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00:00:00Arab politics should not be taken
00:00:02But this into account in any way. I hope that
00:00:07and in the opinion of the Arab leaders in this opposition will be bolder in its stance, that it will take a clearer stance, that it will realize that without
00:00:11Arab votes, at
00:00:14is ready for at least the Arab Knesset members, there cannot be a stable government, and there cannot be
00:00:18a political alternative in the elections. In the end, within the Israeli
00:00:21Jewish society, Netanyahu and his bloc got
00:00:24the majority, 53 seats against 48 seats.
00:00:28I mean, I mean, I have her with me, you see.
00:00:30Therefore, I believe that the opposition must wake up
00:00:34and not return again to the scenario of 2008 when Tzipi
00:00:38Livni succeeded and refused to take the premiership because of her reliance on
00:00:41Arabs, nor when Gantz announced in
00:00:45increase. Therefore, in my opinion, this 2015 that he does not rely on Arab votes. There is
00:00:48only one possibility to form an alternative government in Israel:
00:00:51to rely directly or indirectly on Arab Knesset
00:00:55harassing us in members. Of course, we know that the Joint List announced that it does not
00:00:58want to enter the government and does not want to be part
00:01:02of forming the government, but it will support it from the outside in order to exclude Netanyahu.
00:01:06The United Arab List may be
00:01:09a possibility to include it in the government,
00:01:12night at 1:30 and entered the sheepfold.
00:01:12Israel fears changes in The settlers came at but I do not think that Eizenkot in these
00:01:15So why this circumstances is willing to take such a step, but he may cooperate with it more than
00:01:21And the sheep were sleeping the Joint List. In the end, the Israeli opposition is in a situation
00:01:24that is not simple.
00:01:29of the elected leaders, I mean, from of a continuous path of On the contrary, it is very difficult. Therefore, only the possibility of relying on Arab votes, going to any
00:01:32early elections, or
00:01:36a state of hostility with Palestinians in agreeing with Benjamin Netanyahu on a national unity government, means a victory
00:01:38for Benjamin Netanyahu's political project again over the opposition,
00:01:41and this is what the opposition said before the elections,
00:01:46by both that it would do everything
00:01:48that encourages people more to to prevent it from happening. Can that happen, Professor Assad, that
00:01:52he joins a unified government and meets
00:01:55the same fate as Gantz? Eizenkot,
00:01:58I mean, at least this will prove
00:02:02an American leadership in the future that does that this person is not qualified at all to lead Israel. I mean Eizenkot, because if he does not learn from the experience of Tzipi Livni
00:02:06and Gantz and those who participated
00:02:09with Benjamin Netanyahu from his colleagues in the same current, I mean
00:02:13Eizenkot from Lieberman to
00:02:17others, I mean, including
00:02:20the leadership
00:02:23of what are called opposition parties,
00:02:26all except Gantz participated with Benjamin Netanyahu in governments.
00:02:30And they met a bitter fate in terms of how they were treated, in terms of
00:02:33their exclusion, in terms of waiting for the opportune
00:02:36moment to pounce
00:02:40on them, including Bennett and others. Therefore,
00:02:43I believe that logic and
00:02:47him, I mean, what Eizenkot can do is not to
00:02:50negotiate with Benjamin Netanyahu. He committed
00:02:53Democrats and others, from to that, by the way, the American voice, and I mean from yesterday in a speech or the day
00:02:53the media, from before yesterday. Therefore, I believe that
00:02:57he realizes that and that he realizes that any entry into a joint government
00:03:00with Benjamin Netanyahu is a political graveyard. Benjamin Netanyahu may seek
00:03:04to ignite a war in order to drag Israel into
00:03:07a spiral and to go
00:03:09suggested yesterday, for example, to some again to a national unity government, but any
00:03:13war, no matter how big it is,
00:03:16will probably last a week or two, and so on.
