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[00:00:00] That was full advance other legacy, one no missile could eliminate.
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[00:00:45] Welcome to the Israeli watch rising oil prices as a
[00:00:48] result of what has recently taken place in Arabian
[00:00:52] peninsula as well as the situation in Gaza and Lebanon were
[00:00:55] some of the topics addressed in Israeli media. Other topics
[00:00:59] included the financial cost of Israeli wars. We will discuss
[00:01:03] these further with Miss Laila Hatum, political economist,
[00:01:06] editor in Chief, Mina uncensored. Welcome, Miss
[00:01:08] Laila. The access of resistance has
[00:01:12] achieved a string of major successes, as oil
[00:01:16] prices have risen considerably as a result of
[00:01:19] latest events in the Arabian
[00:01:21] peninsula.
[00:01:23] That's what the head of Iran recorded in recent
[00:01:25] days.
[00:01:30] In which the Houthi rebels captured several strategic targets
[00:01:33] in particular. The rebels captured the port city of Mocha on the shores of the Red
[00:01:37] Sea, and the Islands of Hanish and Tayun in the center of Bab al-Mandeb. Three targets
[00:01:40] that allow them to effectively
[00:01:44] control this important maritime passage. The Houthis imposed
[00:01:47] a blockade on Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, through Bab al-Mandeb
[00:01:51] in recent months. The number of barrels of oil that passed through the strait
[00:01:54] plummeted from three million barrels a day to only
[00:01:58] 400,000. This is expected to drop
[00:02:01] even further, and the bad news doesn't end here.
[00:02:05] After Iran blocked the passage in the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth
[00:02:08] of the world's energy supply passed in normal times. The Saudis tried
[00:02:12] to circumvent this blockade through the east-west pipeline
[00:02:15] that connects the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, and transported
[00:02:18] five million barrels of oil through it every day.
[00:02:22] But this weekend, Shiite militias in Iraq attacked this
[00:02:25] pipeline, and Saudi Arabia was forced to give it up too. Look at
[00:02:29] these images. Before and after the attack. It is unclear how
[00:02:32] long it will take the Saudis to repair this damage. So let's
[00:02:36] zoom in for a moment. Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted by Iran.
[00:02:40] Saudi Arabia to act in light of The Saudi attempt to circumvent this blockade through the east-west pipeline
[00:02:44] did not succeed due to attacks from Iraq, and what still reaches the Red
[00:02:47] Sea is blocked due to the Houthi blockade in Bab
[00:02:50] al-Mandeb. The only route that remains truly open for now
[00:02:55] governments any point, there was a is through the Suez Canal, and it is much longer and
[00:02:57] more expensive. And the implications of this thing.
[00:03:30] in terms of energy prices, but also to the electrified
[00:03:33] situation in the GCC, remember over the past
[00:03:37] three years, especially over the past year exactly, the Americans have been trying
[00:03:40] to push the GCC nations to fight
[00:03:43] Iran, whether by creating false flags or basically by
[00:03:47] saying that if you don't stand with
[00:03:50] us then basically Iran is going to prevail in the region,
[00:03:53] now when they failed to push the GCC states into
[00:03:57] taking that step and fighting the Israeli American... versus
[00:04:00] Iran, um, they resorted to something else, they pushed Saudi
[00:04:04] Arabia actually to fight with Yemen, and that
[00:04:08] means in their mindset, they're saying that Saudi Arabia will be
[00:04:11] fighting Iran in Yemen, this is how they thought of it, they did not
[00:04:15] expect that the Yemenis still have the ability to retaliate, and
[00:04:19] this aggravated situation caused for what you call the closure of state of
[00:04:23] Babel mandab, so not only the straight of hermus is closed now, but also the
[00:04:26] strate of Babel Mandab, aside from energy prices being... hiking
[00:04:30] because of the closure of this rate of hermus because of
[00:04:33] 22% of world energy needs comes out from there, the
[00:04:38] Russia's main oil refinery and a hit is now against what you call nearly 30% of the trade
[00:04:40] or more than that between what you call europe and far
[00:04:44] east that happens through that but question miss laila by you saying that they
[00:04:48] pushed Saudi Arabia so Saudi Arabia didn't want and was
[00:04:51] obliged in a way well Saudi Arabia had that what you call some
[00:04:55] sort of a truth signed with the Yemani armed
[00:04:58] forces Ansar allah. "they call them, but they're called allah back in
[00:05:02] 2022, and to a certain degree both
[00:05:05] sides respected it, even despite the fact that there were some beaches
[00:05:09] here and there over the past four years uh." "it wasn't
[00:05:13] until recently that the Saudis were pushed into
[00:05:16] basically that pit as we call it that they
