tv SPOTLIGHT PRESSTV October 17, 2023 10:02pm-10:31pm IRST
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جوازي انا جاي على غصي افرح مش جاي على غصي هيك اشوف احتر حرب لحظه اموت يعني ايش اعمل خايفه اموت مش عارفه اكل الاكل قليله و مقطوع عن الميه ولا نت ولا كهربا ولا شيء اذا يعني يعني كيف بدنا نعيش كده يعني ما في شيء ولا ميه كيف نشرب مش عارفه ايش اعمل يعني برده كل مكان بنخلي فيه برده فيها قصف مش عارفه وين اروح في قصف ويمكن كيف حالك يا عمو خايف خايف لا ماش تخاف صح ولا لا انت قويه باس كيف حالك اخذها ايوه رجلي قدام عادي انا بس هذا انت بس هذا اصلا عادي. بتخاف من اليهود ما تخافش منهم جو
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more and more innocent women and children losing their lives in gaza, 10 days into the israeli onslot, some hospitals have a stop operation, and the rest are about to stop functioning thanks to an all-out bloccade of the territory. meantime rallies are being held all across the world, demanding an end to the israeli war crimes against palestinians, while western claimants of human rights are standing id by and even supporting the israeli regime. the leader of iran's islamic revolution has warned the televiv regime against continuing its genocide of gaza. wants the regime to face
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trial for its crimes against palestinians. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host najafi. let's get started with this episode. let me introduce our guests. okay, we have uplos montagan activist, organizer and podcaster from oakland, and eve engler, author and political activist joining us from montreal. welcome to the show, both gentlemen, now beginning with uh abbas, iran's leader khamani is urging an immediate halt to israeli bombar. of gaza and you've been witnessing what's been going on, just an hour ago we had this big hospital explosion in more than 500 people just perished in a gifey, so the question is what mechanism is needed for secession of israeli hostilities
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given that the tel aviv regime uh does not observe any humanitarian law, it's you know nothing applies to it, what can be done? hey, well, thank you for having me, well, first and foremost, we must understand that uh, this zionist regime has no morality, it is a complete immoral regime that has no historical uh reason to exist, no legal reason to exist, its existence, in fact is in violation of international law, so what can be done is the question, what can be done is humanity deciding to come together for the issue of palestinians, uh, power must be developed, and uh, the zionist regime must know that there is a response, there is a consequence uh, there also must be uh international intervention from the united nations standpoint, what good is international law if the united nations decides to sit by idally and not do anything? we know that nazi germany was persecuted uh in international courts, so the zionist regime also must be taken uh to international
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courts and be held responsible in a international tribunal, because what is happening right now is genocide uh and we must stop this genocide in this current moment of history, this genocide uh must be stopped and it will take people who believe in humanity, it will take people who believe in the axis of resistance to support the axis axis of resistance and to support the cause the liberation of palestinians. let me turn to montreal eve, what can be done? truth is really uh need it, cuz you know, people in gaza are losing their lives, 15, 16 loss of life, and you know in a in a minute, i believe, when i was just talking to our correspondent, who was their life for us in front of hospital. and uh this is happening and there are people, they are human beings losing their lifes and the world is just standing by watching and uh abbas talked about un and there are also some human rights activists they can they couldn't do anything you see what russia proposed and it was voted
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down several abstentions only five yes and the rest so nothing happened so that's why i'm asking you what can be done because the international community the international organizations do not seem to be able to do anything? well, i don't think the world is just standing by, i think that the us world leaders, yeah, yeah, us canadian government are encouraging it, mean biden is going to israel tomorrow to encourage it, mean that's the point, that canadian, canada's foreign minister was there on friday to encourage it, blincon was there uh twice in a couple days to green light all this, this is the... government's uniting it, this is the they're they're stoking it, um, so canadian government officials won't even recognize when asked repeatedly by many different forums in the house of commons, by journalists, by activivists, do you
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criticize, you've condemned hamas, but do you criticize israel's violations um of international law, they just they won't answer, they won't say it, and it's because they're encouraging it, so you know... what can the world do? um, well, everyone living in those countries where the politicians are encouraging israel to uh, pursue its bombing and destruction of gaza, we can demand our government, stop encouraging it, and there are many, many things that can be done logistically, the first thing is to retorically stop encouraging it, the second thing is start bringing in you know vote for un resolutions, bringing, have an arms embargo, there's a numeroal different ways in which canada supports these policies, and can we can stop doing that, so so i think that you know the previous speaker talked about
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power, obviously this is a question of power, it's organization and is is building groups, people, consciousness uh to take action and those actions, you have to be uh forceful, have to be protest, they have to be this you know blocking uh events, occupying the offices of politicians, ministers uh going to press conferences and disrupting press conferences. you obviously signing petitions all the you know across the board of the different forms of of activism that we all know you know is what changes things historically um they have to be done and unfortunately for the people in gaza they have to be done very quickly at a mass scale immediately to uh end these horrors that we are uh we are seeing yeah abbas you was talking about uh people like world leaders they are doing something i just was is they're not doing anything to help the palestinians, yes, they are simply provoking and emboldening the televiv regime to commit
