hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm... hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. well, as the zionist regime continues its genocide, the united states promises it more weapons and its continued support. this was said by the secretary of defense lloyd austin, who is in the israeli entity and meeting with the war cabinet, but as the american zianis genocide continues, so does the resistance inside of the occupied palestinian territories and beyond, i'd like to welcome my guest. to this program to help

me look at all of this. anthony h, professor of globalization, leth bridge university, out of leth bridge, and gilbert doctor, independent international affairs analysts out of brussels. thank you both for being with me. well, let me start this off uh with anthony. why do you think austin has gone to? again at this time, well who can really know, i'm sure there's so much going on underneath the radar, but uh, what we see is a full-fledged assurance that the us is behind this assault on gaza, that the weaponry will continue, that the link between these two countries, which are almost now, merged

country und under a higher politic called zionism, that this will continue, and of course he wants to get some kind of arab unity to fight the, let's call them yemanies, not the hooutis anymore, they do control a country called yemen, and of all the arab countries, they are the most courageous, they are the most unstinting in showing support uh and and of course this is going to embarrass other uh arab countries that aren't showing anywhere that level of commitment uh putting lives on the line to uh save uh the menessed people in the uh gaza strip so we can talk about uh all kinds of underpinnings and context that's my reading of uh of it initially okay well gilbert and based on what's the americans are saying and doing,

isn't this genocide as american as it is israeli? well, yes, it certainly is, and the united states has lost face internationally, the the utter hypocrisy of everything the united states has said about the russian ukraine war being so horrible and so murderous, that has all been wiped away by a different order of. magnitude of violence, destruction and and ethnic cleansing that of of israel has been practicing with american support ever since october 7th, so that that is one thing, the other thing to mention is that within the united states, the complicity and the act of participation actually of of united states military in in support of israel's devastating activities in gaza, that is... something that has affected the broad

of public and particularly young people, how long this can go on really depends on factors outside of the region, it depends on the political um determinations within washington whether biden's plans to be reelected next year are being totally destroyed by the by the disaffection of young people and young democrats. with respect to to this this war, and so america is very big factor in the war's possible continuation or ending, whatever, whatever, the defense minister austin says, and the the there is more to it than meets the eye, if this israeli offensive stops in his tracks, it also could be caused by something that's happened in the...

several days, which is a minor thing one would think, but considering the scale of of devastation and death that israel has rought, the outrage in the neighboring countries and the... shock that is felt by even in the least tenderhearted countries of the west when they watch on bbc or cnn or what or euro news what israel is perpetrating in in gaza, there is shock and dismay, but all of these big picture issues may be um maybe nothing compared to what is happening or may yet happen within israel over the the murder of the three hostages who would who had somehow been freed, somehow come come to come home they thought and were murdered by by israeli army, that has had very big effect on the israeli public, it is proven the utter

falseness of mr. netanyatu's government when it declares that that releasing the hostages is a priority, and uh i might add, it has a different dimension. to the israeli activities, yes, this, they are very regretful, they slaughter their own, um, but is still more important that they fired on people who had raised the white flag, right, and that tells you something about the nature of this government, about the nature of the war ministry and the senior military of israel, indeed, it does, stay with me gilbert, let me get anthony back in on this discussion, well, anthony, the zinis released footage claiming that it had found. major tunnel of the resistance, however the resistance said that they were too late with their discovery because that particular tunnel was the one used on october the 7th for the al-a flood operation, and it's a very limited tunnel. um, your thoughts on this overall, because - on the one hand they're

trying to show that they have accomplished something. on the other hand, one could ask, well, first of all, why would a people need tunnels to be begin with unless they're imprisoned. these tunnels are something to behold. i remind myself that hochimin, the north vietnamese had tunnels, how did they withstand that enormous bombardment, that carpet bombing? they had tunnels, and so gaza, the hamas has dug tunnels. wonder what the history of that digging is. uh and this is very strong card, this uh changes everything really, and i think the uh israelis are sort of demonstrating, they really don't know what's going on uh, and of course the question now of uh the tunnels possibly drowning uh the hostages, uh hamas

has reported that 60 of them have been killed already uh mostly in the bombardment uh now this question of the united states and what is going on in the united states, think of the reality that in these forthcoming elections, so say biden loses, and he will lose lots of support, but who are the contenders? the contender is trump who is, tries to exceed all others in pledging allegiance to israel and delivering israel what it would like in terms of capital recognition, the capital, national capital or the goland heights and number three is uh robert f kennedy jr. who uh represents major alternative for the american voters, he's now going independent, but even he has this uh

overwhelming commitment that he makes very clear to israel, right or wrong, whatever, uh, this has to underline for the us public that their government is not really democratic government when it comes to this issue, there are no major options being presented, now we have three candidates all the same, so this signals to uh people uh that this zionist power is out of control, that it dominates the uh opposition parties or the alternative parties and uh and and and as far as uh hoping for elections, elections we know are corrupt and uh they used covid as means to throw the last election and mail in ballots and all and why would we expect this coming election to be any better? now this uh demonstration of what the israeli military is

