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 dozonces 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, in nbc news, the bbc, the associated

press and the afp have all outlined and debunked most of benjamin netanyahu's claims and denials throughout his speech, so why all the lies, and if you're standing up for what is right, then why is everything coming out of your mouth wrong? this is the subject of this episode of your press tv spotlight. joining us is angler, author and political activist, joining us out of montreal and john bost, journalist, activist and political analyst joining us out of frederickton, canada, and gen, i like to welcome you both to this uh spotlight program here on press tv. i 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 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 then yahoo made a big crifuffle about that and the republicans for their partisan reasons are trying to frame uh biden as not being uh completely behind israel so there's a sort of narrow kind of partisan element but then the broader element of course is that the us has enabled is uh criminal activities,

netanyahu's criminal activities, um, so they're essentially just applaoding um 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 of opening question to you if i may, i mean the israeli regime has been enough of a stain for us politics for years, but why add this uh genocide and bring? at such delicate time to before 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 of mirscheimer, where uh, dr. mirscheimer points out that six 50% of the donations to the

democratic party come from jewish americans from the israel lobby and 40% of 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 parts. 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 us 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, and 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 is barely killed any

civilians in rafa, fact checked against un talis and a lie. israel is not blocking the entry of aid into gaza, it gets in, but hamos 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 going uh, eas, 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 uh tens and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands ultimately here of of palestinians, mostly children uh with... civilians um so it's you don't come out and say that uh for obvious reasons that would most people in the world think that's wrong um so they just lie and they lie, mean this is you know the the supporters of israel if you take a quick look in 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. that israel is killing um yeah, it's this is not, mean it's it's a kind of mainstreaming of these lies, ie to the you know in front of the world all at once, in front of the us congress, but this is this is just the norm of what israel's been doing every time they they blow up hospital, they you know attack a hospital that's they come up with some story to uh either to deny they were involved or that they you know just trying to get hamas or whatever um it's been uh it's been 10 months of of lies, i mean it's you know it's been uh been a century of zionist lies, but in the last 10 months we've just had this ramped up. now um the you point out that there was fact checking that actually took place to you know um restrain

uh a little bit uh the most agregous 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 live? 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 the congress and to the upper house, to the senate, and ask them to act on certain matters and basic... "i was given menu of how much money we have to pay to get certain actions. standing ovation was on the list, 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, i 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 debunk 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 people from all walks of life in... 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 hermasas attacks on october 7th and all this kind of stuff, so that's one, they've been pushing that lot, 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 that

they you rather than just being um uh individuals who were morally outraged by what they were seeing that in fact it was something sponsored and they tried to hold this whole business about the tents, the tents that the student incampents 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 go 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 is 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 any it had nothing to do with the actual

organizing process where first of all it was one demonstration, 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 um and so it's a way of of course just undercutting the moral legitimacy um obviously within our media here iran has been you know demonized endlessly so it's this big boogy. and all bad things um so it plays off of that um you this is a long history of that they you know 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 you sort of demonize uh popular let's be really clear too volunteer-based social movements by these tactics and one of the further things 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 it's 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 propanesten 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 cija, by benet brith, by friends of simon, these groups all have $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 you know the students who have been sleeping in you know encampment 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 the the assistance they received um but it's uh it's a common tactic of of those 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, wouldn't 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, 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. 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 sent from iran, i've never been to iran, have the reason to argue again. israel and the reason is the pursuit and the sharing of the truth, and that cannot be bought. thank you john, and he said celebrating, as us lawmakers did yesterday evening, is a celebration of crime, tyrany and genocide and

underlines america's partnership and complicity in the gaza enslot, so these us law makers, are they really? what netanyahu is pedaling, i mean, what has he or his occupation forces done or achieved or accomplished in gaza that warrants celebration or praise? is that question to me? uh, 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 nahu is saying, that's one thing, i think they they are just... pro basically uh 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 you know providing weapons to the killing machine there's lots of factors that go into um why they're so pro israel um but but you know i i

agree i think this is very damaging for ultimately quite damaging for the us empire because the world sees the the 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 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 crassly celebrate nenyahu, i actually think, i think it's a really, it's a very bad strategic move from the standpoint the us empire, from the standpoint of us moral authority in the world, and and 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 um and and um 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 i 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 at 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 uh pro israel jewish community many many tens and hundreds of thousands of american jews who are critical, but the establishment organizations and their you know the funding relationship and the like, because as as you pointed out the the leader of yemen um this is world to see and it it's a lot of people, not just the arab world, but all around the world, africa, latin america, they see this level of endorsement of of such criminality, it's just not... good for the us uh reputation and let put that same question to you john, do you agree with with ease, because i mean he's possibly the most despised man on the planet right now, here's a room full of politicians

basically celebrating the guy, i mean do you see them as what a bunch of gollable uh goofs or culpable criminals, john the the 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 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, incahoots, 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 uh the region of west asia, which is what a cease fire and and return a captives, even his own people

uh, that may not support him, but israel is in occupied palestine that maybe even in opposition to, they just want him to talk about a cease fire and get the captives home, the two things he barely even mentioned in that speech, yeah, well the... they've been making this whole propaganda story about how the the the whole operation is about you getting the the israelis who are you know captured in gaza home mean when we know that days into it um uh hamas offered to 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 uh uh yeah, he's been making this whole case that this all this, while they killed many, they've killed many more of their of their people in these bombing campaigns and they

have retrieved, um, so it it's you know it's a central part of a of the 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, they talk endlessly about hostages, but never... talk about how there's like you know uh what is in about hundred times more uh palestinians that are hostages by by israel and you never hear any mention mention of that it's just totally remarkable is 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 netanyahu goes all he does is add to chaos division and polarization whether it's tel aviv or 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. netanya u is now basically a man without a mandate, a man who can do whatever you want. has piles of money behind him and has nuclear weapons in his back pocket. this is dr. strange love 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's joining us out of frederickton 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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