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[00:00:00] regularly at the end of the show, but now we want to say hello
[00:00:03] to Roy Kass in our neighborhood, hello
[00:00:28] since the explosion in our neighborhood.
[00:00:31] Who among us doesn't remember those apocalyptic scenes?
[00:00:34] More than 200 people were killed, thousands were injured in this disaster
[00:00:38] caused by the explosion of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate
[00:00:41] that was stored in the port for years. This was one of
[00:00:44] the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
[00:00:48] This disaster encapsulated what everyone knew for so many
[00:00:51] years. Hezbollah, at the time, led by Nasrallah, was
[00:00:55] the one who controlled Lebanon's strategic facilities. Most of the Lebanese
[00:00:59] public, Hezbollah and its allies in power, were seen
[00:01:02] as responsible. Nasrallah tried to deny Hezbollah's involvement
[00:01:06] in this disaster, but the threats from the judge who tried to investigate
[00:01:09] the accusations. Six years
[00:01:12] have passed, Nasrallah is no longer here. Today's Hezbollah is politically
[00:01:16] and militarily weaker. There is a new
[00:01:19] brought negative results for leadership in Beirut trying to regain its power and its weapons for the country. But despite
[00:01:22] everything, the wheels of justice in the land of the cedars turn slowly,
[00:01:26] very slowly. To this day, no one has been brought to justice. Families.
[00:01:32] So what can we learn from this? That in Lebanon, the
[00:01:35] deep state that Hezbollah created is still working
[00:01:38] overtime to tie down the status of the new leadership
[00:01:41] to create a different, better and less corrupt
[00:01:44] Lebanon. Perhaps there is also food for thought for us. Before
[00:01:48] talking in negotiation rooms about disarming Hezbollah, perhaps it would be better
[00:01:51] to deal no less with disarming
[00:02:06] have a conversation from Cairo with the Egyptian writer who went to visit the Palestinians in a new
[00:02:10] book and resigned from the Writers' Union because of it.
[00:02:14] We will also jump to Iraq. There, millions have come
[00:02:17] for the world's largest pilgrimage. With all
[00:02:21] the pictures from the 40th.
[00:02:25] I divorce my wife three times! May God destroy We will ask, is it possible to truly disarm a terrorist organization? Not only are we asking
[00:02:28] this, but also the Turks. They will not succeed in disarming the Kurdish
[00:02:32] underground, and
[00:02:34] narrative. The position you express in Ahmed or Aisha
[00:02:36] knew the transgender imam
[00:02:53] With Tamar and Vishneko, we will have the latest updates
[00:02:56] from Mazumoz. We will also have a very special conversation with
[00:03:09] perhaps in Syria.
[00:03:12] Bogush will tell us about the legendary Egyptian singer, Abdel Halim, who continues
[00:03:16] to stir controversy from his grave. But we are starting
[00:03:20] with this topic. Even today, the whole world is watching the Strait of Hormuz,
[00:03:24] or rather, the results of the negotiations and talks between Iran,
[00:03:27] the UN, and those who are in charge.
[00:03:50] and those side understandings with Oman because
[00:03:54] Farhan Schenkies, reporter for
[00:03:56] the region, joins us. What are the latest
[00:04:00] updates? Is there a white smoke coming out of these talks between Oman
[00:04:02] and Iran? So hello Roy.
[00:04:05] The contacts are truly in their final stages. We still don't see
[00:04:09] white smoke coming out of Oman or Iran, but according to
[00:04:12] reports, in the coming hours,
[00:04:14] a joint statement from both countries is expected,
[00:04:18] officially announcing an arrangement for the
[00:04:21] shipping lane. An arrangement for the passage of ships in the shipping lanes of
[00:04:25] the Strait of Hormuz, where, according to reports, ships
[00:04:29] arriving in the Gulf will first pass through the Iranian shipping lane
[00:04:33] and exit through the Omani lane. This is the general
[00:04:36] agreement being formulated between the countries. This agreement, it should be said, is a temporary agreement for 60
[00:04:40] days, between two and four months, according to reports. And if
[00:04:43] this agreement is signed, it will be a breakthrough that will lead the United States
[00:04:47] and Iran to resume their contacts, the contacts that collapsed,
[00:04:51] it should be remembered, on the memorandum
[00:04:54] of understanding of Islam Abed that was signed on June
[00:04:57] 17th. Since then, we have seen repeated exchanges of fire.
[00:05:24] says today that it is very difficult to reach the supreme leader. We have also heard
[00:05:28] in the past, both this week and in recent months,
[00:05:31] how much the Iranian president and government are excluded from decision-making
[00:05:34] and that those who control the keys are actually
[00:05:38] the meaning of the revolution.
[00:05:41] Yes, so we will wait. You, of course,
[00:05:44] will follow, and if, as they say, white smoke comes out, you will, of course, break into us.
