Video Infoblog: Iran, Hezbollah Have Right to Self-Defense After Israel Crossed Multiple Red Lines – Marwa Osman
8 Aug 2024
The world is waiting to see how Iran and Hezbollah will respond, after Israel carried out multiple attacks and assassinations that included the killing of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and the Hamas political chief (and top ceasefire negotiator) in Tehran.
Veteran Journalist Marwa Osman noted that while the message from Israel is clear: they want a regional war, and they don't want any chance at a ceasefire with Hamas, what is also clear is the right of Iran and Hezbollah to respond to the red lines Israel has crossed. Because for every unanswered attack, Israel only continues to increase its violations of international law.
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it is August 7th 2024 and the weight appears to be part of the punishment As
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We are continuing to keep an eye on Iran Hezbollah members of the axis of
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resistance and what their response to Israel is going to look like as we heard
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from hezb Secretary General Hassan nzala this week he noted that a response will
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be coming now could it be just Hezbollah could it be the resistance as a whole coming together to Target Israel we
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don't know yet clearly there's some psychological warfare going on on both sides and it also raises the question
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how is all of this back and forth having an impact on the people of Lebanon of
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Iran the children there I know we talk a lot about the Palestinian children in Gaza and in the West Bank and I don't
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want to take away from that at all but I do want to expand the conversation to talk about how children as a whole in
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this area are continuing to it experience the tensions that are going
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on all around but also learning from it because the reality is that they have parents who have been through this
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before right they have parents who have grown up in this region with these tensions been impacted by it but are now
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playing a role in this ongoing resistance not just against Israel but
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against the us as a whole against the US coming into their region and deciding
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that it is going to tell people who is in charge or how how their lives are going to be deciding that they are going
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to continue to arm Israel to use Israel as their aircraft carrier in the Middle
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East of sorts and to not just wreck havoc but to carry on an allout genocide
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against the Palestinian people right before our very eyes we were able to discuss all of this in depth earlier
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with a special guest so let's take a listen to that conversation now joining me now to discuss is Mara Osman a
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university lectur journalist and TV host based in Beirut Mara thanks so much for taking the time
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to join me that's a pleasure thank you for having me Rachel it's always a pleasure to be here it's always good to have you
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on the show now I I know that tensions are quite High where you are to say the least you we in a position right now
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where Iran is vowing a response after Israel assassinated Palestinian Diplomat
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and Hamas political Chief isal hania in tyon last week and have Hezbollah vowing
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a response after Israel killed one of their senior commanders by bombing Beirut last week what do you make of
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this waiting period that we're currently in is the waiting kind of part of the punishment here well U say Hassan the
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hasah chief yesterday during the seventh day commemoration of the martyrdom of leader Commander s mson known as known
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as say m his name is f shukur uh he said that the waiting process is part of the punishment but the waiting process
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process is also stressing for for us as well maybe not as much because we've been under this kind of aggression for
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the past 10 months along with a genocide going on in occupied palestin in Gaza uh
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but the waiting is tense and I think uh the majority of those of us who are really uh stressing about waiting is
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that we are both excited and concerned excited because it's about time someone
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put a leash uh on Netanyahu and made him stop there are red lines that you do not
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drop uh if you think that you're Crossing it in Gaza then you can cross it in Beirut that is absolutely not the case not
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because Beirut is U much more important than Gaza absolutely not Gaza is the most important spot on the planet but
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it's because if we don't put leash on it we're going to see more atrocities and I think it is part of the support for Gaza
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and the protection for Lebanon uh so uh that's why we are excited to see it but we're also concerned because at the end
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of the day Rachel you might want as an adult to be part of a resistance or to be part
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of the support group or support system for Gaza but you have kids you know what I'm saying and you're concerned that
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your kids might be traumatized they might see something that you saw when you were a kid and never ever wanted to
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to have your kids see that because my eldest now is 11 years old and the first time I ever witnessed the War I was nine
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I was younger than her and uh she's dealing with it much better than uh how
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I dealt with it as a kid maybe because um I have so much more knowledge than
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what my par parents had because we did not live in Beirut but we were on vacation and it started in
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1996 uh but uh maybe because I'm more knowledgeable on the um military level
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and the um strategic and political level maybe but also it has to do with the kids themselves and uh with the
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resilience that I see in their eyes and I try not to show them a lot what's going on in Gaza because I I remember
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myself being traumatized when I was uh nine and seeing my own Community when I saw the first baby without a head being
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pulled out of the rubble I don't want my kids to see that but I do want them to see that there are atrocities so I pick
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what they need to see because I don't need them to uh live with that uh maybe
