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00:00:35position yesterday.
00:00:43Welcome. Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed, of Egyptian
00:00:47origin, won the Democratic Party's nomination for the Senate
00:00:51elections in the state of Michigan, USA, after defeating Haley
00:00:54Stevens, who was supported by pro-Israel
00:00:57years, this lobby groups. This pushes progressive
00:01:00viewers. It is candidates for the Democratic Party to the forefront day
00:01:03after day. Abdul by his American
00:01:07name, or Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed, referring to his
00:01:11Egyptian and Palestinian roots, is an American
00:01:14doctor who won the Democratic Party's nomination for the Senate
00:01:17elections in the state of Michigan,
00:01:21thus becoming the first Muslim to come close to membership in the most
00:01:25mood or change in this important council in American decision-making.
00:01:30is important in this However, Abdul Rahman, who calls for an end to unconditional
00:01:32American military aid to Israel, and who sees
00:01:36Israel's crimes in the Gaza Strip as genocide,
00:01:39with his victory, defeated
00:01:42his opponent, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, a member of Congress for four
00:01:46terms. Stevens received unprecedented
00:01:49support from pro-Israel lobby groups,
00:01:52estimated at more than $50 million, with
00:01:56This a significant gradual increase in support for candidates of the progressive
00:02:00wing, who are not pro-Israel, in the primary
00:02:03elections, which precede
00:02:05Yes, we can criticize it. What's the problem
00:02:05will this not have a significant the midterm elections
00:02:07with that? The First Amendment held in November of this year.
00:02:10Three others among them in
00:02:13in general? New York won a nomination for the House of Representatives.
00:02:17The rise of Abdul Rahman from the progressive wing of the Democratic
00:02:20Party, and before him the rise of his colleague in the party,
00:02:23Zohran Mamdani, from the left wing to become Mayor
00:02:27of New York, is added to the vote of 100
00:02:30three Democratic
00:02:33with stopping aid to any members of the House of Representatives in last July to cancel annual
00:02:35military aid to Israel, compared to 98 Democrats
00:02:39ديمقراطيا صوت
00:02:41with two who voted in favor of Israel. All
00:02:44of this perhaps indicates
00:02:46cause with the rise of this a change that has begun to take shape within the Democratic Party
00:02:49and in its voter base. Among its implications
00:02:52is the tendency of youth and minorities to sympathize with
00:02:55Palestinians, the rise of the progressive wing within
00:02:59the party, and the horrors of the war
00:03:02In my opinion, this in Gaza. Perhaps the change in the voices of anti-Israel
00:03:06way. This
00:03:06And this would not have Democrats within the party from a small minority a few
00:03:08because years ago to a mainstream
00:03:11current today,
00:03:14Aleppo, from portends challenges that will face the Israeli occupation government
00:03:16and at the same time opens up prospects for the voice that says
00:03:20in the Middle East, "America First," and the accompanying Israeli
00:03:23isolation that is increasingly
00:03:27in the region. Now, specifically the Republican state. The West Bank growing Syria TV on day by day.
00:03:30The topic with our guests, Dr. Tariq Abu Ghazaleh, political activist
00:03:34from Washington, and Adel Shadeed, researcher specialized in Israeli
00:03:38and this affairs from Hebron. Welcome to you both. Dr. Tariq, why did Abdul
00:03:42Rahman Al-Sayed's victory cause such a stir, even though it was a victory
00:03:46in the Democratic Party's primary elections
00:03:49for a Senate
00:03:50actually contribute to a change in this seat in Michigan?
00:03:54Thank you for hosting
00:03:57me. This victory really did, as you mentioned,
00:04:00attract a lot of attention. First, because it is
00:04:04for a position as a Senator. There are only 100 positions
00:04:07in all of the United States of America, two for each
00:04:11state. It is not like the House
00:04:13of Representatives, where there are
00:04:15in Israel, this 435
00:04:19is what has become annoying. It is members of the House of Representatives. This is the first point. The second point is that this victory
00:04:23in America, neither from is a victory for the progressive
00:04:27wing of the Democratic Party,
00:04:32therefore, this expresses the as you mentioned in the report. And this means that now in
00:04:35the upcoming elections on
00:04:38of this November 3rd, which is about two
00:04:41months and a little more away, the path has
00:04:45say the number reached $70 million. become almost open, unless
00:04:50when Obama came to and hit her head on the ground, unexpected surprises occur, for Dr. Abdul Rahman
00:04:51many of the Christian Al-Sayed to win this position. This position now, you
00:04:55will be
00:04:58the first Senator
00:05:00elections in the House
00:05:01This who will enable the Democrats to regain the majority
00:05:04Therefore, in the Senate.