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more crimes, that's true, now boss, world people are awake, maybe thanks to social media, thanks to people like you and i, and they know what's happening, they know what the suffering palestinians are going through, but uh, is this enough to, will they be able to, i mean is this the right way, should they keep making their voices heard and try to push their governments and official. there who uh simply close their eyes on the realities as if palestinians do not exist, as if they are not human beings. when this is a band to deprive nation of their basic rights for survival, this is banned internationally, it's in violation of international law. okay, and now we have fonderlain, the top eu official saying talking about this in terms of for ukrainians. okay, what about palestinians? well, of course, you know, the west will... behind ukraine, because uh ukraine is in the interest of pan-europeanism right, we understand that the top dog of
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pan-europeanism, the top dog of nato is the united states of america, so of course uh the inter the so-called international leaders will get behind supporting ukraine, but they will not get behind palestine because uh palestine is cause of the oppressed, right? the world leaders are oppressing palestinians, the world leaders are behind pan-europeanism, they're behind the united states of america in the oppression uh of palestinians. uh we understand that israel itself is settler colony just like america, and israel cannot exist without the settler colony of america supporting it militarily, politically, economically and socially, right? it is all out war against the palestinians, it's an all-out war against muslims, right? so what can we do? here, i'm in oakland california, occupied oakland california, home of the black panther party, the black panther party, they rose up uh for national liberation and fighting back against setler colonialism, so if you believe in freedom, if you believe in independence. "if you believe in humanity, we must fight here in the united states of america, we must organize here in the united states of
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america, we must take to the streets and masses in the united states of america, because we understand that imperialism itself is like an octopus, it has its tentacles all over the world, it has its tentacles in palestine, it has its tentacles in west asia, it has its tentacles uh in africa, right? uh, but if we only cut off the tentacles, another tentacle is allowed to grow, so we must hear inside of the belly of the beast, the united states of america, a land that was founded on the inslavement of africans and the genocide of indigenous people, if we can uh free the land here in the united states of america, it will then have a significant blow, if not destroy us imperialism, so uh people living in the western world, people living in europe, if you are for humanity, if you are for the oppressed, we must struggle in our own lands, we must struggle in mass and organize uh to be able to overthrow uh european and american control, because israel is a product, it is a product of... pan uh europeanism, it is a product uh of imperialism, it is a product of the west, and
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the west continuing to try and subjugate uh the muslim world to the interest of the west, but today is the day where muslims rise up across the world inshallah, you've it's not only some world special in the west, as we're talking about, it's also some uh western media, they're demonizing the palestinners and hamas fighters uh, you know with the stuff that they are uh posting online and and as the leader of iran's islamic revolution said some of these settlers, they're normal average yeman civilians, they are armed, and they have been attacking palestinians and we have been reporting this, especially in the past year. and then just look at look at the bbc the other day they were just talking about uh you know scenes of uh some destruction in israel, the people being taken to hospital, sirens being sounded in telaviven elsewhere, what about palestinians? i mean, how could you close your eyes to all that blood shit? it's just like a slaughter house, we're just watching it life just an hour ago. yeah, i mean in the canadian media
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they're even trying to um to. protests against these genocidal policies, there is even one one fairly prominent journalist to on twitter talked about banning the palestinian flag, so they've framed it, they've the world's upside down, and it's the palestinians that are the that are the oppressors and the israelis that are being oppressed, according to a big swath of canadas. to take a really concrete example, there i've only seen one media outlet that's mentioned the 1500 uh palestinian fighters that uh were killed inside israel that for the most part i think is really forces have their have their bodies um so when we hear about the palestinian death toll that 1500 is
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just omit but there's an individual 22 year old from vancouver uh but probably at least 10,00 kilometers from israel, he went to a private school, and then after private school in vancouver, he decided to join the israeli military, he was killed in the in the hamas operation, he has received many, many dozens of times more media attention than the 1500 uh palestinians, for the most part individuals who probably had never left their gaza cage, that was the first time. more than 3ous have lost their life so far, yeah, and with this latest one, 3,500, yeah, of the specific 1500 who left 10 days ago who went an operation and they left, and and they knew they probably were never going to return, they knew they were probably going to die, now i'm i'm not, i personally don't justify all the actions that took place by the hamas fighter, i don't think i don't think that
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you, i think the resistance is to be justified and to be even celebrated macro level, in a micro level, there was lots of inhumany. act, but certainly those people, those 1500 palestinian fighters are bigger victims of this conflict, then a young man grew up in vancouver, went to private school in vancouver, decided to join the israeli military, yet our media describes this person as a far bigger victim than the than the the the palestinian fight, let alone the hundreds the hospital, let alone the children, now the 1300 more palestinian children, there's more paleine children have been killed and there are israelis that have been killed in the last 10 days, let alone a broader so our media, our media just just just um takes the israeli perspective almost entirely and it flows in every different uh bit of the reporting and it's um it's really it's very dehumanizing uh for palestinians yep and