[00:05:48] Thank you very much. Strait of Hormuz. We move
[00:05:52] to Yemen. In recent hours, it seems that the Houthis have launched an attack against
[00:05:55] the forces supported by Saudi Arabia. Arab affairs correspondent
[00:05:58] Liran Aharoni joins us. We haven't seen such friction between the Houthis
[00:06:02] and the forces opposing them for a very long
[00:06:04] time. Yes, we haven't seen such a thing
[00:06:07] for a long time since the de facto
[00:06:11] unofficial ceasefire between the forces supported
[00:06:14] by Saudi Arabia and the Houthi forces over control
[00:06:18] of the region
[00:06:21] of western Yemen. In recent hours, reports indicate between 30
[00:06:25] and 45 activists from the Saudi-backed forces
[00:06:28] were killed in those attacks by the Houthis
[00:06:31] on a very important front in western Yemen in the
[00:06:35] southern Yemen region. This really adds to the announcement
[00:06:39] a few days ago by the Houthis that they are essentially ending
[00:06:43] the non-fighting that has been going on for the past
[00:06:46] few years and also escalating their attacks on
[00:06:49] Saudi ships in the area. So what really is the Houthi's interest here
[00:06:53] in renewing their ground attacks against the forces supported by
[00:06:56] Saudi Arabia? The Houthis' claim is that they want to
[00:07:00] end the Saudi siege on Yemen
[00:07:03] and actually improve conditions in Yemen.
[00:07:07] We know that the goal behind this is actually an Iranian
[00:07:10] goal to increase pressure on.
[00:07:19] which is considered one of Iran's main rivals, and we are essentially seeing here how another arm of Iran's octopus is being activated in the region. Indeed, and as
[00:07:22] you said, the Iranians are, of course, always behind the scenes. Liran Aharoni,
[00:07:26] Arab affairs correspondent, thank you very much. You also continue
[00:07:28] to follow.
[00:07:30] In southern Lebanon, it's not quiet even today. IDF strikes in the
[00:07:34] village of Al-Mansouri in the western sector, the same village whose residents received an evacuation
[00:07:38] warning yesterday afternoon following the severe incident near
[00:07:42] it, in which two soldiers were killed and several others were injured by a Hezbollah
[00:07:46] bomb. Meanwhile, in Rome,
[00:07:49] another day of direct talks between Israel and Lebanon began, an attempt to discuss
[00:07:53] all the disputed issues, including the expansion of the pilot areas,
[00:07:57] border demarcation, and the issue of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli
[00:08:00] jails. In the media, they claim that American pressure
[00:08:03] ultimately led to a limitation of the Israeli
[00:08:06] response. In this context, we say hello to David
[00:08:09] Schenker, former US Assistant Secretary of State.
[00:08:20] so new round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel is
[00:08:24] taking place, how do you assess the chances of the
[00:08:28] success of this negotiations?
[00:08:31] well, I think certainly the Lebanese government and the
[00:08:35] Israeli government want to make progress, they want these
[00:08:39] pilot zones to work, um, think
[00:08:42] there are challenges, i think the
[00:08:46] government of Lebanon is looking for this to move quickly, they're
[00:08:50] under lot of pressure by hisballah, but it's
[00:08:53] going to take some time, you're going to have to verify that the lebanes armed
[00:08:57] forces is doing its work, so there's a bit of
[00:09:00] attention in how long this is going to take,
[00:09:03] but um, i think
[00:09:06] cautiously optimistic that we're going to make some progress,
[00:09:09] Israel have taken a very aggressive approach in the... lebanese front
[00:09:13] is this what board the changes there
[00:09:16] or that it was counterproductive?
[00:09:20] well listen, there's no doubt that um
[00:09:23] Israeli military deployments in lebanon force the
[00:09:27] issue, um, lebanon typically
[00:09:31] kicks the can down the road, they prefer
[00:09:34] not to deal with controversial
[00:09:37] um difficult issues and this i think really
[00:09:40] compelled them to do it, but At the same time, I mean you
[00:09:44] had a government with Naf
[00:09:47] Salam Prime Minister and Andrew,
[00:09:50] um, the stars aligned, um, these folks
[00:09:54] along with the vast majority of Lebanese are
[00:09:58] just sick of Hezbollah
[00:10:01] determining matters of war and peace for the
[00:10:04] country, um, every six, 10 years
[00:10:08] dragging Lebanon into yet another
[00:10:11] costly and... disastrous war with Israel, and I
[00:10:14] think the vast majority of of Lebanese are are finished with this,
[00:10:18] they want this government to exert
[00:10:22] sovereignty. Do you believe it? it be possible
[00:10:26] to hernest the lebanese armed force to disarm
[00:10:29] hizbala? lebanese armed forces is
[00:10:32] are rediscent to uh move to
[00:10:35] confrontation with hisballah and back in the the civil war
[00:10:39] 1975 um the army um you know
[00:10:43] went after one particular sectarian group um
[00:10:47] and and the army dissolved along sectarian
[00:10:50] lines um so uh i think they're
[00:10:53] cautious about it. "they want to avoid it, the pilot zones, I
[00:10:57] think was put forward as a plan to help
[00:11:00] diminish the chances for confrontation,
[00:11:03] but um, clearly Hisbollah is not going to go
[00:11:06] quietly uh, and ultimately, if the
[00:11:09] LAF is going to succeed in these pilot zones, it will
[00:11:13] have to confront Hisbollah because they will attempt to move back into
[00:11:17] these territories with their weapons, perhaps even to launch
[00:11:20] you know rockets at Israel from these
[00:11:23] areas, um, and so..." cerly i think
[00:11:26] um and inevitably there will be a confrontation, i'm not
[00:11:30] sure that the l forces will do the
[00:11:33] work. i would like to ask you, what world do you
[00:11:37] think that Syria under the wall of ahmadhare can
[00:11:41] play in lebanon? is syrian interference against hizbala
[00:11:45] is in the interest of the US and president trump
[00:11:49] came up with an idea, as we know the president
[00:11:52] often says things of idea. is
[00:11:55] without uh vetting or the um the
[00:11:58] input perhaps of of experienced
[00:12:01] advisors, um, I think Syrian military deployment
[00:12:05] in Lebanon is perhaps the worst
[00:12:08] idea imaginable. Syrian forces
[00:12:11] are already spread quite thin um in Syria,
[00:12:15] they have to fight ISIS, try and
[00:12:18] maintain um order, there there are bombs in
[00:12:21] Damascus periodically now um and if they go to...
