of of just shy of the six months that the us-israeli genocidal war on the palestinians in the gaza strip, the israel regime has shown its true colors yet again by targeting of a us-based aid truck, does this incident show, regardless of the origin of aid, israel targets them to prevent aid from getting to palestinians. in this edition of the spotlight we will look at other targets from the press to hospitals, also a look at the developments in the occupied west bank where deaths and the number of palestine entertainments in particular continue to rise. first let me introduce our guests.

of patrick henniksen, geopolitical analyst joins us from los angeles. also joining us charlotte case, international coordinator at the sami doon palestinian prisoner solidarity network from vancouver. welcome to you both, of patrick henningson, let me first start with you and this incident with the us-based day truck, where seven gaza aid workers, it included uk, us and australian citizens. uh, we saw. lot of uh reaction from this overwhelmingly uh around the world, but in particular one that stood out was the way that the us president donald trump came out and uh compassionately said that uh, this was just such an unfortunate mistake, which it was uh, but when you put that into context of over 32 thousand palestinians that have been murdered all this time, he did not show that kind of compassion for the genocide that's taking place. first give us your reaction on the incident itself and the way that the us president acted to it? yes, yes, well, the

incident itself, it's debatable whether uh, it was accident or not, i think it's very, it's too early to make that determination, uh, it's very specific uh targeting uh, and very specific operation that wasn't just striking one vehicle, but three in total, uh, as the occupants of the vehicle fled to uh, escape in another vehicle, that was hit, when they fled second time, that was hit, so um, to say this was accident is still up, for debate, i think, that's very important. second of all, um, what what does this mean, look at the overall ramifications of it, what, what's the end result? the end result is less aid uh, getting into gaza, um, so we still have to sort of siff through uh, the incident and the after effects of this uh, to find out what it really means going forward. i i really have a hard time believing the israelis did this by accident, i think this more likely was intentional, but intentional with a certain upset. of objectives um to of

come out the other side. um, also it could have been a case where there could have been somebody on board uh that became suddenly became a target uh for the idf. these are all things open for discussion at the present time. as far as donald trump's reaction to it uh and just general western selective outrage, it's selective outrage uh, they can't find it within their uh within their hearts, within their moral or ethical center uh to condemn what's clearly a brutal genocide which is... been carried out for the last six months against the native palestinian population in gaza, but yet it's of time for, you know, moment of silence because of west western aid workers uh were killed, there's been a number of un employees that dozens in fact killed since the beginning of uh this phase of the conflict, not a tear was shed, not a word was raised in concern from any uh us officials or european officials that i could see uh after all these un workers were were killed. in the opening

weeks of uh israel's repacious bombing campaign on gaza. yes, the fact the data that we have is 196, including more than 175 un staff. so charles, what do you think? is this a considered effort by israel? given the fact that uh, even the coordinates were given out on this, and yet despite the coordinating movements uh relate to the israel um, i guess the army, the convoy was sit anyways, um, is there a considered effort by israel to stop aid from getting to palestinians? it doesn't even matter if "this was us-based or any aid uh type of assistance, is that what their goal is? yes, of course, i mean, the designist regime is carrying out a genocide in palestine, particularly in gaza right now, and part and parcel of that is denying basic services and needs to the palestinian people in gaza, um, that this includes the brutal in attacks on health facilities such as the massacre that we just witnessed at al-shifa just days ago." " this includes the ongoing

targeting of bakeries that we have seen throughout the past six months. this includes, i mean, historically, in gaza, we have consistently seen the zionist forces targeting. uh farming areas along the so-called borders of gaza, the colonially imposed borders and fishers out at sea, in order to prevent gaza from developing food security and food sovereignty, so this is just a continuation and an exacerbation of the existing policy of the zionist regime in targeting the food needs and food resources the palestinian people in gaza. this is part the same policy that we've seen time and time again, what we initially... saw from the zianist regime was this demand um to dissolve unroit and instead replace it with private institutions with relationships with western intelligence agencies, but fundamentally the purpose of that demand is to deny palestinians access to basic fundamental

