hello and welcome, you're watching the spotlight on press cv. am the israeli genocide in gaza, the death tool continues to rise with over 80 palestinians killed in the past day alone. israeli air strikes, artillery, fire and ground operations have devastated civilian areas, including un shelters and schools. while properties have been destroyed and tensions remain high across gaza, the situation. remains dire for the palestinians in the west bank as well, with nearly 10,000 palestinians deined since october 7th, some 600 people, including over 130 children killed and more than 5,350 others injured by the israeli army. in this edition of spotlight, we will discuss the different dimensions of the recent developments in the occupied totories. and to do so we are joined by by jamal wakim,

professor of international relations from the lebanese university of beirot. also we have with us eve angler, author and political activist joining us live from montreal. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen, let's begin with mr. jamal wakim who's joining us from beirot, how... do the latest israeli military operations in gaza and the west bank compared to the previous escalations? well, the israelis are trying to enforce a new reality in the west bank by trying to take over more land for settlement uh for illegal settlements and at the same time uh this is a way for them to make uh the living of the palestinians and west bank unbearable as part

of their plan to cause a massive of the palestinians towards jordan, this is what they are also doing in gaza by the way, of because they want to transfer the palestinian people out of the land towards sinai on one hand and jordan on the other hand in order implement the the the original plan of the zints to impose a jewish state in palestine on all of the lands of... the historical palestine actually, so even your opinion, what is what are the key drivers behind this surgeon violence? well, the i was asking our guest from montreal, i'm sorry, oh sorry, well i think that the, mean the drivers are the you know fanatical uh zionist regime - netan, i think specifically the the the recent massacres in gaza. killing 90 people

claiming they were seeking out a hamas official that was designed sabotage the negotiations uh which netanyahu doesn't want anything to do with, he wants to prolong the the the the fighting and the killing um now in the you know in the west bank i think the dynamics a little bit different, i think that the point there is of course to just steal more and more land and uh and they you crush any any palestinian resistance, but i think that yeah the... the drivers are this a, a regime, a colonial project that wants as few palestinians and as much of their land as as possible. okay, so back to beirut, mr. wakim, you just heard our other guests ev, drawing a line between the drivers in the west bank and those in gaza, do you agree what he said? yeah, i fully agree with what he said, because this is part of a colon. ization

plan, this is the policy of designs ever since they establish their project in in palestine and the the genocide that is being committed by the israelis in the in gaza strip and in the west bank are part of fulfilling this aim of establishing this quote and quote jewih in palestine and ' render it as base for israeli and us gemony in the middle east. okay, so uh, eve, considering the fact that you pointed to uh the motivation of land grab as the main drive in the west bank, do you believe that the international community has turned a blind eye on what's happening to the west bank because of the atrocities that are happening in gaza? you, i wouldn't, i don't like the word blind eye here, because... i think that

and and and you got to break down the international community, i i think everything israel does, it is being massively assisted by the us, obviously giving them weapon. giving them intelligence, giving them all kinds of charitable donations, same thing the canadian government to less much lesser extent, but nonetheless significant extent provides all kinds of support, so so i i think that the horrors in gaza take most of the attention, and so that kind of gives a little bit of a opportunity for the you know the smolditches and the the really hard line zionists to to... steal even more land even more quickly than they have been doing in in recent years or recent decades, and that's what we're seeing with the, new decision to make a whole bunch of palestine land, israeli state land and stuff like that, um, but but i think that the, it's it's it's something much more than you, turning a blind eye, it's

direct involvement, now the canadian government claims, and the us government to slight lesser extent, they claim that settlements are are undermine the peace prop. process or they'll say they contraven uh international law um but in practice they don't do anything uh they don't or they do the absolute minimum of a couple fanatic settlers will be you canada sanction like four fanatic settlers and and stuff like that um but but they basically they enable they enable the israeli state and there's all kinds of ways off i mean there like there's thousands of canadians for instance that are like living in settlements in the west bank you have you have these these um uh real estate here in montreal where i a few months ago there was a real estate fair where they were selling uh homes to to jewish canadians or israelis in in montreal uh in west bank right so that you'll have them come and do like real estate fairs to sell off you know illegal colonies to sell off the land in

