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hello and welcome to spotlight. more than four months is passed since israel started its onslot against the people of the gaza strip. nearly 28,00 palestinians have lost their lives and about 70 thousand others have been injured. most of the population in the besieg territory have been forced to move to the southern city of rafa. now israel is preparing to invade the palestinian's last rest. in the gaza strip, the united nations has warned of a blood bath if israel invades the city. where else do the palestinians have to go, and will there ever be an end to the decades long western-backed occupation and genocide against the palestinian people. joining us tonight's spotlight, we have former cia analyst ray mcgovern, joining us from rawley north carolina. and also we have

radio host and journalist cpr news, mr. don debar, joining us from ausuning, new york. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. mcgovern after 126 days of israeli barbarism and brutality, nearly 29,00 people have been killed in gaza, schools, mosks, churches, hospitals and even ambulances have been free. targets of the strikes, which have now left only few of the medical facilities partially operational in gaza. please share with us your perspective on this tragedy that is unfolding in gaza before our very eyes. well, the painful thing of course is that i'm an american citizen, without the support of my government, israel could not do these things. not only is...

arming and giving political support to israel, but it's also denying the the requisite funding for the only agency that can help, and that's unra, the un body that provides aid to the people in gaza and has for many, many years, they have decided to withhold funding on the pretext that some, well, first they said 12, now it's down to six of the 26 thous employees of unra and gaza were cooperating or somehow involved with hamas, they said that without providing any evidence, and our secretary of state bought it, saying, i think this completely plausible, even though we don't have any confirmation, so what pains me is the fact that this could stop, and we're trying to...

exert pressure on our government to stop enabling this, so far we have not been successful. don debar, after over f months of lethal and deadly attacks, the resistance groups in gaz are fighting back strong, both inside and outside of the strip. iran's foreign ministers recently highlighted that israel has achieved none of its goals after four months of genocide in gaza, so what have the israelis achieved other than being of recorded? for murdering children, well, whatever political constituency existed in the world, whatever pockets in the world, some large pockets in the united states and western europe, of support for israel uh has been pretty much evaporated, it is very difficult to explain what people have been witnessing now for the last four months in any terms other than mass murder or... or

whatever, the people that don't want to get b down in legal definition of genocide is this rise to this or that level, look at the murder of thousands of civilians. including thousands of children and understand that that's wrong no matter what it's called. we're sitting in the united states, it's really um almost head splitting confusing. there was a trial that concluded yesterday in the midwestern part of the united states and was michigan or ohio, of woman whose 15-year-old son had taken a gun to school and killed four fellow students, she was convicted also of uh homicide, um, you know, of involuntary manslaughter uh, based on criminal negligence, basically, that this, this is her child, her child did this, and so she's culpable basically for not educating him better, keeping better rain on him, and allowing him to have a gun. um, this is be,

this case was being raised by people who in the united states who believe that guns kill people, not people kill people, and then we look a place, like israel or or ukraine uh where uh there are people that claim not to be the united states either making war on russia or gen committing genocide on the palestinians, the the the us claims that that's not them and they're not culpable for it, and the weapons sales, the united states has a $850, 900 billion dollar a year budget basically uh producing things that murder people in large numbers so... it's it's difficult to parse which is which uh, rifles that kids can use to shoot 10 of their friends or bombs that blow up entire cities in the course of a week or two, but we have people making money on both of them by the way, and both will continue until we stop it.

raymont govern, the un chief antonio guterez says a ceasefire is needed before quote, a gigantic tragedy develops in rafa, now israel as we mentioned. earlier's bombing areas of gaza, it had initially designated a safe, with it wiping out entire families, and it's now planning a ground assault in rafa, is israel using the excuse of eradicating hamas, something that it is failed to achieve to just to continue to kill palestinians. a senior hamas official says the israeli prime minister's insistence on continuing the onslot against gaza shows his goal is genocide against palestinians. "what the israeli defense minister said very early on in the first week of their retaliation uh was that we're dealing with human animals here, we have to pretty much exterminate them, as

many other israeli leaders have said. now for genocide, you have to prove intent, and so it was no problem for..." the international court of justice to prove intent based on the the pronouncements of the israeli leaders themselves and this troops that followed their orders, so you know, it really needs to stop, and for the un secretary general to say, oh my, this will be a blood bath that we never seen before, might, that's not enough, okay? "now what's enough? he has to lean on the united states and great britain, us vessel, and get get the president to stop what he's doing, president biden, even in his old age, even though the department of

justice here in the united states has called him feeble, memory deplived, and all, they did that yesterday ' "they should wake him up and say, look, we need you to stop this, because it's the us that needs to stop it. meanwhile, i have to say that the hooties, strangely enough, have a real partner in their struggle to stop the genocide, and who is that partner? happens to be a un body called the international court of justice. wow, what?" where are the other arab leaders? where are the leaders of turkey? they need to explicitly condemn all this and do more than condemn it in a gradual way. in other words, i'm not saying major offensive or major attack of any kind, but ape what vladimir

