tv SPOTLIGHT GAZA ONSLAUGHT UNABATED PRESSTV October 19, 2023 1:02pm-1:31pm IRST
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europe union, the people and the headen classes, we take action soon, very soon, and it will and they will make the their own states to be responsible, to be to pay more attention to what is human a human definition, so mr. biden, totally supported the the regime that has no wisdom the any kind. of um action because look mr. netaniah told the word that i'm trying to change the border of the of the middle east, what does it mean in international law, this is belly, announcing a war to the world, especially to the middle east, but they they call for what is the call of mr. biden, temperance, temperance for what, there is war, you are in war. and what we are expecting is fire and to
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stop killing the victim, so i'm not expecting of from the united states anymore, no more, even from the europe, but the people and the society and the classes of society that i'm expecting from them, they will make the revenge, thank you. we're going to go back to swees with us from south lebanon, we lost you earlier, mr. is we please pick up where you left off? yeah, again i am telling you, and just behind me ismone where just few minutes of ago, resistance movement of hazballah has targeted, a military base of the israeli forces in this area with a couple of anti-tank missiles. reports shall yet come about the casualties and the possible videos are typically resist the movement of releasing, yesterday. on the reports was the
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top stay, yesterday there took place different encounters between the resistance moment in south and the occupying forces and today again it all started from the very beginning of the day and again as you see behind me smoke is at there almanara military base in of the occupied lands of pakistan has been targeted by tension. specifically after the massacre that took place in almahdani hospital in gaza and the sentiments are really high here and as i reported in previous days as well, every day there are of series of concentrations, the total number of these and almost 13 based on the latest reports released by hisbullah officially and dozen of the israeli armies have also been...
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but yet not confirmed because designers are not confirming about their casualties, this of is situation and we are also waiting to get updates. okay, micnapier and edinburgh. let's of talk about the issue of accountability, issue that uh we've spoken here uh on press tv, many times in the past, there has to be serious consequences uh for the actions. carried out by the israelis for killing children, targeting schools, targeting medical facilities, ignoring uh international treaties and international law, what can you tell us about uh these consequences, whether there will be any accountability for the israelis and uh, how that avenue should be pursued? well, there must be, there must be accountability, but to whom, it raises the question of agency. who will discipline
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israel? if you look at the united nations, they publish report after report, finding that israel is guilty of war crimes and and crimes against humanity, uh, but there's no, but there's no pressure from the un. israel only responds to force, it cannot, it does not respond to any moral argument, they have come to to conquer palestine and they don't want palestinians and that. can only be achieved by massive violence, criminality of all sorts. look, and if you look at the governments in the eu, they have declared for very long time that the public opinion in the eu will not influence their policy. in fact, they made a mistake, a small technical mistake on one occasion many years ago, and they conducted an opinion poll among you, among eu countries concerning israel, but
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results they got back from their point of view were horrifying. majority of people in every country in the eu was of the opinion that israel was serious, if not the most serious threat to world peace. but their spokesperson, franco frattini apologized to israel for the opinions of europeans and promised the israelis that these opinions would not influence eu policy, so there's no help for the palestinians coming from the elites in these areas, but just like in the middle east, although it's a lower temperature, it's still very hot, public opinion is hostile to israel in europe and and and and across virtually the whole world, that's where the accountability has to come from. from resistance across the middle east, because take for example the international criminal court, there's an arrest warrent issued for vladimir putin, the russian leader, it took about year or so of war before that arrest warrant to be issued. israel has been committing massacres of
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civilians for 75 years, not only that, the people who carry out the massacres bost about it in israel and they become sometimes prime minister. israel has massacred egyptian prisoners of war, has massacred egyptian civilian workers from they when they invaded sin and past occasions and they and they talk about it openly in the israeli press, and the officers who did it are completely unrepentant, so this is so open, but the iccc, i could give them the information, any, there's so many bodies could give them a compelling case for war crimes, not against one general in israel. but hundreds of generals and and prime ministers and they haven't acted, they talk about opening inquiry, but the icc super quick to move against uh uh uh russia have given israel a free card, they have joined that the international awarding of a green of of a
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green light sorry to israel in order to carry out terrible massacres. the only accountability will come from popular resistance in all its forms. around the middle east and around the world. f b on uh the russian foreign minister just recently has warned that there is serious risk that the gaza conflict will become regional. i want you to break down uh the comments uh from the russian foreign minister earlier also uh earlier in uh in the war uh and the onslot that the israelis launched on the people of gaza the russian foreign minister also waited and said that what's happening right now is due to the failed policy of the likes of the united states in uh the west asia region. mr. barghadian. all right, i
