obaid, are you with us? yes. we have mr. obaid, hi, mr. obaid, mr. obaid joining us from uh, beirout, i believe, the lebanese capital, mr. obaid, i wanted to know your initial thoughts on what happened uh on friday and when you hear the news on the assassination of the lebanese hisbollah leader sayyd hasan nasrullah. sorry, i didn't hear, you are talking to me now. mr obaid, i wanted to know your initial thoughts on when the assassination happened on syd hassanlah and what were your thoughts, well of course the loss was huge, as extremely important. as well, he had become a symbol representing the ability, regardless of how much they are, they can with the resistance and perseverance, they can defeat the... fs of justice he was as panindolences message, it was the man that the his fears were quite few past decade, having said this, still and but still the march of the dis will continue about this, the resistance has encountered a lot of losses, lot of... and it has always been the case that the occupation forces were facing and taking revenge against

obaid, what is your opinion regarding? any measures that the un general assembly can take uh, we have had so many world leaders expressing their views, of course we do know this is just rhetoric, in many cases, their actions, which speaks louder than their words, shows exactly the opposite, but is there anything that we can expect to come out of it? well, you always expect something when uh the israeli enemy is in in uh in a bad situation. is in a weak situation and the in the confrontation. if i am to conclude with what our your correspondent was saying from the gaza's trip, i'd conclude with that, you have only to rely on yourself. this is the lesson that you can learn from this political situation at the international level. you cannot expect anyone to come to aid you, you have to rely on yourself. the world only. respects those that are strong and that are able to defend themselves, if you are not strong, nobody will care about you, your massacers will be perpetrated against you. take the example now of lebanon, when y

muhammad obaid, political commentator is joining us now from beirot. mr. obaid, tell us more about the ceremony that is currently. underway as we're receiving these images from beirot, what does hazbullah mean to the labanese people, where does it stand? of course it's these are sad moments that and the majority of the labanese feel because everybody has gratitude to... the those who founded the islamic resistance, i meaning in the beginning, the outset of... resistance in the year 1982 - the struggle that 40 years ended up with the goal defeated the goal of occupation forces from south later now the murder and here ' but ibrahim akil was one of the co-founders of the islamic resistance, he went on with the struggle, he went on with the taking assuming positions that are extremely important and the hierarchy of the party of, he participated in the operation. he took part in many confrontations against the occupation forces, including that of year 2006, that's why i cannot go on reciting all, but i could only need also to mention that he was was the founder

obaid, welcome to the program. first of all, give us your thoughts. on the significance of this being the iranian president's first foreign visit. yes, this fact that you've just mentioned that it's being the first visit of the president to be to iraq. this perset is sign by itself, it's an clear indication of the importance that the islamic republic of iran pends on the... relations with the neighboring iraq, this is due to lot of changes that took place in iraq, of course after the removal of the saddam hussein regime and the the abs and flow tides that with were seen in the ties between the two countries, especially after the occupation of iraq by the american force. in which they created some militias including isis and others and including the creation of some parties that were some at sometimes seasing any opportunity to criticize iran and to criticize ties with iran, so therefore it is in the interest of the two neighboring countries to have close ties, because it's not only the issue of the closeness when i

let's bring back our political commentator, muhammad obaid. uh, mr. obait, if you could please tell us what do you think the position of the united states is? mr. sheikh naim gassim did not mince his word in words in mentioning that the us is also complicit in these crimes as it is providing israel with the weapons that it is using uh against the lebanese people. well, they realized that they are being hypocrites. comes to the conflict in gaza and even in lebanon, they claim that they are seeking tirelessly to have sease fire and to have a swap process and exchange, i mean of prisoners, but still at the same time, and they say they are against the killing of civilians, by the israelis, etc., but still they provide the the weapons. and the ammunition to the israelis to carry out more and more massacres and genocide, so that's why it is, even they now started to realize how much the whole word is not no longer buying them, the americans, i mean, they claim something, and it is clear that they are doing quite the opposite, that's why i think he did not s

