Edition of palestine declassified, were going to examine the extraordinary armed uprising of the Palestinian People against the zionist entity, which has repeatedly and flagrantly spurned every single peaceful attempt to secure justice for palestine. First up is latifa abochakra with a special report about this audacious military offensive by palestinian Freedom Fighters that began in the early hours of saturday morning on october the 7th. As fragile as a spiders web. The zionist entity is shaking with fear. In Early Morning shock, Palestinian Resistance factions from ghazza launched an unprecedented threeponged attack on the entity. First, armed fighters sailed of over the israeli fence to ghazza using hand gliders. Simultaneously, 5,000 rockets were launched into the zionist entity from the open air prison of gazza, disabling that much vaunched irondown system. At the same time, palestinians broke down the fence, which fighters had sailed over using bulldozers. What ensued was the homecoming of at least 1,000 palestinians from the resistance factions into the fragile zionist entity. Military bases were seized by the resistance of and israels markava tanks were captured and taken back to ghazza. Settlements like stehart, whose zionist guests had previously watched from hilltops while gazza was bombed. Where seized by the resistance, over 100 settlers have been taken as prisoners of war by the resistance. The vast majority are members of the occupation forces. An area of occupied palestine larger than the ghaza strip was taken and held by the resistance factions, who reached within only 10 kilometers of the west bank city of al khalif, known to settlers as hebron. It is of documented that resistance factions were able to fashion weapons from unexploded with munitions dropped on them by the israelis, but did weapons from nato escapades in afghanistan and ukraine really end up in gazza, time will tell. The fear of South Lebanon is palpable among the satellites, so much so that an Israeli Occupation unit opened fire on an approaching truck close to lebanon. They discovered that the vehicle carried seven israeli fighters. All had been killed by the zionist friendly fire. Overall, in a space of 48 hours. At least 700 settlers were killed. The vast majority were part of the occupation forces. To put the figure into perspective, in proportion to the size of the population of the colony, that is the equivalent of over 20,000 people in the United States. In the midst of it all, Russian Hacker Group kill net took down the site of the Israeli Regime administration, further spreading panic and fear. Nearly all major stocks in israel are in the red with the benchmark index recording the biggest loss for ur every year, poland and bulgaria have sent military planes to evacuate their citizens and bring them back home to europe. As always, were joined by our residence expert david miller, davids an academic and a former professor at bristol university, and is now a nonresident Senior Research fellow at the center for islam and Global Affairs at istanbul zaim university. Hes also a codirector of the lobbying watch dog spinwatch, and hes a leading british of scholarly critic of israel. I guess today is samy alariya. Who is a Public Affairs professor and a longstanding political activist whose roots are in palestine and samy has vigorously campaigned for palestinian liberation for many years and he was blacklisted in the United States because of his political views and he joins us today via skype from istanbul. Welcome to the show. Sammy, perhaps we could start with you, are we witnessing the death spasms of the zionist idea, do you think . Well, we have to go back to the origins of of zionism. Zinism was the Political Movement of jewish leates at the end of the 19th century and it was their response to europes antisemitism that existed at the time, particularly in russia the program and continued to what the experts would call the jewish question, and they tried to answer that by basically creating an exclusivist sler, colonial racist state that has been trying for over a century to approot the native people of palestine from from their native land and try to replace them with jews around the world, this is what zionism is about, and i think it has failed, but it continues to be strong. In terms of the state because of the support it has been receiving from mainly western governments, particularly the United States, but i think now its its becoming very clear that that kind of response would not be accepted in the 21st century, particularly with the state fastness of the palestinians and the resistance to this racist, exclusivist movement and entity, no indeed, i mean david, do you think israel was caught completely on . Wheres by this operation . It does seem so, mean theres been some reporting hasnt that the Egyptian Intelligence Services said something was going to happen, but they were ignored, so i mean ive seen the various other theories, lets not title them conspiracy theories that ive said that this is false flag, that the the the science let it happen, let all these hundreds of people be killed, or they thought that maybe lesser number, but no, its its clear that thats not whats happened, whats happened clearly has been a an operation. Planned for many, many months in gaza, and with other resistance factions across the territories, and its its taken them entirely by surprise, but also more importantly, inflicted an extremely significant military, intelligence and psychological defeat on thesin, they didnt think that this could ever happen to them, and the fact that they have had to evacuate people, thousands and thousands of people from all the