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believe we do not have mr. barghany on right now. uh, i can readdress that question to mr. napier. hopefully he's still with us from edinburgh. mr. napier. with us, give us your thoughts on the recent comments coming from russian officials, one from the russian uh president vladimir putin, blaming the uh the violence that's happening in west asia region on the failed policies of the united states, and also recently the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned that there is risk, serious risk, basically that the gaza conflict will become regional. well, there's a growing awareness across the middle east that this is not a palestinian issue. "the palestinians are in the front line, defending with their blood, not just palestine, but israeli ambitions across the wider region. israel was was was not very heavily financed by the usa before 1967, if
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you look at the at the data for of usa to israel, before 1967, perhaps when the when the ziinus project was weaker, perhaps the ziinus project was more. vulnerable, american aid was pretty modest, france and and britain were were important donors, but after 1967, after the israeli army defeated egypt, syria and jordan, and proved to america that it could be valuable uh attack dog in the region against any regime that america disapproved of, that's when the aid from it from america went through the roof. mass of military and civil aid, and and it simply highlights the point, america doesn't care about the citizens of israel, it cares about having attack dog in the region. now the problem with attack dog is it can be defeated, but before we talk about the possibility of it
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being defeated, the palestinian authority has been used by israel to to to police palestinians and it will be cast aside and you know by the by the israelis if they decide to occupy the entire west bank, there is already open talk in israel among certain you know extreme right-wing sections of the population and and and leaders that they don't that they don't need uh uh the jordanian king any longer and there and and there's open discussion in certain areas of allowing him to to fall of uh driving palestinians out of palestine into jordan, so the israeli appetite for land and control, there's no reason why it will stop at the borders of palestine, they openly talk about israeli empire, so the palestinians are defending the people of the entire region with their blood, and it's it's important for for people further field in the middle east to realize they are not just supporting the
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palestinians when they do support them, they are defending themselves in the future, because if this barbaric regime, and think about this, if they can bomb hospital and kill 500 men, women and children, mainly women and children without any compunction, without any apologi without any hesitation, these people have 200 nuclear weapons and can we allow? 200 nuclear weapons to remain under the control of such a barbaric government, so there's a danger for the entire people of the middle east, the risk of war is real, because people are aware of this that they need to come to the aid of the palestinians in order to defend themselves and prevent much, much bigger, much more dangerous wars in the future, so yes, i think there's a very large danger of this spreading um to involve the neighboring countries and perhaps countries in is and muslim countries further field. it is truly inspiring to see yemeni fighters
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asking, demanding to be allowed to march towards palestine. we need more of that. okay, mr., let's bring in mr. barrian, again on the line with us from the iranian capital tehran, mr. we lost you earlier there. please give us your perspective on the issue we were just discussing with mr. napir, that's uh coming from uh the russian foreign minister who has warned that there is se risk that the gaza conflict will become regional. mr. napier also expressed his concerns about the vicious nature of the israeli regime. yeah, thank you very much. remember, please remember the mr. putin's statement that told america that your name, your warship is over there. this is very important thing. it means that the warship is not there for rescueing the people, the innocent people of. no, no, this is the balance of power, what is happening in the middle, the balancing of power between united states and the other
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rest of the world, for example, china and russia, and and rising powers like iran, what the reason states over there, not helping israel, not helping victims of gaz, in our space is with israel, just to balancing power and making threat for the world, because they cannot make this power, just just making threat. i believe that they are fishing on china to make an statement, what is happening over there, and they are pressing on the rest the world, to pressing the muslim war, to muslim unity, and they are trying to spoiling the muslim unity again, this spoil is lasting his reputation, because this is regime, this is not state, it's not government. regime the losing reputation, lossing is toy the lossing
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all kind of the connections even with the latin americans, look at the arab world, one by one they are trying to keep away from these, because because they consider that this is a diseases, and make it and maybe the influence of this disease spread over the world. the war especially in the middle east and in my as a statement israel is not a stopping the war and ground assalt will be begin soon because the occupation would not be stopped the people of ghaza they want their land back nothing else nothing more and they are making collective punishment the collective punishment means ruing. destroying the ghaza itself and the urbanization of gaza
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and deplacement of the population of gaza the other countries, especially to egypt, to jordan, to syria, many other places, why? because they want to bring and they want to dedicate the house to the other countries. this is the plan for israel, and united states is supporting this plan. what because they they want to spoiling the benefit, the interest of iran, of china, russia, and the is totally in the middle. this is the fact is is looking at the east and united states and it's supported cannot stand this weekend, the total fight is that, thank you. thank you, mr. bagan, that was political joining us from the iranian capital, tehran, let's bring in once again mr. napir from uh edinburgh, mr.
