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00:00:00Iran's management from here,
00:00:03whether illegally or by
00:00:06creating problems. We have
00:00:10put these on the sanctions list because before the closure of the Strait of Hormuz
00:00:13and before these wars, more than 100 ships
00:00:17used to pass through here daily. It gives a
00:00:21lot of dollars. It tries to turn off all
00:00:25these devices at night. Usually, it lets
00:00:28five or six ships pass.
00:00:31occupy all the products of Of course, we have not yet decided
00:00:34to sink these because
00:00:38these contain oil
00:00:40and if
00:00:43they pollute the entire Strait of Hormuz
00:00:47and the Persian Gulf, then it will cause problems for us.
00:00:50Therefore, any violation, any
00:00:53act that we consider
00:00:56criminal, we can extend this.
00:01:00We can place them under our sanctions,
00:01:03and if they ever want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, we will stop them here and this will take
00:01:07time. This area is forbidden, meaning this area will be forbidden
00:01:11until a specified time. This forbidden area will
00:01:15remain until the US naval blockade.
00:01:18Despite Trump saying it's open, it's completely closed.
00:01:21And on the other hand, we are looking
00:01:25to put more pressure on the US to be
00:01:28able to secure the rights
00:01:46southern advanced of
00:01:54welcome to the Israeli watch. Israeli media shed light on some
00:01:58recent allegations concern pickaxe mountain in iran
00:02:01along with the latest developments in Yemen. Other
00:02:05topics included Britain's decision to boycott
00:02:08Israel west bank products and new information that has been
00:02:12surfaced concerning warning made to Benjamin Netanyahu's
00:02:15prior to the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. We will
00:02:18discuss these deeper into these topics with General
00:02:22Elyas Farhat, military and strategic expert. Welcome
00:02:25general elias. Israel media focused heavily on what has
00:02:29been recently...
00:02:32the percent of
00:02:42This evening it seems that Tehran has chosen escalation, and some
00:02:46new data and actions that the Iranians have been carrying out recently indicate
00:02:49that economic isolation is leading the Iranians to go
00:02:53to the option of dragging the Americans into another big campaign.
00:02:55We are talking about a report that also
00:02:59comes out in the Reuters news agency and also on CNN, which indicates
00:03:03activity of renewed construction in Pickaxe Mountain, the most
00:03:06fortified nuclear site of the Iranian regime. We see the satellite images that were published yesterday
00:03:10by CNN. Now you see these images. Rafael
00:03:13Grossi, head of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirms
00:03:17he says, we see movement around this site, which, as mentioned, was not
00:03:21bombed by the Americans nor by the Iranians in the two rounds of war
00:03:25in the last year. In addition, just in the last few minutes, a report from the
00:03:28Wall Street Journal that talks about new American intelligence that indicates
00:03:32the construction and assembly of ballistic missiles in Iran at underground sites
00:03:36that were not affected by the Americans nor by Israelis. They identify a willingness
00:03:39of the Iranians to rebuild the production line of these missiles at underground
00:03:43sites so that they cannot be hit, but the Americans,
00:03:46the people who are also talking with CNN and with the Wall Street Journal in the last while,
00:03:50are sending all the messages that we will know that the Americans knew and that especially the Iranians
00:03:54knew that they identify their intention to take a significant step
00:03:57soon. The question will be whether Trump
00:04:03could this issue serve as a pretext for new
00:04:06kind of new round of escalation with Iran? yes, it is,
00:04:10it's an issue raised by the United States, the issue of
00:04:14peicked mountain, which united states says
00:04:17that it hides nuclear
00:04:21reactor and nuclear facilities inside it, and it's so
00:04:25fortified that needs the special kind of bombs
00:04:28and domain,
00:04:31the United States Army conducted the
00:04:34training in New Mexico state in the United States near
00:04:38Arizona uh where there are mountains looks
00:04:41like the look like
00:04:43the the pickaxes in Iran
00:04:46and they start bombing it but so
00:04:49far no details about the bombs used or
00:04:53the outcome of this bombing or this
00:04:55training but you know that some
00:04:58international media and and writers they
00:05:02published reports about the
00:05:05fortified
00:05:07pickax mountain and the possibility of
00:05:11nuclear facilities. inside or
00:05:14conventional ballistic missiles so are we seeing
00:05:18some kind of escalation because of this? that will
00:05:22be a pretext ready for any escalation by the United
00:05:25States, it will be used along with
00:05:28other pretext in order escalate the
00:05:32situation by the United States. on another note,
00:05:36the yemeny armed forces recent advances towards the
00:05:40territories located near Babel mendeb.
