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Understanding 9/11tv Gaza Under Attack Gazas Ceasfire Stumble PRESSTV March 8, 2024 12:02pm-12:31pm IRST
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to avert famon, there must be road access to gaza's north, words from the world food program, after apartide israel turns back, a convoy trying to get food into gaza. hello everyone, and welcome back to gaza under attack, i'm said puraza. u.s. israeli bombs continue to rain down on. palestinians in
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gaza as talks for a ceasefire grind out in cairo, egypt. hamas has presented its proposal for a ceastfire agreement to mediators. the israeli regime has not sent any negotiators to the talks. what will their response be? lebanon's hezbulah has launched heavy rocket barrages at an israeli kibutsum in the north of the 1948 occupied territories in response to an air raid that killed three civilians in southern lebanon. the association of southeast asia. nations asean have called for immediate and durable humanitarian sease fire in the bessieg territory as the holy month of ramadan approaches, and apartied israel's war cabinet minister benny gance in london after spending two days meeting power brokers in washington. is this the beginning of the end for benjamin netanyahu? in only five months, the us europe backed israeli genocidal campaign in gaza, has killed more than 30,00 palestinians and wounded over 70%. 2 thous others. with us on
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this edition of the program, british palestinian student and activist tarek othman and rick sterling, veteran journalist working with the la progressive, anti-war, and almaya deen, to name just few. rick joins us via skype from the bay area in california, usa. thank you both for being here. i'll start with you rick, biden gave the impression a cease fire was as good as done and dusted. yet here we are, what do you think are the stumbling blocks to a cessation of violence at the moment? well, the main stumbling block of is is the united states refusal to demand that israel uh stop its genocide, there have been three united nations security council resolutions that the united states alone has has vetoed. um, the latest manipulation and trick is for the us to say that hamas is...
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responsible, but in truth, um, it's it's the us and and the israely government. what do you make of the us government's claim of putting pressure on israel to agree to a truth, i'll be a temporary and captive swap? well, i think they definitely want fake leaf, of and joe biden and joe biden's team is in, they realize they're in big. because the majority of the population in the us and and even more so in the democratic party are are are supporting a ceastfire, so they're out a lim, but they're so beholden to azionist forces in the united states that they have to do this dance where they pretend to be calling and pushing for a cease fire and in apporing the the slaughter going on there, but at the same time they want to... give
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israel more time to try to achieve their goal, which is um uh not achievable, exactly, and of course um they continue to veto un security council resolutions calling for immediate cease fire, not to mention the continuing flow of american weapons and money uh to israel. tarek, let me come to you for the next one, um, how does... all of this make you feel that you know more than 5 months on 152 days on 3ous, more than 30,00 people killed, more than 72,00 people of wounded, and yet not an immediate permanence fire. i don't know you know what what words there i left to describe um the situation in gaza right now and situation in palestine um every combination of of condemnation and
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visual imagery and visual description has been used, um, every, you know, every poet has used every last, you know, description they can think of, and i'm not going to... better describe that i you know we as all palestinians as all you know people are seeing get you know see a genocide and fold with you with their own eyes on camera on instagram on social media whilst our political class are 100% backing it we've completely been lost for words there's nothing that can describe it um what kind of action will you take because we're an election year um not just here in the uk, but in the states and more than 50 other countries, um, when you see this dithering on the part of the political class here, as you put it, be at the conservatives or labor, um, someone as young as you and and the likes of you out there, how how will you get back at
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these people, at these people in power who can stop genocide but won but won't or haven't so far? um, well, very simply, i would refuse to vote for any of these supp. make the comment that if i was to not vote for kiss dar or labor that would make a conservative leadership more likely. the very simple fact is that if we're going to profess to be in a democracy then i have every right to have a party that represents me. if if we are in a profess democracy, why i being forced in practically to vote for people who we all know don't represent me? and have - no intention of representing me and the vast majority of the british public, which as i'm sure you understand, 67%, i believe, 66, 66% um uh supporter immediate seasfire, and yet like you say there's a complete you know um