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uh maybe we're in a spot in the world rer where eventually they might have to face it uh but I'm trying to protect
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them as a mother as much as possible but I do show them I do show them uh some atrocities because they need to know
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what's going on in the world and I do show them the resilience of the uh children in Gaza and the people and the
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women and the the elderly and how they're coping and how they're smiling and some of them are dancing because
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that that's the only way to do it or else you go crazy and uh they they understand what's happening and that's
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the worsome part but the resistance has to do what the resistance has to do at the end of the
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day yeah and I I appreciate you sharing that because I can't imagine what it would be like to be a child in this
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situation you know even just yesterday with Israel coming in and breaking the sound barrier over Beirut with a number
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of Sonic booms I mean a as a child you have you may have no concept of okay is
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this fullon war right you don't really understand the psychological warfare that we're currently going through back
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and forth and even if you're not a child in Gaza where clearly they are going through so much I mean still I would
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think being in Beirut there's a lot of uncertainty a lot of fear and a lot of I mean you only have so much life that
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you've lived to be able to compare this current experience too and I think just looking at the current state of things
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you know it has been a bit shocking to see Israel carry out the string of
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attacks and assassinations that they did last week and it feels insane to say
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that right they're carrying out a full on genocide no consequence and they expect no consequences Rachel when you
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when you spoke about what happened yesterday in beut with the with the six Sonic Booms The Sound breaking the sound
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barriers you say how kids are really uh they're aware of it but there's a question that they always answer because
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the first thing they say is it an air strike and you tell them no because there's a different I'm a bit experience
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from the 2006 where I know when it's a sonic boom when it's an air strike when it's coming from a a marine Vessel where
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it's when when it's coming from an actual artillery shelling so I know the difference this sounds this sounds crazy
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but that's reality um so I explained to them that um no this is not an earthw this is just a sonic boom and I keep
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explaining what a sonic boom is because they're too young to understand the physics behind it how how it's happening and how the waves are are making that
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that sound and how the plane is moving so fast and I try to explain it and the question is why if they are not bombing
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something if they are not conducting some sort of why are they doing this and the only answer is Terrorism they are
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terrorizing the public uh to because the the sound of the Sonic Boom Rachel is is
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at least three or four times louder than the sound of the air strike and it
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sometimes causes the uh uh the glass and and the houses to break because of of
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the the the the enormous waves that it generates and the kids if you hear a a loud if it's the fourth of July and it's
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a one big firecracker you have the adrenal just starts pumping and that's what kids do I I was actually doing some
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cooking and preparing to listen to say's speech I was in the kitchen and I had to and I found them standing there in the
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long hallway and house and I stood there and just said breathe just say B in the
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name of God breathe it's okay there is a second one coming and I was joking about it on social media today saying that the
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the the sentence that we repeat now every day is wait for it there's a second one coming so don't be alert be
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alert don't be afraid because it always comes comes in pairs so it's just breathe they when they see you as an
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adult dealing with it uh normally they accept it but they don't know what's
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going on on the inside they don't know how you are melting on the inside because you're seeing the terror in their eyes you might really don't care
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about the the sonic M and know the difference and even if it's an air strike I mean if you an adult and you are adapting to the situation or already
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have adapted for the situation and you completely uh accepted your fate that you might die in an hour tomorrow it's
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fine um for for an adult but for a kid it's hard to explain and for a mother it's hard to see it in the eyes of the kids
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so when that happens and you see the resilience you start understanding uh
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why the kids in in Gaza are acting that the way they are despite the fact that they have the upcoming years that they
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will witness are going to be very very tough and challenging for them while they uh start um created their creating
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their own personalities and their own attitudes in the world so that's what really uh hurts my heart yeah yeah and I
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know that you know so many we we've all had experiences as children that we remember that stick with us and I know
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that's got to be particularly hard because on your end you're able to look at this and to compare it to what you've
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been through before and you know you you want your kids to see that resilience but at the same time you you don't want
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them to be so traumatized that they are you know forever remembering this moment that they're in and I know that that's
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it really is a Human Experience that so many people around you are going to be able to relate to and you know going
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back to what we you were saying about almost kind of that excitement waiting to see okay what is going to happen and
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just looking at the string of attacks that Israel carried out last week I mean it it was kind of surprising to see it
