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tv   Gaza Under Attack  : PRESSTV  February 15, 2024 12:02am-12:31am IRST

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more than four months into the ongoing ethnic cleansing of palestinians in gaza. this is gaza under attack. welcome back everyone, before i bring you my guests, let's take a quick look at some of the latest developments. apartide israel's military continues to bomb gaza from the north to the south. fears are still growing of a possible ground offensive in. the southern most city
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in the strip. china meantime has called on israel to immediately stop its planned ground assault on densely populated raffa, warning of serious humanitarian disaster. in the us, in addition to his f paw paw about who is conducting the genocidal war on gaza, the us president, who provides unequivocal support, billions and aid, many of the bombs dropped on gaza has admitted israel is killing civilians. on this side of the atlantic, us all. also staunch backers of apartide israel, have pointed out that biden's words do not match his actions. how sincere are those pronouncements? apartite israel is blocking humanitarian aid into the enclave, the un warns the palestinians in the world's largest open air prison, are on the brink of starvation, that after the international court of justice ordered the israeli regime to allow humanitarian assistance. the world body has condemned the deadly attacks on journalists and media workers. in gaza
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accusing the israeli regime of using a deliberate strategy to silence reporting. so far, the u.s. israely genocidal war on the gaza strip has killed at least 28,000 palestinians and wounded another 29,000, with no sign of the massacre ending anytime soon. joining me to talk about it all, publisher and political analyst desmond thompson here in the studio, and via skype from the north of ireland, middle east affairs expert. saib shoth, i'll start with you, desmond, um, i want to get your reflections just as starters on this socal um planned massive incursion into um the rafa, the precursor to which are these other salts that are taking place in killing palestinians a daily basis? well, it's very clear that design is really forces ' uh flattened and bombed the the times and
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cities to kill as many uh civilians as as possible, it doesn't matter whether the children or whatever or families and so on, and then when they finally feel it's safe enough to go in, they'll send in their their trips in mass, that's obviously the you know their plan, but i can see that... "you know the figures of you mentioned 28 thousand been killed, it will be much, much more than that, it'll be thousand more because of of the people that's been killed and buried under the the bombed rubble, yeah, and to to give that, to back that up, i had a friend, he was in the british army in 1946, yes, and his job was to..." the german dead from the bomb
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cities into mass graves and this scene by the way was filmed and you see it in couple of the world war ii series of buldosing thousands of bodies into mass graves so unfortunately as horrific mysan but that there is fact that it's it's going to be much higher. let me uh bring saib into this as well, any thoughts, saib on what netanyahu and the other extremists in his government are hoping to achieve as they brush aside all warnings of humanitarian catastrophe if they indeed push ahead with this ground invasion. netanyahu's plan and all along with his fascist entrage around him as to achieve.
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what they call it israel, which is this is the lecud party ideology which is was mancipated by jobotski the founder of this. nationalist and religious zionism at the time, which is to establish greater israel within palestine, whole historical palestine and to start the claims the palestinian, they were working on that from 1948 onwards, today there is an opportunity for them to to cleanse the palestinians as they declared so many times their own officials and intent of the genocide was ethnically cleanse the gaza strip, empty gaza, but egypt so so when netanyahu uses words like total victory, is he pandering to, as you say, 93% of israelis
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who are still pro war and and supporting what the israeli occupation force is committing in the gaza strip, there is two factors in here: "there is one external factor when he says beside the western leaders, western leaders who came to support him, we are finding fighting to defend the civilized world, that's what he bted to them, and the other one to the zianist entity population, which they know, most of them duel citizens who came from east europe or somewhere, you cannot live in peace and safety in here unless i cleanse the gaza strip and..." to help me in fighting them, since you see from the north and from the gaza, around gaza area, there is nearly for 30000 settlers who are rooming the zinis entity and they feel they cannot go back till he netanyahu achieve
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what he calls the total victory, the total victory for to as again it have two sides, these settlers they they cannot uh... sustain them in there unless netanyahu impose his militarily well or find another diplomatic or political solution for the west as well they cannot sustain this project the the advanced military base of the united states of america which joe biden in 1986 said if there was israel was the best investment of three billion dollar and there was no israel there we have to invent israel which is serve the... of hegemony in west asia and and create an harbor for such regimes we have in the arab world today, so they have to sustain their hegem by gaining the the balance of power again and building up the zist entity
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which collapsed under the the the the direct attacks of the palestinal resistance is show this is hallow project and they they want to... to gain confidence in that project and they want to build it again, and this is what nathaniau tried to sell them, absolutely uh, you mentioned the uh pro- war sentiment in the zionist entity uh, let's fill our viewers in on what people in the uk think of what's happening in palestine, most britain support immediate end to the us israeli genocidal war on the gaza strip, earlier this week, as matter of fact, we caught up with some of them at emergency. outside the british prime minister's office in central london and asked what they made of their government's refusal to demand immediate permanent cease fire and is continued political and military support for a partide israel. here's what they had to say: since day one the ask has been for a
