hello. welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm

marza hashemi, thanks so much for being with us. homes, seized, land confiscated, water supply poison are heavily curtailed, no electricity, little food and clean water, murder of infants, the elderly, special needs people, kids who are playing, bombing tents while people sleeping, burning people alive, kidnapping and killing doctors, bombing hospitals and schools, torturing people with hot rods and so many... other heinous crimes have all been done by the israeli regime, and these are just some of the crimes that the regime has committed in just the last nine and a half months. all of this, while the so-called international community speeds of nice slogans such as israel needs to take of great care to minimize harm to those innocent civilians when they know the reality is far from that. stay with us as we take a look at the latest in gaza. i'd like to... welcome my

guest to the program, subshath author and west asia expert out of belfast and rick sterling, investigative journalists out of berkeley. well, thank you both for being with me, starting it off in belfast, and on saturday another school was bombed, and we know that... schools there are serving as living quarters for displaced civilians, at least 30 more palestinians have been killed, at least 100 more injured at the khadijah school in darah, why does the regime continue to target schools? let's start from there, the the regime targets any school, especially if it's united nation school, honora school in in a challenge to the international community that's there are... carrying their

own criminal acts while they are immune and nobody can't touch them since the united states of america chiel them diplomatically and shield them from the international communities rath. this is why you notice any any location with there is a united nation feeding center, united nation hospital, united nation schools always been targeting since the united nation honor. which is the agency looking after the palestinians there, it represent the rights of the palestinians for their land and the rights for those people to be looked after until the fulfillment of the international united and international rights of return and united nation security council resolutions which supported the palestinian people to uh return home like 194 and others so that's why they target. these establishment, but at the same

time in this third phase as they claim of the zinis entity, in their frustration achieving their goals in 10 months against few thousand freedom fighters in from the palestinan resistance, they are just going for a revenge campaign against the people, which they think these people are the incubators on the of the resistance, and they want to achieve as... many killings among those people as they can, since the this is the issue these invection orders to the people in eastern khan the last three days and this morning as well and they tell them to move safe area called mwas in the west of kanyunis as in sirat as well that area supposed to be safe area and they target the people while they are on the move and they targeted them in the area which themselves they designate as safe, safe area,

right? right. what about that rick? i mean, of uh, as shath was, as sab was talking about khan unis. i mean, the un is reporting that hundreds of people are trapped there. uh as israeli regime assaults are intensifying and rescue teams have been denied entry by the iof to enter the area to rescue the injured and i mean not only are people experiencing physical torture as he said they've been told to move from here to there, but it's also the psychological games, the mind games, the mental torture also that that they're experiencing, i mean your thoughts on this overall, and again once again... it is actually the united nations that is reporting this, but appears that they can't stop it. yes, yeah, in indeed, and i think it's a very good question, why does israel attack schools? well, i think a big reason is because that's where people have gathered,

where they are in the past have felt safe, so you've got hundreds and sometimes even more than a thousand people gathering in a in a... a courtyard and a building that house as many rooms as as the unraw schools do, and israel attacks it because there's a lot of people there and they might claim that there's one terrorist and they're going to kill 40, 50 uh people as a result um so the the and regarding the uh regarding the united nations and unra, unra has just reported that 90% of gosons have been forceably displaced, that's their calculation, so over two million gazens have been forced to move and many in many cases multiple times and regarding the the united nations, there's a a growing campaign in the united states to suspend israel from

the united nations, just as the un did with south africa in the early 70s, this is a this is a campaign that has very solid... chance of succeeding the the uh because the un security council uh it cannot beto or cannot uh block the resolution, the un general assembly um uh needs to suspend israel because of its uh because of its crimes. okay, well sab, let me ask you, mean as a palestinian and now this genocide has been going on nine and a half months and you see day in and day out this type of torture that's being inflicted on the palestinian people, and yet you see the impotence of the so-called international community. i mean, what's your thoughts as a palestinian and looking at the so-called international system, is this a system that can work to