[00:12:25] Lebanon, this would, I think be purely
[00:12:28] sectarian fight, you remember that Hisbolla deployed to Syria and
[00:12:32] essentially was fighting the troops that are now the
[00:12:36] Syrian military on behalf of Iran and the
[00:12:39] Assad regime, this would very clearly, very quickly become
[00:12:43] a sectarian conflict and
[00:12:45] would would be a blessing I think for his
[00:12:49] va um rally around the Shia community around as well, Shia
[00:12:53] community that right now think is uh
[00:12:56] disillusion uh with this organization that has brought so much
[00:13:00] suffering on them. The other point I'll make um is that
[00:13:04] Alshara is Israel's best friend,
[00:13:07] right? I think there are many in in the government of
[00:13:10] Israel that refer to this guy as Joani um
[00:13:13] but as pejorative,
[00:13:16] but under AlShara
[00:13:19] um Syria is stopping all of these
[00:13:22] armed shipments going to hisballah. um being
[00:13:26] sent by the hashid in in Iraq and and by the
[00:13:29] IRGC um this is incredibly helpful for
[00:13:31] Israel um recognition um
[00:13:35] that
[00:13:37] uh this is definitely in Israel's interest no doubt it's in
[00:13:41] Lebanon's interest but it's also in the United States
[00:13:44] interest and very much in Israel's interest David
[00:13:48] Chenko thank you very much for this interesting
[00:13:51] interview by pleasure good talking to you.
[00:13:55] The world's largest pilgrimage is taking place
[00:13:58] in Iraq. In honor of the 40th day, Shia Muslims
[00:14:02] from all over the Muslim world come to the holy sites in the city
[00:14:05] of Karbala. The pilgrimage marks 40 days since the death of Imam
[00:14:08] Hussein, who is important to Shias. Iraqi authorities
[00:14:11] claim that no less than 22 million people from Iraq,
[00:14:15] Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, and in fact from all over the world,
[00:14:18] all participated this year in the pilgrimage. Most of them walked for several
[00:14:22] days in heat of over 40 degrees.
[00:14:35] No one cuts ties with you. And Umm al-Banin
[00:14:39] with you. Welcomes
[00:14:41] the girls. Hello,
[00:14:45] is far away. Hello,
[00:14:48] and the morsel has become We praise Allah and thank Him.
[00:14:51] My brothers,
[00:14:55] الزياره وكانت الزياره جميله
[00:14:59] جدا لان التنظيم بها عالي من العتبه الحسينيه
[00:15:02] And we completed
[00:15:05] our mourning.
[00:15:10] In the people, and he calls
[00:15:13] Al-Qasim here for more
[00:15:17] the visitors of Imam Hussein, peace
[00:15:20] Almighty, the service has been completed,
[00:15:24] وجئنا لزياره
[00:15:37] Among the participants in the 40, some high-profile guests. The Iranian Foreign Minister,
[00:15:41] האיראני למשל, הבאסרקצ'י, עזב את שיחות המשא ומתן עם ארצות
[00:15:45] He also used the visit to meet with
[00:15:49] How not? And now
[00:15:52] לשאלה הקשה, האם באמת אפשר לפרק ארגון תאור
[00:15:56] מנשק? השאלה הזו רלוונית לא רק
[00:15:59] לישראל, אלא גם בטורקיה. שם
[00:16:02] חושבים שזה אפשרי. שנה שלמה עברה מאז שלוחמים
[00:16:05] ולוחמות בארגון הפיקייק. הקורדי שנחשב ארגון טאור
[00:16:09] בטורקיה, אלו בעשת העובים שלהם מול המצלמות.
[00:16:12] But no significant progress
[00:16:16] השבוע הפרלמנט הטורקי מנסה לבצע מהלך מהצד
[00:16:19] שלו. ואנחנו אומרים שלום ליואב זהבי, מגיש שהתוכנית
[00:16:23] העולם היום, איש דסק החוץ הלן
[00:16:25] זהבי.
[00:16:27] Hello Kissak, how are you? So, the PKK is getting rid of
[00:16:30] הציוד.