needs in attempt to drive palestinians from the land and complete a genocide. um, the zionist regime is using starvation as a weapon of war. there's no question about that. they want to carry out a genocide. "they want to impose uh conditions of surrender on the palestinian people, and the people in their resistance are refusing this completely, and so they're determined, um, this is very much like when we think about the siege of leningrad or the battle of staling grad, when people were fighting back against the nazi forces, that's what the palestinian people and their resistance are doing right now, and they're facing the same kind of siege that's determined to attack..." human life and all of its capacity, so that's the reality of what the situation is, and that's why, yeah, of course they're going to attack aid workers, and when aid agencies responded to those attacks by saying, oh, well, we're going to stop providing aid in gaza, that's doing nothing but aiding the zionists and carrying out their genocide and

war crimes. try to understand here, what the us has gone himself into patrick henningson on the one, on the one hand, unless the us is aware of what's happening, because when you take a look at what is happening, is nothing short of a genocide along with all the other uh gruesome facets of this uh uh war that's happening in and and all the different for example our guest there talked about uh this massacer that uh was it pretty much unfolded we weren't even aware uh up to 400 dead bodies some were tied behind their backs some were executed many of them women and children and the bodies are decapitated that had happened from a short while ago and there are many instances of that we're coming up on the six months of this genocidal war does the us realize what's happening? when it comes to the israely regime and does it approve it and give it give it a green light, the green light we see given is through the arms sales. yeah, i i think uh being being in the united states i can tell you that uh the the basic level of political awareness of the average uh media consumer uh member of the american

electorate it's extremely low uh because the the media coverage is completely uh one-sided uh censorship by omission is the basic order the day when it comes. any coverage uh relating to uh israel or gaza, there's been a few breaches uh in this information firewall, but on the whole how the political uh establishment operates in america is um they will not ver from any policy if there's not any significant public pushback, so how do you control public pushback? you control the images that are shown uh in the media, any emotive images that might illicit a public reaction, those are those are uh basically muted and rarely shown so... so the average american doesn't know the true scale of the the horror of the situation there, so that's the main problem, and the the united states government is completely on board with, i would say everything that israel has done from the beginning and continues to do, to to think that the united states and its military

would be constructing a jetty or appear in the almost along the sort of the green line of of north and south gaza, and that somehow this doesn't have any military. aspect it is totally naive. okay, what they're trying to do is effectively cut off the north and the south of gaza in order to finish emptying out the north and make it a military security zone, and so this is a this is peer to bring in us ships and transport ships to evacuate the poor gazans and and this is how the united states plans to turn the public relations war back in its favor to use its military, to use its ngos (uscid) etc. to rescue and bring aid to the poor people of gaza when all along the united states has been the main enabler of the bombing campaign of this uh absolutely unprecedented uh violent destructive and you can only call it a mass a mass killing on industrial scale by

the israelis and the united states military, the israeli couldn't couldn't carry this out for another minute uh if not for the bombs uh the ammunition, the targeting assistance, the satellite reconnaissance, the drone technology, the us personnel, the patriot missile batteries that that form the iron dome etc. wouldn't happen without the united states, so and that's what this whole sharad that you're seeing with the world kitchen. uh ngo and this this facade of air dropping aid uh into gaza by the united states, this is just public relations to turn the tide on what's been a to an unmitigated disaster for the biden administration and the democratic party an election year. i know that sounds crass and craven, but that's exactly i believe what we're looking at. all right, uh, about 700 thousand uh more or less uh is what we're looking at shar the case when it comes to northern gaza in terms of the uh palestinians are rappling with starvation, some are fighting. for their lives uh we're looking at increased number who have uh died as a result uh this is really heart that's

