tv SPOTLIGHT PRESSTV November 6, 2023 10:02pm-10:30pm IRST
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hello and welcome to press tv's spotlight, i'm thanks so much for being with us. 2,500 people a week have been murdered in the gas strip by the israeli regime during the last 31 days. more than 10,000 people have been killed, 70% of them women and children, 25,000 palestinians have been wounded this one. month, but none of this, none of it seems to matter to reachound the world, as the green light for the holocaus continues to be given to the racist israeli regime. however, globally, people are flexing their muscles against their western regimes and beyond, the true face of the israeli regime is being revealed as the entities leaders call for nuking gaza and say that palestinians are not human, even justifying genocide. a new world order is on the horizon. and the pendulum is swinking. i'd
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like to welcome my guests to this program. elijah macny, journalists and political analysts out of brussels. and eves ingler, author and political activist out of montreal. but thank you both for being with me. let's startte it off in brussels and elijah. uh, the secretary general of the united nations, antonio, antonio guiterres has demanded immediate ceasefire in gaza, why do you think that it has taken him 31 days to demand this ceasefire? thank you for having me, thank you for coming. it is not a question of taking him 31 days before tackling the problem that is happening and the war that is happening against the civilians in. gaza, it is because he doesn't
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have any power. i remember when he has confronted the israeli ambassador, telling him that the problem didn't start on the seventh of. october, but it started 50 years ago, and this is when israel demanded his immediate resignation. it's because the united nation is institution powerless, unless it fits with the objectives of the united states of america. when the americans and the israelis agree that this war should continue because israel has failed to achieve any of its objectives, then.... the americans acknowledge the fact that killing civilian is the topic of the israeli army and that the united nation is impotent and has no power whatsoever to stop the war, particularly when we have 88 personnel of the united nations
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that have been killed by the israeli indiscriminate bombardment to gaza where the israelis bombarded school that belong to the united states nations, convoys and is indiscriminately bombing the city, pushing for an ethnic cleansing and committing crime against humanity, the united nation, unfortunately, it is not a body that can dictate the rules, it is not a body that has an army persay, unless by its members and has very little to do because it is the will of the superpower, the united nations of the united states of america for this war to continue and reject any call for seasfire even by russia, china and 120 countries that at the united nations general meeting agreed
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a ceasfire in gaza, but that well is, do you think this uh requests for? a ceasfire by the un secretary general, does it mean anything? will it be adhered to by the israeli regime in your perspective? uh, i don't think it will be adhered to, but i do think it it, it's better than not doing it, so i think that and as you pointed out, it's outrageous that it's taking this long for uh, for um gutires to uh come out with this, um, and it's definitely in my opinion reflects. the fact that the us and the principal nato countries are so gungho in backing israel um now israel clearly doesn't uh israel is is is is you know slaughtering people with with reckless abandon uh the only thing
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realistically right now that's going to reign in the the fanatics in in in israel are is the us empire and washington finally saying you now stop, stop the stop the wholesale slaughter. now it does seem that the us is uh uh happy to you know they want this escalate, they seem like they're happy to certainly the killing in gaza they're they're more than fine with um and and possibly they're they're happy even engage in something more broadly in the region um uh so so we where this all goes we we still don't know but but i think it's definitely good that the... secretary general has has firmed up his language, it's outrageous, it's taken this long, and it definitely does speak to a un that is is not reflective of of international opinion, because people around the world, mass, mass numbers uh, coming out onto the streets. what about that? elijah, you heard what eve said
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that basically he feels that the united states is quite okay with what is taking place in gaza? um, if you agree with that, what is it that the... united states is gaining from this genocide that's taking place in gaza that they are giving the green light to the israeli regime. well the israelis are aiming to achieve some gains or some kind of victory that are failing to do so so far after four weeks of the war. so the americans are giving time for the israeli, they gaining time. so the israel. really can achieve something or at least succeed in occupying the northern part of gaza where the main theater of operation is happening now, unfortunately for the israelis that the palestinian resistance is not ready to let
