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tv   SPOTLIGHT  PRESSTV  November 1, 2023 2:02am-2:31am IRST

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25 days past since israel's ethnic cleansing and unconventional war on palestinians in gaza, the collective punishment has claimed the lives of more than 8500 people on gaza, the majority of them women and children. now most countries endorsed a un resolution to a ceasfire, so humanitarian aid could reach the people in the totally beligered strip of land, yet no truce has establish yet, now all
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locations in every living thing are considered as targets for israeli forces and western leaders whose media is stretching the facts are turning deaf ear to the voices of opposition made by their own people. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host bahruz majafi. let me introduce our guests in this of episode. patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst is joining us from los angeles. also with this is shabir risvy, political commentator in chicago. now gentlemen, uh, welcome to the show, let me start uh with uh patrick, first question i want to ask you because the whole world is talking about it, the un has been pushing uh for this since almost day one. but this is being vetoed or
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rejected, you know, and that's truth that is urging and lean it, so tell me on what ground is washington refusing a ceasefire to be established in gaza? very good question, and the answer is uh quite simply uh, this is on political grounds, so it's the in terms of at the un security council level, it's it's the language, it's the language in the drag text, the us has particular problems because they want... to insert uh political designations, ie, the condemnation of hamas, as a terrorist group, etc., this is also very important, and also to insert the concept of israel has a right to defend itself. now, these two concepts are hugely problematic, and if you listen to uh, the russian uh deputy uh to the permanent representative of the russian federation, un, he'll say and has said uh publicly as well, that they russia does
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support a palestine's right to defend itself, and they do recognize israel as the occupier, as does multiple un resolution, so what the of us is trying to do is to try to neutralize or to try to offset uh international law, by putting in this caviot israel has a right to defend itself, when in fact they actually don't, according to the un charter, they israel kind of forfits that under un article 51. uh merely because this isn't palestine's not a quote state actor uh and so and this is occupied territories, palestinians are being occupied, therefore, according to subsequent un resolutions, they have the right to defend themselves even by armed struggle, in a liberation struggle to a mountain armed resistance, so this is the problem is the us wants to interpret the international law completely differently than the rest of the world, and by doing so giving israel to uh
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have a war on terror where they can basically greenlight any action uh to do anything they want outside of the balance of normal behavior in the international system. okay, shabir is patrick saying that us is trying to uh make have some interpretation of, do we need any interpretation? it's there is clear, mean this is an occupy force and israel is just playing victim isn't it? they are under occupation, israel is peeting nothing actually. in terms of it's obligations under geneva conventions, other conventions, and this, i, i, i don't think we can even call this a war, because their armed forces fighting each other, it's not people being targeted, just hundreds of them perish again and another attack on this jabala refugee camp, the whole neighborhood perished, yeah, exactly, i mean, i don't really think you call a war when one side is annihilating an entire people and the other side is simply trying to... resists for its basic human
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rights, for its very right to exist, and the the political entity known as israel, the zionist entity as i call it, has historically. while caring about hearing about this asymmetric warfare where they're targeting children, they're targeting hospitals or targeting schools, meanwhile as my colleague here put it, the palestinian resistance, whoever they may be have legal right to exist. now with the united states, as you know many of our viewers now, um, it bends the international rules based order as it calls it itself, in order to fit its own political goals and um as sure a lot of people are aware uh the zionist lobby has huge influence on the american political system, spends millions and millions of dollars uh sometimes per congressional representative to make sure that everybody follows suit with what the zionist political line is, and so you have this bad actor of
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the united states and the united states security council, which is basically looking to carry the design this line in the in the united nations, without israel itself actually being... uh part of the un security council, so you have you, you have a direct representative of the zionist entity in the un security council, so if you're looking for uh some sort of seas fly agreement come from the un security council, it's not going to come without the united states getting in the way of it, inserting its own language on behest the science entity, and uh patrick, apart from uh this war, i mean that buse you know, humans fighters, palestinian fighters just proved. that this is only the facade, you know, this invincible military and that kind of thing, it's 25 days pass and see, what's been going on, and uh, now we have uh, isn't israel losing both in the war, at least it's lost this so-called grander, of that
