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tv   SPOTLIGHT  PRESSTV  December 8, 2023 2:02am-2:29am IRST

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there's an genocide that is taking place in the gaza strip by the israel regime forces 17 deaths and counting. "there's also ethnic cleansing that is placed in the occupied palestinian territories of the west bank, but the world is falling flat, not able to prevent either, the secretary general has invoked article 99 to see if that can really support these fire, although not much hope is spent on that, the us has rejected the latest financial aid package, which would have included $15 billion in aid for israel, all the us presidents has made sure that israel has unfettered access to us military equipment. in this program we will look at this really un' plot and where this war is
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heading to, first let me introduce our guests, author and west asia expert joins us belfast, also joining us is a political commentator who is from chicago, welcome to you both, stop shot the first start with you, of um, i have, i have to start with this because this is truly shocking, the latest count now at 17,177 in terms of the number of people that have been uh massacred and murdered in the gaza strip, 350 were killed in the past 24 hours as the bombardments have continued, so we're looking a situation where if anybody had doub that genocide is really taking place, i think that is that is now sinking in not to mention the fact that you have their estimates vary 10 to 1500 that are under the rubble which zoom dead and 60, who are
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injured, who can't get the medical treatment that they deserve, and then the who to come out and say, the number of number of people who are going to die from diseases is going to be more than the actual death tool, yeah, yeah, it's, if you look at the campaign itself is designed in a very evil and wicked way, which is designed mainly to while they are genociding people, killing... people to crush most of them and cram them in the very south of gaza after they created this uh zoning map which is with the blocks get over 600 blocks in a telling the people you have this is your safe area if your block eight go a to block 25 and they keep moving the people on that way forcing them to think it's their own safe escape since what we witnessed even today and some i'll give you shelters which
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these shelters were designated by united nation and the coordinate were giving to this entity invading forces as this is zones will be safe, they bt snipers today this morning around area close to the indonesian hospital where there is a shelter in there and they start killing every individual coming or getting in or out so the they they target this this code there is around 8000 people inside and they were sending it's you know sos or anybody help them and they been picked one by one by lots. there is massacer this morning published a video about the family was killed at in of that shelter. i share myself, but of course facebook straight away goes against their own community policy and stuff like that. you're not, they they have they want to silence anything to to mention there is massacres of civilians committed by invading force. yesterday the united nation itself. invoked article 99 of the un charter
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which is not used for lightly and wasn't used for decades, he is informing the security council, there is a global danger from the zin entity and the war brutal war of genocide is committing in gaza, he r the bell in a big time, yeah as well the honor commissioner general of the philip lazarini was international community. and saying there's absolutely no safe place left in in gaza, the population is in gaza and there is not un shelter or any designated area by the zin themselves as according to him, well let's talk about that article 99 uh in terms of uh the uh reaction that came from israel, if i may ask you that where israel has come out and said that gutarish himself and then the invokement of article 99 um creates a a
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threat to world peace, israel leveling that against, what do you think? yeah, i think it's certainly interesting, mean since the the start of the aggression on the strip, i believe the zin envoy has asked gutierez to actually resign because of just the the bombing campaign that we've been seeing on the gaza strip, but i also do want to kind of recognize here that there have been over 65 um resolutions passed by the un that condemn israel for this and that or ask israel to restrain itself uh or more or less just basically slap israel on the wrist is essentially what's happening so over 65 resolutions every single one of them israel has violated so the un can come in and the unsc uh can come and say, hey israel, stop doing that, and sure, maybe they'll stop for a brief period of time, but the nature of israel will command it to continue its horrific war crimes over and over again, that's just the fact, that's what we've been looking at since 1940, and and something to consider here as well, right, a cease fire,
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we can call it ceire, we can call it, a true or whatever, a cease fire to the israelies is basically them admitting defeat, because from day one there strategic objectives included: the elimination of the palestinian resistance, mainly hamas. now when comes in and asks israel to not do that, what it's basically telling israel in the eyes of the zionis is they're asking us to lose. that's just the way they view it. now again, the the cease fire isn't even a real cease fire because as you and i know we've been in in the same room multiple times, the israeli occupation is the violence, everything that we see that happens to to zin is entity. is a response to the occupation, and so when you ask israel to you, acknowledge sease fire, uh, never mind that you're asking them in their eyes to lose, what you're basically saying is let's just stop her now, let's not address the fact that the real crime in the room here is the occupation of the palestinian land, that the real crime is the
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occupation of the palestinian people, uh, the call for a cease fire you know is going to save lives, no doubt 100%, but the violence remains, the threats and strip. whether that's in west bank, whether that's to to the zionist, right? for example, you have syria which whenever israel decides going to constantly bomb, you have lebanon and so on and so forth. indeed, well, that's the million dollar question as to how to get to this end conflict, which should be pretty straightforward in terms of the way that israel has been categorized even by the un and classified by the un as an apart regime. um, let's look at the way that advances have made or not a few by the... since fighters uh we had al come routes and talk about how there were um a little over 24 or 25 military vehicles uh that were destroyed um you have over 80 regime forces that have been killed and uh there was one particular incident yesterday that we reported that we was widely reported we were one of them where in one