these illegal colonies right in front everyone's eyes and similar dynamics have been taking place in us cities um so there's a a um direct uh complicity. enabling um and yes the the horrors in gaza i think have kind of put the west bank dynamic a little bit off the media attention but it's um that's mostly what we're talking about okay so eve uh the reason why i use the phrase turn a blind eye is basically because we do have uh legal proceedings underway in the icc and in the icj which is specific with respect to what's happening. in gaza, the genocide there and the humanitarian situation there. however, we do know that all settlements are illegal in the occupied territory, according to a un resolution, still there are no legal proceedings there. this is basically why i use the word turn a blind eye to these uh

land grabs. do you still believe that it's not the proper phrase to use? i do, i do, i still i think like the canadian government, there was a decision or the general. assembly about year and a bit ago, year and a half ago uh put forward a resolution calling on the international court of justice before the horrors in gaza over the past nine or 10 months uh calling on the international court of justice to render an opinion about state's responsibility responsibilities visa v israel's illegal uh colonies war crimes in the west bank the canadian government went and uh actually sent a to the icj requesting the icj uh refuses to fulfill what the general assembly of the un voted by the vast majority member states to render its legal opinion on states responsibility so like the level of of um complicity of a country like

canada in in these in these war crimes is isting also look if you look at back in 2020 the international criminal court the the previous chief prosecutor and looking at israel's uh uh war crimes, which of course include the settlements in in the west bank, and the can government's reaction was to uh send letter to the icc uh uh with basically a threat that canada is a big funder to the icc and maybe will cut your money if you start investigating israel's war crimes, so so the role of a country like canada, us is even greater, also there's all these registered charities in canada that are supporting uh projects in occupied uh uh west bank, so they're getting finance, the subsidized but they can government when individuals give donations to these or these groups, they're being they're receiving tax credit so being subsidized by the canadian uh state um so there's all these just different ways in which uh we're facilitating and this is this is a more than hundred year process you look

back historically look back at the role of things like the jewish national fund of canada that was set up in 1910 to raise funds for the colonization of palestine this is something we've been doing uh for a long time density is ebbed and flow and there slightly different dynamics over the past century plus, but but basically you know canada has been uh... a participant in israel's uh grass violation of international law uh in the west bank for you 60 years. okay, so mr. wakim, uh, our guest from montreal did extensively explained to us uh canada's position regarding the situation, particularly in the west bank. in your opinion, how has the biden administration's approach uh to the whole issue impact? the situation, well the biden

administration has been one of the most supportive administration, us administrations to to israel, and it turned bind eye to all claims by the palestinian people forbidding them from having their rights of statehood and national soven currently and administration didn't stop talking about as two states solution for example except after the eruption of the 7th of october attack by hamas against the sist settlements so and so far the ban administration has been supportive of israel by giving it full political support. and at the same time providing it with all that it needs in terms

of ammunition and economic support, so the biden administration has been one of the most supportive administrations in the history of the united states to israel, the with this regard to the hostility, the personal hostility between biden and netanyahu, and that's why i don't believe that the palestinians can count on, administration, but all they could count on is their strength, the the their resistance and of course the support that is given to them by the other resistance groups such as the in yeman, the syrian government and iran and the iraqi, mr. wakim, well there seems. to be some technical difficulties there, so eve, in your opinion, i'm terribly sorry, the the

internet is is so bad, okay, please continue, please continue, yeah, yeah, well once again, let's bring in eve from montreal uh, our guest from beirot did point to the regional aspects of this genocidal war that is ongoing now, "what are the potential regional implications in your opinion of this conflict, particularly considering the tensions in southern lebanon? yeah, first thing i just want to say to add to my colleague who was describing americans indifference to the settlement expansion, they it was, i think i believe it was jake sullivan, the security advisor for biden that like four days before october 7th published this piece, maybe it was two days uh in foreign affairs and prestigious st'. establishment foreign policy journal where he he talks about the quiet and says nothing

about palestine and then he actually has to like change the article uh few days later after what happened so the americans until hamas launched their operations october 7th they were happy to just see israel stealing more and more palestinian land and oh it's quote unquote quiet and and that's good for us and the like now with regards to uh the regional implication "i think the regional implications are really serious, i mean, i think this still has the possibility of leading to a, regional war, and and it's, there's obviously fighting uh with the against yemen, the americans are bombing, and there's that which is completely tied to israel's holocaust in gaza, also there's of course the um the on the lebanese front, there's you know, i think 550 lebanese have been killed over the past nine or 10." months uh, there's, i don't want exact number of israelis, but dozens and dozens of israelis that have been killed, there's you know 60,

