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[00:00:39] occupy all the products of
[00:01:02] said aren't they? i think they put themselves in
[00:01:41] advance of
[00:01:52] Welcome to the Israeli watch, Israeli media shed light on
[00:01:56] some recent allegations concerning Pick Ax Mountain in Iran.
[00:02:00] along with the latest developments in Yemen. Other topics included
[00:02:04] Britain's decision to boycott Israel west bank
[00:02:07] products and new information that has been surfaced concerning
[00:02:11] warning made to Benjamin Netanyahu's prior to the
[00:02:14] Alaqa Floud operation. We will discuss these
[00:02:17] deeper into these topics with General Elyas Farhat,
[00:02:21] military and strategic expert. Welcome general Elyas.
[00:02:24] Israely media focused heavily on what has been
[00:02:27] recently circulated concerning alleged.
[00:02:46] In recent times, this indicates that the economic boycott
[00:02:50] 70% of is leading the Iranians to go to the option of dragging the Americans into another
[00:02:53] major campaign. We are talking about a report that also
[00:02:57] comes from Reuters and also from CNA. They indicate activity
[00:03:01] of renewed construction in Pickaxe Mountain, the most fortified Iranian site
[00:03:04] of the Iranian regime. We see the satellite images that were published yesterday
[00:03:08] by CNN. Now you see these images, Rafael
[00:03:12] Grossi, from the IAEA, the agency for Iranian control, confirms and
[00:03:16] war and of says, we see movement around this site, which, as stated, was not
[00:03:19] bombed by the Americans or by the Iranians in the two rounds of war
[00:03:23] in the last year. In the meantime, just in the last few minutes, a report from the Wall
[00:03:26] Street Journal talks about new American intelligence that indicates
[00:03:30] the construction and assembly of ballistic missiles in Iran at underground
[00:03:34] sites that were not hit by the Americans or by the Israelis. They identify a willingness
[00:03:37] of the Iranians to rebuild the production line of these missiles at underground
[00:03:41] sites so that they cannot be hit. But the Americans,
[00:03:44] the people who also talk to CNN and also to, in the end,
[00:03:48] they send all the messages so that we will know that the Americans knew and that primarily the Iranians
[00:03:52] to go for a significant move
[00:03:55] soon is identified. The question will be whether Trump will preempt
[00:03:58] them. General Elias, could this issue
[00:04:02] serve as a pretext for new kind, new round
[00:04:05] of escalation with Iran? Yes, it is, it's
[00:04:08] an issue raised by the United States, the issue of
[00:04:12] pikax mountain, which united states says
[00:04:15] that it hides nuclear
[00:04:19] reactor and nuclear facilities inside it, and it's so
[00:04:23] fortified that needs the special kind of bombs
[00:04:26] and this domain,
[00:04:30] the united states army conducted the training in New Mexico
[00:04:34] state in the United States near Arizona where there
[00:04:38] are mountains looks like the look like
[00:04:41] the the pickaxes in Iran
[00:04:44] and they start bombing it but so
[00:04:47] far no details about the bombs used
[00:04:50] or the outcome of this bombing or this
[00:04:53] training but you know that some
[00:04:56] international media CNN androiders they uh
[00:05:00] published reports about the
[00:05:03] fortified
[00:05:05] pickax mountain and the possibility of
[00:05:09] nuclear facilities inside or '
[00:05:13] conventional ballistic missiles, so are we seeing some kind
[00:05:16] of escalation because of this? that will
[00:05:20] be at pretext ready for any escalation by the United
[00:05:23] States, it will be used along with
[00:05:26] other pretext in order escalate the
[00:05:30] situation by the United States. on another note,
[00:05:34] the Yemani armed forces recent advances towards the
[00:05:38] territories located near Babel Mandeb represents major
[00:05:41] game.
