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tv   SPOTLIGHT  PRESSTV  February 14, 2024 2:00am-2:31am IRST

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المنزل بصاروخ علما على انه هذين هذين المنطقه الله الله اكبر.
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130 days of the israel genocidal war, more and more rebukes by world leaders, including western leaders, some of them have been standing by the israeli regime in its ethnic cleansing of the palestinians in gaza. not recently, you can hear more strongly warded condemnation of the televive regime and washington by number of european statesmen and women, but you don't see less violence and blood shut on the ground in gaza. the more than half of the gaza's population has been forced to take shelter in rafa, which israel has threatened to keep pounding from air and land, also the ground invasion. is
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going to stuck soon. now should in war leaders take action to stop the genocide of palestinians instead of giving lip service? welcome to the spotlight. i'm berrus najafi and these are our guests. jan kavalic author and peace act of this in pittsburg. also with us is daniel shaw academic and commentator from new york. welcome to the spotlight, gentlemen, we got to, we got two daniels now, beginning with daniel kovalik, uh, in the early hours of monday, the israeli military launched air raids on rafa, the forces said that they were mounting this raid to rescue two hostages there, the result, two mosks, several houses, the were hit by war planes, tanks and ships, they cause you know panic among the people there, and they were sleeping of course, at that time women and
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children romong those killed again, the un, also many countries have warned against attacks on rafa, that's the point where there's a large you know concentration of people taking shelter there, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears, what's televiv's plan? well, first of all, of course many are referring to this is the super bowl massacre, because israel waited till people were watching the super bowl to... begin the bombing of rafa um, the problem is that yes, there are many world leaders condemning israel, but very few are withholding aid to israel, and most specifically the united states. in fact, the senate just overwhelmingly voted to provide $14 billion dollars in emergency assistance to israel, to give joe biden cart blanch to provide.
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for palestine, so words aren't much when you continue to provide the material support for this massacre, and that's exactly what's happening. now daniel shaw, european union foreign policy chief has urged allies of israel, the us in particular, to stop sending the israeli regime weapons, and joseph boral called on president biden who said that, israel's military action was over the top in his words. "and this is what borel said, i'm quoting him directly, he said, if if you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms to prevent so many people from being killed, so let's talk a bit about europe's response to the israely atrocities in gaza. the biden
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regime's hypocrisy is on full display, he went before the nation and the world right after the tucker carlson putin interview." last thursday and the most he could muster were the words that uh israel's responses over the top, over the top is if you you know eat one too many hamburgers at night, a genocide is much more than over the top, and after that biden in in in congress continue to approve another $14 billion dollars for what, for genocide, almost two million people are gathered in rafa, many of them tooth. four times uh displaced since 1948 and in the past 130 days, how are these people supposed to survive? this is a systematic israeli us campaign of dehydration of displacement, of
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starvation, of carpet bombing of gaza, gaza is roughly the size of of larger, slightly larger than manhattan, this is david versus genocidal and mr. covel, myself, so many others, we've been saying this since before october 7th, and certainly since october 7th, it's impossible to express the despair that people feel around the world in the powerlessness is this super bowl massacre advances forth. daniel, the chief diplomat, also slent order by prime minister. that the 1.4 men palestinian sheltering in the gazator need to be evacuated ahead of this supp plan military operation there. the question is where where should they go? they have nowhere to go even if they they want to go. yeah, there is nowhere to go. uh, most of the
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people there now have already moved more than once because of this war. um, they are now pressed up against the crossing of. egypt, which is closed to them, i know many people trying to get out, they can't get out, people are paying bribes to the egyptians of thousands of dollars to get out of rock, these people are stuck there, and so what you're looking at potentially is essentially israel people, because there is nowhere to go, and israel knows that, and so... even though we've already seen something like 35,00 deaths at this point, the worst may be yet to come, i fear. daniel shaw, president biden has said that he's trying to get israel to agree to a cease fire, but netanyahu is code giving him hell and is impossible to
