hello and welcome to press tv spot hashimiy, thanks so much for being with us, well as the fatalities of palestinians now are over 27, in the continuence of israeli genocide on gaza. the united states congress is said to vote to increase washington support for the regime. next week, the house of representatives will vote on advancing more than 14 billion more. dollars in military aid

to the zionist regime, so is it that washington's answer to the zionist genocide, it's to up the anti and give the regime more weapons and support in order to kill more palestinians? well, we will look at this and other questions on this spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guest to the program. peter, former british ambassador to syria out of manchester. and charlotte kates, international coordinator of samidoon palestinian prisoner solidarity network out of vancouver. well, i'd like to start off with charlotte. thanks so much for being with us. now charlotte, nearly 27,500 palestinians have been murdered since october, with many instances of massacres, torture and crimes against humanity. it's so mind-boggling that this genocide. is continuing, your thoughts

on why the world has failed to stop this genocide? one of the things that's been very clear since october 7th and beyond is that the imperialist powers like the united states, britain, france, germany, canada, are lined up armin arm to prevent the palestinian people and their resistance and the resistance forces in the region. from realizing their goals of the liberation of palestine and the liberation of the region from us imperialism, and that they see in the growing strength of the resistance forces, an existential threat to this regime of plunder, domination and subjugation, um, which they've imposed upon the entire region for decades and indeed centuries, and so when we talk, when we are saying this, we're not just seeing like a failure on the part of world agencies, we're seeing the very um explicit

and deliberate genocide being carried out by the zionist regime in league with these with these states, with these countries that are fully complicit in this ongoing genocide and are doing everything possible to make it last longer and be worse for the palestinian people. i mean, this is why we're seeing the united states and its allies bombing yemen, iraq and syria. this is why we're seeing the the united states talking about shipping $14 billion dollars of new weapons to the so-called israeli. regime top of the four billion dollars that they already send on annual basis. um, what now, on the other hand, what we're seeing is an unprecedented level of resistance involvement from forces in the region, and we're also seeing an unprecedented level of popular support for the palestinian people, and absolute abhorrence of this genocide being conducted by the zionist regime. i think more people than ever around the world recognize today that zionism is racism and are willing to go out in this... streets are willing to take

risks, to get arrested, to protest, to organize, to face down um zionist intimidation and smear campaigns, because people cannot sit by and allow a genocide to take place, especially in their name and with their tax dollars. yes indeed, and and you you talked about uh with the united states and giving more weapons, would you say in reality that it's the united states, which is actually at war with the palestinians? w you know, yes, the united states is at war with the palestinian people, and it has been, i mean, for over 75 years, the u.s. has always uh backed and supported the zionist colonization of palestine, um, it took over as the primary sponsor of the zionist colonial project in the region, and it has armed and funded it since that time. i mean, us officials have, routinely referred to the zitist regime as essentially an aircraft carrier for the united states in the region, said, if there isn't an israel, we'd have to create a... um and and why, why would you

have to create it in order to serve the interests of the united states, to divide the arab people from one another, to divide the peoples and nations of the region from one another, and to impose this... essentially this military garrison in occupied palestine in the heart of the region and so this has always been a u.s. war on the palestinian people. um, this has always been an imperialist war on the palestinian people, and that's why it's the us's weapons that are causing the destruction and devastation that we see today, and it's also the us's weapons that are being destroyed by the palestinian resistance. now hopefully our other guest peter will be able to join us, so far we don't have him, but i'm going to say... with you charlotte, you you talked about on the one hand, oh well, hopefully we join peter will join us in in a minute, he's just coming in and hopefully everything will be okay, we'll test the audio and everything, but uh staying with you a bit more charlotte, you had talked about actually uh that you seen -

on the one hand we talked about uh the united states and what is doing, on the other hand you talked about the resistance and how you haven't seen uh so much uh as far as people becoming more aware of the palestinian. i want to talk about your personal experience because you are an activist in canada and what you have seen since october 7th there. well, what we've seen is a really sustained mobilization and just a really large scale um anger and commitment to continue to act and a real outrage at the canadian government, at canadian officials and institutions that continue to behave in... mechanism that is completely complicit with the genocide, while the vast majority of people here are demanding that they stop doing it. mean, the time after time, poll after poll showed that the majority of canadians, the very least want a ceasefire, and the us and israel to stop bombing and attacking gaza, so what does