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go, is not ready to allow the israeli tanks to move into gaza and occupy it, and it's fighting it, it is fighting it in urban war that they are the... have excel in doing it so is inflicting heavy damages on the israeli tanks and military personnel and is driving the israeli crazy to the point that they trying to flatten everything in the north of gaza, shujaya, baittan, and they not managing to advance, on the contrary, yesterday they withdrew one kilometer of the five, six kilometers that where they have advanced, and we're talking about a tiny area that is between five to six miles with wide and then around 26 miles, and the operation is happening in the first part of it, not all of
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it, so if the israeli just want to park their 1,400 tanks in gaza, they can fill it up, however we understand that the resistance is not allowing the the israelis to move in, and this is what the americans cannot wait for very long to give the israeli enough time because the public. opinion is turning against the massacre of the israelis, there are images of children, more than 4,000 children have been killed, 2,200 women, and all that on tv that the americans can no longer hide it, cannot hide behind israel has a right to defend itself, because israel is in occupation, therefore there is limit where they can abuse of their double standard and hypocrisy. and this limit we understand, normally in all the israelis war, when the
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united nations chief starts to talk about seasfire, it means there is very short time when the americans are going to come up also with the demand, but not due to humanitarian reasons, but to save the israelis from their trap, because it is they not achieving what they want to achieve. well, eves, since sunday night, last night, the israeli regime admits that it has conducted 450 air strikes on gaza, this is just last night, what does this mean for a civilian area, and what does this mean to be taking place live on our screens? well, it means that the government's backing this in canada, the us. are sociopaths uh um, that's what we that's what
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we're seeing, we're seeing the political elite in canada, the us that are endorsing this just outrageous level of violence, and in fact not even just endorsing it, they if you were to pick up the the papers in this country, you think that the israelis are the victims, um, now the... "you know, i think israeli society, the culture has gotten extremely, extremely uh, fascistic, obviously, the jewish supremecist uh, fanatics who are in charge of the government, have been made very clear that they want to drive out palestinians, they want to steal as much land as possible, uh, they probably won't stop with just the west bank and gaza, they they probably want to go even further, that's have been always been an important strain of zionism going back a century, the maximalist zionists think it should be you
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know the jewish state should be you know multiple times bigger than it currently is, so all of that is is in the background and and um they have this powerful military with the backing of the world's hedjamon and uh and they're just just using you, the arms companies always like the fact that the bombs are being used and and israel's doing a lot of that um it's it's absolutely uh stunning to to sort of live through this uh uh this this this political culture in canada where all of the main politicians they all are backing this while the images of palestinian babies being taken out from under the rouble um anyone can see those uh in in in in near um virtual time it's it really is a um um um serious uh condemnation of the political culture in uh canada, the us. yeah, it it's
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amazing. i mean, elijah, your your thoughts on this, that could you have ever imagined uh, that uh, in 2023, 10,000 people could be slaughtered in the way that the palestinians have been in gaza, and nothing is done. there are 1010 palestinians that have been killed since 1948, and nothing has been done, there is another agreement that... the americans fold that they pulled out and they have reached a two-state solution, and nothing has been done, on the contrary, benyamin netanyahu went to the united nations with map showing only israel without gaza and the west bank. right, the objective of the israelis is to wipe out all the palestinian from
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palestine. this is why nothing has been done. because they want to do it quietly, because they don't want the world to feel, but this time around it definitely hasn't been done quietly, that's my point, i mean, you know, we're looking at this uh, live, real time, um, that that's what makes it so absolutely amazing that we're watching it in real time, as these massacres as this genocide is taking place. yes, they've done it quietly until hamas came out and said enough is enough, we're not going to accept to be assassinated, killed and displaced without saying anything, we're not going to accept to be humiliated, and you take away the last hope that we have to build a state in palestine, so the united
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nations resolutions of right of return were not acknowledged and respected, the two states has been completely dismissed and you have a far right government that is starving the prisoners and putting them in jail administratively without any justice for that they pushed the palestinian to limit where they thought well we can do anything we want because we're not accountable and the americans are with us, this is why the 7th of october came out as a reaction to all the injustice that the palestinians have suffer rightly, as guteres said, he was very modest by saying 50 years, but it's 75 years since the naka, since the 1948, so because of that the israelis still thinking they can get away with killing and wonding 37,000 in just four day, four weeks and bomb gazza with an
