after mediation by qatar and egypt. it includes the withdraw of israeli occupation forces and a phased exchange of palestinian prisoners for israeli captives in gaza. u.s. secretary of state anthony blincon is in apartide israel to discuss the hamas proposal and to broker an extended pause to the american israeli genocidal war on gaza. no call for a cease fire yet. gaza's health ministry says the number of people killed in u.s. israeli attack since the start of the massacre has risen to at least 27,700, more than 11,500 of those children, additional 67,00 people have been killed. joining me today's edition, in the studio, journalist and author ivan ridley and via skype, dr. matthew alford. matthew is author, filmmaker and lecturer of politics and international studies at the university of bath. thank you both for being here. let me start with you. it's good to have you with us, ivan, um. you

heard about the hamas counter proposal, um, the court, the the ball is like they say is in the israeli court, there is momentum, so it seems, or is that what thinking? i think that there is momentum, and i'm not sure how much that has to do with global pressure, or how much that has to do with the protests, including quite a astonishing one outside of blincan's home, wow. his very posh area in virginia, and uh, he certainly won't have been able to rest at the weekend, um, as the shouts and cries of war criminal would have permeated the walls, yeah, but it is uh, the world is tired, tired of this israeli brutality, and people want peace, and i think that uh, "although the president of the

united states has accused hamas of wanting too much, which you know they've been, palestinians have been wanting for 75 years. um, i have a feeling that uh, the climate is right now for deal, apart from one person, and the sticking block will be netanyahu, because prime minister, yes, because as soon as the..." is over, he is politically out, finished, gone, which makes him the world's most dangerous man, he doesn't want anything to stop, because as long as the brutality continues, he's still in power, in power, and matthew, uh, joe biden, the american president, called the resistance response a little over the top, you heard ivan mentioned that earlier as well, and anthony blincon, his secretary of state, said that there was

still a lot of work to be done, but that deal was essential, what do you think might take this uh, might take to get this over the line? mean i think the fact that they are responding to an organization that they call a uh very significant terrorist group um by saying well their demands are a little bit over the top, i think is an indication that there is some uh scope here for um for a real se'. and negotiations, it kind of points to the hypocrisy of the um biden administration in the first place, because if they're saying, these horrendous, you know, psychopathic um murderous people uh, they're a bit over the top in their negotiations, that's that's where they've got to now, like well, sounds like you can talk to them then, maybe you should have talked to them a little while ago, actually, maybe you should have talked to them a few years ago and uh and prevented this uh from happening in the first place, um, so i do think that... indicates a

willingness for dialogue, um, think a lot of the time this is just, mean i couldn't agree more with what ivonus just said about um netanyahu being, netanyahu really is the first, if we take this as a process rather than trying to solve the entire middle east um in one in one go, the first thing that of needs to be sorted out is benjamin netanyahu, from that point on yes there's going to be a change of government and yes the israeli government will still uh want to prosecute. uh war very violently uh in the palestinian territories, but nevertheless it's going to be a step in the right direction, we need to get that sorted out. i don't know if that is what they have in mind when they're talking about um the uh the more work to be done um, but but but let's keep our fingers cross, i think it is a good sign, just seeing this few hours ago come through on rouses, i was very much encouraged, i think there are there are perhaps some um grassroots of um of positivity here and there are protests again this saturday in all major cities, which i'll

be attending in my own, and then there was one uh here in london, just this past weekend as well, any van as we're talking, and as those... negotiations are taking place, um, the massive, the shelling of the gaza strip hasn't stopped, it's even intensified, especially in the south where so many millions have been displayed, not only once, um, you would think that there would be a lit up or or slowing down, but it's going on full force, if the americans were to pick up the phone and and told them if they have that leverage with the israelis that would probably stop it anyway, but that doesn't seem to be happening. are the israelis not listening to their american patron at all? well, while the israelis hold the people of palestine under a brutal occupation, they also hold washington under a political

occupation, and people are confused, wondering who's wagging the dog's tail and who is the dog's tail and... where where does the power lie? i have a feeling that the biden administration has had enough, um, but it doesn't have the influence that uh, dare i say that the trump administration did, and uh, again, i find, it's we're in a situation where people in america will be going to vote. soon a leader and they have a choice between two octogenarans uh genocide joe biden yeah and uh donald crazy man trump who moved the american embassy to jerusalem who moved the american embassy as you say to

jerusalem and uh is uh an unconditional friend of israel although he doesn't like netanyahu it's not. well-known, but apparently the two fell out just before trump left office, and uh, he is petulant man with a grudge, uh, or that would hold a grudge, so um, let's hope that uh, the two haven't made it up in the interim period, it's the balance of power, it's very difficult, and and you know there is america feeding this... war machine, yeah, and uh, the say don't bite the hand that feeds you, but israel continually is biting the hand, and the um, i think that the senate has just blocked, we're going to just talk about right now, actually, all