the canadian government do? instead, it goes and and participates in the us-uk assault on yemen, um, you know, goes about defunding unra, these are not things. are supported by people on the ground and that's why every single weekend and for that matter, every single day, there are demonstrations of thousands of people in all of the major cities and hundreds of people in many towns um throughout canada, people fundamentally are appalled by the very reality that they see of what zionism is. okay, the cold of the of canada right now, that's actually quite impressive. well, peter, i'm glad you've joined. peter, in november congress allocated $14.5 billion dollars more for the israeli genocide and now set to vote to give even more uh money to the israeli regime. i mean, why is this the case when the us itself has a growing poverty problem and a crumbling

infrastructure, and their own people are definitely under pressure, so your thoughts on that side of things. it's a very good uh question and many. americans themselves are asking that question, why is america funding israel to the tune of the billions and billions of dollars to carry out the genocide, while folks back home in america hardly have enough to to live on, and the infrastructure is crumbling, um, and the answer of course is politics and money, um, especially in an election year, the bottom line is that biden and all all the leading candidates dependent on the pro israel lobby, if the pro israel lobby turns against them, they are finished, and so it it goes on time

after time, this is not about american interests, it's about israeli interests, ordinary people don't get a say, especially when the the mass media, the mainstream media are so one-sided, just today, new evidence has emerged of how biased cnn is, from the very top, ordinary cnn journalists are protesting because they're not allowed to report in partially, but they get orders from the very top of cnn to present only the... point of view, so it's no wonder that american support for israel is so one-sided, let me just jump in here, peter, you said something interestingly, interesting, that because it's an election year, well one would think because it's an election year, then actually if the people really had power to

elect who they wanted, that the genocide would be stopped immediately, since the majority of people are not pro-genocide, and that because it's an election year, they would more try the politicians would try to appease the people more, but what you have said about the israeli lobby, um, do you think that that just really says who controls not only the elections, but washington politics in general? uh, well, when all the candidates are pro pro israel, the people have no choice. the choice is being pro israeli, very pro israeli, or most pro israeli, you can't be pro-palestinian in in the us presidential and congressional elections. um, it's very simple, the the ordinary people have no... choice, but the the polls show that many younger people in

particular, and in particular, people who would lean towards the democrats are disgusted by biden's effective support for for genocide, and it may well be the case that they will simply abstain, that they will vote with their feet by staying at home, and this is something that even beiden has to pay attention to, and this is why america pretends, pretends to be concerned about palestinin lives, pretends to be supporting a palestinian state, that is just to appease those young democrats who are not going to vote for for baidin, but it's all seat. well, charlotte, if the mentality in the west is to support gen side, is there a middleground that people in west asia and the global south can have with this perspective, or basically

are we a continuous crash course with the rulers of western higem and the global south? well, we're on a crash course with imperialism, anxionism, and it's really clear that you know, but but one of the things that's actually hopeful is that we're seeing these very large numbers of... hundreds of thousands, millions of people in the heart of the imperial core saying, no, we stand with the global south, not only saying, we want to cease fire now, but we support the palestinian resistance, and this is something that's increasingly clear, and what that means is that it's not possible for these states to for too long sustain this ongoing war machine targeting the palestinian people and targeting everyone in the region. but the fact is is that these imperialist forces have shown time and time again that rather than

you know attempting to sort of preserve some form of minimal peace in the region um we know where they engage in pressure campaigns but they sort of pull back the attack dogs of the zionist regime from like this extreme genocide, they're not doing that, they've had months and months and months to do that, and rather than do that they're um passing bill to send $14 billion dollars. more weapons to continue the genocide more effectively with more bombs and bullets and destructive force, so there's no mechanism by which these uh forces become supporters of you know peace and justice and a future for people in the region, instead they have to be defeated and they're on the road to being defeated. well peter, it it is not only gaza, but also the occupied west bank which is experiencing extreme violence from the zionist regime. young and old, male and female arrested, tortured and killed by the regime. now with this type of entity and this type of violence

against the people, what option does the palestinians have except resistance against this apartite regime? how do you see it? personally, i feel they are being given no option other than on resistance. um, i myself, when i was, diplomat in the british foreign office, worked on the middle east peace process in the early days, high hopes were alive then and and for number of years afterwards, but for at least the last 10 years, it has been obvious that peace talks, peace process is just theater, just a sharad, not serious, in fact it's been a just a cover for the israelis to increase their their land