00:03:19Therefore, I believe that Eizenkot realizes that
00:03:23the only way to change the situation in Israel, as he promised the Israelis,
00:03:27I mean, not as we want as Palestinians, nor as
00:03:30we want as, I mean, those who really want real peace and serious
00:03:33change in Israeli policies, will not happen, but at
00:03:36least some change in the issues that concern the majority
00:03:40of Israelis, and I mean the issue of the judicial coup, the issue
00:03:43of recruiting the Haredim, and the central questions facing
00:03:47Israeli society. Israeli society has been truly
00:03:50struck
00:03:53facilitate its mission somewhat at at the core of its existence by this government,
00:03:57this far-right and fascist government. And what happened, as we all know,
00:04:01is that what is happening in
00:04:05based on a structure of This is true, and there has been incitement in the United States is related to Palestine, and what the current Israeli government has done
00:04:08in terms of destruction in Palestine, and I mean the genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank,
00:04:11and policies, I mean, unprecedented
00:04:14leadership in Oslo or in savagery towards the Arab region and Palestine
00:04:17in particular. This all means that
00:04:22in order to really benefit from Israel, at least from the perspective of the opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:04:24is heading towards an unprecedented situation
00:04:28of isolation, and this is what Az
00:04:30Israel and its voters promised that he would prevent
00:04:34in the future by removing Benjamin
00:04:37level is the citizens in Netanyahu, of course, on all other issues related to corruption,
00:04:39bribery, mismanagement, and so on.
00:04:43Of course, I do not say, and I say this on your esteemed
00:04:47television, that this does not mean that there will be a serious change in
00:04:51the Palestinian issue, the issues of occupation, and the issues
00:04:54of tightening the screws on the Palestinian people. Some minor change may happen with regard
00:04:58to the settler groups
00:05:01and terrorists against Palestinians in
00:05:04areas C and B and even in areas A,
00:05:08as well as the continuation of the daily attack on our people in
00:05:11Gaza.
00:05:15change, even if it is small, in my personal opinion
00:05:19the interior, can be achieved
00:05:22through the support of Arab parties. I believe that the situation
00:05:27least telling the president that the Arab
00:05:30parties do not want Benjamin Netanyahu and are looking forward to changing him,
00:05:33and after that, I hope that things will open up for a gradual
00:05:37change in order to go to a historical settlement with the Palestinian
00:05:40people and the national movement.
00:05:43As well as a serious internal change in Israel. If that
00:05:46does not happen and Benjamin Netanyahu returns,
00:05:49matters will seriously escalate, and incitement against
00:05:52Palestinian citizens will increase, and repression against our Palestinian people will
00:05:58is the appropriate time to support the position of the Joint List,
00:06:01and the United List should go to the president and tell
00:06:05him: We do not want Benjamin Netanyahu; we want
00:06:08another prime minister, not as we want, and he will not be,
00:06:12but he will at least be less oppressive, less severe,
00:06:16and less violent towards our Palestinian people in general
00:06:19and towards us as citizens in the State of Israel. But it seems that
00:06:22Netanyahu has read such tendencies that Arab lists can adopt.
00:06:28great contempt
00:06:30for Arabs, Dr. Saad?
00:06:34Benjamin Netanyahu during the recent years,
00:06:36and I think this is part
00:06:40hostility, of course, towards the Arab neighborhood, to everything Islamic, to everything
00:06:43Muslim, to our Palestinian people. It has reached
00:06:48the interior. We know who appointed
00:06:51Ben-Gvir, or who is responsible for Ben-Gvir, and who is responsible for
00:06:54Smotrich, and whose policies were embodied
00:06:58of them in issues, I mean,
00:07:01generally on both sides of the Green Line, in harming the Palestinian
00:07:04people, including citizens in an unprecedented
00:07:08way. The main architect of these policies, and who stands behind
00:07:11Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and of course, the main person responsible
00:07:15and wanted in this is the Israeli
00:07:18Prime Minister. And I believe that Benjamin Netanyahu
00:07:22believes that or thinks that
00:07:25the continuation of these central components of
00:07:28the current that supports him is the guarantee for his return to power.
00:07:32Therefore, he ideologically opposes
00:07:35Palestinians in general, including citizens here in the interior.