00:05:50on the region and even on the world. In fact, today,
00:05:54the Houthi have a limited ability to disrupt shipping in Hormuz because they are forced to operate
00:05:58from deep within the territory. If they sit on the coastal strip and on the sea adjacent to it,
00:06:02this ability will dramatically improve, and it can be said that
00:06:05they will be able to completely block shipping in Bab al-Mandab. Today, they
00:06:08fire from deep within the territory using drones and cruise missiles.
00:06:12Sea-to-shore missiles. These are complex, expensive means that require
00:06:16the activation of exposed radars, which are exposed to American fire,
00:06:19and therefore it is a rather significant operational challenge for them,
00:06:22which leads to relatively low amounts of firing and hits.
00:06:26If they sit on the coast and on the sea and the sea
00:06:30passages in Bab al-Mandab are even narrower than those in standard anti-tank missiles,
00:06:33Kornet or any other anti-tank missile, they will be able
00:06:37to effectively close the strait, and this is already a
00:06:39strategic event.
00:06:41General, Yes, those recent developments in Yemen,
00:06:45how would they worry Israel? This was a
00:06:48book, big surprise for the Saudi
00:06:52Arabia, United States, Israel, this southern
00:06:55advanced of the
00:06:58the Yemenis towards the
00:07:02Yemen, especially in the Muhafazat of Hudaida and
00:07:05Taz, and occupying the
00:07:09island of Mayun at the entrance of the... red
00:07:12sea and the straight of babal mandab
00:07:16now they they
00:07:20occupied the and the the
00:07:23area and they pulled
00:07:26out
00:07:29about 13 brigades from the army that's
00:07:32related to the but general yes for the israely in
00:07:36particular how bad the situation is this is very bad
00:07:39because the the Yemenis are able to close. the
00:07:42straight of
00:07:45of any any time and with any
00:07:49with any place either with machine guns or with morters or
00:07:53with drones or with ballistic missil, it's very
00:07:56easy, but so far the the yemens declared
00:08:00that it's only prohibited for the Saudi Arabia to use
00:08:04Babel mandib entrance or straight, but
00:08:07now it is a weapon in the hands of the Yemenis that
00:08:11can be used at. anytime which which which threats
00:08:14the the security yemen several times during
00:08:18the last war and of these
00:08:21times they killed the prime minister and five or six
00:08:25ministers and they assassinated the chief of staff and they
00:08:28destroyed the refineries in hudaida
00:08:31and rasa and others
00:08:34places so they did nothing and now
00:08:37the the yemen is
00:08:40mean uh activated
00:08:43their forces and now they launched this sudden
00:08:47attack which was really a surprise for international
00:08:51community. the yemeni developments meanwhile
00:08:54also attracted wide spread attention on Israeli social
00:08:58media. head shot mocket. despite
00:09:01the united states expanding its intelligence assistance to Saudi
00:09:05Arabia in its war against the hoouties, they are increasing
00:09:09their control by land and sea. calkalist.
00:09:12"the hoti's military achievements in Yemen threatened to cut
00:09:16off the movement of oil tankers through the Berman
00:09:19Mandip straight with Saudi Arabia being the most
00:09:22affected. Yuri. The houti's
00:09:25takeover of areas near the Berb and straight is increasing
00:09:29and this is worrying for us and for the world. While Trump
00:09:33rejected crown prince Muhammad bin Salman's request to
00:09:36participate in confronting the
00:09:38hoothies.
