in this week's episode of iran. hello and welcome to spotlight. israeli war planes continue to hover over the gaza strip, dropping more american bombs on residential areas, schools, hospitals and refugee camps. death and devastation gripped the palestinian territory, uh, every waking moment so far, nearly 39,200 palestinians have lost their

lives, most of whom are women and children. this is while the uh so-called champions of human rights in the west, particularly the united states, not only fail to end this genocide against palestinians, but even uh welcome the war criminal baniaman netanyahu like hero and withstanding ovations. joining us tonight spot night, we have. isabella zeiden, academic and political analyst joining us from damascus and we also have said khan, director of global studies at wayne state university joining us from detroit. welcome to the program to the both of you uh let's start off with miss zedon in damascus uh more palestinian civilians are being slaughtered as the israeli attacks across gaza continue. almost 40,000. people,

mostly women and children have been killed in cold blood since last october, and what is really horrendous is that there's still not been any global intervention to prevent more innocent deaths and all the condemnations have fallen short of any action? yeah, actually this is, it's not new, let not limit the old problem of palestine just to october. the seven, let's just not pretend that this problem started only october the 7, it started long time ago, even before 1948, and we are used to the genocidal act here in the region, in the middle east, we are used to the genocidal acts and horrendous atrocities committed by the israelis against our fellow palestinians, lot of massacers happen and concerning the international law and

international community, not taking action toward these horrendous action, towards these horrendous acts, this is nothing new, this is something we all are used to, being the like the west would support the genocide of committed genocide after a genocide after a genocide committed by the israelis along with the great parents america who is who is patronizing the israelis while they are committing their their genocides against the israel the palestinians and to be honest uh we shouldn't be uh surprised when we see violence apprising in the in the region because this is very uh it's an expected results you would like i mean when people are being suppressed and attacked like the way the palestinian people are. being attacked by

the israelis and then no one's taken action, of course the the ultimate result or the very expected result will be the the violence we are seeing, and i don't, i don't like to call it what the westerns like to call it, i would like to call it resistance, it's a resistance and it's a rightful act for the palestinian people uh, to defend themselves, it's not, it's not like what the... israelis are pretending to do that, we have the right to defend ourselves, it's like they are, the israelis, what they are doing is like, we have the right to commit genocide against the palestinians, while the west is refusing the right of the palestinians to defend themselves, however, however, the only good point here is that, what the west and america has been supporting for the past 80 years is now... more exposed to the world, and now the

world and the region are more well aware of the genocidal acts and the horrendous regime that the west and the americans are... supporting sayid khan in detroit, a renowned american surgeon recently made uh shocking revelations about the israeli genocide in gaza saying that the regime's forces deliberately kill palestinian children with sniper fire. mark philmutter said never in his life had he seen children mutilated and injured the way that they were in gaza. he said the situation there reflects the intensity of targeted violence against innocent children uh describing it as intolerable crime. against humanity, so what's clear now more than ever is that these really onslot and massacer is not just against the resistance, but it's a genocide against all of the people in gaza. do you see it in that light as well? yes, let me retate one more one more time, i just want to

reiterate this that this is not, this was actually for mr. khan, but you, but okay, go ahead, okay, no, no, no, no, it's okay, okay, we'll get back to you in a moment, sidan, not only was this, something that is on on display, but in fact it's something even felt by prime minister netanyahu when in front of the joint session of congress, he then brought forth this this rather odious statement by saying that there were no, there were there were no civilian deaths in in in raffa, which indicates for him that he doesn't see any palestinian as being a civilian and sees them as being a legitimate target, and so if that is... the mindset and the policy on behalf of the israeli government and the israeli military, it's it's no, it's no wonder then that the physician then was seeing what are the atrocities occurring, mean he mentioned that

these were not accidental or unintended targets, these children, two shots to the head by what are supposed to be trained and professional snipers. is not a coincidence and it's and it's not a mistake, but i think what the physician was also affirming was a statistic that is also very important to recognize, lanset, the very prestigious british medical journal estimates that the death toll is actually somewhere above 186, since october the 7th, we will never know what the actual count is because the israeli mil'. it's been reported, are in fact hiding bodies, bulldozing bodies, burying bodies, essentially concealing the evidence, that along with the press embargo or the targeting of journalists indicates that this is a far more nefarious campaign of of a crime against

humanity, and as the international courts of justice has indicated a plausible genocide underway. palestinian protesters have gathered near the white house in washington dc as the israeli prime minister benyamin noo visits the us. this came as benyamin netanjau addressed american lawmakers and sought more financial and military support in response to that hamos condemned netanyahu speech saying it proves washington's full partnership in israel's heinous crimes. how do you view uh netanyahu's address at the us congress many have echoed that instead of having opportunity to speak there, netanyahu should have been arrested for being a war criminal, yeah, of course, first of all, let me just mention one thing, when i saw netanyahu addressing the congress yesterday, i just when he was begging for for military support,

