hello and welcome to press tv spotlight i'm marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. well, it's day three of seasfire which has come to an end, this after 48 consecutive days of some of the worst weapons to exist falling on the heads of gazans in one of the most densely populated places in the world. and the sight and sounds of bombs fall.

phosphorus, burning, cut into pieces, missiles made by the usa and used by the zionist regime against palestinians have been quieter the last three days, this as people in a devastated gaza try to get supplies if they are able to as uncertainty looms, will this seasfire be extended or not? we're going to be taking a look at that on this of of spotlight, but right now i want to cross over to rimala, and uh we're getting these live images in. uh from ramala where 39 prisoners of have been released, so i should say 39 palestinian hostages, actually, they have been released out of israeli uh detention, as we've seen in the last couple of days, palestinians have been of course elated in seeing these individuals being released, of course uh we have seen that most of them are with. men um or children, some who were very,

very young, when they were taken by the israele regime, again, you're looking at these live images there, coming out of ramala, and interestingly enough, of course israeli regime uh has said that they were going to crack down on the palestinians, showing their happiness for the prisoners being released, so um, this was another threat by the regime of actually the palestinian should control and contain uh their happiness and of course also their support for the resistance, but as you can see it did not make a difference and the of people have come out in mass to welcome these individuals back home. i'd like to welcome my guess now to this spotlight. out of morocco, kevin berret, editor. uh veterans today, and

of out of london, shabir resby, political analyst, thank you both for being with me, um, let's start it off in morocco with kevin, um, kevin, how important is this seesfy, for the palestinians and how significant is it that the israeli regime was forced into a deal? well, this is a big win for the palestinian side, uh, there are no two ways. is about that, and increasingly, even western commentators, ranging from the pro-palestine, scott ridder, to the fanatical ultra-extremist genocidal zionist john bolton, agree that this is huge win for palestine. palestinians have been open to and indeed calling for sease fire and hostage exchange. the main tactical purpose of the...

storm operation was to take captives to could be exchanged for the 10,000 palestinian prisoners who are languishing in israeli prisons, and of course the zionis then used this raid as an excuse to pump out absurd mendacious hate propaganda based on lies and then use that as their excuse to decimate the civilian population. of gaza, and they wanted to keep doing it, and they said that they were going to eliminate hamas and they weren't going to stop until they eliminated hamas, that was their goal, and of course they won't be able to achieve that, and now they've had to negotiate with hamas and the rest of the palestinian resistance and seed to its uh requests for a prisoner exchange, and all of this is making the zioniss look terrible in the eyes of the world and even in the eyes of people like the administration in the... yes, they can't fail to notice the bad

behavior of the zionists who are releasing these prisoners who've been horribly mistreated in israelly prisons and telling them not to be happy, not to smile, don't celebrate. uh, it's it's they're almost a walking caricatures of of uh villainness, they're almost walking anti-semitic stereotypes, whereas the palestinian uh side, when they free their prisoners, it's all smiles and it's like, hope to see you again, and they're you, they're obviously on very, very good terms with their israeli prisoners, we've seen footage of that, so this whole thing is is huge black eye to the zionists and it's it's a one in what inshaallah will become a long series of strategic defeats for the zinas. all right, we definitely hope so. was shabir since 1967, there have been over million palestinians who have been captured by the israeli regime. i mean, the regime says that they are arrested, but in reality, they have been kidnapped, many of them not

charged or uh, chumped up charges. um, how was this even allowed to happen, and how is it that the majority of the world knew nothing about this? hello, good evening, thank you very much for the invitation. look, firstly, condolences to all the marters in uh gaza and the west bank over the last 50 odd days and of course for the last 75 years, but particularly currently the brutality that has taken place, and of course to uh, you know, support to the injured and their families who are obviously feeling the... pain, look, at the end of the day, the figure of million has come out in the recent past if i recall, because what has happened fantastically, as our friend from morco was commenting that the reality is that the veil of so-called

democracy, humanitarian, bastion of western civilization in west asia, which is sort of named: zionist entity was getting away with it, and not only that, it has also become very clear in the last few days that israel not only sort of takes ordinary people from the west bank and gaza, particularly west bank as hostages, as you know your opening comment was, that these palestinians are hostages, they are not prisoners, they are not sort of criminals, who have been taken in, they have hostages and even if a person dies in prison, the body is kept there for, you know, 40 years, 50 years, some of them in cold storage, to inflict more pain on the palestinians so that their loved ones cannot

