Palestinians in the west bank also as our attention has been on gaza 65 palestinians have been killed in over 1300 injured in the of west bank during the last 10 days. Nearly 1900 israels have been killed and more than 3800 injured by operation alaxa flood. All despite the rising palestinian fatalities, people in both gaza and the west bank say october 7th will go down in history for what the resistance was. To do, it is also the day that the true image of the israeli paper tiger was seen like never before. Well, id like to welcome my guests to this program. Elijah macmier, journalists and political analyst out of brussels. And mich napier cofounder Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign out of the. Thank you both for being with me, id like to start it off uh in brussels and elijah, well the resistance operation on october 7th destroyed the invincible image that the regime had tried to portray, i want to talk about the effect of that on both sides, one for the resistance and also for the Israeli Regime, thank you for having me, thank you for coming, i do think eventh of september is going to. Be a historical day because that mark the defeat of the what it used to be called the Invincible Army, but above all what is the most important, it has created a state of uncertainty among all the settlers and this uncertainty means that no longer anyone living in israel feel secure and has lost the trust in the israeli army. To defend him or to defend the family that were coming from all over the world with only the religion of judaism that united them when they come from europe, from ethiopia, from russia, from all different countries, they have nothing in common but a place where they have taken by force and is offering them protection and facilities, well that has gone on the 7th of october, and this is what. Is represent the huge hit not only to the government of Benyamin Netanyahu and his far white extremist members of the government like ben gaver and smotic but to the entire Israeli Society that feel that israel has shaken and of is no longer as strong as it like to offer itself to the world, however still. Control the media that for sure and is still silenceing the whole western world, nevertheless, the ground has shaken under the feet of israel, and only a handful of few hundred resistance in palestine, broke all the security and technological cameras and measures around the biggest concentration camp in open air, that is gaza and managed to. Defeat one of the strongest brigade that is called gaza brigade and managed to take over 199, which is what we know so far, prisoners, among those, four generals of the israeli army and others, so for that hit, this is why israel has lost control and gone completely mad and resort to his powerful air force destroying and inflicting such a big heavy casualties on the civilians, so again israel is violating International Laws and all Geneva Convention and the un charter by indiscriminately killing all the civilians in gaza under the excuse at getting rid of hamas when more than 10030 children and women have been killed so far and these are not hamas or they not Islamic Resistance or any other fighters because they are too small. To wage war on israel, they will, one day, this is why the israeli kills them when they are too small, thats the israeli doctrine. Well, mick, as elijah has just stated, over a thousand kids have been killed, there is no water, no electricity, no food, and no fuel in gaza, how can the world, the world of 2023, just sit and let this genocide happen. Well, how could they sit and watch afghanistan being reduced to a terrible situation at the cost of i think two trillion dollars by the americans, how can, i mean, the control of the media and the the willingness of the nato countries to support war crimes, is very, very strong, i mean the invasion of iraq, uh, i think madelyn albreight was asked before the invasion uh that she was told that half million children had died, iraqi children because it of of the sanctions before even the mass killing uh and she was asked if this was a price worth paying for to realize american uh goals and she said yes its a price worth paying so theyre quite happy to see half million iraki children dead because of sanctions theyre quite happy to see they were quite happy in my youth to see 3 million vietnamese dead uh after america invaded, so the the idea that the theres nothing surprising in european elites striving to control access of inf access by their populations to information that would help them make sense of whats going on, and conceal the most bloody aggression, it just is part of european and north american ruling class uh skills, they do it. Sometimes they lose and sometimes it fails and i have to stres in the case of israel uh theres a real Crisis Brewing because and i woke up 9 days ago on saturday morning and i could not believe what i was watching on tv. I thought i had studied israel, palestine in depth for very long time, but i hadnt realized what the Palestinian Resistance was capable of, very few people outside did, so i was alone in my. I was i was not alone in my ignorance and my mistake, but it was quite aston, it was so astonishing that just as the hezbolah uh defeat of israel in 2006 has been studied at great length in in war colleges among professional soldiers around the world, this will also be studied in war in in uh in staff colleges in in in war colleges because it was so remarkable and as elijah has said its the story of a gurilla group uh fighting asymmetrical war against very powerful uh opponent technologically and achieving the most astonishing breakthrough breaking out of cage that israel used to israel used to sell that idea their technology and building cages to other countries to say look what weve done to the palestinians they are reduced to impotance by our Cage Technology or the american border with mexico or some other place, and thats been blown to pieces, so what was achieved was utterly astonishing, beyond almost human credulity to believe that that was that was happening, so amazing, now israel is settler colonial project, it wants to follow in the footsteps of