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cease fire. that is the only way that we can actually provide proper help to the people of gaza. they are children, 13,00 children that have been killed, there are tens of thousands that have been mamed, have lost limbs. are people that are starving, that are dehydrated, that are dying from dehydration, and yet our prime minister and our foreign secretary cannot even call for an enter hostilities, what kind of disturbed and dystopian world are we in, we're asking for peace is become slander, um, i just do not understand, i cannot comprehend what more needs to be done, do they need to see 1 million garzans being exterminated on the tvs or drowning in the mediterranean sea, because that is the options that israel is giving them. "uk government needs to step up and um call for an immediate and uh uh cease fire uh and i think it's time that politicians um started lead leading with humanity and dignity. we need to get the message across to them that that they have to stop supporting
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this, without without their support um israel would be forced to stop, but for the last four months they have waved this genocide through and they have enabled this." side and we can't allow this to continue, they already up to nearly 30,00 innocent people getting killed and that's that's except not only not only it's not considered. a friendly ally or something, it's going to be selling arms as well. we urged the worldwide especially british government to realize there no, you're not supporting us jews, but this this supporting this this wicked zionist regime, you're not supporting jewish people at all. our government's position has been disgraceful for last 75 years. what we're seeing right now is an extension of that disgraceful policy, the complete bias towards towards israel and it's a partide state. "what we're looking for here in the uk is one hold our government account, two us on the
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streets making sure that we are implementing boycot, diversity and sanctions and best our ability, and that's what we continue to do, all right, disman, um, just uh, the demonstration there, and we've seen many of them, over the past few months, they must have driven home the point to the politicians here, that the people want..." an end to this genocide and they want it now, do you think four months on, more than four months on, we are at that tipping point perhaps? uh, i would like to say yes, but unfortunately the way i say it that these politicians uh, they had a vote recently, and they voted for this massacre to continue, so their interests are in, zionist america and zianist israel uh war, because war is business and war is
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profit, and again the few families, they're making lots and lots of money from this genocide, and do not have the interest of the british people at all, so they're going to follow the leader and the leader at the moment comes out of the usa, so i can't. see them uh stopping, neither with the so-called opposition, the zionist labor party understammer is also promoting genocide. now they are complices, but not only the accomplices, they're physically assisting zionist israel to massacre men, women and children in their thousands, yes, in their thousands, 24 hours. seven days a week, and that's what's going on, regardless of what
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some of the politicians may say, you look at the result, you look at their actions and look at the results of their actions and the results of their actions is they're building up more and more of of military equipment in the far in the middle east, also the far east, but also in ukraine as well, they are continuing the war because it's good, israel has always been built on war, yeah, since it's and every time they create a war, they become richer, and that's exactly what's happening, you you mentioned um, the chief accomplice uh, the united states and and politicians awards, not matching their actions, that takes me to my next question, which i'd like to put to uh, cb, as we speak, the u.s. senate has passed a $95 billion dollar bill. with aid for ukraine, for israel and for taiwan, $14 billion dollars of that,
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some will go to apartide israel, yet at the same time you hear both the biden administration and its european allies urging restraint instead of slapping sanctions on the israeli regime, same as did at russia over ukraine, double standard wouldn't you say, it's not just double standards, you see this is why if you see the... action of the zis entity leaders especially netanyahu and this bingaviras morches, all of these fis even the president of the zianist entity herzok himself, they all speak of dehumanizing the palestinian, killing the palestinians continuing with the genocide, they they didn't you see after the the south africans case, even in the in the international court of justice demon rolling
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there is committing genocide acts is a plausible calling it and still they didn't listen and they you see yesterday they commit massacer in rafah and because they they are they having some western leaders like the united states of america which is my friend to the leader of the back biden genocidal joe is called. in the west today and the united states of america, they they don't care, the european show, they say, we are concerned, that's all, concerned for the lack of water, concerned for the... of medicine, concern for the lack of shelter, concern for the high numbers of children being killed and women, and what joe says, joe biden, he asked them to be gentle, to how how gentle, kill gently, as some singer was killing me softly, maybe, it's bathatic, and they are really involved
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in genocide up to their, you know, eyes, and this is... why they they send the 14 billion for the for the netanyahu because as i said biden is a zionist uh sonak he called the the case in the international court of justice baseless till today and the zionist labor party is even won't entertain the idea of seiz fire so the whole is have racist white supremacist attitude. uh, they think killing the palestinian is is nothing. it is is not. gentlemen, stay with me, as i remind our viewers, you're watching gaza under attack with me said pureza, where we take a deep dive into the news surrounding the us israeli carnage in the gaza strip. no sane person, whatever their religion would support the genocidal state of israel today, given the
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live barbarism the world is watching. well, those are the words of orthodox jewish rabbi. that israel does not speak for jews and we see what's going on in gaza, terrible, terrible what we see, how can human being not be opposing that? it's impossible all this brutality, not to speak about the occupation, but the brutality, it's unbelievable, it's... unbelievable what's going on here? i can tell you after seeing these pictures what's going on there, i cannot sleep in the night, i get crazy, i can't understand how can people behave like that, and really i can't understand how the world can be so silent and not even even to support that, it's it's