00:07:39He believes that this
00:07:42hostility is part of his thinking for the region, I mean,
00:07:46for the Palestinian people and control over historical Palestine
00:07:49and subjugating Palestinians wherever they are. But he also
00:07:52has a political tactic that protects him and unites
00:07:56a serious camp behind
00:07:59at least so far, Benjamin Netanyahu has not surrendered. Today he
00:08:03made inciting statements against Arab citizens. The goal is not only
00:08:07incitement against Arab citizens and the Palestinian people, but the goal is
00:08:10to prevent the establishment of a government
00:08:12with Arab support. This is what Benjamin
00:08:15Netanyahu fears. I think that
00:08:18he has, at least in a certain way, succeeded in
00:08:22that because the leader of the opposition or the elected
00:08:25Eizenkot, who cannot reach power without Arab support,
00:08:28directly or indirectly, has not yet
00:08:31spoken with the Arab leaders, has not met
00:08:34with them, has not promised them anything, and has not sought
00:08:37to change his declaration of intent to change
00:08:41his policies in a real way towards Arab citizens in the Palestinian
00:08:44interior or towards the Palestinian cause. But despite
00:08:47that, despite that, Benjamin Netanyahu realizes
00:08:51that our goal as Palestinians in the interior is to remove him. We will
00:08:54contribute to that as much as we can. And that is why he
00:08:58publicly declares his hostility, he publicly tries to withdraw
00:09:01legitimacy, he publicly engages in unprecedented
00:09:05incitement. I mean, I know that some will tell me
00:09:08that there has been incitement in Israel since 1948 against Palestinians
00:09:12and against the Palestinian people in general.
00:09:16the last 30 years, and the Israeli opposition, or part of the opposition, or one
00:09:20of the opposition, assassinated the Israeli prime minister because he was
00:09:23a partner of the Palestinian
00:09:26recognizing the PLO and the path, what is called the path
00:09:30of peace. But in the end, we have been in recent
00:09:34years, in the last three years, facing unprecedented
00:09:37escalation. Of course, Gaza is the biggest victim. The West
00:09:41Bank and the Jordan Valley are
00:09:44another victim, but also the third victim or the third
00:09:49the interior. We saw Ben Gvir demolish
00:09:53about 5,000 homes in one year in
00:09:56the Negev region and other areas. He
00:10:00defames Arab citizens and threatens
00:10:03their leaders. Today we saw
00:10:06how the Shin Bet is trying to help Benjamin
00:10:10Netanyahu politically and declare
00:10:12that there are Arab leaders and there are activists accused of cooperating
00:10:16with foreign agents, which is a serious charge in Israel.
00:10:19I mean, a person can be imprisoned because of it without a trial for
00:10:23a period of administrative detention. All
00:10:27this is happening to serve Benjamin Netanyahu
00:10:30and his agenda. Benjamin Netanyahu has succeeded over
00:10:33more than two decades in seriously changing Israel. Therefore,
00:10:37changing the government is in our interest. But will this lead
00:10:41to achieving what we dream of, what we want for us and for our Palestinian
00:10:44people? No, the road is long. We must have
00:10:48patience because Israel, if it changes at all, will
00:10:51change gradually. But now we have an opportunity
00:10:55to contribute to some change, and I think that there is
00:10:58an expectation from us, Palestinian, external, Arab, and even
00:11:02some Israelis, to contribute to the change process. This is necessary despite some
00:11:06contempt from Eizenkot's camp for Arab laws. Of course,
00:11:09I do not think that we have a position against this Israeli
00:11:13opposition, but now they need us. We want to
00:11:16send Benjamin Netanyahu home and perhaps imprison him
00:11:20for bribery. But I just want you, Professor Assad, to give a one-minute
00:11:24answer about the impact of the results of what happened
00:11:27in the American midterm elections on the Israeli
00:11:30scene. Can this affect this is very important strategically
00:11:33and tactically. Strategically,
00:11:37American and European public opinion and what happened, but American public opinion in
00:11:40particular. You know that these achievements of the Democrats
00:11:44are also related to Palestine, related to the genocide, related
00:11:47to Israeli policies towards the Arab region, and we
00:11:50all saw the speeches
00:11:54among them, especially the Arabs, Palestine is at the top
00:11:58of their priorities. And they openly declare it; they do not hide
00:12:01it. Once, talking about Palestine was something that even
00:12:05if the leader believed in it, he would hide it under the table. Now,
00:12:08leaders openly declare it because they know that this is a strong point
00:12:13vote for such personalities. This is what Israel fears
00:12:17at the strategic, long-term level: losing the support
00:12:20of the American people, and perhaps
00:12:24electing
00:12:27not want or will not continue the same cooperation with Israel. Even
00:12:30DeVos, even DeVos, the Vice President, said
00:12:34that one of the reasons for not electing Republicans is the relationship with Israel
00:12:38in the way it was, and that is based on public opinion polls, not just his personal opinion.