settlements around gaza, and indeed theyre talking about evacuating all the settlements in near the northern border should hezballah inter the conflict much more significantly than they have so far, so were seeing defeat for zionism and a crisis for them really because theyre theyre theyre facing a real difficulty now of the possibility of the end the zionist entity, indeed and people coming up at the airport werent they to to actually leave is evacuated, yes indeed some some prominent figures actually in the z entity as well as understanding, but david i wonder if you could say a word or two as well about. The the conditions that people in gaza have been living in over the over the years, well people know the phrase dont they, this is an open air prison, indeed, and and of course its been an attempt by the zionis in the last week or so, 10 days to say, oh no, its not occupied, look, we we we left gaza in 2005, this is not an occupation, but of course its entirely surrounded, its its surveiled 24 hours a day, and you that underlines the scale of the achievement that that they that resistance could min all of that, but this is a an open air prison, and theyve and theyve even uh in the last few days intensified the siege, no water, no electricity, nothing is going in or out, theyve even closed rafa cros crossing into egypt, despite saying to people in gaza, you must leave, the rafa crossing is open, its not anymore, and theyre talking about bombing that as well, so this is an open prison, has been for for many years, most of the water in gaza is not drinkable, there are there are shortages of shortages of everything, including medicines, the food problems, its its been bombed so many times that theres so much rubble there that theyve had to actually start to use the rubble in ingenious ways to build new buildings, so its its an appalling state, its the worst place in the world uh under constant military supervision and yes occupation by the israelis, yes, mean you say that obviously its well known that its an open air prison and yet the Corporate Media if actually read the Corporate Media or listen to the broadcast channels and the Corporate Media that they dont really talk about it in those terms do they . Well thankfully i dont depend on the Corporate Media from of course many people still do yes thats true although of course many many mores in the last 20 years have turned off from that but yes the Corporate Media prev presents a systematically distorted and skeed view and version of whats happening although the question on the question of occupation the designers have been complaining in the last little while about cbc the canadian broadcasters uh that journalist should not use the word should use the word occupation because it still is occupation and and so thats even the Mainstream Media wont go as far to to to what should we call it to kind of fantasy landers designers want them to no indeed indeed indeed but samy mean in what way would you say is this war different from previous wars on gaza its quite different mean if you look at the previous four five wars starting from 2008 2009 all them were initiated by the design state, this time it was different, it was surprising, it was the uh, you describing as an open air prison, it was basically a prison break where the palestinians themselves took the initiative and attack and always you have that benefit the surprise and therefore what happened with insued after that was huge success, huge victory for the resistance, they were able to actually dismantle this myth of the invisitability of the israeli army, that this is not a invincible army, but in fact its an army that was caught flat footed and they were shown by few fighters, mean these fighters were basically not. Regular army, these are mostly volunteers, palestinian resistors, but theyre determined, and and they they have the will to fight until they gain their freedom and independence and liberation, and weve seen in the in the first 60 hours how they were going attacking the military bases, the settlers, the settlements, they were bringing back all kinds of prisoners of war in order to force the exchange and free their comrads in prisons, yeah, i mean david, it said that, i think was 11. Us citizens were killed in the in the operation, mean what do you think explains you know so many foreign nationals being present in in palestine . And its been a british person being confirmed now being killed, over the weekend, well what explains this of course is something quite different to the explanation about civilians uh or american citizens or british citizens even being killed in ukraine because they are everybody understands they are mercenaries, but here. These people are either settlers or theyre actually involved directly in in being enrolled in whats called the Israel Defense forces, the israel uh occupation forces, like the the the british guy for example, 19 or 20 years old was actually in the idf, now this this this is about british citizens as foreign fighters, we call these people foreign fighters if they were in syria or somewhere else, but we dont call them foreign fighters in this case, of course when those people who regularly go. Britain or from the us to join the oppressive forces of of israel come back, theyre not interrogated as being terrorists, theyre not interrogated and asked for why theyve got involved in armed violence and killing of civilians and actually you know in in the structural uh violations of International Law which israel day by day is committing, and so theres a real question here about how we actually change the way in which our Society Works so that people from the uk are not allowed to go to fight