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[00:00:00] Iran's management from here,
[00:00:03] whether illegally or by
[00:00:06] creating problems. We have
[00:00:10] put these on the sanctions list because before the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
[00:00:13] and before these wars, more than 100 ships
[00:00:17] used to pass through here daily. It gives a
[00:00:21] lot of dollars. It tries to turn off all
[00:00:25] these devices at night. Usually, it lets
[00:00:28] five or six ships pass.
[00:00:31] occupy all the products of Of course, we have not yet decided
[00:00:34] to sink these because
[00:00:38] these contain oil
[00:00:40] and if
[00:00:43] they pollute the entire Strait of Hormuz
[00:00:47] and the Persian Gulf, then it will cause problems for us.
[00:00:50] Therefore, any violation, any
[00:00:53] act that we consider
[00:00:56] criminal, we can extend this.
[00:01:00] We can place them under our sanctions,
[00:01:03] and if they ever want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, we will stop them here and this will take
[00:01:07] time. This area is forbidden, meaning this area will be forbidden
[00:01:11] until a specified time. This forbidden area will
[00:01:15] remain until the US naval blockade.
[00:01:18] Despite Trump saying it's open, it's completely closed.
[00:01:21] And on the other hand, we are looking
[00:01:25] to put more pressure on the US to be
[00:01:28] able to secure the rights
[00:01:46] southern advanced of
[00:01:54] welcome to the Israeli watch. Israeli media shed light on some
[00:01:58] recent allegations concern pickaxe mountain in iran
[00:02:01] along with the latest developments in Yemen. Other
[00:02:05] topics included Britain's decision to boycott
[00:02:08] Israel west bank products and new information that has been
[00:02:12] surfaced concerning warning made to Benjamin Netanyahu's
[00:02:15] prior to the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. We will
[00:02:18] discuss these deeper into these topics with General
[00:02:22] Elyas Farhat, military and strategic expert. Welcome
[00:02:25] general elias. Israel media focused heavily on what has
[00:02:29] been recently...
[00:02:32] the percent of
[00:02:42] This evening it seems that Tehran has chosen escalation, and some
[00:02:46] new data and actions that the Iranians have been carrying out recently indicate
[00:02:49] that economic isolation is leading the Iranians to go
[00:02:53] to the option of dragging the Americans into another big campaign.
[00:02:55] We are talking about a report that also
[00:02:59] comes out in the Reuters news agency and also on CNN, which indicates
[00:03:03] activity of renewed construction in Pickaxe Mountain, the most
[00:03:06] fortified nuclear site of the Iranian regime. We see the satellite images that were published yesterday
[00:03:10] by CNN. Now you see these images. Rafael
[00:03:13] Grossi, head of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirms
[00:03:17] he says, we see movement around this site, which, as mentioned, was not
[00:03:21] bombed by the Americans nor by the Iranians in the two rounds of war
[00:03:25] in the last year. In addition, just in the last few minutes, a report from the
[00:03:28] Wall Street Journal that talks about new American intelligence that indicates
[00:03:32] the construction and assembly of ballistic missiles in Iran at underground sites
[00:03:36] that were not affected by the Americans nor by Israelis. They identify a willingness
[00:03:39] of the Iranians to rebuild the production line of these missiles at underground
[00:03:43] sites so that they cannot be hit, but the Americans,
[00:03:46] the people who are also talking with CNN and with the Wall Street Journal in the last while,
[00:03:50] are sending all the messages that we will know that the Americans knew and that especially the Iranians
[00:03:54] knew that they identify their intention to take a significant step
[00:03:57] soon. The question will be whether Trump
[00:04:03] could this issue serve as a pretext for new
[00:04:06] kind of new round of escalation with Iran? yes, it is,
[00:04:10] it's an issue raised by the United States, the issue of
[00:04:14] peicked mountain, which united states says
[00:04:17] that it hides nuclear
[00:04:21] reactor and nuclear facilities inside it, and it's so
[00:04:25] fortified that needs the special kind of bombs
[00:04:28] and domain,
[00:04:31] the United States Army conducted the
[00:04:34] training in New Mexico state in the United States near
[00:04:38] Arizona uh where there are mountains looks
[00:04:41] like the look like
[00:04:43] the the pickaxes in Iran
[00:04:46] and they start bombing it but so
[00:04:49] far no details about the bombs used or
[00:04:53] the outcome of this bombing or this
[00:04:55] training but you know that some
[00:04:58] international media and and writers they
[00:05:02] published reports about the
[00:05:05] fortified
[00:05:07] pickax mountain and the possibility of
[00:05:11] nuclear facilities. inside or
[00:05:14] conventional ballistic missiles so are we seeing
[00:05:18] some kind of escalation because of this? that will
[00:05:22] be a pretext ready for any escalation by the United
[00:05:25] States, it will be used along with
[00:05:28] other pretext in order escalate the
[00:05:32] situation by the United States. on another note,
[00:05:36] the yemeny armed forces recent advances towards the
[00:05:40] territories located near Babel mendeb.