america and australia and and clean out the native people and replace them with incoming immigrants, to achieve that they. Dont just need to have a military edge, which they have, i mean, france had a military edge in algeria and and lost, but they need to have an overwhelming invulnerability to any reprisal by the natives that makes resistance unthinkable, thats been the zionist doctrine since before 1948 and every day since then, and that has been very badly dented, no question about it, and i think their salesmen going around the world are going to have to sell their goods a much lower. Price because they were tested on the palestinians and seem to have failed. Um, but going forward, they will reak terrible havoc, its vengeance. In in gaza, theyve been. Humiliated and they then they discuss openly that they must restore what they call their deterrant edge, they must restore the the myth of their invulnerability, and that will mean thousands of corpses, that will mean the refrigerator vans in gaza at the moment are filled with small bodies as they were in 2014 and 2009, and the cost will be extremely high, but if i mean just final sentence, in a anticolonial struggle, its the people who can, its not the people who can kill. The most to win, its those can take terrible punishment in algeria, in vietnam, in palestine and continue to resist. That looks like to be the palestinians. Yeah, well, what about that . Elijah, i mean the palestinians have been resisting for 75 years and mick said that the regime, the Israeli Regime wants to try to uh get back that invincibility uh image. Do you think . Think that its gone forever, elijah, with what has happened . I mean, youre talking about uh, a resistance thats basically um, highly surveiled, controlled, uh, and then the regime of course, having the most sophisticated weapons, uh, helicopters, airplanes, everything, but look at what happened on october the 7th, your take, has that that image been gone and tarnished forever, actually, so for the first time it is not israel that wages war against its neighbors or against the palestinians, it is the other way around, and this is what is driving the israelis completely off balanced, and this is why Benyamin Netanyahu said nothing in the first hours and in the first day, they were all under complete shock, because normally its israel that starts the war and israel that decides went to begin the war and start gathering all the forces, equipments and effectives and allies for the war. This time israel was surprised and did not expect, apart from being a total intelligence failure and the capacity of hamas to be able to hide such a large scale operation, and this is where i come to the number two of my point, which is hamas is no longer fight. With stones, hamas is no longer fighting with sticks or with light arms, the experience that hamas and the axis of resistance shares among themselves, the knowledge, the weaponry, the tactic, the preparedness and above all the spirit of fighting for survival, and the contrary, the the israelis are the occupiers, they dont fight to survive, they fight because they are told the that their air force can destroy everything before the infantry goes in and they will fight a war that is an kind of electronic war, this time the were faced with something completely different that they are not used to, when moshed was a chief of staff and then defense minister, he told his Prime Minister gold jamair, tell me which arab country you wants me to occupy with only the music unit of the army. Well, thats gone because hamas showed the capability of king the image of the Invincible Army forever. Its not going to be for year or two, no matter what they do to gaza, no matter what if even if they go for a Ground Invasion, this image has been broken and really hamas proved and the islamic jihad, gaza with it inhabitants, because you need a society that is expressing solidarity with all the resistance, otherwise the resistance cannot survive, so the whole of gaza showed that the israelis are really weaker than the spider net and they can be defeated and gave a big lesson to the all the gulf and arab countries who are not with israel saying this is the entity that you want to put your hand with to protect yourself, see what we can do in just few hours, causing 1,500 killed and 2,500 israeld. Yeah, that thats interesting what you said, elijah, and what about that mick . Mean its also, its not just the image thats been destroyed, for the regime itself, but but lets talk about it in the region. And what that means . Elijah talked about the air regimes, basically had given their hands and solidarity with the regime, i would think that they would be. Pretty unnerved right now also just like Israeli Settlers are . Well yes i mean america was trying to cobble together alliances uh to isolate iran uh to say that america was going to start concentrating a a con potential conflict with well a real conflict in a potential war with china in the future and therefore they would be they would be paying less attention to to the middle east. And therefore these regimes should really depend on israel to protect them from a supposed iranian threat. Um, that looks like not such a good bit anymore. Um, but but id like to disagree a little bit, not disagree, but id like to stress rather differently the the the terrible cost that israel can impose upon the palestinians. So i think that um, they dont care really about the the hostages. Um, mean, the israel had the socalled hannibal directive that if anyones captured by the palestinians then they they obliterate the area and they kill the israeli captive in the process rather than have them become bargaining trips to release palestinian prisoners so theyre bitterly cruel towards israelis as well um but they also have the go still with a term from the ancient world they also have the samson option they have 200 Nuclear Weapons and when the state threatened, which it will be, theres always the threat that they will use these Nuclear Weapons and they are so crazy, i mean the west has not has incubated in israel a state which believes that not just palestinians, but even their friends, their