be buried and and and the families can go and visit the graves of these individuals, so the crimes are compounding over the years and and it is becoming very clear that the pr campaign that the zionist regime and its supporters in the west used to sort of parret all the time what is known in in in the zionist sort of lexigan hasbara was used to hooding the public over the last so many years but this particular connage that the lunatics who have been sort of linching the little... babies over the last 50 days in gaza is becoming very clear that they have real no really no humanity in them, they have no moral fiber and their ethics does not exist, so this veil of hypocrisy from the

zionist regime has disappeared, and that's why you see demonstrations in london and all over the world coming out against the zionist regime, and secondly. also washington, the european countries, certain european nations who have given a card blanche to the zionist regime to continue the mayham that has occurred over the last 50 odd days in gaza, and let's not forget continuously in the west bank also for the last 50 days where two, three, four, 10 people are killed a daily basis, and i understand about 3,000 have been abducted in that period. also, so all this is, i suppose - a god given sort of elucidation of really what the zionist regime is, and what is western backers are doing?

well, kevin, um, all the palestinians who've been released by the zinist regime were women, kids and our kids, at least when they were um originally taken. why do you think the israelis have aggressively targeted kids and women, and we we've seen in the heavy bombardment, this genocide on gaza, that the majority of individuals who've been ki have been women and children? that's it's a very strange aspect of israeli mass psychology, this hatred of palestinian women and children. the former justice minister, ioletted, is still currently a close associate of the netanyahu camp, made a bit of a stir a while back when she openly called for the murder of the little snakes, that's what she called. children and babies, little snakes, she said, they all had to be killed, and the mothers wh bear them needed to be

killed as well, and in saying that, she wasn't just getting, she didn't get fired, she didn't get even reprimanded from within israel, because this is a part of shared israeli mass psychology, genocidal hatred of palestinian women and children, we see this also in the famous one shot, two kills shirts worn by the idf, that's their favorite. t-shirt, it shows a palestinian woman with a large belly, she's obviously pregnant, and there on her belly is a target, indicating that the the zionist snipers are completely aware that they're deliberately killing uh palestinian women and children, and indeed chris hedges, the famous american journalist uh wrote in his article, gaza diary about how he repeatedly witnessed israeli soldiers barking out obseene insults over megaphones in order to palestinian children within range their guns and then shooting them in the stomachs for sport, so there is a psychosis

or maybe psychopathy deep in the soul and mind of the state of israel. why do they hate the women and children so much? well, because they know that the existence of the zionist entity in palestine requires genocide, and genocide means eliminating the people of palestine. and it's women who give birth to children, as iolette said when she called them little snakes and the mothers wh bear them, and so israelis just want to kill off and extinguish and exterminate and rid the land of all natives, it's it's a genocidal settler colony, and that's what israel has always been, and as our other guests so elequently said, the mask has now dropped and the whole world can see what israel really is, well shabir estimates various to the number of people who've been killed in gaza,

as so many are still under the rebble rubble from between 15,000 to 20,000 or just some of the estimates, and it is quite shocking to fathem, and yet the bombings were watched in real time for 48 days without being stopped. i just want your thoughts overall on and what does that say about this? so-called existence the international community that's supposed to um make sure that they stop um disputes and and stop war and war crimes and yet this has gone on for 48 days live. well look, it's very clear that the zionist entity was created by the british, the city of london where i am sitting back over... years ago under the balfer declaration and then continuously was supported by british when

britain had a mandate after the first world war and after the second world war and then obviously the creation of the state of the zionist entity so and also like byden when he was young senator said if israel wasn't there we would have had to create it so really it's a... colonial, racist, imperialist project which has been planted in west asia to control the resources very clearly that of course you know west asia is resource rich, oil, gas, and so on, 25% of the world energy resources come from that part of the world, so what better way than to have foothold in that region, so that's one sort of aspect of it. of course the second is that the former imperial powers, whether it's britain,

france, holland, spain, germany, they and belgium, a tiny pathetic little country in europe, killed millions of people in kongo, so really they have a history of eliminating the indigenous people globally, therefore they don't have moral standing at all in any way to. criticize illegitimate child of their which has gone completely astray, so the reality is that that's a second point why they do not want to sort of... any way try to sort of curtail what the zionist entity has been inflicting, not just since 7th of october, as i said in my earlier comment, this has been going on for 75 years plus, from the time that the state of the designist entity was created, okay let me get kevin back in on this discussion, stay with me

shabir, kevin, now military experts from around the world are talking about the barbaric nature of the israeli bombardment on gaza, the type of weapons that they've used along with the scale of the strikes on this densely populated area is absolutely mindbockling. i mean, why would the regime react in this way? it it almost appears as if um, basically they're shooting themselves in the foot, because on the other hand, when people see this and see this is against the civilian population, these type of weapons, why? how do you think they have chosen to react in this way? well, i think there are two factors involved, and one is kind of a psychological factor that's peculiar to the zionists. their culture, even though most the founders of of zionism, and probably most of the leaders, not all of them today, but most

