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hello and welcome to spotlight. israel continues its bombardment of the besieged gaza strip for the 21st day as more palestinians fall victim to the deadly onslot. the total death doll has cost 7,300 at least 70% of those killed are women and children. authorities in gaza say over 12,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on gaza. the regime's strikes are coupled with total sige on gaza, cutting off water, electricity, food, and medicine into the territory, the

lack of fuel has left hospitals unable to treat the injured, the who has warned gaza health crisis is reaching catastrophic proportions, but intense negotiations and endless diplomacy to humanitarian supply line has only resulted in a handful of aid convoys, this is while the israeli military says it's extending ground operations in a sustained manner, the residents in the besieg gaza strip are angry over the world's silence and in action which leaves us all with this question. why does the world continue to uh fail gaza during its darkest hours? joining us on tonight spotlight, we have mcgovern, former cia analyst joining us from north carolina, and ken stone joining us uh from the hamilton college to stop the war from hamilton ontarial. gentlemen, welcome to the of program, let's start off with mr. "govern,

sir, how many more innocent palestinians have to be murdered in order for the international community to say enough is enough? question here is whether there be a wider regional or there are people in washington trying to provoke that. there will be no limit to the atrocities in gaza, there will be no stop to them, there will be no ceasfire even for resupply, if that obtains, so the premium right now is not. to be provoked uh, not to regard uh so-called retaliation by the us against iranian sponsor terrorists, play it cool and wait for the chinese and the and the russians to work their will in the security council, failing that in the general assembly, this is where it all started, of course when israel invaded its neighboring countries, in 1967 the un unanimously condemned it in un so number 242, it call for

the withdrawal of the occupy forces and it said that unanimously later, a former israeli prime minister, manahim admitted that we were not being threatened by egyptian or assyrian forces back in 1967, we decided to make the war ourselves, it was our initiative, we have to finally be honest about this, well hello, they're honest. about it, it was a war aggression, there's a un security council that has not been enforced, it's time to enforce it, and i see some hope that the un can play a constructive role. okay, let's cross over to uh ken stone, uh, you can also talk to us about the issue of the failure of the united nations security council implement any form uh of ceasefire, humanitarian ceasefire, but also i want you to address uh the matter was brought up by mr. mcgovern, and that's the the gaz war spilling over into uh something wider, a regional conflict, so

to say, the russian foreign minister had uh over the past uh few days warned of this turning into a regional uh conflict as being quite serious. well i have to agree with the uh russian permanent representative in that matter, mushroom into a war or confrontation between the great powers would be an awful scenario. um, i think the reason that the us has sent two aircraft carrier uh groups, in the past couple of weeks and there announced that the sending two more, which is huge amount of force is to deter. uh any possible participation or any possible intervention in this war um by hezballah by the islamic republic of iran to try and help to try and save the people of gaza from genocide or from an ethnic cleansing, so it's a massive show

of force to try prevent um regional players from intervening in this one-sided conflict where israel is basically shooting fish in a barrel um i do hope that uh the you when you talked about the un you said that it had uh had any success so far uh we have to point out that uh the the russian federation had a resolution which called for a ceasefire the us vetoed that and then the us tried to bring in another resolution the other day which did not contain the word ceasefire and uh or lifting the siege of gas i believe and uh russia and china beto it well. hopefully they'll get together at some point and see the wisdom of having a ceasfire and the lifting of the sea gaza, in fact ending the bloccade, israel's illegal bloccade of gaza that's gone on for 16 years, we we hope, but to your point about why does the world continue to fail gaza during its darkest

hours, i would change the focus a bit and say that if you look around the world right now, the people of the world are not failing gaza, they are standing up for gaza. do you want me to continue about that? because it could be said. well, in canada here, there are demonstrations virtually every single day of the week on behalf of gaza. we had them here in hamilton ontario, and we had the biggest demonstration of solidarity with the palestinian people in the history of this city, and they're continuing, large demonstrations, 20,00 in montreal, 15-1600 in toronto every every day, and there are resolutions being passed, there are meetings happening. there is stuff on social media or webinars every single day. i have not seen this level of activity since the run up to the us and the british attack on on iraq back in 2003, and it reminds me also going back to the war in vietnam where you could call for rally or demonstration at nine o'clock in the

morning and at noon you could have demonstration, a sizable one. so the people the world are not abandoning gaza, they're angry and frustrated and out in the streets. so it's clear to me that the world, that the people of the world are out there and they're pressuring their politicians, especially here in the west, which have been dragging their feet, though they the politicians have had to make changes in their dialogue and their statements uh indicating uh their horror at the uh israeli attack on gaza, so there there people are forcing their politicians to change their stance, right, just... uh to pick up on that note, mr. stone, the the demonstrations are there, but still we know unfortunately demonstrations are not enough to stop the killing and massacre of uh palestinians in gaza, but of course you mentioned that that pressure has to translate over into the governments of these countries,