for. Uh for israel, no indeed, i mean the shadow uh foreign secretary, david lamy was saying you, our thoughts are with the british citizen who was killed, but surely the question should be, why are british citizen serving in the uh Israeli Occupation forces, but well just pause there for moment uh, because weve got another report now, looking at the strategic implications for the United States and israel, as a result of the military operation by the palestinian resistant factions, as the palestinian. Resistance factions prepared for their operation early on saturday morning, they must have known they were about to embark on what will surely be seen as the most Historic Mission of any Palestinian Resistance fighters. They broke out of the opener prison of gaza for the First Time Since gaza was occupied in 1967. Of course the zianist regime has answered the challenge with a bloody onslot on civilians, killing more than 100 children in little over dead. They deliberately and openly targeted civilian infrastructure in a frenzy of revenge that hides the strategic vacuum, theyve diverted personnel from the west bank and have laid siege to gaza, nothing can go in or out, but the chess game can easily end an existential threat, never has the idea that israel is a temporary entity been so palpable, the United States has issued bellacose warnings and says it is moving forces closer to the entity, but this is drawn fiery repose from the resistance axis from hizballah and from the Iraqi Resistance making it plain that escalation means that us personnel will be legitimate targets across the whole region. President joe biden gave nod to the difficulties faced by the much vaunted us hejemon when he warned supporters the palestinians not to take advantage of the circumstances. Didnt say it, but the circumstances are decline of us power, notable shortage of us weaponry, which has been effectively destroyed in ukraine, a littleknown us stock pile of ammunition held in israel has been depleted by supplies in ukraine, Current Pentagon plants to increase production, will not even keep pace with the 6,000 shells expended each day by the ukrainians. The entry of hezbollah into conflict from the north is an indication of the strategic vice that. Israel finds itself in by monday zinis radar station was decommissioned and the border fence at the northern border with lebanon was blown up, any ground war in gaza will face stiff. Resistance and there will be many more occupation force casualties. Does the entity have the appetite for this . And will it mean the foundations of zionism begin to crumble . Since the beginning, the security of the zionist entity has depended on having enough jewish citizens to win the demographic struggles against the palestinians, with so many settlers fleeing from the airports and settlers from poland and bulgaria being evacuated, how long before the entity crumble. Rolls and the dismantling of zinism begins in earnest. If the special military operation in ukraine was the first act of the age of multipolarity, the prison bust from gaza is the opening of the second act. The future is on written. Sammy, your family was expelled from palestine in 1948, wasnt it . I mean, can you tell us about how you responded to the gaza breakout over the weekend . I mean generations of palestinians had their hope, the hope of the return to their ancestors lands, my grandfather and my father who both passed away years ago had that hope, it was not fulfilled, i have that hope, which i hope that it would be fulfilled during my lifetime, but if not certainly my children would have that hope, what we witnessed this weekend was that this is possible that this myth that the palestinian. Would forget over generations that the old would die and the new would forget is just a myth, is not true, the fact of the matter is that millions of palestinians, outside palestine, inside palestine, year to the time where we would enter palestine and and and and be in that land again, you know the the this notion of two state, one state solutions where it will basically exclude millions of palestinians from going back is not going to succeed. I think our our goal, our objective should be the dismantlement of designed state because of its racist exclusivist colonial structure, that this is an apart tide system that cannot survive the change in this world, and therefore when this crumbles and we have seen a glimpse of how could that be, when that happens then we could truly then talk about peace and talk about harmony and solve by the way the jewish problem, because zionism redefined. Judaism, and i think we need to save judaism from the evil and from the ideology of zinism. Indeed, indeed. David, i mean, would you say that, this was an explosion of of ang anger from gaza in response to the endless provocations from the zienist entity, or or do you think something more strategics going on here . Well, it would be no surprise to say that people in gaza are a little bit angry, the zimas, but this is not. Some spasm, some emotional outburst, this has been planned for a long, long time, at least year, it seems that uh hamas and the other resistance factions who we dont talk about enough, people talk about this being hamas doing this, hamas doing that, its hamas, yes, its the Palestinian Islamic jihad, its the popular front for the liberation of palestine, the Democratic Front for the liberation of palestine were involved, indeed, even armed groups, the armed have been involved in some of these actions. Mentioned the the various factions across the west bank, so this is a a thing which has been in planning for at least year and is a strategic uh um strategic activity, so its not as