00:05:07This is very important. The Senate
00:05:09but it was never now is
00:05:10in harmony with the mainstream. 47 for Democrats and 53
00:05:14for Republicans. This means that all appointments made by the President
00:05:17will not be completed unless
00:05:20it becomes 51 and not 50.
00:05:2351 for Democrats, compared to 49
00:05:27for Republicans. Then the Democrats
00:05:30will be able to stop
00:05:34the Supreme Constitutional Court, and thus hinder President
00:05:38Trump's policies in many issues.
00:05:45the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) supported
00:05:48Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed's opponent, meaning
00:05:50they wanted her to win. Estimates indicate more than $50 million
00:05:54was spent on this campaign, but despite that,
00:05:57Abdul, as he is called in the United States,
00:06:01won. What is your explanation
00:06:02for that?
00:06:06My greetings to you, Mr. Muhammad, and to your guest, Dr. Tariq,
00:06:10and to your honorable natural that
00:06:13AIPAC and the Zionist
00:06:17Jewish organizations
00:06:20supporting Israel would support
00:06:23the rival candidate of this candidate, who has
00:06:27been subjected to a campaign of demonization and defamation
00:06:30from Israel and its friends, claiming
00:06:33that he is a Muslim and that the interests of the United States
00:06:37do not concern him, and so on.
00:06:40But what matter
00:06:43is that the last war on Gaza,
00:06:47the current war of extermination, revealed that
00:06:50there is a shift in American public opinion from the Israeli
00:06:53point of view, and no one in Israel knows
00:06:57if this shift was a result of what
00:07:00Israel did in the Gaza Strip after October
00:07:047th, of the extermination that targeted all
00:07:08Palestinians there: women, men, children,
00:07:11and elderly. Or if this shift preceded
00:07:14that. The strange thing is that the candidate who won
00:07:17today, Mr.
00:07:21from Michigan,
00:07:24spoke after his victory about not only criticizing
00:07:27the current government and Benjamin Netanyahu, but also
00:07:31his criticism of Israel, the state that
00:07:34practices racial discrimination and apartheid,
00:07:38and called for an end to American military aid provided
00:07:41to Israel. He called for an end to
00:07:44unconditional aid to Israel
00:07:47or others, and specifically
00:07:50stated that it is unreasonable for American
00:07:54parties, referring to the Democratic
00:07:57Party to which he belongs, to support
00:08:00the two-state solution and at the same
00:08:04time provide unconditional support to Israel to prevent,
00:08:07cancel, and thwart
00:08:08the two-state solution.
00:08:14shift in the United States
00:08:18is becoming a source of concern for Israel, not
00:08:21from today we will see a change in American
00:08:24policy towards Israel. No, American policy
00:08:27is not only governed by one person. It is true that this
00:08:31shift is important, but in the end, this will be one of
00:08:34the senators, one out of 100, and he will not be the one to decide.
00:08:38He is one out of 100, and there is a Senate of 435
00:08:45in the House of Representatives. Perhaps I will return to you on this point and the change in policies, but before
00:08:49that, regarding the general American electoral
00:08:53mood, Dr. Tariq, to what extent did
00:08:56the significant American support for Israel in the
00:08:59Gaza war
00:09:03mood among American
00:09:04voters?
00:09:07The change in mood is not due to American
00:09:09support for Israel. American
00:09:13support for Israel has been going on for decades,
00:09:16and the mood was
00:09:20accustomed to that. However, the change
00:09:23and transformation that occurred in the entity state,
00:09:28transformation
00:09:31unacceptable to the youth
00:09:35the Democratic Party nor from the Republican Party. These are
00:09:39the racist practices that we see every
00:09:43day, and perhaps these practices existed before, but
00:09:46there were no social media, there were no
00:09:49instant cameras to record. I mean,
00:09:52the scene of the nun who was pushed by the Zionist settler
00:09:56and fell
00:10:00on the stone, this shakes
00:10:04bases here, and indeed
00:10:07many changed their positions after
00:10:11this incident. You are now talking about a mood shift
00:10:15that is directly proportional to what is happening in Israel, and what is happening in Israel
00:10:19now cannot be reversed, the clock cannot be turned back
00:10:22when you have Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich.