[00:16:33] Look, you probably remember that about
[00:16:36] הpkק שורפים את ה'. שלהם לאחר שהארגון החריז שהוא מתפרק
[00:16:39] but that was mostly a publicity stunt. There are still thousands
[00:16:43] in the mountains
[00:16:47] of northern Iraq, and their fear is that if they
[00:16:51] ירדו מהערים הללו הם יעצרו על ידי השלטונות
[00:16:54] authorities who enjoy
[00:16:57] Iraq. So now what the Turkish parliament
[00:17:01] מנסה לעשות בעצם זה להגיד לחברה אלה תקשיבו תרדו מהערים
[00:17:05] תניחו את הנשק שלכם וחלקכם.
[00:17:37] Maybe there isn't so much trust in this
[00:17:40] law?
[00:17:42] So, first of all, he explains, he says himself that the law does not include
[00:17:46] people who have blood on their hands,
[00:17:50] not including terrorists with blood on their hands. So he says, whoever was active in the PKK and did not
[00:17:53] commit murder, was not involved in any
[00:17:56] from the mountains, and we will grant them a kind of
[00:18:00] החברה האלה באמת לעשות את זה עכשיו תראה זה מעלה חשד שיש
[00:18:03] is some kind of trap that Erdogan is really
[00:18:06] for those
[00:18:10] Ocalan arrives, he is the founder of the Kurdish
[00:18:13] in Turkey, the leader
[00:18:16] הpkק שנים ארוכות הוא כבר יושב בכלא והוא בעצם
[00:18:19] gives this week his
[00:18:22] הזה יש משלחת שנפגשת איתו אחר כך
[00:18:25] מצויץ בחשבונות שלו ברשתות
[00:18:27] החברתיותו
[00:18:30] of the process. Yes, there is
[00:18:33] says, this is the beginning of a process
[00:18:37] like the establishment of the republic. He means the Turkish
[00:18:41] to adopt a negative approach. What
[00:18:45] is important is that everyone takes responsibility for the success
[00:18:48] Ocalan gives his seal of approval to this process, it gives
[00:18:52] a significant incentive to those
[00:18:55] very loyal to this man, even though for many years he has not been
[00:18:58] in the field, but operates from the Turkish prison. Right, we will wait
[00:19:01] ונחה ונראה האם באמת אתה יודע זה יצחוק, זה יצחוק את
[00:19:05] ה מה שנקרא את הלוחמים. באמת
[00:19:07] להסגיר את עצמם, אבל אנחנו רוצים גם לגעת בסוריה, כי תשמע, כי
[00:19:11] זה גם משהו שמשלים, היינו השבוע ביקור היסטורי, לא
[00:19:15] פחות, נשיא החבל הקורדי, ניצרוואן,
[00:19:18] Barzani. I hope I pronounced his name correctly. He visited Damascus.
[00:19:22] The Kurdistan flag. We see him alongside Syrian President Ahmed
[00:19:25] al-Shara. A visit that we really
[00:19:28] And the big story is, of course,
[00:19:32] מדברים על הpkק בטורקיה, הכוחות הקרודים בסוריה שעדיין לא
[00:19:35] ממש התמזגו לצבא.
[00:19:41] So everything is connected to everything because Erdogan, or rather Erdogan's Turkey, is trying to reshape the Kurdish space. It is also doing this
[00:19:45] in Syria. This week we see Nechirvan Barzani,
[00:19:49] מנהיג החבל הקורדי בעיראק מגיע לדם עסק נפגש
[00:19:52] with Ahmed al-Shara. This is the first
[00:19:55] of Assad's regime, that we see the Kurdistan flag being raised
[00:19:59] in such a way in the office of the Syrian President. This is truly an extraordinary
[00:20:02] thing. The goal is to talk to this man who will try to activate
[00:20:06] on the Kurdish
[00:20:09] forces operating
[00:20:12] simple: this man enjoys
[00:20:16] parts of the Kurdish region,
[00:20:19] סוריה של השרה, וגם עם ההנהגה הטורקית, כלומר הוא
[00:20:23] יכול להיות מתווך בסיפור הזה, למרות שמדובר בקורדי,
[00:20:27] והניסיון הוא למעשה לעצב כאן מחדש את המרחב, כי
[00:20:30] בעצם אותן, אותם כוחות קורדים שפועלים
[00:20:34] בסוריה, הם יושבים באזור הגבול הדרומי של טורקיה.
[00:20:37] ארדואן ותורקיה, חלקם לפחות אלה פעילי טרור בדיוק
[00:20:41] כמו ה-PKK בזמנו בטורקיה, ולכן הניסיון כאן הוא
[00:20:44] למעשה להוריד מהשולחן את כל הסיפור של האוטונומיות הקורדיות
[00:20:48] באזור של טורקיה. וזה דרמטי מאוד, זה מה שארדואן מנסה
[00:20:52] לעשות עכשיו בין השאר עם החוק הזה, ועם ההגעה
[00:20:55] של אותו מנהיג החבל הקורדי לשיחות עם השערה מד המסק.
[00:20:59] בקיצור זהבי נסכם תנועת מלכיים טורקית
[00:21:02] סורית שהקורדים בתוכה. יואב זהבי,
[00:21:05] תודה רבה לך על הדיווח החשוב
[00:21:07] Thank you, Kissak. We
[00:21:11] יוצאים עכשיו להפסקה קצרה, אתם תישארו איתנו, אחריה, נהיה
[00:21:15] בשיחה מיוחד מקעיר עם הסופר המצרי שריף אל הספורי בספר
[00:21:18] שלו שעורר.
