will it has the military expertise to to deal a decisive blow against the uh israeli uh racist supremist uh regime uh will it come to that? that come to iran having to defend the iranian people by having to launch

anything directly, it's only the local people who will have to keep on fighting, and i feel that greater israel, israel is on the way of formation, what do you think? well, they would very much like to, but i don't think for one moment that they will successfully occupy even a part of lebanon." "lebanon may be the arab country i know best, in which i've spent the most time, it's where i entered the arab and and muslim world through that portal of lebanon. i know the lebanese people and i know that they are never going to allow moment of peace for any foreign invader on their land, and so any idea that they're going to occupy lebanon, even a part of..." on up to the latani river is entirely fanciful in my view, detto, if anyone i see uh on social media people saying they're going to try and occupy syria, i cannot think of any country in the whole world less likely successfully to be occupied than syria, not withstanding the syrian capacity, syria is a 54-year ally of russia and will never allow israel to occupy syria, so greater israel is what they would like, but whether they will achieve it is

blueprint for the complete elimination of palestine from the region for the sake of the so-called greater israel. israel's prolonged policy of ignoring palestinian's rights as a nation is clearly reflected in its illegal settlement projects. built on usurped territories, these settlements and their cancerous expansion have dashed palestinians hopes for establishing their own state. and ending their lingering limbo as nation under occupation. in recent years, the israeli regime has put settlement expansion at the top of its prior. in one of the recent cases, netanyahu passed a controversial resolution in june 2023 and gave a cart blange to his cabinet to construct more settlements in the occupied west bank. one month later, the head of the regional council for west bank settlements, yasi dagan, submitted a proposal to netanyahu to increase the number of jewish settlers in the northern west bank from 170,000 to 1 million by 2050. there are already over 700 thousand israeli settlers living in 176 settlements and 186 so-called out posts in the occupied west bank. and east jerusalems, all of these se

anything directly, it's only the local people who will have to keep on fighting and i feel that greater israel is on the way of formation, what do you think? well, they would very much like to, but i don't think for one moment that they will successfully occupy, even a part of lebanon, uh, lebanon may be the arab country i know best, in which i've spent the most time, it's where i entered the arab and and muslim world through that portal of lebanon. i know the lebanese people, and i know that... "they are never going to allow moment of peace for any foreign invader on their land, and so any idea that they're going to occupy lebanon, even a part of lebanon up to the latari river is entirely fanciful in my view, deto, if anyone i see on social media people saying they're going to try and occupy syria, i cannot think of any country in the..." the whole world less likely successfully to be occupied than syria, not withstanding the syrian capacity, syria is a 54-year ally of russia, and russia will never allow israel to uh occupy syria, so greater israel is what they would like, but whether they wi

frames that enable them to better sell their agenda, which is about now, it's about achieving the greater israel project, of which i might add lebanon is very much a part of, certainly the zimus have for many years had their eyes on absorbing no small part of lebanon into the greater israel project uh, but but they're never prepared to go back and start at beginning. thank you so much barry, unfortunately that's all the time we have on this section, thank you. thank you, barry grossman, international lawyer and political analyst joined us from berley, indonesia, well we've come to the end of this part of our live coverage of the israeli aggression uh against lebanon and gaza, we'll have a quick break now and we'll be back shortly, i am bahman nurai and you're watching press tv. hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, thanks so much for being.

peace as long as there is a regime, there's an occupying regime, especially with the map of the greater israel, i mean they are openly talking about taking over lebanon as though it's their home, and there was actually an article in jerusalem post about, oh, you know, do our teachings actually imply that we should also take over lebanon and jordan and syria and all of these places, but they do have the map of the greater... israel, so basically, as long as there is a this genocidal entity in the region and the us constantly feels it with all the money it needs, all the military equipments it needs, the prospects of any piece in the region is basically, mean it's it's not something that people can imagine, and they have seen that it's not possible, so it remains to be seen basically what, you know, how these entities try to... um, in some way limits the israeli regime's genocidal actions, at least for the ben for the benefit of the western hegemonic front. thank you so much, thank you for accepting our invitation, maria mazache press tv from our own offices in tehron. well, right now, let's mov