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seems as if they want a response from the entire axis of resistance it's almost like they were begging for some
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sort of regional conflict what kind of a position does that put not just Iran but
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also Hezbollah and other members of the resistance in when they're they're trying to weigh okay we have to respond
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but at the same time they have made it very clear look we don't want a regional War we just want you to you know let the
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Palestinians be free stop bombing them and starving them to death exactly but let me let me tell you something Rachel
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I was following the news um since yesterday especially after the uh speech of say and I was watching a bit of um
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Zionist media and uh I was um interested to know what they think about the
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assassinations that happened and uh a large number of the people especially whom are members of the keset uh and the
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Israeli knesset uh and one of whom uh was actually a former prime minister uh
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also talking about these assassinations and he specifically said that this is a proof and evidence that Netanyahu does
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not want to go to to the negotiation table that n Now by killing the top negotiator who's sitting just across of
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you from that table you're telling not only uh the people of Gaza but the world that you don't care about any sort of
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efforts to to uh find a ceasefire and to stick to a ceasefire you're telling also the world that you will continue to
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terrorize the people and the Nations around you as you see fit and no one will ever uh put a leash on you or hold
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you responsible or even show you some consequences to these kinds of actions and then I hear the keset member who's
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an Arab Israeli I don't know how that works but he's part of the geness anyway and he was saying that um that keeps
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saying that he's doing this for deterrence what kind of deterrence and he says like he says a word that is very famous in Arabic and apparently they use
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it also in Hebrew he says it's no deterr no means melon when you say no deterence
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no melon it doesn't mean the actual fruit the word melon in Arabic means nonsense we use it in two different sets
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it means nonsense it means what are you talking about no that's not what want it's not deterrence uh so I was
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listening to what theist media was talking about and then I I started thinking about what uh specifically said
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Hass was saying because you had a lot of over the past um eight days uh uh you
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you can you can hear a lot of statements read a lot of statements coming from the Islamic Republic of Iran because it's a huge uh nation and it has a lot of
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Institutions so everyone is doing statements and everyone is uh increasing the rhetoric against a Zionist entities
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so it's a lot of new it's a lot of voices it's a so you need for example if you have the president speaking or the
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uh uh speaker the house Speaker speaking or for example the leader of the Revolution
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speaking then you listen very carefully that's why I listen very carefully to what was saying because he's um he's the
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unapp pointed or The Unofficial commander of the forces of the axis of resistance that's how they looked up to
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him so he was explaining how the retaliation would happen and he was using psychological warfare saying that
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we might do it alone we might do it in a collective effort coordinated effort uh but he was uh very specific and he he
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literally said it we do not want to expand the war but if you want to push us there we don't mind we don't want it
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because we know that both sides will suffer dearly especially our side uh not necessarily meaning that we will suffer
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more but we know the fire power that Israel has in the air and we know the capabilities H because with the evidence
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being Gaza and the evidence before that being the doctrine they have a Doctrine called the doctrine the word means
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suburbs and this is how where we are where I'm living right now it's called the suburbs but it's the suburbs of
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Beirut the capital but it's called D so zus Israel has a Doctrine called the
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doctrine that they used in 2006 by carpet bombing the entire area the building that I'm living in right now
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was uh only recently um uh put up it was I think it was uh constructed into
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2012 late 2012 uh so it was fairly uh uh like
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recently so but the the the the apartment or the apartment building that was before it was completely decimated
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by Zionist Israel the entire region the entire Avenue here was completely decimate decimated at the end of my
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Avenue like uh 300 meters down there's a big block apartment block something like
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similar to it's an urban city so it's it's packed so it's a block I think it's
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more than uh 20 uh apartment buildings stuck together the last day of the war
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they decimated it and there were just scores of people who were martyred H and
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scores of people who were running down the stairs one of which and you see how people sometimes they just um they cheat
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death by seconds and these people are still very traumatized from that uh uh
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incident so we know the Firepower of of Israel but at the same time we're not really afraid because we know that our
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resistance can protect us and it can reciprocate it can cause harm and S was
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explaining how uh the resistance can cause equal harm by saying that U during
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uh since 1948 up until the uh late 2000s uh Israel would uh bomb our houses bomb
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our institutions our schools our hospitals and we would bomb nothing we would be displaced they wouldn't we
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would be killed they wouldn't uh we would be TR traumatized they wouldn't but that's not the case since October 7
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since October 7 ever since after the Alexa flood operation and they started this genocidal uh crime against uh Gaza