free the palestinian people or your overall assessment? my own take on that, it's gaza exposed everyone. the being all along, the one who founded this uh world order which we live in, especially after the second world war, that they they created this this entity to protect them and those people who survived from the holocaust, and they made the palestinian, especially the i'm talking here, the western elite and the ruling elite in the west from united states of america, the... uk and the rest, they made the palestinian who have no import in such world order to pay for the crimes of the western europe which committed against the many many people along with the the survivors of the holocaust and

they the end of the day it was very clear and very clear today that was smoke screen to create an entity in their a military... base advanced military base in the region to serve the imperialist goals of the united states of america, to control the people of the middle east and destroy them while they're looting their own resources and this is why the zinist entity since creation it was used in wars in 1956 against egypt along with the english and the french in 1967 with the american air forces and the french. forces destroyed egypt and syria and occupied the west bank and gaz and the and east of jerusalem and senai and in 1973 when the arabs tried to liberate their land, the united states of america opened all its arsenal to support this entity and threatened

that is might be moved to nuclear kind of conflict with the soviet union, in 1982 when they destroyed... the south of lebanon and and eccupied beirot as well to destroy 1500 palestinian fighters who trying to fight to liberate their country when the the'. fighters left with the guarantees of united states of america, these thugs moved with the protection of the zionis to kill all the civilians, which is women and children left, because the fighters left in sabra and shatila and from them these massacers after massacres against the palestinians and anybody who dares to resist th entity, and all of that is done, all of that all their wars till today is done by and participate. in on the ground with the united states of america and the uk as well, the gaza, today

gaza can show that and expose, there is special forces from united states of america on the ground in gaza, there is a special cards spying on the people of palestine from the british aeroplanes, there is a special forces from the french, they call them mercenaries, but i don't know how sophisticated mercenary can. be, which if they are not part of the french forces, there is many many things which shows the palestinians are being the price for the hegemony of the west all over the middle east to guarantee their dominance in that area, and that's why the palestinian are adamant to stand against imperialism which is manifested in this zinus entity in that region and to fight it, and the resistance of the palestinians within the last 10 months is a great example. when netanyahu goes and it cries to the congress who been applaaded him

that he wants more weapons and he wants more participation in the fights against less than few thousand fighters in gaza, that shows all of this almighty armada of imperialism of the united states of america is shared, it's shaken, it's well be defeated in that area. right, very interesting points. what about that, rick? i mean, saib talked about the various wars. said that uh has been uh initiated in the region uh due to the zionist regime but at the bequests of uh uh the united states do you think this time around although of course the amount of people that have been killed is devastating but there is a change in the air because more and more people have become aware and just watching this genocide take place live that it has a awaken the masses, because the palestinians have been oppressed and they have been going through all of this for very long time, but

we've never seen this type of reaction, and of course it has to do with watching this live, i mean, do you see that we are at a cross roads as far as people and their reaction and understanding of the palestinian israeli issue? yeah, i think since october, the events since october 7 have created a... change in the perception of israel in the west, i think the mask is really falling off and the the misunderstanding and the sympathy for israel and the belief that there was some kind of noble cause there, it's it's really being revealed as a false notion, the favorable impression is is evaporating, we can see evidence of that even even the the five eyes and the the now recently canada, australia and new zealand are calling for

immediate cease fire, uh britain is dropping its reservations on the international criminal court arrest warrants for netanyahu and gallant, so the alliance between the united states, the uk, new zealand, australia and canada, the so-called anglosphere, that's... waking up um, i think the the movement to suspend or the campaign to suspend israel from the united nations is very important cause it's we're at the the beginning of the the olympics is beginning in paris, it it and we see israel committing massacres right at the beginning of the olympics, israel is clearly in violation of the olympic truths. and the international olympic committee should be suspending israel, but well doesn't that just expose the

even more hypocrisy um rick, because of course we see the way uh that the olympic committee has treated for example russia uh in dealing with ukraine and then we see this type of genocide that this regime has been committing, but nothing has been said officially to try to stop them from participating in the olympics, so don't you see this as just another fit? the hypocrisy the western hegemonic front being exposed? yes, yes, you're absolutely correct, there's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy on double standards here. uh, but what's happening is that the the reality is is breaking through, and in terms of the perception of israel, israel is falling apart internally as well, according to hret's newspaper, 25% of israeli jews would leave israel if they could, it was just announced that some of the most prominent mathematicians at hebrew university