[00:05:50] on the region and even on the world. In fact, today,
[00:05:54] the Houthi have a limited ability to disrupt shipping in Hormuz because they are forced to operate
[00:05:58] from deep within the territory. If they sit on the coastal strip and on the sea adjacent to it,
[00:06:02] this ability will dramatically improve, and it can be said that
[00:06:05] they will be able to completely block shipping in Bab al-Mandab. Today, they
[00:06:08] fire from deep within the territory using drones and cruise missiles.
[00:06:12] Sea-to-shore missiles. These are complex, expensive means that require
[00:06:16] the activation of exposed radars, which are exposed to American fire,
[00:06:19] and therefore it is a rather significant operational challenge for them,
[00:06:22] which leads to relatively low amounts of firing and hits.
[00:06:26] If they sit on the coast and on the sea and the sea
[00:06:30] passages in Bab al-Mandab are even narrower than those in standard anti-tank missiles,
[00:06:33] Kornet or any other anti-tank missile, they will be able
[00:06:37] to effectively close the strait, and this is already a
[00:06:39] strategic event.
[00:06:41] General, Yes, those recent developments in Yemen,
[00:06:45] how would they worry Israel? This was a
[00:06:48] book, big surprise for the Saudi
[00:06:52] Arabia, United States, Israel, this southern
[00:06:55] advanced of the
[00:06:58] the Yemenis towards the
[00:07:02] Yemen, especially in the Muhafazat of Hudaida and
[00:07:05] Taz, and occupying the
[00:07:09] island of Mayun at the entrance of the... red
[00:07:12] sea and the straight of babal mandab
[00:07:16] now they they
[00:07:20] occupied the and the the
[00:07:23] area and they pulled
[00:07:26] out
[00:07:29] about 13 brigades from the army that's
[00:07:32] related to the but general yes for the israely in
[00:07:36] particular how bad the situation is this is very bad
[00:07:39] because the the Yemenis are able to close. the
[00:07:42] straight of
[00:07:45] of any any time and with any
[00:07:49] with any place either with machine guns or with morters or
[00:07:53] with drones or with ballistic missil, it's very
[00:07:56] easy, but so far the the yemens declared
[00:08:00] that it's only prohibited for the Saudi Arabia to use
[00:08:04] Babel mandib entrance or straight, but
[00:08:07] now it is a weapon in the hands of the Yemenis that
[00:08:11] can be used at. anytime which which which threats
[00:08:14] the the security yemen several times during
[00:08:18] the last war and of these
[00:08:21] times they killed the prime minister and five or six
[00:08:25] ministers and they assassinated the chief of staff and they
[00:08:28] destroyed the refineries in hudaida
[00:08:31] and rasa and others
[00:08:34] places so they did nothing and now
[00:08:37] the the yemen is
[00:08:40] mean uh activated
[00:08:43] their forces and now they launched this sudden
[00:08:47] attack which was really a surprise for international
[00:08:51] community. the yemeni developments meanwhile
[00:08:54] also attracted wide spread attention on Israeli social
[00:08:58] media. head shot mocket. despite
[00:09:01] the united states expanding its intelligence assistance to Saudi
[00:09:05] Arabia in its war against the hoouties, they are increasing
[00:09:09] their control by land and sea. calkalist.
[00:09:12] "the hoti's military achievements in Yemen threatened to cut
[00:09:16] off the movement of oil tankers through the Berman
[00:09:19] Mandip straight with Saudi Arabia being the most
[00:09:22] affected. Yuri. The houti's
[00:09:25] takeover of areas near the Berb and straight is increasing
[00:09:29] and this is worrying for us and for the world. While Trump
[00:09:33] rejected crown prince Muhammad bin Salman's request to
[00:09:36] participate in confronting the
[00:09:38] hoothies.