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Lebanon decided to open a support front and they started bombing areas and by the way they started bombing areas which
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are Lebanese occupied land they didn't even start bombing Palestine they started bombing our own land still
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occupied by Israel which says the Sha farms and the kba hills and these seven Villages so uh according to law was
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perfectly legal for what did so you can't say that attacked Israel Noah was
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trying to liberate its land by opening a front to support Gaza at the same time perfectly legal so um since then it was
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it's reciprocal you see houses you see for example my Village which Isam Village on the border with occupied
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Palestine and the Golan Heights half of it or more than half of it completely decimated I did an interview with a
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friend of mine Demitri lascaris and I sent him one of the videos of the uh R Rubble around the town and it's a
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town that was built recently also after the 2006 War because also during the 2006 they completely uh carpet bombed it
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uh so you see how people's effort um how people's um lives because it's it's
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different our lives here is very different from the West uh because here first of all you either have a land that
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you inherit from your family and you build your own house from bricks in it or you buy the land like I did with my
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um husband because uh his father didn't live uh much to give him any inheritance he he was killed when he was 23 years
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old by Zionist Israel when he was part of the Lebanese Army the man in picture behind me so um we together we decided
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to buy the land and start building the house and it took us nine years to finish and less than a year sitting
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living in that house uh when October 7 started so um looking at this um usually
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we only saw it on the Lebanese side but since October 7 we also see it on the Zionist Israeli side their homes were
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bombed their institutions were bombed uh their school and hospitals weren't because our resistance is a moral one
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and the morals and values are not to safeguard the enemy citizens it's to safeguard our Islam our our religion
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because our religion says when we fight the enemy we should not be fighting uh kids women or hospitals we should not be
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fighting the weak that's that's our Doctrine that's our belief uh so we don't do that even though when you
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watched the three episodes of the hoodhood the hoop that the the episodes released by the hisbah military media
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you could see that uh those drones were flying above malls schools and hospitals
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that's a message meaning that we can see you and we can Target you but we choose not to because this is not who what we
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do this is what you do you bomb them and then you uh say that no it was the
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resistance like for example what happened in the IM madani in the Baptist hospital they bummed and the and the
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issue is they continue to expose their Lies when they continue using the same weapon because the madani the Baptist H
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hospital did not have a hole in the ground that would indicate an air strike but they used just two months later the
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same weapon in South Lebanon and was caught on camera where they used a smart bomb that actually explodes before
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coming down to the ground which is why you saw a lot of people at madani losing their me this membered losing the limbs
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losing their legs losing eyes because it was because of those um shrap that were
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released because it it exposed before it reaches the ground we have video from South Lebanon where they used that
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against journalists and got protected those jist because they could have been killed by this uh bomb that did not
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leave any mark on the ground because it's exploded above ground and the
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shrapnel were thrown all over so they get exposed with the way that they handle things and the way that they
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target war crimes the way that they target civilians and people who are helpless we will not do that but I think
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what he said was obvious he said we will reciprocate meaning that you bomb our Capital we will the retaliation will be
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on what you consider as your Capital because we don't consider T to be capital of anything we don't recognize
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Israel but he said if you bomb our Capital we're bombing yours you killed civilians heads up you killed children
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oh heads up and you killed a leader one of the top commanders in hisbah so expect the same now people say but oh
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wait a second Israel was retaliating against M where killed 14 kids an absolute lie you could
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go and ask the people the Syrian occupied people of M sh saying that
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themselves when they kicked out Netanyahu when they kicked out smartr then they called them traitors and war criminals and they don't want to see
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their faces because MJ Shams prior to the incident was receiving for at least four months failed iron doome missil
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falling on them the same thing that we saw in narya two days ago why did the Israeli entity acknowledge what happened
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in narya and not acknowledge what happened in MJ Shams why did the Israeli entity military spokesperson go live on
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air and tell them we apologize because this was a failed Iron Dome and it hit the highway in um naria and it killed I
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think 19 people but the M Shams one they were pointing fingers at hisbah despite the fact for 10 months hisbah never ever
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targeted any civilian areas only military bases and we have a police actually we have an international
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so-called peace force in Lebanon called the unifil which are UN forces in Lebanon and they record everything
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that's going on and they recorded how uh during that specific time when MH
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happened hasah did not send any Rockets any drones any missiles it was a failed
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Iron Dome because hasah was sending a drone to another place but the Iron Dome