all about? i think this firing at three israeli do we call them hostages? obviously they were freeed, they'd escaped whatever, but there they were... taking their clothes off trying to demonstrate the have no weapons with the white flag and they're shot by the idf and that is demonstration not only. for israeli public opinion, but for the world that this is israel fighting force, which is 100% back by the united states, created, united states really created israel, britain created israel as a outpost, as a colonial outpost for the west with the sudan canal, and then in 19 after world war ii, the us took over this colonial project and... the the founding of israel in 1948 began a

genocide which is continuing now, which is culminating now, so things are emerging that show the poverty of anything approaching the rule of law in the world right now, how deeply depraved our society as a whole, our global society has become, yes indeed, well gilbert, what about the... see the resistance, the palestinian resistance, um, it is true that israel is definitely uh killing a lot of kids, lot of women, lot of civilians in general, but they are really not crushing the resistance as that was their goal when going into that, i want to look at this and that even still uh the they are able, the resistance is still able to send rockets to the occupied palestinian territories, i want to look at. side of things and how is that, how are they able to do that with all of the firep that the

israeli regime has admirable, but let's not get confused about who is who and what is what, the that they have, that hamas has stayed this far and has resisted and found ways escape the the the awful onslot of israel, that's very very good, however that is not a victory, the the damage they have done to the id. is appears to be rather pottry compared to the damage that israel has done to the to the gaza palestinians, 20 thousand people dead, that is not offset by by a missile here and there that may have succeeded in in getting through the iron dome and striking somewhere other on on empty street in israel, that is not war, that is simply an expression of of anger, and it is, it's not going... to resolve the conflict by by hamos having a few missiles to fire here

and there. the question is, what else is the is the greater community in the middle east prepared or able to do? and as we see, aside from lot of jaw boning and and pasturing, they haven't done much. iran made remarkable and very important proposal to impose an oil embargo on israel, and even that did not pass in open. and so the only economic the economic war on israel has been has been initiated in the last few days or weeks precisely by the hootis or yemen in the in their missile strikes on container ships and in their boarding parties on other ships passing to the red sea that is to this point the most effective. of getting the attention the world and and bringing to the attention the world, the economic cost that this war

may bring, not just to the neighborhood, but to the whole world, if it doesn't turn into a regional and global kinetic war. well, anthony, let's talk about the yemenis, because actually today they stopped two more ships headed to the regime, yemeny military spokesman said if gaza does not receive the food and medicine, it needs all ships in the red sea. bound for israeli ports, regardless their nationality, will become a target for our armed forces. i like to hear your thoughts about this, and uh, the effectiveness of not or not of what they're doing. well, the yeminies uh stood up to huge battering uh, where the projectile at the front was saudi arabia, but saudi arabia of course, was backed up with uh us weapons, um, "this group within yemen called the hutis, we were referring to them as the hootis, they

have prevailed, and to my way of thinking, they have demonstrated uh, right up to this point a tremendous um commitment and determination to stand up against something intolerable, and it's really kind of interesting that the whole world, the only real example we have of a..." country of a polity that will go beyond words and pronouncements and declarations and votes that will actually take a stand are the uh yeamenis in this. situation and so i cannot help but look at that as heroic statement, heroic stand that should send a signal now that uh, we we are going deep now into this conflict, it seemed that with the firing on the three young palestinian, three, three young israeli men, had the white flag up,

that there was a moment there that the domestic. on netanyahu that it seemed it was possible there would be some kind of uh ceasefire, some kind of truth, something to deal with the larger picture and establish a procedure, but with lloyd austin coming in in the way that he did a full fledged salesman for the military industrial complex, having worked for all these arms agencies which are making a killing on this, and he acts essentially like somebody got in the job by affirmative action, he's really done nothing to demonstrate much thoughtfulness or leadership, and he's acted true to form as delivery boy to the us uh uh israeli coalition to simply say, continue on, it's all right with us, we're we're with you. uh,

you were our project, israel was our military outpost in the... middle east, you still fulfill that function, we're behind you. uh, biden um is uh, all this talk about the political trouble he's in, but there's no alternative in the whole us system to vote for anything other than this uh complete backing of the most extreme israeli government we've ever seen. this is the most awesome, terrible spec spectacle i've seen in my lifetime of kind of billboard genocide taking place with al-jazera and press tv covering the nitty gritties of it, it's a it's amazing, i don't think the people in the power uh vacuum, in the little bubble of power can understand how throughout the world, this is a symbol of the de depth of the total, monstrous consciousness of those

who are so used to conducting power of life and death over the human population. that somehow or other this is going to be expressed and it's not going to find some expression in the united nations or it's got to be in the streets, it's got to be coalition building like we've never seen before a global basis, and it's not always going to be polite. all right, stay with me. well, gilbert, uh, continue to look at the resistance in general, i want to look now at hezbollah, which started its attacks one day after the beginning of the al-axa flood offensive, you're a... assessment of what hezbollah is doing because they have opened up of course another front uh the israelis have to deal with the northern side of this and of course the uh settler colonias who were near that border had to be evacuated um how costly do you think this is for the israelis this other front with hezbullah?

