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[00:00:04] There is a division of He will have through their reliance
[00:00:21] and incentives, whether in
[00:00:26] and racing against schools, kindergartens, health, services, transportation,
[00:00:34] and has not been
[00:00:35] and compete among themselves for The West Bank is witnessing a continuous escalation
[00:00:39] rather it is a constant manifested in renewed restrictions on
[00:00:43] Palestinians and enjoys their hobby of pressuring the movement of Palestinians and increased settler attacks, in parallel with the expansion of
[00:00:45] settlement activities and the confiscation of more lands. In
[00:00:50] being prosecuted legally in contrast to this scene,
[00:00:55] from the Galilee, we have become accustomed European countries are moving towards imposing sanctions on settlers and restricting dealings with settlement products, while
[00:00:59] Israel approaches an electoral deadline that places
[00:01:04] Netanyahu is not of this settlement and annexation policies in the opposition regarding and dealing with Palestinians and in other again at the heart
[00:01:10] to remain in towards this extremism in they can overcome of political competition. So, are we facing disparate
[00:01:15] we work on it every year.
[00:01:15] is to tighten the noose on he manages to remain they imagine, and therefore they do not measures or an there is a change in integrated path that reshapes ways to bypass the reality of the West Bank? And to what extent is
[00:01:18] the field escalation linked to political
[00:01:24] he resorts than 100 gates placed in and electoral calculations within Israel? These files
[00:01:25] to in circumventing and their legal, political, and field implications
[00:01:28] we discuss in today's file. Welcome, dear
[00:01:32] their position in the viewers, and I also welcome my guest who joins me via
[00:01:35] Zoom, Legal Advisor at the Wall and
[00:01:39] Settlement
[00:01:47] annexation, and restriction on its own. Therefore, this their position in Bank, and the Palestinian Resistance Commission, Mr. Ayed Maarar. Mr. Ayed, if we start from the has become a small field reality, away from political descriptions, what
[00:01:50] has changed on the ground in the West Bank,
[00:01:53] specifically after October 7,
[00:01:57] believe in the existence in light of the settler in the existence of a Palestinian encroachment and settler
[00:02:00] rampage, and the Tel Aviv government's
[00:02:03] unleashing its army on
[00:02:07] but there are no spare parts the ground? My dear sister, good evening to all the esteemed
[00:02:11] viewers. If we talk about settlement, you
[00:02:15] know that this settlement began since
[00:02:18] and at the beginning of the occupation, and it was not limited to one government over another, but all
[00:02:21] Israeli governments contributed to this settlement. However, this
[00:02:28] the Nazis in eight months of this settlement always accelerates or slows down depending on the objective conditions. Now,
[00:02:31] after October 7, or after the war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip,
[00:02:35] we began to notice an acceleration in this settlement
[00:02:39] and a deepening of this
[00:02:40] historical Palestine, from
[00:02:42] and attacks should not project through a very extreme
[00:02:45] of Israeli industry government, as well as a sick international situation and an unprecedented
[00:02:49] American bias towards this government. However, there are
[00:02:52] new curves that have begun to appear on
[00:02:56] is a very important step the scene in the matter of settlement
[00:02:58] and are represented in the pastoral outposts, these
[00:03:03] lead to, if not open, hostile outposts that contain
[00:03:06] extremist
[00:03:09] it can force the occupying settlers, people who are
[00:03:12] organized, trained,
[00:03:14] roads. They do and funded to attack
[00:03:17] from Palestinians and try
[00:03:17] for a paid to empty the classified Area C first of
[00:03:21] its residents through these attacks
[00:03:23] so that we do not get caught and through these crimes that
[00:03:25] they commit day and night against all
[00:03:29] Palestinians. And against all
[00:03:36] plan. Israel now does of settlement. their sources of livelihood and all aspects of their lives. Livestock is stolen, trees are uprooted,
[00:03:40] attacks on
[00:03:43] to his peers in from the Israeli lives, on buildings.
[00:03:49] and working on the a complex political The percentage of destroyed buildings has increased, confiscation of land has increased. All these matters
[00:03:53] are accelerating at
[00:03:57] this time because those who hold
[00:04:00] the political reins in the occupying
[00:04:02] the Palestinian citizen in supporting state are settlers who did not
[00:04:04] are represented in settler
[00:04:05] and continuing their aggression, dream of reaching
[00:04:07] attacking homes, power. They do not measure or do not measure things by political standards, but
[00:04:11] by
[00:04:11] pillars said
[00:04:12] of cities. In ideological standards. They evoke
[00:04:15] a dark history of
[00:04:18] Therefore, it is required from deepening, used in this they imagine that
[00:04:20] we are the heirs of the Amalekites,
[00:04:24] and surrender. And whoever surprising when we and if they want to deal with these Amalekites, they must do
[00:04:27] as Joshua son of Nun did to them when he entered Palestine:
[00:04:31] he killed their children, men, and women, and he killed
[00:04:36] communities located in their livestock and uprooted their trees, and destroyed their homes and plowed their land
[00:04:40] and sowed it with salt. This
[00:04:42] is the ideological dimension that
[00:04:46] they are trying to apply to this
[00:04:50] court decisions. There are many land through these colonial outposts that Ibn Kathir described
[00:04:53] as armed
[00:04:56] Gaza and finishes with factions. to do with what happened He says that
[00:05:00] there are a thousand armed factions moving in
[00:05:02] the West Bank, boasting that he created them in the
[00:05:06] West, and by that he describes
[00:05:10] lines. In the settler gangs that were placed in
[00:05:17] roles between settler groups
[00:05:20] and the occupation forces, but today
[00:05:24] the scene or the picture was completely different today.