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equivalent of almost two nuclear bomb because each one 15. thousand, they've used 25,000 tons of explodes so far, and still get away with it. yes, well - i mean, as we see people around the world standing up to their governments, do you think that there has been an increase in awareness, awareness about the reality of the israeli regime now, and and and where do you think this will go? what does it mean now on the ground in your perspective? there is no doubt there has been a growth of awareness of just how vile uh israel and zionism is, there's no doubt about that. um, the protests here in montreal, biggest pro-palestinian demonstration in canadian history, 50,000, over 50,000 on on saturday, and it was similar dynamics in most cities across the country, more than 30 cities where they had protest, including way up far north, where there's lots of snow is
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image of a couple dozen people protesting in yellow knife, um, so there's no doubt that... there's a growth in in you know people being appalled at what what israel is doing um where this goes that's a little bit less clear, i think that there the the pro israel crowd has moved further and further to the right, they are becoming pretty openly racist at this point, they're calling for people to be deported uh from canada for going to protest, they are saying that the reason there's these big protests is because there's basically too many non-white. in the country um that is moving them further and further to the right of the of the political spectrum, whereas historically um in fact lots of the left was was very pro-signist um so that process has has escalated rapidly in the recent weeks a process has been going on for for years or decades even um now but at the
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same time let's be clear that the you know the israel lobby in this country is very powerful uh continues to be very powerful um and and um and obviously the us the us empire shapes uh uh canadian foreign policy and and it and it and you know within democratic party you're seeing similar dynamics in the us where younger uh generally darker darker skinned uh uh people are critical of of us support um uh but um you know how how how far that goes in terms of really building a long-term uh political movement that will fundamentally reshape uh us canadian support vizionism uh that's that's i think a little bit less less clear well. what do you think? do you think that uh uh there we will look in history and see uh there was a prior to october 7th how the world people looked at
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zionism and the zionist entity and how they reacted towards it, and then post october 7th or now we're one month later, do you see this as being a major point of transition? i october the 7 has created something completely different, it has created a state of incertainty among the occupied settlers. this is why israel is in deep crisis today, and this is why the israelis are bombing gaza, because they want to achieve something, they have promised all the jews all over the world to come to israel where they can offer them a land that is is not there, taken from the palestinian, give them security, give them home, any home that they want, that can take it from the palestinian, and in on the
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7th of october, the palestinian resistance offered a place for the settlers in the tent where there are 15000 tents today in iraq for all the settlers that used to live in occupied territory. around the gaza envelope and on the lebanese borders. this is something that israel has never seen before. because of that, it blows up completely the idea of asking all the jew around the world to come to israel where they have security. the israelis today in the society no longer trust the army, no longer trust the government. that is earthquake that the palestian. resistance, no matter how damaged is gaza, no matter how many people were killed, at least the palistinian cause return to the surface, and the israelis today are no
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longer safe in the thread territory that doesn't belong to them, because the people of the land, the owners of the land are saying, we want it back, we want to live in dignity, otherwise you will not, be safe here. all right, and on that note we're out of time. i appreciate both of you. being with me, elijah magner, journalist and political analyst out of brussels. eve zingler, author and political activist out of montreal. and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight. i'm marsia hashimy, signing out for myself and all the crew right here in tehran. hope to see you next time.
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israel's incessant bombardments of areas around gaza house continue, more than 10,000 palestinian lives have been lost during the past 31 days. more countries reacting to israeli genocide in gaza, south africa has decided to withdraw all of its diplomats from israell as a sign of protest. israel is amend that prime minister netanyahu agreed to a swamp deal and secure the release of prisoners of war helped.
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