where are you? i saw his, i saw um, the never ending story. hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. almost four and a half months later, the so-called civilized world continues to watch israeli regime's genocide of palestinians in gaza without stopping it, besides bombs targeting the kids in tents, children are passing out from home. with some literally

dying from hunger, there's still little food, little clean water, few supplies, no electricity, no feel, and nowhere safe to go. the nightmare continues, and the majority of the world allows it, except for the access of resistance. well, let me get our guests in on this program, i'd like to welcome them. out of belfast, other and west asia expert, saib shah. and peter ford, former british ambassador to syria out of london. oh, thank you both for being with me on this spotlight, like to start off in belfast, and so at least 28,500 palestinians have been killed in gaza, and now 1.5 million people are in raffa, the most populated place on earth. that is. has

been bombing and threatening a ground invasion, your perspective, what is the israeli regime's goal at this point in time? the israeli regime's goal is the des projects goal from the beginning, to create it israel, a greater israel, and they they want to cleanse the palestinian people out of the gaza strip, they trying to do it in a way which is will look like the pandemic got them. starvation and hunger got the people and voluntary they went and the broke made a hole in the egyptian fence at the border raf near rafah crossing which they call it the philadelphia corridor and that's the ideal scenarios which the zinus entity genocidal of war planning for from the beginning they they were want to push them in a way, they just

want to run for their lives and that's what they doing, they want to create the nightmare scenario for the egyptians and for the palestinian as well, they at the beginning when they they were saying they ask the united nation help to move the palestinians out of rafa, the united nation officials repeatedly told them there is no safe place in gaza and we cannot help in in in. and like of creating waves of refugees out of the gaza strip, that's what they they they were attacking the united nations all along, they wanted now the united nations to help them in in in creating another nakba as the their officials called it at the beginning of their attacks in gaza last october when they call it nakba 2023, this is the the the the the the design and this is coming on the back of uh uh as yesterday the wall street journals of

uh they declare they stated from uh sources in units of america uh joe biden send them tons of of ammunition and weaponry and state of art weaponry uh plus the money which is the congress of course released for them and we know till now joe biden bypass congress twice to arm the zinist entity to continue its genocide. they they they throw a screen smoke screen at the the international community saying they're trying to tell netanyahu to be gentle in in the way with with the palestinian people in in raffa. i can't believe what the the the the the united states of america comes out of with and the western leaders come to they are up to their neck and and the... well, let's look at that,

peter, uh, the israeli regime has no red line, what about its supporters in the west, of do you think there's a red line that they will not let the zionist cross in? this ethnic cleansing campaign against the palestinian nation, because as saib said, i mean again uh recently the united states again gave more weapons, more money, so is there a red line you think for them for the zinanis regime or not? i believe, unfortunately there is no red line experience so far suggests that the the main western powers, america, britain... germany have infinite appetite for palestinin suffering, and there are literally no limits to palestinian suffering which they can endure. this is embarrassing them with their public

opinion, and we saw today in in london and other capitals, huge demonstrations, popular demonstrations against governments and politicians. um, but at the end of the the day uh, they will not do um, what is actually necessary, the americans are ready, okay, unfortunately, we've lost peter, hopefully we'll be able to reestablish that connection, let me cross back over to belfast and saib, um, let's look at the reasons for the complicity of these western countries and not only allowing the regime to do whatever it wants, but basically well, it seems like we have lost, unfortunately seems right now that we have lost our connection um with both the belfast and london and hopefully we'll get to reestablish that as we continue our discussions on the situation of what is happening on the ground still as we have now

going more than four almost four and a half months of this genocide and we're talking about at least 28,500 people being kill but of course estimates say that it's over 30,000, perhaps way over 30,000 as still it is believed that thousands of people are still under the rubble and thousands perhaps of others, their bodies have been buried and mass graves are even decomposed at this point in time. this major tragedy that is taking place on the ground right now in rafa that basically symbolizes what has been happening not only for this four and a half months, but in reality we have seen this take place for 75 years against the palestinian nation, and and now it has reached a point is for a starvation that individuals, they're saying,

fathers are saying that at night they t, they actually tie rocks, tie stones to the stomach their kids and their owns and their family, um, so the hunger pains are less painful and this is the reality that we are now dealing with in gaza as the whole world continues to watch. i'm going to cross back over to belfast and uh i have uh saib back, i believe i have both of you back. thank you so much, sorry about that technical uh difficulty viewers, but back to sap now, the reasons in your perspective. for the complicity of these western countries and allowing the regime, not just allowing them, but enhancing this geneside to take place, what do they get out of it? it's i believe myself, this is the deep state in the united states of america,