unfolding and soon it's going to spike because there's no aid there's no food uh what do you make of the fact that if you do a simple google search it was just three weeks ago that there's any news on this uh so-called us gaza port that's supposed to bring in food except for the two i guess runs that maybe the eu made and some of these airdrops that are killing palestinians also. uh, it just puts into question the sincerity the us when it comes to the food aspect and aid for palestinians. well, i don't think the sincerity of the us is in question. the fact is that the the us is is very clearly entirely insincere when it comes to the needs the palestinian people, and is very sincere when it comes to sending billions of dollars more weapons to the zionist regime to carry out the genocide of the palestinian people. um, there there's no question about what the us. takes seriously and what it and what it's lying about kind of in a very bold faced lie

um and attempting to kind of uh sanction and target anyone who does otherwise, i mean just yesterday at the united nations at the emergency hearing of the security council convened against the zionist regime's uh horrific illegal attack on the iranian embassy in damascus, the us rep representative uh spent his time talking quote warning iran and talking about the so-called syrian regime um when it was iran and syria that were the victims of a bladent aggression and violation of all forms of international norms and principles so it's very clear what the us is serious about and what it's and what it's bladently lying about and one of the things it's bladently lying about is any interest in providing aid and support to the palestinian people the so-called port off of gaza is nothing more than excuse to introduce even greater and more overt military us presence directly in

the region um and further more the us um is the entity that is making sure that the rafa crossing remains closed. if the united states wanted to ask egypt to open the rafa crossing, it is capable of doing so any minute. it is just as much as it is capable of putting pr on the zionist regime and cutting off the flow of weapons, it's also equally capable of putting pressure on the egyptian regime to open the rafa crossing and allow the thousands and thousands and thousands of trucks that are stacked up there uh passage through, the what what are the um, mean this is it's very obvious what the us would do if it were interested in the humanitarian needs of the palestinian people, the us is interested in maintaining imperialist domination and hegemony in the region and is going along and arming and aiding israel's genocide in order to do so.

some countries are shying away now, not shying away, they're putting a ban on their export of arms there. uh, patrick, in terms of that, we can look look at canada, halting arms sales to israel, denmark and italy have already suspended their arms exports and uh, according to netherlands has ruled the government to do the same, although some of these licenses uh are from before where the uh, they're still getting exported to israel, but uh, from january on, um, do you think that uh we're looking at countries realizing and the uk is ming this over realizing that we need to we need to stop uh uh associating is with israel in a military aspect because clearly the number of deaths are pointing to the fact that genocide indeed is taking place. yeah i have a hard time uh accepting that um any of these countries are seriously considering uh some kind of an arms embargo or sanctions against israel. look at how quickly the world jump. top of the russian federation uh in the opening weeks, the opening days and weeks of their special

military operation uh in the dumbas in the ukraine, it was global full sanctions package, the likes of which the world had never seen before, and if you look at the civilian casualties in that conflict over two years, this is even backed up by un data, it's it's the lowest in terms of conflict of that scale, conventional conflict, the lowest amount of civilian casualties, more more casualties and... fact on the uh russian east eastern ukrainian russian side, what what the point i'm making is israel has shattered all records in terms of the speed and the repaciousness of the killing. uh since october 7th and there's not been one call for sanctions against uh israel, the most obvious sanctions would be in arms and barco um so the united states is really the main country i think that matters uh in that equation, but there are other uh nato member states like france, germany is also a big uh supplier of equipment and support for the israeli

government for the idf and so is britain, and so that would be the most obvious place, the only reason you're hearing noises about it. now is because they're starting to get some serious pushback from important sections of the electorate and governments are losing confidence uh from the people and also credibility because they are backing what is ostensibly now and think everyone can agree, it is a genocide that's taking place in real time, so if these governments want to maintain any credibility to the g20 uh any of these global confabs uh at the united nations, un security council, they're going to have to start making some serious moves, but i honestly don't think they're serious about it, because then the talking point comes from the israeli lobby, which is that you can't leave us in the lurch, you you know you can't leave us exposed here, we've got to hamas and the iranians and hez, they want to push israel into the ocean, so that's the talking point, you must arm us because otherwise we'll be overrun by the arabs, i know this sounds like ridiculous, but this is