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napeer, uh, following what took place on. on october the 7th, the alaassa storm operation carried out by the gaza base resistance movements, many experts have pointed out to uh, a exposing of serious flaw in the israeli intelligence and security apparatus. give us your thoughts on that, but also on the same side of that, the different side, basically of of of the same coin would be the enhanced capabilities of the resistance forces, uh, elaborate on that for us as well, and whether you think uh, given what we've seen, the israelis now should start to feel less and less secure. for sure, the israelis are the victim of their own hubrus, their own arrogance, their own contempt for the palestinians, and we've seen many examples in colonial history where europeans come to
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dispossess the natives and to take their land or to pillage their resources with nothing. contempt for these inferior people they think, and they have got a terrible shock, they've been defeated, and they've been defeated in an asymmetric warfare by an opponent that cannot possibly um have the same military power as they do, but has a certain intelligence and perceptiveness that they like. i mean, look at the record, these the the palestinian resistance punched its way out of the cage, out of the ghaza concentration camp. and and carried all before it, the israeli army had reduced their forces there out of contempt for the palestinians, they thought that they had them completely under control, they were sure they had 100% control, electronic fences, uh, robotic guns, automatic heavy machine guns that can be fired from an office in tel aviv,
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and they thought that the the palestinians had been reduced to what a previous general, general aitan had. "we will reduce the palestinians to druged cockroaches in a bottle. well, they weren't cockroaches, and the bottle wasn't strong enough, because the israelis had treated them with contempt, but they observed the israelis accurately, sharply, and rather brilliantly, because i don't think ever in the history of asymmetric warfare, and there are many wonderful examples, i don't think we've seen an example of such an enormous difference in. military power between the two sides and the weaker side prevailing through intelligence, daring, courage, etc., so yes, it's quite remarkable, and it will be discussed in military staff colleges around the world for very, very long time indeed, um, but look, america and britain have been able to crush colonial
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opponents, across america we see a trail of extermination and genocide, it's it's that's the history of america, extermination, and we see a brit, we see britain able to do this as well in tasmania, new finland, elsewhere, but the problem is it's completely different in the middle east, the peoples who were defeated by by european colonists, they they were defeated by force of numbers, they said they could defeat the europeans time after time after time, but they kept on coming in huge numbers, they were like leaves on the tree. said said one north american uh resistor, but that's not the case in the middle east, there are seven million zionist jews, maybe maybe fewer, quite a lot of orthodox jews are not zinanis, there may be seven million orthodox, sorry zionist jews, seven million palestinians and others inside palestine, but they're surrounded by hundreds
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of millions of arabs who can turn on their tv and see a regime, people because they are arabs and even and and the arab rulers who made their peace with israel have to sit on that fire, this is the reality and and it burns deep into the psychology of people across the region. israel is a monstrous entity which lives by blood and fire and killing and full spectrum criminality. if anyone thinks my language is exaggerated, look at the record, israel's the first to introduce... "if you look at what israel has done um, in order to crush the palestinians and intimidate its neighbors, because these two things must go together, when you try to crush the palestinians, you
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arous the anger of local populations, and therefore you must be ready for war as well, so yes, israel means war, it has always meant war, but remember, although they crushed the opposition in 67, in 73 it was close, the egyptian army, the soldiers of the egyptian. we delivered the stinging defeat on israel, and although it ended up in a draw for israel, they were traumatized by the by the possibility of defeat. okay, in 2006, so i was going to just mention other situations where israel has been defeated. thank you, mr. napier. we're going to cross over now to the iranian capital, tehran, demonstration uh, in support of the palestinians is taking place outside the united nations office in the iranian capital, tehran. correspondent gisum is joining us now from uh the uh venue the rally with more gisuیان well just as uh
