welcome to swat night, israel continues the bombardment of besieged gaza strip for the 21st day as more palestinians fall victim to the deadly onslot, the total death toll has crossed 7,300 at least 70% of those killed are women, children. authorities in gaza say over 12,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on gaza, the regime's strikes are coupled with total siege on gaza, cutting water, electricity, food, fuel and medicine into the territory, the lack of fuel has left hospitals unable to treat the injured, the show has warned gaza health crisis is reaching catastrophic proportions, but intense. and endless diplomacy to open a

humanitarian supply line has only resulted in a handful of aid convoys. this is while the israel military says is expanding ground operations in a sustained manner. residents in the besieged 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 fail ga during its darkest hours? joining us on tonight spotlight we have mcgovern, former cia analyst. and ken stone joining us uh from the hamilton coalition to start the war from hamilton ontario. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. mcgovern. sir, how many more innocent palestinians have to be murdered in order for the international community to say enough enough? the big question here is whether there'll be a wider rooge. there are people in washington trying

to provoke that, there'll be no limit to the atrocities in gaza, there'll be no stop to them, there'll be no ceasefire even for resupply, if that obtains, so the premium right now is not to be provoked, not to regard 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, un unanimously condemned it in un security council number 242, it call for the withdrawal of the occupy forces and it said that unanimously, later a former israeli prime minister, began 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 of aggression, there's a un security council that has not been enforced, it's time to enforce it, and i see so hope that the un can play a constructive role. okay, let's cross over to uh ken stone, uh, also talk to us about the issue of the failure of the united nations security council implement any form of cefire, humanitarian ceasfire, but also i want you to address uh the matter that was brought up by mr. mcgovern, and that's the the gaza war spilling over into uh something wider a regional conflict so to say, the russian foreign had uh over the past few days warned of this turning into a regional conflicts being quite serious. well, i have to agree with the uh russian permanent

representative in that mushroom into a war or confrontation between the great powers, which 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 has announced that it's 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 or by the islamic republic of iran to try and help to try and save people of gaza from genocide or from ethnic cleansing. so it's a massive show of force to try and 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 talk about the

un you said that it hadn't uh had any success so far, we have to point out that uh the russian federal. had a resolution which called for a cease fire, the us vetoed that, and then the us tried to bring in another resolution the other day, which did not contain the word cicefire, and or lifting the siege of gaza, i believe, and china, well hopefully they'll get together at some point and see the wisdom of having a ceasefire and the lifting of the siege of gaza, in fact ending the bloccade, israel illegal blocade of gaza that gone on for 16 years, we we hope so. 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 ghaza, you want me to continue about that, because

there's lots that could be said, well in canada here, there are demonstrations virtually every single day of the week on behalf of gaza, we have the here in hamilton ontario and we had the... biggest demonstration of solidarity with palestinian people in the history of the city, and they're continuing, large demonstrations, 20,00 in montreal, 15, 16,00 in toronto every every day, there are resolutions being passed, there are meetings happening, there's stuff on social media, webinars every single day, i have not seen this level of activity since the run up to the us and british attack on on iraq back in 2003. and reminds me also going back to the war in vietnam where you could call for rally or demonstration at 9 o'clock in the morning at noon you could have demonstration a sizable one so the people of the world are not abandoning gaza they're angry and frustrated and they're 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 politics have had to make changes in their dialogue and their statements uh indicating of their horror at the uh israeli attack on gaza, so there people are forcing their politicians to change their stance. right, just to pick up on that note, mr. stone, the the demonstrations are there, but still we know unfortunately the demonstrations are not enough to stop the killing and massacre of of uh palestinians in gaza, but of course you mentioned that that pressure has to translaver uh into the governments of these countries back to mr. mcgovern uh in the honoral chief uh philip lazerini, he said it as direct as possible that gaza is being strangled at basic services in gaza are crumbling, but however following in his words

intense negotiations and endless diplomad to open a humanitarian supply line, only a handful of eight convoys have been allowed into the into the gaza strip, it's really tough to wrap once head. around that issue, around fact, why would only a handful of a convoys be allowed into gazet 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 genocide, 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. palestine than before, despite the despicable hamas raid, okay, it is encouraging that many of the nations around israel are are speaking, reinforced rhetoric, and we probably will see that writer will translate into action pretty

soon, but the major factor here are the people like tony blincon who had blinkers on, now somebody to come into israel and say, i want to help out here, remember... so i'm i'm a jew, well i have to do with this, i'm afraid it does have to do with this, and so blincon has got to take his blinkers off, and who's going to help him do that, his counterpart, the chinese foreign minister wang, who was 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 fighter came within 10 feet of b-52, us b-52 flying in the south china sea, that's close to catastrophe

folks, the chinese don't usually do that kind of, what are they trying to say, they're going to say, look, you know, 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 finished. you're going to be involved in the middle east and and out in south china sea, so wang ye is going to measure biting to see if he's compusmentus and whether blincon and and sullivan can be embarrassed in his presence to... recognize that look, they better rain these things in, they better do what blinton said on tuesday, not what he said last sunday, namely entertain the entertain the notion of humanitarian ceasefire that could last quite some time rather than have the israeli forces uh invade all mosts and chaos ensue. kenstone, what about the mainstream media's twist that they they put on this? you talked about uh the international rallies. international response uh and the uh global level of awareness with regards to the

