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00:00:00I'm Chris Williamson
00:00:04of of and this is Palestine Declassified where we focus on the international struggle to liberate Palestine and expose Israel's efforts
00:00:08to manipulate the political class and corporate media. In today's show
00:00:12we'll be
00:00:12of revisiting the genocide in South
00:00:14of Lebanon, which is continuing to see killings, displacement and the
00:00:18destruction of homes unfolding every day, despite a
00:00:21of supposed ceasefire. As our video report will explain, the
00:00:25United States continues to exert pressure on the Lebanese government to disarm
00:00:29hisballah. Meanwhile, the
00:00:31of cionist entity strengthens its plans to permanently occupy South
00:00:34of Lebanon under the guise of so-called security
00:00:40of zone. The genocide in South Lebanon continues,
00:00:43even
00:00:44in though the world forgets. Since the 2nd of March this
00:00:47year, more than 4,300 people have been killed,
00:00:51and over 12,000 wounded, with more than one million people
00:00:55displaced its peak, although some later return
00:00:58amed. insecurity, villages near the border with the
00:01:02zinus entity have been raised to the ground, with others even
00:01:06further out suffering extensive damage and
00:01:09of
00:01:09of of destruction.
00:01:10of despite a cessation of hostility supposedly taking effect
00:01:14towards the end of June, the Zionists are still engaged in
00:01:18of daily targeted strikes and killings. meanwhile, the United
00:01:22States has continued its attempt to disarm the Lebanese
00:01:25resistance and to exercise effective control over the
00:01:29Lebanes. government on the 26th of June, Lebanon, the
00:01:33US and the zionist regime signed a
00:01:35a framework agreement in Washington which was rejected as being
00:01:39nullen void and
00:01:41of humiliation by
00:01:42of Hizbillah secretary general Naim Khassim. He argued that
00:01:46it conditions any Zinius withdrawal on the disarmament
00:01:50of the resistance and that it allows an extended zyanis
00:01:53presence in the country south. Designist defense
00:01:57minister,
00:01:58Israel Kats has stated that the Israel occupation forces will
00:02:02remain
00:02:02in a so-called security zone in south Lebanon,
00:02:05of covering of of areas up to several kilometers inside the
00:02:08border. Despite this, the Lebanese president,
00:02:12Joseph Aun, maintains a slavish posture towards the
00:02:16United States. In his July visit to the White House, he
00:02:19declared that Lebanon is counting on the US as its
00:02:23sponsor, but this has not prevented further strikes against
00:02:27Lebanon. On the 15th of August, the Zion. hit a house in the
00:02:31village of Ansar, killing
00:02:33of seven people, including three children and two women, and
00:02:36later struck Dayer
00:02:39in Al-Zarani, of killing four more. Lebanese authorities recorded
00:02:43this as one
00:02:43of the highest single-day death tools since the June
00:02:46Framework. The June
00:02:49of Framework leaves Zionist forces occupying Lebanese territory while
00:02:53demanding the dismantling
00:02:55of the only force that has historically constrained the Zionist
00:02:58colonization of Lebanon. but for Lebanon's puppet
00:03:02of regime under president Joseph Owen, which is under the willing
00:03:05tutage
00:03:06of the Americans, their own status and pockets appear to
00:03:09of matter more than the well-being of Lebanese citizens and the
00:03:13integrity of Lebanon's borders. Or join me
00:03:17today is the Beyout based award winning journalist and political commentator Leif
00:03:21Meruth. Leif established free Palestine TV in
00:03:242023, which continues to provide vital news coverage on the
00:03:28ground in Lebanon and beyond.
00:03:31of I'm
00:03:31of also joined as usual by our residents expert in the UK's leading scholarly critic of
00:03:34Israel, David Miller. David recently secured a far reaching legal
00:03:38precedent, this made it illegal for employeers to take disciplinary action against
00:03:42their employees for publicly opposing zionism.