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well we've been witnessing huge crowds gathering at tehran's palestine square now i'm right across uh from the un headquarters in. the office in tehran where as you can see huge crowds of women and children uh are here chanting slogans and support of palestinians and their fight for freedom uh we have women who are here with their children uh with them they are condemning the atrocities that the israeli zionist regime has committed against the women and children in particular they are also condemning the fact that the zionist regime blatantly has been targeting healthcare centers and hospitals uh with no consideration whatsoever of the geneva convention and of course as you can see they
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are also expressing uh their willingness to offer any kind of support to the people who are in gaza even some of them are suggesting that they are ready to come to gaza uh to offer their help for the people who are fighting. for their freedom and of course now this is the first time over the past couple of days that we have such gathering in front the un headquarters in tehran they're hoping that uh the un will at least listen to these voices as they are calling for un support for palestinians the oppressed palestinian nation and this is the only thing that they would expect. the united nations to do to right at the right stand, to stand at the right side the story and offer its support to the oppressed and not the oppressor. one of the
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interesting slogans badio that i heard here was uh, un is not is just a name, so uh, they are also suggesting that if the un doesn't do anything at this point in history, it means that all the un stands for. is just facade and it is not truly the representative of united nations, nations from across the world, but it is simply representing the world powers, back to you bad. thank you, gisusum joining us uh from rally taking place outside the united nations office in the iranian capital, tehran. we're going to continue with our coverage of the war on gaza, these are the live, latest live images. we're getting from the ghaza skyline uh and what appears to be the continuation of the israeli onslot on the besieged uh coastal palestinian territory frag huws journalist
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author and activist joins us now from belfast offers more insight on what's taking place right now mr. hues welcome to the program. give us your perspective on how events have transpired over the past few days specifically when we're uh reviewing the uh attack that took place on uh the gaza hospital in central gaza. hospital? i think it's further proof and proof for needed that the zanas regime, the army, the air force and the navy that is carpet bowing gaza is absolutely devoid of humanity. if it's true that the idf tweeted out on their uh or actually on their facebook page that they were bringing euthanesia to the hospital as it had run out of uh other services. i think it speaks. volumes of the dehumanization of the palestinian people that they can be treated as cattle, they can be treated as uh
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as beasts walking on two legs. and they can be treated as being sub-human and we've seen all this before in the history of the world, we've seen this from fascist, supremist racist regimes, we can go back to africa and we can see what king leopold the ii did in the congo, we can see what the british have done all over africa, we can see what the spanish have done all over south america, we can now witness what the americans are doing all over west asia, vietnam, cambodia, and all the other. granada, heiti that they have targeted and invaded and basically uh had no respect for human life, so the bombing of the hospital is is just further proof as i said if it was needed of the total uh lack of value for human life, lack of compassion and actually you know the celebration of the murdering of maybe 500 women and children,
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and nostal still caught. and buried and quite possibly dead under the rubble uh, it's it's unconstionable what they're doing and the fact that rishi shunak, the british prime minister is now in tel aviv, alongside biden who was there yesterday to show uh on quivering support for this supremist racist regime uh just shows you how israel is now following in the colonial footsteps of both the americans and the british. and indeed the eu uh with its total disregard for the lives the other and they're only concerned about their own lives, about their own supremist values and about their own uh religious and uh political uh zinist ideology. john bozich is joining us now journalist activist and political analyst from belgrade mr. boznic. welcome to the program. as we do with all of
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our guests i want to get your overall. perspective of how events have transpired over the past few days as the israelis continue their uh indiscriminate attacks on the defense of people of gaza and of course let's not forget the uh hospital uh in central gaza that was targeted on tuesday. well i i think there's no debate about whether or not war crimes are being committed. um, there's there's a a plathora of international monitors reporting in. discriminated attacks on civilian targets, there is a actual footage from the scene from uh both from the israeli side and from the palestinian side uh describing and showing these activities taking place, so i don't think there's any more debate about whether war crimes are being are being conducted in this offensive, that that's clear, and there's also no...
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