[00:21:21] And we will also get into the mind of Khamenei,
[00:21:25] איפה הוא בדרך, בשכונה שלנו, מיד
[00:21:28] חוזרים,
[00:21:38] With all my heart, with all my heart, we are going to have
[00:21:41] a blast of
[00:21:42] an evening.
[00:21:47] La la la la la la la la. My
[00:21:50] husband and I had a pothos in the bedroom. It died.
[00:21:53] I'm not picky, I lost two nieces
[00:21:57] in the Holocaust, give me
[00:22:00] fine.
[00:22:03] this week after
[00:22:06] the news, on Kan 11 and on Kan
[00:22:09] Box. That's how it all started,
[00:22:13] four in the morning, can't sleep, I'm dying
[00:22:15] of heat.
[00:22:17] I'm not even close.
[00:22:41] In many things you had confidence in the end, except for the testosterone of
[00:22:44] Don't approach me, don't
[00:22:48] talk to me.
[00:23:20] I'm tense, why tense? In crunch
[00:23:23] טעים.
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[00:23:35] משפצים, קליל בלגי פלוס. ווסטינג האוס,
[00:23:38] an American ceiling fan
[00:23:42] This is not '76, you can't say whatever you
[00:23:46] think. 338 in the cinema.
[00:23:52] Anise kitchens coming soon
[00:23:56] הבית הישראלי ומעצבים ראיתים לחיים עצמם. שומרת הזורה,
[00:23:59] the Israeli love story. In Prigat there are levels of pampering.
[00:24:03] At the highest level there is a feeling
[00:24:06] pay, man. This is not just
[00:24:09] Farm. Sliced
[00:24:11] מוצרילה.
[00:24:14] With active rear steering system in all
[00:24:16] הגרסאות.
[00:24:20] That it was forbidden to talk about Khamenei,
[00:24:23] enemies, Saturday night on Kan 11 and Kan
[00:24:26] He was Netanyahu's confidant,
[00:24:30] and now he reveals
[00:24:33] everything. Power corrupts, survival and personal
[00:24:36] האישית לפני טובת המדינה. יואב בורביץ
[00:24:40] plans how Gadi
[00:24:43] You thought so?
[00:24:45] No, it took me two seconds to tell him
[00:24:49] yes.
[00:25:20] after our broadcast,
[00:25:24] בעונה, על השנה האחרונה בחייו של אלי חמינאי, שהיה המנהיג
[00:25:28] העליון של איראן במשך יותר משלושה אסורים, מחוסל
[00:25:31] assassinated in the opening blow of "The Lion's Roar" in February
[00:25:35] שעבר.
[00:25:37] Your decision to allow missiles
[00:25:41] completely changes
[00:25:45] הביטחון של מדינת ישראל, כי
[00:25:47] ההבנה של היכולת. להגן על מדינת
[00:25:51] ישראל, על שמי מדינת ישראל בפני איום כזה, לאורך
[00:25:54] limited. It is at a level
[00:25:57] שצריך להשוות אותה לנשק בלתי
[00:26:00] קונבנציונלי, איום קיומי על מדינת.
[00:26:18] The sky will not
[00:26:18] יפלו.
[00:26:28] Many books will be written about this
[00:26:30] להגיב ביר. ישיר מאיראן, פעם הראשונה שיש
[00:26:34] שבירת התפיסה שלא מסכנים את איראן, אף פעם לא
[00:26:38] מסכנים את איראן, זה הייתה דירקטיבה מאוד ברורה שלו כל הזמן, בשביל זה עשינו
[00:26:42] את הפרוקסי, בשביל זה אנחנו משקיעים מיליארדים בפרוקסי, שם הוא עשה את
[00:26:45] And we say hello to Professor
[00:26:49] Amatzia Baram from the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Haifa. Alan
[00:26:53] Amatzia,
[00:26:55] Yes, Roy,
[00:26:59] Alhamdullah
[00:27:02] Anbakir. What in your opinion is Khamenei's
[00:27:06] fatal mistake?
[00:27:11] The mistake is not Khamenei's, the mistake is ours
[00:27:14] and America's. Khamenei started negotiations,
[00:27:18] he started negotiations, and Khamenei would have
[00:27:21] reached a solution that both he and the Americans, and even
[00:27:25] we, could live with. And then we killed him. I think
[00:27:29] it was a tragic mistake. Meaning, you say that
[00:28:09] He coined a phrase whose importance is immense
[00:28:13] in the history of the Islamic Revolution
[00:28:17] The slogan
[00:28:19] was whispered as "heroic flexibility",
[00:28:22] meaning, we must
[00:28:25] הירואית גמישות של גבורה גם לגלות גמישות אתה
[00:28:29] courage to show flexibility,
[00:28:31] and on... What is it? He signed
[00:28:35] I would say, it's clear to me that he would have signed
[00:28:39] הסכם חדש עם האדון טראמפ,
[00:28:42] but fine, you know what, you don't have the patience
[00:28:45] to wait, so attack
[00:28:48] and why? Because we knew,
[00:28:52] everyone who studied Iran knew that this leader was
[00:28:55] the most pragmatic person
[00:28:59] נשיא, הוא דעג לבחירה של נשיא, וזה שקיין.