00:09:40General. Yes, do you think that? Israelis should be
00:09:44concerned that the Trump administration in a way has
00:09:47refused the Saudi Arabia request for a more
00:09:50active help in Yemen. Yes, website
00:09:54published that Prince Muhammad bin
00:09:57Salman called the President Trump twice and asked
00:10:00him to attack the hotist before
00:10:03they reach the
00:10:07almokha and then b
00:10:10in the city of Dubai.
00:10:14but the president Trump rejected his
00:10:17demand and said that he had deal with the
00:10:21Yemenis not to attack them, the steel was...
00:10:25stuck in the early 2025 after
00:10:28one after 50 days of united states
00:10:32attacks on the yemenist there was
00:10:34a an agreement or
00:10:38deal broker by
00:10:40oman of which
00:10:43the the the human
00:10:45allow the the american ships to pass
00:10:49through babal against the united
00:10:53states stop any again.
00:10:56against the yemenis which is now valid now and
00:11:00enforce, but isn't it a sign general yes
00:11:03that uh trump the the us could escalate against
00:11:07Iran uh yes,
00:11:11now we don't know what's in the mind
00:11:13of President Trump, I don't think that he is
00:11:17satisfied with this economic war, surprised
00:11:21us, surprised Iran, surprised the world with this attack.
00:11:55What Israel will do will be justified to come and say, Israel
00:11:58started, we are just responding. Ah, in Iran there is already
00:12:01clear data, also the International Atomic Energy Agency reports today about
00:12:05movement in the same mountain that Trump already declared in the past that he would bomb
00:12:08and did not bomb, and there are also
00:12:12announcements and indications that Iran is making great efforts
00:12:15to renew the ballistic missile project, and if
00:12:19we look for a moment at a wider range, also in the Gaza Strip
00:12:22Hamas is looking for a trigger to ignite an event, everyone wants to ignite what is happening
00:12:25in Israel. Two, to bring the war back into
00:12:29the agenda, it is much better for the Iranians to continue to suffer the
00:12:33economic strangulation that Trump is imposing on them. We need to be the ones
00:12:36who see the big picture and the ones who determine when
00:12:40the escalation will begin and when the escalation will end. In other words,
00:12:44the switch must be in our hands
00:12:46and not theirs.
00:12:57the gaza strip are occupied
00:13:00by the Israeli forces and Israel did not abide by
00:13:04the seas fire which declared by president trump on the board of
00:13:07peace and so since the declaration of the cease
00:13:11fire uptil now more than 1300 people
00:13:15were dead under the attacks of the Israeli
00:13:19drones and all planes as well
00:13:22as borders and
00:13:25snipers, so but what we mean to say, general
00:13:28Elias, does the Israeli wants to go for a large
00:13:32scale war more than the access of resistance at this at this
00:13:35stage? i think that they don't want a
00:13:39large scale or
00:13:40because
00:13:44on all the fronts, gaza, lebanon, iran, and
00:13:47maybe Iraq will take part and yemen will take part, it's not
00:13:51in their favor now, you see, but they want
00:13:54to... as they did
00:13:58before, they want escalate each front alone
00:14:02without combining the two
00:14:04fronts to each other to have them as
00:14:06separate,
00:14:09but do they? yes, can they separate them?
00:14:12yes, yes, can, they can escalate in Gaza, then
00:14:16escalate in south Lebanon, about
00:14:19Iran, its calculations are
00:14:22related to the United States because they can't...