[00:09:40] General. Yes, do you think that? Israelis should be
[00:09:44] concerned that the Trump administration in a way has
[00:09:47] refused the Saudi Arabia request for a more
[00:09:50] active help in Yemen. Yes, website
[00:09:54] published that Prince Muhammad bin
[00:09:57] Salman called the President Trump twice and asked
[00:10:00] him to attack the hotist before
[00:10:03] they reach the
[00:10:07] almokha and then b
[00:10:10] in the city of Dubai.
[00:10:14] but the president Trump rejected his
[00:10:17] demand and said that he had deal with the
[00:10:21] Yemenis not to attack them, the steel was...
[00:10:25] stuck in the early 2025 after
[00:10:28] one after 50 days of united states
[00:10:32] attacks on the yemenist there was
[00:10:34] a an agreement or
[00:10:38] deal broker by
[00:10:40] oman of which
[00:10:43] the the the human
[00:10:45] allow the the american ships to pass
[00:10:49] through babal against the united
[00:10:53] states stop any again.
[00:10:56] against the yemenis which is now valid now and
[00:11:00] enforce, but isn't it a sign general yes
[00:11:03] that uh trump the the us could escalate against
[00:11:07] Iran uh yes,
[00:11:11] now we don't know what's in the mind
[00:11:13] of President Trump, I don't think that he is
[00:11:17] satisfied with this economic war, surprised
[00:11:21] us, surprised Iran, surprised the world with this attack.
[00:11:55] What Israel will do will be justified to come and say, Israel
[00:11:58] started, we are just responding. Ah, in Iran there is already
[00:12:01] clear data, also the International Atomic Energy Agency reports today about
[00:12:05] movement in the same mountain that Trump already declared in the past that he would bomb
[00:12:08] and did not bomb, and there are also
[00:12:12] announcements and indications that Iran is making great efforts
[00:12:15] to renew the ballistic missile project, and if
[00:12:19] we look for a moment at a wider range, also in the Gaza Strip
[00:12:22] Hamas is looking for a trigger to ignite an event, everyone wants to ignite what is happening
[00:12:25] in Israel. Two, to bring the war back into
[00:12:29] the agenda, it is much better for the Iranians to continue to suffer the
[00:12:33] economic strangulation that Trump is imposing on them. We need to be the ones
[00:12:36] who see the big picture and the ones who determine when
[00:12:40] the escalation will begin and when the escalation will end. In other words,
[00:12:44] the switch must be in our hands
[00:12:46] and not theirs.
[00:12:57] the gaza strip are occupied
[00:13:00] by the Israeli forces and Israel did not abide by
[00:13:04] the seas fire which declared by president trump on the board of
[00:13:07] peace and so since the declaration of the cease
[00:13:11] fire uptil now more than 1300 people
[00:13:15] were dead under the attacks of the Israeli
[00:13:19] drones and all planes as well
[00:13:22] as borders and
[00:13:25] snipers, so but what we mean to say, general
[00:13:28] Elias, does the Israeli wants to go for a large
[00:13:32] scale war more than the access of resistance at this at this
[00:13:35] stage? i think that they don't want a
[00:13:39] large scale or
[00:13:40] because
[00:13:44] on all the fronts, gaza, lebanon, iran, and
[00:13:47] maybe Iraq will take part and yemen will take part, it's not
[00:13:51] in their favor now, you see, but they want
[00:13:54] to... as they did
[00:13:58] before, they want escalate each front alone
[00:14:02] without combining the two
[00:14:04] fronts to each other to have them as
[00:14:06] separate,
[00:14:09] but do they? yes, can they separate them?
[00:14:12] yes, yes, can, they can escalate in Gaza, then
[00:14:16] escalate in south Lebanon, about
[00:14:19] Iran, its calculations are
[00:14:22] related to the United States because they can't...