00:12:41He knows that Americans are fed up with this
00:12:44relationship. But tactically, we are now facing
00:12:47an American president whose position is shaky
00:12:50and not guaranteed, meaning that there is a threat to every decision he makes,
00:12:54especially since he needs Congress for financial decisions related
00:12:57to the costs of war and foreign relations.
00:13:01Therefore, he will be more cautious in cooperating
00:13:04with Benjamin Netanyahu in the war against Iran or in wars
00:13:08against the Arab region or in encouraging Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli
00:13:11government to continue their policies. He will hear
00:13:18community activists, that
00:13:22there is criticism of Israel in its daily policies towards
00:13:25the West Bank, towards
00:13:28Gaza, and towards its policies even towards Palestinians
00:13:31in the interior. And that is why I
00:13:34of the Arab leaders that we should form a working group
00:13:37related to incitement against us as citizens here
00:13:41and go to international platforms. Our voice must
00:13:43be heard that Israel has reached
00:13:46fascism, the peak of fascism,
00:13:50and we must seek to mobilize public opinion
00:13:53to support us in confronting such policies, of course, in addition to
00:13:57the Palestinian issue, the mother or the major Palestinian
00:14:01issue. I believe that Israel will not, I mean, there will not
00:14:04be perhaps an earthquake in policies as a result of the elections, but it will
00:14:08bring about a strategic change and a tactical change.
00:14:10And Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel fear
00:14:13that, and perhaps changing the government in Israel may
00:14:18the international level. But Israel, as we know, is internationally besieged
00:14:22due to strategic policies.
00:14:25I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu may have contributed to it, but it is
00:14:30ethnic superiority towards the Palestinian people, including
00:14:33the Israeli opposition. Therefore, I said a moment ago
00:14:37that the road is long; we must have patience, but we must
00:14:40arrange our papers as Palestinians first and as Arabs
00:14:43second, I mean, in the Arab world,
00:14:47international changes to pressure Israel more
00:14:50and perhaps bring about a change after, I don't know, 10 years,
00:14:5415 years, but perhaps
00:14:57moving towards a breakthrough that leads to dealing with us
00:15:01as Palestinians as equals in the face of the continuation of these
00:15:04aggressive policies in all areas where the Palestinian
00:15:07people exist. Thank you very much, Professor Assad Ghanem, Professor of Political
00:15:11Science at the University of Haifa. You were with us live via
00:15:14Zoom from Haifa. Thank you very much,
00:15:17and our dear viewers, thank you for your kind follow-up. Greetings to you and goodbye.
00:15:21اللقاء.
00:19:08The people, of course, are afraid
00:19:12of what happened yesterday, that about
00:19:15eight houses were burned in the village and cars were also burned.
00:21:43Not just today, they've been
00:21:45Zeitoun for a week.
00:21:57They entered here.
00:22:02They took the sheep, some of them ran away,
00:22:05we brought them back, and the rest they took.
00:22:11at night, they didn't see them or anything. They broke everything and took
00:22:15everything.
00:22:17These are the ones who are out in my life.
00:22:37Welcome to the news summary. Four citizens, including a child and a woman,
00:22:41were martyred in Israeli shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
00:22:45Medical sources reported the martyrdom of a woman by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in
00:22:48Mawasi Khan Yunis. They added that a child was martyred by Israeli
00:22:52gunfire in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Reporters reported
00:22:55the martyrdom of a citizen in a raid that targeted the area west of Al-Zawaida town, while
00:22:59he was injured.