muhammad obaid, as we continue this discussion, please tell us uh what you think regarding the amount of support israel is receiving from its allies, such as the us. on the other hand, we have public opinion which is shifting completely against uh the israelis, particularly after uh these uh this one year of genocidal war in gaza and now the... attacks on uh the lebanese territories, how far do you think uh this support can go and how much will the us government be willing to uh stand against its own public opinion in order to support israel? well the support is absolute and and as we see with the case with the american for instance, american administration's support and supply of armment and ammunition and whatever the occupation needs, in order to, as you said, to go on with this genocidal war, it started in gaza and is now sort of part two, we have now another chapter of this genocide taking place in lebanon. you know during the 2006 war we had in 33 days we had around 1200 civilians were were murtered now in three or four days you have around more than 700 marter and all of them a

thank you bruno, um, gladly muhammad obaid is back with us. muhammad, i was gonna ask this question from you, but um, let me ask you another question, uh, what do you think, you now, we had the news that who uh issued a report regarding more than 30 health centers getting out of service around lebanon duty the air strikes, what um, tell me about the lebanese government's measures taken in order to... uh protect those infrastructures and replenish them, and now how um, what is going on, can you um, give me an update regarding how how how that matter is being covered? can you hear me, muhammad? i think uh, yeah, repeat the question, please, repeat the question, okay, yeah, um, has said we had earlier a report from who um regarding um more than 30 health centers going out of service around lebanon due to the air strikes and due to the illegitimate and genocidal air strikes by the regime uh what is the lebanese government uh doing as measures they they need to take in order to replenish those centers and reactivate them can you give give us a upda

maria, correspondent there in beirot, staying in beirot, political analyst muhammad obaid. mohammed, you heard what mariam was talking about, and and talking about the possibility of american troops being sent to lebanon. what i'm seeing online is saying that us to send more troops to, it says to the middle east, um, and it says as violence. rises between israel and hezballah, your thoughts about that and and what that could mean? well, nobody would doubt the the backing and the the full support provided by the united states to this occupation entity. we've seen this earlier, we've seen it in the political arenas, we've seen it with the supplying of all these arms that... the occupation needed uh, and it needs no proof. i even read a report, i do not trust, i don't, this was the first time i hear about this source, but one needs to take this into account that american, american pilots are taking part in the raids against labanon, and this should not surprise anyone, because if you are back... someone with all these arms, with all these political activities, economically, fi

muhammad obaid, a political commentator. mr. obaid, sheikh naim qasim did. say that the retaliations that we witnessed, particularly those on the military uh areas, including raphael, now this is only one portion of the retaliatory attacks for the crimes that the israeli regime has committed, the fact that according to him, more than 1 million settlers were forced to go to shelters, in and of itself is considered huge victory, what is your analysis of this statement? well, the the crime was too huge to to to just be retaliated for with this portion of the attacks by the islamic resistance, therefore i think other other reports will be following, now the most important still is not this retaliation per say, but the fact that the israelis have been doing all this in order to weaken hizbullah on the one hand and to stop the support front which lebanon is providing through the islamic resistance to god. well the fact is that the the israelis are not are not sufficed with this fact that they've been killed over 4000 people and and ga

obaid. we are currently receiving some live images from beirot as a the funeral procession is underway for one of the top commanders of the hazbullah resistance movement. mr. obait the question is uh, do these assassinations uh make h any weaker, that is what the israelis claim in their media and of course mainstream media, which is on their side as well. well, the problem with the israelis is that they never learn from history from their former experiences, from the past experiences especially with leban and resistance, the islamic resistance, they tried to assassinate the first leaders who were just beginning to mobilize the people in order to engage in resistance against the israeli occupation that started in the year 1982 in southern labanon basically the main figure at that time they assassinated him and no difference was there as for the enthusiasm of the people as for their participation in the resistance, the same another at another place they even assassinated the former secretary g

mahmoud obaid, if i'm not mistaken political commentator is joining us live from beirot, mr. obaid, if you could please tell us what you think was the reason behind this agregious attack, this was something... that definitely no one expected, both a technical level and a humanitarian level, however, the israelis have proven time and again that they do not believe in any rules when it comes to their own interests, yes, quiet unfortunate time and grief and anger in swarming the streets specific. in generally in labanon and specifically in the southern suburbs, the bcan, the south, and of course everyone is demanding retaliation to this crime, to this to this hideous crime that was perpetrated by the israeli occupation forces, you said that it is sort of retaliation to the the damage that is being inflicted by the islamic resistance operations on the northern occupied palestine, now the israelis uh have always launched aggressions against labanon since 1948 and if it weren't for the deterrance uh achieved by the islamic resistance, we would have aggressions all the time. now the