putin is doing in ukraine, attrition, attrition, attrition, attrition until the israelis are feeling so much economic damage. from what the hooches are doing the red sea that they'll realize that they have no future, they have no economic future unless they cease and dissist. don debar in his most recent comments, us president joe biden said the israelis have gone quote unquote over the top regarding uh the assault on gaza, how far is too far uh in the support that washington is offering for the israelis and the massacre that they're committing. iran's foreign minister just recently said the us military, financial and diplomatic support for israel will have no result but defeat. well, in his most recent remarks, president biden appointed president alsisi as president of

mexico, that was i think his last public statement, um, too far was passed within a day of the of october 7, maybe october 8th, too far really had been passed somewhere in 1947, 1948, the terrorist attacks that were made against the palestinian people in the run up to the creation of what they call the state of... israel um, the failures across the board by the us government and its actions along with the israelis, there's an ongoing set of violations of un security council resolutions that are supposed to be setting the borders of israel and palestine at 1967, they've been ignored pretty much 50 years now by the israelis, there have been various war crimes committed periodically by the israelis and by extension. by the united states, that's just in that conflict, of course the united states has been committing them all over the planet, um, the bombing

recently of yemen, of syria along with an illegal occupation of iraq along with an illegal occupation that still continues even after it was officially discontinued several times now, this is the this is in essence the standard operating procedure of the of the empire ' i don't know how how you uh put a stop it using the architecture of imperialism that was constructed in the aftermath of world war 2 uh but it has to be stopped by whatever means necessary and we're getting close to the point where it has to be stopped now r govern iranian foreign minister hussen in his recent trip to beirout said that israel wants to drag the us alongside itself into the west asia. at quagmyer, do you believe the israelies are seeking to expand their onslot on gaza into a wider regional

conflict so they can get the us directly involved and are those actions producing the results that the israelies are seeking? well i have to tell you that i've been around for a while and i know what quagmyers are, i've been vietnam, i've been to afghanistan, i've watched iraq, i've watched libya, you the us getting involved in quagmire? of course israel and it's nao conservative patriots there in in the us government would like nothing better than to get us involved overtly in a war against iran. now that can only happen if iran rises to the bait so to speak. okay now iran in my view has played it very cautiously it's knows, as most most educated observers know, that israel is its

way out. this is never going to be the same for israel. the problem is, what to do for the next two weeks? what to do when the rest of those gazins are exterminated? a word used by the nazis, when i was a little boy, exterminated in and around rafa and south gaza, what to... do then, that's what my concern is, because i care about the children, and as roger waters puts it in his song, we have to ensure that no one kills the children anymore. don debar, yemed has pledged to continue its operations against israeli linked vessels until the regime stops its war on gaza, regardless of the attacks by the us set coalition, the red sea, the... of yemensarlo movement says the us side aggression against this country will not protect israeli linked ships. talk to us

about the yemeny response to the gaza onslot and this defiant message that the yemenes are sending to the us and its allies. well to a large degree first of all it's uh returning fire that's been uh levied against uh yemen and gaza for years now by you know yemen has been looking a quarantine in jfk's terminology a blockade, whatever, you heavily sanctioned and and traffic heavily controlled by external forces. as has gaza since 2007 and they're returning fire now, they're basically saying, oh really, well we're not allowing any traffic in to resupply you, um, under the present conditions, there you go, the global opinion, world opinion is with them, certainly people on the ground, there's a situation that exists in the immediate area

that i think is now being replicated around the world, the sympathies of the people. governments have had to uh bend a little more and still some of them are looking down the barrel of a gun that called revolution if they don't do something if this just stand by and allow this to continue to happen, i think that's also developing around the world to a degree, and so yemen suddenly getting involved like this rather than looking like extreme or terrorism or whatever uh looks

appropriate to lot of people, they're trying to stop a slaughter of people, so... "i i think that the israelis and and the us or whoever's really making policy did a serious overreach this time um and i think that on the ground the whole you know the whole game board basically is changing that being the you know the the mindset of the people. raymond govern, let's turn our attention uh to the uh resistance outfits in iraq and syria. what do you think are the motives behind the united states's recent attacks on? of those resistance groups in iraq and syria, very simple, to show how strong the united states is. we put these poor fellows in the line of fire as targets, and then when somebody shoots at them, we're real strong, will retaliate. one fact that needs to be mentioned in this discussion like this, is

that the huchis and iran are not alone here, as most people don't know, "a treaty between russia and iran is in its very final stages and also china is desperately interested in making sure that things don't blow up in the persian gulf or the red sea because they depend so heavily on iranian oil, so what does that mean? that means that iran is not alone, this is very different constellation of forces than just two, three decades. go and the problem is that our president doesn't seem to be able to understand that and his advisers don't seem to be able to able to tell him that you this is different, we have to stop supporting israel 110%. don debar uh iraq has condemned the latest us drone strike on the capital baghdad calling it a breach of

