and leader yum the movement says, he warned the us against making any foolish moves against his country and support of israel. althi says us attempts to militarize the red sea, the gulf of aiden and bubble mondav straight threaten international maritime activity. the us and israel are now known as genocide perpetrators. in the us, president joe biden is called genocide joe, and israel is committing all types of war crimes from using food as a weapon to forced displacement, just to name a couple. but the anti-israel us front is also growing exponentially with each palestinian that is being murdered. the resistance fronts in the region are all playing a part in countering israely. crimes

like hezbollah in lebanon and resistance groups in iraq, meanwile iran has been active getting countries to act against israeli atrocities, while yemen has targeted israeli length vessels in the red sea. a lot to cover in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests. also joint. us is uh julia cassem, journalist and political analyst from bayroits. welcome to you both. i'll start with you, brett nockers, we're taking a look at the anti-israely block in west asia, i mean it was kind of there obviously uh, but ever since this uh genocidal war has broken out and has continued is grown stronger. we can mention hisbolla and lebanon or you can mention them for us, i'm just naming few here ordiall movements in yemen, how important do you think their role is at this? point uh when it

comes to having an impact on not only this uh genocidal war, but also maybe making a a difference in israel's calculations when it comes to the their future moves uh in this uh war, genocidal war. i think the importance of these organizations cannot possibly be overstated, that is how how influential and how how capital they are to the... situation in the area right now and the position that the zionist entity finds itself in in general, we have to always bear in mind that of israel is always calculating on the idea that palestine stands alone, because for so long palestine has had the support of certain countries of course such as iran primarily and few countries in the in the arab world such as syria, but for the majority of the world they have either been rather silent,

may be vocally supporting palestine but not really doing much in support or as is the case for the majority of the west of course being absolutely on the side of the scientis entity so when when this operation started i think that what the scientists believe that they could do is just strike back without with impunity without any retaliation uh internationally speaking and fight one on one of let's say against the people of gaza now even this one on one battle with on the on the streets of itself, it's a battle that are already losing, but aside from that, we see that this calculation was completely wrong, because not only have the countries that have always stood by palestine spoken up louder and louder than ever before, but you see organizations and movements actively supporting, militarily supporting the palestinian resistance, you see heizbollah stepping up their missile attacks on the north of designus entity, you see yemen firing missiles at this far. reaches of the

scientis entity, this is something that has never happened before, because they have the capacity to do so, and even maybe more importantly, we see news being tighten around the economic viability of design entity, for example the near complete shut down of the port of ilot due to the fact that red sea traffic to and from israel has completely shot down thanks to the fearless and brave attacks of the yemini people, so when this west asian block uh of mukawamin of resistance fighters has united even more than ever before, this has really put designist entity a spot that they i don't think they really expected to be at and that this is wider repercussions as well because you see even here in the west um you see lot of uh sympathy arriving for yemen for example for the fact that yemen stands up in such a way and by default of course the sympathy for the palestinian cause and the hope that palestine can win. has increased to thousandfold here

in the west and it ever existed before. yeah, and now to expand a little bit more on this, we're looking at the way that um iran has actually..." um gone all out in one form or another, whether it's going to the un or un affiliated organizations uh or in any other shape or form trying to gather steam uh to have countries actually join in its uh views and share its views when it comes to this genocidal war. i think as the war progressed from the initial stages on, iran was able to do that. for example, the ipu um is is a global organization of national parliaments uh there um is gentleman who represents the iranian parliament who said that iran and number of other states actually were able to gather support forest for palestine and made uh some of the country's position change, actually propelled them to change. let's listen to what this uh representative says

and i'll come back with the question. i actually made a group of countries together, we called it um... likeminded leaders, we made a group about like let's say year ago, year and two month ago, and um, you know, 10 countries we got together, we had a meeting and the leader was of this uh act was iran actually, it was me actually, and um, you know, we have some arab countries in this group, we have, we had um some african countries, and now the president of the ipu is... one of those countries that we have, we had a group together, we made that group because we thought you the european countries and european parliaments are trying to get as much as they would they could, and then if we if we don't make this alliance we cannot get

anything in the ipo, and i think you know the one of these one of the results that we got is was the in the vse that we got in the last summit about the gaza situation, in the ipu we have emergency item and we witnessed that you know in the last like let's say i have attended like six ipu summits, i have witnessed that you know um they bring emergency item proposals and they get let's say more than two third of the votes for their proposals but in this summit. "we have witnessed something else, they couldn't even get half of the votes and uh the proposal by the indonesia was you know supporting the uh people of the palestine got more than half of the votes, so yeah something happened in this summit. all right there uh you were listening

to the uh iranian uh representative there um of which uh he was really uh is his name representing the iraning parliament where i don't know if he caught that. uh ending there, which is really important of what uh transpired there, briankers, from 75 votes down to 50, in terms of countries that changed their stance when it came when it came to the zinanis regime. this type of change a political level is unprecedented. this is just one instant, and there are many others that are happening across the political spectrum when it comes to different countries and of course uh their the divisions that it has caused. what is your um reaction to what has? happened in this particular point at the ipu, i think this is very good representation of the the fact that that global opinion and public opinion in general in the many many countries around the world and especially amongst political