00:10:26These are the leaders of Israel. You are talking about a system
00:10:29that is now moving in this direction, and therefore it cannot be reversed, and this is what we see
00:10:33now, of course, with the issue of Gaza. There is an important
00:10:36point that the victory that happened today,
00:10:40early today, is not only due to Gaza. In Michigan,
00:10:43the voter in Michigan also has
00:10:46priorities, including health, education,
00:10:49and fighting corruption. Gaza
00:10:52is one of them, but it is not the only issue. But,
00:10:56Dr. Tariq, the idea is that previously, historically, perhaps
00:10:59candidates used to
00:11:02have support for Israel as one of the keys to their election
00:11:06campaigns, between Democrats and Republicans.
00:11:09Now, no candidate comes out and criticizes, as our
00:11:13guest said, not only the Israeli right-wing government, but the Israeli
00:11:16state and the genocide in Gaza, the war of annihilation.
00:11:19Therefore, to what extent can
00:11:23we say that the Israeli lobby has lost some
00:11:26of its power over the elections?
00:11:29Indeed, the Israeli lobby has now lost a lot,
00:11:32much of its power. Now, even among those
00:11:35who run for the House of Representatives, I call
00:11:38one of them and ask him the first question, "Are
00:11:42you receiving
00:11:45aid from or donations
00:11:49from AIPAC?" "No, never. We do not receive any,
00:11:52and even war criminal Netanyahu must go to
00:11:55the International Criminal Court." This is the direction,
00:11:59and its cause
00:12:01is the natural evolution of this state. This state, this is
00:12:04its natural evolution. We must understand that, and understanding that
00:12:08will help us in the future. And I am not just talking about
00:12:11Palestine, I am talking about all the countries of the Levant, about Syria.
00:12:14Syria suffers from Israeli
00:12:18aggression day and night.
00:12:21matter cannot be covered up. Therefore, this
00:12:25is the change we see every day. Mr. Adel, in your opinion,
00:12:30impact on American policies
00:12:33towards the Palestinian cause and the region
00:12:38I mean, in the short
00:12:41term, this is linked to the results
00:12:44of the midterm
00:12:46elections, and whether the Republican Party will regain
00:12:50its majority and influence.
00:12:53As for the long term, certainly, and this
00:12:57is what worries Israel, because
00:12:59we are facing a new structure
00:13:03of American society
00:13:06trends that do not align with Israel's
00:13:09interests. The first trend is the general
00:13:12trend that Israel is no
00:13:15longer an American red line or a sacred
00:13:18cow. It was forbidden to criticize
00:13:21Israel. But today, Israel is criticized,
00:13:25its policies are criticized, and Benjamin Netanyahu is criticized.
00:13:31happened without a set of considerations. As Dr. Tariq said,
00:13:35social media globalization, and so
00:13:37on. But in the end, what led
00:13:41to this reality are two issues: the first
00:13:44is this Israeli behavior and this support from administrations,
00:13:50one, and the other change, which is no less
00:13:54dangerous from the Israeli perspective, is that
00:13:56day by day, the influence of the progressive
00:13:59Democratic forces within the Democratic Party
00:14:03is increasing. This is a very disturbing
00:14:07change for Israel because it includes
00:14:11the youth, and specifically Jewish youth.
00:14:14In the long run, these are the ones who
00:14:18protested in university campuses two years
00:14:22ago against Israeli policies. Some of them
00:14:25and most of them will be members of the Senate
00:14:28and Congress in the future. They will be ministers,
00:14:31officials, and judges in the army, and
00:14:34so on. This is an important point that I will convey to Dr. Tariq.
00:14:38Allow me to ask Dr. Tariq's opinion on it. To what extent, Dr. Tariq,
00:14:41is the victory of Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed
00:14:45part of perhaps a current of the new
00:14:49generation within the Democratic Party that adopts
00:14:52different approaches, and
00:14:57progress of this trend? That is correct,
00:15:01100% correct. He is part
00:15:03trend. This trend did not form
00:15:06yesterday, but rather has been
00:15:10forming for years. We can say that
00:15:15power, this trend began to emerge.
00:15:18There was the established mainstream,
00:15:20and then the current that was to the left of this current.
00:15:26current has its own specificities and its own
00:15:30goals,
00:15:35The Democratic Party used
00:15:40progressive current. Today,
00:15:44after the progressive current grew tired of
00:15:48pleading with the leaders, or rather, the heads
00:15:51of the Democratic Party, and an example of this is that the governor
00:15:55of Michigan
00:15:58did not support Abdul Rahman
00:16:01in the elections. This is a big deal.