00:15:03However, no legislation has yet been created and no regulations
00:15:07have yet been enacted that would allow this to
00:15:10change. This can definitely change. The British Foreign Secretary,
00:15:13when he announced this, stated that within six
00:15:16to nine months they would create the regulations and the legal
00:15:20framework for this. Meaning, this is not an immediate event,
00:15:24but a legislative event that could take, say, about a year until it's enacted,
00:15:27okay, what happens at this stage, what are the implications? I cannot
00:15:31go into the implications because we don't know exactly what it will look like, but
00:15:34initially, companies that export beyond
00:16:09the settlements in the west bank,
00:16:12so I think this effects
00:16:15Israel a certain extent, but
00:16:19what's wanted exactly is to cancel
00:16:22the the trade partnership between the European
00:16:26Union and Israel, if they cancel the the agreement
00:16:30of trade partnership that
00:16:33will undermine the
00:16:37the trade. between Israel and the Europe
00:16:40European Union, now it is a
00:16:42partial measure that will affect to a certain extent the
00:16:46Israeli economy, especially in the settlements in
00:16:49the west bank, but what about the US not criticizing
00:16:53this decision by the Britains?
00:16:56United States Secretary of State Robio
00:16:59disapproved this decision and said
00:17:03they would never join such decisions here, but
00:17:07consider that the trade of the United States
00:17:10will, I
00:17:12mean
00:17:15will replace all the losses by
00:17:18the European Union, and I think America did not condemn
00:17:22this decision, the US didn't condemn this
00:17:25decision by the Britains,
00:17:28just released by
00:17:31secretary of state,
00:17:34yes they said this approved it, but
00:17:37"they didn't take any measures against the
00:17:40UK and the European
00:17:42countries,
00:17:45because they are, I think they are relying on the partial
00:17:49effect of this, this this
00:17:51boyottage on the Israeli
00:17:54trade, but is this some kind of unprecedent attention between
00:17:58the Israeli and Europe? yes, there is a difference,
00:18:01because we go back about six months ago
00:18:05when you..." "United
00:18:08Kingdom, France and other European
00:18:11countries recognized the state of Palestine and now we have
00:18:15154 countries in the United Nations
00:18:19recognize the state of Palestine, only
00:18:22Germany and Italy did not do
00:18:25recognize, so now this is a
00:18:29great dispute between the
00:18:32UK, France from one side and Israel from the other side, but how
00:18:35important the European support?" "
00:18:37for the Israelis, you know that when
00:18:41Israel was founded, it was founded by
00:18:44europe, in trade in France and
00:18:47from the United Kingdom and sometimes from
00:18:50Germany, so I
00:18:53think now they shifted all
00:18:55the
00:18:58the the the economy or the military towards the United States,
00:19:02but there is still there is still an effect to Europe
00:19:06in the Israel policy. so Israel is affected, yes
00:19:10it is affected, but it will be
00:19:13affected more when the European Union
00:19:16cancel the the the agreement
00:19:20of partner trade partnership between the
00:19:24EU and Israel, but do you expect more European
00:19:27measures or more European countries joining such
00:19:31actions? there should be about 26
00:19:34countries only 11 out of 26, this is...
00:19:38small number should be, but you know there are Germany,
00:19:42Germany and Italy, they did not join
00:19:44even the theage
00:19:48or the recognition of the state of
00:19:51Palestine, yeah, Netanyahu's
00:19:54reputation has been severely tarnished after
00:19:57recent revelations concerning the October 7
00:20:00attacks, according to those revelations, Netanyahu
00:20:04concealed information that was shared with him by the.
00:20:09A. I think Netanyahu's reputation is tarnished
00:20:13by so many accusations,
00:20:16because I connect this to
00:20:19the information, at least the news, that there was in October
00:20:2223, from Smadar Perry, about a similar
00:20:26warning in those days from the Egyptian side. We
00:20:30also see today and hear today and
00:20:33before that in publications that Ronen Bar, exactly in those
00:20:38days, the head of the Shin Bet, came and warned. We
00:20:41know the IDF warnings,
00:20:44but if this information is correct, that it was not
00:20:48through some head of something or through someone else,
00:20:51but a direct conversation that actually took place, then I can
00:20:54say here very clearly that every
00:20:58person is responsible for the casualties
00:21:00and the wounded. It is on his hands. If he did not
00:21:04share it with the security establishment
00:21:07and did not give them this information so that they too could look
00:21:10and connect it perhaps to other things that exist, despite their
00:21:14other failures, assuming that everything Shlomi says
00:21:17is true, and he himself says that there is...