the intelligence services and the deep state, they want the zinis entity to continue and the west behind them to continue with the genocide, it's... it's it's an issue to do with their hegemony in in west asia as well, which is, i always want emphasize this point, if they lose the battle in gaza, that's what they the the west believe, then the zinanis entity will be the project of creating this outpost zist entity there to hijiminize the region while they are busy tackling russia and tackling china if we notice the backage from the congress came for three countries, ukraine, taiwan and the zinus entity, that's what shows where is the global battle of the the deep state, the the united states of america and its and mad dogs in the west or

the zin entity, so in if they lose this battle, if they lose the creating again the deterrants and the balance and shifting the balance of power as used to be, for then they will lose west asia and if they lose west asia it will implicate badly on their battle against china especially because they cannot control the growth of chinese, they cannot control after that, the the the balance of power with the russians and with the chinese, so they see it vital to uh, and to to take the mask off and show they are actually mean genocide in doing gaza, and that's why the whole countries in the region if in, even west asia, all of it, they have to line up behind the zinus entity, sorry behind the palestina resistant, and if the palestina resistant... lose this battle which they are not on the ground, they are winning, but the

the heavy price they are making them pay the zinity and the west is with the to do with the civilians, because the the the the resistance is job to to implicate casualty and make the incubation behav prices, it cannot protect the civilian informacture and the population, which is the duty of the arabic countries, okay stay with me? on that buse we're going to get back to we got to get back to that point um but peter your take on what has said, mean is this basically this this war of ideologies that is taking place, mean you are a former um british official political official, your assessment of really what is going on and what is that stake for these western countries to be so um uh basically black and white with this no matter what the israel does, it still gets 100 support support from them? um, well, first of

all, the governments concerned, britain, america, germany, france, are not paying heavy price for the support that they're giving israel, it's an easy political choice for them because they they are not paying very visible price. of course there is a price, for example, the blockade on trade in the red sea is actually hitting the british economy, but people don't know that, they don't realize, so governments think that this is, they get a free pass, there's no penalty to support israel to the hilt, um, and i just want to stress that this is about domestic politics very much, forget the geopolitics, when i was... diplomat, we would talk about the geopolitics, but the politicians were much more interested in the domestic

politics, and that's what's going on here. in the case of britain, the government is enjoying the support of its core right-wing nationalist supporters, and at the moment, it's it's suffering lot, the british government on many fronts, but at least it needs to placate it ' core nationalist far right supporters, that's what support for what about peter, sorry to jump in here, what about you stated earlier that to today was another large demonstration as more and more people um actually show their support for the palestinians, i mean how does that affect british public policy and and go ahead, yeah uh, it's a good question, but the answer is that the people who are marching are not people who are going to... vote for the conservative government anyway, they can be be discounted, they'll vote for for other

parties. this is a foregone conclusion, so the the government reckon that they're not paying a political cost, but if if they did the moral thing, if they did the the sensible thing for british interests, which would be to call for immediate cice fire, then they would pay heavy price, they would lose many the... far right, often racist supporters and they would also lose the support of half of the the media, the not social media obviously, but legacy, mainstream media, much of which is solidly behind israel, and thirdly, they would lose financial support from the supporters of israel, the business people, who are backing the most extreme racing. policies okay, okay, well stop, you had mentioned uh uh about the uh muslim

countries in the region, let's let's look at some of the complicity uh of muslim and arab nations in this genocide against the palestinian, first of all, which countries would you say are working hand in hand with the israeli regime or helping the israeli regime, and why would they do that, what are they getting out of this? there is lots of conflict. i want to just mention one line coming from india through the emirates through saudi arabia through jordan and going in supplying all logistic what's needed by the designist entity. to cancel in a way the the battle, the brave yemani people showing at the red sea, this is part of it, but they are not succeeding, these countries, if we want to just historical back little bit of historical background, the these countries are created as what we call the arab zionis and they are linked together with the zionist

entity, the the emiraties and the saudis and the jordanian are all of this creation. when the the the british designed this entity and these as buffer zone and the protectors of the zionist entity, once the zionist regime collapse in palestine, these these regimes will go, this is what they know, so they know their existence is linked to that, they they don't buy into arabism or islam or whatever, they buy into their this regimes who are ruling there, these people who's ruling... over the emirates or saudi arabia where bidwmed tribes, the british picked them and put made out of them you know brains and royal families and told them as long as they look after the the interest of the british which is now as well translated into the american empire, you will be the ruling families in there once you get out of line