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missile failed and went all the way to MH Shams so you also have this evidence that neither the White House nor the
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International Community wants to acknowledge but the UN has acknowledged because they said they had a statement
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out there put that they have no evidence that it was hisbah that uh shot that um
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missile at at M and you also have the footage from narya you have footage from M and footage from the two days ago
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narya iron do Mas you can compare them 100% identical explosion that was an
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Iron Dome Mass yeah yeah and I'm glad that you bring that up because at the time and
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granted I mean I'm in the US so I kind of expect the mainstream media here to just go with whatever the US government
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says whatever Israel says on that and that's exactly what they did they claimed oh well we know that you know
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Hezbollah was responsible for this rocket attack and therefore Israel is Justified in bombing Beirut and carrying
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on with one escalation after another and watching the way that the US has
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responded to this I mean the Biden Administration is sitting there and they're claiming that oh they're going to provide more and more support to
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Israel they always talk about helping Israel quote unquote defend itself yet
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Israel is the one that started all of this right they are the ones who not only carried out these recent attacks
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and assassinations but they have continued on to be the perpetrator of
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every single attack and every reason why you have the axis of resistance now fighting back against them what are
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those concerns when the US is basically giving Netanyahu a green light and a blank check saying do whatever you want
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to do knowing that it could drag the us into a regional War well uh funnny enough I was watching
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this morning a briefing by the White House um uh spokesperson and he was
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having a discussion with one of the uh prominent journalists the White House jist there and I don't want to say the wrong names but um he was sitting there
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he's an older gentleman and he was sing them so um you do recognize that Iran has the uh right to defend itself after
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Israel conducted the assassination operation on Iranian soil killing a guest for the Islamic public and he said
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no I I don't recognize that I didn't say that and he said but if this was a European country and a guest house for
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the government was attacked you would consider that as a terrorist attempt right and they have every right to defend themselves right and he said I
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don't want to answer a question based on hypothesis and he said okay then let's answer a question based on reality so
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you said and everyone on board the so-called International Community and the free peoples of the world said that
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Israel has the right to defend themselves when you uh uh when you saw what happened in M despite the fact that
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we do not have any evidence that suggests that fired at mam but you immediately made a statement and send
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and said we defend Israel we support Israel and we acknowledge that it has a right to defend itself so why does
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Israel have the right to defend itself and not other not other people that were um a a seen that their home was a scene
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for uh a uh devastating uh operation a crime against humanity to uh
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you're killing a man and not in the battlefield it's the same way that they assassinated
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um suan they had every chance to do that when he was in battle and he would have loved it because this is how he wanted
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to leave this planet but they chose to assassinate him when he was a guest in Iraq on Iraqi soil and he was given a
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file of negotiating diplomacy between Saudi Arabia Iran and other people so he
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was trying to build Bridges between the peoples of the of the region and he was assassinated by the United States of America with a green light given from
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Trump the same thing now happened with a green light given from Biden because no one on earth can make me believe that
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the United States of America that the Israeli entity ordered the mosad to
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conduct this assassination without any knowledge prior knowledge to the United States of America I have a lot of
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friends who were former uh generals and former uh retired army generals from the United States of American Army and they
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particularly told me that they knew for sure because they were part of that system they knew for sure that Israel
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cannot conduct any sort of operation outside its own uh so-called territory
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without giving notice first to the United States of America and added to that while having Consultants from the
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United States Army present in the room when they make that decision he assured
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me that and the issue is uh I completely believe him because I completely believe
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that designist entity is basically a one big United States of America base a
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military base or else how would you describe and explain the open Corridor
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of weapons that was sent and top-notch weapons weapons that were that were not used before they are being tested on us
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on on GA people of Gaza and the people of Lebanon and the people of Yemen and the people of Syria and the people of Iraq and the people of Iran Israel is
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bombing everyone with American weapons how did you explain the the corridor of weapons that have been open since
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October 7 uh while Israel claims to be uh that claims to have the uh most
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ferocious in um they call it the um what do they call
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it the army that is Invincible the Invincible Army uh how do they explain
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uh to their own their communities and to the World by saying that they are the invisible Army but they couldn't last