about taking more and more countries in our region, they're talking about you, the map of the greater israel, the fourth of, mean it's very interesting is the king of saudi arabia a zionist, because of definitely he knows that saudi arabia, huge part of saudi arabia is part of the greater israel plan, and then there's there's jordan, and then there's lebanon, we know that the... basically settlers, they have they had started naming locations, making hebrew names for south of lebanon, already trying to sell property on south of lebanon, and this is amazing, i mean these people, they haven't even, they they were talking about um basically invading lebanon through the south with their tanks and of course his will back them down, however they were already starting to sell land, basically advertise lands. to be sold in lebanon, so this is basically this is this, as imam khumeini said, peace be upon him, that designist regime is tumor, it's a tumor, it'll keep growing, what do you do to tumor, you have to contain it, you have to eliminate it, otherwise it will be a threat to everybody, and of cour

promised palestine, that was removed because it rather gives the game away, the project of a greater israel, beloved of the lucudnicks, the two blue. blue lines on the flag of what they call israel constitute from the river nile to the river euphraties, and now it turns out they want at least part of lebanon as well. this kind of acquisition of other people's territory by force is of course a crime under international law, but it's a crime the israelis have been getting away with for more than 75. years and the so-called institutions of the so-called international community have turned out to be nothing but units. i've been studying the european union, the united states, great britain and the so-called international community, who represent in fact 13% of all humanity, the people of lebanon have come together. in the past, that was... not always so, but christian figures like general aun, like sulaiman fri, like even the formally falangist, catholic, christian lebanese parties have said that if a here is harmed on the head of any lebanese, that the lebanese people will come together as one

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it's been clear that the greater israel, arat's israel project of lecud has been us policy for a long time. the idea that the united states is merely complicit in this genocide. no, the united states is a partner in this genocide. this has been, such a revelation about the... lunacy uh, the weirdness of what is going on in the superpowers uh cockpit, the white house where you have lame duck uh president and camala harris who is trying to be president, but she is still vice president uh, you know what, what is going on in the united states, it's it's it's sure insanity, we uh, but what we have is essentially israel running the united states as if it is the imperial power and the united states is the colony, somehow the united states is in a subordinate position, supplying 85, i saw some literature saying that the bombs that hit where nasan hazralla was, that complex, that huge complex were between 2004 pounds, these weapons are unusual, 85 of these... into that uh structure, i don't see anything like that happening in tel aviv, i don't see any, mass murder of civilians taking place in

way in, for america into the middle east, that way, that path is for it to build what it calls greater israelot quote cease to exist. right, thank you so much. professor nimmer, um, like i said, israely military has talked up the role of... the americans before, during and after the iranian operation, true promise to, what's the purpose behind that? isn't america already involved? yes, absolutely, it is involved from the very beginning after the 7th of october, they are involved, sometimes they seem as if they are trying to bring things down a little bit, but apparently that the americans are totally involved, helping israel with weapon or can... of wopen that you can expect, helping them with money as well and as well as the supporting them diplomatically by you know in the united nations or in bringing allies with the united states against the resistance so yes america are are involved now and this morning it was quite clear you know the statements by the americans especially after the... happened yesterday and last night with the iranian hit against israel that the american not only are in

south of lebanon, there are army officers that are wearing badges on their shoulders with map of greater israel from the nile to the euphraties taking in a big chunk of the arab world. we have to be clear, israel is an expansionist colonial state, it's part of the empire, it's a vassel state, the west has an interest in keeping. this psychopantic fascist genocidal regime inexistent, but increasingly around the world, increasingly around the world, people of good heart, of good nature are standing up and saying enough. we've seen the floods and the hurricane in um north carolina and tennessee, storm halene houses entire cities wiped out by the storms there, and the residents have been offered somewhere between... have over 100 one point from the latest of figures over 1.2 million lebanese displaced as a result of israel's onslot. now miriem, when you look a country like perhaps iran with 80 plus million population, logistically, if something like that would take place here, it would be nightmare for iranian authorities or russia, perhaps with 140 plus, i believe, 144 million population, 1.2 mill