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unbelievable, it's really not the question why a person is against the state of is. in today's day, when everything is peace, then we are still against the state of israel, then it's a question, but today, today it's not a question, the question is for everybody what looks or making a blind eye, what's going on there for the whole genocide, what's going on there, and they say that this is self-defense, 11,00 children killed is self-defense, the brutality what's going on? on there, this is self-defense, how can say people say this is self-defense? a war is not a new thing on the world, a war on the world is since the creation of the world, even the first day of the world, the two sons of adam and hava has make a war, kin and heel, since then it's a tradition, but but the human race
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to make wars, but a war have look like, it looks like. not this brutality what you see now in gaza, this is crazy, this is not a war, this is called real, real real genocide. rabbi back went to say that claims to an israeli promise land are against the torah, and jews have been sent into exile by the decree of god. it's 200 that god promiseland for the jews. however, what the zien is ignoring is that in the same that is written. many times that the promise land was only under certain conditions, if we keep a high moral of life, if not, it's written the tour, many times that we will be exiled of this land, and when you look in the books of the prophets, you will see that god sent us the prophets to warn us to repent, if not we will be exiled, and when you look in the end of
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yum, you will see we were exiled by the hand of god, the same god to promise as land get away from us, this is what design is ignoring, the just waving promise land, but they ignoring that the same god who gives the land for us, he took it away from us, god sent us into exile, we are not rebelling against god, we are believing jews, believing don't means when it's light, when it's light you don't have to believe, then you see, believing means even it looks for you dark, you still believe in god, everything is for your favor, everything. a person who believes in god, don't rebell against the decree of god. if we are in exile by divine decree, we are not rebelling against god, we're not going out of exile. by force, going out of exile by force is a rebellion against almighty. arab league secretary general ahmad abud has warned that tensions in the middle
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east would be inflamed an unprecedented way if the us does not stop israel from forcefully displacing palestinians from the gaza strip and the west bank. israel with its current actions threatens the continuity of the agreements it signed with it, especially from a country... like egypt and a country like jordan, israel thinking about forcing the transfer of palestinians outside their lands, whether in gaza or the west bank, and thus evacuating this. this arena is for the israeli people. this means facing a thousand years to come, and therefore they must reason and retreat from these policies. i believe that it's necessary and vital if not a daily matter for the united states to order israel to stop these policies. otherwise, the middle east will be inflamed an unprecedented way. continue the conversation with my guests desmond thompson and saip shath as we enter the final segment of this show and i'll want to stay with sayap briefly if possible um the arab league is struggling to ward off claims,
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it hasn't done more to aid palestinians at the moment, how do you see it? the arab league, to be honest when we watch the arab league and is islamic organization meeting of 57 countries on october. after the attack on gaza and all of them they didn't manage even to brusherize with egypt including the z entity to bring even a bottle of water inside at the time of gaza, this is shows the lack of power and the lack of well, since the arab league if they were serious about saving lives in gaza and stop the genacide, you could have stopped it straight away with imposing ol embargo by the saudis, the emirates, the qataris and when when qatar just because of the the yemanies control of
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babel, not letting the zinest entity shipments and they decided to stop the liquid gas from going from, that's affected the prices all over europe, so you can see the effect straight away, when you see a country like yemen alone exposes how hollow and even the the united states of america's almighty armada in in in the red sea when they the the yemenis execute 10 maratham's operation within a few days against ship associated with the enemy, the z enemy and the the who sponsored it with the british and the americans, and this is can show there is action can be, i'm really sorry to interrupt you, i want to get one final thought from uh desman as well if that's okay and that is... many moving parts in the region as you heard mentioned there, chief state actors, non-state actors, um, but the ground assault potentially on rafa is the red line, what
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might be some of the ramifications of that? well, again as i mentioned, you look at people's actions, yeah, organizations actions and see what the results are, so the results for me show very little any support. of stopping a extermination of a civilian de military defenceless civilian and horrendous crime to kill any race, any religion, any class of people in such a way, regardless of one's political or religious or moral and so on, it is just evil, and they haven't done, they haven't... done anything that i can see that's positive to stop the killing, stop the extermination, that's what that's how i see
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it, and if they if they really had any moral backbone, they would have done it months ago, and yet they didn't, yet they didn't, unfortunately, all right, we're going to have to leave it there, desmond thompson, and saib shah, thank you for joining us and sharing your thoughts with us and thank you for spending time. uh gaza under attack will be back tomorrow, until then continue to keep palestine in your hearts.
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1500 is the number of political prisoners who are still languishing in the presence of the al khalifa regime in bahrain which have housed 500 detainees over the years since the beginning of the february 14th 2011 bahraini revolution. members of the bahraini opposition have been judged in illegitimate courts on political, sectarian and religious grounds with fabricated malicious charges. many political details. have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment with revocation of citizenship based on confessions extracted under torture in brutalizing interrogation rooms with ready-made charges determined by the executioners, and yet the revolution lingers to its 13th year. bahrain continues to rise up this week on the mediast stream.
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