back to mr. mcgover, and the honora chief, philiparini, he said it as direct as possible that gaza is being strangled and basic services in gaza are crumbling, but however. following in his words intense negotiations and endless diplomacy to open a humanitarian supply line, only a handful of eight convoys have been allowed into the into gaza strip, it's really tough to wrap one's head around that issue, around that fact, why would only a handful of aid convoys be allowed into gaza during this time where uh women and children are suffering, patients are suffering, who is the main impediment here? the operative word of afraid is this is what the israelis intend for gaza, and this is what the universal world has to stand up against. now it is very encouraging that there is more popular support for palestine than before, despite the despicable hamas raid. okay, it is

encouraging that many the nations around israel are speaking, reinforced rhetoric, and we probably will see that that. translate into action pretty soon, but the major factor here i like tony blinton, has blinkers on, now for somebody to come into israel and say, i want to help out. here but remember now, i'm a jew, well what i have to do with this? i'm afraid it does have to do with this, and so lincon has got to take his linkers off, and who's going to help him do that? his counterpart, the chinese foreign minister wongi, who wa is in washington today and tomorrow, meeting, perhaps with president biden to see if biden is still smart enough to realize that two front war is really really dangerous, three front. war, well that may be able to be financed by borrowing money from the chinese, but the us cannot win. what

do i say three front war? because early this morning a chinese came within 10 feet of b-52, usb52 flying the south china sea, that's close to catastrophe, folks, the chinese don't usually do that, what are they trying to say, the going to say, look, if this incident happens, what are you going to do about it, are you going to have a three front war? i mean, ukraine's not. you're going to be involved in the middle east and and out in the south china. so wong is going to measure b to see if he's compusmentos and whether blincon and and sullavan can be embarrassed in his presence to recognize that look they better rain these things and they better do what blincon said on tuesday, not what he said last sunday, namely entertain the entertain the notion of a humanitarian ceasfire that could last quite some time rather than have the israeli forces invade almas and chaos insued. kenstone, uh, what

about the mainstream media's twist that they're that they put on this? talked about uh the international rally's international response uh and the uh increased global level of awareness with regards to the palestinian cause. that's all happened in spite of the media propaganda, the distorted narrative that western mainstream media puts on events regarding palestine and the war on gaza right now where. trying to portray israelis as the victims? well, the western mainstream media always tries to portray the israelis as victims and it always um protects the reputation of the state of israel and basically gives it a pass. um, but i have to say that i've seen even a change in the uh and in the tone of the mainstream media here in canada, because of all the demonstrations. and the uh people calling up their mps, people writing letters to the editor, people

uh, people becoming involved in the political process all of sudden uh, for example, on the the two biggest tv stations in canada, ctv and cbc, uh, few weeks ago, you would never have seen palestinians interviewed on the air, on national news, and in the last few weeks we've seen representatives of palestinian organization. uh on tv, and they've been given long periods of time to explain why it is that there was this explosion in gaza and what the israeli uh declaration of war on gaza and its military siege on gaza is going to mean, so i think that there has been a complete shift in the narrative of the mainstream media as well, besides the shift in the discourse of mainstream politicians, so i i'm encouraged to see this, of course it's not enough, there are. they always try and show some they always at the at the very least they're always trying to show that israel and god

israel and palestinians are equivalent, but of course we that's not true, israel is the occupier, it's a colonial project, it's has a system of party and the palestinians are the victims and the mainstream media still on the whole tries to show that the palestinians are the cause of the problems, which is of course as backwards to to the... actual situation. ray, govern, the head of hamas's political bureaus. he recently made call to, quote unquote allied brotherly nations to apply pressure through every avenue to stop ongoing attacks in gaza. you have to think that his comments were directed at at the arab government of the region. how would you rate the arab government's response here so far? of course, they have the capability, they have the the way basically uh to... to want to get together collectively, have a response uh in the to the israelis, specifically the

countries that have normalized ties with the israelis recently, to spell their ambassadors, so the way is there, the question is is the will there, how would you rate the arab government, in a response so far? well, the correlation versus this time is different, the arab countries and iran, i might add are stronger and more. aircraft carrier strick groups now in the or one is coming to the area, the general for is there, thesenhower are still in the atlantic as far as i know, so there is time for diplomatic activity, i think the un can play a very, very constructive role as they should after all, since 1967, they haven't enforced