mean to their own countries if the israeli regime is not stop um and continues to head for a greater israel. i don't think i need to say anything to the arab regimes that have allied themselves with israel, some of them um are how shall i say it, they have little choice if... 'if they are removed, they will be replaced by someone similar, because israel will not stand for for an anti-israeli government regime its border, so but but these they they understand now, don't forget that the the abraham accords was also one of the reasons that..." the um uh alaxa flood was was initiated uh so that the palestinians would not be marginalized and so that the idea of recognizing and working with the zionist regime uh would not continue now uh it's 100% certain that saudi arabia will never normalize so-called normalized relations with uh uh with the zionist regime and the ones who have until now had normalized relations with the zionist regime, they're feeling the pressure and doubt if they will expand what they're doing. all right, moson, i have one minute, i just want to talk really quickly about how

mean to their own countries if the israeli regime is not stop. um and continues to head for a greater israel, i don't think i need to say anything to the arab regimes that have allied themselves with israel, some of them are are, how shall i say it, they have little choice, if if they are removed, they will be replaced by someone similar, because... "israel will not stand for for an anti-israeli government regime its border, so but but these they they understand now, don't forget that the the abraham accords was also one of the reasons that the alaxa flood was was in. initiated so that the palestinians would not be marginalized and so that the idea of recognizing and working with the zionist regime would not continue. now it's 100% certain that saudi arabia will never normalize so-called normalized relations with with the zionist regime. "and the ones who have until now had normalized relations with the zinanist regime, they're feeling the pressure, and uh, i doubt if they will expand, what they're doing. all right, moson, i have one minute, i just want to talk really quickly about how the w

the west bank, and you do not call the west bank because you insist that that area is part of greater israelrael, to use the hebrew term. many kibbutzim would say, this is not our land this is occupied land. so i tell you why the comparison is in place. because when you hear the way the palestinians are referring to all those communities in the south that were attacked, they call them settlers, because for them, the whole israel is one big settlement. the majority of israelis today, they believe that what the government is doing at the moment, which is fighting two terror organisations on our border, is the right thing to do. you don't get to hear the leaders of the opposition attacking netanyahu for doing the operation in lebanon. you don't get to hear a sentence. i don't dispute that for a second. and there is a reason to it because they understand, and i think this is the lesson we learn from october 7th, that we cannot live with jihadi ideology on our doorstep. i still want to get a sense of where your views come from. your parents, as i say, came from soviet georgia. you had a religious

where he put saudi arabia is the focus along with some other countries but he has the notion of a greater israel which uh from what my understanding is is going to take land away from saudi arabia away from egypt and away from jordan and syria and iraq so that kind of uh goes against it doesn't it? yeah yeah i mean um uh look i'm i'm not going to make a comment about netan, i just want to go back to what sarah was saying and to say also how encouraged i am by how extremely well-informed um sarah wilkinson is and how good it is to listen to an activist who is so well-informed and to say of course we we should be blaming these international organizations for dodging the political implications behind the starvation and genocide that's happening in in gaza. but to also point out that this is not just these organizations, it's a coherent media, governmental um conspiracy of complicity in the genocide, the fact is that if the people of the west knew what was happening in gaza, they would be, and indeed actually, even though they not told the truth, they're on the side of the palestinian people, but li

he put saudi arabia as the focus along with some other countries, but he has the notion of a greater israel, which uh, from what my understanding is is going to take land away from saudi arabia, away from egypt and away from jordan and syria and iraq, so that kind of uh goes against it, doesn't it? yeah, yeah, i mean, uh, look, i, i, i'm not going to make a comment about netan, i just want to go back to what sarah was saying, and to say also how encouraged i am by how extremely well-informed um, sarah wilkinson is, and how good it is to listen to an activist who is so well-informed, and to say, of course, we we should be blaming these international organizations for dodging the political implications behind the... starvation and genocide that's happening in in gaza, but to also point out that this is not just these organizations, it's a coherent media, governmental um conspiracy of complicity in the genocide, the fact is that if the people of the west knew what was happening in gaza, they would be, and indeed actually, even though they're not told the truth, they're on the side of the pales