allies hate them, that the whole world hates jews as axium of zionism, and theyre for uh, you know, they often dont calculate as rationally as other states, so i think. That yes, theyve suffered a terrible blow to their credibility, and across the middle east and beyond, people are inspired by by hamas, inspired by the Palestinian Resistance, and we can see this with Million People on the streets of san last saturday and huge crowds in in in in the other middle eastern capitals and way beyond, they will be exerting pressure on their rulers. One of the goals of the resistance nine days ago was to prevent. Normalization between israel and saudi arabia, its a success, theyve done it, and i think that wont be the end of it, other regimes which have normalized and seminormalized will come under incredible pressure, as as a popular opinion, inspired by Palestinian Resistance, because the whole thing is is intimately connected with the psychology of arab of arab peoples, they will put their rulers under great pressure to abandon or to null normalization. And to begin to to to to to give some support, real support, not just bandages uh to the palestinians, so yes, i think in that respect, it has changed the psychology across, across thousands of miles and millions of people, hundreds of millions of people across the middle east, its an astonishing achievement, it really is, theres nothing quite like it, the only thing i can think of that compares a bigger scale, but not quite so dramatic was the tech offensive in vietnam, when america was always winning, talking about winning. Were just about to win and then suddenly out of seemingly nowhere the tet offensive smuggled you know actually re removed the will to fight of the american of the American Government and i think this is comparable although its theres still many steps to go right well uh elijah because im reading some the uh latest uh news different situations that have taken place now it says the Israeli Regime the police there have bought over si thousand rifles for 566 new civilian response units that it has founded um with for border cities and major cities and mixed arab jewish cities um that they have prioritized uh as those most urgently needing the forces and it says since october 7th some 4100 israels have applied for a gun license compared to 38,000 annually and uh relaxing of course uh any criteria for pistol licenses, so what do you see this going . What does that mean . Well, arming the settlers is something that is not new at all, on the contrary, they this is used to terrorize the Palestinian Civilians and to make sure that they can always kill and accountably any palestinian they want, and to v the privacy and take their home, remove all their properties, destroy their olive trees, etc. So these sitlers enjoy the support of the israeli army all the time, they dont move without the support of the israeli army, they too cowered to do that, and they more cowered by attacking these Palestinian Civilians who are un arms, weve seen when they were faced with the with the people of gaza and the is the Palestinian Resistance in gaza, what they have done, we will see them what they will do if they go a Ground Invasion of gaza, weve seen them before in 2012 when they invaded gaza, what happened to them and how they did not manage to advance but few hundred meter with all their mighty of military equipment, so all that is not going to change really anything, but weve seen and i had mainly laugh when netanyahu asked joe biden for two million individual rifle, automatic rifle to give to. The settler so they can defend themselves when israel manufactur these weapons, so hes really trying to squeeze out the americans anything he can grab, so it is just show of meanness and just saying that we are defensive, since when the israelis are defensive, if they want to move in any manifestation, they have a whole army more than manifestator with them, protected them and supporting them, terrorizing the palestinians. Not respecting the Un Resolution of allowing people to worship in jerusalem and respect the right of religion, spitting on church and on mask, this is what these is really do on every day because they thought they are the new dominant of the of the territory, well they are mistaken, for the first time israel is shaking with or without tens of thousands of individual weapon is not going to change anything. And of course theres a lot of fear inside of the regime these days from the settlers, as ive been reading uh, many Different Things online about that extreme sense of insecurity that the settlers feel. On that note, we have to end it, sorry, were out of time, but i appreciate both of you being with me, elijah magneer, journalist and political analyst out of brussels, mick napier cofounder Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, out of edinburg, and thank you viewers for being. With us on another spotlight and marz and we hope to see you right here next time. Je pense quils vont poser lahaut, faut quon se decale. Art is the title to describe the beauty or language used to translate its emotions and feelings, resulting in aesthetic values interacting with all the people despite the different tongues and colors. Everyone that sees the smoke envisages destroyed home with dead people and devastated lives in its place. However, i try to bring this place back. To life in my own way where i can change the image of destruction into an image thats more at ease to the sensitivities of people. Every artwork presents a valuable theme and truth about palestine in a beautiful and civilized way. I think the israelis oppose this as they search for any image that they can use to tarnish the Palestinian Community and depict palestinians as terrorists. Resistance fighters fire rockets that occupied alhud and tel avib and retaliation for israeli aggressions claimed the lives of more than 2800 gazas. Iran warns if israels ongoing crimes in the gaza strip continue, any preemptive measured by the resistance front is possible in the coming hours. And the hasball Resistance Movement hits five more Israeli Military bases
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