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for two months without having this corridor open between Washington and Tel Aviv with top-notch weapons and uh you
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had uh Marine vessels you had uh f-16s you had Batteries Now last week that the
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United States of America was sending uh uh new uh forms of Iron Dome and Patriot
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missiles to uh the Zionist entities so they can spread it all along all along the border between Lebanon and occupied
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Palestine uh interceptive missiles to try and stop the heah uh missiles and
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they practically failed because three days ago there was some sort of a barrage of kosha rockets sent from Lebanon in retaliation to a massacre
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that Israel committed uh just two days after the assassination happened they committed a massacre in a small town in
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South lebnon called sham uh shama by the way means candle that's the name of the town and they killed uh five Syrian
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refugees a woman her husband and three kids and they uh killed four Lebanese and they injured eight other Lebanese uh
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civilians all civilians in one neighborhood in that area so hasah responded with a barrage of 50 to 60
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cucha rockets and uh the iron do missile failed because a lot of those missiles
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entered and landed especially in marot and inaria and in other areas of uh
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occupied the actually 15 illegal Colonial settler settlements and I have it on my telegram somewhere I have the
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map with which settlements they were so there you go even with that Corridor being open and even with the the Israeli
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entity being uh the biggest US military base on the planet uh made uh specifically here after World War II to
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continue the Western Empire's hemony over the country to continue to loot our resources and to continue to uh uh
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divide us uh to continue conquering us but I think their plans now are failing
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since we have seen how the aess of resistance had grown and very fast if I may because what we're seeing now we
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didn't see at least 10 years ago and I think that the global war on Syria and
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the 82 uh country Alliance that the United States of America the UK and France LED against uh uh Syria was a
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major catalyst was a big Catalyst to bring about the act of resistance as we see it today because you know Rachel
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when when you have nothing else to lose when you lose everything you lose your life you you lose your opportunities you
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lose family members you lose the light at the end of the tunnel you have nothing else to lose so you fight back
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and this is the story of our region we fight back because we have adapted to losing everything and we don't mind
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making the enemy lose again yeah and I know that when it comes to us foreign policy they act as if
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there will be no blowback and they are seeing now in record time that not only is there blowback to their policies but
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there also is a growing resistance because you have so many people exactly going back to the beginning when we're
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talking about you know children who have been traumatized those children grow up and they remember and they know exactly
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what they've been through and they learn to continue to fight back I'm a living I'm a living living uh evidence for you
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because that's what happened I didn't live I was not born here I didn't live here for the couple the decade and a
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half of my uh life uh but I was here for the most part uh for the wars the
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1990 a bit of the 1992 but the 1996 one we were trapped here we were on vacation
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and we got trapped and the 2006 one and in between the 2001 with the Liberation
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so I lived through that as a child and now as a woman there's no power on this planet that would change my mind when it
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comes to self-determination and the right to have uh Freedom the right to
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Liberty the right to your own resources the right to resist occupation to resist
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those who are look people are very focused on Gaza and it's very important to stay that way but we also need to
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focus on the West Bank every day The zist Entity is destroying three four
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five buildings not only houses detonating them not destroying with ar no no they actually work an entire day
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to uh organize the uh IEDs and completely detonate the house because
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they don't want a family living there anymore because they want to give the land to settlers if that's not a war
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crime I don't know what is and there are kids there and they are watching and they are becoming more aware of what's
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going on because what happened in Janine last July July 2023 what happened in
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Janine if you're remember and you go watch it again the kids who were fighting the the young men fighting in
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the Jan in Janine were kids in 2002 when Zionist Israel entered the camp of Janine and carpet bombed it they grew up
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with that kind of uh violence that lived inside of them the violence that they saw how the occupation was uh bestowing
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upon upon their own people upon their communities there's no house in Janine that has not lost a member the same
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thing with Gaza the same thing with Al so you're talking about a people who are very resilient but it's the because it's
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of the pain that they have suffered you become resilient because you learn from the pain and you know how to handle the
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pain and how to adapt to sudden challenges and then move on with your life because um in any any other part of
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the world you see for example I give you the United States of America for example you have kids who are constantly um
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under supervision and going to psychiatric help because their parents got divorced I'm
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sorry I'm sorry I'm not saying that that that a family unit being disintegrated
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is not a big thing for the child to live through but it doesn't equal an air
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strike on your head it definitely doesn't and um I I only went to a