[00:05:27] The city of Ramallah turned into a large prison.
[00:05:30] Tens of thousands of citizens spent hours of
[00:05:34] their lives at these military checkpoints. In your opinion,
[00:05:37] are these measures and the occupation's claim that they are
[00:05:41] security measures actual, or have they become a permanent
[00:05:45] reality?
[00:05:47] Yes, my dear brother, they exploit any event in order to
[00:05:51] practice
[00:05:53] Palestinians. They have not tried any solution to solve
[00:05:57] the security problem they suffer from or the political
[00:06:00] problem they suffer from, and
[00:06:04] what emerges from their minds is only security solutions
[00:06:07] because of their feeling that
[00:06:11] they have a military machine that is large
[00:06:15] and powerful. If they are given the opportunity
[00:06:18] to use it,
[00:06:21] the Palestinian people. This is what
[00:06:24] try any other solution, and this
[00:06:27] security solution
[00:06:30] they excel in its details. There are more
[00:06:35] the West Bank to separate
[00:06:38] population centers from each other. They can within an
[00:06:42] hour prevent Palestinians from moving
[00:06:45] from one village to another, and not
[00:06:48] just from the village to their main city.
[00:06:52] You know, my dear brother, that
[00:06:54] most Palestinians
[00:06:57] are village dwellers
[00:07:00] who are connected to their main city
[00:07:03] through their interests,
[00:07:06] their work, their hospitals, their schools, their universities
[00:07:10] in these cities, and they go to them and cannot
[00:07:14] do without these cities. Therefore, their
[00:07:16] movement is no longer smooth because of these
[00:07:20] gates that open and close
[00:07:23] by military order through a soldier who may not be of a high
[00:07:27] rank or high responsibility, but
[00:07:30] rather at whim. Even settlers or these pastoral settlers
[00:07:34] have also begun to interfere in closing these
[00:07:37] gates or that. Therefore, yes,
[00:07:41] and things they
[00:07:45] amuse themselves with and bring them up
[00:07:47] in order to even if there is no goal
[00:07:51] but to tighten the noose on the Palestinian, to make him
[00:07:54] feel that he is
[00:07:57] a despised being or a being
[00:08:01] that is not important and can be insulted by any
[00:08:04] party or any occupier,
[00:08:07] whether a settler or a soldier,
[00:08:10] or anything. They can insult him, they can
[00:08:14] humiliate him, they can tighten the noose on him in
[00:08:17] order to make him feel that he has no future on
[00:08:20] this land, and they declare this intention
[00:08:23] and write it on signs on the main
[00:08:27] not shy away from it, and they
[00:08:30] say that their goal
[00:08:32] and they justify this goal by saying
[00:08:35] that their ultimate goal is to expel Palestinians
[00:08:38] from their land
[00:08:40] and to empty this land and make
[00:08:43] it available for a purely Jewish
[00:08:46] state for Jews brought from all
[00:08:49] over the world, on the ruins of a people being
[00:08:52] displaced by military force and by these
[00:08:55] crimes that they commit, Mr.
[00:08:58] Ayed. The matter has begun
[00:09:01] to take another turn. Today, we see settler
[00:09:04] groups running rampant,
[00:09:07] storming not only areas classified as C or J
[00:09:10] under the Oslo Accords, but also entering
[00:09:14] Palestinian villages
[00:09:19] stealing property, stealing sheep, leading
[00:09:22] to the storming the past
[00:09:26] two days, dozens of settlers reached Al-Tira neighborhood
[00:09:29] in the heart of Ramallah city.
[00:09:33] Yes, as you know, my
[00:09:36] dear brother, the ultimate goal, as
[00:09:39] we said, is to empty Palestine of its inhabitants, but
[00:09:42] through stages. Now, they have begun with Palestinian
[00:09:48] Area C, and more than 100 communities have been displaced,
[00:09:52] whether partial or complete displacement.
[00:09:55] You know that in Area C, there are more than 30,000
[00:09:59] Palestinians living in
[00:10:02] communities that the occupation state does not recognize
[00:10:05] and does not allow them to establish infrastructure
[00:10:08] or allow them to establish services or obtain
[00:10:12] the necessary services to develop their
[00:10:16] urban lives. Therefore, it confines them to
[00:10:20] primitive communities, but their connection to their lands
[00:10:23] through their farming,
[00:10:27] on livestock, but even these communities
[00:10:31] have begun to be tightened and attacked
[00:10:34] to force them to leave
[00:10:38] Area C, and indeed,
[00:10:41] as we said, more than 100 Palestinian
[00:10:44] communities have been displaced from these communities in Area
[00:10:48] C. Now the issue is taking another
[00:10:51] dimension or another level through attacks on population
[00:10:55] centers in Area B in order to
[00:10:58] force Palestinians to encircle
[00:11:01] and fence their villages to protect them from
[00:11:04] settler attacks, hoping that
[00:11:08] the fence will turn from being around the settlement
[00:11:12] that we are used to being a residential hotel for the settler
[00:11:15] connected to the occupation state
[00:11:19] through bypass roads like a secret love
[00:11:23] surrounded by security measures, and
[00:11:27] has no connection or interaction with the vital
[00:11:30] space in the West Bank, the wilderness of the West Bank
[00:11:34] which is private property for Palestinians, with their
[00:11:37] farms and their pastures and their tourism.