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military arm to the teeth that we're not able even stop hamas, from retaliating, and that came not out of vacuum, as a un secretary general guterres said. rightly, it's years and years and years of living under occupation, the rights violations, land confiscation, land grab and all that, so isn't israel actually losing both in the war and also losing you, it's a pr war too, the hearts and minds of the people around the world. yeah, it's important, you brought up that point and which was reiterated by un secretary general uh gutierrez, which is that uh the action uh by uh palestinian resistance forces on october 7th was re retaliation, retaliation to so many different uh violations and transgressions uh by israel that previous to that point and history just didn't begin on october 7th, although that's how the western media and western governments and of course tel aviv want to frame it as,
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they want to frame it as a terror terrorist attack, unprovoked etc. um, and therefore they justifies all of the actions that they're uh going to take after that, so this is the... is an important point of how the conversation is framed, and you're right to also point out that the air of invincibility the idf is completely under question, as is the omnipotence of their intelligence apparatus, which is supposedly legendary, so they failed on those fronts, but here's the biggest front that they will have failed at by the time it's all said and done. the soft power complex of israel internationally depends on the country being portrayed as victim nation. and so they've been able to get the benefit of the doubt from so many people in the international system by virtue this this very powerful soft power mechanism that they wield okay now that is basically gone it's it's finished what the world has seen they cannot unsee so israel's uh you
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know the air of victimization that they're able to use to kind of you know justify the things that they do uh the violations of international law in the name of their own security this is all now coming into question. and if not completely avisserated over the last three weeks, so that will in the end that will be perhaps their biggest loss uh when this is over, they may gain some military advantage in the coming days or weeks, but globally they will have lost really the one thing that gave them the last air of legitimacy that they really had in the international community, which is that they were somehow victim nation, right? and uh shabira, of course, things have been. happening on the ground and we have some corporate media especially in the west trying to stretch the facts you know and reflecting them in a different way to try to demonize palestinian fighters as those behead for example israeli captive says which is actually uh not true and there is no proof
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for that and uh and you just and the witness was this lady was released few days ago and she said that uh the israel lady that she was treated just like guest in a very human way and also hamas leaders is stressing that this is what even if hamas wants that islam doesn't allow that, you know, it's just like nuclear weapons that according to islam, iran, other countries, muslim says cannot have nuclear weapons and this is what people in the west, leaders in the west. not people, leaders in the west do not simply understand this, so uh, we have this corporate media that's trying their job, trying to make a distinction between hamas and other palestinians and they want to try their best to simply put all the blame and this carnage is happening in gaza on hamas rather than uh zionist forces and they simply tell them that they have the right to self-defense, what self-defense? who's getting killed here? yeah, exactly. my colleague here but there is uh there's something to be said about the soft power that israel holds especially with
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this bitcoin complex so right now the corporate media in the west is going to hyperfocus on what we call atrocity propaganda which is to play on the emotions of people uh and and show them these visuals or give them these stories uh that just sound too insane to be true because they are too insane to be true uh they're rolling with all these different stories that i'm not going to repeat uh for them but all they're trying to do is demonize hamas well at the same time trying to equit hamas with palestinians and this is kind of going to be slowburn towards kind of you know just demonizing palestinians as a whole is going to be attempt to sanitize the vicious bombing campaigns carried out by the zionist occupation in order to kind of look at these essentially these war crimes they are war crimes is what we're seeing here if you if you wipe out 400 people within a within a second without discerning if they're civilians or not that is a war crime so trying to use this, this atrocity propaganda in order to sanitize their war crends,