the general narrative, and this is what flies in washington, that is the acceptable storyline in... washington and that justifies the full-throated support for israel on every single conceivable level militarily, yeah, but the buyers have to be also in tune with the facts, charlot cates, you're looking at the fact that well, let's put aside the one that stands out, over 32,00 palestinians killed, looking at for example the gaza strip, 70 to 80% of that strip is basically destroyed, turned into rubble, you look looking at uh the medical uh facilities that have been destroyed, you're looking at the massacers in different instances and you're also looking at the press uh where you have i think close to 200 uh reporters and press people that have been also killed, i mean everything is to the max almost when you take a look at the proportion of it, what else then can there be de deduction on other than

that israel in almost all aspects is uh after a genocide and it's eliminating basically anything that stands in the palestinian way. i mean, this is absolutely the case, the zionist regime is carrying out a genocide. the zionist project has always been a genocidal, colonial, illegitimate project since its inception, it has never been anything else, and it is a project that is fully aligned with imperialist powers, the leading imperialist powers in this case the united states, um, as well as to - lesser extent because... because of the the balance of power that exists in the world, britain, france, germany, uh, canada, the european union, etc., um, the zionist regime is carrying out, is carrying out a genocide, it is failing to accomplish its stated military goals, it has not destroyed the palestinian resistance, it has not, it has complete, it

is failed to quote and quote dismantle hamas and it will continue to fail to do so, it's failed to destroy the palestinian. resistance for the past 75 years and it's going to continue to fail to do so, but what it is uh obviously quite willing to do and in fact dedicated to doing is uh throwing massive weapons of destruction against the palestinian people, the civilian population, schools, hospitals, places of worship, residential buildings, that is what is being targeted very explicitly and very effitially uh by the zionist regime and any attempt to claim otherwise is is a bladent lion. a misdirection, all you have to do is look at what the zionist leadership are saying themselves, not to mention the kind of tik toks and social media content that are being posted by their soldiers. this is content, it's being posted by active duty soldiers. if the military didn't want them posting this kind of content, clearly they wouldn't be enabled or allowed to do so. the fact that they are allowed to do so and enable to do so

means that that content is part and parcel of the zionist propaganda war against the palestinian people. it's deliberately being created uh to show off how horrific their genocide is and how proud they are of their war crimes uh the way that the gaza strip is experiencing this genocide um is almost um mirroring what's happening or on the occupied west bank is mirroring what's happening there a sense where it's not in fifth gear yet uh if you agree with that patrick i mean we're looking at uh for example today there were some mass arrests 30 were detained but the rests are... have uh really dramatically increased uh on record, i believe it's around 7,00, some indicate 10,00 have been arrested since october 7th, the number of deaths is also has also spiked. since october 7th, what are we looking at when it comes to that aspect of uh occupied palestine? sure, sure, i mean, we we've the journalists getting 5 am

raids in the morning after posting uh things on facebook uh that the israelies did not like, so you're not allowed to talk to western journalists, they're not allowed to have any freedom of speech or expression, everyone's kind of cowering and fear, so clearly the the israel's uh stepped up uh aggression and control. measures uh in the west bank and that itself is going to be the next powder kick. um if you look at what some the main reasons for operation alaxa flood uh are if you actually pay attention uh if the us or anybody did bothered to pay attention uh it's the huge amount of people uh stuck um incarcerated uh in in extradition extrajudicially in uh israeli gulag prisons and so they're just adding to those numbers. um in the west bank becuse maybe it's a soft touch for them at the moment um so they can feel they can get rid of and disappear and sort of incarcerate any potential uh