[00:29:02] replaced an extremist president, and this is a very
[00:29:06] pragmatic government, a very
[00:29:10] a pragmatic speaker of parliament or president of
[00:29:13] extremely pragmatic. With them he
[00:29:16] was, he started from the time you throw me, you throw
[00:29:20] me, you throw me back to his right hand man, because in the end, the one
[00:29:23] who replaced him was his son Mojtaba
[00:29:27] Khamenei, and I ask myself, the one
[00:29:30] who replaced him was the Revolutionary Guards, no, but I... Okay, but I ask myself,
[00:29:33] is what we are seeing now in Iran actually a policy of
[00:29:37] change or a continuation of what we saw
[00:29:39] from Khamenei?
[00:29:42] Change, unequivocal change, dramatic change. First of all,
[00:29:46] we knew that Mojtaba, everyone knew that Mojtaba
[00:29:49] Khamenei was the man
[00:29:53] describe him as their puppet, not a puppet, he was one of them. Yes, they are much
[00:29:57] waited
[00:30:00] for the death of Ali Khamenei.
[00:30:03] The Supreme Leader, and then they would have enthroned
[00:30:07] We had no interest in accelerating
[00:30:10] that they are much more
[00:30:13] saying that the Revolutionary Guards
[00:30:17] who are commonly said to be suicide bombers
[00:30:20] כאילה למות עצם זה ניצחון קישכוש בקושקש, הם רוצים
[00:30:24] לחיות, יש להם כוח, יש להם עוצמה, יש להם כסף, יש להם
[00:30:27] כבוד, יש להם הכל, הם לא רוצים להפסיד את זה, אבל הם הרבה
[00:30:31] יותר קיצוניים מאשר. המנהיג העליון, הוא לא היה מרשה
[00:30:34] would not have allowed them to attack neighboring
[00:30:38] ערביות שכינות בשום אופן, הוא היה מחפש פתרון דיפלומטי
[00:30:41] שאפשר לחיות איתו, והיה קורא לזה גמישות הירואית, כמו
[00:30:45] שהוא עשה במקרה של 2015, הסכם
[00:30:47] הגראין, אנו מגיעים למצב שבעצם
[00:30:51] חיסלנו את האיש היחידי שיכול
[00:30:53] להגיד להגיע במשא ומתן דיפלומטי להסדר שכולם יכולים
[00:30:57] to live with him, the Iranians too, Professor Amzia Baram,
[00:31:00] Haifa University, always enlightening. Always, thank you
[00:31:04] very much, I'm glad, thank
[00:31:08] you, and now to this, despite
[00:31:11] the long-standing peace agreement with Israel, in Egypt of
[00:31:15] 2026, it is not easy to publish a book that criticizes not only
[00:31:18] Israel, but also the Palestinian side. Such is the new
[00:31:22] book by the Egyptian writer, Sherif Al- Asfoury, "The Flood of Fools" which is published
[00:31:25] in Egypt. After the publication of the book with the explosive topic, Al-
[00:31:29] Asfoury recently resigned from the Egyptian Writers' Association, protesting
[00:31:33] that it harms, according to him, the good name of Egyptian writers
[00:31:37] and Egyptian culture, and he joins us from Cairo
[00:31:40] for a special interview, the Egyptian writer Sherif Al-Asfoury, Alan
[00:31:44] Bak Ustaz Sherif.
[00:32:15] In general, and how
[00:32:17] there is a belief, perhaps from a cultural
[00:32:21] heritage, that war
[00:32:23] alone brings good
[00:32:26] results. The attack of October 7,
[00:32:29] 2023
[00:32:34] the Palestinian people.
[00:32:37] I think that solving
[00:32:41] the underlying, fundamental problems
[00:32:45] will not come
[00:32:47] through violence
[00:32:49] and war.
[00:32:52] Sherif, what were the reactions to the book in Egypt, especially
[00:32:56] in the general atmosphere and public
[00:32:59] opinion after the events of October 7, where positions in Egypt towards
[00:33:03] Israel became more negative?
[00:33:06] Of course,
[00:33:08] the title is shocking to the general
[00:33:12] public and to the political class. I faced
[00:33:16] severe problems
[00:33:18] in obtaining official
[00:33:22] approvals. I had to delete
[00:33:25] the maps because there are problems in,
[00:33:28] let me
[00:33:31] summarize the matter and say that publishing
[00:33:34] in Egypt on these topics—I published 13 titles
[00:33:38] before that—but publishing on political topics
[00:33:41] is very difficult
[00:33:45] and subject to a single
[00:33:49] the book, who represents it among the Egyptian
[00:33:52] public? Of course, there are
[00:33:55] voices with the same approach and who think
[00:33:59] like I do,
[00:34:02] but the penalties are very severe. Penalties start
[00:34:06] from neglect, moving to
[00:34:09] being marginalized, then to
[00:34:13] boycott and attack.
[00:34:16] And legal procedures, prosecution, trials,
[00:34:20] and so on.
[00:34:22] I believe that the true role of a writer
[00:34:25] is to lead, to lead free
[00:34:29] thought, a free
[00:34:31] thinker, and he must
[00:34:33] first follow his conscience, not submit to authority or
[00:34:37] to the wide public.