palestinian cause, that's all happening in spite of uh the media propaganda, the distorted narrative that western mainstream media puts on events regarding palestine and the war on gaza right now where they're trying to portray israelis as the victims? well the western mainstream media always tries to portray the israeli as as the 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 um, i've seen even a change in the uh, and in the of the mainstream media here in canada, because of all the demonstrations and the uh, people calling out their mps, people writing letters to the editor, people um, 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 organizations on tv, and they've given long periods of time to explain why is that there was this explosion in gaza, and what the israeli declaration of war on gaza and it's military sea. gaza is going to mean, so i think that has been a complete shift in the narrative of the mainstream media as well, besides the shift in the discour of mainstream politicians, so i'm i'm encouraged to see this, of course it's not enough, there you know they always try and show something they always at the at the very least, they're always trying to show that israel and israel and palestinians are equivalent, but of course we know that's not true, israel is the occupier, it's a colonial. project is has a system of party and the palestinians are victims and the mainstream media still on the

whole try to show that the palestinians are the cause of these problems which is of course ask backwards to to the actual situation the head of hamas's political bureaus he recently a call to uh quote unquote allah brotherly nations to apply pressure through every avenue to stop ongoing attacks on 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, how response uh in the to the israelis, specifically the countries that have normalized ties with the israelies recently to expel their ambassadors, so the way is there, the question is, is the... will there, how would you rate the arab governments in their response so far? well, the correlation of

forces this time is different. uh, the arab countries and iran, i might add, are stronger, more united than ever before, and more outrage at genocide as well, they should, the question is whether they will let themselves provoked prematurely. we have two aircraft carrier strike groups now in the or one, coming to the area, the charles ford is there, the is and how 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 restrict a very constructive role as they should after all, since 1967 they haven enforced that that security council resolution adopted unanimously by all the countries on the security council then, so i just hope that the activities of... participants now will not be so provocative that the main players there will will see the

sense in being somewhat restrained given the fact that it would suit uh 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 people at risk in there that put been put at risk deliberately by us forces. the question is, will they provoke the kind of reaction that some people in washington very much hope. they will. kim stone, would you like to add anything to that? uh, of course, um, the reactions coming from - our countries necessarily doesn't have to be in a military form, uh, they can start um collectively, for example, sanctioning uh, israelis, recalling their ambassadors, maybe scrapping the normalization deals with them,

something along those lines. well, i do agree that the uh arab countries could... trap those normalization agreements and could retack their ambassadors and make strong statements, that's all in the normal line of diplomacy and they could do it today, why haven't they? um, i don't know, i'm not pretty to their their innermost thoughts, but it may happen, i'm thinking that there are 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 uh to keep them in line for example israel has bombed the uh uh aleppo and damascus airports for the end time i don't know how many time you done it uh and i think that was a warning uh to the government of president assad not to

get involved and i and also the us i think is up the anti considerably. by launching air strikes in iraq against uh um popular mill mobilization groups which had which they claim had launched attacks on us bases iraq so um that these are moves i think to deter iran and syria from getting involved in the conflict on the side of the people of gaza and palestine in general but they are escalations and uh the... they do threaten the peace, they're completely all, the uh us has no business whatsoever in in syria, it has an occupation there of the third of the country that has all the oil and wheat resources, it should get out of there right now, and in 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 a resolution that the us should get out of there. but these latest actions by israel and the us are escalations, which i think are intended to deter neighboring arab countries from getting involved on the side of palestine. govern, let's talk about the issue of accountability, there has to be consequences for the crimes that the israelis are committing, the murdering of children, innocent women targeting schools, targeting medical facilities, off an entire population uh from the rest of the world, where does, how does accountability start? let me just comment first on on the speaker's just words here, it could be that the us bombings in iraq now and syria are meant to deter neighboring

countries from playing major role, it could equally well be that they're to provoke them, okay? them everything is said about these iran supported terrorist, iran iran, iran is supporting these terrorist, so uh, my view that it's more likely to provoke them because people in washington would like nothing more than that, now as far as genocide is concerned, i mean it's clearly defined in international law, countries have been accused and convicted of genocide witness yugoslavia, the late 90s, and so if the if the... united nations representing the world's people cannot 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 then they're not good for anything, i think they are good for lot of stuff, and i think the chinese and the russians believe so as well, i think we will see within the next week a temporary seas fire, and i hope to god that does happen,

because otherwise israel is going to do something really stupid uh, in part to provoke the region. powers to react and thus in turn provoke the us to defend its quote ally and quote, israel, i put around there because israel is not an ally of the united states, look at them in dictionary, ally requires a mutual defense pact, and there ain't none between israel and the united states. okay, gentlemen, cia and joining us from north carolina, and thanks to ken from the hamilton coalition to stop the war for hamilton. ontario and a special thanks to our viewers for staying with us on tonight's spotlight, it's good night for now and see you next time.

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your headlines on press tv day 22 of the israeli war on gazas. starts with relentless bombardment of the strip and threats of ground operations. the hamas resistance move says it is fully prepared to confront israeli into the gaza's ring, and the united nations general assembly approved a resolution calling for immediate humanitarian truce in gaza.