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abbas uh iran has warned uh on several occasions that no one can stop muslims and resistance groups this is said this morning, if israel continues with its crimes against palestinians, new fronts could open up in the region, is tel aviv, my question to you, is is tel aviv insane enough not to head these warnings, what could happen in that case? yeah, well the zionist regime, they have no logic, they have no logic whatsoever, uh, they are only concerned with death, they are only concerned with destruction, and they are only. concerned with enacting genocide against the palestinian people, with enacting genocide uh against the larger islamic world, right? only one regime named israel can bomb not only egypt, syria, lebanon and palestine in the same day and get away with it, right? but that day, that day is coming to an end, because uh righteous muslims uh have been
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fighting back, have been developing axis of resistance to resist setler colonialism, to resist uh the zionist. to resist uh the interest of the west, so only you know these people are fools, they have their shiny armor, they have their shiny toys, they have their shiny weapons, but what they do not have is heart, what they do not have uh is faith, and ultimately uh palestine will be free, and the access of resistance is stronger than it ever has been for, so been before, so uh, while they might have weapons, while they might have these us warships while they might have the the backing of pan-europeanism, we must also understand that the united states has lost a lot of wars, uh, israel has lost wars and the access of resistance today is stronger than it is have ever been right, so the axis of resistance will prevail, the islam access of resistance will prevail uh palestine will be free, it's not a matter of question if but when and uh we have to support the islamic resistance, it's uh we have to support the resistance of
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humanity fighting against evil right uh of fighting against genocide because it's it really comes down to this, it's very simple, it's those fighting against genocide, that's what they're doing, they're fighting against genocide, fighting against the genocide of the design regime that they call israel, uh now iran holds uh the us responsible for the crimes israels are committing against palestinians, the leadership saying that the that we have evidence that washington is formulating uh israel's current policy visi the palestinians in gaza, and then this is while washington is talking about uh, you know, self-restraint, while the same time, backing tel aviv and its war crimes against gazans, so i want to ask you what the us is trying to achieve by pursuing such policy, well i i think that first of all, the us is just, the whole political structure within the us is just totally different to israel,
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the israel, israel lobby plays a role in that, there you christian zionist movement, there's the whole settler colonial, israel is an outpost of imperialism, so the whole like ethos of a us politics is pro israel, um, concretely right now, i think that the arms industry. always likes war uh and there's been media reporting on that. i think there's it's it's it's realistic that that this is um an effort to get into a a war with iran. i think that is possible. i think it's possible that israel is really trying to uh to do that to to to kind of push uh towards uh ramping things up with hezballah and syria and then ultimately to try to get the... israel obviously you the idea that um they 20 to one
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or more bases so if there's one is really killed there always has to be 20 palestinians killed um and that longstanding kind of type policy that israel's pursued um but does how far the us is going to go with this i don't know but i think it's so far what we've they are very aggressive. okay, sorry, we have only one minute left, abbus. uh, tell us who's going to be the loser at the end of the day if the war spills over and regional countries get involved, in one minute, please. it is very simple, the zionist regime will be the loser, uh, pan-europeanism will be the loser, the united states of america uh will be the loser, and palestinians uh will be victorious, the axis of resistance will be victorious. this is uh, what is going? happen right, the people are organizes or are organized, the masses of muslims uh are rising up in various different islamic countries around the world, people around the world who believe in humanity are rising up
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around the world, uh, so like i said before, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of win, and uh, so my solidarity to all oppressed people around the world, okay, unfortunately we're out of time, thank you so much, abbas, montagan activist, organizer and podcaster in oakland, and yengler, author and political activist in. montreal and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i've been your host, i'll see you next time.
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to the sea. this is for palestine. in this special edition of palestine declassified, we're going to examine the extraordinary armed uprising of the palestinian people against the zionist entity. what's happened clearly has been a an operation planned for many many months in gaza, and with other resistance factions across the territories, and it's it's taken them entirely by surprise, but also more. inflicted an extremely significant military intelligence and psychological defeat on stand that this is the first time in over 50 years where a senior military leader is in the hands of the resistance movements in the hands of the palestinians he would be huge bargaining chip in order to get over 5000 palestinians who have been languishing in israeli jails for for years.
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at least 500 palestinians are killed in an israeli air strike a hospital in gaza city. iran's leader calls for. the trial of israeli officials warning in case the regime's crimes against palestinians go on, no one would be able to stop muslims and resistance forces. and also in the headlines two israelity soldiers are reportedly killed and several more injured in the latest retaliator attack by lebanon's hesbollah fighters.
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