aid that would barely fit two trucks to take many days to reach the gaza shores, a us gaza port that would take 60 days to build, yet there are palestinians in the north of the gaza strip who are fighting for their lives due to their starvation. this is while the us president and israeli prime minister are reportedly at odds over israel's rafa offensive with netanyahu threatening to go ahead with it, with biden saying that is the us red line, and all of this happening while the israeli regime is killing palestinians with us made bombs, since the us says israel has the... to defend itself, all of these angles and lot more coming up in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests. alberto garcia watson, political analyst and activist, joins us from malaga, spain. also joining us is zengler, author and political activist us from montreal. welcome, gentlemen, alberto watson, let me first start with you, the issue of aid. uh we know that

is very contentious topic, we're looking at uh one that has gone from hypocrisy uh even um being so illogical that some are saying that that's just plain stupidity the way that the approaches are being made, we can talk about how the us has said it will take 60 days for this gaza port to be built, while there are eight trucks that are waiting at the border crossings and the un has come out and said but the best way to deliver aid is through the land. yet the us also has opted to drop food uh parcels from the air uh why are we looking at this issue the way that it's being put out there from the us and also i should say the eu but actually the western perspective is absolutely ridiculous in this case we have hundreds of lories and trucks waiting outside the rafa border and the egyptian side ready to bring aid food

medicines, water and and everything needed for a catastrophic situation that at least 567 people that are on the erge of a starvation are suffering in in in the gas strip, the fact you're throwing with parachutes food just few thousand meals per day that is not going to help anything at all when we're talking about 2.3 million people waiting for food and the the building of a port, a port, how ridiculous is that to wait two more months, it's it's going to be nobody left by the time that they finish building the port, but actually the port is not there to bring humanitarian aid, it's actually and most probably for the exploitation of the gas that has been found and the coast of gas are 1.4 trillion cubic meters of gas. that the

israelis and the americans are going to exploit stealing away from the gas and so this is absolutely and ridiculous excuse of building a port that it's going to take two months to bring humanitarian aid when thousands and thousands of tons of food are waiting just meters away in the uh gaza of border with with egypt all right soler let's uh dive into this a little bit deeper uh so i'm the us president for example and you have a report in front of you given by the pentagon that states it will take 60 days for this port to be built. there's another report that's staring the us president in the face that has come out from the un saying that there's almost 700 thousand gazens that are dying in the north of the gaza strip. these of are people who are starving and they're fighting for their life. when you look at the timeline versus that and then making that announcement knowing all the other options that are out. what does that say? well, it

says the american government doesn't care about the 700 thousand palestinians that are starving, but we knew that, they don't care about the people that israel's. been slaughtering uh, this is think a public relations exercise of course, and um, if the us uh decided to put some pressure on israel to demand israel start letting trucks into gaza, that could happen uh quite quickly, and uh, they don't want to do that, they they want to make a big public relations exercise that they are trying to do something about the starvation, um, while not really doing anything about the starvation. taking a look at the uh uh another perhaps implication of this uh, i don't for you what you think about alberto watson, and that is the fact that if the us says it takes two months for this gaza port to be built, do you think that that

maybe is uh by design that maybe the us, along with israel obviously want this 60 days to be out there in order for israel to achieve any of its military. which one of them, which it has not been able to do is to defeat the hamas fighters. absolutely, two months, but actually is a time that israel needs supposedly to get rid of exterminate the hamas movement and the gaza strip, and that's absolutely ridiculous. the situation cannot wait two months, the situation cannot wait two weeks, we talking about hundreds of thousands of gaza people. that are actually in the verge of dying of a salvation, and those that are not dying by a salvation, they're dying by the bombs thrown, the american bombs thrown by the israeli forces, or diseases, because there no uh hospitals that are working at this point, because

israel made sure that the majority of the hospitals were bombed just like the schools, the universities, every single structure, every single single critical structure, israel has bombed, and over the okay. the united states, the united states is just making time, it's prolonging two more months, but actually the whole world is demanding and as a permanent, immediate sease fire, two months to build a port, when we have, as i said before, hundreds of thousands of tons of food, aid of all types and medicines, just few meters away, it just shows that the coordination between israel and the united states is stronger than ever, well you have this - tell report that came out of the if you heard about it, it's a us one uh just days ago it was released and one of the things that it talked about was hamas, it is said israel will probably face a lingering armed resistance from hamas for years to come and that the israeli military will struggle to neutralize hamas's underground