right, hold to that thought, we'll come back to it in a bit, um, us lawmakers has just heard there, in the house of representative, have rejected an eye watering 17 points. 6 billion dollar aid bill for apartite israel to the push to provide more assistance to tel aviv's genecidal campaign in gaza was voted down by a margin of 250 to 180, well short of the two-thirds majority needed to secure its passage. just listen it. i will vote no because this bill includes zero humanitarian aid while children are dying and 400,00 gazons face famin. i will vote. no, because this bill undermines human rights and international law, ignoring the recent icj decision calling on israel to do more to protect palestinian civilians. i will vote no, because it is painfully obvious to the entire world, that what is needed today is a

permanent ceasefire and a release of all hostages. there come moments in nation's history when our actions reveal our values. this is such moment. here we go again, sending $17.6 billion dollars, us tax dollars with no conditions attached to netanyahu's extremist government to drop more bombs on innocent palestinians. the israeli government has already killed 27 thousand people, 11,500 them were children. i'm tired of my colleagues coming to me whispering, i don't really like netanyahu. well, then why are we sending him billions of dollars with no conditions? he literally has telling us. over and over again, what his intention is? so we want a standalone uh bill there to provide the israeli regime with uh so many billions and what does that say about the us's position uh that the white house at previously issued notice that biden would

veto um the bill? well there's obviously a huge conflict going on behind the scenes in uh in the white house and would have ever thought that we would have heard an american politician stand up as stridently as rashee and and uh move to block the bill. just few years ago she would have been ejected from the house and cast out, so these are very interesting times in washington with uh people like the squad as they called, um, led by the likes of rashida, uh, she has just raised an eye watering amount of money uh towards her own campaign from from many, many people across america, and the the money that

she's raised for her own campaign within the months, um, is about double the amount that uh, the died in the world republicans can raise from their handful of zionists, so it shows that you know they are the sentiment is like in in the us as far as yes, and and you can, you know, for... "all the people who demonstrate out there today, who say, are we making a difference, i would say, yes, you are, keep on going, because uh, work, this sort of uh people power is stronger than any weapon that israel is dropping on gaza today, let me cross over to matthew, now uh, matthew, it's anthony blinken's fifth visit to the region, how would you assess?" " what's been achieved if anything? uh, yeah, well, i wonder if anthony blincan should uh,

keep a bed on his plane because he's over there so often and so necessarily, um, to do this uh, to do this, these so-called diplomatic missions, um, i mean, i think how do i assess what american foreign policy is towards um israel and gaza, i don't think i can give very um jolly answer to that one uh, i mean they've been managing um very, very... aggressive um and angry israeli uh government and indeed um israeli populis um the mean the way that the media reports it often is to say that um that blincon is over there to uh to be mediating force to be moderator uh i mean i don't really think that is very uh appropriate way of describing what he's been doing because i mean they have been providing um arms weapons um diplomatic cover political cover um and and everything for very long period of time um and we're... uh four months into this uh into this upside of conflict um so i mean i i i'm not going to let the

american government off the hook for what it's been doing there but at the same time you know they are slightly to the to the left if you like of what the israeli government is is uh uh is wanting and maybe they can drag them a little way towards sanity absolutely uh and ivan um yes this bill was voted down but then "the uh israelis have been receiving $3.8 billion dollars annually in american taxpair money in the form of military aid, some people would say money is again uh find its way back to the uh so-called mil military industrial complex. um, it's happening a time when the us itself has lot of domestic issues, um, money that could be used on resolving those domestic issues is being transferred to..." the middle east to israel uh to to uh bomb palestinians, i mean what is

the level of awareness among the americans really about what their government does around the world? you know there's a great deal of poverty in america and uh especially in the traditional working class areas and these people primarily trump supporters. are looking thinking, why are we boming these people, you know, what is the point, and the there's a lot of antisemitism in america as well, you know, antisemitism largely comes from white communities, the same white communities that getting over immigration figures, and this is the same pond. uh trump likes to stir up um and they're looking and

seeing israel, you can barely find it a map because it's not even the size of a south african game park and they're looking at this money that's going over and it works out about $50,000 tax dollars per head of population. 'm when that money could be better spent in those areas where there is grinding poverty, where people have malnutrition problems, there are people in desperate need'. of um health, private healthcare, and they can't afford an operation, or the resolve the op crisis, yes, and and then they find out that israel's healthcare is free, and they're thinking, gosh, you know, i'm holding to my hernia, i can't afford to get it done, and yet they're

getting free healthcare as well as guns, bullets, rockets, whatever they want, exactly, let me... take a moment to remind our viewers that this is gaza under attack with me syzo where we take a deep dive into the news surrounding the us israeli carnage in the gaza strip. earlier this week, a british employment tribunal ruled that the philosophical belief that zionism is inherently racist, imperialist and colonial is a protected characteristic under the equality act of 2010. that ruling came in favor of professor david miller, a british academic who was dismissed by the university of bristol in 2020. one for his anti-zionist beliefs, we asked professor miller for his reaction to the verdict, so i'm very, very pleased that we've won on all counts in very emphatic manner at the tribunal, we won on wrongful dismissal, the university didn't properly investigate me, as they admitted in court, and also they didn't probably evaluate what should happen as a result of their investigation, so we we won on that, the they

