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tv   SPOTLIGHT  PRESSTV  December 13, 2023 10:02pm-10:29pm IRST

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the general assembly is overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution that calls for immediate. sustained humanitarian sefire in gaza. 153 nations voted in favor, which is unprecedented in itself, similar to the un resolution for a cease fire, which again the us was left isolated on the world stage. additionally, sides like the eu are pushing for sanctions against extreme israeli settlers in the occupied territories. that combined with the us impatience with israel who said that israel's genocidal war is contributing to its iceland, which is reflective of a growing split between the two. find out what our guest think.
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you had 153 nations voted in favor and that included also allies like france, and india and also canada. uh, what do you think about this vote where you have so many countries, even us allies that are breaking from the us, when it comes to the us really carnage that's happening uh in the gaza strip? at the, when all is said and done, it's not going to stop the removal of the palestinians from gaza, unfortunately. um, this is, you know, i guess you can appreciate that. growing sentiment
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against israel's genocide, that's what it is, is creating more pr problems for israel, but the reality is this: destroying the hospitals, they are targeting, destroying the schools, targeting and destroying the critical infrastructure for sewage, water, and no food distribution, nobody can live there, that they're making it deliberately unlivable, and world really is sort of figuratively sitting on hands even though it's voting to condemn israel, they're not steps that could be taken such as turkey cutting off the oil supply to israel, not doing that, so these frustrated guess with i'd call the the heated rhetoric which is not in being accompanied by actual action. all right, let me turn to you if i can uh, john phoenix and ask you uh about why the world is watching in that uh um atmosphere where since
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for example article article 99 was uh invoked by the un secretary general of which the us used its video you had about 700 or 800 palestinians that have been murdered since then we just had a report where you had some palestinians that were shot at point blank range and uh you have so many other war crimes that are uh continuing to uh um happen um at rather alarming uh base on at especially after that resolution that the uses power uh, there should be something that should prove that, what, what mechanism is there, what is there that can that can do that? well, it clear by looking at the vote which is 153 countries voted to immediate fire, think number one is the main player on the issue is united state government, especially biden himself, the support of the, will not have a free hands to act in. that
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were the acting gaza without umbrella of united states and that shows from the vote that the whole country is 153 voted immediately for sease fire and stop the geniciding. yet one vote, which is veto, american v, okay, picture, which is means that the united nation as other leaders in the past called reform, it's not really fair that united states will hijack united nation by just overcome 153 votes, so they need number one reform for united nation, and that is one important thing, second thing is that the israelis will not behave like this without knowing that even even the call for the the international court of justice, they should face crime charges, that's not going to happen, because the if you notice the chief executive of the international court of justice, visited the israel side and yet he
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refused to visit gaza and see the crimes and the barbaric attack on the civilians, the killing of women and children, so they know they were not gna be called for an act, and sadly had to be over... with you, the only way to overcome this issue is keep the resistance of the palestinians, you know, we see that in vietnam, we see that in in afghanistan after 30 years the american run away from afghanistan, if you want to rely on institution like united nations, yeah happen, sadly the continuous resistance by the palestinians, it's the only way can stop this massacers, as somebody gna ask, but they are killing civilian. this is actually a covered barbaric act by this if they wanted really to get rid of hammas you should fight hammas noting school and hospitals as your honorable guest just mentioning hospital schools and
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the clinics coming the united nation united nations as a refugee asian sa believe this will be safe having a school with the massive flag over, but but israel had no regard to anything, the only regard the israelis to will respect is the resistance, as you see the language is changed greatly by the israeli t criminals and the so-called defense ministry about the situation in gaza. you know, i'm very tempted to, and i'm going to go ahead and ask you this question larry, where, if you recall during the yemen war where there was a coalition in the beginning, this is a us backed one uh with saudi coalition uh was uh... bombing yemen for nine years, many many analysts that we had not only on this program but else they were cited as saying that if this war uh what if there was a will to stop this war the united do that one phone call because it started in washington um i'm very tempted to ask and i will ask you question when it comes to this one um because we see that uh the us comes