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psychiatrist fairly uh later on in my life when I figured out that I was
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overreacting to things that are happening that are too unworthy for me to overreact over and I had no answers
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as to why am I overreacting so I had to go and see specialist for that and he explained to me uh that I am always
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trying to uh be faster than the problem I might feel that there's a problem
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happening so I try to run faster than it so I wouldn't fall into it hence causing more problems so I and I understood that
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I understood that he's sending me this because he's saying that this is how you usually run away from an A strike this
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is how you usually run away from a a physical danger and he helped me a lot
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uh along the way to understand this and to get more mature and to get over this
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no barrier of of overreacting over silly stuff and also becoming a mother and having that patience to deal with this
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little small thing that takes over your life and uh you sometimes you sit and and and ask yourself okay what if I'm
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not good enough what if this person grows up to be uh mentally ill because
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of me and what not these questions are actually healthy questions but sometimes you overreact to them because of the
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trauma that you passed through so all of this needs help but but as as a
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community we have not really normalized with the idea of this kind of help and I hope this kind of help reaches the
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Palestinian kids as soon as possible as soon as the day after begins because they need help because I was watching
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today this morning Rachel a video of a six-year-old kid who speaks perfect
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Arabic and you know Arabic is a very very hard language and and his pronunciation is perfect he's such a
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beautiful boy and he's explaining with such eloquence how the Israeli
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soldier uh barged into their house they started shooting they they shot his
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mother who was seven months pregnant in her belly and she bled till she died and then his father who was sleeping he
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awoke and he started running and they started beating him up and then they uh
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fired at him in front of that six yearold he was five he's now turning six instead of in front of that 5-year-old
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kid and he's retelling the story and you can watch his eyes and you see how the
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the vision is moving those slides are moving in front of his eyes and then at the end she asks him okay what do you
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want now and he says a piece of cake I want a c do you have candy I want a piece of cake oh
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wow and it's just you sit there and you're going how is it and I know you
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know we talk about how children are incredibly resilient and they are but
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it's like that you have a part of the world where they're going through things that right I mean Kids In America adults
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in America right we have no concept for what these children are going through
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even when it comes to just not only the atrocities that they're facing in the violence but also being in a position of
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starving and not having any of their basic needs met and you have someone like Israel's Finance Minister F
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smotrich who made a recent comment claiming that oh it would be moral and Justified to starve two million
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Palestinians to death and it's like we're we're sitting here yeah I'm like we're sitting here not only watching a
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genocide being played out right before our eyes and live streamed all across social media but we're we're watching
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the intent right we're watching the rhetoric from the Israeli officials who we've seen since day one since October
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7th their rhetoric has B that they are going to carry out a genocide and we've
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watched them do that and I know that there is certainly a lot at stake here all around and I really appreciate the
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work that you're doing on your end and also the the work that you're doing as a mother to educate your children I know
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it's not easy going through everything that you've been through but really working to help the Next Generation
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because I think that even now I hear this in America where people are saying oh you know why have kids this world is
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going to hell right they have so much pessimism and they're living in America where all of their needs are met and
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they have nothing to really actually be concerned about so I I do appreciate the work that you're doing there and you
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know keeping that hope alive because that's that's all we really have at the end of the day and and I want to thank
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you Rachel for uh highlighting this region and the people of this region and giving me a voice on your platform
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because that means a lot that means that um um even though we're so far away uh
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we are like I think 7,000 miles away even though uh that the distance is there and um uh sometimes people just
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carry on with their lives it's important to uh listen and have compassion and uh
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uh get get those feelings rolling inside of you because it also gives you it it
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sets your priorities uh straight and it helps you evolve as a human being as a
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and as a community even if you're watching from a for so thank you for uh allowing me on your show again and uh I
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really appreciate all the effort that you are doing and uh your voice is Extreme extremely important for the
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people of this region and in hopes for uh peace to come until then we're going
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to be waiting for that retaliation yeah absolutely well I really appreciate you taking the time to
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join me Mara Osman University lecturer journalist and TV show House based in
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bayot thank you so much for your time and insight thank you if anything in
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