politicians are up in arms against anything that has any trace of islam. watch this documentary to find the answer to this question. hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, homes seized, land confiscated, water supplied, poison or heavily curtailed, no electricity, little food and clean water, murder of infants, the elderly, special needs people, kids who were 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 spees of of nice slogans such as israel needs to take great. here 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. sab shath 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 sub on saturday, another school was bombed, and we know that schools uh there are serving as living quarters for displaced civilians, at least 30 more palestinians have been killed, at least hundred more injured at the khadijah school in darah, why does the regime continue to target schools, let's start from there, the uh the regium. that targets any school, especially if it's united nation school, honora school, in in a challenge to the international community, that's they are carrying their own criminal of 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 honora, 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 of resolutions which supported the palestinian people to return home like 194 and others, so that's why they targeting these establishment, but at the same time in this third phase as they claim of the zinist of entity, in their frustration at 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 evection orders to the people in eastern khan unis the last three days and this morning as well and they tell them to move safe area called mawas in the west of hunyus as in as well that area supposed to be safe area and they target the people while they are on the move and they targeting them in the area which themselves they designate as safe safe area right right what about that rick mean uh as sh was as sab was talking about khan unis 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 intry. 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 uh 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 uh schools? well, i think a big reason is because that's where people have gathered, where they are... 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 courtyard and 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, so the... the the and regarding the regarding the united nations and unra, unra has just reported that 90% of gazans have been forcibly 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 because the un security council it cannot beto or cannot uh block the

resolution, the un general assembly needs to suspend israel because of its uh because of its crimes. okay, well... sabab, let me ask you, i 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 impotance 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 beam all along, the one who founded this 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 of... from the holocaust and they made the palestinians 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 of the western europe which committed against the many many people along with the the survivors the holocaus. and they the end of the day it was very clear and very clear today, all of that was smoke screen to create an entity in their a military base, advanced military base in the region to serve the imperialist goals 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 zinis entities 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 air forces destroyed egypt and syria and occupied the west bank and gaz and the and of jerusalem and sai 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 most of the south of lebanon and and occupied beirot as well to destroy 1500

palestinian fighters who trying to fight to liberate their country when the the palestinian fighters left with the guarantees of united states of america this these thugs. moved with the protection of the zionist 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 massacers against... the palestinians and anybody who does to resist this entity and all of that is done, all of that all their walls till today is done by and participated 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 kind of. flying 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 paying 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 adomant to stand. against imperialism which is manifested in this genus 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 cries to the congress who been applauded him that he wants more weapons and he wants more participation in the fight against less than few thousand fighters in gaza that shows all of this almighty armada of imperialism of the... america is shared, it's shaken, it's will be defeated in that area. right, very

interesting points. what about that, rick? i mean, uh, sab talked about the various wars 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 awakened 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 crossroads 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 sea 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 fis and the the now recently canada, australia and new zealand are calling for immediate ceasefire, 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 anglesphere, that's breaking up, um, i think the the movement to suspend, the campaign to suspend israel from the united nations is very important cause, um, you know, it's we're at the the beginning, the the olympics is beginning in paris, um, it it and uh we see israel committing uh massacres right uh at the beginning of the olympics, israel is clearly in violation of the olympic truth and the international olympic committee should be suspending israel, well doesn't that just expose 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 gen site that 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 phase of the hypocrisy of 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, um, it was just announced that some of the most prominent mathematicians at hebrew university are leaving um tonight and tomorrow there are going to be uh protests 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 uh in in north america um there is a uh "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 um but the i think the uh the the the the..." the hegemony is really coming apart. interesting points, well uh saw, he talked about the palestinians and suffering, however increasingly palestinians 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? "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 zin 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 intefada we seen and then we we seen those people as well develop develop that rock to to weapons facing in the second intifada the zionist entity and the 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 kilometers and more and we can see that the manufacturing under the ground their own 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 k canadian, the australian, the new zealanders, all pour weapons at thesign 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 thugs 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 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... russians equal to the iranians, equal to the chinese, and this is what they see in gaza, the resistance in gaza is inflicting that kind of a price of the united states of america, we see the kids today, university and young ones and even men and women in the street demanding the dismantling of the zinist entity, they are

ashamed today in west europe or even in united states of america to see their countries being..." in bed was such a criminal senatic armies like the zionist entity and the way right? well rick, well 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 applauding 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 100 congress people refused 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 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 it the population um 70% of the democratic 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 are masses of people um going on the streets in paris at the olympics, exposing uh the fact that israel should not be there, it's in clear violation of the olympic truce, they're committing massacers as the olympics are going on, and um and 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 uh, 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 increase 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? the palestinians are for them to attain the victory other than the resistance? the icj, the international court of justice when demanded the palestinians in their opinion a few days ago of the to have the right for self determination, the right for and ask countries and bodies, international bodies to enable and to help the palestinians to achieve that self determinate. 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. moves and attacks against the design entity and will inflict more brises because before that they were attacking them, the especially the the supportive resistance from lebanon 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 theatricacal there showed that the united states of america is not interested in imposing cease fire it's 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 and and and salute for him and applating him, all that came to reassure them, to reassure netanyahu, i mean that's... 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 zist entity, the the french, the british, the americans and their poppet 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 on that note, i think both of you being with me uh here on the spotlight, sab shath author and west asia expert. out of belfast, rick sterling, investigative journalist out of berkeley, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, hope

to see you right here next time, goodbye.

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