i just remembered zelinski when he was standing there and also begging for military support and the for for the war in ukraine or let's say: for the military of russian military operation in ukraine and the arrogance of the west that they just it seems like they would they they're always ready to support violence whether in ukraine whether in palestine however in palestine it is not the same and we don't have to equal i mean it's there is huge amount of disproportion of power between the palestinians and the temporal regime of israel, people there are being suppressed and just yesterday families, families like whole families like mothers, fathers and their children were killed in massacre in khan unis, just yesterday while

he was addressing the congress, the american congress other genocides were being committed at the very same time in khan unis where the israelis ask the palestinis to move uh forest as to move to this place as safe haven, so let's just not pin hopes or let's just give it up any speech. that would be giving in the congress, not only the speech by netanyahu, any speech that would be giving there, of course lot of democrats they didn't support this, let's say honoring of a criminal war criminal like netanyahu, but i mean in in a democratic nation or democratic states like the united states or what they like to pretend or to call themselves as democratic state, you would see the the head of the congress. with threaten the member parliaments and the senators if you do not attend, if you boycott the speech being

addressed by netanyahu, you will be sanctioned or you will be punished, which is the toy that the americans would like to play with all the time, this is a first, and second, the the the speech was was was very, let's say, i mean, if if if we would listen to the to the times... how many times netanyahu said iran during his speech addressing the congress, it would be really definitely why why iran is being harassed by the western power and the us, it is just because they are standing still with the palestinians and whoever whoever not whoever wouldn't play the game with the west and with the us and support the atrocities of the israeli regime would be an enemy direct and okay, right, so so, yeah, yeah, um, about us

complicity in this genocide, uh, it's been said that washington has given israel a blank check, signed in palestinian blood, the standing ovation benyamin netanyahu received at congress even further exposes that, given all the demonstrations inside and outside of the us, there has to be point where even the staunchest of supporters of israel, has to say enough is enough, and i think we have reached that point, if you see some of the different events that have happened, even within the last 72 hours, it seems to indicate that number one, presumptive nominee for the democratic ticket, vice president camela harris, indicated that in private that she was actually speaking in a far more balanced tone than we've heard from the biden administrations. so far, it was also rather telling that when netanyahu landed in

washington, no high-level diplomat or official of the government was there to receive him, not president biden, not vice president harris, not secretary of state, anthony blincan, despite the percorded close relationship between the united states in israel, this was definitely a rebuke of netanyahu, it's important to remember that it was the republican. is really out of partisan politics that invited uh netanyahu to speak before congress, but as was indicated before by miss zeiden, many democrats in fact uh not only uh avoided the uh the event, but vice president harris who is by the constitution uh the head of the senate, she was not present either. the other issue is uh dealing with the united kingdom that it has now decided to unblock, uh the uh sanction on what was being prepared by the conservative

party to contest the arrest warrants by the international criminal courts against netanyahu and other israeli officials, so now that the united kingdom is not going to block uh that from going forward, that is uh quite telling, and then finally the international courts of justice that laid out uh very, very definitive decision uh and determination that in fact uh israel is uh in violation of international law uh with its prolonged occupation uh this was by far the most uh specific uh description of this, so the idea then that israel is further plunging into being a paraya state, into being rogue state and reaching then even testing the patience of stallward allies like the uk and the us seems to be now occurring this despite the fact that it's an election year and harris uh could very well have risked her political

capital by uh even showing some kind of sympathy for gaza uh these are definitely uh changes that need to be noted. right mr. khan, i'm going to stay with you uh for the next question. i think it's very fitting that address this because the olympics uh have just started, anti-israel activists gathered in the french capital to protest against the ongoing genocide and and demanded a ban on the regime's participation in the paris olympics, a global campaign of course was launched to ban israel from the 2024 games with activists using social media. to try and pressure the organizers, there were also demonstration held in several european countries, including france, and switzerland demanding israel's exclusion, however, the ioc, it refused to ban israeli athletes from participating in the event. i want you to explain this hypocrisy that we're seeing given the treatment that russian and

belarussian athletes have received specifically at the olympics. well, i think your question, in fact that... answers your question, because it is self-evident that this is hypocrisy, that the politicization of the olympics now is in in full exposure, south africa and south african athletes were subject to sanctions and and exclusion during the uh years of apartide, you see now again russia and interestingly belarus, which is not a direct participant in the ukraine conflict, also having its band, but there is the exception when it comes to israel, it's always interesting to hear the israeli government and officials talk about how israel is subject to double standard, well, it is subject to double standard, but one that benefits it, because it seems as though it is exempted from, as you have rightly pointed out, the way that other countries and