shouldn't have sacked me and that was wrong, we've also won more importantly on the question of... my my case was that my anti-signist views were what caused me to be dismissed uh and the university's view was that no, it wasn't to do with that, it was to do with the fact that students have been upset or said that they feel felt unsafe, but of course the problem was the university's own witnesses in evidence declared that it was a particular character of my antisignist views which was what made my views so repellent which they which had upset the students so they admitted both the investigator. and the person you sat way admitted that the reason they sat way was because of my antisignist view, so they they lost the case by their own admissions uh in evidence in the court. most senior witness in the uh court case from the university was asked where my views were they respect in a democratic society? she said no they weren't, and she was then asked, so that means doesn't

it that his views are a kin to nazism, which is the formal legal test, and of course she's to say that was the case, but it was totally unsustainable and she was humiliated in court so that she didn't know what she was saying, she contradicted herself, and in the end she said, yes of course it's not wrong to say that israel is racist, and it's not wrong to say that you oppose zialism, and of course she was left them with a view with with giving a contradictory view, and and her her witness, her evidence was therefore uh con contradictory. and conflicted and that's of course when they that was the moment really i feel when they they lost the case when this very senior university official uh effectively destroyed the university's own case. professor miller further said apologizing for being anti-zionist, isn't the approach campaigners should be taking? there's been a mistaken idea that you cannot

talk about zionism that it's too difficult to talk about zionism that that you risk st. into anti-semitism and it's best just not to talk about zionism at all and in fact to apologize if you might have hurt someone's feelings uh or or they might have said something which they found offensive. now that strategy was a strategy which defeated jeremy corbin. he apologized, he apologized, he apologized, he threw his his most strongest supporters under the bus so that by the end of it there was no one left to support him. my strategy on the contrary has been to say, "there is no possibility of compromise or agreement with zionism. zionism is fundamentally racist, always has been, always will be, and of course we've seen since uh, the flood was launched in october, that the israel is a genocidal entity, so there's no longer any reason to to avoid saying that, and the only way in fact that we

will end the racism of zianism is by directly confronting it, and of course that means everyone has to speak up against zionism, and we all..." have to support each other in doing that. more than half million people in gaza are facing catastrophic hunger conditions with the rest of the population at risk of famon. that according to new report from the world food program. displaced gazins are struggling to feed themselves and their children as humanitarian aid continues to only trickle in. the school situation is bad living in. food situations are bad too, there is nothing for us eat or even drink. as you can see, if the kid has one or five sheckles, he will go and buy an orange, so it makes him less. hungry, for us grown-ups, we can fast or even stay without food for 10 days, but what are these kits supposed to do? how are

they supposed to live? well, it's a talk about the looming humanitarian catastrophy in the coastal enclave with ivan riley and dr. matthew alford who are still with us, but before that, matthew, can i get your thoughts, your reaction to professor miller's win, does it mean that holding antisignist views won't get you sack? from a british university from now on, yeah, it's pretty significant judgment, read big chunks of it last night when it came out, um, sort of 100 page document that's available online, um, and yeah, having anti-zionist views is now is now protected by law, or at least that's been affirmed um at an employment tribunal, and that's all of these things um that open up a space for discussion um are part of the principle of what academic life should be we um should be about, so i'm very pleased for david miller and um i think it's a it's a victory for freedom of speech of victory for freedom of speech and and final question to

you ivan, in your journalistic experience does what we've been seeing over the past months on our television screens, the gaza genocide compared to anything you reported on in your long career, well um the first war that i covered was the falklands war and there were no... journalists able to cover that war other than those that were embedded on both sides come to the 21st century and anybody with iphone can be a citizen journalist and we are getting lots of images. this is the first time in more than 50 years of journalism, i have watched a genocide unfold. before my eyes on tv, i think that a large number of the population will be suffering from ptsd once this war is over, so god knows how the people of gaza are going to

cope. um, of course, the state tv in britain, the bbc, uh, will give sanitized coverage uh, to protect its viewers, protect its viewers from what, from the truth, um, whereas... uh journalists from press tv, from al-jazera and from the palestinian tv stations on the ground are paying with their lives for delivering this horrific truth, and you know this is why there is so much global unrest, and i don't know if the global south will ever forgive britain, america and a handful of... european countries for their inability to call for a cease fire when this whole fiasco started. exactly. well, refresh out of

time. ivan ridley and dr. matthew alford, thank you both for joining us and thank you for keeping us company. gaza under attack will be back tomorrow. until then, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye.

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