representatives of of the population of many different countries, it depends very greatly on the amount of attention that is given to a certain subject and of to the amount of of of of trust and hope that there is in the potential for change and that is why that is, i think that is what happened here, like when you see that 75% generally of the countries were to quote support um israel in the past in some of these votes, i don't think that necessarily means that all of them are great supporters of zionism, but you have a great deal of countries that kind of just go with the status quo, and if there is no hope for change and if there is no real indication that anything is going... to change, then it is very unlikely for countries, for example countries maybe in africa or in latin america or even in europe itself, to really change their stance a situation that seems to them to be relatively far removed from their immediate concerns, i'm not entirely sure about the exact vote representation by

country and the latest vote in the ipu, but i can imagine that it has something to do with the fact that iran in particular and many other countries within the pro palestinian camp have made so much. i put so much information out, so much emphasis on gaza and on palestine, that lot of these countries that have no immediate, let's say dog in the fight, now have realized that like what is happening there is absolutely unacceptable? sure, and the only moral thing for them to do now is to switch their position to the side of humanity, which in this case is the side of palestine. okay, uh, we uh have uh julia sent back, we lost her temporarily. thank you, julia for staying with us. uh, i'd like to ask your reaction about the stance that yemen has taken. uh, obviously the whole world is aware of what has transpired in the red sea regarding yemen and the way that it is targeting um israely linked vessels or ships. um, at this point uh, we're looking at the impact that that has made. um. instead of just talking about the um, guess the figure,

the financial figure here um that uh is being lost from the israeli regime's economy uh let's focus as to the way that the us is actually militarizing the region which even the yemen was taken aback saying what why are you doing this um and it's quite incredible that the us has formed this coalition to go against yemen which obviously one of the things that that means is it wants this genocidal war to continue, at the same time, obviously militarizing the region is not what something yemen, intends, they just want the war, genocidal war to stop, exactly, yemen's only condition for ships that are passing through the red sea is that they're not going to support the zinity during a genocide, that's its only condition, and even with that condition, billions in losses and uh about 11 at least uh companies, international

companies have stopped operations. um, israeli ships are now uh not even being insured or premiums are skyrocketing 250% and uh now the re routing around the around africa that these ships destined for the scientis entity have to take um is adding additional two weeks at least uh to their travel time, so this is contributed to that um the tens of billions in in losses and in um negative impact that's that's really struck the us and and and zianist entities economy um in addition to the losses that they're taking on the battle front uh so this is all part of the the strategy to really hit the pockets and hit the capabilities of the the us zionist beast here. uh so not only coming out of nine-year war where uh the the

yemeny resistance uh successfully fought um saudi arabia coalition uh which was backed by the us um but now they're even more ready to take on the us uh and israel itself as one of their uh their leaders just said um so uh this this "this escalation here represents a uh a readiness that the the the unsar allah resistance has in confronting us that um cannot even really get the the gulf states that it had put to fight um the yemenese for nine years onto its coalition so it's it's pretty much um the they pretty much are are ready to really take the the us on as um" you now despite the the west um material capabilities uh they're pretty much exhausted

right now in in in having stretched themselves in in israel and in ukraine um so as far as the the the fighting equation uh yemen has got the the upper hand in strength and um it they're not really uh it's really putting the the us actually in a disadvant disadvantages situation sure um i'm i'm going to ask you another question on i'll come to you breters uh the consequence of the move by uh yemen has been a positive one uh julia because we are seeing how malaysia uh actually is taking a stance when it comes to israely own ships and has announced that uh any vessels heading um i guess to israel from uh docking at all the domestic ports there uh in that country um so this is a development that may actually have a contagion effect do you think that it will and what do you think about the fact that malaysia um like yemen in some sense has stepped up to the plate. yeah,

so the the political power um that has that's now in turn en enabling and emboldening the rest of the muslim world to take material stances against the zianist entity that they weren't so embold and empowered to do for before comes from the uh this um this the strength that that yemen has now opened up. in the entire muslim and and arab world where they have incurred enough of a of a loss and enough of a threat to international capitalism itself to the... us to the signist entity that now it's materially all of these muslim nations feel it's materially possible to really join in on the on taking um actionable steps to um to confront this genocide that's happening and and yemen and the palestinian resistance that you know set

the ball in motion uh have in turn will in turn have an effect in in liberating the entire muslim and arab world. in enabling them to also rise up against uh the zionist entity and rise up against us occupation in material actionable ways um because of the the loss that they've been able to incurr to them as of now. we're looking at bright yanker's uh news that doesn't really make sense when it comes to the israeli regime stance uh and what's been uh now uh thrown around in terms of a ceasefire or the possibility of one um we we've uh noticed. that the momentum was being built that there is a possibility of one uh that may happen, even uh um israel indicating to qatar that they are ready for the talks to continue on this uh issue a pause fire pause i guess, but then you had the prime minister coming out netanyahu saying that uh you know there's no way that the cease fire is going to come into effect unless we eradicate and get rid of