[00:15:03] However, no legislation has yet been created and no regulations
[00:15:07] have yet been enacted that would allow this to
[00:15:10] change. This can definitely change. The British Foreign Secretary,
[00:15:13] when he announced this, stated that within six
[00:15:16] to nine months they would create the regulations and the legal
[00:15:20] framework for this. Meaning, this is not an immediate event,
[00:15:24] but a legislative event that could take, say, about a year until it's enacted,
[00:15:27] okay, what happens at this stage, what are the implications? I cannot
[00:15:31] go into the implications because we don't know exactly what it will look like, but
[00:15:34] initially, companies that export beyond
[00:16:09] the settlements in the west bank,
[00:16:12] so I think this effects
[00:16:15] Israel a certain extent, but
[00:16:19] what's wanted exactly is to cancel
[00:16:22] the the trade partnership between the European
[00:16:26] Union and Israel, if they cancel the the agreement
[00:16:30] of trade partnership that
[00:16:33] will undermine the
[00:16:37] the trade. between Israel and the Europe
[00:16:40] European Union, now it is a
[00:16:42] partial measure that will affect to a certain extent the
[00:16:46] Israeli economy, especially in the settlements in
[00:16:49] the west bank, but what about the US not criticizing
[00:16:53] this decision by the Britains?
[00:16:56] United States Secretary of State Robio
[00:16:59] disapproved this decision and said
[00:17:03] they would never join such decisions here, but
[00:17:07] consider that the trade of the United States
[00:17:10] will, I
[00:17:12] mean
[00:17:15] will replace all the losses by
[00:17:18] the European Union, and I think America did not condemn
[00:17:22] this decision, the US didn't condemn this
[00:17:25] decision by the Britains,
[00:17:28] just released by
[00:17:31] secretary of state,
[00:17:34] yes they said this approved it, but
[00:17:37] "they didn't take any measures against the
[00:17:40] UK and the European
[00:17:42] countries,
[00:17:45] because they are, I think they are relying on the partial
[00:17:49] effect of this, this this
[00:17:51] boyottage on the Israeli
[00:17:54] trade, but is this some kind of unprecedent attention between
[00:17:58] the Israeli and Europe? yes, there is a difference,
[00:18:01] because we go back about six months ago
[00:18:05] when you..." "United
[00:18:08] Kingdom, France and other European
[00:18:11] countries recognized the state of Palestine and now we have
[00:18:15] 154 countries in the United Nations
[00:18:19] recognize the state of Palestine, only
[00:18:22] Germany and Italy did not do
[00:18:25] recognize, so now this is a
[00:18:29] great dispute between the
[00:18:32] UK, France from one side and Israel from the other side, but how
[00:18:35] important the European support?" "
[00:18:37] for the Israelis, you know that when
[00:18:41] Israel was founded, it was founded by
[00:18:44] europe, in trade in France and
[00:18:47] from the United Kingdom and sometimes from
[00:18:50] Germany, so I
[00:18:53] think now they shifted all
[00:18:55] the
[00:18:58] the the the economy or the military towards the United States,
[00:19:02] but there is still there is still an effect to Europe
[00:19:06] in the Israel policy. so Israel is affected, yes
[00:19:10] it is affected, but it will be
[00:19:13] affected more when the European Union
[00:19:16] cancel the the the agreement
[00:19:20] of partner trade partnership between the
[00:19:24] EU and Israel, but do you expect more European
[00:19:27] measures or more European countries joining such
[00:19:31] actions? there should be about 26
[00:19:34] countries only 11 out of 26, this is...
[00:19:38] small number should be, but you know there are Germany,
[00:19:42] Germany and Italy, they did not join
[00:19:44] even the theage
[00:19:48] or the recognition of the state of
[00:19:51] Palestine, yeah, Netanyahu's
[00:19:54] reputation has been severely tarnished after
[00:19:57] recent revelations concerning the October 7
[00:20:00] attacks, according to those revelations, Netanyahu
[00:20:04] concealed information that was shared with him by the.
[00:20:09] A. I think Netanyahu's reputation is tarnished
[00:20:13] by so many accusations,
[00:20:16] because I connect this to
[00:20:19] the information, at least the news, that there was in October
[00:20:22] 23, from Smadar Perry, about a similar
[00:20:26] warning in those days from the Egyptian side. We
[00:20:30] also see today and hear today and
[00:20:33] before that in publications that Ronen Bar, exactly in those
[00:20:38] days, the head of the Shin Bet, came and warned. We
[00:20:41] know the IDF warnings,
[00:20:44] but if this information is correct, that it was not
[00:20:48] through some head of something or through someone else,
[00:20:51] but a direct conversation that actually took place, then I can
[00:20:54] say here very clearly that every
[00:20:58] person is responsible for the casualties
[00:21:00] and the wounded. It is on his hands. If he did not
[00:21:04] share it with the security establishment
[00:21:07] and did not give them this information so that they too could look
[00:21:10] and connect it perhaps to other things that exist, despite their
[00:21:14] other failures, assuming that everything Shlomi says
[00:21:17] is true, and he himself says that there is...
