hello, welcome to the spotlight, i'm. the us and the uk have attacked yemen, hitting over 70 targets in that country, and the reason that was given to stop the yemeni army from targeting vessels traveling in the red sea, that's israely linked. although the yemani army has been very clear that it only targets these israeli link vessels and ships, it is hit back at the us for the attack saying that of the yemen army's actions is to stop the us israel genocidal war. but is the us a british. attacks on yemen, a way to distract

from the genocidal war that's taking place in the gaza strip, and if that's the case, does it also point maybe to the failure of the israeli regime when it comes to not being able to defeat the resistance fighters? those are just a couple of the angles we be looking at in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests. joining us in the studio is david, professor of history at the california state university at. also of joining us chris williamson, former british mp and host of press tv's palestine declassified who joins us from derby in the uk. welcome to you both gentlemen and i'll start with you david if i may uh taking a look at just what has transpired in the past hours so we had osamaham down in beirut pointing to the fact that israel has pretty much uh not been able. to achieve the goals

that it wanted and has in a sense been defeated on that in that in that regard, because it couldn't defeat the palestinian fighters, namely hamas. also, you have the israeli prime minister who in a press conference has said that based on the icj and how that went down, that we're going to continue with what they call their onslaught in the gaza strip, but they point both point to the fact that they have been defeated, that israel has been de... defeated along with the us, which is masterminding this. um, what is your reaction to the fact that approaching 100 days, none of the goals that of israel and the us wanted have been achieved when it comes to the their genocidal war on the gaza strep? it's great to be with you, thanks for having me. i don't think that the goals that israel has laid out are achievable. uh, they have neither achieved their goals nor will they be able to achieve these goals, they will not be able to defeat hamas or the palestinian resistance. uh they

thus far have not been able to achieve their military goals, they haven't uh been able to uh uh successfully have uh a release or exchange of hostages or or refuse to, so their stated goals have not been met, and uh i believe that uh the predominantly us and uk led attack on yemen uh is is uh simply an effort to distract uh world opinion from uh what's going... on, especially not just what's going on in gaza, but what's going on in the hague related to what's going on in gaza, um and to somehow try to spin or to change the narrative, when in fact all this is doing is is bringing greater attention to the enabling of this genocide by the united states of america um and now uh with assistance from the uk uh so in short the the the effort uh is is to spin uh to try to show some sort of resolve uh when when in fact uh

all this is doing is is pointing out in sharp relief the direct support, now direct kinetic support of the united states and the uk for the the zionist onslot and genocide in gaza. so what do you think about that, chris williamson uh, i guess uh the the key point made there, one of them anyways is the fact that uh the possibility of the us and the uk um attacking yemen to divert attention from uh the uh failure that's uh going on there and the defeat really. the israel regime forces, do you agree with that? yeah, i think david makes a very pertinent point, um, clearly the israeli occupation forces are not making the progress that they had anticipated, we know that britain and the united states have been giving support to the israeli regime, providing uh military weapons and so on, and steadfastly refusing to take any action to bring about seasf. um and and

these attacks that have been launched against yemen, there is no provision in international law for these air strikes and many ways you could argue case of of international terrorism and indeed um if in terms of international law, yemen, i would argue, is actually in compliance with international or in compliance with the um with the genocide convention, which actually uh provides for nations to to take action, to to stop a genocide from taking place or indeed to prevent one from happening, and all the evidence points to the fact that clearly a genocide is happening before our very... eyes, i mean, mill billions indeed, not millions, but billions of people are actually witnessing it on their smartphones and on their on their pcs, and so clearly it seems to me what we're seeing now is is attempt to to divert attention, and you mentioned the international court of justice, where you

know, if the evidence is um is followed, it's very clear to me that, at least a primer face case is has been made out. and that would have very serious very serious consequence not just for israel but for those that have been you know uh making it possible as it were for you collaborating in that in that genocide and it's certainly arguable that the united states and the united kingdom with the support that they've been giving both morally and indeed practically with with weapons and so on and indeed it's even been suggested that there are british and indeed american special forces on the ground in gaza and the the british government issued what's known as a d- notice to suppress uh information uh being uh reported in the media about the special british special forces involvement on the ground there uh so yesuh i i very much

agree with with the point that that they that david was setting out there what stands up with what uh uh chris williamson said there david is the fact that uh yemen was actually um adhering to international law with uh what it has set out to do in terms of uh wanting the state of goal to be to stop this genocidal war that's going on and when he said that uh it uh kind of brought back uh the stated goal of the un we're back in 2005 and i just did a quick google search the r2p doctrine where it states uh un members endorse the responsibility to protect which states that countries have a responsibility to... protect their citizens, and if they fail to do so, that responsibility, and this is the key part, falls instead on the rest of the world. so do you think that uh, the fact that yemen has said, we're going to target israel ships, unless this genocidal war stops, the siege is lifted, and then aid is also allowed to come in, that they are

actually, in a sense then adhearing uh, to law, just like our guest said, that is an interesting point, i i would say that that ansra law is is directly applying the r2 doctrine um of course this this doctrine uh the responsibility to protect often uh invoked and utilized by uh liberal interventionists in the united states or the other side of the coin of neoconservatives to legitimate attacks and the destruction of nations such as in libya, but i i would say that this would be a pure and just case of the responsibility to protect, and and i'll just uh add on uh the point that the united states and the british by being directly complicit... uh in this genocide by not only underwriting it, funding it, giving the diplomatic protection, but now engaging in kinetic activity against the yeminies, depending on what the uh icj determines relative to the question of genocide, the united states and and the the british are uh