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meanwhile, what we actually see on the ground is quite different, you have israeli commanders actually admitting that it's it's it's a lot tougher than they expected, the you know they're seeing heavy resistance from the palestinian resistance every time they try to enter you know ghaza, they they they are actually admitting that it's they're suffering heavy losses uh we're also seeing from resistance media you know tanks being destroyed on on design uh soldiers being liquidated, so on and so forth, so essentially the media just on the west side just wants to keep the cameras rolling and whatever atrocity propaganda the israelis are coming up with, and sometimes they've even like released claims without backing it up with pictures and when they do back it up with pictures, as we've seen they've actually artificially generated these pictures or they've heavily edited them or they've you know taken them out of complete context, so what so what the western media essentially is trying to do is create a boogie man out of the palestinians. while they commit all these different types of atrocities on the palestinian people. now patrick, let's talk
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about telaviv's plan for doing all this, are they going to exterminate, is this ethnic cleansing, which it seems to be, it's not a conventional war, and then what's next? they want to push the palestinians out, they want to make 10 cities, as some people are saying and sai, parts of jordan? yeah, i think i think this has been uh said publicly. number of israeli officials either indirectly or look at the document that was leaked uh this week which uh outlines just that that type of a proposal um and looks like that was done in consultation at least it appears to be with some members of the us government so that they must be aware of this this is effectively what you're looking at is uh is ethnic cleansing but with the threat of force in other words if you don't vacate then you will die that's uh that's ethnic cleansing uh which is backed up by genocide. patrick, they are vacation and they're dying. they told them to to be to go to the uh southern parts
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and they're boming bombarding the southern part and even there are more people, larger number of people concentrating there. and they're bombing the rough for crossing, so not allowing aid to come in, so like on every single level, this is like an egregious violation of just any kind of convention, geneva forth convention, any sort of human rights agreements, any international institutions, these this is... the most violations you could possibly rack up in the shortest space of time, and you know, and they've waited three weeks for their you, ground offensive, but the reason they've done that is so they can conduct an arms length bombing campaign where they don't have to you know put any of their troops at risk, and it's been overwhelmingly uh civilian uh casualties, deaths, majority of those or a large portion of those are women and children, and openly targeting hospitals, un shelters, un schools, churches, mosks, just it's endless. i mean, the the rapacious uh uh
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campaign here is like nothing people have ever seen play out on live television, and it's it's really shocking, but what's more shocking is the lack of resolution from western countries to call for a ceasefire, it's like they're saying, it's not a good time, this is what israel's position is, no ceasefire, now now is the time for war, says benjamin netanyahu, so how when has this ever been? policy of the united states to avoid ceasfires or prevent ceasfires when you have massive war crimes occurring, this is really going to be the death now, not just of what we're seeing, the the poor victim. of this conflict, but of international institutions, and also the credibility of the united states as an honest broker in the international system. this will be the last nail in their coffen by the end of this. this is absolutely a horrible situation for so many people exactly, and shabir what can be done, mean
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when you have this designist entity that has no regard for any conventions, any norms. nothing, actually, so is it possible through, i don't know, mediation, a third party, an international organizations, somebody from mars, i don't know what other ways, how can you simply uh sit a negotiating table with such a regime that uh, you know, complies with nothing, as disregard for no conventions, no international law, no humanitarian law, all kinds of crimes are being committed, how could you... actually uh be there and talk to them and try to address your differences and come to an agreement and even if you come to an agreement in whatever way, how can it be rest assured that they will comply with that? think you kind of answered it, they won't comply with it, this is a regime that has been politically backed by imperialist colonial powers since it's
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inception and at every time where you know any any country, any person tries to hold it accountable. they're met with smear campaigns, they're demonized uh the country like the imperialist powers for example like the united states will always back it up politically saying israel has the right to defend itself, well the defending itself look like bombing innocent kids, it look like bombing you know un buildings is it look like bombing you know the the al-jazera office for example, no of course not, this is a regime that you can't sit down with, and if you sit down with them then you by default in my opinion have blood on your hands, there's no with this, the only way this regime is going to learn is through force, is through the same kind of violence that it perves, that that enforces rather on other people, this is an occupation regime, the only way that these occupation regimes as we've seen, these apart regimes that have been dealt with in the past is through national liberation, it will be through the national liberation of the palestinian people that this question can finally be settled because this is a regime