are leaving, tonight and tomorrow there are going to be protest. throughout israel uh, including at vengurian airport, where with the arrival of uh, with the return of netanyahu, protest at dozens of locations around the country, um, and in in north america, um, there is a, the sea change is really seen very clearly that that young people all over all over the continent are coming out in huge numbers to protest um, israeli, the israeli genocide to support palestine, so i think this is a this is a change that's not going to go away. um, this the palestinians obviously are suffering immensely, but the i think the uh the the the the hegemony is really coming apart. interesting points, well uh, he talked about

the palestinians and suffering, however increasingly... indians are deciding to stay on the rubble of their homes on their land and when they've been interviewed they were saying, well nowhere is safe anyway, so at least they're on their own len. mean, let's talk about the this perspective, and do you think it shows really who is native to the land and who is not, and can the israelis fight with the people really and be victorious when they have this type of ideology? "the palestinian people faced this armada of western imperialism which represented as manifested with the zianist entity on the ground from the 70s and 80s with this with rock with stones, the kids and the men and women face that in the first intiifada we seen and then we we seen those

people as well develop develop that rock to uh to weapons ' facing in the second entity father the zin entity and they shocked their own their the the whole the whole society and this is why they built walls, huge large walls around every palestinian city and town to control the movement of palestinians through checkpoints. now you can see the palestinians from 2008 till today develop this rocks to uh rockets can reach 100 uh kilometers are more and we can see that they manufacturing under the ground their own uh their own rockets, their own guns, their own weaponry which they fought this uh this entity, and we seen the germans, the british, the french, the united states of america, the canadian, the australian, the new zealanders all for weapons and design entity and cash

from the tax payers money to to sustain this entity. while few thousands facing the whole entire collection of western imperialism represented by this zianist sugs on the ground and shaking them, people around the world start realizing that, as my my friend alluded to, and they start to losing their hegemony in that region, the danger of that to united states of america is severe, they see it, it's it's very very dangerous to them to lose the higem and that it means it will lose the cont control of energy, it will lose the control of controlling what can be supplied to different countries from that region as oil and gas to china or to others, this is will make the united states of america moving from the only superpower to a major power, it's equal to the russians, equal to the iranians, equal to the chinese, and this is what they see in gaza, the the

the resistance in gaza is inflicting that kind of a bright. the united states of america, we see the kids today, university and young ones and even men and women in this street demanding the dismantling of thesignist entity, they are ashamed today in west europe or even in the united states of america to see their countries being inbed with such a criminal senatic armies like the zianist entity and the way right, rick, rick, according to the world health organization. who, every 10 minutes a child is killed in gaza, and yet we recently saw members of the u.s. congress applying the man who is leading this genocide. i mean, your thoughts. about this and where we are in the world, especially from an official perspective, we've talked about people waking up, but when we look at these various regimes, i mean your

thoughts overall, well my thought is, the scene of people jumping to applaud benjamin netanyahu was disgusting, and i think a lot of people share that sentiment, it was not the... the images didn't show the reality because uh 100 congress people uh refuse to attend the the speech by netanyahu so all of so lots of those chairs were taken by staffers they were not congressional representatives so it in in one sense it's a uh that was a distortion of the reality because uh the democratic party which is clearly a war mongering party if one looks at their history of the invasions and support for uh for overthrow of countries uh from

iraq to libya to uh their efforts in syria the attacks on on iran right um there uh but but it's uh uh it it the population 70% of the democratic um uh supporters uh call for a cease fire and do not support netanyahu and even as i was saying about hundred congressional representatives do did boycotted his speech so it was a distortion the reality and i really hope that there masses of people um going on the streets in paris at the olympics exposing the fact that israel should not be there it's in clear violation of the olympic truce they're committing massacers as olympics are going on and um and uh the protests here need to just continue despite the fact that the media in the west is um is increasingly suppressing