well moment ago we speak about the hoodis who in western press are all described as rebels ' my fellow panelist has very correctly equated hoodies with yemen as a state, so that's the same thing comes up with heizballah, it is presented as wild radicals, however the the like hamas also within within palestine, this the the leaders of these various movements have been some very sophisticated people, and so it is with with hesbollah and they're doing their calculations and they was estimated that... start of of the conflict back in the early days of october, that hesbolah has an arsenal of 100,00 missiles or more, capable of overwhelming the iron dome and and doing massive destruction in israel, however that would come at the cost of massive destruction to lebanon, and that is pretty obvious, so they have the leaders in hezbulah have made

the point that we can we can do some serious damage. uh, if we really want to to israeli forces, they have pinned down perhaps a quarter of the israeli army in the north uh towards the border, they have forced the evacuation of perhaps 50 thousand israeli settlers who were in residences uh near the border with lebanon, but who are um within reach, easy reach of of hezbollah artillery, not to mention missiles, so um, they have made point, but they have not gone too far, "they have not gone beyond a certain red line, which would threaten a full-blown war with israel, which they don't want, because it's going to be very costly war, a costly war in lives and material. and better avoid it, but that is true of of iran as well, it's true of all of the middle east players, nobody uh wants this to become regional war,

nobody wants an escalation, and so all the actors are proceeding very cautiously. one thing to say on behalf of this caution is that if for example, the neighbors or iran had gone in at once and responded to the devastation, which israel was already in the first days of its offensive reaking in in in gaza, then it would not have been clear to the world at large, what the true face of the israeli military is, and their ambitions of ethnic cleansing, that would not have been clear, that was perfectly clear, if this should rise, it should, it should escalate to original war, the the powers in the world, the world public opinion is well informed of what the basic issues are and who is who? "and that is something that only could have come about with a certain amount of indulgence and patience. we all are horrified, the 20,000 palestinians have lost their lives, and that still leaves 2 million

280 thousand palestinians who have not lost their lives, and that is the object has to be the objective of all reasonable people at this time, to do everything possible to stop this war in its tracks, and as i said, for political reasons, domestic, the united states'. and all of american foreign policy is only a projection of domestic issues, it may well be that despite the see the big words of mr. austin, the united states is privately counseling israel government to stop this or else, the or else being a massive pressure on on israel as a whole to to wisen up, they are behaving as if they're the united states, the united states. has gotten away with murder literally a massive scale, for the last 25 years, when it's played the role of the world's only superpower, israel is not the world's only superpower or second superpower or third

superpower, and however much support it gets the united states, it cannot get away with murder, so i think that um that the restraint that's been shown till now has served a constructive purpose. okay, let me see, anthony just raised his hand, 30 seconds, anthony, go ahead, i'm just about out of time, but go ahead. "there's one person who would like to see a regional war, that's benjamin netanyahu. benjamin netanyahu, in the events of october seven, where israel plays the victim, where the occupier gets to play the victim, that is so cut through with falseness, with a prior knowledge, with fraud on different levels. we need investigation into october 7, uh, 2023, to decide really make it clear, who are the victims and who are the perpetrators?" " here, including in the events of october 7th itself. okay, and on that note, thank you both for being with me on this spotlight. anthony haw, professor of globalization, leth bridge university out

of lith bridge, and gilbert doctor, independent international affairs analyst out of brussels and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight. i'm marsia hashimi, hope to see you right here next time. goodbye. we cannot permit a resource so vital to be dominated by one so ruthless and we won't عندما هزم الجيش العراقي من الكويت راسا حصلت انتفاده في اسبوع واحد قتل المجرم. الامريكان كانوا واقعا يسمعون كانوا يشاهدون جاءت عمليه غزو الكويت وفرض حصار

دولي جائر على العراقيين دام اكثر من 12 عاما طحن عظام العراقيين you know is the price worth it? i think this is very hard choice, but the price we... think the price is worth it. our war on terra begins with al-qaeda, but it does not end there. i believe that working together we can make history.

it's really indiscriminat strikes playing more civilian lives across the gazo strip as regime continues battering hospitals and health. their facilities. palestinian islamic jihad says, "us all our support for israel's encouraging the regime to continue its quote, barbaric and nazi crimes in gaza. and iran severely criticizes us over its unbridal support for israel, saying washington is responsible for all the regimes crimes in the gaso strip."