that that security council resolution adopted unanimously by all the countries the security council then, so i just hope that the activities of participants now will not be so product provocative that the main players there will will see the sense in being somewhat restrained given the fact that it would suit some of the people in washington just great if there were incident if someone attacked one of those aircraft carriers and they're not very hard to attack think. about three football, three soccer fields, that's how long they are, so uh, there are uh people at risk in there that put been put at risk deliberately by us forces. the question is uh, will they provoke the kind of reaction that some people in washington, very much hope they will. ken stone, would you like to add anything that uh, of course, um, the

reaction coming from our countries necessarily doesn't have to be in a military form, uh, they can. it start um collectively for example uh sanctioning uh is calling their ambassadors, maybe scrapping the normalization deals with them, something along those lines? well, do agree that the uh countries could scrap those normalization agreements and could re retract their ambassadors and strong statements, that that's all uh in the normal line of diplomacy, and they could do it uh today, why haven't they? um, i don't know, i'm not privy to their their innermost thoughts, but it may happen, i'm thinking that there are a couple of things that the other your other guest, mr. mcgovern, whom i greatly respect, didn't mention um, and that is that the us and israel are putting lot of pressure on the neighboring countries right now, to keep them

in line, for example, israel has bombed the uh, and damascus airports for the end, i don't how many times they've done it, i think that was a warning uh to the government of president assad not to get involved, and and also the us i think is up the anti considerably by launching air strikes in iraq against - popular mobilization groups which had which they claim had launched attacks on us bases in a iraq so um that these are moves, i think to deter iran and syria from get involved in the conflict on the side of the people of gaza and palestine in general, but they are escalations, and they they do threaten the peace, they're completely illegal, the us has no business whatsoever in

syria, it has an occupation there of the third of the country that has all the oil and the wheat resources, get out of there right now, and in uh iraq, it should be pointed out that at the time of the assassination, the blatant assassination by president trump of general soleimani, um, the iraqi parliament unanimously passed the resolution that the us should get out of there too, but these latest actions by israel and the us are escalations which i think are intended to deter neighborn, arab countries from getting... involved on the side of palestine. raymon govern, let's talk about the issue of accountability. there has to be consequences uh for crimes that these israels are committing. the murdering of children, innocent women targeting schools, targeting medical facilities, um, choking off an entire population uh from the rest of the world.

where does, and how does accountability start? let me just comment first on on. the last speaker is just words here, it could be that the us bombings in iraq now and syria are meant to deter uh neighboring countries from playing major role, it could equally well be that they're to provoke them, okay, provoke everything is said about these iran support iran, iran is supporting terrorist, so uh, it is my view that it's more likely to provoke them because people are watching, like nothing more than that. now as far as genocide is concerned, mean it's clearly defined in international law, countries have been accused and convicted of genocide with this yougos. the late 90s and so if the if the united nations representing the world's people can not summon the kuman and the courage to come out and stop this thing, even

if it's just a temporary pause in the bombing, well they're not good for anything, i think they are good for lots of stuff, and i think the chinese and the russians believe so as well, i think we will see within the next week at ceasfire, and hope to god that does happen, because otherwise israel is going to do something real stupid, in part to provoke the regional powers to react, and thus in turn provoke the us to defend its quote ally, and quote, israel, i put quotes around, because israel is not an ally of the united states, look it up in the dictionary, ally requires a mutual defense pact, and there ain't none between israel and the united states. okay, thanks lot jiman, former cia analyst, joining. carolina and thanks to ken stone from hamilton coalition to stop the war from hamilton ontario, and the special thanks to your viewers for staying with us on it spotlight, it's tonight for now and see you next

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the zionist enemy decided to conduct a ground operation in gaza under us protection, but it's still hesitant to implement it as the resistance awaits him underground and above it. the existing between the forces of the ac of resistance with an expansion in the activities of popular support for the resistance in palestine, and that seems to have become an upwork. path accompanied by increase in the level of field support for gaza from inside and outside the historic palestinian map. a 10th base, koniko base, asad base and al harir base were all under iraqi and syrian resistance fire, while yemani ballistic missiles aimed at the israeli occupation were intercepted by the us navy this time. west asia headed for total war this week stream.

the headlines, day 21 of the israeli war on gaza goes on within seventh bombardment of their strip cutting communication lines. in retaliation for the israeli genocide of palestinians in hamas fires volume of rockets at targets in telaviv. and also on our headlines as a sign of division among. uk official london's mayor calls for truce in the gaza strip and argues that telev has no right to violate international law. i joined the international community.