[00:05:49] over the region and even over the world. In fact, today
[00:05:52] the Houthis have a limited ability to disrupt shipping in Hormuz because they are forced to operate
[00:05:56] from deep within the territory. If they occupy the coastal strip and the sea adjacent to it,
[00:06:00] this ability will improve dramatically and it can be said that they
[00:06:03] will be able to completely block shipping in Bab al-Mandeb. Today they
[00:06:06] fire from deep within the territory using drones and coastal
[00:06:10] missiles, these are complex and expensive
[00:06:14] means that require the operation of exposed radars
[00:06:17] to American fire, and therefore this is quite a significant
[00:06:21] operational challenge for them, which leads to relatively low
[00:06:24] firing and hit rates. If they occupy the coast and the islands and the
[00:06:28] sea passages in Bab al-Mandeb, which are even narrower than those in Hormuz, every
[00:06:32] Houthi cell armed with standard anti-tank missiles, Kornet or any other anti-tank missile,
[00:06:35] will actually be able to close the strait, and this is already
[00:06:37] a strategic
[00:06:41] those recent development. in Yemen, how would they worry
[00:06:44] Israel? this was a big surprise
[00:06:48] for the Saudi Arabia, United States,
[00:06:51] Israel, this southern
[00:06:54] the Yemen is towards the
[00:06:58] southern western part of Yemen, especially in the
[00:07:01] muhafazat of Hudaida and Taz and occupying
[00:07:05] the island of Mayun at the
[00:07:09] entrance of the red sea and the...
[00:07:13] straight of b almandab now
[00:07:16] they they occupied the
[00:07:20] and the the area and they pulled
[00:07:24] out
[00:07:27] about 13 brigades from the army
[00:07:30] that's related to the but general yes for this really
[00:07:34] in particular how bad the situation is this is very bad
[00:07:37] because the the Yemenis are able to close the
[00:07:40] straight of um
[00:07:44] any any time and with any with
[00:07:47] any place either with machine guns or with morters or
[00:07:51] with drones or with ballistic missil, it's very
[00:07:54] easy, but so far the the yemen is declared
[00:07:58] that it's only prohibited for the Saudi Arabia
[00:08:01] to use Babel mandib entrance or
[00:08:04] straight, but now it is a weapon in
[00:08:07] the hands of the Yemenis that can be used any time, which
[00:08:11] which? sets the the security
[00:08:14] of Israel, but genel, do you think that at this point the
[00:08:18] Israeli might go to attack the Yemani from the Somali
[00:08:22] land? they they already attacked the yemen several
[00:08:25] times during the last
[00:08:29] these times they killed the prime minister and
[00:08:32] five or six ministers and they assassinated the chief of
[00:08:35] staff and they destroyed the refineries in
[00:08:39] Hudaida and Rasa and others.
[00:08:42] places so they did nothing and now the the
[00:08:46] yemen,
[00:08:48] mean activated
[00:08:51] their forces and now they launched this sudden
[00:08:55] attack which was really a surprise for international
[00:08:59] community, the yemeni developments meanwhile
[00:09:02] also attracted wide spread attention on Israeli social
[00:09:06] media, had shotmon
[00:09:09] despite the united states expanding its intelligences
[00:09:12] distance to Saudi Arabia in its war against thehis, they are
[00:09:16] increasing their control by land and
[00:09:18] sea. these military achievements
[00:09:22] in Yemen threaten to cut off the movement of oil
[00:09:25] tankers through the mandib straight with Saudi
[00:09:29] Arabia being the most affected.
[00:09:32] the horties takeover of areas near them straight is
[00:09:36] increasing and this is worrying for us and for the
[00:09:39] world. while Trump rejected crown prince with Muhammad bin Salman's
[00:09:43] request to participate in confronting the
[00:09:46] hoothies.
[00:09:48] General, yes, do you think that the Israelis should be
[00:09:52] concerned that the Trump administration in a way has
[00:09:55] refused the Saudi Arabia request for a more
[00:09:58] active help in Yemen? Yes, website
[00:10:02] published that Prince Muhammad
[00:10:04] bin Salman called the President Trump twice
[00:10:08] and asked him to attack the his before
[00:10:11] they.
[00:10:25] his demand and said that he had deal with the
[00:10:29] yemenis not to attack them, this deal was
[00:10:33] stuck in the early 2025 after
[00:10:36] one after 50 days of united states
[00:10:40] attacks on the yemenist, there was
[00:10:42] a an agreement or
[00:10:46] deal broker by
[00:10:48] oman of which the
[00:10:52] the the humanist allow the...