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out making statements like a watch out for civilian casualties make sure you don't target women and children but the same time there's an endless flow of weapons that goes to israel look, the united states is enabling israel to do this, and if it's halted the shipment of the uh ammunition, the bombs, tillary rounds and told israel we're going to cut off your economic aid, the war stop, but that's not going to happen, because the israeli law in the united states under the american israeli political action committee, apac. is so strong that israel enjoys majority support among the democrats and vast majority, overwhelming majority support among republicans, so politically it's just not a feasible option, but but that would stop it a heartbeat, when you when you observe what happened in yemen, once china intervened and
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rokered peace between iran and saudi arabia, that war came to an end, because the entire purpose of that war from the us standpoint, try to weaken iran and saudi, the saudis up to that point had played along, well they stopped playing along once with the help of the vention of china and and i believe russia, and that war stopped in instant, the killing stopped, the same thing could happen in palestine, but it's not going to happen because there is no political will to do so in the united states, despite the protests, some protests and uh there's some vocal uh groups, but they don't have enough power or money. to shift the policy. well, let me see here john, if i if i heard you correctly in the last that you made, you said that they should confide hamas instead of targeting hospitals, king, civilians, women, children, etc. as recent, just few days back, you have the israel military spokesperson come out and said, we're not too sure if how many hamas
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fighters we have actually taken out, if this military does not know how many hamas fighters have taken out, they have taken out, then how how is it that they're continuing with what you said? getting cilians, which is obvious when 70% of them are women and children amongst them, if they don't know whether they're progressing or not when it comes to this war, well a whole tactic. "and this is also not the first time, even the previous war in gaza, the whole tactic not youct as much as you can harm and killing and obviously salvation on the population, because they believe the population is the water for the fish, so get rid of the water, i said this is policy, that if you get rid of the water then you can catch the fish, but the whole obviously plan is to attack the civilians cause really really harm as you seen now for the last 60 days." at through genicide, killing the children, women, destroy everything moves, that's what
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actually force, that's what they believe, to give up, and the other hand, he told the gazans i think 10 days ago, if you be able to war, was the leader of militant hamasing will stop the coming, so they wanted the throw the ball in the court of the civilian who got no power to do anything other than just get and bury their children. so this is an old new game to inffect on the civilian which means that the fighters were able to give up and we see it's not gna happen, it's not gna happen, they keep saying from life to another that we this, we kill that, they have the tsknow, it's a group, you know that on the militant issue i could be normal person at night and day and next hour, i'm a militant with the jeans and there's no objective, there is no plan, political plan or military plan, now
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they talk about obviously floodings with water, where is the ts, so so far we don't know from them how many hamas they killed, 60 days, but we know the the they they killed thous, nearly si children, four and half thous women, you talk about nearly 80, has been slaughtered, and maybe nearly half of this, obviously children, they destroy the 65% been destroyed, they will destroy the whole strip hoping that the people will move out and people saying now we want to die here, they thought with this intense act will run to egypt run to the sea, it's not gna happen, but as i said again and again, if they aim to kill hamas and hamas, they should come man to man and fight. must not go on the sky with 16 and bumbing children midnight,
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this is a really barbaric act, well uh from there to lary johnson to how the us president joe biden um is uh warning israel that it's going to become isolated on the international uh scene um uh and it's been described as biden delivering a rebuke to if it doesn't watch for the scale of civilian casualties, mean that's a mouthful but how true is it? in terms of the way that this is described, a rebuke from biden, i mean uh was isolated at this point numbers of palestinians that have been uh murdered speak for themselves. it's meaningless, it means nothing. nahu doesn't care. the only thing that would capture the attention of netanyahu and israelies is if joe biden instead of making some idle threat, some idol criticism like this, if he turned around and said, okay, calling a halt to all us military flights to israel effective immediately, and we're going to suspend
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foreign assistance to israel effective immediately. i would get nahu's attention, he wouldn't even care, the reality is, yeah, israel, israel is more isolated now than it has been any time in its history and diplomatically, and yet it doesn't care, it's going to pursue this, and its murderous policy against the palestinians without any regard for their lives and this is this is the zionist vision and they are pursuing it ruthlessly and they're going to continue to do it until the palestinians are forced out of gazah so it's not remains to be seen how long hamos can continue fighting they're inflicting on the israeli occupation force but israel time its side and as long as it is not facing any kind of economic consequences