00:21:50by the opposition against Netanyahu and when
00:21:53we notice the timing of this issue
00:21:57that before October 7, which is the third
00:22:00anniversary of the October 7 attack
00:22:03and before about 25, 20 days from
00:22:07the Israeli elections,
00:22:10now Haris Daily published a
00:22:13story that sheikh Muhammad bin Zayat the president of
00:22:16UAE called Netanyahu for 40
00:22:20hours for 40 minutes and told him that he has
00:22:23intelligence
00:22:26that the Yahya Sinwar and Hamas
00:22:30are planning to cross the borders
00:22:33and enter the settlements in the neighborhood
00:22:37of Ghazza and he assured
00:22:40him that his intelligence
00:22:43accurate and his sources are accurate but uh
00:22:47as
00:22:50said that Netanyahu neglected this and did not
00:22:54refer it to the intelligence agencies in order
00:22:57to examine it or to take measures, this will
00:23:01affect the image of Netanyahu
00:23:04and in the elections and make his
00:23:07situation more weak than before, but why would
00:23:10Netanyahu do that? I think
00:23:14that he he do not
00:23:17respect any Arab report from any... arab countries,
00:23:20especially from the emirates, they consider them that they have
00:23:24money, nothing else,
00:23:27so he neglects all the
00:23:30political or the intelligence that
00:23:33come from them, he overpower their political for themselves
00:23:36and they is underestimating their
00:23:40ability to get intelligence and send
00:23:43them, but could he lose the election because of
00:23:46this? yes, it will affect the elections.
00:23:50is now you know all all the uh, mean the
00:23:53poll say that it's swinging
00:23:56between both sides, between netanyahu and gadi
00:24:00izenkot, but so every party is
00:24:02using whatever means in order to
00:24:06affect to the other one to push to their side, how about
00:24:10his opposition with eisenkot has been a trend lately with the
00:24:14polls that's saying that eisenkott has high chances in front of
00:24:17netanyahu and his party, yes uh and count relies on
00:24:21the the the the
00:24:25mistakes and the misconduct of Mr. Netanyahu
00:24:28starting from October 7 and starting from committing massacres
00:24:32and his name is now wanted
00:24:36by the ICC international criminal court
00:24:38and his
00:24:41relations with Turkey
00:24:45now and he did not promote
00:24:48the uh this
00:24:50peace Abraham to accords with the Arabs
00:24:53and so there are many many issues
00:24:56that they consider Netanyahu failed
00:25:00to to achieve
00:25:03it to gain back the trust people,
00:25:06but why these polls are trying to show that people prefer
00:25:10Eisenkott over Naftali Bennett as of the other position? they prefer
00:25:14to to to
00:25:18let Netanyahu go out.
00:25:21then they want to replace it by incott or any other, but
00:25:25now the opposition, they agreed on
00:25:28eyes and goat as the
00:25:31them, but the main issue is
00:25:35that they want out, out of the political
00:25:38place. well, thank you general elias for joining us today,
00:25:42thank you everyone for watching and
00:25:44goodbye.
00:26:10In today's show we'll be revisiting the genocide in South Lebanon
00:26:14which is continuing to see killings, displacement and
00:26:17the destruction of homes unfolding every day, despite a
00:26:21supposed cefire. Well, the scale of
00:26:24destruction in south Lebanon is
00:26:28almost unimaginable for most of
00:26:30us, this is an area that is
00:26:3410, 20 times the size of Gaza that is
00:26:38occupied by the Israelis and they have been uh
00:26:41conducting uh total ethnic
00:26:45cleansing campaign. you don't make an agreement with the science entity and
00:26:49expect that they will keep to it. they violate every cease fire
00:26:53every treaty every agreement usually before it's even
00:26:56come into effect and of course that was the same uh in Lebanon
00:27:00from June onwards.