their athletes have been subject to punitive measures, this of... is also very much a function of corporatism, the fact that the kinds of pressures that come from corporate sponsors for the olympics is not something that is taken lightly by the ioc, there are really no corporate sponsors from russia or belarus, nor were there from the republic of south africa, but those that certainly benefit from, profit from uh the current situation with israel uh would no doubt then place enough pressure on the... see uh a time when of course it uh can ill afford to have its budget threat uh to then go ahead and make this exception. israel um how big of a failure has this war been for israel and it's murderous far right cabinet. the resistance in gaza still fighting uh the resistance in the region is uh united. netanyahu claimed

this war would make israel safer. we see that the exact opposite has happened. uh so uh it appears that the sands of time are running low for netan and most notably following last week's drone attack on tel aviv, the projected aura of israeli invincibility is also evaporated in thin air, yes first of all uh it's i mean the let's let's say one the most important thing is that this war or let's say this disproportionate war uh has exposed. how weak israel is and that what what they like to call the deterrance weapon where where they would brag about preventing any of the surrounding region or countries to be to attack them, they failed like does not exist anymore this deterrance weapon the they keep talking and bragging about in all of the

media platforms or all of the let's say their officials that would brag about and all of the platforms that would accept the... to talk on, however, also the war like in gaza when they when the operation started, what they like to call the operation, we like to call it the genocide, when it started, they said they had targets, they said some military targets, none of these were achieved, nothing, hamas is is still there, the the hostages uh, are not, i mean, they haven't brought back all of their hostages, what they like, to call hostages also, however, if if we focus a little and if we go back in time in a very short term memory, we would still see that israel has failed every single attempt for sease fire for a peace deal, and why? just they just want to hide their failure there. also, it, i mean, the

the the longer, the longer this war on gaza takes... "the weaker israel looks and the stronger the excess of resistance throughout the region would get, now we have people in iraq, we have resistance in iraq, in yemen, in lebanon, and now they are more united than ever, and if if if we would if we would see like what's happening, nothing is a coincidence what's happening in yemen, iraq and hizballah, and just as you mentioned sir, when..." talking about the vincibility of the - like the israeli sky and the israeli land it's pretty obvious like they, mean it's not one october the seven, it seems like every day they have an october the seven, one in land, one on the sky, so they they just failed, they just failed, and the longer it

takes, the weaker that they would look, and the reason the reason that israel, the temporal regime of israel is continuing, or let's say the occupation entity, the reason that they just keep going with this arrogance, is just that the support and they get from the us and the west and they can, they don't know that, this is also affecting them, it's affecting the reputation of what is the us and west have always have always braged about, which is the reputation of the human rights, democracy, humanity and so on. just yesterday we had a speech addressed by the un secret general guteresh when he said that he he he state, he clearly stated that you, i mean humanitarian aid missions to gaza

have been directly attacked by the israeli, let's say the so-called israeli defense army, it's not a defense army, but they like to call it defense army so that they would give the impression to the world that they are always in the state of defending themselves. okay, however, it's been... stated by the tirish that the the the humanitarian aid missions have been attacked by the israelis, although although there had been some coordination, they they already have informed the the the israeli army to that there there some aid missions would be there, how and yet they attacked it and what and what does that make the israelis look like ' more like a monster, so the longer the war it takes, the weaker israel gets, the stronger the resistance gets, and the most and most

horrendous with israel look to the whole world, which the whole world now is well aware of what really israel is. said khan, final thought from you, we're talking about uh the uh the resistance, and we have to bring up yemen, just days ago israel launched air strikes on the yemen city of hudaida target. fuel storage facilities there and this happened of course after the israelis were shaken to the core by the yemini drone attack on tel aviv just recently. i want to get your thoughts on that attack that was carried out by the by the israelis on hudaida and also yemy protesters today once again poured out onto the streets and fresh nation-wide rallies in support of the palestinians but today it was some of the biggest. scene in the past months, what message are the yemenes sending to the us, to the uk and the israeli regime with these massive rallies? i think the most important

message that they that they're demonstrating is that they stand in solidarity with with the palestinians, but beyond that i think it's also a message that they're sending to some of their neighbors, of course are far more prosperous and affluent, and some might even... argue complicit with the the violence that's being perpetrated on gaza, the fact that the hoothies are demonstrating and the yemini people as a whole demonstrating kind of solidarity that you don't see from other countries in the arabian peninsula, and some would argue are actively operating against the interests of palestinians, is is a line of demarcation that the yemenes are showing to others. the world that even a destitute country and one with very few resources like yemen is going to claim a moral rectitude compared to many of those who profess to

speak in the terms of morality which then of course does not does not hold much water as we're seeing unfur today all right thanks lot that's all the time we have for tonight's show thanks to academic and political analyst isabella zdon joining us from damas. and thank you khan director of global studies at wayne state university joining us from detroit and also special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us tonight spotlight it's goodnight for now and see you next time it is known that in wars between states, the assassination of the army commander or the head of state signifies an unequivocal victory over the other party, and often leads to ending the war in favor of the

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