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instant uh 70 israelers 60 amsali regime forces were actually taken out we don't hear much about israel and its uh advancement towards the ultimate goal of eradicating hamas. uh, what what's going on there? how would you describe the advancements or the failures or successes on either side? netan yaho told the israeli media, the zin public, they they are surrounding senar's house, the hamas leader in khan, and this has been maybe over 15 hours now this kind of, why didn't they arrest him with the big leaders of hamas the claiming they? brading what doing exactly to show a sign of victory which is pathetic earlier today the euro made moneting body said in a statement which will circulated they documented storming of incubation of many shelters in gaza and arresting lots of
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people with among them doctors, journalists academics and all people and i want to add to that they were arresting everybody of 15 and they stribing them from their... closed and they blindfold them and they have hand them and they exterminate and execute some, they take some naked nearly to unknown places, this to b to their own thirsty blood thirsty population, we got hammas fighters, they going into shelters, safe areas, they designated themselves, united nation knows that, talked about that, they killing a lot of people aressing lot of people, telling their own people even in in the at the beginning when they were pushing people from the... of gaza to the south we witnessed rasheed street in gaza how many was killed and there is this one a bike was filming and and crying for help and the same thing road between the south and north and south they were stubbing the displaced force displaced
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people and picking their sons they took the head doctor of the shifa hospital and over 60 personals of hospital itself as hostages and and so they want to lie to their own people, they they put, they arrested hamas while on the ground, they focusing on the battle, he's spoke about it ly today, hannunis there is... huge gathering from design machinery war machines and brigades to fight the battle of because this is the decisive battle xanunis connunis city always is the final any fight between the palestinians resistance and the zin entity and always managed khan units to direct a massive above to the zin entity the casual is starting mounting up in pililing up in today and yesterday and they conducted unbelievable campaign of destruction and carpet bombardment yesterday and the day
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before. all right, i'd like to get your reaction to something, thank you for the shot. i'd like to understand from you uh, this uh, something that's not really widely reported on or or watched or viewed or or even broadcast, and that is a visit by the israel benjamin netanyahu to the northern part of the gaza trip, where he went there and he lifted either a piece of rock. or something or another that i forget whether it was a piece of rock or the uh soil there and said there's going to be future settlements that's going to be in this area i'm wondering what what is the goal of the strip when it comes to israel what does we know it wants to eradicate hamas uh which is another st we can get to but what what are they plan to do they want the palestinians based on what said the corner of the palestinians in southern part the gaza ship it looks like they push them into raffa and it seems like they're trying to push them out to egypt but what do they want to do with gaza strip? "do you think that this will go against what the us has said, where they said, no, there will be no force displacement of palestinians, or is the
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us just putting out a lie out there? uh, i'd say the united states is 100% lying, you know, to kind of keep uh liberal uh kind of um voter base at bay, of course they're going to say that we don't support ethnic cleansing, but what we see on the ground is 100% ethnic cleansing from day one, day one uh with bombings of the strip, the israeli regime told the palestinians there, hey, evacuate the north, they were evacuating the north, they were bombing the main roads, the the humanitarian corridors is what they called it, they were bombing them there, they were bombing, they're they're pushing them into the south and then bombing the locations too, we see very clearly that they're not interested in having the palestinians stay, and even after shortly after elon must uh infamous visit, i'm going to call it to israel to talk to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, what did they say that they have an interest in rebuilding the gaza strip, they didn't say for who... they just said that they have an interest in rebuilding it, and i think with this, this clear propaganda
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campaign that we see with netanyahu here, is that he is hinting towards all the settlers that are currently looking at netanyahu and seeing a weak leader that he intends to finally solve uh, what he would refer to as a palestinian problem, that he wants to take this all the way and not just eliminate hamas, but eliminate the palestinian people there, be it through ultra violence by committing a genocide or through ethnic cleansing. these are the two options that on his table and he's and he's going to exhaust both of them uh to create a situation where there theip as it currently stands becomes unlivable and so israel can say is well this place is unlivable it presents a security to us we're going to start cleaning this place up and taking the land for ourself while pushing that this has been clear since day one and i think they're going to fail at this i think the world is watching i think they're overplaying their hand here it's going to become evidently clear uh to the people who have not yet woken up uh that this has been the plan since day one, this has been the plan since 1948 and they want to use this
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opportunity to carry it out, but they're losing, so they're resorting to these uh these propaganda campaigns, these propaganda photo shoots, they're resorting to this horrific genocide of the palestinian people, they're resorting to ethnic cleansing, and then last but not least they're resorting to as they always do, painting themselves as victims and saying boohoo, look at me, this is the awful thing that's been done to me, deserve this land, what about the us role when it comes? this i said the fact that the kamala harris vp said we're definitely not going to withdraw boundaries, borders, we're not going to have palestinians being displaced. iran by the way has come out said the us should have no role in deciding the palestinians, nevertheless, where do you see the us in terms of uh this aspect of it, the future of what the gaza strip will entail? you see gaza exposed the weakness, the massive weakness in the united states of america's uh her journey in the region with the... allah as well when united states america came to the ground fighting alongside