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deal with. then we have this congressuh approving and you mentioned this legislation to give israel $14 billion dollars and it's war on gaza. and president biden again has been you know saying that he is frustrated in his private conversation sometimes with campaign electoral camp you electoral campaign donors over his inability to persuade tel aviv to change military tactics in the gaza strip and his name prime minister netan yahu as the primary obstacle so is president biden really unable to make benjamin netanyahu stop this genocide that's ridiculous, if they cut off that $14 billion dollars, if they cut off the more than four billion dollars they send uh every year, perhaps tel aviv would get the message and be forced to change their genocidal actions against palestinian nationhood, but we know
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we know what the zionist regime wants, there's a database of more than 500 statements from key zionist officials and politicians where they very openly... stated that their intention is empty palestine of the palestinians, they don't recognize palestinian nationhood, they don't recognize the thousands of years the palestinians have. live there, they drunk off of colonial arrogance, off of white supremacy, off of zionist uh arrogance, and it seems like every day when you think things cannot get worse for the palestinian people, the violence, the uh the holocaus against palestinian life intensifies, we have civil disobedience, we have marches every day in new york city, in los angeles across this country, but we continue to be censored, so the united united states from their police departments through washington dc, all of the us troops that
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they've sent to surround gaza to occupy syria to occupy uh iraq, the united states is really the colonial uh overloids, the puppet masters overseeing this genocide, and it's well recorded in history in the world will not forget the role that the us government has played in supporting israel 110% in their genocidal actions for. 75 years now, daniel kavalic, we have mr. biden again saying that a us uh has been working day and night on efforts, to agree a six-week pause in this fighting as a stepping stone to a longer cease fire and he says that key elements of the deal are on the table with some gaps remaining, so i want to ask you if washington truly wants to see fire, and if if so why does he keep funding and arming the is? reg, well, that's the point isn't it? i mean, again, actions speak louder than words. biden
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could end this right now, if he told netanyahu, as danny said, that they weren't going to get this $14 billion dollars that they weren't going to get diplomatic support at the un, you know, the us could sponsor resolution at the security council right now, that would get uh voted in if the u.s. wanted to, that would... say that the war has to end that would call for example for no fly zone over gaza, the us could do that, the us doesn't want to do that, so then one has to ask why, and that's because the us appears to share the same goals is israel, now would would would the us officials like them to maybe go a little more uh easier on the civilian population, i'm sure only because it's hurting biden and the democratic party, and it will hurt them at the point. in november, but they're not willing to do anything about it, and until they are, this
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bloodshed unfortunately will continue. okay, and daniel shaw, there have been some reactions by other world leaders, like we have king of jordan, he said that we cannot stand by and let this continue, we need a lasting ceasefire now, and that this war must end, so let's evaluate the standpoints and stances that uh countries have adopted regarding this genocidal war raging in gaza? well, certainly ansa ala movement in in in yemen has been the most proactive, they're really the the model of solidarity and internationalism with the palestinian people at this point, i think the world over has a deep admiration for what the yemenes have done, throwing in their destiny, their lot with the uh dispossessed. silenced censored voices from gaza and in palestine, king
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abdullah ii, so many other arab leaders have perhaps talked tough game as well as these un officials, these un officials every day have their uh press conferences and their coffee and they say that what israeli does, i mean look at the look what the international court of justice has said in the icc, but nothing changes, so uh this... is a breaking point for humanity, never has humanity realized how worthless the united nations and these quote unquote international bodies are, the access of genocide, the united states and england and france and full support of the zionist project, continue to disrespect and trample over international law, and it really makes the term neocolonialism redundant, this is colonialism, this is 1492, this is 1620 playing out in... 2024 in front of the entire world, now speaking of yemen, daniel kovalik,