more accurately call it land and resource theft. in developing what the israeli regime calls greater israelnd israel's alleged borders to encompass palestine, lebanon, syria, iraq and even saudi arabia. so this explains why israel has embarked on this genocidal and frankly psychopathic mission to now attack lebanon. while committing a genocide in palestine. in addition to that, israel, via netanyahu and others have confirmed their interest in establishing the ben guurion canal to rival the suis canal, and in order for them to do this, in their minds, they have to decimate the indigenous sovereign population of palestine or anyone or any country that happens to stand in its way. all right, thank you so much for that. we bring in our next guest dr. garesha ismail suliman joins us, post doctoral researcher, department of political sciences at the university of pretoria, she's also part-time presenter at muslim women. uh, welcome to the program, dr. sulayman. oh, thank you for having me. let's ask you about the fact that we're looking at the one-year anniversary of this october 7th operations o

making sure that they um there's always theft and there's always greed and their their dream of a greater israel which includes all of lebanon actually um, but still... "there was a certain to a certain extent they were to deterred, they were not launching their targets against lebanon or hurting lebanese people, but hazbolah also understood because they are well read, because they are well educated in the israeli ideology, they know for fact that the israelies will continue to attempt the threaten lebanon and launch more offensives and aggressions against lebanon, and this is why they were quite prepared, and that preparation, as we said earlier is..." the result of plans that are decades old, especially even plans that have been put in place by former commander, military commander, and although he was assassinated in 2008, lot of his plans were the basis and the foundation of other plans. secretary general also continued to base the future plans on, and as if i can understand from the inside. of what stand from from sheikh naim khasan's speech when he addressed saying that it is your plans are

will mean to their own countries if the israeli regime is not stop um continues to head for a greater israel. i don't think i need to say anything to the arab regimes that have allied themselves with israel, some of them um are, how shall i say it, they have little choice, if if they are removed, they will be replaced by someone similar, because israel will... not stand for for an anti-israeli government regime its border, so but but these they they understand now, don't forget that the the abraham accords was also one of the reasons that the um uh alaxa flood was was initiated ' so that the palestinians would not be marginalized and so that the idea of recognizing and working with the zionist regime would not continue now, it's 100% certain that saudi arabia will never normalized so-called normalized relations with with the zinanist regime, and the ones who have until now had normalized relations with the zinast regime, they're feeling the pressure and i doubt if they will expand what they're doing. all right, i have one minute. i just want to talk really quickly about how the world has cha

should more accurately call it land and resource theft in developing what the israeli regime calls greater israelo encompass palestine, lebanon, syria, iraq and even saudi. arabia, so this explains why israel has embarked on this genocidal and frankly psychopathic mission to now attack lebanon while committing a genocide in palestine. in addition to that, israel, via netanyahu and others have have confirmed their interest in establishing the ben gurion canal to rival the isus canal, and in order for them to do this in their minds they have to decimate the indigenous sovereign population of palestine or anyone or any country that happens to stand in its way. all right, thank you so much for that. let me bring in our next guest, dr. karesha ismail suleiman joins us, post doctoral researcher, department of political sciences at the university of pretoria. she's also part-time presenter at muslim women. uh, welcome to the program, dr. sulaiman. oh, thank you for having me. let's ask you about the... fact that we're looking at uh the one year anniversary of this october 7th operation of flood and what

, they all play into a much larger scale and a long-term goal, which is of course the goal of greater israel, which has always been a zionist plan from the beginning, and especially southern lebanon and at the long run all of lebanon is part. and has always been part ever since zionism was created really has always been part of the goal of the territorial expansion goal that the zionist entity has, so the existence of lebanon itself is always a thorn in the side of of tel aviv just like the existence of the of of jordan, for example the existence of egyptian control over over the sinai peninsula, this is all territory that they claim as their erats israel, so that is eventually their goal, they want the land, they want the territory. thank you bret for your take and mariam, thank you for that update. press tv's matiam sad joining us from beirout, mr. brett yonker is joining us out of hassel, belgium. meanwile, an elderly uh palestinian has been killed during raid by israeli forces into the town of dura in the occupied west bank. 66 year old sheikh ziad abu halil was severely beaten by reachi

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