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for its actions, it's going to continue doing it. all right, so john, this move by the eu, making announcement with the eu foreign policy chief josephl, that the eu is mulling sanctions against what they have described as these israel settlers in occupied west bank for the violence that they're exercising on them, they're very alarmed, the eu is very alarmed that... "these settlers are exercising violence, i'm not too sure what to make of it when they don't have to look that far to see and get alarmed by the car that's taking place in the gaza strip, so why would they come out and make this st?" in terms of sanctions and not making more of a big deal about what's going on with the palestinians they're getting murdered again uh i want to say that the eu aware of the the seller activities in west bank not today nearly 30 years they receiving calls and receiving reports of the slar attack on the civilians
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in west bank last year they attacked the city or small town actually ara the b the houses, the cars, they killed people, they injury hundreds of people and actually was supervised by the israel army, because seen an advert actually in hebrew telling them when to come, which day and where to gather, i still have that, european union aware of that, okay, joseph went to to visit the border of israel with gaza, and he was taking tour by the officials, they show him that what happened? hamas, we will not in there to think to go to the palestinian side, and when he was asked on al-jazera about the what happened, he was condemning hamas and when he was asked what about the killing of the pastinians, he said, i'm not an international lawyer, i don't know, so he is one hand qualified international lawyer to judge at the palestiny committing by the attack on the
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seventh of the of october committing crime according to the international law. come to the question about the palestinian been suffering and kill he said i'm not international loyal soy of the west they've been watching this crimes for nearly nearly 30 years since endingment in west bank never stopped you know signing and not to do that the has been actually cutting trees two th years old just chop them the farmers how they now suddenly suddenly they w up one morning and oh this is wrong we gna actually stop this guys coming to our countries this is not the action which you talk to take the action you take is the dismentle of the settlement you know against the international law and occupied in west bank so this is just a pr and regard to your just very quick comment
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regards to your comment about the question about the the biden you toward the civilians, he was told in the beginning of the war how many thousand people dying and he said no, i don't believe a palestinian story, i don't believe the figure is correct, now suddenly for election coming soon, we have election coming soon in the state, pressure by the americans, which is i salute the hundreds and thousands of of the americans went on the street calling for se fire, americans the the the regime in the state, people would work in the st and say enough is enough massacring to have uh the uh political advantages that biden sees instead of caring for the lives of palestinians, but their messages that biden is receiving from what we understand that i'm sure you're also well aware of terms of diplomats, american diplomats in west asia,
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middle east some call it, are sending alarm and cables to biden saying quote israel's military campaign is making the us lose. the arab public for generation or we quote again uh us losing badly uh when it comes to the uh uh battle based us support for israel is moral culpability and works you said israel is isolated on international stage the us by some accounts may have been isolated not as much as the israel but this is uh really put that into a high gear has it? yeah no i mean look the position of the united states is an international power. um is eroding, it is still a powerful country and uh the so-called international rules-based order is simply you know the united states gets to make up the rules and apply arbitrarily as it sees fit uh that is now being challenged, it's being actively challenged, so you see the emergence of bricks and within this emergence of bricks
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seen a reduction in us authority and influence in the middle east, but "that is not going to save the palestinians, they are headed towards being extinguished in gaza, and i want to reemphasize, the only thing that's going to stop that is tangible action by countries that control the first strings, the oil, things that israel needs and nothing else to try to impose a blockade on it, since you since you mentioned oil, my last question goes to you, john phoenix, a front that is. did not expect for it to reach the stage that it seems to be going uh to, and that is the front with yemen, the antar movement and the yemani army have targeted vessels that are either originated. from israel affiliated with israel or anything that has to deal with israel, any vessel and anchor, do you think that that will prove to be effective? in one minute please or last? yes, this is also
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proof that your guest is completely right, the minute the israelis feel that there is oil, there is no gas, no trade with the outside world be threating the way our many brothers actually acting on the you see, i think this is very... very effective tool in other to pressure the israeli very well, thank you so much, we do appreciate it, let me uh thank our guest larry johnson formerci analist from badmington florida, thank you for comments and john phoenix, thank you, journalists and international relations expert from london, thank you to you both, with that we come to an end for this edition the spot light from the team, this goodbye.
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