[00:11:40] Classical
[00:11:41] settlement,
[00:11:45] let's say, was
[00:11:48] represented in these settlements. Now, things are
[00:11:51] changing. They are trying through settler attacks
[00:11:55] to force Palestinians to fence their villages to protect
[00:11:59] them from their attacks so that the picture
[00:12:02] changes, and the settlements open up to the wilderness of the West
[00:12:06] villages are closed off, so that the Palestinian
[00:12:09] villages become like residential
[00:12:12] hotels
[00:12:14] connected to their main city through
[00:12:18] special roads. This is the final plan or the
[00:12:21] long-term plan, and it may not be the final stage.
[00:12:25] Because, as we said, the stage is to empty Palestine of
[00:12:28] its inhabitants. You know, my dear brother, what they did in the Gaza Strip
[00:12:32] to expel Palestinians. All these crimes, in plain
[00:12:36] sight of the world, are to displace Palestinians and empty
[00:12:39] their land to make it available only to Jews brought from all over
[00:12:43] the world. Reports indicate more than 1600
[00:12:47] attacks in the first
[00:12:50] year carried out by settlers in the West
[00:12:55] Bank. What do these numbers mean, and how do you
[00:12:58] describe these attacks, and where
[00:13:00] were they concentrated? These
[00:13:06] be removed from their
[00:13:08] basic context, which is
[00:13:11] they are trying to portray these
[00:13:15] settlement communities and settlement outposts as
[00:13:18] volunteers, extremists who are carrying
[00:13:22] out self-initiated actions here and there.
[00:13:25] They may sometimes violate the law, but
[00:13:29] they are not separate from this
[00:13:32] governmental system. In reality, they are
[00:13:36] organized, trained, and official groups
[00:13:39] carrying out official tasks
[00:13:42] fee to attack Palestinians.
[00:13:46] The outpost or settlement community that does not carry out these
[00:13:50] attacks and does not carry out this task is dispensed with,
[00:13:52] and therefore it is a part, a link in the chain
[00:13:58] These colonial outposts are no
[00:14:02] different from the crimes of the Israeli army
[00:14:05] or the actions of the Civil Administration in confiscating
[00:14:08] land and issuing demolition orders, evictions, and
[00:14:12] removals. All
[00:14:16] these official Israeli measures issued through
[00:14:19] the Civil Administration have a
[00:14:22] new complement. These
[00:14:26] measures
[00:14:29] attacks, but we must not separate
[00:14:32] this from that. They are all in one crucible
[00:14:36] and links in one chain, and scattered cogs in
[00:14:39] one machine with the same goal and
[00:14:43] the same tasks. Therefore, this is not
[00:14:48] say that there are thousands of attacks. The number
[00:14:51] may be one thing at the beginning of the
[00:14:55] report and something else at the end, because the attacks
[00:14:58] are constant and continuous throughout the West Bank,
[00:15:02] from one end to the other. Yes, yes.
[00:15:05] Well, can the checkpoint be separated from the settlement, and the settlement
[00:15:09] from the bypass road, and the road from land confiscation, or
[00:15:13] do all these elements form
[00:15:17] an integrated system? Yes,
[00:15:20] settlement in general, no matter
[00:15:24] its form, whether it is tourist, residential,
[00:15:27] industrial, infrastructure
[00:15:29] projects, all components
[00:15:33] of settlement aim at two basic
[00:15:35] goals. The first is to tighten the noose on Palestinians
[00:15:39] and prevent them from living their normal lives and from smooth
[00:15:43] communication between Palestinian population centers.
[00:15:47] The other goal is to entice the settler to
[00:15:50] come and live on the lands of the West Bank through
[00:15:53] many facilities
[00:16:03] and apartment prices there.
[00:16:08] There is no comparison between apartment prices in
[00:16:11] settlements and their prices within the occupation
[00:16:15] state. They put them, as you know, on
[00:16:19] the tops of the hills of the West Bank, with refreshing
[00:16:22] air and beautiful scenery, protected
[00:16:25] by a highly precise security
[00:16:28] system to make them feel
[00:16:31] safe, and at very low
[00:16:34] and cheap prices. However, the
[00:16:38] basic goal is that they cannot
[00:16:41] build a road or even a park
[00:16:44] for children unless it serves
[00:16:48] these two goals: the first
[00:16:53] Palestinians and
[00:16:55] dismantle the geographical system of Palestinians
[00:16:59] and isolate
[00:17:02] and put Palestinians in enclaves and ghettos. We used
[00:17:06] to talk about major enclaves
[00:17:09] dividing the West Bank into north, center,
[00:17:13] and south. Now, even the divided is divided,
[00:17:16] meaning every village has become an enclave
[00:17:21] section, Mr. Ayed, is the
[00:17:24] most dangerous one that will cut off geographical communication between
[00:17:28] the north of the West Bank and its south, and will isolate the city
[00:17:31] of Jerusalem and expand beyond it. Yes,
[00:17:34] certainly, this settlement project is more dangerous
[00:17:38] as it divides the West Bank demographically.
