welcome everyone, us congress just rolled out the red carpet for today's public enemy number one. israely prime minister benjamin netanyahu wanted for war crimes in the gaza strip by the international criminal court, received dozens of standing ovations by us law makers as he stood and laid out case to try and justify his regime's campaign of genocide in gaza, yet major media outlets all throughout the world, including cnn, reuters, abc and nbc news, the bbc, the associated press and the afp have all outlined and debunked most of benjamin. whose claims and

denials throughout his speech, so why all the lies? if you're standing up for what is right, then why is everything coming out of your mouth wrong? this is a subject of this episode of your press tv spotlight. joining us is angler, author and political activist joining us out of montreal and john boston's journalist, activist, and political analysts joining us out of friedton canada and gen like to welcome you both to this uh spotlight program here on press tv. guess eves will uh start with you if we may let's open the conversation on why you as the us uh congress would invite this after he's been accused of war crimes and he's had a war crimes uh warrant issued for him and uh you know you you understand he's already inflicted irreparable damage. to not only his own

regime's reputation, but also to that of yours, why would you want to stand there and have him speak in front of your country? well, i think the there's two parts to the answer this, one is is that it this is a republicans invited him as a way to act like uh joe biden had um not given full throttal support because at one moment they paused uh 2 thous pound bombs that they were giving to... israel and and yahu made a big curfuffle about that and the republicans for their partisan reasons are trying to frame uh biden as not being completely behind israel um so there's a sort of narrow kind of partisan element but then the broader element of course is is that the us has enabled israel's uh criminal uh activities netanyahu's criminal activities um and so they're essentially just applaudting uh uh

the politician that they have been um been arming to uh to kill palestinians and john, welcome to the program, i'd like to put that same opening question to you if i may, i mean uh the israeli regime has been enough of a stain for us politics for years, but why add this uh genocide and bring netanyahu at such delicate time to be four lawmakers in america? well, i think that we've got to remember that the the... horse has to come before the cart here, it's not a decision being made in washington to invite netanyahu, it's certainly not just the decision by the republican party, we've got to remember the seminal work on this subject called the israel lobby by dr. john mirscheimer, where uh dr. mirscheimer points out that 60% of the donations to the democratic party come from jewish americans from the israel lobby and 40% the financing for the republican party

come from jewish americans, meaning that jewish americans are the main financiers of both parties, and when they get an order from tel aviv or from jerusalem to tell the american government, which is financed by jewish donors, both parties, and they order the americans to bring the prime minister of israel to speak, then he gets to come and speak, because... the the cart here is america, the military industrial complex of america, is being driven and being pulled by the israeli lobby that controls the us congress, so it's not a surprise to see them embarrassing themselves in front of the us public, and it's such a disaster that even nancy pelosi, who's of course been on the israeli lobby payroll for years, even she denounced netanyahu's speech as the worst

speech ever given to the u.s. congress by foreign leader, because she realizes that the people of america and even many jewish americans are outraged by the obvious and open genocide by israel against the palestinian people, and they simply can't hide it anymore, so the the gig is up, the game is open everyone, and america now doesn't know what to do because they've just been following orders from the israel lobby for decades, and we're talking about next year being 77 years of the israel lobby pulling the strings on the us government. thank you, other john. gentlemen, you know, all the major outlets also debunked and fact checked so many things that netanyahu said, 90% of it didn't check out, he said uh, israel has barely killed any civilians in rafa, fact checked against un tallies and a lie, israel is not blocking the entry of aid

into gaza, it gets in but hamas steals it, fact checked by un organizations and a blatant lie, hamos refused to cooperate for a cease fire, another lie, you guys see where this is... why this level of dishonesty? well, when you're committing a holocaust in gaza, it's uh, it's difficult to just come out and say, hey, we're killing tens and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands ultimately here of of palestinians, mostly children, women, civilians, um, so it's uh, you don't come out and say that, for obvious reasons, that would most people in the world. that's wrong um so they just lie and they lie, mean this is uh, you know the the supporters of israel, if you take a quick look in the their media in canada or online, social media, mean it's an endless stream of of lies, they are the victims according to

