Octopus Game Part V – The Hidden History of Palestine
Octopus Game Part V
Press TV (2024)
Film Review
The historical section of this episode traces how the 1979 revolution in Iran led to the Islamization of the of the Palestinian resistance and the founding of Hezbollah in 1982.
The filmmakers also trace the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which unlike the Wahabi movement in Saudi Arabia sought unity between Suni and Sha Islamic factions. Founded in Egypt in 1928,* the Muslim Brotherhood was first banned by Egyptian prime minister Nasser in 1954 after they tried to assassinate him. The filmmakers are highly critical of Nasser, who they claim mocked the hijab. From the film clip below it’s clear that Nasser was not demeaning the hijab itself but the call for his government to make it mandatory. Some Muslim extremists also view Egyptian prime minister Anwawr Sadat as a traitor to Islam for making concessions (in the 1993 Oslo Accord) to Israel.
The Muslim Brotherhood was also instrumental in the formation of Hezbollah and the Amal movement** during Lebanon’s civil war an Iraqi Islamic movement (in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s Ba’aath Party in Iraq in 1959. There’s also an Islamic movement in Yemen known as the Zaydi. While all these group are autonomous and independently run, they get scientific and technical support from Iran (mainly rockets, drones and cyber hacking).
Part V then continues the timeline of the October 7 2023 war:
October 16 – Israeli cabinet minister Didio Assad announce Gaza must be eliminated by the end of the current war to enable Israel to expand into the Gaza strip.October 18 – Biden visits Israel Israel to facilitate a meeting between Jordan, Egypt and Fatah (which runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank). However all three Arab countries withdraw from the meeting after Israel bombs a Gaza City hospital run by the Catholic Church of Akus. his war crime also triggers a wave of global protests in both Islamic and non-Muslim countries.October 19 – UK prime minister Rishi Sunak visits Israel and calls Hamas the “new Nazis” while US warships repel two Yemeni rockets.October 21 – Hamas releases two hostages captured on October 7 with dual Israeli-US nationality.October 24 – drones launched by the Palestinian resistance in Syria and Iraq target US military bases in both countries.October 29 – Israel allows 20 humanitarian aid trucks to enter via Rafah crossing but block the entrance of fuel.*Surprisingly the filmmakers make no mention of the role of British intelligence in founding and supporting the Muslim brotherhood, in a strategy that has been surprisingly effective in undermining Arab unity. See Muslim Brotherhood: London’s Shock
**The Amal Movement is a Lebanese political party and militia affiliated mainly with the Shia community of Lebanon. It was founded by Musa al-Sadr and Hussein el-Husseini in 1974 as the “Movement of the Deprived.”
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