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that will not sit at you at the table, they do sit sit with you at the table, then they're going to ask you to either fall in line or or be destroyed, and and that's that, and so the only way to deal with this is through supporting the resistance, supporting the resistance efforts of the palestinian people, of course, and i believe thoroughly with my heart and with just all the evidence provided before me that the only way that this regime will see justice is through the rifle of a palestinian resistance. now patrick, as you know, what's going on in gaza these days? is about nothing less than genocide, it's maybe even more, it's all kinds of crimes are being perpetrator, crimes against humanity, war crimes, so what about accountability, what's become of justice, when, how could justice be served? well, look, uh, i'm, i'm gonna sort of deliver the
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bad news, which is that i don't think there's going to be any justice served, not through any international institutions uh, the icc will have very big file which they are actively pursuing, karim khan said as much publicly uh that includes all officials, military, political, everybody within the israeli state, and also uh who might be held accountable in their own countries, which is interesting, is any western leaders that are backing or providing material support for these war crimes, once they are determined to be war crimes, which it looks like there's plenty of evidence for that regard, so they can then be uh arrested, warrants can be issued in their country, not just israeli leaders visiting those countries as we've seen before with uh augusto pinische from chile, ariel sharon and tibby litvi, the lukod uh official from israel who cannot go to certain countries like i believe the uk uh as well because of these charges, so countries can do this locally, but the real
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biggest change can really only come, i think politically, and that is of course there's the military. who knows how and when this could be settled and at what cost to the to the people in this area, the region and the world, but boycott sanctions from countries, from governments against israel could be very effective, and to isolate israel financially, and economically and politically from much of the world, i think it would send very strong message that what the the way this regime is acting is completely unacceptable, it's barbaric, it's emival on so many different levels. and it's being completely backed up by us power and us money, that would also send a strong message to the united states as well, the us does this routinely to demonize and isolate countries like russia, syria, iran for instance, north korea, but maybe it's time that the world considers turning the tables on this to show where their moral center is, where their moral and ethical center of gravity is, and i think israel is
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provide going to provide that uh pretext, and you're going to see bds, i think return with a real vigor uh right now, exactly, shaber, do you also see i with patrick because what israel is doing and this genocide it's going on, the more it goes on the... you know the more awakened people around the world will be and the more they will be pushing their governments to uh look at the the fax and what's happening not to turn a diff ear to the cries the voice of opposition and protest against these is really brutalities against the palestinians and uh do you see light at the end of tunnel for palestinians? i absolutely do see light at the tunnel for palistins. i agree with my college solution to an extent where you know... they can definitely use, the kind of turn the tables on the designist occupation uh through refusing to do refusing to deal with the occupation, kind of like what happened in south africa, but i do firmly believe that it
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will be up to the national uh resistance of the palestinians in order to truly get justice to truly reach that light at the end the tunnel. okay, thank you so much uh for a contribution, patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst in los angeles, should be a risvy political comment? terror in chicago and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight with me or host uh see you next time.
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اینی که شما مشاهده می کنید که رئیس جمهور آمریکا رؤسای کشورهای ظالم و شرور انگلیس فرانسه آلمان پی درپی خود این چون میبینن داره متلاشی میشه میبینن داره نابود میشه این رو می فهمن خودشون می رسونه که از نابودی جلوگیر.
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when the jews were segregated in the ghettoes, no one would imagine that decades later they would do the same exact thing to another part of the world by putting up tall walls to segregate palestinians. no one could also imagine that palestinians would be the ones paying the price for crimes that the nazi germans and the west committed against the jews. they blurred the lines and passed zinous off as jews to push forward their insidious agenda. this documentary shows a clear picture of what's going on behind the ghetto walls.
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at least 200 palestinians are killed in israeli air strike on the jabali a refugee cap as a regime continues is the... cities in the gaza strip for a 2015. yemen's are forces say they fire drones and ballistic missiles towards israel in several operations warning of more attacks as onslot on gaza continues. and iran warns that israel's war crimes continue in the gaza strip and the conflict expands and no party will be immune to its consequences.