muhammad obaid, political analysts, joining us out of beyrut, of course we're following this situation very closely, and what we understand right now is that the hezbullah is in middle of their retaliatory attacks, especially on hifa, and as you heard our correspondent say that this is the first time that uh hazbullah has hit the center. the city of haifa um again we have heard about more attacks on civilians uh basically the israeli regime continuing with their mo um of uh attacking civilians attacking civilian infrastructure despite what the israeli prime minister has said that only hezbullah is under attack just as it said only hamas is under attack that they're cargating hamas and of course we know officially we're at least 41 marters inside of gaza and we know today in lebanon over 274 people have been killed expecting unfortunately for that number to rise because of the situation on the other side of things the israeli regime is uh very much controlling its media, it does not um want the news of casualties uh getting out its side, we do know we heard earlier they did admit to sev

political commentator muhammad obaid joined us earlier to share his views on the significance of strengtheninglateral ties between iran and iraq. so well, generally speaking, even if we go back to the times of the... british occupation of areas in our region here, they use the term and the policy of divide and rule, that's why the american administration right now, the british, although enemies of the of this region and its peoples try to create divisions in order not to have unity, because unity by itself is force and means good thing to the causes of this region, basically and most importantly the first of these causes being the palestinian cause, which we are now witnessing a genocide taking place in palestine at the hands of the israelis and their western supporters, so this attempt to have closer ties is a continuation of the policy of late morter president raisi, it was policy of good ties with neighboring countries, basically the arab and gulf countries to unite this nation to confront its enemies and basically this time is this unity is extremely needed a time when you have some and so

well, let me turn back to beirut, and mohammed obaid. mohammed, you heard our guests in manchester, peter ford, talking about the the dynamics of of all of this, especially coming from the west, because my question is that if if the, regimes in london and washington see that the israeli outpost is uh uh too costly for them in so many ways that it's going to really destroy uh anyway their facade of being a democratic countries, why don't they cut their losses? and he said basically it's the muslims inside these countries and who they're voting for. i'm trying to understand this and i'd like your perspective of this, do you think in these countries that um elections really make a difference, can it change policy or or is the main policy of these countries um basically uh made by some entities or those very much above the electorate itself? uh, if we look at for example the united states, we know that usually it's either democrat or republican who is going to get elected because of how the system is set up, and they're both very, very prozi

we are in contact with mohammad obaid, a journalist and expert from beirut, lebanon. mr.eet you . have a good time . what direction is it going and how is it now? however, the resistance has only used 5 to 10% of its power during the past period, and these provocations by israel will not be successful. the zionist regime always targets civilians. because they want to provoke the resistance to move to another place . now this act of provocation was very big and we have to wait a little bit to see where the situation goes. because of the amount of crime. it is very broad and the crime committed it was very big. the rescue operations are still going on in this area and the bodies of the martyrs are being removed and the injured are being removed. this israeli crime is a big crime that happened today and its dimensions are still unknown. still the resistance has not taken a political position and we have to wait until the situation becomes clearer and clearer . there are many analyzes and speculations about this. the situation will become clearer in the coming hours, but ther

. weapons and military capabilities, say goodbye to uh mohammed uh from beirot, thank you mohammed obaid, political commentator for your thoughts on this uh sad day, looking forward to the future, however and writer and political analyst from beirout, ellie risk joins us now, ellie risk, welcome uh so here we are uh sad day indeed for the loss of such a big tall figure uh that really made an impact um just because of who he was, not because he was a leader of the resistance, but his personality was very strong. um, nevertheless, we have to look uh as to where uh, lebanon is going to be heading to next in the context of what we're looking at in the region with israel still continuing with its onslot. what are we looking at now? um, because i'm sure israel is not going to wait for the morning to take place and then uh make decisions. indeed, you raised very good point, and i think that the israel going to try and escalate, basically they're going to try as much as possible not to give hazballah any breathing room, and that's something which the israel's military, israeli military officials