[00:34:40] This is the first time I've had an interview with a scientific media outlet.
[00:35:40] who this week became the first woman to the rank equivalent of Brigadier General, the highest
[00:35:44] rank. A woman in Turkish history, she was appointed
[00:35:47] by the Supreme Military Council, and her appointment
[00:35:50] was confirmed by Turkish President, Recep Tayyip
[00:35:53] Erdoğan. Turkey's new general, she was a teacher in a school,
[00:35:57] accepted in her youth to medical studies, a letter she
[00:36:01] received from the Air Force Academy made her change her mind
[00:36:04] and enlist in its service. She completed pilot training and since then served
[00:36:08] in various roles. She is married with one child,
[00:36:12] according to at least what was published in the Turkish media. Now,
[00:36:15] the integration of women into the Turkish army is not exactly a new
[00:36:18] thing, even within the Air Force, Sabiha
[00:36:21] Gökçen, the adopted daughter of Ataturk, was a pilot,
[00:36:25] the first Turkish female pilot. The first female combat pilot not only
[00:36:29] in Turkey, but in the world. It remains to ask who she bombed,
[00:36:32] and the answer is the Kurds, citizens of Turkey, those who rebelled against the government in
[00:42:06] in Ceuta, the nearby Spanish enclave, attracted the entire
[00:42:09] neighborhood. There are those who spread conspiracy theories, but in Morocco and the Arab
[00:42:13] world, those who point to the situation in which so many
[00:42:16] Moroccans tried to cross at all costs. The harsh conditions
[00:42:20] suffered by millions of Moroccans, unemployment, the great disparities
[00:42:23] in society, are the ones that pushed tens of thousands to try
[00:42:26] to escape to the paradise of labor. In Yemen,
[00:42:30] the Houthi rebels feel that they have cracked the
[00:42:33] code. Saudi Arabia, the kingdom of wealth with an "ayin" and happiness
[00:42:36] with an "alif", it is difficult to extract from all its ports. It is certain
[00:42:40] that this will continue, but in the meantime, as long as Saudi Arabia does not change its disc,
[00:42:44] the Houthi rebels will continue to impose their equation, siege
[00:42:47] for siege. And what about the emissaries to the head of the octopus?
[00:42:50] In Iran, the regime currently does not seem to be at a point of weakness, it
[00:42:54] tries to project strength outwardly and also inwardly.
[00:42:57] But what the regime does present as strength,
[00:43:01] its opponents see as weakness, when the regime has no
[00:43:04] real way to improve the lives of its citizens and solve daily problems,
[00:43:08] and therefore, instead, it publishes
[00:43:10] its opponents at a rate of three decades.
[00:43:13] And finally, even in the Saudi press, they ask the same question
[00:43:17] that we all face. You, the news viewer, and
[00:43:20] also us, who work in this profession, how much can it be when the news on
[00:43:24] the screen gets harder and harder? Sometimes even we
[00:43:27] want to turn off the screen. I admit I'm now tainted
[00:43:31] by this. Sometimes jokes come at a price.
[00:43:34] The Syrian, Hussam Al-Ahmed, filmed a video
[00:43:38] outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut.
[00:43:52] Damn your soul, we're coming for you! Without my shoes, you wouldn't get paid!
[00:43:56] If it weren't for me, no one would give you money, no one would give you money! I paid you over 300
[00:43:59] dollars! If the passport doesn't come out,
[00:44:05] your house for this dirty treatment, you bastards!
[00:44:08] He is one of the greatest Egyptian
[00:44:40] and Arab singers, almost after 50 years
[00:44:43] after that, they will say that he ate from the three
[00:44:46] greats of Arab singing at all, in the same line as
[00:44:49] Umm Kulthum. We say hello in this context to Nasrin Abughosh,
[00:44:53] presenter of Maqam
[00:44:56] channel. Hello Roi, so
[00:45:00] look, the legendary Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez
[00:45:03] passed away 50 years ago, but these days he
[00:45:06] is stirring a great controversy in Egypt. Inside
[00:45:12] his
[00:45:12] house,
[00:45:19] which has become a museum recently, or since he passed away, anyone who comes to visit the
[00:45:26] house, and we see the picture of a Kuwaiti
[00:45:29] tourist who felt too much at home, as
[00:45:32] they say. He really took, he felt
[00:45:36] really at home, that's exactly the right phrase, it just cost him.
[00:45:40] And it also cost all the critics and also
[00:45:42] those who had already booked their visiting
[00:45:46] cards in advance. Abdel Halim's family took it very, very
[00:45:50] hard. They claimed that this
[00:45:53] picture of the Kuwaiti tourist
[00:45:57] devalued the music, the historical value of
[00:46:00] the singer, who is considered the most respected singer
[00:46:04] and actor in the Arab world and even
[00:46:07] disrespected his personal belongings.
[00:46:13] To such an extent that they closed Abdel Halim's
[00:46:16] house, which is located in an expensive neighborhood
[00:46:20] in Zamalek, right, Zamalek in Cairo. Not only that, they
[00:46:24] also took another step, closed all the house's
[00:46:27] pages on social media platforms, and also
[00:46:31] the page through which one could book specifically. But what really
[00:46:35] happened there? Maybe we'll hear it
[00:46:39] from the tourist himself.