hamas, the what's showing from the battlefield doesn't end indicate that israel has a standing to make such a bolt stance when it comes to a ceasefire wanting it or not. um, what do you think about the way that they're losing on the battlefield based on what's coming out in terms of the loss of israeli soldiers, equipment and what have you? well, of course, a person like netan yahu knows that his role in in many ways is being the bombastic, propagandistic leader of... what what he considers to be a country um in reality of design entity, so obviously um a person in his in his position who has started an aggressive war of total annihilation um has no real uh has has given he has given himself very little room for recourse, yes they have agreed in the past of

course to a cease fire that has happened um last month and there the most reason of course that he used to to justify that to his let's his extremist electorate of the extremist z settlers is of course and he said that it was to get the the prisoners who were still being held as prisoners of war in gaza to have them released in reality of to have them exchanged of course because in in exchange for design settlers who were released palestine the people in gaza got way more in return of palestinians who were released in in the exchange agreements. "and i think that at this point netanyahu has dog himself kind of a bit of a hole in which at the same time the people who are more let's say to the if you can call it the center or left of the azionist spectrum in as far as that exists especially nowadays within israel they already hate him anyway uh and the like the what is often called the religious right

the designist settle movements etc. the people who want to for example take over the..." a complex and build the third temple and all those those kind of people, they are, of course, their demands are so extreme that they will hate netanyahu and try to probably drop his the support for him if he were to relax his war against gaza, so he doesn't really have from his own perspective, i think netanyahu doesn't really have much of a choice than to continue until code and code until total victory, but the problem is, and i think he knows that very well, the problem is that this total victory is not happening, in fact there... are bombing of course and they are massacring 20,00 people so far, sure, but majority of these massacers are of course committed from the air, because they have airal superiority, they can bomb, but you see the images coming out the moment they send in troops, the moment they send in tanks and apcs and ifvs, they get blown up, they get destroyed, there are thousands of most likely already thousands, according to recent

reports of of zionist soldiers who have died and and have wonded, this is an extent that the... zionist entity and the zionist political structure cannot fathm and that can they cannot bear, so that is that that hold that netanyahu has has dug for himself, because he can't really do anything else anymore, since you're talking about these strikes, julia, i need to ask you about this, it seems like israel is very keen on boasting about the fact that they're hitting so many targets, just in the past 24 hours uh the news uh came out where they the israely military regime forces claim to have struck 300. 300 targets in gaza in the past 24 hours, there was one instance where they uh said that they had hit 600 targets in the gaza strip, when you think about the numbers and the hundreds. of bombs that are being dropped, uh, yes, there are civilian casualties, but it also sounds like they're really out to destroy the the land there, at least that's what it sounds like, i just

cited two examples, this war has been going on for 74, 75 somew days, do you think they're out to destroy the gaza strip when it comes to the bombing campaign? it's obvious that the zinis entity has zero military strategy, their capabilities. in being able to recover from the the the palestini resistances offensive on october 7th has been completely decimated, so the only option that they see in their perspective is to completely level, sports the grounds, make the gaza strip completely uninhabitable, which is why by targets they mean uh homes, buildings, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, which have been mainly the targets we've seen, from from all of these videos and all of these reports on the ground and completely moving reoccupy the the gaza

strip, otherwise there's there's no military strategy because there's no military fighting capability on on their end on the end of the designers capability, all they could do is commit massacers, all they can do is commit a genocide in hopes of first um moving in the so-called security. zone in the north of gaza and then pushing the the palestinians out of the gaza strip, the problem is even if they wanted to go from the route, which is what the the intention was from the beginning into just the genociding all the palestinians level leveling the earth and then coming in and and reoccupying and building new like like it was kind of going around on social media that there's some settlement development company that was setting setting. up that sets of settlements in the west bank, now same company wants to to build in in gaza, this this plan has also failed too, 700,000 gazin still remain in the north, and

the any level of air bombing and decimation cannot change the equation on the ground, that designs and to be lost militarily, thank you so much and that the resistance and within palestine is growing stronger, indeed, thank you so much, journalist and political analyst from bayroot. jonkers from uh hassel belgium, historian journalist, thank you, with that we come to an end for this edition the spotlight fromway and the team, it's goodbye.

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i'm deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in gaza. let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.

this week's africa today program focuses on israel's evil transactions in africa. the list is endless. it includes sell of weapons to the south african apartide regime to kill african freedom. looting congo's minerals and selling weapons to conflict readen african countries, hold winking african countries with dubious agricultural projects. this racist regime is now taking desperate africans to farms in occupied palestine amid the us israel war on gaza.

israel forces continue to use internationally banned weapons against civilians in gaza as death so for regime's genocide exceeds 20,000. the military wing of hamas says his fighters have destroyed over 40 israeli military vehicles and killed dozens of regime forces in the past three days.