00:03:45in addition to his empirical research on zionism, David's also accoderator with
00:03:49lobbying watch tog
00:03:51of spinwatch and a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at Istanbul
00:03:55Zayen university. welcome to the show. well
00:03:58leave, for those of us 'who don't live this every day, can you
00:04:02outline the the scale of destruction in south lebanon and
00:04:05explain what it shows about the zish regime's tre intentions in the south
00:04:09of the country? well, the scale of destruction in
00:04:13south Lebanon is almost
00:04:16unimaginable for most of us, this
00:04:20is an area that is 10, 20
00:04:23times the size of Gaza that is occupied
00:04:26a by of the Israelis and they have been'.
00:04:30conducting total ethnic
00:04:33cleansing campaign in these areas, blowing up
00:04:37complete villages, destroying all historical sites
00:04:41and even
00:04:43uprooting the historic graveyards
00:04:47of this region, so over for instance just
00:04:51about 24 hours, three
00:04:54villages behind the occupation line
00:04:57were completely blown up
00:04:59of and this is bringing the number of villages
00:05:03that have been eraised off the map close to
00:05:0730 villages right now totally wiped out like that
00:05:11since
00:05:12the occupation the area
00:05:15was conducted and the cease
00:05:18fire came into effect, so i think
00:05:22you know what the Israelis are doing is
00:05:26genocide and ethnic cleansing a large
00:05:29scale in south lebanon, changing the
00:05:33even
00:05:33the topography the land, blowing up all hills and
00:05:37mountains from
00:05:39existence, this the speaker
00:05:43the house, the head
00:05:47the amal party to make a statement
00:05:51this morning saying that the scale
00:05:55of ethnic cleansing
00:05:58that is happening in south lebanon is larger than that in
00:06:02Gaza. David, why is these the so-called jew
00:06:06framework agreement fail to stop the daily zionist strikes in
00:06:09lebanon? 'well,
00:06:12mean, you you don't make an agreement with the cienist entity and expect
00:06:16that they will keep to it, they violate every cease fire every treaty
00:06:20every agreement, usually before it's even come into
00:06:24effect, and of course that was the same in Lebanon from June
00:06:27onwards, we've seen lots and lots of footage
00:06:31the mass blowing up of
00:06:34village those activities uh, but started off much more
00:06:38slowly in late June, now of course they haven't had it all their away
00:06:41the'. "they have had very quite heavy
00:06:45casualties inflicted by hisballah
00:06:48over the the succeeding weeks and also of
00:06:52course they have tried their best to uh bring
00:06:56in uh Giovanni their asset in Syria to
00:07:00attack hisballah that seems to have
00:07:02been
00:07:04uh uh stopped by the uh Islamic Republic of Iraq Syrian
00:07:08forces entering Lebanon uh Syrian forces entering
00:07:11Lebanon. and that it would directly strike uh Syria if they
00:07:15did that, so that's of course come off the agenda, but what we're seeing
00:07:19is attempt to uh make it impossible
00:07:23for the people of South Lebanon to return to their villages because they will be so
00:07:27destroyed that there will be nothing left
00:07:29to to rebuild and also they will they are clearing territory for
00:07:33what they call security zone but also of course will be
00:07:37uh put potential for new Jewish settlements which of
00:07:40course there's already some evidence. that's happening, although it's
00:07:44been quite difficult because the uh the lack of military success they've
00:07:47had uh in their campaign to
00:07:50raise Lebanese villages and
00:07:53I don't if you recalled Chris, but I was in Lebanon now
00:07:57last year and went to the south right to the border actually to
00:08:01see some these villages, including one called Kafaakila, I was
00:08:05the first two me and Dimitri Lascadas were the first western journalists to
00:08:09get there and it was almost entirely destroyed and you could... the
00:08:13the designers had only left three days before and it was almost entirely
00:08:16destroyed and they'd carved a massive star of David in the in the middle of
00:08:20football pitch which we saw from the hills above it, it was just
00:08:24truly awful and of course they continued with that kind of activity
00:08:27and indeed if anything escalated into um the mass uh
00:08:31bombing campaigns the they've uh undertaken against particular villages
00:08:35and apartment blocks we do
00:08:38you mentioned their you can't trust the...