infrastructure, allowing insurgents, they call them insurgents, we call them fighters, to hide, regain strength and surprise israely forces, given this intel report and given this harsh reality and slap in the... of israel, do you think that then what what aims does israel have to continue this aggression on the gaza strip? first of all, do you agree with what this report has revealed? oh, mean i think that that's the report is is absolutely correct and i would i would extend it out further so long as israel imposes a system of apartide of occupation of... violence against palestinians, there's going to be some form of armed resistance, of course there is, they know that, uh, that is the history of of colonialism, um, maybe israel could wipe out palestinians so successfully uh, that that, there wasn't

resistance, but even, i mean, that's you know, hard to imagine, they could drive them to lebanon, they could drive them to jordan, they'll probably still be resistance, so long as they imposed this brutal colonial system, that there's... going to be a form of resistance now, more concretely in gaza, or specifically about hamas, that's also the case. i mean, this is a, this is a uh, you gorilla of warfare, uh, and the population uh in gaza does not like the brutal uh uh occupier that is, slaughtered more than 30,000, that expelled most of them uh, 70 some years ago, that's why they're in the gaza strip because they were driven from their homes with... in uh parts of what is now current day israel um and so so this is this is a reality that israely government knows this their rhetoric about defeating hamas is is never been something that i believe that the certainly the leadership of the israeli military took seriously they knew

this was going to continue uh that they weren't going to be suc successful on that and in fact i i think it's in large part just a cover for uh justifying the... you know genocide and and that's what we're i think seeing with rapha is that this whole rhetoric about israel needing to go defeat the last remnance of hamas and rafa and and whatnot is just of course. uh part of a desire to drive as many palestinians out to drive them into egypt or or where wherever, um, now does israel have the means? i mean, israel clearly we see within israeli uh public um the support for this genocidal uh, quite frankly, i don't even want to use the word genocide anymore, more use the word holocaust that israel's uh starvation and mass slaughter policy in gaza, the israeli public seems pretty on board. "they might not be totally supportive of benjamin netanyahu, but they seem pretty on board with these policies, so

um, how do we reign in this this nuclear armed country, um, and the obvious ways of reigning it in are that the us stops providing the bombs, uh, that countries like canada, which where where i live, which has ramped up arms deliveries to israel since uh, this slaughter campaign, uh, that it stopped that, uh, that it, at least start talking." what's going on in the proper language, start referring it as a genocide, uh, stop enabling all these kind of policies, and so so long as there's this backing principally from the us, but also from the other anglosphere and nato countries, right? uh, israel has the means, sure. well, i think the the publications that are out there, whether websites uh, or what have you are picking up on this and are really covering it, i think, um, alberto watson, for example, headlines reading, providing both bombs and food, biden puts... himself in the middle of gaza's war, they call it a war, we call it an onslot. and another one that says more than 100 people

were killed and hundreds more were injured last month of a crowd gathered around the convoy, stating you can't have a policy of giving aid and giving israel the weapons to bomb the food trucks and kill the palestinians who have gathered around it at the same time. so what is the thinking of the us, or should i say the strategy? what is it doing? is this all to put it out? there and have the audience figure it out? well, biden knows that he's got elections on the 5th of november and he has to attract the uh vote of those people that voted for him in the past, that are states like michigan and others uh with total of over 300,00 people that have in the primaries voted and committed vote, which represents a big amount. actually uh uh very very high percentage of the votes that actually if we have this elections that are

going to be quite tight between donald trump and joe biden he's gonna need so most probably he's been trying to attract back this uh votes from this say arabs and uh muslims and young the base of the democrat party that is now quite far away politically and ideologically from joe biden, so yes, it is, it sounds absurd, we're gonna help, we're going to bring food, we're going to bring uh uh construct aport to bring the humanitarian aid, but at the same time, all the people getting killed in gaza, the dozens of thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, are killed with american weapons, so you cannot provide weapons and at the same time intend and pretend to be uh... to actually care for this population when actually you providing everything needed to

provoke what it was actually mentioned before, not just a genocide but a holocaust as a colleague in montreal said, and it's actually true, this is it's absurd, it's cynical and and and it's ironic that you try to uh so you pretend that you're interested or you are very very careful with the situation and concern about the the situation. of all the thousands of people dying and more that are going to die, it was a un report a couple of months ago saying that in the situation continuous like this, this was at the end of december, we will have actually more people dying of salvation and diseases than those that are killed by the bombs that the united states give israel, so the situation is dramatic and united states could stop it and they can stop it very very fast, but they don't have an interest, there are as interested as israel is in keeping on, they're never going to finish with hamas, the actually the biggest factory of resistance