and not reporting what's going on in gaza, so so we appreciate press tv. right, well thank you, we try to do our best with all the pressure that we also have, but so i mean with looking at everything that we've talked about and the pressure that has been put though on the palestinians. um, do you see all of this that it has actually increased the incentive of resistance group to coordinate better to expand, um, and we have seen them be very active and very effective. do you see any other way for the victory of the palestinians or for them to attain the victory other than the resistance? uh, the uh, icj, the international court of justice, when demanded the palestinians in their opinion a few days ago, the palestinian to have the right force determination, the right for and asked countries and bodies,

international bodies to enable and to help the palestinians to achieve that, self determination is means the first thing in that to use arm struggle, these things are legal for the palestinian under the charter of united nation and with the international court of justice opinion. right now so the palestinian resistance is the only way and this resistance is being supported by a wide arabian and west asian support and resistance and this way we will see intensifying resistance moves and attacks against the design entity and will inflict more prices because before that they were attacking them the especially the the supportive resistance from lebanon and and yemen and iraq just to show them we can reach and do damage to demand to stop the genocide, but in the the congress pathetic theatrical there showed

that the united states of america is not interested in imposing seizfire it its entity and it's supporting it and they wanted to extend the war because this bathetic netanyahu was there asking them, he's afraid and scared to face. to create an alliance called the brahmic alliance to face iran and the resistance and this is where this this is abose and and and salute for him and applaading him all that came to reassure them to resure netanyahu i mean that's the united states of america will stand by them when we notice in the 14th of april iran when it's hit the heart of the zinist entity who came to defend the zianist entity. the the french, the british, the americans and their puppet in jordan, so we'll understand the resistance is effective and will show them how effective

it is in the future more and more and... that note, i think both of you being with me uh here on the spotlight, stop shaft author and west asia expert out of belfast, rick sterling, investigative journalists out of berkeley, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marzia hashimi, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye. "the israel regime's nine months of genocide against palestinians is spilling the blood of palestinians, but it is also hemoraging as well, badly, maybe even more than palestinian themselves. the economy is tanking. one of the dimensions of the israeli economic crisis, which is deepening is that reports came in today through herets and the jerusalem post of rising inflation that continues to rise without any hope of it coming down. join us in this edition of economic divide with special guest frank

wright, he's..." writer and geopolitical analyst, he writes about foreign affairs on his substack at frankwrite.substack.com. also joining us is lamprini toma. she is a journalist and international correspondent of the main greek independent media, the press project.gr. the war in gaza is not only a genocide against the palestinian people, is also a murder of the israeli economy. this week on expos a, zienist media hurls accusations of blood libel at the land set following its grim revelation that the gaza conflict's death toll could surpass 186, equating to 8% of the enclaves population. in our digital media segment, we uncover the new york times portrayal of zianist israel's gaza assaults as a biased narrative, demonizing.

palestinians while rationalizing israeli entity military violations of international law. meanwhile, a delta pole for over 2000 adults unveils that 45% of britains endorse recognizing an independent palestinian state with 54% advocating for a uk ban on armed sales to zionist israel. stay tuned for expose. the truth is just a revelation away.

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oh palestine, i free you! oh palestine, i free you! oh palestine, i free you! oh palestine, i free you, my every prayer is a cry to my enemy, and i cry. cry out, cry out, cry out to the evil's enemy, the flame within my heart will burn you, i cry out, and the thunder in my voice will deafhen you, i cry out, and the tornado within my soul, will you

away! "my bleeding wound once felt those on forgotten, but the aching sorrow in me never gone, raise it will, my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your deeds." i raise it with my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your d,

wounded by hatred, i'm breathing, breathing, breathing, the... magic perfume of my homeland palestine, wonded in love, my hands turn around the branches of the olive tree, seeking peace, seeking peace, but as long as the pillows of our children are drenching blood, as long as you... you have the thorn crown of evil force, i'm a flame and thunder and tornado, and i cry out, i cry, oh my

god, i pray you, i think you, oh my son, i pray you, at this point, several mek men appeared from inside the camp. that's my car.