[00:17:41] It involves building settlements
[00:17:45] and building infrastructure: roads, tunnels,
[00:17:48] fast trains. After
[00:17:51] the completion of this project, there will be
[00:17:55] only a few kilometers left to formally
[00:17:57] and demographically separate the West Bank,
[00:18:01] linking it to Ma'ale Adumim or these new
[00:18:04] settlements with the Dead Sea. Thus,
[00:18:07] it will close or permanently
[00:18:10] separate the southern West Bank from its center
[00:18:13] and north, and it is indeed the most
[00:18:16] dangerous,
[00:18:19] it may not be an old project
[00:18:23] that is always being updated and talked about constantly.
[00:18:27] However, there is
[00:18:30] international pressure
[00:18:33] that stopped for a period due to American pressure. Now,
[00:18:36] it is as if the Americans have given them the green light,
[00:18:40] but Europe's position remains firm on this issue,
[00:18:44] and it is pushing to prevent the establishment
[00:18:47] of this project, and it truly tries
[00:18:51] to kill the Palestinian dream of building an independent
[00:18:54] state with interconnected parts free of
[00:18:57] settlements, as imposed by international laws
[00:19:01] and international legal rules that allow
[00:19:04] us to establish our self-determination on this
[00:19:08] land as a people who are not
[00:19:11] superfluous, but we have unfulfilled
[00:19:14] rights, and therefore we must take them as
[00:19:18] stipulated by all. There are more than 80 Security
[00:19:21] Council resolutions that state rights. There are more
[00:19:25] than 200 General Assembly resolutions. Yes.
[00:19:28] Which Israel has not complied with or recognized,
[00:19:32] despite its passage in the Security Council with 14 states
[00:19:35] voting in favor and the United States
[00:19:37] abstaining. Well, Mr. Ayed, the timing of issuing
[00:19:40] tenders for construction in settlements,
[00:19:44] specifically E1, two days before the Israeli
[00:19:47] elections, does it have a legal
[00:19:51] significance, or does it carry a political
[00:19:54] significance primarily?
[00:19:57] We notice, my dear brother, a fundamental
[00:20:01] change in the official occupation system.
[00:20:04] Even now,
[00:20:07] security forces say, even
[00:20:11] in a normal way,
[00:20:13] and the ordinary person at the checkpoint says,
[00:20:16] "We are implementing government decisions."
[00:20:19] They no longer apply laws, meaning
[00:20:22] they follow government decisions and do not follow
[00:20:27] Supreme Court decisions, such as removing
[00:20:30] settlers from Kissra, and the security
[00:20:34] agencies are unable or refuse
[00:20:37] to implement these decisions. This government
[00:20:41] is a very extreme government,
[00:20:44] racing against time. It feels as if it
[00:20:48] will not
[00:20:50] continue in power, and therefore it is exploiting
[00:20:54] time and exploiting the budgets
[00:20:57] it extorted from the Israeli government and snatched,
[00:21:00] and it wants to spend them before the government
[00:21:04] changes. Therefore, yes,
[00:21:07] there is a marriage between the settlement mentality
[00:21:10] in the Israeli psyche
[00:21:13] and exploiting time
[00:21:16] time and racing against each other. There are many
[00:21:20] institutions that are right-wing
[00:21:25] the right-wing audience that
[00:21:28] enjoys punishing
[00:21:33] committing crimes against them, and
[00:21:36] it is an extremist society.
[00:21:39] If the extremists
[00:21:42] want to gain their votes, they must commit crimes against Palestinians
[00:21:46] in order to get these votes, and they do so in order
[00:21:50] to get the votes of the far right, which
[00:21:52] the entire occupying state has drifted
[00:21:58] the recent period. So, Mr. Ayed, the last question, briefly, please:
[00:22:03] the international mood in light of the escalating attacks
[00:22:06] and terrorism of settlers, and there are European
[00:22:09] countries that have taken concrete steps to boycott settlement
[00:22:13] products and impose sanctions on them. The importance
[00:22:15] of these decisions
[00:22:17] and these positions.
[00:22:20] Yes, the occupying state, my dear brother, like
[00:22:23] any state, cannot live in isolation from the international
[00:22:27] community. All states need international
[00:22:30] relations for the economy, education, everything
[00:22:33] is linked. The world
[00:22:37] village, and therefore it cannot do without this world,
[00:22:40] and therefore international pressure is very
[00:22:43] important. It can make a difference.