[00:05:20] breach this agreement by banning planes from
[00:05:23] landing in in Yemen
[00:05:26] Yemen basically
[00:05:29] Yemen in Iran and elsewhere from basically
[00:05:32] returning home so at the end of the day they did that so the
[00:05:35] Yemnisarullah actually retaliated by hitting their
[00:05:38] airport and that's when the escalation started the americans started finding the "
[00:05:43] and they use what you call false flags, the hitting of the east-west
[00:05:46] pipeline is false flag so far, because neither
[00:05:50] basically ansar allah nor the Iranians actually
[00:05:53] adopted it, they denied hitting that pipeline, which says a lot
[00:05:57] that there's somebody who's pushing for Saudi Arabia to actually go into a
[00:06:01] further war, Saudi Arabia finds itself facing
[00:06:04] major dilemma with Yemen, as escalation carries grave
[00:06:08] risks especially while the US is apparently reluctant to
[00:06:11] get deep
[00:06:15] It must be said that all the most difficult scenarios for the Saudi
[00:06:19] kingdom are coming true, especially the damage to the oil
[00:06:23] export chains. Pay attention, the most significant event happened this weekend with that
[00:06:26] damage to the east-west pipeline. This is an oil pipeline
[00:06:29] of 1200 kilometers that is disrupted following an
[00:06:33] attack or a missile attack. It is not entirely clear
[00:06:37] that it originates from Iraq specifically. We are talking
[00:06:40] about a super important pipeline that was actually meant to transfer
[00:06:43] Saudi oil to the Red Sea, and it is shut down. Add to this the damage
[00:06:47] in Hormuz, add to this, of course, the dramatic Houthi conquests
[00:06:51] around the Strait of Bab al-Mandeb. I want to remind you that six million
[00:06:54] barrels of oil are transported daily from Saudi Arabia through this strait.
[00:06:58] Now, for them, it's closed, and I'll show you an unbearable situation for
[00:07:02] the Saudis. And therefore, now, after I've said all this, there's a
[00:07:06] super big dilemma for Saudi Arabia: should they go into a
[00:07:09] big campaign against the Houthis and thereby risk
[00:07:13] a significant blow, maybe even a direct confrontation with the
[00:07:16] Iranians? And more than that, there's also a big question mark about the extent of American
[00:07:20] aid, because the United States doesn't really want to help
[00:07:23] the Saudis with anything related to the Houthis. And what might cool
[00:07:27] the Saudis' enthusiasm to enter a renewed
[00:07:30] confrontation with the Houthis even further is the fact that the Houthis have been taking
[00:07:34] over quite a few airports, military camps,
[00:07:37] and seizing a lot of weapons in recent days. Pay attention, Amelia,
[00:07:41] Saudi and Emirati weapons.
[00:07:52] the current situation? Well, the Saudis have got themselves into what
[00:07:56] you call very hard place, they are now stuck
[00:08:00] in quick sand, nobody had fought the Yemenis in the past and
[00:08:03] actually what you call came out in one piece, so at the end of the day
[00:08:07] I do believe that this whole operation to involve Saudi Arabia in
[00:08:11] this war came for. two reasons, one to drain it
[00:08:14] financially and have it pay for the war that's happening, and this is what pleases
[00:08:18] the Americans and the Israelis and at the same time weeken the largest GCC
[00:08:21] power in the future, if the Israelis want to take over what you call parts of
[00:08:25] Saudi Arabia as greater Israel, the Saudis would have been what you call
[00:08:29] drained out of their military power and at the same time they have all these
[00:08:33] fights with their neighbors and nobody likes them at the end of the day if you look at it Saudi
[00:08:37] Arabia and the UAE are fighting and Saudi Arabia verbally at least for for
[00:08:41] now and Saudi Arabia and are fighting with missiles, at the
[00:08:44] end of the day I do expect that it's going to reflect negatively on their economy and
[00:08:48] it's going to what you call cause also further tension politically and
[00:08:52] socially internally, but the US is going to sell
[00:08:55] them now F15, what does this mean? it's selling them
[00:08:59] f35 after basically one f15 got hit by the
[00:09:03] Yemenis, which is a game changer by the way, the Americans
[00:09:06] need the money and how do you milk Saudi Arabia and other
[00:09:10] GCC nations by selling them other? GCC nations by selling them more
[00:09:14] weapons, but those weapons can they use them against the Israelis or the Americans,
[00:09:17] no. Can the Saudis actually operate the Americans against
[00:09:21] American troops and the Americans against American troops in the region or the
[00:09:25] Israelis if they they're selling them these weapons to fight other Muslims
[00:09:28] and other arabs in the region. The
[00:09:31] Hebrew media continues its exceptional focus on Saudi
[00:09:35] Arabia's situation following the major advance achieved
[00:09:39] by the Yemeni forces affiliated with this.