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undemocratic and extremist attitude towards this that has justified as we speak the genocide of my people and i'm not going to you vote or put my support behind anyone yeah that hasn't done everything in their power possible to to to stop that and the rise in the number of independent candidates and minor parties is probably going to put an end to that political deopoly in in west uh that is the hope rick we've passed 150 days as i mentioned earlier of this relentless bombardment what is your assessment of where things stand? well in... 1967 the us launched a surprise attack its arab neighbors and the in six days they were able to decimate the uh the air forces of those neighbors and and win that war uh in contrast we've got 150 days or
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five full months of israeli slaughter, massacre and killing and they are nowhere near achieving their goals, the palestinian resistance has withstood this onslot, the slaughter, and um, and i think the israeli government is desperate, because they they can see that their their goal of winning a quick victory is is not being achieved, they can see that the world is increasingly turning against them even the west, so that the us is is, you know, almost alone, they're not entirely alone, germany and the uk and france are are still supporting them, but... um let less and less so, so the pressure is building and and net yahoo is is desperate and in a way the us is desperate to see this come to an end, it sure is desperate, there's of course divisions inside the israeli
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so-called war cabinet, we'll talk about that a little uh later in the in the program, but meantime the us, qatar and egypt we can achieve a cefire, but it is important that everyone understands the importance of achieving this and to take responsibility for the decisions to be taken in this regard. there must be a clear political will that goes along with this, and some countries have abilities like the united states of america, and there is development there in the remarks
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that were said by the american vice president last night when she spoke about the importance of immediate cease fire. rick, let me come to you for this one as well, the... "israelis have not bothered to send any negotiators to these talks going on in cairo, does this tell you just how little regard they have for the whole process? well..." it's it's an indicator and it's going to be interesting to see what they report back to the international court of justice because they're coming up on the deadline where they have to report um meanwhile the uh their overlords in washington um are in deep trouble uh just as in in in british politics we're seeing up peoples with george gallaway winning a landslide victory uh seven days ago we had a democ democratic party primary race in michigan, which is very key state in the united states electoral election process and
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and over 100 thousand registered democrats voted no uncommitted, so this is a sign, ideologically biden is a zionist, he's dependent on zionist funds and yet most of the party is is not feeling that way and is increasingly. wondering what the heck is going on, so it's the same thing as as your guest from from britain uh was saying where there's you know increasingly contradiction between um democracy and what we're seeing in reality. does those um do those electoral developments in the in the states perhaps explain the biten administration's eagerness uh to claim victory in some kind of a temporary truths, i think they would be very happy to to have that happen uh, but it's a
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bit of smoke screen because they're talking about just like you say, a temporary truth, and whereas other people are saying that we need to have a ceastfire, cease fire that that stops it once and for all. correct, and um, egypt, one of the parties to these ongoing negotiations, could they do more? and and could the arab block overall do more to bring an end to this? um, i think there's a lot they can do to alive the suffering that that guys are are are going through at the moment, um, the borders are still not as open as they should be, um, there's still not enough aid getting through, um, and i don't want to say that's the fault of egypt, and so much as it's the fault of the egyptian leadership, which is an important distinction to make, um, "and i don't, i think we can all agree that egyptian leadership, just as much the arab leadership is not at all
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representative of the of the population of the people in in in in these countries, um, but we are de what, but what we are definitely seeing is very lackloster response, i think all of us um, all of us in all of us arab palestinians are utterly disappointed in what has been, you know, little more than words." messages um and a couple um uh nothing more than so virtual signaling sort of um uh technical achievements of dropping some limited amounts of age yeah when we're talking about the masturbation of two million people um right at their border so of course there's more they can do so what there they could have done over the past not just since 7th of october but for the past 50 years or so. that they've sully, well, well, maybe not completely idally, yeah, but for the per