[00:22:47] We saw how it was able to stop
[00:22:50] the racist regime in South Africa through international pressure. These
[00:22:53] steps may not be enough at
[00:22:56] this time, but pointing the compass in this direction
[00:23:00] and starting this journey is very
[00:23:02] important. We know, my dear brother,
[00:23:05] that the occupying state has long
[00:23:08] moved its sensitive factories
[00:23:11] that produce chemical
[00:23:15] materials, such as heavy
[00:23:17] industries and chemical
[00:23:20] industries, to the West Bank for two reasons:
[00:23:23] first, cheap labor, and
[00:23:27] also to keep the Israeli environment
[00:23:30] away from factory pollutants. Therefore, the backbone
[00:23:35] has become in the settlements, and when
[00:23:39] or boycotting settlement industries
[00:23:42] and products, this
[00:23:46] that puts pressure on the economic lifeline of
[00:23:50] the occupation state, and it can
[00:23:53] now, then in the medium
[00:23:56] or long term,
[00:23:59] state to stop its aggression and give the Palestinian
[00:24:02] people their rights. Legal Advisor
[00:24:06] of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Mr. Ayed Maarar,
[00:24:09] thank you very much. Our dear
[00:24:13] viewers, we continue our episode of the
[00:24:16] "Today's File" program. In the second
[00:24:20] file, we will discuss the directions and form of the Israeli
[00:24:24] government with the start of the frantic
[00:24:28] election race, and we are 38 days away
[00:24:32] elections amid
[00:24:37] scene. I welcome my esteemed
[00:24:40] guest who joins me via Zoom, Professor
[00:24:44] Omar Al-Ghoul. Good evening. Good
[00:24:47] evening. So, if the field scene
[00:24:50] reflects a rapid change in the nature
[00:24:54] of control over the land and the movement of Palestinians,
[00:24:56] then to what
[00:24:59] extent has the Israeli political
[00:25:03] scene now made these policies a part
[00:25:06] of it? How do you read this blurry
[00:25:10] picture given the current
[00:25:13] situation? Once again, good evening, Faleh. Good evening to
[00:25:17] you and the esteemed viewers. First,
[00:25:21] there is no ambiguity in the Israeli
[00:25:24] scene. Yes, the Israeli
[00:25:27] scene is as clear as
[00:25:29] daylight. Israel, with its ruling Nazi
[00:25:33] coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu,
[00:25:36] is clear,
[00:25:38] and it has no ambiguity or confusion
[00:25:42] in any position it has taken.
[00:25:45] Firstly, it rejects the existence of any
[00:25:49] entity. We are not talking about the current
[00:25:53] government, about the complexities of the Israeli scene and the ambiguity
[00:25:56] and what the election results will bring, Professor
[00:25:59] Abu Nader, my friend and
[00:26:03] my dear Faleh. I am talking
[00:26:05] about the current Israeli scene.
[00:26:08] Yes, and the subsequent Israeli scene
[00:26:11] will come. Will the Israeli scene
[00:26:14] be the same as it is now,
[00:26:17] or will there be
[00:26:21] a change? I tell
[00:26:24] you, necessarily, according to the data
[00:26:28] and according to the successive Israeli public
[00:26:30] opinion polls, there will
[00:26:34] be a change in the Israeli scene. That is why
[00:26:37] the current Prime Minister and his coalition
[00:26:41] are racing against time to
[00:26:45] do everything possible and to invent
[00:26:48] all the methods, tricks,
[00:26:51] and lies that
[00:26:55] to in election campaigns
[00:26:57] and non-election campaigns throughout
[00:27:01] the years that Benjamin Netanyahu led
[00:27:04] Israeli governments. He always
[00:27:06] excelled in devising
[00:27:12] the opposition and the Israeli street. Yes,
[00:27:15] but this time, I think he
[00:27:18] has lost much of his luster and
[00:27:22] his abilities and the cards
[00:27:28] the Israeli street. Therefore, the Israeli
[00:27:31] scene later, according
[00:27:35] to my humble estimation, will witness
[00:27:38] a change in the scene, and there
[00:27:41] will be a relatively different government,
[00:27:44] but the general characteristic of
[00:27:47] Israeli institutions, especially the official
[00:27:51] ones, is that they have not
[00:27:54] yet come to believe
[00:27:57] state. They do not of a Palestinian state,
[00:28:01] giving up Jerusalem, the Palestinian capital,
[00:28:04] East Jerusalem, according to the standards
[00:28:07] of the two-state solution on the borders of
[00:28:10] June 4, 1967. And also,
[00:28:13] it is hostile to the Palestinian
[00:28:16] Arab people. Will there be
[00:28:19] relative breakthroughs? There might be
[00:28:23] if the government changes, there will
[00:28:26] necessarily be relative changes,
[00:28:29] but not a strategic
[00:28:32] change. In other words, there is no
[00:28:36] movement, even at the moment we are talking
[00:28:40] about, and in the next moment, if the elections
[00:28:43] are held after October 27,
[00:28:46] which is 38 days away, as be
[00:28:50] Here, will this coming
[00:28:53] government
[00:28:55] accept partnership in crafting the peace process? I
[00:28:59] think it's difficult to predict. Yes, or
[00:29:03] to foresee that the government
[00:29:05] will be a partner in building
[00:29:09] peace according to international legitimacy resolutions and the two-state solution. Yes,
[00:29:13] to simplify the picture
[00:29:15] for the viewer, what are the expected scenarios
[00:29:19] the Israeli elections? Will Benjamin
[00:29:22] Netanyahu return to power? Will we continue to see Ben-Gvir,
[00:29:26] Smotrich, and the extremist bloc sitting at
[00:29:29] the table of the Israeli government? This is the current
[00:29:33] question.