according to them, not the people being uh that they are killing that israel is killing, um yeah, it's this is not, mean it's it's a kind of mainstreaming of... lies, to the uh, you know, in front of the world all at once, in front of the us congress, um, but this is this is just norm of what israel's been doing every time they they blow up hospital, they you know attack a hospital, that's uh, they come up with some story to uh, either to deny they were involved or that they you know were just trying to get hamas or whatever, um, it's been uh, it's been 10 months of of lies, i mean it's, it's been uh, been a century. of zionist lies, but in the last 10 months we've just had this uh ramped up. now um, the you point out that there is fact checking that actually took place to you, um restrain uh a little bit uh the most agreeus um fairy tales

that um netanyahu was uh was telling everyone, but um yeah for the most part they they lie because they get away with it uh because uh what else do you do when you're trying to uh defend the indefensible and um and uh the media for the most part doesn't really uh doesn't push back and obviously the politicians that were st giving standing ovation after standing ovation weren't pushing back and john what's the deal with that why over 70 standing ovations mean you most of these politicians know very well what part of his speech were lies and which weren't he would tell a lie they would know they would he would tell a lie john they would know he's lying and they would stand up and clap for him how is him not telling bold faced lies to these politicians faces not patronizing and condescending from their perspective? look, i know this is going to be hard to believe, but i worked in washington as lobbist and i went to members of the congress and to the upper house to the senate

and asked them to act on certain matters, and basically i was given menu of how much money we have to pay to get certain actions. standing ovation was on the... so if you see member of congress standing in a standing ovation dealing with a presentation by israel, that's a bonus, that person standing up gets a bonus from the israel lobby. i want to read you a short quote, hope we have the time. here it is, if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. the lie can be maintained for only such a time as the state shields the people from the political economic truth. who said that? joseph gerbels, i'm quoting from the jewish virtual library, netanyahu has followed the instructions of nazi propagandist joseph gerbels to the letter, and if that doesn't tell the world, how terrible the situation is

for the palestinian people, and that the prime minister of israel is is applying the rules of communication developed by joseph gerbels. then nothing else can get the truth across. that's where we've come. the prime minister of israel is following nazi propaganda rules. interesting, john, and... said protest outside and there were scores of protesters right outside, he said uh, they've been financed by iran. now that's another thing that us intelligence debunked saying the protesters and their grievances are completely legitimate and been ongoing for months now, especially at major us universities in multiple cities and the're people from all walks of life, including young college students, and they are no way connected to iran, but my question to you, why does netanyahu need people to believe that? why does it need people to believe that opposition to this gaza genocide is somehow

corrupted or bought or compromised? well i think, i'll let you answer that too, actually john, go ahead eves, yeah, mean he wants to portray all palestinian grievances as as coming from iran right, that that that palestinians resisting uh, century of disposession is is something that iran has put them up to, or iran was responsible for for hamases attacks on october 7th and all this kind of stuff, so that's one, they've been pushing that lot uh, and it's for good reason, they don't want to the israel wants to take away from the obvious legitimate grievances of palestinians over the past 10 months, but over the past century, um, the other part of course is kind of similar is that they don't want to, and they did this lot, you saw lot of this with the uh student encampments um, where they tried to frame the... the rather than just being um uh individuals who were morally outraged by what

they were seeing that did in fact it was something sponsored and they tried to hold this whole business about the tents, the tents at the student encampements on universities were like all apparently purchased by the same uh uh source that they tried to do this whole thing and they showed that there were lot of these tents that the same colors and the one encampment which was explained of course by the fact that you go and buy 10 of the cheapest tents at walmart, they all happen to be the same color and and whatever, but but it was all it was all kind of ridiculous, but they they got got all over, i mean you had whole stories in canadian outlets and you still do um uh saying here in montreal the one was just that that iran was paying for the different protests in different parts of the city, they were dividing up the city, i mean like anyone i go to these demonstrations most weekends and and it had nothing to do with the actual organizing process where first of all it was one damage. ration, it wasn't divided up in the city, it really made no sense, but this was being reported on by major media outlets