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the anser leader just a couple of hours ago he uh slammed some arab states for actually lack of action, even not tolerating voices, people raising their voices against israely crimes being committed against palestine, especially in gaza these days, so he condemned some of those arab states even silence and ralliers instead of standing by palestinians, yeah, well, you know, that is apt criticism, the... golf states for example are still providing support to israel in the form of oil um they could cut that off right now and that would be very significant in terms of stopping israel's offensive in gaza but they're not doing it you actually went to the west bank in december and i went over from jordan across the king hussain bridge
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and i saw all these oil tankers going into israel and of course they all at arabic uh language on the side, why is that happening? there should be an oil embargo against israel, that's a minimal thing that they arab world do to help palestine and they're not doing it, and why are they not doing this? mean, because they want the money, i i don't know what to say, mean they they have no principles because they're lackies of the united states, mean you take your pick uh, it seems to me that uh, "they've lost their soul, their governments have, not the people, but the govern, the leaders of their governments have, they've sold out to the west uh, for money and for privilege, and they don't want to give that up, apparently. okay, daniel shaw, what privilege, they have not benefited anything from the so-called deal of the century, you know, and that normalization, did some of them have actually
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done with the israeli regime, what did they receive in return? well, the saudis and..." and the gulf kingdoms can live in absolute luxury as lackeys of us empire, they don't want to come into any contradiction uh, they know the israelis do the us is uh bidding, the israelis have functioned for seven and a half decades is a giant us battleship uh in the middle east, we do see the access of resistance, the lebanes, the iranians, the yemenis, the syrians, the iraqis, the militias, hezbollah, but there's a huge consequence that they incur for standing up on the right side of history, they then become a target practice for the uh israelis and for the us, we've seen the us uh carry out more than 100 attacks against syria and iraq since the three uh young us soldiers were were killed there, and who were they
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killed by, they're killed by an aggressive us foreign policy which continues to invade, occupy, and pillage uh western asia, it's on us here in the us to continue to organize an anti-war movement as dan uh laid out, biden is feeling this at the polls, biden's headed to dearborn michigan with some of his representatives to quote unquote listen to voters in michigan, that is arab american voters. i mean, this is such tone deaf administration, all the studies have come out, the medical studies that biden is losing his memory and one. left to ask, why would the democratic party continue to go, was someone who's suffering from memory loss in series of medical conditions, so they've have him propped up as puppet who's not even responsible for his own words and actions at this point. uh, daniel kaval, like the australian foreign minister suggested that a failure to ensure special care for civilians and rafa would quote, cause serious harm to
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israel's own interests, and we have another official... like german, for example, for minister warning that an is really offensive on rafa would be humanitarian catastrophy in the making, and the people of gaza cannot disappear into thin air, and this, after more than four months, this is the 130th day, isn't this too little, too late? well, certainly it is too late for the thousands of people have already died, it's late for these. children who even the children who survive, can you imagine the trauma and mental scars are going to happen, it's too late for lot of people, but of course still over 2 million people in gaza survived, and so it's not too late for them, and we have to do something to stop this. i'm certainly very critical of the western leaders for allowing
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this to go on as long as it has, but they do something to stop it now then good i mean. i mean something has to stop this. we're watching a genocide in real time on our telephones. this is never happened in the history of the world. and uh, it can't be allowed to go on further and countries need to do whatever they need to do to stop it. i agree with danny. yeah, we need more the emmons that are willing to do what they're doing to stop this. i mean, i'm sorry, the only thing that stopped the nazis was the red. and that's the type of spirit we need now, so daniel shaw, is it really the are the europeans really interested, mean do they believe in what they're saying or is just? lip service, if they want to stop it, are they able to stop it? think it is uh lip service, we've heard from the prime minister of uh great britain that it is uh jewish
