saib shoth author and middle east affairs expert with us from belfast, mr. shatt um today, the uh uh, the deputy prime minister from belgium petra desuter, he said this so-called planned ground invasion of lebanon grossly violates international law, this is not self-defense, but provoking all-out war, he said the european union and international community must respond. with maximum sanctions against israel that the destruction must end, end quote sir, this is not just this one man, you very well know, many world delegations leaders at the un general assembly vacated the assembly hall, the second benjamin netanyahu took the lectorn, it's obvious that no one is buying his narrative, the so-called protracted 12 months of self-defense against gauzans and now the lebanese, um, but does it have an impact when so many? leaders are either calling for deescalation, sease fire, calling the guy a war criminal, throw him in jail, uh, telling his regime, not lebanon, don't turn it into another gaza, stop gaza, accept a cease fire, get your captives, go home, let them reb

saib shoot author and middle east affairs expert uh joining us out of belfast. thank you both for uh spending time with us on this rolling coverage of israel's intense air strikes on lebanese soil resulting just in over a day uh to... on 492 fatalities among the lebanese, mostly in civilian areas, these are all almost practically all civilians including 35 children, almost 70 women out of those 492 and two medics there in uh the uh beirot suburbs and the heart of beirot, the heart of becca city in the becca valley, um number of uh previous attacks were on the border areas of lebanon, it is moved and into the cities, into the civilian infrastructure onto homes and we're following developments very closely here on press tv, before we let you go, let us also give you a quick update on the uh situation in gaza over the last 24 hours, at least uh 25 palestinians have been killed and 60 wounded in the gaza strip bringing the death tool there to 41,431 since october the 7th, also 95,818 pounds in is injured mostly women and uh children, we'll be following developments

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the lebaneses are getting taste of that horrenda zinust nightmare imposed on civilian population uh saib shah, your initial thoughts on what lebanese seemed like they have to basically start preparing to to brace for, what's been happening in lebanon? is repeat of the scenario visited and still visiting gaza, the genocide, this entity is about genocide, this entity from the days the british found it, they started the british preparing the ground by using their own british forces and own bar military police called the black and turn at the time to destroy. by palestinian villages and towns and bush them to cleanse them out of that area to and bringing east europeans uh for them in there to for a project they want to control that region and the this this project which is design entity we heard trump a couple of months ago saying the zin entity which means israel is too small we have to expand it that's what trump when he was pressed president was getting at recognizing the annexation of the zinis entity of the syrian occupied golanhites recognizing the annex. the zist entity of the occupie

saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert from belfast. thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight. and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. politics is something integral. youtube. is like how i started my journalism, it began on youtube, we are fighting a war on multiple fronts, we're fighting one media, we're fighting on the ground, but it it's it's it's a collective effort, we are at war, the west has habit of stealing the religions of the middle east and then weaponizing them against the people of the middle east, the americans, the israelis, uh, the united kingdom do not respect the value of human life. so, we all have to be soldiers on the front line, we have to keep fighting. i want to speak directly to uh people in gaza, people in the west bank. victory will come. victory will come. victory will come. your press tv headlines has well avows a strong response to israel's terrorist operations in lebanon, which are claim the lives of over 30 people. iran's president says israel's western backer

with me, sir, stay with me, stay with me, let me get ali back in on this conversation, well ali uh saib was talking about the uh the tragic situation of course taking place in gaza, over 42,000 um been killed at least um and just today uh 35 more palestinians were kidnapped uh from the west bank and at least 10,900 of them have been kidnapped and captured since october, it's - it's absolutely mind-boggling, and of course he thought he talked about the number of kids who have been killed, so ali, you're in lebanon, and we know from the very beginning, from october the 8th, the hazbullah opened up second front ease some of the pressure uh on the palestinians in gaza, did you... ever think, because we see there's so many other arab countries near palestine, much larger than lebanon, um, did you ever think uh, why we doing this, we're going to be opening up ourselves to more aggression? uh, first of all, let me say that i will be surprised if the israeli do not commit any crime or terror against the humanity around the world, this is the... doctrine, their doctrine is to kill, their doctrin

saib shah, i mean i lived in the states for uh nearly 40 years and i know for fact that even during uh the uh even during afghanistan during iraq during kuwait uh, it's never been popular, no serviceman in america likes to come to the region, they don't agree with us leadership, i of the involvement and of the so-called narratives and excuses that they uh basically used as pretex to send young, 18, 19, 20-year-old kids, and in last five or 10 years is become exponentially more unpopular for young american kids to uh have these uh people on capitol hill and the pentagon. make decisions and send him out to the region uh so it's very unpopular i don't think anyone on either side of the aisle or at least the voting block in america wants to see another escalation and - regardless of how much uh leadership from either party uh supports militarily uh with weapons that is uh the regime um i don't think either side wants to send that kind of or or or partake or commit that kind of involvement all out involvement to a regional war with the israeli uh regime do you see most of the condemnations