and continues to be reported on, and so it's a way of of course just undercutting the moral legitimacy. um, obviously within our media here, iran has been, demonized endlessly, so it's this big boogie man and all bad things. um, so it plays off of that. um, this is a long history of that, they, same kind of... dynamics during vietnam war protest, they claim it was you know the soviets funding it or they were the useful idiots of whatever so there's a long history of of trying to um sort of demonize uh popular uh let's be really clear too volunteer-based social movements by these tactics and one other further thing about all this is that you know online on on social media and twitter whatever it's endless stream of this stuff from these israel lobby people who who are actually all paid right, like like the the there's a probably 10 in canada is probably like 10 people that have

jobs with the canadians for justice of peace in the middle east or independent jewish voices or other groups that are that are involved in pro-palestinan activism, maybe it's 20 people who have like paid positions across the whole country, but on the other hand on the israel lobby side you have like hundreds of people who are paid by seja, by benet brith by friends at simon will center, these groups all have you know $10 million dollar budgets and these big budgets. and they're making the accusation that the paid activists are in fact those who have been the students who have been sleeping in you know campment for two months and and didn't receive a penny maybe they received a free a free muffin or a free water bottle that's like the extent of of of of the the assistance they've received um but it's uh it's a common tactic of of those in power and uh and the dominant media really go along with and of course netanyahu again this is all part of him trying to just say there's no moral legitimacy to these protests, but john, would that give him more credibility as a

speaker out there in front of these us lawmakers if he gives some legitimate some legitimacy to the grievances of 40,00 people killed over 70% women and children in gaza? the once again, the bigger the lie, the more likely people are to accept it. israel and specifically netanyahu has been lying about the situation from start to finish, and the idea, it's almost insane to suggest it, iran has no method to get money to demonstrators across america, and iran is totally sanctioned. "there is no way to transfer money legally or illegally to people in america. the people who are demonstrating are americans who have simply fed up, and the demonstrations against the crimes of the state of israel, against the the the palestinian people predate the islamic republic of iran. even during the time of the

shah, americans across the country were protesting against israel, and the shah certainly wasn't doing the paying, so..." "this is a lie based on nothing other than the hatred and the demonization that they've been working on against iran for generations. this is the way they operate. the truth will out. people like myself who have never received as scent from iran, i've never been to iran, have the reason to argue against israel, and the reason is the pursuit and the sharing of the truth, and that cannot be b'. eves, thank you, john, and evs, yemen leader abdul malik, he said celebrating netanyahu as us lawmakers uh did yesterday evening, is a celebration of crime, tyrany and genocide and underlines america's partnership and complicity in the gaza onslaught, so uh these us law makers, are they really buying eves

uh, what netanyahu is pedaling, i mean, what has he or is occupation forces done or... achieved or accomplished in gaza that warrants celebration or praise. is that question to me? you want you want to let eve answer first i'll come right back to you. okay, they they uh, i don't think that these politicians necessary believe what naying, that's one thing. i think they they are just pro basically their disposition is to be pro israel and their disposition to be pro israel is based upon the funding. they receive based upon there's a current of christian zionism, there's the us empire, the arms industry uh that likes, providing weapons to the killing machine, there's lots of factors that go into um why they're so pro israel, um, but but i agree, i think this is very damaging for

ultimately quite damaging for the us empire, because the world sees, horrors that israel's inflicting in gaza, and they the world understands to varying degrees that the us is supporting israel, they don't i don't think they neces understand how much of israel's weaponry comes from the us and how important the us is in in assisting with intelligence and all kinds of ways in which they assist directly assist israel's crimes, but what this does in having all these politicians just so openly and lastly uh celebrate in yahoo! i actually think, i think it's a really, it's a very bad strategic move from the standpoint of the us empire, from the standpoint of us moral authority in the world, and and you know us moral authority is is obviously, they don't have that much of it, but they still do have a certain soft kind of power element that that does matter