the country's sovereignty at iraqi resistance movement has called for submitting a request to the un security. council to demand the immediate withdrawal of foreign forces, the iraqi prime minister has also stated that baghdad wants a quick withdrawal of the destabilizing us forces uh from iraq, so we see the pressure keeps piling and piling on uh the united states and deadline has not been set, but still at this point it seems iraqi politicians have this historic opportunity to expell the us from iraq, how close are we in your opinion? to seeing that day, you that's the kind of thing that happens all of sudden, apparently all of sudden, it builds over you, a long period of time, and then there's just some catalyzing event that triggers series of events in rapid succession. i think we're looking at that now, mean i can't imagine the more catalyzing event than a genocide on television for four

months, but this is you know an expression of the phen on that i was referring to before, um, you, the iraqi government, whether to call them a comprador government or not, i know, but certainly they have uh existed you, in the post uh occupation period with at least the sufference of the united states government of the military who are still occupying pieces of iraq by the way, um, and still operational obviously, because they've conducted operations, they both on finally we're certainly there, and so whether the government wants to or not, they're going to have to pursue this line um of antagonism and in essence kicking the united states out,

or the people will do it for them and send them along with the uh us troops, i think that's pretty pretty much on the agenda now a lot of lot of homes in iraq r govern uh in reaction to the icj's ruling which you also luted earlier. "the israeli prime minister, benny manao, he called the order a disgrace and vod to continue the onslot, that of course was to be expected because the israelis have been a rogue entity since day one, but does this expose the lack of a proper global mechanism to deal with such issues? the tribunals are powerless, the un security council has been nothing but a spectator for four months, as hundreds of innocent people are dying daily in gaza. how can this status quo change in europe?" "

i applaud the russians, the chinese, the iranians, now the syrian, now the iraqies for using the un and the un security council, which does have some teeth in their best effort to to do the right thing, now in the process, the us is completely, completely isolated, when it votes, it has maybe two allies at israel and... a obscure set of islands in the pacific ocean that is forced to vote with the united states, so it's maybe three to hundreds, so this is going to work

its way out, i don't rule out the un, it's the only thing we have left, and as i say, several of the nations seem to realize that, and we need to give them a chance, the problem of course is what happens in the next two weeks, the next two days to those poor people in gaza, don debar, do you agree with mr. govern regarding the un? yeah, look, the un is not the answer to these problems, but in terms of ignoring it or walking away from it, that was tried at the very beginning of its life, at the beginning of what we call the korean war here, the soviet union rather than vetoing the war powers resolution or whatever the analog name is for that, walked out to boycott it, and so there was a... enforced sent in on the side of the us. um, anywhere where people are sitting down talking, and particularly in in a public forum to vet to, vet vet these issues, is a

good thing, it's more than what we have, and so i don't, i wouldn't sit around and wait for it to work, but i wouldn't walk away from it either, it's got to be a part of the whole effort. i want last question, uh, mr. dubar, while we're with you, in spite of all the efforts to weaken the resistance in the region, and efforts by israel and co to demonize it, why do you think that the resistance front is still thriving? well, the more you oppress people, the the more incentive they have to rise up, you actually force their hand, you know, in the star wars movie, the princess leia, whatever, you know, the tighter you squeeze, the more worlds will slip through your fingers, that's how it works, we're human beings, we don't like to have somebody make us do stuff we don't want to do, we don't like to watch people kill our families, "we don't like to starve when it's not necessary, we won't tolerate it at some point, and that's we're getting to that point around the world with this empire, this is one of the hot points where that's happening.

mr. my govern, same question to you, when osama bin laden and his lieutenant khalid sheikh muhammad, let's take khalid sheikh muhammad was asked why he was the mastermind the 9/11 attacks." said, it was because of my deep hatred for us policy favoring israel against the rights of the other peoples. people have to take that seriously. that was buried in page 148 of the 9/11 report in one sentence, but if you're asking why people do these things, they get to point where they seek vengeance for the for the clear affronts to... their human nature that they have suffered, it's inevitable, and nobody's pointing that out, that the more we do this stuff out there in the southwest asia so call

now, the more likely. it is that we'll have another 9/11 or something like it? thanks lot, gentlemen, former cia analyst raymond govern from rawy north carolina, and also thanks to donabar, radio host and journalist cpr news, joining us from austinning new york, and a special thanks to your viewers for staying with us on tonight spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time. this is my land and my country. it is not only the 1948 or 1967 borders from the sea to the river. i am not ready to let go of a centimeter. israel is here like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states. that's why they separate

the land, well i was at the babel sham's protest last week and - i myself had a my head banged against a bus by soldier, illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us, the palestinian. this is historical palestine.

your headlines on press tv, the palestinian authority has condemned israel's plans to invade gazan's last refuge in the southern city of rafah. the islamic resistance in iraq says it has launched a strike a vital israeli military target on the coast of the dead sea, and the yemenese stage mass rallies across the country to express support for the people of palestine.