grabs and and to absorb more and more of the west bank. you cannot blame the palestinians for concluding in these circumstances that talks about two-state solution is just a cover for the israelies to grab more land for the settlers to come in ever greater numbers. and and talk of going to international courts um, it's good in a way, but it's not going to deliver palestinian rights. 'um, so you can't blame palestinians if they feel they have no recourse but to take up arms or to support resistance groups like hamad. you said, peter, staying with you, you said that uh, it's been the last 10 years specifically that you haven't believed that the the goal is actually peace. what about from the very beginning of the peace talks? do you think from the very beginning it was a plot by the

regime, um, just to delay the inevitable, which was for them to steal'. more israeli property? uh, well, historians will argue about this. certainly i had the impression uh, being heavily personally involved right at the beginning, that it was serious that on the side of the israelis at that time, in particular rabin, that there was a serious intention to move forward towards allowing a palestinian state to come into existence, but we know what happened to rabin, he was assassinated by israeli fanatics um, who uh then more or less altered the peace process and made it eventually into just a cover story while they got on with occupying and annexing quietly annexing the the west bank,

but in first few years there was, i think genuine hope, but those... is a long gone, there is nobody like that today, there is no partner for peace in israel today. okay, well charlot, do you think the israeli regime can recover from this genocide? it has committed and its total military failure in gaza, where none of its goals have been met. in the long run, no, absolutely not. mean, this genocide that's being carried out as part of the death nell of the zionist project in. palestine and we're seeing this also in the way that while palestinians have come together united forge just strong very strong sense of national unity um uniting around the resistance standing together against the genocide, what we see on the zianocide are every politician for themselves, every political figure

scrambling for influence and power, we see the bladent fascists spengavier and... triich proudly declaring how they're planning to steal more palestinian land in the next days, we see netan yahu determined to kill as many palestinians as possible so that he remains in power and out of jail. we are seeing this and the absolute exposure of the reality of what zionism is and what colonialism in palestine means everyone around the world. for so long the zionist regime has maintained this. illusion of the impenetrability and the strength of its army and its military that it can't be defeated, but what we're seeing right now is that the palestinian resistance um under siege for over 17 years with weapons that they've manufactured themselves um defeating the so-called uh undefeatable army,

instead all that the zianists are able to do is drop bombs and kill civilians and that's a... reality of dying project, settler colonial project that is failing and coming to its end? well, peter, uh, do you think with the us supported genocide that not only has washington lost credibility worldwide, but it is being scrutinized more by its own citizens, as they question the country's militarism can and could ultimately cause the more pressure inside of the united states itself. uh... i'm i'm not optimistic i have to say because of the um the deep forces which control us politics um i mean congress is the the best parliament that that you can buy, senators, congressmen, it is well known

are easily bought and this situation is not going to change ' whatever the people want is secondary to the the forces that support militarism and of course the the arms manufacturers play a huge role here and you know this this this complex was identified by president eisenhower 70 80 years ago when he spoke about the the military industrial complex. uh which americans had to beware of, well it's still there today, only it's expanded to include the media, a big high high tech. and and acading universities. yes, indeed, indeed. well, charlotte, there are no sanctions on israel and no fly zones that

have been implemented to stop his genocide. what the regime has is the total support of the western front of hegemmany. when this is the reality, what would you say is the responsibility of the anti-genocide front? the responsibility of the anti-genocide front in all of its form, in all of its places, whether that is the resistance that's fighting on the ground, whether that are states that are working to hold the zionist regime accountable at international courts and whether that's our popular movement on the streets around the world is to do everything possible to bring this genocide to an end and to support the liberation of palestine from the river to the sea, and that means confronting not only uh the zionist regime for its direct genocide on gaza, but the united states. britain, germany, france, canada, and all of the partners in the attacks on yemen, on the attacks on iraq and syria on the attempts to fundamentally

destroy the region's ability to stand together and stand for itself and be free of colonialism, hegemony and external domination, and this is a responsibility of all of us, that means building our boycott campaigns, that means getting in the streets, that means confronting arms manufacturers like palestine action is... doing, every single person can play a role in a united front against genocide that spans across the globe and stands together with the palestinian people and their resistance on the front lines of struggle. well, thank you both for being with me on this spotlight. peter ford, a former british ambassador to syria out of manchester, charlotte kates, international coordinator samadun palestinian prisoner solidarity network out of vancouver, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimy. thank you. thanking you for myself and other group right here in tehran, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye

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