00:08:42the zionist to stick to a treaty, it kind of reminds me what we now
00:08:46know about other settle colonial projects like the
00:08:50United States of of America
00:08:51for example which made numerous treaties with the native Americans
00:08:55and broke them systematically,
00:08:57I mean this just seems to be feature doesn't it of of settle
00:09:00colonialism, well it's the arrogance the settlers
00:09:04isn't
00:09:04it, I mean there's a particular um dimension to
00:09:08settle colonialism which we should be conscious of, but maybe...
00:09:12sometimes forget, which makes it different to the kind of resource
00:09:15colonialism, which affected other parts
00:09:18of what used to be called the developing world, so for example India
00:09:22wasn't a settler colony, whereas Rudisia, which became Zambable was, South
00:09:26Africa was, Algeria was, the North of Ireland of course, is remains
00:09:30a settler colony, and what happens is
00:09:32that the settlers, they start to
00:09:36adopt their own interests, they start to have their own interests which are
00:09:40separate from whoever is... their sponsor, whether that's an imperial
00:09:44power or or
00:09:46or or the the home country from which they have come, so that's
00:09:50a dynamic which you saw in Algeria, you saw
00:09:54in in Zimbabwe, you saw in South Africa, of course in
00:09:58America, and the others Australia, New Zealand etc. because of course the
00:10:01metropolis quite often takes a more
00:10:05liberal imperialist view and not and not so much of
00:10:09a genocidal, directly genocidal. so there's a kind
00:10:13of tension there quite often between the different sorts of
00:10:16imperialist view in terms of controlling the territory
00:10:20and that's why in the end settle colonies cease to exist because
00:10:24the...
00:10:25the settleers become so extreme and so genocidal that either they
00:10:29are kicked out or they they they complete
00:10:32settle colonialism which is which means of course that they effectively
00:10:36eliminate all the natives or sufficient number the natives that they
00:10:40can't make any difference to politics such as the case for example in
00:10:44Australia, Canada and the US, but so far in
00:10:48in uh in Palestine they've not managed that and it looks like it's going
00:10:52to be very difficult for them to manage that even though the... "they have inflicted
00:10:56heavy blows of course on the palestinian resistance and indeed
00:11:00on Hisballah and of course they took out the the government of Bashar
00:11:04Alassad a key element the axis of resistance, but they cannot defeat
00:11:07Iran, so they are a bit of bind the Netanyahu's most recent
00:11:11statement talks about how they have effectively destroyed Iran's
00:11:15military capability, his nuclear program, it's missile
00:11:19program, and everybody knows that that's not true, so
00:11:22that's the they find themselves..." "yes,
00:11:26absolutely, and and you mentioned Algeria, David, and of course that's an
00:11:30inspirational tale, isn't it, where the resistance did prevail, didn't they? but it hear a
00:11:34lot the mainstream media uh, or mainstream commentators
00:11:38actually referring to that, but I mean that that was a real -
00:11:41inspirational and and successful resistance campaign,
00:11:45wasn't it, that did win through in the end? yeah, I mean the set was have been
00:11:49there for a long time, longer actually than uh the zines have been
00:11:52there at least since 1948 obviously. were some designs before
00:11:561948, but they were there for
00:11:58over hundred years and they were kicked out and as result
00:12:01Algeria is now predominantly Muslim country and is an independent
00:12:04country is the the
00:12:06it one biggest supporters Palestinians uh shore
00:12:10of direct military support for the Palestinians uh that we have in the
