jamal wakim, professor of history and international relations. welcome doctor. thank you. thank you. doctor, before we go ahead and get to today's episode, there are few developing stories. the first one, as we know, there have been more than hundreds injured in attack that has targeted pagers set to be for hisballah. and other details have been released, what is the significance of this specifically at this time? uh, i believe that the israelis are let's say escalating the situation and uh going on another dimension of the war, what we are witnessing uh is an extension of the the military operation, let's say, so i believe that... they are stepping up their attacks on lebanon in order to force the the resistance to bow to their conditions and to stop attacking uh the the settlements in northern galilei. well doctor, second of all, the shen bit have claimed that it has foiled a hizballah plan to assassinate a former israeli official. what you make of this? well, this could also be uh... like story that the israelis are trying to create in order to justify the escalation of

jamal wakim, professor of history and international relations. welcome doctor, thank you. thank you. doctor, before we go ahead and get to today's episode, there are few developing stories. uh, the first one, as we know, there have been more than hundreds injured in attack that has targeted pagers set to be for hizballah, and other details have been released. what is the significance of this specifically at this time? uh, i believe that the israelis are let's say escalating the situation and uh going on another dimension of the war. what we are witnessing uh is an extension of the the military uh operation let's say so uh i believe that they are stepping up their attacks on lebanon in order to force the the resistance to bow to their conditions and to stop attacking the the settlements in northern galilei. well doctor, second of all, the shenbs have claimed that it has foiled a hizballah plant to assassinate a former israeli official. what do you make of this? well, this could also be uh like story that the israelis are. trying to create in order to justify the escalation of war, esp

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i'm now joined by joined live by jamal wakim, professor of international relations from beirot. um, it's it's very good to have you, jamal. what is your take seeing this show of solidarity from the people of tehran earlier people of yemen in the weekly rally of solidarity? what is your take on that? what kind of message does it send out? well, this, this is very important, these demonstrations are very important to boost the moral of... the fighters and resistance in palestine and in lebanon against the israeli occupation, especially at the time when the majority of the arab and muslim world are not being mobilized in support of the resistance there, so we see that very few arab and muslim people are involved in this holy fight against the... occupation we have the yemenis, the lebanies, the palestinians, the syrians, the iraqis and the iranians, whereas the majority of the other people all around the world are either not mobilized despite their sympathy, or most regimes actually are being supportive of the occupation, we have a direct involvement of some arab countries. in suppo

but i'd like to welcome my guests to this news review, jamal wakim, professor of international relations, lebanese university, out of beirot and sondos alasad, journalist and commentator also out of beirot. thank you both for being with me. i'd like to start it off uh uh with our first guests with jaman. i mean your thoughts on this uh overall situation. now we see uh that despite almost a year of of course this unbelievable genocide and that they the israeli regime continued to... that the main goal was to wipe out hamas, stop hamas, we hear from the leader of hamas now saying that they can go longer, that they are ready to endure, they are the ones ready to wear out iof forces, i mean your thoughts, well, since the beginning of this conflict, nobody expected that the conflict will take that long and that it will continue. for undetermined period of time, first nobody expected that israel will be able to go a lengthy war, we know from previous experiences that israel could never withstand lengthy wars, but this time it had to go through this conflict for a long period of time, but at th