00:16:05And she supports
00:16:08the establishment candidate, the mainstream candidate,
00:16:11and does not support the progressive. Many of them,
00:16:15Chuck Schumer, the head of the Democratic caucus in
00:16:19the Senate, did not support them. They all do not support
00:16:22them because they do not want them to win. One of the reasons, of course,
00:16:25is their position on
00:16:29Israel and other issues. But after
00:16:34current and its young base grew tired
00:16:38of what was happening and chose a different path.
00:16:41This is the path that is now beginning to take shape, and there is a path
00:16:45taking shape now in the Republican Party. We see
00:16:48that also within this establishment,
00:16:51even within the Republican Party.
00:16:55Yes, okay. Mr. Adel, I want to go back to you to complete
00:16:58the idea of how Israel views this
00:17:03general American electoral
00:17:05mood. Mr.
00:17:08Mohammed, Israel
00:17:11to this day, even after the control of this
00:17:15current that represents a fusion
00:17:18between the two religious nationalist currents
00:17:21of the settlers' group Smotrich and Ben Gvir
00:17:24and Maoz and Strock, which is
00:17:26the group of Haredim
00:17:30who do not pay much attention to international
00:17:34support, consider that the survival of Israel
00:17:37and its divine decree are linked
00:17:41to the extent of Jewish adherence to the Torah
00:17:44and its laws and prayers, and so on. But the deep state
00:17:46and Israel to this day operate according
00:17:50to a rule established by Herzl
00:17:54and affirmed by Ben-Gurion,
00:17:57which is that without the reliance
00:17:59and alliance
00:18:01of Israel with a major power and Israel receiving
00:18:04support from a major power, there is no possibility
00:18:08of its survival. Secondly,
00:18:11Israel must continue to present and define
00:18:14itself as an extension of Western
00:18:18civilization in the region. And by Western civilization
00:18:22in the region, I mean the United States of America. Therefore,
00:18:25Israel deliberately calls America
00:18:28the patron of liberal and democratic
00:18:31civilization in the world. But it seems, Mr. Adel, that in the American
00:18:35street, this image that organically links Israel
00:18:39and the United States is changing in this
00:18:43is important, I mean, Israel, Mr. Mohammed,
00:18:47defines itself with two definitions:
00:18:49that it is the state of all Jews in the world,
00:18:53and that it is the only civilized democratic state
00:18:58among the jungle of savages, and that it is
00:19:01an extension of Western civilization
00:19:05when we see this transformation
00:19:08in Western civilization and among Jews of the world,
00:19:11and specifically among the youth in America and Europe,
00:19:16change begins in two contradictory
00:19:18directions, an increase in the pace
00:19:22of criticism of Israel, and in return,
00:19:25we notice support for Palestinian rights.
00:19:28This change, if
00:19:31this trend continues in an escalating
00:19:35manner and strengthens, will certainly
00:19:37affect American support policies towards
00:19:41Israel. And Israel has proven, by the events
00:19:44after October 7th, that without American
00:19:48political, military, security, financial,
00:19:51and legal support, it cannot last for
00:19:55a week. Okay, Mr. Tariq, now we are talking, as we said
00:19:58at the beginning, that Abdul's victory
00:20:01may be considered by some as an indicator, as you also mentioned,
00:20:05of a new anti-establishment
00:20:09current, a progressive current within the Democratic
00:20:11Party. To what extent might
00:20:15this lead to new results
00:20:18within Congress after the midterm
00:20:20elections? And are the chances really good that
00:20:24the Republican Party might lose its majority
00:20:27in the upcoming elections?
00:20:31The Republican Party is expected to lose its majority
00:20:34in the upcoming
00:20:38of Representatives at least. The battle now is for the Senate,
00:20:41and therefore this victory was crucial in determining
00:20:45whether the Democrats can reach
00:20:49the magic number of one Senator.
00:20:54This
00:20:58I mean, it is now taken for granted that this current is not
00:21:01just a fluke. There were flukes every four
00:21:04to twelve years,
00:21:08But now this current has begun
00:21:11to control key positions. You are talking about the Mayor of New
00:21:15York. Even Zohran Mamdani.
00:21:18You are talking now about
00:21:22Abdoul Sayed.
00:21:25This House of Representatives repeats
00:21:28every two years. She won without any
00:21:31real opponent. We are talking about a truly
00:21:34new current that has begun to solidify
00:21:38and will continue to solidify. You are
00:21:40now reading history in the future.
