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Let's bring in Marwan Bishara who is Alazer's senior political analyst joining us live from London. Marwan, you heard that last voice there from Hebrron saying he doesn't expect much change. Do you think he's right? You know, tonight uh my heart does go out to Hon. Uh, I'm not sure if our viewers around the world are prevy to the latest from the city, but 5,000 Palestinians have been forced out of their homes. According to a report from Israel today, 5,000 people have been forced out of their homes. Neighborhoods, shops, uh, businesses have been uh, bulldozed in Hon. Uh the city is basically under siege and the military calls it an operation but in fact it's an offensive.
It's a military offensive. The Israelis are ravaging Hebrron as they did Janine and Nablus and Tularim and Hwara and certainly Gaza and so on so forth. So, as the election goes on and as we talk about the arithmetic of forming a new government, the Palestinians are living in under the most horrendous conditions possible in all of the occupied territories. Marwan, you recently published a book called 12 Days That Shook the Middle East: Origins of a Genocide. And I actually see it there in the bookshelf there behind you. I mean, in this book, you actually examined the first 12 days
after the October the 7th attacks, and you argue that there was already sort of a blueprint in place for this genocide. So, what does that mean for this election and what it means for Gaza? I mean, is that same blueprint going to remain in force no matter who becomes the next prime minister? That is the most important question um facing us uh as we speak about the election results because the idea of a continuation of more of the same type of fanatics and fascists ruling in Israel and hence dominating and launching wars of the type that we saw in Gaza or against Iran and Lebanon and so on so forth is going to be no less than catastrophic.
that same mindset uh that took us to a genocidal war that was basically as you said decided on those first 12 days of the war remains the same. In fact, Netanyahu feels uh a bit vindicated, if you will, by the fact that he just got a majority of Jewish votes despite his genocidal war, despite his failure on October 7, despite the fact he's been indicted on corruption charges in Israel, despite the fact that he's been indicted on war crimes at the Hague. So, he feels reindigated and he feels that he gets the support of the American president. And hence my fear is that he's going to be so vengeful if he gets his hands on the premiership once again.
We're going to see more of the kind of Gazas that we've seen before. I term it no less than apocalyptical. And that's why that's precisely why there is an opportunity today in Israel and that's the other side of the results in Israel that there is a camp made of almost 50 uh opposition figures on the Jewish side and almost 20 uh parliamentarians on the Palestinian side. They make up something like 70, you know, 60 plus seats in parliament. They could change the speaker of the parliament tomorrow. They could put restrictions on Netanyahu tomorrow. And they could eventually form a government of some sort that will block Netanyahu and that would speed up his uh legal trials
and he should up should end up in prison rather than in the prime minister office waging another war. Of course, blocking Netanyahu is one thing, but actually changing policies is a whole different ballgame, right? Because I mean, according to these latest uh estimates that we have now, we've we're almost at 90% of the votes counted, uh the ArabIsraeli parties have 19 seats in the Knesset. Will they be able to make any kind of real difference in Israel's strategy towards Gaza for example here in the new parliament? There's absolutely no doubt per that Eisenhot has a dark past uh with his military record. We've heard about that tonight and yesterday. A lot of your guests has spoken about him being the
architect of the Daha doctrine whereby disproportionate use of force was used against civilians in Lebanon. We've seen that of course in Gaza when Eisenhot was member of the war cabinet. We've seen that before when he was chief of staff of the army u basically ordering the army to shoot at largely peaceful Palestinians injuring more than 35,000 uh civilians. So he does certainly have a dark past today. He says that uh you know not exactly that he's a changed man but he does not approve of Netanyahu's policies uh mostly domestically but also in terms of Netanyahu's uh adventures against Iran in terms of Netanyahu's uh sponsoring of terrorism by those uh rogue settle set settlers in the West
Bank. He calls it in fact Jewish terrorism. So I think perhaps and maybe I'm being overly optimistic, let's call it hopeful, that he can see a way that this is a chance to put an end to the slide towards fascism in Israel that he could come together in some form of an agreement with the Arab parties allowing him to form a government and push Netanyahu out of the way in that coalition of fanatic religious fascists in order for Israel to have a new beginning with the Palestinians starting by, you know, respecting the Supreme Court in the country, spot respecting the laws of the country and working together in tandem with the Palestinian citizens in Israel that came out in droves to prove that they are and they do make up 1/5if of
the population. And today, if they go into a coalition of some sort, they will make up 40% of that coalition. This is the kind of a national unity, if you will. if you must call it that way, government that Israel needs, not one between fascists and fanatics. It's one between Palestinians and Israelis or at least Israelis with the support of the Palestinians from the outside. Well, once again, they can push Netanyahu out, put an end to the fanaticism and fascism on the part of the Bingve and the Smort and others. We've seen what they've done. Torturing prisoners, banning the harvest of olives. Who the hell bans harvesting olives but those fanatics that are roaming uh you know
outlaws in the occupied territories and have committed genocide in Gaza. Marwan Bashara Alazerus, senior political analyst joining us live from London. Marwan, thank you as always.