[00:29:35] The current question, yes, this is one of the
[00:29:38] standing questions. Benjamin
[00:29:41] Netanyahu, so far, is holding on
[00:29:46] the ruling coalition because they are,
[00:29:50] يعني, his tool that achieves
[00:29:53] his personal goals and his
[00:29:56] strategic goals related to the Zionist project.
[00:30:00] Therefore, he is clinging to them, but, opening the bracket,
[00:30:03] he, when he said that
[00:30:07] he would go and work to form a broad government
[00:30:10] and he didn't even say a national unity government
[00:30:14] as it is usually
[00:30:17] direction, and the broad
[00:30:19] government carries within it,
[00:30:22] according to some Israeli experts, that
[00:30:26] Benjamin Netanyahu might
[00:30:29] abandon Itamar Ben
[00:30:32] Gvir,
[00:30:35] even though he gets, according to opinion polls,
[00:30:38] from 8 to 10 votes, meaning
[00:30:41] it varies from one poll to another.
[00:30:45] He, Otzma, the leader of Otzma
[00:30:48] Yehudit, meaning the Jewish Power, gets
[00:30:51] this percentage, and this percentage is not small
[00:30:53] by the standards of the Israeli arena
[00:30:57] and the election results. Nevertheless, Benjamin Netanyahu,
[00:31:00] if he finds a way
[00:31:03] to stay in power, especially since if he leaves
[00:31:06] power, you know and I know
[00:31:09] and everyone knows that he will pay heavy
[00:31:13] prices, in addition to his exit from the circle
[00:31:16] of power.
[00:31:19] to go to court
[00:31:20] for the four
[00:31:23] cases against him, as well as the October
[00:31:27] 7th file and his accountability
[00:31:29] for what happened, especially since he bears
[00:31:32] the primary responsibility in this regard, and also for
[00:31:36] the judicial coup that lasted 40
[00:31:39] weeks during the first period
[00:31:43] of his term in government. The sixth. Yes,
[00:31:47] meaning that which lasted until October 7,
[00:31:51] 2023. Yes, and therefore the Israeli
[00:31:54] scene, is there also in another question,
[00:31:58] is the opposition still
[00:32:00] united and in agreement
[00:32:03] on one vision? The truth is, and this is what
[00:32:07] Eizenkot announced, yes, a few days ago,
[00:32:10] that there are differences and disagreements with his peers
[00:32:17] the prime minister, the prime minister personally,
[00:32:20] and his continuation in his term for the four years
[00:32:24] following the elections. So
[00:32:27] far, there are differing
[00:32:30] views and no agreement,
[00:32:33] rather the opposite. There was divergence between
[00:32:37] them in the statements they all made
[00:32:40] against each other. In other words,
[00:32:44] the Israeli scene may contain all
[00:32:48] the scenarios that we expect and those
[00:32:51] we do not expect, outside the box. Therefore,
[00:32:55] we are facing an open scene, and you cannot
[00:32:58] confirm what the situation
[00:33:01] will be, also because opinion polls
[00:33:04] confirm that there is a convergence between
[00:33:08] the ruling bloc
[00:33:11] and the opposition bloc. The opposition and the largest
[00:33:15] share and the primary swing vote
[00:33:18] will be in the hands of the Arab MPs, our Arab
[00:33:21] brethren in the Joint List and the United List.
[00:33:25] Therefore, they will play a vital role in tipping
[00:33:28] the scales for the Prime Minister who
[00:33:32] will lead the next government.
[00:33:36] To the question of the importance of Arab voters' participation
[00:33:39] in voting to overthrow Benjamin Netanyahu's
[00:33:43] government, his ruling coalition, and his poles
[00:33:45] and
[00:33:48] those who formed the government with him, whether Smotrich, Ben Gvir, or
[00:33:51] the extremists. Sir, every
[00:33:54] Palestinian Arab
[00:33:57] vote for the Joint
[00:34:01] List, the Joint List specifically, first, yes,
[00:34:04] and even for the United List,
[00:34:07] I believe it contributes
[00:34:10] to isolating Benjamin Netanyahu
[00:34:14] and strengthens the position of Arab MPs, specifically
[00:34:17] the Joint List, and I am biased towards the Joint List
[00:34:20] without any hesitation and without any reservation.
[00:34:24] Therefore, it will strengthen the position of Arab
[00:34:27] MPs in their role within
[00:34:31] the Knesset in defending national interests
[00:34:35] and the demands
[00:34:37] of our Palestinian people, as well as
[00:34:41] averting dangers, as mentioned by
[00:34:45] Arab MPs from Youssef Jabareen to Ahmed Tibi
[00:34:48] to Sami Abu Shahadeh
[00:34:52] or Sam Shahadeh, that this
[00:34:55] Palestinian national
[00:34:59] choice within the 48 territories,
[00:35:03] and also in the West Bank and Gaza, including
[00:35:06] Jerusalem, the capital, in other words,
[00:35:10] there
[00:35:12] is great reliance on the role of
[00:35:17] this orientation to defend the personal
[00:35:20] and national identity
[00:35:23] and the common interests of all Palestinians, and even
[00:35:26] Israeli democracy, in brackets,
[00:35:29] that currently exists.