ever existed, the state of israel, because every single member of the palestinian resistance, you're going to find 10 more members in the next few years, all those children that will survive are traumatized for life and they will fight back. all right, um, we're going to get into a stat on the children which the unra gave out, which is very start. but on the us support for israel we're kind between and the us president come out in the open now uh on what we're looking at eve zangler and the most recent indication of that is what uh you have had uh this um very popular and stanch supporter of the israeli cabinet in particular netanyahu and that came from chuck schumer. chuck schumer has come out and said that uh he believes and i'm quoting him a new election is the only

way to allow for healthy and open decision making process about the future of israel. he's the highest ranking jewish politician in the us. first of all, what's your reaction to him calling for new elections? and by the way, that did come out in one way or another in that us intel report that we just mentioned few minutes ago. yeah, i think that they they don't like um some of the ways that netan yahoo is uh uh managing some of this. i i don't, i think that the broad, the u.s. is supportive of the broad outlines of what... israel's doing in gaza, but but there are they, i don't think they like the optics of uh ben gadvir, smaldich, some of the hardline factions, extremist factions in the netanyahu government, and uh, benny gance would be a preferable face uh, and he probably be a little bit more um compliant with what us,

how us would want to lead this, um, now... then, but uh, biden has also said that he's not, while, while he thinks that netanyahu is doing things that are against israel's interests, he's not going to stop, um, and that he doesn't want them to go into rafa, he's not going to stop the weapons, uh, deliveries, so so it's quite a contradictory position uh, how biden is said that publicly, um, i, i think they i think they would like, they know that the israeli public doesn't really like netanyahu anymore, and that that elections would probably serve uh us interests, so you would have a new government that's more uh, better kind of optics and and is is um you know willing to be a bit more compliant with the us and i think they so they want they would like to see netanyahu go and i think that probably is what schumer, i

i'm a critic of uh of us coup policies and us interference around the world uh... and the us of course has overthrown governments in dozens and dozens of countries. um, in this case, i i'm uh, i sort of, i don't like the idea of the us interfering uh, because that's usually a bad thing, but in this case, if they interfere and make slightly less bad um uh regime in place, maybe that will be uh for the better, um, maybe the the starvation policy won't be as as uh horrendous, um, but this is mostly about managing the uh the sort of a pro israel policy of of how to uh what's the better optics and what's the you know there's some things that they go a little too far for uh for washington's liking? well we know that this unshakable bond between the two is never going to go away based on what we've seen for the past decades obviously alberto watson but what was reported first was that biden netanyahu uh have this rift

it's on public display uh headlines reading that uh bb. hurting israel more than helping it, something that uh, the us president joe biden had said, um, and that they were a collision course, and now you have chuck schumer uh coming out, and he's the leader of the us senate who has said uh, that you know there's got to be new elections, not only that, uh, there's also indications from him based on the statements he made uh that uh the question of the aid for the defense of israel and the even the un uh assistance that us gives it. and restrictions on the use of us weapons by the iol forces is something that needs to be looked at based on what chuck schumer has said, so we looking at this again the leveled against netanyahu for this to go to the way where they want netanyahu out and will that actually become a reality you think they want netanyahu out, netanyahu is not wanted in the united states, but he's

not wanted in israel either, so situation is that for the... would not change much because when when there wasid or sharon and shimon perez and never stopped, even jisak rabin, the great jisak rabin the signed the os law courts when he was minister of defense during the first cifada, he created this doctrine of breaking the bones of the little children that were throwing stones, so it's it's whoever you put there - is is actually going to react in the same way towards the palestinian certainly cleansing and kill as many as you can, but the thing with benjamin netanyahu is that with his cabinet of extremis and fascists that he surround. with looks like we may have lost alberto watson. all right, eve zanger, let me come out you. albert watson, we just lost you there at the

end, if you can repeat the end of your statement there. i was mentioning that it's not much of a difference if you have a jahilf or if you have an sharon, all of them are war criminals, but the way that this new cabinet - with behamin netanyahu and smotrich and and bengivier and his big bunch of fascist supremacists that are in the government, give a real bad name for the united states and for the western world in general. this is the very very first time that israel is brought in front of a international tribunal of of justice, and this supporting israel at this moment for the united states is something really terrible to do. they do... for their interests obviously, but would do, they will do whatever it takes to get rid of bahami, netanyahu and put someone, like they have done so many times, hundreds of times since