00:12:13world sure now le I mean the zionists haven't
00:12:17exactly been having easy time in South Leven and have they I mean
00:12:21despite temporarily capturing lots of land just tell us about some the
00:12:25difficulties that the Israeli occupation forces have faced
00:12:28there? yeah, the isionist occupation in south
00:12:32Lebanon is not a walk in the park. it is
00:12:35very, very difficult military operation,
00:12:39hezballah from ambushing any
00:12:43Israeli forces that attempt to
00:12:46move forward in the occupation, so
00:12:50where you know the
00:12:52occupation um is not, comfortable, just
00:12:56yesterday also Hezbollah released some
00:13:00videos their operations against the Israeli occupation
00:13:04forces before the cease fire came into effect
00:13:07showing that they are able to conduct these operations
00:13:11if the designest occupation forces very soon
00:13:14momentarily i think it will going to be
00:13:17triggered since the morning the
00:13:20Israelis are bombarding villages far away from
00:13:24the front. line uh as as part
00:13:27their you know overall
00:13:30policy of uh you punishing the
00:13:34population in for any time they
00:13:37lose battle on the ground with hizbullah they
00:13:41you know do collective punishment against the civilians in south
00:13:45lebanon so that's that's what's happening right now and i
00:13:49think you know we if we look at all those videos over the
00:13:53last uh four five months the
00:13:56confrontation between hizbullah and the occupation
00:14:00forces, it is clear that they have lost
00:14:04a lot of men and lost a lot of equipment, some something like
00:14:08500 tanks were blown up by Hazbullah,
00:14:11great to Israel then, well the difficulty that they
00:14:15have uh is at root is demographic one,
00:14:19they they aren't even able to demographically dominate
00:14:22Palestine, because there are about the same number of non-jews as
00:14:26there are Jews and if the the right of return was allowed there would
00:14:30be uh the Jews would be a minority and and it would be a
00:14:34Jewish state so the the difficulty is that
00:14:36they haven't got enough people to occupy uh the new parts that they
00:14:40occupy in Syria or the parts are trying to occupy in
00:14:44Lebanon they haven't got enough people and and it doesn't matter how
00:14:48how it's going to
00:14:49take a long long time for that to be the case so as result they have to
00:14:52find other ways to dominate and that of course means using assets and
00:14:56proxies, so for for example Syria Gillaini is their asset and
00:15:00their proxy, although of course uh there are some tensions in that relationship
00:15:04where uh the the Syrian government were going to
00:15:07allow uh turkish troops to deploy near aleppo
00:15:11which which is a threat to Israeli national security interests according
00:15:15to uh Benjamin Netanyahu and they they they have
00:15:19you know uh they have made sure that this clean clear that they
00:15:22will will bomb Syria again have. destroyed almost all their military
00:15:26capability, same is true of course in Lebanon where they have to have
00:15:30proxies in the the government of Lebanon who are quizlings and
00:15:34effectively regime collaborating with the oc
00:15:38their own country, despite the fact that lebanese law still
00:15:41requires that they don't do that, so that that's that's a really significant
00:15:45issue and of course we see the same in the region as well
00:15:49with the abraham accords, the normalization processes
00:15:52in the United Arab Emirates, key key to that, Morocco key to that, which of
00:15:56course has an intelligence services which was set up by the mossad, so all
00:16:00of that is is an indication that they can't, they can't send
00:16:03jews out to settle everywhere because there aren't enough jews and there won't be enough.