them are not religious, but their jewish heritage conditioned them. to believe that they are a special people who is always being persecuted and plotted against by the whole world, and of course jews have been kicked out of many many dozens of countries throughout history, and so there's a kind of a tribal paranoia that manifest itself in jewish identity, and also is tied in with kind of lust for biblical vengeance, and we see this in the story of the uh murder of 70,000 persians in the book of esther and elsewhere in the uh jewish scriptures, so there's that cultural factor that still influences these atheists who run israel today, they're paranoid and uh, they're paranoid, psychotic, hate filled maniacs who feel that the whole world is against them and trying to push them into the sea, and that

they have the right to go out and commit atrocities against their designated enemies. uh, it's a kind of tribal psychopathy, so that's one aspect of it, and then the other aspect of it is that they're completely free to indulge in this tribal psychopathy, because they think they can get away with it with some reason, they've been getting away with mass murder, getting away with outrageous crimes, just off the scale crimes uh that you would think would get their entire people in in really bad uh conditions, they've been getting away with stuff for so long. you now they they got away with you know murdering united nations people, sending letter bombs to president harry truman and to the prime minister of great britain uh during the period when israel was formed, they got away with attacking american targets in egypt with the falsified levan affair in 1953, they got away with trying to sink the liberty, us uh spy ship in 1967, killing 34 american

sailors and wounding almost 200 others uh they were going to blame it on egypt and they didn't they got caught, but they got away with it. "the us covered up for them, and then they got away with blowing up the world trade center and murdering 3,000 americans on september 11th, 2001. i forgot to mention the kennedy assassin, the two kennedy assassinations that were largely driven by the state of israel as well, and they've been getting away with murder literally forever, and they largely dominate the highest levels of organized crime, finance and journalism here in the united states, and the entire journalistic establishment, which is about 50% jewish zionis in terms of the own." and editors and publishers is running interference for them and helping them get away with genocide, so they're driven by a psychotic, psychopathic, biblical uh tribal vengeance complex, and they have a history in the past 50 years of getting away with murder repeatedly and owning the united states, which allows them to get away with murder, so that's why they think they can get away with

almost absolutely anything, and uh we'll see whether that confidence ends up being justified or not, i think it won't be this time. well shabier, um, as all eyes have been on gaza, the israeli regime has ratcheted up its attacks on the west bank, just today alone eight palestinians were killed. i mean, when we look at what they have done uh in gaza, and two what's happening the west bank. i mean, what is the overall goal, what is the regime trying to do, because it really does seem um that in the middle of all of this, as it's increasing its violence, even on the west bank. um that this will actually go against them because lot more eyes are paying attention to what design is are doing now globally? well indeed lot more. people are watching it very clearly and the pressure is mounting on the respective governments in the western countries whether it's usa, uk,

france, all over, demonstrations have been taking place, but the key point is that the psychosis that our friend from morocco was describing is has been articulated so clearly by the leadership, and you now, one has to repeat this continuously, because the western media always repeats the story that the resistance is is brutal, they sort of took so many people, killed the babies and so on, but really netanyahu talks about amalek, the the sort of the defense minister talks about human animals, then you have you, the whole idea of mowing the... all kinds of language that has come about, so your question, what is the sort of aim, the intention, really is ethnic cleansing, genocide, pushing as many

palestinians out of the west bank and gaza into either jordan or or or egypt, and many the sort of zionist politicians have said, why don't you 50 nations take 25,000 each of the palestinians, therefore there will be no palestinian problem. i would say why don't the zionist who old whole double or triple nationalities go back to their countries where they came from, indeed, stay with me, i'm so sorry, i'm just about out of time, but really quickly, kevin, one minute, your your thoughts, do you think that this ceasefire will last? well, uh, that's i think it's about 50/50, there's a significant chance that it could be. seriously extended. i think that the biden administration, which is a zionist administration, but some of the people are not the same rabid,

neoconservative extreme zionists that trump had around him and that are around netanyahu, and so some of those people may actually understand some of what we're talking about, that this is not serving the interest of this genecidal apartite entity that calls itself the state of israel, and in fact they're undermining their own interest, they're undermining their own future. and they are going to all have to go back to where they came from or maybe better yet move uh move their entire nation to the autonomous obblast uh at the russian chinese border because this isn't going to work for them and i think some the people in the body administration and the rest of in western europe understand this and they're going to put pressure on the zionists and the zionits are going to realize that the hole and they need to stop digging out of time i appreciate both of you being with me kevin barrett editor veterans today out of morocco shall be. rusby political analyst out of london, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marsia hashimi, hope to see you right here another

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