[00:35:33] all our Palestinian brethren in the Galilee,
[00:35:36] the Triangle, the Negev, and the mixed
[00:35:39] cities to go in large
[00:35:42] numbers to vote for, yes, the Joint
[00:35:46] List. Mr. Omar, don't you think these elections are a great
[00:35:49] opportunity for the Arab community inside
[00:35:52] Israel, and that the danger has begun to approach
[00:35:56] them, specifically what we saw in Majd al-Krum
[00:35:59] of an attempt to seize land
[00:36:03] and build settlements, establishing settlement outposts
[00:36:06] there, meaning that after Israel finishes with
[00:36:11] the West Bank, the matter will move to within the 48
[00:36:17] lands. My friend and beloved Faleh,
[00:36:21] Israel is working in parallel
[00:36:25] Gaza, extermination. In the
[00:36:28] that aligns with the demographic and geographic
[00:36:31] standards currently in place. And in '48
[00:36:35] as well, it's ongoing and hasn't stopped,
[00:36:38] but in different forms and methods, according to the reality
[00:36:41] here. And also, building has been announced not
[00:36:45] only in Majd al-Krum, but also in the Western
[00:36:48] Galilee, and in the Negev, and elsewhere. And you know
[00:36:52] that there is a wide cleansing operation in the Negev,
[00:36:56] meaning, therefore, this matter has not
[00:36:59] stopped removed from the
[00:37:03] Israeli Zionist program,
[00:37:06] constant, and the Israelis are working
[00:37:09] diligently and continuously and incessantly
[00:37:13] and assiduously for cleansing, to achieve the largest
[00:37:17] ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Arab people
[00:37:22] the Triangle, the Negev, the mixed
[00:37:26] cities, and in the West Bank, and Gaza, and in Jerusalem,
[00:37:30] places
[00:37:32] where Palestinians are present. Therefore,
[00:37:36] this issue must be felt by every
[00:37:40] Palestinian and they must not
[00:37:43] forget for a moment that they are a target
[00:37:47] of the Zionist movement and the successive Israeli
[00:37:50] governments. They must all unite
[00:37:53] and strengthen and rally
[00:37:56] ranks, first, to strengthen
[00:38:00] Israeli Knesset,
[00:38:02] second, to protect personal and social
[00:38:06] and economic and national identity,
[00:38:09] and to strengthen the Israeli
[00:38:13] state, not only to defend
[00:38:16] the interests of the Palestinian Arab people in stopping,
[00:38:19] in strengthening and entrenching the two-state
[00:38:23] solution, because their presence and strengthening their presence
[00:38:26] and their weight in the Knesset positively
[00:38:30] affects this direction
[00:38:32] and can impose
[00:38:36] new political equations
[00:38:39] that contribute to restoring consideration to the two-state
[00:38:43] solution least
[00:38:46] removing the hand of the settlement
[00:38:49] gangs and war criminals
[00:38:53] and all
[00:38:55] the Israeli street.
[00:38:58] from taking decisions, measures,
[00:39:01] and violations that affect the future
[00:39:04] and survival of the Palestinian Arab people on their land.
[00:39:08] Israeli leaders are competing to present
[00:39:11] more extreme and radical positions,
[00:39:13] from Ben-Gvir to Smotrich
[00:39:17] to Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding the imposition
[00:39:20] of sanctions, measures, and a policy of collective
[00:39:23] punishment for what they are doing
[00:39:27] against the prisoners, and expanding settlements. Don't you think
[00:39:30] they are using this
[00:39:33] card as an electoral card to win
[00:39:36] over the Israeli street?
[00:39:39] Let's be careful. This
[00:39:43] government, what Benjamin Netanyahu's
[00:39:47] government is doing
[00:39:49] with all its components, is
[00:39:52] that it is working on two tracks:
[00:39:55] the track related to the campaign. The election campaign is a temporary
[00:39:59] one, but we must see
[00:40:02] clearly the path, that Benjamin
[00:40:05] Netanyahu's government, since its inception, yes, at
[00:40:09] the end of 2022, it
[00:40:12] has been confirming, demanding,
[00:40:16] ground, yes, just as it is working in Gaza, and just as it is working in the West Bank
[00:40:20] and Jerusalem, and even in the Galilee, the Triangle,
[00:40:23] and the Negev, on the option of ethnic
[00:40:26] cleansing. Smotrich and Ben
[00:40:29] Netanyahu and Itamar
[00:40:32] and Israel Katz and others
[00:40:36] from the government's
[00:40:39] that Palestinians must accept, whoever
[00:40:42] wants to stay must accept
[00:40:45] the fabricated Israeli narrative and accept the Israeli
[00:40:49] option
[00:40:52] does not accept must leave, and we are ready to remove
[00:40:55] them and help them with this. And whoever
[00:40:58] does not leave and remains, we will deal
[00:41:02] with them in a way that suits
[00:41:05] us: arrest, shooting,
[00:41:07] killing, imposing sanctions
[00:41:11] on them, as we are living now
[00:41:14] in a state of
[00:41:18] unprecedented widespread crimes
[00:41:21] in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In other
[00:41:25] words, the matter is not
[00:41:28] only dependent on the election campaign,
[00:41:30] but is strategically
[00:41:34] linked to the strategic
[00:41:37] Zionist goal. If you allow me,
[00:41:44] in addition to its connection to Benjamin
[00:41:48] Netanyahu's personal interests, because he is obsessed
[00:41:52] with the chair, with the chair of power, he and his
[00:41:55] wife are obsessed. Therefore, he is doing everything
[00:41:58] possible to remain in power, or to
[00:42:01] avert dangers from himself, because he knows
[00:42:05] that even though President Herzog
[00:42:08] opened the door for him and told him, "We are still
[00:42:12] waiting for your acceptance of the compromise
[00:42:14] and to exit with minimal losses
[00:42:17] through, you know, the possibility of pardoning
[00:42:21] him, an amnesty issued for Benjamin
[00:42:24] Netanyahu, and reaching a reconciliation, exiting the circle
[00:42:27] of power and not
[00:42:30] the courts and not going to the
[00:42:33] Israeli prison. Therefore,
[00:42:35] he told him, "Come out with minimal
[00:42:39] losses and with a clean slate." But Benjamin
[00:42:44] caliber. He is still maneuvering
[00:42:47] and doing everything possible
[00:42:50] government. And if
[00:42:53] in government, the situation will be
[00:42:57] very serious for the future of the Palestinian
[00:43:00] Arab people. I asked if this was a political
[00:43:04] wave currently preceding the elections, or if it was a strategic
[00:43:07] path, and you have answered that.