[00:09:56] and it didn't start just this week, it started much earlier, and I have to say
[00:10:00] that when you analyze the Saudi behavior, especially in the last week, since
[00:10:03] the Houthis took over the areas that overlook Bab
[00:10:06] al-Mandeb, you identify something that is no less
[00:10:09] than hysteria. There are also very, very
[00:10:12] disturbing reactions in Riyadh from the Americans
[00:10:16] who are really not enthusiastic to help the Saudis, and also from the
[00:10:19] allies with whom they signed a kind of agreement not long
[00:10:22] ago, Turkey and... And against this backdrop,
[00:10:26] we see the Saudis who understand, by the way,
[00:10:30] that behind all these matters there are
[00:10:33] Iranian hands trying to pressure them more and more. We
[00:10:36] see them in a very difficult dilemma, in which they
[00:10:40] see two things: either to go now again
[00:10:44] into a very difficult war, or, and this is probably, in my opinion, where
[00:10:47] the Saudis are heading, to try to advance peace as quickly
[00:10:51] as possible, which means to try to start closing.
[00:11:25] were rather than basically focused on pushing the Israelis to confess to two
[00:11:28] state solution because that was the main saudi demand um
[00:11:32] that there should be basically a confession to a palestinan state on the lands of
[00:11:35] 1967 the Israelis withdraw from the lands
[00:11:39] of they occupied 1967 onwards and in that
[00:11:42] sense basically they can sign a peace deal with the so Israel is actually
[00:11:46] benefiting from what's happening of course Israel benefits from any fight or tension that
[00:11:50] happens in the region that takes away attention from what it's doing attention
[00:11:53] military and media wise as well. of course everything that it's doing
[00:11:56] internally in the levant, especially in the levant, in palestine, in lebanon and in
[00:12:00] Syria, taking over more land over there, killing people in Lebanon, killing people in
[00:12:03] Palestine, if you divert the attention towards somewhere
[00:12:06] else, that benefits it on the media level and social level,
[00:12:10] if any point there's a fight in this region and there's tension, the Israelis
[00:12:14] can find a way that they can go in and present themselves as the rescuers, remember
[00:12:18] that the Israelis have offered, they have offered that they will fight against the
[00:12:21] Yemenis alongside the Saudis in this war, there were talks about. Is with all
[00:12:25] the advances that have done so far, isn't worrying
[00:12:29] Israelis? of course it's worrying, mean look, at the end of the
[00:12:32] day, if ansar allah continued to have a
[00:12:36] grip over the straight of babel mandab, this will hamper
[00:12:39] 42 billion dollar worth of maritime trade that the israelis have
[00:12:43] with the rest of the world through the straight of baby mandab and the red
[00:12:46] sea, so everything that has to do with the israeli
[00:12:49] maritime trade that goes towards Africa, the rest of
[00:12:53] Africa and that goes all the way to what you call the far east as
[00:12:56] well and to the GCC nations, forget about the land
[00:13:00] nations, forget about the land trade because they can be targeted over there
[00:13:04] as well, but their maritime trade is many have been targeting them
[00:13:07] and not only them but also their allies who use ships through this
[00:13:11] basically the strate of and see so it actually takes off or lifts of
[00:13:15] what you call major financial burden if
[00:13:18] they can eliminate the Yemenis or basically weaken them and they
[00:13:22] don't want to engage with them so they have somebody else engage with
[00:13:55] The air force goes out as a result, the air force goes out to a crushing
[00:13:58] attack, working on all the leaders, it damages their
[00:14:02] infrastructure, ammunition, weapons,
[00:14:04] missiles, and causes complete
[00:14:07] destruction there. Actually, as a result of this
[00:14:11] story, there was a great shout
[00:14:15] in the State of Israel, by the Prime Minister,
[00:14:18] the Chief of Staff, that Hezbollah, we won big, they are off
[00:14:21] the threat map for many years. Two months later, an agreement. Three
[00:14:25] months after that, two months, the residents
[00:14:28] return after a year and a half that they were in happy
[00:14:31] and shouting homes at last, Mazbala, let's go to what's happening. I'm
[00:14:35] ethnic, I'm already speechless.