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yeah, mean the current regime has sat ideally by as they've seen their brothers across the border under siege um for decades now and i can't say i'm um surprised but i'm definitely disappointed and yet some of the normalized ties jordan um i've normalized ties with with israel yeah, and they've used that of course as excuse. all right, uh, let's let me cross over to uh, california again. rick, we'll highlight in a little more detail the position of washington in these talks, um, later in the program, once again, but highlight for me, the impact it is having on the presidential race again, um, especially uh, for joe biden's campaign, and and the likelihood, so it seems of donald trump. going ahead to head with joe biden and what that would mean for the palestinians? well,
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unfortunately we're the palestinians are between rock and a hard place there, because donald trump, while he's very different than joe biden on ukraine and russia, he of course is horrible on on the israeli palestinian conflict, and he's as beholden as biden is to zionist uh... uh and uh pro israel forces in the united states, so uh, we're looking a a pretty grim picture there, um, i think, i mean, really, the... hope has to be in the united states that we can see third parties and alternative parties such as george galloway's tremendous victory the other day um appearing and and offering an alternative because right now for many many decades in the united states there's been no difference in foreign policy between the republicans and the democrats they may differ and be be at
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odds and war on domestic issues but when it comes to foreign policy... it's one foreign policy and one of um that's not pretty and that's a domination and supporting um in the middle east supporting israel um and so that's our reality um things are i think yeah it's it's approaching a breakup point though yeah and that's what they say about the big political the mainstream political parties here too uh the conservatives and labor that they're not uh different. in terms of their approach to the middle east and uh to the israel palestine issue, but let me take moment to um let our viewers know if they have just joined us, this is gaza under attack, a deep dive into the news surrounding the ongoing us led israeli genocidal war on gaza, the blockaded coastal enclave, um, you mentioned george gallaway rick, the
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pro-palestinian politician george galloway has caused a panic in british politics with his landslade. windslide win in the by-elections held in rotschdale, greater manchester, which accorded him a mandate to speak about gaza in the house of commons of the british parliament. gallaway told us, it's time small parties challenged big ones. a genocide is not a small thing, and the international court of justice has already sent israel for trial uh, having concluded that there were was a plausible case for genocide. uh being committed in the gaza strip, that's not a small thing, that doesn't happen every day, but the local politicians here in the council and the national politicians across the consensus of the front benches, want to pretend that it isn't happening, want to disguise that they are deeply involved in it, they're giving cover to it, and even given military uh
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collaboration with it, so you know i always put it to the journal. who implicitly criticized me for raising this genocide, uh, if this by-election was taking place in 1940, when hitler was building death camps for the jews, would anyone have criticized me for highlighting it in a bi-election campaign, of course truthful answer is many of them still would have, because much of the british media was highly supportive of the rise of hitler and mussolini, it must spark a rethink even if not publicly acknowledged that the people are not with the government, they're not with the opposition, so what does that mean? means we need new opposition, means we need new government, and that's where we come in. we are offering a program, and the independents that we will alig with, are offering a different approach, and suddenly it will
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become possible uh for real meaningful political change, you know, "big parties can become small, look at passock in greece, for example, uh, or the so-called french socialist party of mitaron and holland, they are miniscual now, big parties can become small, and small parties can become big. the united states are the chief architect of the bombardment of gaza, yet have pivotal role in the negotiations. here are some words of the us state department spokesperson on the b'. administration's approach to the talks and why washington remains optimistic, deal can still be done. israel has to be careful that in achieving tactical victory it doesn't endure a strategic defeat and they remains our advice to them not to do that. in our view, the obstacles are not surmountable, in
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our not insurmountable, are not insurmon, excuse me, in our view, should be possible to reach an... agreement, we think the proposal that israel put on the table in consultation with the united states and with cutter and egypt is one that hamas should agree to, and it's one that would alleviate the suffering the palestinian people and bring about immediate ceasefire for six weeks, and so we think that agreement can be reached. we have few more minutes to go, let's continue the conversation with man and rick sterling and tarart. let's take each of those soundwites one a time. um, george galloway winning the by-election in rochdale, you alluded to it earlier on, but could this be message national nationally to a bigger audience? how the bigger number of voters out there comes the general election, this win stumping victory by um george galloway, definitely and the message, the message is very clear, the