[00:46:48] Open time, and we are with you. The escort is with you, and you can touch and photograph.
[00:46:52] You sit and do what you want, and we make the same poses for you as Abdel Halim, and his pictures
[00:46:56] and memories, and you live the moment. Even the picture that
[00:46:59] was spread, in which he photographed me while I was sitting with my phone, he taught me. He told me, "Hold the phone, boss,
[00:47:03] smile, one, two, three." He photographed me. Wow.
[00:47:07] So it was a spontaneous picture, out of love for this great artist, may God have mercy on him. I considered
[00:47:10] it normal, because at the same time, I saw many pictures of young visitors
[00:47:14] in Abdel Halim's apartment, sitting on his bed, holding
[00:47:16] their phones.
[00:47:19] As they say, it depends on who you ask, because he actually
[00:47:23] says, the organizers, the people in the museum told me it's okay for me to be like
[00:47:26] that, they even took his picture. Yes, and he even tried to
[00:47:29] recreate an iconic picture, so you know, now,
[00:47:33] just one last sentence about this, that after
[00:47:37] all this commotion, all the critics and all
[00:47:40] the Egyptian public are already saying that this
[00:47:43] house should be under state management, to turn
[00:47:46] it into a museum, that all, all
[00:47:49] the visitors and anyone who wants to visit the music
[00:47:53] teacher that Abdel Halim Hafez left behind, which is truly
[00:47:56] possible. Yes, let's just say that now, following
[00:47:59] this incident, it's a bit harder to visit the museum. You have to call in advance
[00:48:03] and not, as they say, just book. Well, and in the meantime, it's also
[00:48:07] not available. The family decided they're closing it until further notice. Let's move
[00:48:10] to Jordan because there's also a very interesting
[00:48:14] and unusual story about an Imam, a Jordanian
[00:48:17] Imam who became a woman and is married to two
[00:48:19] women. A story from Jordan,
[00:48:22] and also the social networks. So yes,
[00:48:26] it's about an Imam, a former mosque Imam,
[00:48:29] 47 years old, his name is
[00:48:32] Ahmed, married to two women, Roi, married to two women, father
[00:48:36] of six children. He says that yes, he acted
[00:48:39] very normally throughout his life, because he
[00:48:43] was afraid that, because in a conservative,
[00:48:47] religious society, he would be rejected
[00:48:49] if he were to declare that he has a different
[00:48:53] tendency or that he feels he is in a body
[00:48:57] that does not really suit him. What happened
[00:49:00] was that a medical team accompanied
[00:49:03] him and he received psychological help and even
[00:49:06] treatments that could help
[00:49:10] him. Exactly, he decided in 2017
[00:49:14] to travel to Thailand to change his gender
[00:49:18] and became a woman from a man, from Ahmed to Aisha.
[00:49:33] His request was granted, but that's not the end of the
[00:49:36] story. Right, the state's ulama
[00:49:40] filed an appeal, and this appeal referred
[00:49:43] it to a medical team. Let's hear
[00:49:46] part of the medical answer, what
[00:49:49] really happened there?
[00:49:52] shocked, and the judiciary found itself facing one of the most daring
[00:49:56] and difficult cases. The court requested the opinion of medicine,
[00:49:59] and the report settled the story with the chromosomes
[00:50:02] of the claimant Ahmed or Aisha. His chromosomal
[00:50:05] makeup came out as XY 46, which is
[00:50:09] definitely the male chromosomal makeup. The case has been
[00:50:13] completely settled. In the eyes of the judiciary, he is
[00:50:17] Ahmed, not Aisha. What happened outside the country is not a correction of a congenital
[00:50:20] defect; this is a criminal act.
[00:50:30] The story of gender change in the Arab world, because it
[00:50:34] has become perhaps more accepted, but still, religiously, there is
[00:50:38] a very significant problem apropos this story.
[00:50:41] Right, and apropos we are talking about an Imam who knows
[00:50:45] very well the religious and social
[00:50:48] process and the magnitude of the problem that arose around it.
[00:50:56] In the Arab world, especially in Jordan, let's emphasize
[00:50:59] that in Jordan there is no law that allows
[00:51:02] for gender change. There is no such law
[00:51:05] in Jordan, and the story of Ahmed, or
[00:51:08] Aisha, is a specific story that they got involved
[00:51:12] in, but regarding the issue of the LGBT community, since
[00:51:15] 1951,
[00:51:17] there has been a law that regulates that if two people who are
[00:51:21] adults of the same gender want to
[00:51:25] be in a relationship, there is no legal impediment. But
[00:51:28] yes, and it should be noted that the law does not allow
[00:51:32] for same-sex marriage. Interesting.
[00:51:36] That is, they do allow, they don't allow. A very
[00:51:40] difficult, shaking,
[00:51:42] and very problematic issue in Arab society and the Arab world,
[00:51:46] between Abdel Halim Hafez, the Egyptian singer
[00:51:49] in his home, and indeed the Imam who changed
[00:51:53] his gender to a woman in Jordan. Thank you very much for these beautiful
[00:51:57] words.