[00:14:39] Hezbollah and indeed after
[00:14:42] everyone is happy, I am the only one who says
[00:14:46] pay attention, they took a hit, they were not defeated, and they can
[00:14:49] recover. And indeed, in the year
[00:14:53] 2000, ah. At the end of
[00:14:55] 2024, so convinced that we succeeded
[00:14:59] and won that the IDF is ready. Where
[00:15:03] are we today? I'll tell you. I'm done. I'm done. The government
[00:15:06] decides, in fact, to make an agreement to withdraw
[00:15:10] from all of Lebanon's territory because they are
[00:15:13] lost and ineffective and all
[00:15:16] the residents are happy, but then in 2025,
[00:15:19] the Iranians rebuild their power and turn them back
[00:15:23] into capabilities with thousands of missiles. And one more word.
[00:15:26] In February 2024, in fact,
[00:15:29] the Roar of the Lion breaks out, and in the Roar of the Lion, they
[00:15:33] enter and strike a hard blow
[00:15:36] in Israel. to protect
[00:15:47] the border
[00:15:50] And I'm
[00:15:54] telling you it's only a matter of time before they return to the gray line, the IDF is already talking about it for 4 and a half. What do you want
[00:15:57] to say? I want to say
[00:16:01] that the IDF has been in place for years and had
[00:16:04] a thousand opportunities to enlarge the army.
[00:16:37] settlements, the rest of them, they found new life
[00:16:40] elsewhere inside the Israeli entity or outside the Israeli
[00:16:44] entity, so exactly they moved towards central Israeli entity
[00:16:47] or basically occupation entity and further down south as
[00:16:51] well, some of them basically fled abroad and they refuse to come
[00:16:53] back, there's something else that he had said, the
[00:16:57] Israelis need this kind these kind of voices to actually
[00:17:00] push the army toris without withdrawing,
[00:17:03] they need without withdrawing, they need these voices and
[00:17:07] then have netanyahu coming out and saying we have cleared the area and now we can withdraw
[00:17:10] to this place and it's it will show or it will appear as if the
[00:17:14] Israelis are giving us a concession, they're giving concessions
[00:17:18] and they're going to withdraw to the gray line despite these voices who are
[00:17:21] demanding them to stay inside, but there's something also very important, even if you
[00:17:25] eliminate hizballah and they haven't eliminated hizballah, let's be clear, they
[00:17:28] haven't, but even if they eliminate let's say hizballah from south lebanon, so long
[00:17:32] that you have southern Lebanese people with their land
[00:17:35] occupied, there will always be popular... resistance against them and they
[00:17:38] will never have what you call comfortable situation inside
[00:17:41] territories. he also lied about the litani river because litani river goes anywhere
[00:17:45] between the kilometers from the blue line all the way down to basically 10
[00:17:48] kilomes from the blue line and the israel is control all of that area today
[00:17:52] so they are beyond the litani river. now to our social
[00:17:56] media segment where israely commentators addressed the
[00:17:59] situation in the gaza
[00:18:00] strip.
[00:18:04] netanyahu surrendered to hamas and displayed his weakness.
[00:18:08] and he did not accomplish any mission. Alex
[00:18:11] Fred: Ministers and media figures issued ministers and media
[00:18:15] figures issue that are translated directly into indictments in the
[00:18:18] hague and campaigns to pursue esrady soldiers
[00:18:22] internationally. Nahorai Haben, stop the
[00:18:26] entry of any supplies into Gazza, including food and
[00:18:29] water.