[00:21:50] by the opposition against Netanyahu and when
[00:21:53] we notice the timing of this issue
[00:21:57] that before October 7, which is the third
[00:22:00] anniversary of the October 7 attack
[00:22:03] and before about 25, 20 days from
[00:22:07] the Israeli elections,
[00:22:10] now Haris Daily published a
[00:22:13] story that sheikh Muhammad bin Zayat the president of
[00:22:16] UAE called Netanyahu for 40
[00:22:20] hours for 40 minutes and told him that he has
[00:22:23] intelligence
[00:22:26] that the Yahya Sinwar and Hamas
[00:22:30] are planning to cross the borders
[00:22:33] and enter the settlements in the neighborhood
[00:22:37] of Ghazza and he assured
[00:22:40] him that his intelligence
[00:22:43] accurate and his sources are accurate but uh
[00:22:47] as
[00:22:50] said that Netanyahu neglected this and did not
[00:22:54] refer it to the intelligence agencies in order
[00:22:57] to examine it or to take measures, this will
[00:23:01] affect the image of Netanyahu
[00:23:04] and in the elections and make his
[00:23:07] situation more weak than before, but why would
[00:23:10] Netanyahu do that? I think
[00:23:14] that he he do not
[00:23:17] respect any Arab report from any... arab countries,
[00:23:20] especially from the emirates, they consider them that they have
[00:23:24] money, nothing else,
[00:23:27] so he neglects all the
[00:23:30] political or the intelligence that
[00:23:33] come from them, he overpower their political for themselves
[00:23:36] and they is underestimating their
[00:23:40] ability to get intelligence and send
[00:23:43] them, but could he lose the election because of
[00:23:46] this? yes, it will affect the elections.
[00:23:50] is now you know all all the uh, mean the
[00:23:53] poll say that it's swinging
[00:23:56] between both sides, between netanyahu and gadi
[00:24:00] izenkot, but so every party is
[00:24:02] using whatever means in order to
[00:24:06] affect to the other one to push to their side, how about
[00:24:10] his opposition with eisenkot has been a trend lately with the
[00:24:14] polls that's saying that eisenkott has high chances in front of
[00:24:17] netanyahu and his party, yes uh and count relies on
[00:24:21] the the the the
[00:24:25] mistakes and the misconduct of Mr. Netanyahu
[00:24:28] starting from October 7 and starting from committing massacres
[00:24:32] and his name is now wanted
[00:24:36] by the ICC international criminal court
[00:24:38] and his
[00:24:41] relations with Turkey
[00:24:45] now and he did not promote
[00:24:48] the uh this
[00:24:50] peace Abraham to accords with the Arabs
[00:24:53] and so there are many many issues
[00:24:56] that they consider Netanyahu failed
[00:25:00] to to achieve
[00:25:03] it to gain back the trust people,
[00:25:06] but why these polls are trying to show that people prefer
[00:25:10] Eisenkott over Naftali Bennett as of the other position? they prefer
[00:25:14] to to to
[00:25:18] let Netanyahu go out.
[00:25:21] then they want to replace it by incott or any other, but
[00:25:25] now the opposition, they agreed on
[00:25:28] eyes and goat as the
[00:25:31] them, but the main issue is
[00:25:35] that they want out, out of the political
[00:25:38] place. well, thank you general elias for joining us today,
[00:25:42] thank you everyone for watching and
[00:25:44] goodbye.
[00:26:10] In today's show we'll be revisiting the genocide in South Lebanon
[00:26:14] which is continuing to see killings, displacement and
[00:26:17] the destruction of homes unfolding every day, despite a
[00:26:21] supposed cefire. Well, the scale of
[00:26:24] destruction in south Lebanon is
[00:26:28] almost unimaginable for most of
[00:26:30] us, this is an area that is
[00:26:34] 10, 20 times the size of Gaza that is
[00:26:38] occupied by the Israelis and they have been uh
[00:26:41] conducting uh total ethnic
[00:26:45] cleansing campaign. you don't make an agreement with the science entity and
[00:26:49] expect that they will keep to it. they violate every cease fire
[00:26:53] every treaty every agreement usually before it's even
[00:26:56] come into effect and of course that was the same uh in Lebanon
[00:27:00] from June onwards.