i'll start with you, um, shabir, if i may. um, if the bombardment of khan yunis is anything to go by, it's evident that the israelies are, one, not listening to their allies, and two, essentially, thumbing their noses at the icj and the orders it gave israel to follow in the gaza strip. do you see it that way too? hello, good afternoon, thank you very much uh for the invitation. firstly condolences to all the marters in gaza in west bank and all the other fronts that are fighting the zionist entity and of course uh our prayers for those who are suffering the pain. look: "what has happened in the last, as you said, nearly four months and of course the uh, you the decisions that hague have clearly shown that the so-called moral aspect of the zionist entity, the moral rectitude, the bubble of moral rectitude has burst open, absolutely for the world to see very clearly that this idea that design." city and it's sort of the moral army, the so-called, it's not a moral army, it's more malevolent army with many other people a terroris

than four months, joining me on this edition here in the studio, economist and political analyst shabir and via skype from leicester, dr. ismail patel, founder of friends of member of the conflicts for. gentlemen, pleasure to have you with us, i'll start with you, shabir, if i may, um, if the bombardment ofus is anything to go by, it's evident that the israel are one, listening to their allies and two essentially thumbing their noses at the icj and the orders it gave israel to follow in the gaza strip. do you see it that way too? hello, good afternoon, thank you very much uh for the invitation. firstly, condolences to all the marters in uh gaza, in west bank and all the other fronts that are fighting the zionist entity, and of course our prayers for. those who are suffering the pain. look, what has happened in the last, as you said, nearly four months and of course the uh, you know, the decisions at hague have clearly shown that the so-called moral aspect of the zionist entity, the moral rectitude, the bubble of mobile moral rectitude has burst open absolutely, for the world to see very

professor mohammed eed shabir, professor of immunology and virology and former president of the islamic university of gaza, professor. fatt al areer, poet and professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the islamic university of gaza, who was killed along with members of his family. despite all israeli restrictions, palestine has one of the highest literacy rates in the world with a literacy raid of 96.3% as of 2014. the literacy rate is even higher among males, with 98.4% being literate. the gaza strip has the highest literacy rate with the literate population of 96.8% compared to 96% in the west bank. women have made significant progress in literacy over the past two decades with the rate jumping from 78.6% in 1995 to 94.1% in 2014. the high literacy rate among palestinians. is testimon to their commitment to education despite all the challenges they face, they don't want the people to you know to educate themselves, they don't want education, they want to destroy schools, yesterday is uh because that's the only way the palestinian had, we don't we have we had no weapo

experts and exercise in democracy in the west asia region. joins us from tehran, also joining us is shabir risby, political commentator who joins us from chicago. welcome to you both fudi, let me first start with you, and i'm going to uh get right to the one of the most important aspects of this, and that's democratic vote. i mean, if you want to take a look at the stats themselves, 40 elections held in iran since the victory of the islamic revolution. the friday vote is going to be the 12th one, parliamentary election, and the sixth uh... one for the assembly of experts and in terms of just the whole motion of this uh vote taking place for members of parliaments, the assembly of experts uh where the members of parliament elected in multi and single seat constituencies. the list is rather long as to how this is the democratic exercise uh, what do you say to the people who don't really look at it that way? i think people look at iran elections and realize there is democratic. process, i think the people who question the elections are generally associated with oppressive governments, united

but let's bring on our guests uh to continue our live coverage, we have uh let me see over here uh shabir risby political analyst who joins us from london and we also have uh julia cassam journalist and political analyst who joins us from bayrots. welcome to you both, julia kosem, i'll start with you. uh, you know, i was just uh speaking to our reporter there, it was her first time covering uh, the islamic revolution's 45 year anniversary obviously, but just the mere fact that uh, she was of the younger generation. i want to ask you about that uh, how it is that the islamic republic, given the fact that it's 45 years old, has been able to uh, not only pass its ideals, but for it to gain the popular support uh, generation after generation, why do you think that is? so because the islamic revolution is living revolution means it adapts, and homini even said this after after the after following the revolution is that um the the revolution, the ideas of the revolution, they they adapt and that they are strengthened by um the conditions of their their time and place and what khini did followin