the second world war, change the presidents and put them to work in the in the payrow, well maybe that's why the us is after that, and it's because of what the commissioner general of the un relief and works agency, onra has said, philippe lazarini and eves dengler, i'm going to direct you to this particular stat, the number of children reported killed in just over four months in gaza is higher than the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world combined. so what, first of all, what, what's your reaction to that, and uh, do you think that that's something that the us has has taken into consideration when it comes to the military assistance that is given israel? i think that's absolute unbelievable, and if you if you go get into the stats even more, you think it through a little bit more, mean we're talking about... very small, we're talking about 2 million people versus wars where countries there is 20, 30, 40 million people or even bigger countries, so this is

this is an, that's an absolutely astounding statistic, you know ukraine, i think it's like 500 um children, 550 children killed in two years, ukraine's a country of 40 million, around 40 million people, guys is just over 2 million people, this is absolutely beyond um, obviously anybody with an ounce of humanist ethos in their in their mind and body, obviously this leads to stopping the simplest thing, stopping the weapons, the simplest don't directly contribute to killing more babies and children, obviously that's what the canadian, us and other governments giving selling or giving those weapons need to do, will they? mean, they've seen these. numbers go up, this is not, this is now put together i think a very powerful way, but this is we've seen this, and and of course this number is an underect, we still know there's many children under the rubble, let alone

starvation questions, this is beyond belief, thank you, we're unfortunately going to have to end it there, that was angler, author and political activist montreal, alberto garcia watson, thank you, political analyst and activist from malaga, spain, with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight from the team, it's goodbye to delegitimize the government of gaza, the main official side, which is the one that should be disturb distributing and dividing the the goods and the aid, but all the tribes in gaza have together. unified stood with very honorable stance and we salute them, this dignified position, we salute them, and we praise their very significant stance in a

very sensitive, very critical time, which where the enemy is trying to take advantage the suffering, they're trying to take advantage of the famin in order to blackmail them and to try to let them succum to their collaborators in order to as a result succum to the enemy. in that area which is the government of gaza, of course their awareness of this issue is very important, it is part their patience, it is part of their sacrifice, it is part of their steadfastness, and with all of this criminality from the israeli side, all these killing from the israel side, and the other side there's also... very high level of set fastness from the fighters of the resistance and from the various resistance factions and the society in gaza, they people, they sons of the

palestinian community. they is clear that there is failure, this is a continuous failure, and this is defeat that grows at the level, depending on the level of steadfastness and sacrifice of the palestinians, this grows and it becomes even worse for the israelis, they did not understand and learn from the level of all of these crimes that they have committed in the level even of this assistance that they have, despite all of this assistance that they have from the united states, they were still... not able to break the will of the palestinian people, they were not able to break the resistance, the fighters or the people of gaza, all this at the level of studfastness and resilience that the israeli enemy has not been able up until now with more than half year with this level of destruction and famon and hunger and killing, they were not able to achieve their declared objectives, that they

retrieve their prisoners. no, they are killing them with their own hands. were they able to disintegrate and liquidate the resistance factions and to end their their fighting, to end their struggle, to end their their arsenal? no, they were not able to. were they able to reach their objective in completely displacing the palestinian people from the gaza strip, the palestinian people continue to be step step fast and remain on their land, despite the fact that the israeli enemy is trying to create a non-livable environment in the gazastrip, they are destroyed. everything that has to do with life, any form of life, the are ending, even the livestock, the are destroying it, they're killing it with the phosphorus bombs, any form of life, they're trying to kill it, and this very fascist government and this army and the continuous war and killing against the people continue to be strong and set fast, and with this murderous and crime that

they are committing, they're trying. present it as a military achievement, this is not an achievement, this does not represent any sort of victory, the israeli enemy, as they continue to fail, day by day, they are also paying very high price for this aggression, very high economic price, that is also a an ascending ladder, they're paying more and more day by day, they have internal problems and this is quite clear, the... are also the also the psychological and mental state, which has reached the fact that there is a collapse of their mental state of hundreds of thousands of these enemies, they have are either in shock or they have psychological problems, mental issues, and they are clearly running away from any service for to the army or anyone who wants to be has to serve with the army.