resistance activists right now and that's only going to fuel i think the uh the anger and the the the sort of out uh the sort of hitting out that you see from palestinians that we saw on october 7th um so they're not addressing that problem at all and instead. they're they're gas lighting the public about israeli the remaining israeli prisoners um in gaza and not talking about the uh many thousands uh including women and children that are being carcerated right across this uh completely illegal and barbaric uh israeli prison system but that's not that's a conversation you're not allowed to have in the united states you're not allowed to have that conversation in britain it's a completely one-sided conversation where it's all about what hamas is doing. and israel's not doing anything wrong and they haven't systemically incarcerated and killed, destroyed, uh, abused, raped, uh, how many mil, tens of thousands of people in these

prisons over the years? thank you very much for that, we're just fresh out of time, patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst from los angeles, thank you, charlotte cats, thank you so much, international coordinator, sami duon, palestinian, prisoner solidarity network from vancouver, with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight, from me, and the team, it's goodbye. in this week's episode of earwattech we're going to be checking out mobile game development company that has managed to find a formula and develop a platform that allows them to release games a lot more quickly than usual and competitive without sacrificing on quality. we're also going to learn about how the development mobile game works in general, so if you want to learn about those, make sure to check out this week's episode at these times. iraq, march 20th, 2003,

the us has full scale war on iraq on lame excuses at the... subsequent fall of maqdat in 3 days. apparently, the iraqi people had made up their minds to not resist. they turned a blind eye to the occupation. iraq collapsed and that set the stage for the occupation. based on the new middle east plan, at the top of the us unzionist agenda is to divide and weaken west asian countries since they are a threat to the existence of israel. although a direct military action is no longer an option in washington's policies because of its high costs. ensuring israel's security is still at the top of us agenda. in response to this evil plan, different countries and nations adopted different policies. gaddafi, for example, chanted

revolutionary and anti-imperialist slogans, but later succumbed to the stringen sanctions and after the 2003 negotiations he ended his nuclear and missile programs. later on he paid 2.7 billion dollars and another $170 million in compensation, but the... us never removed its sanctions on endless excuses. finally, a mid libya's 2011 unrest backed by the us and nato, mohammar gaddafi was killed with his assets confiscated. from the beginning, saudi arabia was not interested in combatting arrogance and opted for a compromise with the us and israel. as a result, rof has had to give in to every demand by the us, including multi-billion dollar arms deals or contracts on economic infrastructure and so on. while it was welcomed by the us as a milk cow, when it comes to palestine, yasar arafat was a blatant example of submission to oppression in the 1990s with an olive branch in his

hand, arafat recognized israel. by signing an agreement with the regime. in return, israel did not comply with any of the terms of the accord and arafat was later assassinated. mahmoud abbas followed arafat's footsteps, but after 30 years of fruitless negotiations, he still hopes he will reach an agreement with israel, saying we should talk. on the other hand, countries that opted for resistance paid a lower price and achieved great victories. a case in point is lebanon and the hezballah resistance, which liberated the country. after 18 years of israeli occupation, in the 33-day war, lebanon heavily defeated the israeli army, which was armed to the teeth, thus turning into a regional power and source of pride for the muslim world, when yasir arafat and the fatah organization were signing a peace treaty with israel, hamas and its figures like sheikh ahmed yasin, chose the path of resistance and managed to defend gaza and the west bank by repelling israeli attacks. palestinian resistance managed to foil the plan the

south. wipe out palestine, the resistance access now has the upper hand and moved from throwing stones to firing missiles against israeli positions. after experiencing the outcomes of their compromise with the us in 2003 and the american quagm of occupation, the iraqi nation chose to resist against daesh and managed to drive out the terrorists in less than four years, while the us had predicted that it would take 20 years for daesh to be eliminated. basically, there are two paths to choose in the... of oppression, compromise or resistance, everything is up to our choice, but the heroes of history would definitely choose resistance.

says that international goods day this year will be held even more gloriously as non-muslim nations will also be participating. iran's president says israel does not respect any internet. national and moral principles and is committing inhumane crimes in gaza to cover up for its internal weaknesses and israely air strikes in artillery fire kill more women and children in gaza as death toll from regime's campaign of genocide approaches 33,000.