90, 100 thous people on both sides that have been have been displaced, and that fighting is is picking up, you have these crazy statements from israeli officials of what we can, turn uh beirot into the back to the stone age and stuff like that uh, which galant made when he was in washington dc two or three weeks ago, um, so that... fighting uh can very well pick up and and um i i think the netanyahu government does want to just continue the fighting uh of course they've been trying endlessly to draw the us. into uh war with iran, there was that effort back in april, of course, blowing up iranian diplomatic compound in damascus, um, and but i think with regards to uh, hezbalah, hezbolah of course has the ability to, hurt israel in a very significant way, much, much, much greater than than hamas has or any

palestinian resistance, um, and and then and then israel would probably uh, ramp things up and you you can spiral uh uh out of control, but you know the hezbil has been pretty clear that that there uh they're willing to stop if israel puts a stop to its horrors in gaza, but it refuses to do that, it wants to you know blow up uh unra schools and unra facilities like they just did in recent hours and and the head of unra you denounced uh israel for doing that and they just you know continue to destroy more and more stuff uh across uh uh uh guys. and and uh you know this is this is the history though, i mean realistically this is the history of zionism, the history of zianism is is not just stealing palestinian land and and you know killing palestinians and that it's it's causing mayham across the region and bombing they b pretty much every country in the region, they you destabilized countries in the region, they've they've been this outpost

of of uh european north american power in the middle east and and i think that you know the the situation with with regards to lebanon is just more of of that, which is that israel's reaction to everything is is violence and more violence, and so long as the us is delivering these 500 pound or 2000 pound bombs, giving them to israel, um, it's likely that israel is going to keep keep with its violent habits. okay, so it seems that we have mr. jamal wakim back on the phone with us, mr. wakim, if ' you could please tell us in your opinion uh, if you could please tell us uh, the potential regional implications were explained by uh our guest from montreal. in your opinion, is there any possible negotiation for a cease fire? are there any doors that remain open for any kind of settlement? well, i believe that from the

palestinian side, there is a the door is open for... settlement, however it's mainly benyamin netanyahu that is obstructing all possibility for settlement because he he represents the extreme right wing in the liness entity on one hand and he wants to achieve victory which is which he is far from doing so far so that's why he keeps trying he has failed in all his declared objectives and this is the reason he is trying to uh to pressure the resistance through what he considers as a soft belly which is targeting the civilians and he wants to continue his attack and his genocidal war counting on the election of donald trump in few months

thinking that he would fair better with donald trump and that's why i believe that we are... facing a dilemma here because the israelis, the majority of the israelis want to see fire, the resistance is ready for a sifire if it fulfills its preerequisites, which is sustained spire on one hand, the the the liberation of the palestinian prisoners of war in in the presence of the zience occupation and at the same time to rebuild the the ' gaza strip uh, this is something that netanyahu doesn't want to do, he wants to uh keep targeting the the resistance on one hand, he wants to pressure the civilian population to leave uh the gaza strip and at the same time he wants to forbid them from returning mainly to their homes in northern

gaza while maintaining certain status quo where he could control the gaza strip without having occupy uh so uh all this makes us face deadlock and this is why the negotiations are still dragging on okay thank you very much and if just wrap this up and we have less than a minute left so a quick answer to this question do you expect anything to come out from the uh un palestine meeting on the 17th of july in two days i don't i don't buse buse so long as the the us keeps giving the bombs and countries like canada uh keep all its different forms of support, i don't, i don't think that there's going to be any fundamental change the dynamic. unless of course if there's some popular up rising within israel and finally the uh the israeli public starts seeing palestinians as human beings um but so long as the they're giving

the all the weapons and all this support from the world's hegemon um there's nothing significant that's going to change thank you very much now that was eve angler author and political activist to joined us from montreal we also had with us jamal wakim professor of international relations from the lebanese university in beirot and with that we come to دوست دارم از ایران برم بیرون یه جا دیگه زندگی کنم اون زمین قبلی فکری که نسبت به مجاهدین داشتم تو این تبلیغاتها من جوون بودم فکر می کنم که حالا دیگه الان اینا دیگه میرن تهرانو بگیرن بزن منم باهاشون باشم دیگه عقب نیفتم از

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