[00:10:56] the american ships to pass through babel mandab
[00:10:59] against the united states stop any
[00:11:02] aggression against the yemenis
[00:11:06] which is now valid now and enforced but isn't it
[00:11:10] a sign general yes that trump the the
[00:11:13] us could escalate against Iran
[00:11:17] uh yes now we don't know
[00:11:20] what's in the mind of President Trump I
[00:11:23] don't think that he is. satisfied with this
[00:11:27] economic war and he is
[00:11:30] prepares preparing something military or against Iran
[00:11:34] because you know that he all the
[00:11:38] times he surprised us, surprised Iran, surprise
[00:11:41] the world with the world, maybe he will surprise us
[00:11:45] again, Iran and its allies are seeking
[00:11:48] escalation, this according to Israeli analys who mentioned
[00:11:52] specifically Hizballah and Hamas in addition.
[00:12:01] and the Prime Minister will have to accept this as a decision. Look, Mega,
[00:12:05] in the north, Hezbollah is looking for a settlement. We see Hezbollah's conduct in recent
[00:12:09] weeks, especially in recent days. He is looking for a trigger, for him any
[00:12:13] movement that Israel will make will be a justification to come and say: Here, Israel
[00:12:16] started, we are just reacting. In Iran, there are already
[00:12:19] clear data, the International Atomic Energy Agency also reports today on
[00:12:23] movement in that same mountain that Trump already declared in the past that he would bomb
[00:12:26] it and did not bomb it, and there are also announcements and indications such
[00:12:30] and others that Iran is making efforts to renew the
[00:12:33] ballistic missile project, and if we look for a moment at a wider
[00:12:37] range, also in the Gaza Strip, Hamas is looking for a trigger to ignite
[00:12:40] an event. Everyone wants to ignite the arena for a simple reason, one is direct intervention in
[00:12:44] what is happening in Israel, two is to return the and those who determine when
[00:12:48] escalation begins and when escalation ends, meaning the switch must
[00:12:52] be in our hands and not theirs. general
[00:12:56] yes, at this stage, a large scale escalation,
[00:12:59] who would it serve, the access of resistance or the
[00:13:02] Israel? i think so far the Israelies,
[00:13:05] because especially in gazza strip, because gazza,
[00:13:09] you know, it's a small strip and now
[00:13:12] it's 60 to
[00:13:15] the the gaza strip are occupied
[00:13:18] by the Israeli forces and israel did not abide by
[00:13:22] the seas fire which declared by president on the board of
[00:13:25] peace, so since the declaration of the cease
[00:13:29] fire, uptil now, more than 1,300 people
[00:13:33] were dead under the attacks of the
[00:13:36] Israeli drones and and war planes as well
[00:13:40] as morters and
[00:13:43] snipers, so but what we mean to say, general
[00:13:46] elias, does the Israeli wants to go for a
[00:13:50] large scale war more than the axis of resistance at this at this
[00:13:53] stage? i think think that they don't
[00:13:57] want a large scale b because a large
[00:14:00] scale on all the fronts in Gaza,
[00:14:03] Lebanon, Iran and maybe Iraq will take part
[00:14:07] and Yemen will take part, it's not in their favor now, you
[00:14:10] see, but they want to as
[00:14:14] they did before, they want
[00:14:17] escalate, yes, can they separate them, yes, yes, can
[00:14:21] they can escalate in Gaza, then escalate in south.
[00:14:25] Lebanon about Iran, its
[00:14:27] calculations are related to the United States because
[00:14:31] they can launch in offensive against Iran
[00:14:35] without the partnership of the United
[00:14:37] States. Britain's decision to boycott
[00:14:41] settlement products in the occupied West Bank continues to
[00:14:44] be wildly discussed. An official in the Israeli
[00:14:48] ministry of economy pointed to how the implementation
[00:14:51] of this decision could take almost a year.
[00:14:55] The event we are in is a very significant event, but we need to take this
[00:14:58] and clarify the situation that this is a
[00:15:01] declarative event.
[00:15:05] that it will not allow companies that are beyond the Green Line
[00:15:09] to import to Britain. However, legislation has not yet been created and
[00:15:13] regulations have not yet been established that will allow this. Can
[00:15:15] it change? It can definitely change. The British
[00:15:19] Foreign Minister, when he proposed this announcement, he mentioned that between six to nine
[00:15:23] months they will create the.
[00:15:27] Meaning it's not an immediate event but an event of legislation that could take, let's say,
[00:15:31] about a year, let's say it was legislated, okay, what happens
[00:15:34] at this stage, what are the implications? I cannot go into.