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communities across the world that are under attack is a genocide plays out that we're all witnessing uh the brits are concerned about anti-semitism and anti-semitism is a real concern, but they have weaponized and misused anti-semitism to... also justify their extreme censorship, our individual rights, constitutional rights, first amen and amendment rights have been trampled upon here in the united states, they can shadow ban us on twitter, they can deplatform us on instagram, they can delist us on tiktok, so in order to carry out a genocide of this nature, the zionists have also resorted to the worst forms of fascism and of uh censorship, but the uh almost 8 billion people of the world are are are witnessing uh this play out, it's not lost upon the quote unquote arab world and the muslim world, in the third world, in the global south, what is
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truly happening, i don't think we've ever felt this level of collective powerlessness, you can almost hear it in our voices, it's been four months, we're standing up every day, we've incurred all types of threats and and and doxing and not, i'm not trying to paint us as victims, it's the palestinian people that are the true. to survivors and they continue to resist by any means necessary, but it's just it's just not enough against the access of genocide. right gen shaw mentioned the uk and you know what they have done regarding what they call antisemitism, but we also have the uk government recently announcing new sanctions on for what they call extremist is really settlers of committed human rights abuses against palestinians in the west bank. you see, do they really mean it or is this because public pressure, we have huge rallies in. than elsewhere in the uk, yeah, no, i mean, the the protests are important, they may be preventing the worst case scenario
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that we aren't even privy to, what those that worst case scenario could be, um, but yes, uh, sanctioning a handful of settlers isn't going to do anything, and it's not, because in the west bank, people were being killed, houses are being demolished, thousands of people have been arrested. many children since october 7 and that's not slowing down because of these types of sanctions, these are symbolic acts being done again because they don't want to take real action to stop what uh the israeli uh armed forces are doing gazda and again to the west bank as well yeah daniel shaw uh palestinian uh you know uh actually the yemen leader i'm sorry uh was uh giving some advice to number of arab states who have remained passive and even silenced the voices of descent against israel, he said there are a whole you know array of measures
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that you can take, you don't really have to take action like yeminies do and you know go to war and you know target american ships, uk ships, whatever israel bound ships, you could do a whole lot of different things to pressure the israeli regime to stop this genocidal war, we have this netherlands for example court, "the it's ordering the dutch government to stop the export of f-35 fighter jets to israel, they say this is a clear risk, they could be used to violate international humanitarian law, maybe the bands, the the boycut and the protest rallies. uh, you have a couple of minutes if you could tell us what other ways could be resorted to to stop this regime, to end the genocidal war. there's so many different forms of resistance from the oil boycott." that we saw in the early 1970s to a full economic uh boycott of the apartide uh kkk state of israel, i mean there's a number jim crow, israel, there's so many different
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adjectives we could use, there could be a realer uh journalism across the uh middle east and across the world to just tell the truth of the 75-year plight of the palestinian people and and and that's what uh big tech and the u.s. government are doing, they're trying to... prevent any type of uh resistance here at the local level, if we even pick up any type of bullhorn to try to project our voices here in the bronx or in manhattan were immediately put into handcuffs and and brought to jail. um, so this is asymmetrical war. we have anthony blincan functioning as the secretary of state of both designist entity as well as the dc going back and forth uh playing the same type of uh genocidal um shuttle diplomacy role that kissinger and nixon uh once played in in in the middle east, so they're giving a cover, they they know for biden or blincon or or...
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any of these officials to say that they don't know israely intentions is ridiculous, all you have to do is pick up one of these history books of sociology book all right, i'm sorry for jumping, that's all the time we have, thank you so much, daniel kovalik in uh pittsburg and daniel shaw in new york, and thank you for watching this episode of spotlight, i' been your host najafi, i'll see you next time. alexander dugin challenges the western capitalism and the unipolar world. he says the world has moved away from the western subjugation and countries like iran, russia, china and turkey have stood up against the domination. listen to the russian political philosopher's
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the un humanitarian chief issues serious warning about the consequences of israel's ground invasion into rapa saying it could lead to a slaughter. israely army confirms loss of three more troops in gaza bringing the regime force his death tool. since the start of the ground invasion to 232 and the secretary general of lebanon's hezbulah says the resistance movements attacks on israel will only halt once the aggression on gaza stops.