[00:18:32] Miss Laila, has Israel succeeded or failed in
[00:18:35] Gaza? It has. failed on the social
[00:18:38] and international level and it has succeeded on the the military level,
[00:18:42] so on the social and international level Israel got exposed for who it truly is,
[00:18:46] it's true face has been exposed, everybody hates it now across the world, there are
[00:18:50] lawsuits that are being filed a daily or weekly or monthly basis by Hindra
[00:18:54] Foundation and other Ingos against Israeli soldiers, officers
[00:18:58] and officials throughout the world, at the
[00:19:01] same time there is a growing tension from the what you call
[00:19:05] useful population across. world including in the US
[00:19:08] and in Europe, those were the main bases that were supporting the the
[00:19:12] Israelis in the past, now the youth and the new generation knows what the
[00:19:16] Israeli occupation is and they're going to vote against anybody who
[00:19:20] supports it going forward, and this is major blow to the Israelis. on the
[00:19:23] military level, we we can't kid ourselves, the Israelis are
[00:19:27] further, what you, they are one of the strongest armies in the region, they
[00:19:31] are highly what you call armed in terms of
[00:19:34] technology, in terms of weapons, in terms of basically what you
[00:19:37] call finance that comes from across the world towards this
[00:19:41] entity, so they can utilize it to fight what you call a
[00:19:44] smaller place like Gaza, it's it's it's
[00:19:48] funny because you have David versus Goliath, but at the same time they
[00:19:51] couldn't, they couldn't basically what
[00:19:55] you call take over all of Gaza, however they managed to curb
[00:19:59] most of Gaza, 70% of Gaza is now, if we had it all
[00:20:02] together and we sum up these things, has Israel
[00:20:05] strategically? succeeded or failed so far, I do
[00:20:09] believe that the Israeli's military wise are succeeding on the ground because they have
[00:20:13] set plans and they are actually achieving them military
[00:20:16] wise, social wise and economic wise, socio economic wise, they're failing miserably
[00:20:20] both locally and internationally, and on the military
[00:20:22] level, it's very important for people to understand that there is an Israeli occupation on the ground, that
[00:20:26] they continue to kill Palestinians on the ground, that Hamas actually gave concessions
[00:20:30] and signed a c fire with them, that they agreed to give their heavy
[00:20:34] weapons to the Israelis and whatever is left of God.
[00:20:38] are mainly people who are being oppressed a daily basis by the Israelis, now
[00:20:42] the only way, and Israel continues to control all the border crossings of for
[00:20:45] gaza, the only way for us to say that the Israelis have failed miserably in
[00:20:49] Gaza.
[00:21:20] The Prime Minister and the security establishment tell us today that since January
[00:21:23] 2025, when the Nagel Committee to examine the
[00:21:26] defense budget submitted its recommendations, no
[00:21:29] decision was made on building the IDF's force. Not even
[00:21:33] a single decision was made. The needs of the security establishment are known.
[00:21:37] They came to the Prime Minister all the time, made decisions on top of
[00:21:40] decisions, because no decision was made here on a
[00:21:43] real order of priorities. And that's why we
[00:21:47] see this situation on the ground. So that's the procedure,
[00:21:51] but let's go to the essence. A three-year war costs
[00:21:55] hundreds of billions of shekels, when we are talking about so many
[00:21:58] fronts where there is no deterrence in any
[00:22:01] of them, it requires a lot of money.
[00:22:04] When you add to this the fact that
[00:22:07] Haredim are allowed to evade service, let's remember that one
[00:22:10] regular battalion can save between eight
[00:22:14] and 10 reserve battalions. Only in the current
[00:22:17] budget are reserve duties paid for.
[00:22:50] funding basically mercenaries that they use or buying the select
[00:22:54] weapons they want to buy any point, but then again you have to understand one thing,
[00:22:57] everything they lose financially, they can actually
[00:23:00] reimburse it through the american taxpayers
[00:23:03] money that comes to them, um the American administration that sends the money
[00:23:07] Europe as well and elsewhere, so that
[00:23:10] doesn't take much time for them, they need at least six months to to
[00:23:14] what you call to imburse part of that
[00:23:17] amount or the hundreds of billions of shekels or what we call
[00:23:20] basically exactly, and they also you have to
[00:23:24] understand one thing, the Israelis try to tap into the international market to borrow from the
[00:23:27] international market by issuing bonds that nobody actually bought into, the
[00:23:31] American administration bought into it, and they had forced some of their allies to actually buy into it,
[00:23:35] but they couldn't what you call gather enough money for that, so the Israelis
[00:23:39] understand that they have to pressure these governments going forward to get that money, they can milk those
[00:23:45] recent meeting basically
[00:23:47] earlier this week between the what you call leaders, the military
[00:23:51] leaders, the army chiefs of six arab countries and their israely
[00:23:55] counterpart in Europe, so that means any point they're going to
[00:23:58] focus on having other arab countries finance the the
[00:24:02] Israeli wars and still trying to find here and well thank
[00:24:05] you Miss Laila for joining us today, thank you everyone for
[00:24:09] watching and
[00:24:10] goodbye.
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