[00:16:07] that means that it's a decision by the UK government along
[00:16:11] with another 10 European countries plus Canada in order to
[00:16:16] the settlements in the west bank,
[00:16:20] so I think this affects
[00:16:23] Israel a certain extent, but
[00:16:27] what's wanted exactly is to cancel
[00:16:30] the the trade partnership between the European
[00:16:33] Union and Israel if they cancel the the...
[00:16:37] ment of trade partnership that
[00:16:41] will undermine the
[00:16:44] the trade between Israel and the europe
[00:16:47] European Union. now it is a
[00:16:49] partial measure that will affect to a certain extent the
[00:16:53] Israeli economy, especially in the settlements in
[00:16:57] the west bank. but what about the US not
[00:17:00] criticizing this decision by the Britains?
[00:17:04] united states secretary of state (
[00:17:08] you just approved this decision and said
[00:17:11] they would never join such decisions here,
[00:17:13] but they consider that the trade
[00:17:17] with united states will,
[00:17:19] mean
[00:17:22] will replace all the losses by
[00:17:25] the european union and america did not condemn this
[00:17:29] decision, the us didn't condemn this
[00:17:33] decision by the britans just
[00:17:35] in. released by
[00:17:39] secretary of state,
[00:17:41] yes, they said this approved it, but
[00:17:45] they didn't take any measures against the
[00:17:48] UK and the European
[00:17:50] countries,
[00:17:52] because they are, i think they are relying on the partial
[00:17:56] effect of this, this
[00:17:59] this boyottage on the Israeli trade, but is
[00:18:03] this some kind of unprecedent attention between the Israeli
[00:18:06] and europe? Yes, there is a difference, because we go
[00:18:10] back about six months ago
[00:18:12] when
[00:18:15] United Kingdom, France and other
[00:18:18] European countries recognized the state of Palestine, and now we
[00:18:22] have 154 countries in the United Nations
[00:18:26] recognize the state of Palestine, only
[00:18:30] Germany and Italy did not do
[00:18:33] recognize, so now this
[00:18:35] is a great. dispute between
[00:18:38] the UK, France from one side and Israel from the other side,
[00:18:42] but how important the European support for the
[00:18:45] Israelies? you know that when
[00:18:48] Israel was founded, it was founded by
[00:18:51] europe and trade and
[00:18:55] and all everything and even in the armed forces and the arms
[00:18:59] and the air force and
[00:19:01] all were from the France and from
[00:19:05] the United Kingdom and sometimes from
[00:19:08] Germany, so I
[00:19:11] think now they shifted all
[00:19:12] the
[00:19:16] the the economy or the military towards the United States,
[00:19:20] but there is still, there is still an effect to Europe in
[00:19:24] the Israel policy, so Israel is affected, yes
[00:19:27] it is affected, but it will be affected
[00:19:31] more when the European Union cancel
[00:19:34] the the the agreement.
[00:19:38] of partner trade partnership between EU
[00:19:42] and Israel, but do you expect more European measures or
[00:19:45] more European countries joining such actions? there
[00:19:49] should be about 26 countries,
[00:19:52] only 11 out of 26, this
[00:19:54] is small number, it should be, but you know
[00:19:58] there are germany, germany and Italy, they did
[00:20:02] not join even the the
[00:20:05] or the...
[00:20:37] at least that was in October 23, a similar warning
[00:20:41] from the Egyptian side in those
[00:20:44] days. We also see
[00:20:47] today and hear today and also.
[00:20:50] Yes, in publications that Ronen Bar exactly in those days, the head
[00:20:54] of the Shabak, uh, came and warned. We
[00:20:57] know the warnings of the IDF,
[00:21:00] but if this information is correct, that it was not
[00:21:04] through some head of a state or through someone else, but
[00:21:07] a direct conversation that was indeed held, then I can
[00:21:10] say here very clearly
[00:21:14] that every person is responsible for the casualties
[00:21:18] and injuries. On his hands if he did not share
[00:21:22] with the security
[00:21:24] system and did not give them this information so that they too could look
[00:21:28] and connect it perhaps to other things that exist despite their other
[00:21:32] failures, assuming that everything Shlomi says
[00:21:35] is correct and he himself says that he has full documentation
[00:21:38] and evidence, then there is a scandal
[00:21:42] that uh I know every
[00:21:46] ear uh should be shocked when hearing.