00:16:08and so so that's the problem, sure, it is
00:16:12absolutely a problem, can seem to me to be a fundamental flow in
00:16:15the in their overall plan, but
00:16:17tell us about the the Lebanese president's humiliating deference to Donald Trump
00:16:21and and what this means going forward
00:16:23for for lemon as a potential US fassel state? yeah,
00:16:27well president Josephne and prime
00:16:30minister noaf salam have basically meant
00:16:34over backwards to appease uh... the
00:16:38imperialist and the Jewish supremacist in
00:16:42their hopes of getting something in return it
00:16:45seems like
00:16:46that they never materialized
00:16:49you know the cease fire
00:16:53is seems like to be one way
00:16:56the um the way
00:16:58that um you know to show you the
00:17:02level of humiliation for this government few days
00:17:06ago the lebanese ambassador to the UN in
00:17:10Geneva and the human rights council
00:17:13just spoke lightly about the crimes being
00:17:17committed by Israel in South Lebanon and that
00:17:21triggered the Israeli government to
00:17:25call Trump and then Trump's
00:17:28cabinet calling the president of Lebanon
00:17:32demanding that the this
00:17:36ambassador be removed from his post and they were
00:17:39referring to one the articles in the memorandum
00:17:43the standing between the own
00:17:46regime and the israelis which state that libanon cannot
00:17:50anymore you
00:17:53know um bring Israel
00:17:57and or complain about Israel's
00:18:00actions in libanon either in
00:18:04courts or diplomatic venues which means that "It's not only
00:18:08that the Lebanese government's not going to be able to
00:18:11sue uh for damages or for war crimes, but it can't
00:18:14even speak about them a public way, and that is the
00:18:18level of humiliation of this government and
00:18:22what it accepted, the good thing
00:18:26for Lebanon out of all of this is that
00:18:30this government, Joseph on and Noaf salam have no
00:18:34power really in the country, neither '
00:18:37military and or the security forces are under
00:18:41their control and they cannot
00:18:44deliver on the demands the
00:18:47Israelis and the Americans, they can yap, they
00:18:51can
00:18:52uh humiliate themselves more and more publicly, but that's all they can
00:18:55achieve. Well, David, I
00:18:57mean in the end, this strategy of of appeasement, isn't
00:19:00going to go well for the Lebanese president, or indeed
00:19:04is his prime minister, Analum, is it? or for that
00:19:08matter the rest the collaborators in the Lebanese
00:19:10government? no, look, I mean, the the the position of
00:19:14Heizballah, which of course has representatives in the government uh, as always
00:19:18been that they wouldn't um uh coup or
00:19:22to try and take over Lebanon, although they would surely be
00:19:25justified in trying to do so, but that position might
00:19:29change in the future, but of course what the zianists want is the for
00:19:33is for the to be a civil war, so they want to try
00:19:37and... engineer suni gerillas coming in
00:19:40from Syria to
00:19:42attack and they also want to engineer of course
00:19:46the Christian Felangis, the fascist militions
00:19:50are
00:19:50in the north more northerly part of Lebanon to engage in that conflict as well, of course
00:19:54they were used famously in the shabara massacers back in the
00:19:58day overseen by the zionists under the watchful eye the
00:20:02zianis so the strategy is a strategy often to try
00:20:06and a civil war which would have the
00:20:09effect of as they would say in Gaza,
00:20:13of mowing the grass,
00:20:13of diverting from defending
00:20:17against scionist occupation and
00:20:19invasion to defending themselves
00:20:22against fellow lebanese, which of course would
00:20:26likely be heavy tool for
00:20:30personnel, so that that's the kind of strategy
00:20:32that they're using, because they can't sett everywhere, they try and find ways to
00:20:36destroy all their. and set their enemies against each other
00:20:40and another aspect of this state
00:20:42it is the fact that yeah the more
00:20:44- though war and and and and
00:20:48difficulties are sort
00:20:49of uh problems you've just been outlining there plays into the hands
00:20:53doesn't it the military industrial complex, mean they make lots of
00:20:57money down the out of of selling weapons and we know that britain is implicated in the
00:21:01ongoing genocide because they're continuing to supply Israel with
00:21:05with weapons so so there's money to be made isn't there out of this as
00:21:08well there is money to be made and of course some arms
00:21:12firms supply all sides in the conflict just like the zionists you
00:21:15know supply all sides in in politics in the UK and
00:21:18elsewhere? but sometimes those those arms
00:21:21firms are much more ideological, so the the
00:21:24Israeli arms firms for example, elbert for example, it's
00:21:28really aircraft industry,
00:21:31that they are quite ideological and are used to
00:21:34pursue unis foreign
00:21:37policy ambitions, so that of course means that they they
00:21:41they won't sell arms to some some participants in
00:21:44conflict, but they will sell arms to those governments which they think they can use
00:21:48or have an advantage with. "now indeed, it's
00:21:52it's it's a tragic state of affairs and shows the
00:21:55amorality the or immorality, probably more appropriate description
00:21:59the the arms dealers really, but I'm afraid
00:22:03that's all we've got time for today, so I'd like to fancy, I guess leif Maroof and of
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