will replace you, and i don't want to go into stories in there, but this is obvious, so this is the the benefit. these countries and always always worked against the palestinian liberation movement or the arab project of unifying the arab world as a one entity during the regime in egypt, because if this if the arab succeeded in building one arabic country, it will be very costly for the americans or for any western regime to attack any arab world and what be and will be very easy for them to cleanse the zinist entity. with this is this uh satanic project out of palestine, so this is where the the the problem is, lot of people in the region don't get it, don't understand uh the benefit of these royal families uh with king of jordan, he cannot even object to what the american base is doing or to what the zin entity

require from him through jordan, the the... he signed the jordanian 1994 deal, peace deal with thesign entity for what? they handed over in 1967 the west bank and jerusalem, they didn't have any kind of the clashes, it's all cover up for beefing up design entity and and protecting it, so they are part of the project, part of what the american design in the region, they cannot go out of line, well i'd like to look at the other side of things now, peter because... because we do have muslim countries or uh groups that on the other hand are very much supportive of the palestinian people, whether we look at what is happening from the yemini people or we look at hezballah or we look at uh uh some of the iraqis or or others, i want to talk about that side of things and the

importance of what is happening on that side the coin, well... what what the yemenes are doing is incredibly important, tonight netanyahu made an important speech, um, he faced today massive demonstrations in tel aviv, many israelis want him to give priority to getting the hostages released rather than his mad plans to crush hamath, and he acknowledged that there were deep economic... problems facing israel, now this is the first time that he has acknowledged these problems, but they are real, and they are caused by the war generally, but most specifically by the blockade operated by ansar allah, the yemen group, and this has resulted just few days

ago in the moodi's credit agent. giving israel a downgrade, which may means that the government will have to pay more money on international money markets to to borrow. this is really serious for israel, tens of thousands of israelies are not able to go to their homes in the north and the south. hundreds of thousands of reserve military reservists are taken away from the their work every week. so this is factor which is often overlooked, similarly the fact that one third the israeli army is tied up in the north because of the pressure from so the the hizballah and ansar allah are basically doing what the americans won't do, which is put

real real pressure on israel to bring this crisis to an end quickly, and we hope so, and with that brings us to the end of the program, like to thank both of you for being with us, author and west asia expert out of belfast, peter ford, former british ambassador to syria. out of london and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimiy, signing out for myself and other group right here in tehran, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye.

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ourselves. our solutions, our favorites in south africa, damn it, we have favorites in south africa, the favorites in south africa are the people who are being repressed by that ugly white regime, we have favorites. i also want to say a word about the situation in israel, the more we learned about the attack, the more horrifying it becomes. more than one thous, 1,0 innocent lives lost including at least 27 americans. these guys make uh... they make al-qaeda look pure, they're pure, they're pure evil, i said from the beginning, the united states make no mistake about it, stands with israel, united states stands with israel.

this is the story of nation that lived here for centuries until an obscure foreign regime emerged and began farming on their lands and brought in new people to replace the old nation. they picked the focal point. of attention of different religions in the region, a highly regarded place at the heart of this arabic, islamic setting. what would have happened if hezbulah had been vanquished? that's perhaps the most significant and upsetting question about the 2006 war. much has been said about the 2006 war, about its motives, the behind the scenes and the circumstances around it. this is for

palestine, in this week's show we'll be explaining how professor david miller created a legal president by making opposition to zionism a protected characteristic. this means that employers can no longer use opposition to zionism as a pretext to discriminate dismiss or destroy people's careers, and now it's established that actually the the not statements which are. out there in any way racist, not anti-semitic, and these are views which is perfectly legitimate for anti-racists to hold as as we had always maintained. it's a very comprehensive um robust judgment, a judgment that's been made by the most senior judge in that particular uh region um and so yes it is very interesting judgment absolutely.

i really would like to meet him later, he seems like such an important figure in the history of iran. what would i do if i wanted to meet the later? my name is caleb mohen, i live in new york city, i'm originally from ohio. نامه رهبر معظم به انقلاب هیچ چیزی نمیگم فقط میگم حرف ایشون گوش کنین برین یک بار قرانو همینطوری بخونیم. it was interesting to see how passionate people were about politics and how willing they were to talk to me about it, because people were more than happy to give me their view. everyone in iran has an opinion.

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