00:21:44You now have a youth base that has changed its view
00:21:47towards the two major parties, and it is now
00:21:51only a matter of time until it takes complete
00:21:55control. When these people grow up, they have already started to enter
00:21:58all the electoral key positions. Elections here are not just congressional elections. Here,
00:22:02elections are in schools, elections are in neighborhoods,
00:22:04elections are in municipal councils, for cities,
00:22:08for counties. They have started to infiltrate all of this, and therefore
00:22:12this will have real and long-term
00:22:16consequences. And this
00:22:19this civilizational cycle does not come and go.
00:22:23You now have the baby boomers who
00:22:27came after World War II
00:22:29and what followed. These people have grown
00:22:33old now. I mean, they have either passed away or grown old.
00:22:36Maybe they won't vote. Now you are talking about the new wave
00:22:40of younger ages who have
00:22:43nothing sacred, as your honorable guest mentioned,
00:22:46that this sacred cow. They don't have anything sacred.
00:22:50Israel is a state like any other state. We can criticize it.
00:22:57of the American Constitution allows me to criticize it.
00:23:00And this is what Abdul Rahman Al-Sayed excelled
00:23:03at when he said, "I love American
00:23:06Jews and I love Judaism as a heavenly
00:23:10religion. My religion
00:23:12commands me to do so, but I have a
00:23:16problem with Israel." She asked him about aid, and he said,
00:23:19"I have no problem
00:23:23foreign country, as long as this money comes back here
00:23:26to benefit the American voter." I return, Mr. Adel, to the point: do you think
00:23:30there can be direct
00:23:33repercussions on the Palestinian
00:23:36current, especially since we are witnessing,
00:23:40despite everything that happened in Gaza,
00:23:44growing international momentum, it seems,
00:23:48around the idea of supporting the two-state
00:23:51solution from many European countries, for example,
00:23:55and also countries in the region, and so on? In my opinion,
00:23:59Mr. Mohammed, the two-state solution
00:24:02has become a thing of the past. Even if
00:24:06American administrations change, Israel
00:24:09has not left any place for this
00:24:14has become a wide network of settlements,
00:24:17except for a deep change in the structure of Israeli
00:24:21society, as in American society. But what gives
00:24:24great importance to these elections that took place last
00:24:28night and whose results were announced this
00:24:31morning is that in
00:24:34Michigan, which is an important
00:24:38state in the United States, in the Israeli reading, and especially since
00:24:42it is one of the swing states,
00:24:46the fear is that what happened there might happen in
00:24:50other swing states, and then there will be an
00:24:53impact on the final result. But the most important
00:24:56thing regarding your question is whether
00:24:59this election will have implications for the Palestinian
00:25:03cause. This is what bothers Israel, especially since
00:25:07in his election campaign, before he was elected
00:25:10and succeeded, his election campaign
00:25:13adopted a discourse calling on the American administration
00:25:17to make a profound change in its support and position on Israel.
00:25:20Therefore, when he is elected
00:25:23and succeeds despite the great support received by his
00:25:26opponent, who strongly supports Israel, and there are
00:25:29estimates that she received $50 million in support, estimates
00:25:35This means that the vote
00:25:39was not just for
00:25:41Abdoul Sayed, or Abdul
00:25:44Al-Sayed, but for the positions
00:25:47he put forward in his election program
00:25:50and in his election campaign.
00:25:54we see this very significant interaction
00:25:58in Israel regarding these elections. And by the way, there is an important
00:26:02point that worries Israelis more,
00:26:08estimates for Israelis
00:26:10are that this narrow difference in votes between
00:26:14him and his opponent was due to the absence
00:26:17of many Arabs and Muslims from
00:26:21voting. This means that American and Jewish
00:26:26higher than Arab and Muslim votes. Thank you very much, Adel Shadeed,
00:26:30researcher specialized in Israeli affairs from
00:26:32Hebron, and Dr. Tariq Abu Ghazaleh, political activist from Washington.
00:26:36This concludes this episode. A new
00:26:40episode tomorrow. Goodbye.
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00:30:39headlines.
00:30:44President Al-Sharea reveals development projects for the Eastern
00:30:48region and announces work on establishing a major industrial zone
00:30:51in Deir ez-Zor.
00:30:55Al-Shaibani visits Ankara today to meet his Turkish counterpart, and combating
00:30:59terrorism supports Syria's stability on the table.