[00:43:10] Mr. Omar, are the upcoming Israeli
[00:43:14] elections held only to choose a new
[00:43:17] government, or are the more extreme forces trying
[00:43:21] to exploit them to solidify a political and on-the-ground
[00:43:24] reality that makes settlement,
[00:43:27] of Palestinians a fait accompli that
[00:43:31] any future Israeli government will find difficult
[00:43:34] to reverse? This is what Katz
[00:43:36] announced. This is what Bezalel Smotrich announced. This
[00:43:40] is what Itamar announced, and this is what Benjamin
[00:43:43] Netanyahu announced, saying, "We must work. We must
[00:43:47] stop talking. We must not talk. We must
[00:43:50] work. We must commit crimes to establish
[00:43:54] realities that no other government later
[00:43:57] can reverse the course and wheel
[00:44:01] of the Zionist project backward."
[00:44:03] Therefore, this current Israeli
[00:44:06] Nazi machine is working to
[00:44:10] entrench realities
[00:44:13] that further deepen the Zionist project. They
[00:44:16] want complete control over
[00:44:20] the river to the sea, and the establishment of a complete
[00:44:24] state of Israel as a prelude, yes,
[00:44:27] to the map that Benjamin Netanyahu raised from
[00:44:31] the podium of the United Nations last year, and that Bezalel
[00:44:35] Smotrich previously raised in Paris,
[00:44:38] of the establishment of Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
[00:44:42] This is not a joke and not
[00:44:45] an attempt to promote a temporary
[00:44:49] propaganda product. No, it is an integral
[00:44:52] part of the Israeli strategic plan.
[00:44:56] Therefore, we must read the Israeli scene,
[00:45:00] yes, in this manner,
[00:45:03] up in details. There are details that
[00:45:06] we must read as well, but in the
[00:45:11] deep context of the Israeli strategic
[00:45:16] not accept any peace, nor
[00:45:19] even the two-state solution, nor less than the two-state solution,
[00:45:22] nor even administrative self-rule. Yes.
[00:45:25] Therefore, Israel is proceeding with its strategic
[00:45:29] plan. Yes, Mr. Omar
[00:45:32] Al-Ghoul, writer and political analyst, thank
[00:45:35] you very much. Dear viewers, we
[00:45:38] have reached the end of our episode of Today's
[00:45:42] File. Thank you for your kind follow-up, and may God bless
[00:45:46] you and protect you. Goodbye.
[00:46:25] This is to appease the settlers, of course.
[00:46:29] The army is carrying out an arrest campaign. All
[00:46:31] the detainees have nothing
[00:46:35] last week, except that it is an expression
[00:46:39] of the resentment among
[00:46:41] Israelis, and part of it is punishment
[00:46:44] for the citizens
[00:46:46] and the families.
[00:47:40] Look at how many thousands of trees they uprooted from the land.
[00:47:43] Why? What did the tree do?
[00:47:46] What did the tree do
[00:47:48] for what?
[00:48:01] We are in this land, and we always leave it. We always used to plant
[00:48:04] it. And as you can see,
[00:48:08] This work, I mean, our roots
[00:48:11] are deeply embedded in the very bottom
[00:48:14] of the earth.
[00:48:29] I mean, I walked almost 5 kilometers to get 15
[00:48:33] loaves for one person. We hope
[00:48:36] that the bakeries will open and the crisis will be resolved, and
[00:48:40] life will return to normal in Gaza.
[00:48:52] with very weak capabilities, and there are also things missing
[00:48:56] that we can't provide. They are available, for these machines.
[00:49:00] They are running, how can I tell
[00:49:03] you, with different motors and different belts. We are jerry-rigging
[00:49:07] them so that we can work because everything we have is dilapidated,
[00:49:11] and we are trying to make things work by all means to
[00:49:14] continue and be able to live and define the conditions of life.