if that this is over, there are other sorts of things which are going to fall into place, weve seen already from the north, hezballah and to some extent other factions like palestinian, Islamic Jihad in lebanon making a breach of the fence uh at the border, this is a strategic thing. And there are there are all sorts of structural questions in this chess game about who next comes into the into the frame and thats what we have to see, thats what the the future uh tells us here, this is not going to be something where the designers can just crush the resistance because there are all sorts of consequences for their actions, yes yes indeed, of course the focus just being on hamers by the Corporate Media is another example suppose of the misreporting by uh the Mainstream Press and broadcast media, but samy. What do you think the strategy of the resistance factions is . Well, i dont think there is any illusion among the resistance fighters that this was a war of liberation. I think they had several objectives in mind, five in particular, the first one would be to stop this daily encroachment, incursion, desecration of aqsa mosk and the holy places that have been taking place throughout the year, particularly in the last three weeks, second. It was attempt also to stop the incursion and the daily attacks on Palestinian Youth in different west bank cities, killing them, imprising them, detaining them, kidnapping them, which has also claimed over 240 lives this year in the west bank alone, 40 of them are children. Third, it was attempt also to, because israel has been refusing to to to exchange its prisoners for the few prisoners in gaza, so there was attempt to to make it basically get more prisoners of war to force israel to make that since 500 palestinians including many women and children in prison, and their lives have been even made. Much worse when bengafier became the the the the the person in charge of the prison system and fourth, it is to lift the siege on the 16year blocade and siege against gaza, two million, over two Million People have been under siege, now without the the word, really caring or given much attention to this to this tragedy, to this genocidal policy, and fifth and last, which is very important is to show the work. That the palestinians are determined, are determined and resolve to continue fighting and resisting the occupation, including fighting, but also including to show the world that they are capable of defeating an enemy, on the ground, and i call also that our fight is not just militarily, that we need to engage the zionist groups and zionist ideology and zin supporters and governments, those support it, on in all fields, politically, economically, commercially, legally, human rights, artistically, media wise, all in all spheres in all geographies, yes indeed, but david, i mean, what do you make of the response of the uh, the remainder the resistance axis, do you think that will deter the zists . Well, i think people need to understand that the resistance access is an actual thing, that the resistance in in lebanon, the hisballah, in syria, in iraq, in yemen, the ansara in yemen. And of course the the Islamic Republic of iran, this is an actual functioning organiz set of organizations who work together, they dont plan each others um activities, but they are coordinating each with each other, and thats the the key, the key to this is that, if there is escalation from the americans, the the resistance in in hisballah in in in iraq have said that they will regard us targets across the region as legitimate, now that is a. Big question, what does that mean in terms of about configuration . Its also a question about about uh what happens if there is a Ground Invasion of gas, if theres a regad invasion, the the idf, the Israel Occupation forces will take very, very heavy casualties, and it will also mean a massive escalation, hall will almost certainly come in from the north, and and that of course is something which will be concentrating the minds of netanyahu and his cabinet about what, how far they can go to pursue. To their goals of eliminating and expelling all palestinians, sure, yeah, well, thats it, im afraid for another show today, so id like to thank our guest, samy alarian and of course our resident expert, professor david miller. Palestine declassified will be back next week with more forensic investigations and analysis. In the meantime, you can help us to spread the truth about the Palestinian Uprising by sharing todays program on your social media platforms and remember, you can also follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram. Where we post regular clips and updates, so until next time, this is chris williamson, saying bye for now. لا اله الا الله؟ its a dire situation in in the gaza strip that were were seeing evolve. Weve got these. That have have clearly uh not followed uh obligations, particularly the people in the ghaza strip, theres a huge amount of sympathy in the air world for palestinian, i think the israeli economy will have a significant hit just because the market uncertainty around israel based on where it is in the region and what its economy relies on. Visually workplace have rain down bombs and areas around three hospitals in the gaza strep. Media reports, israeli missiles hit the vicinity of al shifa and algus hospitals as well as indonesia hospital. The strikes came after the regime ordered 20 hospitals insiege territory to evacuate. Israel keeps up heavy bombardment of cagus throughout gaza for the 16th consecutive day. The attacks on gaza have killed nearly 4700 palestinians wounding nearly 1600 oters so far. Over 70 the victims are children, women and the elderly