all right, well - muhammad obaid, your thoughts, because if we look at what peter fort was saying, and he named some of the countries or groups, i mean if we look any one of these, whether we're talking about iran or we're talking about hezbollah, or we're talking about. um the yemensarlah um we see that these countries or organizations or movements have been the most um let's say sanctioned or labeled as terrorist entities uh by the west, by the us, by the hegemonic front, um, unbelievable amounts of pressure has been exerted against these various entities, um, and yet they continue to support the palestinians, let's talk about that, that no matter this pressure, they're still willing to support, and and the... entities, the regimes that say that they are democratic are actually supporting this terrorist entity, while at the same time labeling those who are fighting terrorism as the terrorists, as for your last statement here, we sometimes have a war of of terminology to term, the western powers usually term those, are close to them as moderate, the those are against their interests a

point that you make there. now we have a political commentator uh joining us from beirot, mohammed obaidof what we saw yesterday, you have 60% of the population of... is against um the prime minister netanyahu, they hold him responsible for the deaths of captives and also for his political survival uh, are we looking any breakthroughs there given the fact that you have these captives uh that are dead now uh to have given maybe some momentum behind there to be maybe push for some kind of ceasefire agreement to come into shape, well first you cannot predict something. until you we see the extent to which the the the histod route will go on and continue these strike issues and the ability to to mobilize people and to drum up support in in for this case, especially as the uh sort of successful step that netanya was able to to achieve through the labor court labor court that ordered this topic. the of the strike, but still, as you said, this is a clear clear indication of the divisions within the occupation entity, within its society, you have multi-level divisions, you have the religious and

this confrontation lives on, i would like to thank on that note, i would like to thank mr muhammad obaid, political commentator who joined us from beirot and as always, the co-founder of free palestine movement from berkeley. we'll take a short break and we'll be back again. in the name of god, the most gracious, the most merciful, so let those fight in the way of allah, we exchange the life of this world for the hereafter, and whoever fights in the way of allah and is killed or victorious, we will give him a great reward. god almighty is true. his eminence, the master of resistance, the righteous servant has passed away to be with his lord and to his pleasure as a great marder, heroic, daring, brave, wise, insightful and faithful leader joining the caravan of murders of the eternal luminous carbala, in the divine faith-based path in the footsteps of the murdered prophets and imams. his eminence, secretary general of hisbullah, has joined his great and for nearly 30 years, during which she led them from victory to victory, succeeding the master of the marters of the islamic resistance in

effective against this, the israeli regime, i want to cross over to beirout and political analyst mohammed obaid, welcome him to the program, your thoughts on um what i just said about this this situation, because we we have to remind people because of uh uh corporate media try to create this situation as if uh the israeli regimes military is fighting um the lebanese air force and military we're talking about a resistance group and that does not have airplanes does not have an air force uh against this very well-funded and equipped regime and despite all of that we see not just tonight but throughout the last year and beyond um the effectiveness of the lebanese resistance group, your thoughts, muhammad, yes, first i'd like to offer my condolences to the families of all those marters because of the israeli aggression, which has no boundaries and and knows no limits for the criminal acts when it comes to criminal acts with this regime. now the issue is that yes, as you've mentioned that the sorry, the mainstream media is always trying to give the impression that all those opposing israel are terro

effective against this the israeli regime, i want to cross over to beirout and political analyst mohammed obaid, welcome him to the program, your thoughts on um what i just said about this this situation, because we we have to remind people because of '

live on stream, okay right, thank you so much uh faraz, crossing back over to beirot and mohammed obaid, welcome to the program political commentator, okay muhammed you're in lebanon right now, i want to hear from um, well... i guess i lost muhammad, i have mariam, mariam is still with me, are we have muhammad? i'm trying to, okay, muhammad, thank, thank you for being with us, you're in lebanon right now, i want to talk about from the people's perspective, uh, i'm sure you're you're talking to people, family, friends, others, overall the feel now in lebanon, because as i said, we have over 600 people who have been killed, and of... course also the regime is trying to exert psychological warfare on the people and and trying to get the people to stop it support of course for the resistance, mean your take when you're assessing the overall situation right now inside of lebanon, how do you see it? uh, well, first of all, you see the the people here are are used to this psychological warfare by the israelis, we come to know this enemy all to well, we've witnessing all these pasticers thought