[00:22:05] Yes, it is measure used by the opposition against
[00:22:09] Netanyahu, and when we notice the timing of
[00:22:12] this issue that before October
[00:22:16] 7, which is the third anniversary of the
[00:22:19] October. attack and before about 25,
[00:22:23] 20 days from the Israeli
[00:22:26] elections, now Haris
[00:22:29] Daily published a story that sheikh Muhammad bin Zayat the
[00:22:33] president of UAE, called Netanyaho
[00:22:37] for 40 hours, for 40 minutes and told him
[00:22:40] that he has intelligence
[00:22:44] that the Yahya Senoir and Hamas are
[00:22:47] planning to cross the... borders and
[00:22:51] enter the settlements in the neighborhood of
[00:22:55] Ghazza and he assured
[00:22:57] him that his intelligence
[00:23:01] accurate and his sources are accurate, but
[00:23:04] as daily said that
[00:23:08] Netanyahu neglected this and did not refer it to
[00:23:12] the intelligence agencies in order to examine
[00:23:16] it or to take measures, this will
[00:23:18] affect the M of Netanyahu
[00:23:22] and in the elections and make his
[00:23:24] situation more weak than before, but why would
[00:23:28] Netanyahu do that? I think
[00:23:31] that he he do not
[00:23:34] respect any Arab report from any Arab countries,
[00:23:38] especially from the emirates, they consider them that they have
[00:23:41] money, nothing else, so
[00:23:44] he neglects all the political
[00:23:48] or the intelligence, that come from them, as if he
[00:23:52] overpower their political themselves and the is
[00:23:56] underestimating their ability to get
[00:23:59] intelligence and send them, but could he
[00:24:02] lose the election because of this? yes,
[00:24:05] it will affect the elections. now
[00:24:09] all all the, mean the poll say that
[00:24:12] it's swinging between both sides, between
[00:24:15] netanyahu and gadi izenkot, but
[00:24:18] so every... is using
[00:24:22] whatever means in order to affect to the other one to push to
[00:24:26] their s. how about his opposition with eisenkott has
[00:24:29] been a trend lately with the polls that's saying that
[00:24:33] Eisenkott has high chances in front of netanyahu and his party? yes
[00:24:36] is and relies on
[00:24:38] the the the the
[00:24:42] mistakes and the misconduct of Mr. Netanyahu
[00:24:46] starting from October 7 and starting from committing massacker.
[00:24:50] and his name is now wanted by
[00:24:54] the ICC, international criminal court and
[00:24:57] his relations with
[00:25:00] turkeys
[00:25:03] now and he did not promote
[00:25:05] the this peace Abraham to
[00:25:09] accords with the Arabs and so there are many
[00:25:12] many issues that they consider
[00:25:16] Netanyahu failed to
[00:25:19] uh uh to achieve it to gain
[00:25:22] back the trust of this people, but why these polls are trying to show
[00:25:26] that people prefer eisenkott over Naftalie Bennet
[00:25:29] as the other position? they prefer
[00:25:31] to to to
[00:25:35] let Netanyahu go out,
[00:25:39] then they want to replace it by Azenkot or any other, but
[00:25:42] now the opposition they agreed
[00:25:46] is and goat as the one option.
[00:25:50] but uh the main issue is that they want to
[00:25:54] out of the political place, well thank you
[00:25:57] general elias for joining us today, thank you everyone for
[00:26:01] watching and goodbye
[00:27:04] a situation where that the whole of their economy is based on rich people coming
[00:27:08] and living there in the in their countries, so once you've got that situation
[00:27:12] that even though they have defense, but they're not a military country, so
[00:27:16] really they they just want to keep the status quo for themselves, whatever is
[00:27:19] going on around them.
[00:27:32] a situation
[00:27:33] where
[00:27:37] with the click of a but killer applaudes and leaves
[00:27:40] behind innumerable number of victims our
[00:27:44] good friend all harmed by
[00:27:47] tools of killing.
[00:29:17] President Pesishian says the straight of hormoves would open within the framework of
[00:29:21] international law if the US stopped its acts of aggression against
[00:29:25] Iran.
[00:29:29] The Islamic Revolution God's course says it has shot down and destroyed and American
[00:29:33] MQ one run over the straight of hormos
[00:29:34] and
[00:29:40] at least three civilians have been killed in fresh Saudi air
[00:29:44] strikes on Yemen's southwestern province of Tires.