to an extent, and and and so when the whole world..." sees just such a crass display uh at the heart of us uh politics in terms of just openly endorsing the slaughter of you know babies, the introduction of polio to uh to gaza, all just the horror after horror that we that we're seeing play out, i think that is quite damaging and and do think that that ultimately you can't really you, i think you can explain like if you look at us foreign policy all around the world, it is militaristic, it is imperialistic, um, it is uh, profit oriented, um, but i think you can ultimately, this is not sensible from the us empire strategy standpoint, so you can really only explain that level of um support for uh netanyahu from the standpoint of domestic politics and specifically the fact that um,

the the power of of the israel lobby, i think there are other factors that explain, uh, but i think that the the power of the organized jewish community, pro israel jewish community, because many many tens and hundreds of thousands of american jews who are critical, but the establishment organizations and their funding relationship and like, because as as you pointed out, the the leader of yemen, this is the world to see, and it it's a lot of people, not just the arab world, but all around the world, africa and latin america, they see this level of endor. right now here's a room full of politicians basically celebrating the guy, mean do you see them as what a a bunch of gollable uh goofs or culpable criminals,

john, but absolutely culpable criminals who are accessories to the crime, both before the crime, because they gave the go ahead before it happened, during the crime, which is continuing now, and after the crime they will continue to protect netanyahu so that he's doesn't get extradited to the icc, the americans don't even recognize the icc, the the international criminal court, the and and the reason why they don't recognize the court is because they would be in the dock first. america has invaded, america has bombed, america has killed tens of millions of people, and israel is simply doing the same thing that america does all around the world in the occupied territories, so these are two... criminals in cahoots, both committing the same crimes, both guilty of genocide, and both using their lying mainstream media and a blockout of information and sanctions to keep

what we are saying to you, both myself and your my fellow commentator today, to keep what we are saying from getting to the ears of normal people everywhere who would be even more opposed if they could hear what was coming, the real facts of what's happening in the region, you will not... see video, pictures or interviews in the mainstream media anywhere in the western world, because the israel lobby has blocked it through the governments that they control through bribery. interesting, and eves, are you surprised at all that this guy stood there and spoke of everything and anything that he could, but he never really touched on two things that the whole world is concerned about at this point, including the region of west asia, which is what? a ceasefire and and return a captives, even his own people uh, that may not support him, but israeli's in occupied palestine, that maybe even an

opposition to, they just want him to talk about sece fire and get the captives home, the two things he barely even mentioned in that speech, yeah, well they they've been making this whole propaganda story about how they the the whole operation is about you getting the the israelis who are... captured in gaza home, i mean when we know that days into it um uh hamas offered to uh release a whole bunch of people who they didn't actually necessarily want because lot of israelis were brought in not necessarily by um the the uh hamas forces um but but um uh yeah he's been making this whole case that this all this you know while they killed many they've killed many more of their of... their people in these bombing campaigns and they have retrieved um uh so it it's you know it's a central part of a of the propaganda another part i mean the one one of the ones that

drives me kind of find it's just so incredible we canadian politicians uh probably us same with us is like they talk endlessly about hostages but never talk about how there's like you know uh what is about hundred times more uh palestinians that are hostages but for israel and you never hear any mention mention of that, it's just totally remarkable, i don't want to cut you off, we only have about 40 seconds to a minute left, i want to get this last question um to to john before we go, john, do us lawmakers really not see that where ever benjamin nettanyahu goes, all he does is add to chaos division and polarization, whether it's tel aviv or uh between muslim leaders in the region that occupy palestine is that even every time he visits america. all he does is push people apart, he's the ultimate anti- peace. look, netanyahu would have been removed from power by his own israeli people,

had this incident not taken place. netanyahu was on the way out. netanyahu is now basically a man without a mandate, a man who can do whatever he wants, has piles of money behind him and has nuclear weapons in his back pocket. this is dr. strangelove. on steroids and it is a threat not just to the region but the entire world and it's got to be stopped. gentlemen, thank you both for joining us to put in the time to be on the program, eves angler, they're joining us from montreal and john boston is joining us out of fredricton, canada and viewers, this brings us to the conclusion of the segment of your press tv spotlight program. thank you for tuning in and goodbye for now.

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