saib shath, author and commentator and west asia expert from belfast, thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight, and thanks to all of you viewers for watching this edition. الجهاد الكبير الحاج قئاس نور الحورى لكن الدعم شيء مقدر جدا لا شك ان لازلنا امام وضع خطير. خرق حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني استباحه مقدسه. the headlines, at least 14 people are killed as a second wave of device explosions at lebanon, only day after hundreds of pageers exploded in an israeli terror attack. iran's president says israel's western back. should feel ashamed for backing the killings and indiscriminate assassinations of the regime, and the israeli military says four soldiers were killed and several more injured in combat in southern ghaza. hello and welcome, you're watching world news on press tv, coming to you live from our headquarters in tehran. thank you for joining us, my name is gisumi shah ahmadi and these are top stories this hour. at least 14 people are killed and hundreds others injured in a second wave of device explosions hit that hit lebanon. only day after hundreds of pages used

bayrut radhan rizg, political analyst, and out of belfast, author, commentator and west asia expert saib shaf, welcome both of you to the program. i'd like to start it off in beirut. i mean your thoughts r one, when the hezbollah deputy chief says that the war or the retaliation has intered a new phase, what do you think this means? well, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war, either we admit that or not, since the 8th of october in order to support the gaza resistance, palestinian resistance in gaza, so now the lebanese resistance are involved since the 8th of october and it's legitimate for the lebanese to support their allies or their the the you know the the the palestinian. fighters in in palestine because after all we are fighting the same enemy for the same cause and the we all know understand that the israelies were preparing themselves since years ago to invade the southern lebanon in order to push back the huzballah from northern litani river so it's a war taking place escalating

lebanon, i think they will be destroyed and... in case they commit such foolishness against lebanon and saib, your final thoughts, your overall assessment, do you see that the israeli regime it's basically has played most of its cards imploding from within and basically just trying to do something to widen this war to get help from the united states because it cannot win it alone. that is exactly what. the doing excellent questions, the zin entity tried to intagonize the the resistance to provoke harsher response because of the killing of the many civilians in lebanon as well, and in that to say to the americans, where are you from saving the jewish entity, this what europe gave us in return for massacring us in europe? so this is the card which then and netanyahu will will reach to the limit of saying we're being defeated by by hisballah, so we need the americans in the ground, and this is when they bring the americans, they want to reach the whole rail, the whole rail in here is to dismantle the iranian nuclear program and to dismantle the iranian military and to to pacify iran and put ira

out of radan rizg, political analysts and out of belfast, author, commentator and west asia expert, saib shaf, welcome both of you to the program, i'd like to start off in beirot, mean your thoughtswan when the hez. deputy chief says that the war or the uh retaliation has entered new phase, what do you think this means? well, i rather call it a return of ahead or operation, because now we we know that we all know and we understand that we are in a state of war, either we admit that or not, since the 8th of october in order. to support the gaza resistance, palestinian resistance in gaza, so uh now the lebanese resistance are involved since the 8th of october and it's legitimate for the lebanese to support their allies or their the their you know the the uh the the palestinian fighters in in palestine because after all are fighting the same enemy for the same cause and the we all know understand that the israelies were preparing themselves since years ago to invade the southern lebanon in order to push back the hizballah from northern litane river so it's a war taking place escalating some

and saib, your final thoughts, your overall assessment, do you see that the israeli regime, it's basically has played most of its cards imploding from within, and basically just trying to do something to widen this war to get help. from the united states because it cannot win it alone. that is exactly what they do. excellent questions. the sign to try to interganize the the resistance to provoke harsher response because of the killing of the many civilians in lebanon as well. and in that to say to the americans, where are you from saving the jewish entity? this what europe gave us in return for massacring? in europe, so this is the card which then and netanyahu will will reach to the limit of saying we're been defeated by by by hizballah so we need the americans in the ground, and this is when they bring the americans, they want to reach the whole grail, the whole grail in here is to dismantle the iranian nuclear program and to dismantle the iranian military and to to pacify iran and put iran back under the american. domination which through regime change, this is the whole the whole scena

saib shath, if you could please tell us how how is it possible to balance israel's claim to have the right to defend itself, with such acts of terrorism, booby trapping uh objects that are of daily use of ordinary civilians, such as this uh pajor incident that we witnessed. happening in lebanon? to start with on the level of international law, right to right to self defense when you are an equipier? is denied, so the zinest entity occurying farms of shabha and parts of lebanon, apart from talking about the whole historical of palestine and the golan heights and others, so this idea of self defense is a manufactured lie by united states of america and the west to impose that on the back of the international law which have no illegal legal exist whatsoever. saying that this all operation of attacking civilians by rogue state a mass terror deploying a mass terror techniques uh it came on the back of the on the 25th of august when the lebanese resistant targeted the the intelligence units in galilot base in the serbart of tel aviv and this is ' "it's a message by this intelligence saying

saib shoot author middle east affairs expert joining us out of belfast hello mr. shoth welcome to the conversation uh i have eves engler out of toronto with us and i want to welcome you. to the uh rolling coverage here on this escalation we're seeing by the regime against lebanon uh latest figures by the interior ministry there 492 people killed um mostly civilians uh over 1,645 um injured and this includes uh scores of women and children your initial thoughts mr shoth uh are just talking eves about the fact that you very well know, the regime has given up more ample opportunities to accept a cease fire, get as captas out of gaza, put an end escalation, a possible escalation where... right now between itself and hezbullah, between itself and the anserlab and possibly other resistance factions in the regime out of iraq, possibly out of iran or what not, it could put an end to all of it, we could have seen right now the first few days of reconstruction of gaza and an end to hostilities, but here we are on the precipice of even more escalation. uh, your initial thoug