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with the the entity with the british you hovering over the size of gaza and spying on the gazas in the name of they are trying to locate prisoners and hostages as well and as well the french back up the german the italians all of the west at the minute gaza expos how fragile was that. for them and they want to shore up and strengthen the watch dog in the region who protect the hegem of the united states and keep the arabs and west asia subses to them controlled by them so all of this now the given design entity they say weeks to finish this job by christmas so as he thanksgiving he gave some sort of truth for humanitarian purposes now you want to give something similar around the christmas so they can have a christmas and peace this is this disgusting kind of attitude but at
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the same time thes of america watching today like if you can see but in yesterday was in the region today presid iran in moscow, the chinese issuing statements last couple of days, so nobody in the international community trust the region to be controlled, humanized or even a broker between the palestinians or the arabs at one side and entity, since it's all exposed the the the main the main ones which is fighting the palestinian genociding the palestinian issuing the orders is united states of america with the western imperialism. "this is obvious now, now gaza exposed that, now gaza saying the the americans in there, they want to push the palestinians out of gaza as a quick as possible and as many as they can, that's why the they cram them in rafa, that's why there is manufacturing hunger epic size kind of starvation and pandemic as well,
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there is water, no medicine, there is nearly million a halfram there, so by doing that they want them to force them in egypt." create chaos between the egyptians and the palestins because that will threaten the national security of egypt, so the united states america wanted out of that chaos building the rebel so it can rebuild its own project which is a line landline india ha against the the chinese project which is the silk route so is at the center of this global global struggle but the chinese and the americans and iran as well they have to push more now to stop the states of america. well uh the that are doing push, i think comes in one form um under one hand when that's the answer of fighters um who are actually very courageously uh coming out and saying we're targeting you, we're targeting anybody that's affiliated with you and the bible man up straight and the guess and they are not kidding about that uh on the one hand on the other hand you have the obviously the front
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which is still simmering though contained uh you think that this war will if israel continues with what it's doing uh either elevate the situation with those two fronts to a higher level or have other players to the picture? i think that just depends on what resistance on the palestinian front looks like uh both of these variables um play crucial role in dismantle the israeli regime as we see it right now but i think that's ultimately led with leadership of the palestinians i don't think unless of course israel escalates its own uh its own behalf to you know ignite war with uh which would foolish its part because as we both know history, they've lost them multiple times, or if it decides to ignite a war with yemen, which is unprecedented, i don't see uh those two characters or those two variables uh operating its own uh to major escalatory level. um now what remains on the trade route uh that's really interesting to me because as far as trade route goes mean unz themselves
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said as long as the aggression does that continues you can't use these waters and now the trade routes are are impacting. israel to the two of million take them just few days is now added 18 days uh to their ships to go around africa and into asia, i think it would be in israel's best interest especially as it's you know spending millions and millions of dollar a day, i think the last time we checked it was what was a 50 million uh that number is only going up as more sat leave israel as a workforce diminishes as their trade route suffer, i don't think it would be in the design best intention is escalate any further especially with those two um now on their... would they continue that escalation, would continue that escalation, would uh continue that escalation? uh, that is yet, but i would doub it as they mainly work in locks up in solidarity with the palestinian people. um, historically, the the response that has been has created with the zinast state has been a response. the zinas invaded lebanon so hasb responded, it's never been
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something, as just as with the palestinians, the only reason why things escalate in the in the region, the only reason why violence in the region is because of the israeli entity, they are the cause, everything else is the effect as well as the effect is the effect, the palest resistance is the effect. all right, in conclusion, just minutes ago has issued a warning against of escalation and he said israel must be differently in gaza, it's a threat and this comes civilian was killed in the lebanon border, where do you think that's going to go? this is just in the past, this threat issued threatened libanon and... like gaza or khanunis, his language he used, he is just this man risking the security of the region, risking the security of his own people, in the future of the z. in the region just to survive, because this man once this war ends and stops, this man going to be taken for criminal charges and for failure of
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protecting this entity, failing as captain of a ship to steer the ship away from trouble, he landing it in a middle of a massive volcano, that's what is afraid, he's afraid for himself, he doesn't care about anything else, okay, thank you very much, southern west from belfast, shib, thank you so much commentator from chicago with that we come to end for this edition of spotlight from the team, it's goodbye.
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and officials say israel has dropped 52,ous tons of explosives on gaza as a regime presses ahead with this genocidal war. president raise says or sams the west was supporting israel's genocide against palestinian people in the gaza strip. and palestine's un ambassador criticized the international criminal court for failing to prosecute israeli officials over the regime's barbaric aggression against gaza.
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