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message is very clear for everyone to see that the traditional parties no longer represent us as british people, um not just by the way on the issue of gaza, but we've seen the complete you know um indifference of both parties to all sorts of issues of poverty and economy here in the... uk um and we've seen that the the people in this country are simply fed up and part of that of course as we're seeing um george gallaway win, but what's also very crucial is that um second place was neither labor nor conservatives, believe it was david talya an independent candidate, so what we're saying is um a complete you know the demise of the traditional party structure here in the uk. specifically in ronchdale, but what it could be is a sort of bad domen for these um uh politicians and the the leaders of these parties if they don't change tact. speaking
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of changing tac uh benny gance, member of the israeli uh cabinet, war cabinet is here to meet uh david cameron, probably the prime minister, and all we've heard from david cameron saying that israel is an occupying power. that it has a duty under international law to provide aid, that the situation is dreadful, meaning in the gaza strip, and people were starving to death, that's all we're getting from the foreign secretary of the uk, no castling of armed license or or anything like that um to the israeli regime, what do you make of that? um, yeah, i think it's it's very representative of what the british government um, of what their policy has been so far, i think it's... very reminiscent of of a you know tactic in us and israeli media of um shoot and cry or that's that's how the the saying goes of you
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participate and actively encourage the death of people yeah you know and simultaneously shed tears for those that you've murdered and israelis will do it when they pretend like the thousands of dead children are simply you know that they when they pretend that they that they more and those children when they clearly don't, and just like we saw the americans air drop aid into the gaza strip, and we have americans and british politicians time and time again saying that enough, too many people have died, but will simultaneously provide weapons to encourage the killing of more people, absolutely. let me put one final question to to rick, and rick, the biten administration, it is argued is is bargaining above anything else for um a grand bar'. rather, that would include palestinian statehood, security guarantees and recognition of israel by saudi arabia, as palestinian statehood of course, firmly
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opposed by the current prime minister netanjahu. is any of that achievable? well, we can just look at history, because they've been talking about one version or or another the two states solution for you, for 50 years and... "where are we? um, you know, beyond the need for a cease fire, which you know is of course the first priority, we've got a partide in israel and we've got the occupation, and the there has to be some um - the issue has to be dealt with sooner than later, because it's gone on, it's festered for all these years and and it's it's come to this, the united..." states you know has really shown itself, it's not a nonness broker um and there some other international forces need to play play the leading role
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here. all right, thank you for that. that is all the time we have, my thanks to our guests, othman here in the studio with me and rick sterling, catch our earlier episodes by visitingpressv.ir. until next time, continue to keep palestine in your hearts. goodbye. in the streets of the gaza strip, which was suffocating under wave of profound sadness, hopes of getting a loaf of bread turned into
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funeral processions. and sorrow. on the morning that followed the dreadful flower massacre, families buried their hungry, martered children as arab aircrafts didn't hesitate to replay the same aerial drop theater, dropping the packages this time inside zionist israeli settlements of the gaza enclave. is there anything more humiliating and denigrating against a genocide stricken and started people? if aid was the real reason behind the shiraid, then same people who wanted to help should have opened the rafah border, allowing eight trucks into gaza and handing them. over to international or local entities responsible for distributing them to the starving people bate in the form of aid in gaza this week on the media stream. information about palestine abounds on social
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networks. many times without context, they do not allow us to go deeper and understand all the dimensions of a catastrophe that is dragging on for centuries. daniel hardway, chilean mayor of palestinian origin opens a window to palestine. to understand in depth the present... cause of the palestinian people, exploring its history and future prospects. do not miss a window to palestine.
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headlines, israely forces once again kill gozmans waiting for a trucks as a regimes indiscriminate attacks claim more civilian lives. a un expert says israel has launched a starvation campaign against palestinians in gaza by destroying the territory's food system and the us president comes under fire for a state of union address voicing support for aid to gaza while continuing to support israel's campaign of genocide with weaponry.
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