then going to be deemed complicit uh with uh the the genocide if this is what the icj determines and so therefore in the context of what's been going on in the last few days this could... be the us and uk attempting in some pathetic way to preempt the ruling, in other words, once the ruling happens, it would be very clear that they were bombing yemenies and killing some of the poorest people in the world in support of a genocide, but until that court ruling comes out, there there is potentially a little bit of interpretative leway for them to therefore engage in this, and the the uh terminological shenanigans of that that this is is uh important to defend maritime uh commercial shipping which which is is just absurd and pathetic sure the scale of the attack however chris williamson uh in a sense i think puts a into question uh what is what is the uk and the us after uh we're looking at um about 72 to 73 if the latest attack which was reported few hours back we put that at 74 uh if it

were just some rocket launchers or pads uh which they were uh then uh maybe maybe we would say okay the they're not they're not really going after anything. more than that, but the scale of the attack maybe points to the fact that they want the eminy army to not have the deterrent power, and therefore, perhaps the the some that are speculating that they... may want to take over that area, which is the bable mandab and the puerto fedeta in order to take control basically of the red sea and the transit routes there. do you think that that is the intention of the us and the uk? well certainly looking imperialist powers like you great britain and and the united states you have a have a record don't they going back in britain's case you know several hundred years of of using it its power to you know impose it its will and i'm sure that's certainly what they would uh like to to achieve, however, you know, uh, it's not as straightforward as as,

some people might think, and certainly the way in which some of the corporate media commentators in the in the west are sort of portraying this, i mean, they're not taking a rag tag of um, you know, irregular uh, sort the militia here, um, you, we're talking about um, heavy duty military in the case of of yemen and ana, i mean, they have... um significant weaponry at their disposal and uh you know won't be a straight forward and in terms of the will of the um of the yemini people it's very clear from the uh the rally that we saw uh huge rally in their in the sana city um with people expressing our absolute solidarity with the palestinian people and indeed support for the action which is being you know taken uh in support the... palestinian people to, as you've pointed out the target ships, which are you israeli ships and and shipping which is bound

uh for um the uh israeli uh regime, but look at the united states record, i mean you know they they they uh they've you know talk about the the rules-based order and international law and all the rest of it um uh and use this as as an argument to to justify their action against uh uh uh ansara and the you know these these strikes, but just look at what the united states, one rule for them and one rule for everybody else, it was only last year, i think they they they seized a uh iranian oil tanker, few years previous to that, they seized four iranian tankers that were bound for um venezuela um because they said that they were breaking the sanctions, the sanctions let's remember that the um the un special rapper uh described as stand amount to crimes against. humanities of the sanctions being imposed by the united states on on venezuela, so you know they have no

room to to talk, and uh, as i said, there could be very, very serious consequences. okay, looks like we, we just lost your audio there, chris, i'm sorry, we can't hear you, uh, let me move to you until we get that fix, we lost your audio there for second, uh, hold on your thoughts while i go to david, uh, david, taking a look at um, the the us and the uk uh have attacked yemen in this case and point and we're not too sure how much further this is going to go at this point yemen has said that they're going to retaliate if i were to read the words of uh the hussein al-azi the yemeni deputy foreign minister uh who said the us and britain must pay prepared to pay heavy price this may go on uh but the question that comes about here is is uh the us and the uk in the so-called coalition that they have actually there which was - you know wasn't really received that well, especially when you have saudi arabia

and the ua for example, saying we don't want to be part of that, um, is that they're they're afraid that this strategy might actually work, do you think that that is that is the case? because if you really think about it, um, yemen has stood up, they've really stepped up to the plate, and the strategy that they nobody would have thought uh, they've conjured that up and they went after it in terms of targeting israely bound ships, how effective do you think uh this strategy is? and if the us in particular is afraid of this actually working? i think clearly it is working. i think uh it it is not only working but it is working as intended and therefore the the percentage of of shipping arriving at ellot port has has dropped essentially to zero um and so it is working uh it is working both uh physically um as well uh in in terms of the uh uh uh let's say uh uh how to describe? the the global opinion um viewing the actions of answer um in as you said uh and as we could

call it uh uh utilizing an approach that could be considered r2p to protect palestinians um uh this is is directly effective in achieving the desired goal um which is motivating uh uh the israel to stop its genocidal onslaught on the palestinian people now uh certainly the israeli economy um has has been hit. hard by this uh the united states and and uh the british and this this weak loose coalition the they're trying to put this forward um as just a general attack on maritime trade and shipping when answer all has made it clear that this is directly directed only at uh israeli or zionist affiliated shipping, so so again in short to answer your question, um, it is effective physically, it is also effective in terms of the the information war and the narrative war if you will, that that is critically important and in terms of uh maintaining the vast majority of world opinion on the side of the palestinians and on the side of araral law in this case, so in

its concern over the success of these actions, we see now that these decrepit imperialist powers attempting this pathetic uh kinetic attack on yemen um in attempt to somehow uh uh change their policy um this is this is absurd, i think anyone who is a regular observer of politics in the region uh of of uh say military developments in the region uh is is well aware that uh the united states and the british are not going to be able to achieve their goals and they are headed into yet another quagmyer um that uh "the only question will be how many lives are lost and how much uh blood and treasure is expended by them in the process of them, well sounds like the sentiment that you just said is shared by so many people, like the images we're going to see now live coming from washington dc, there's been a pro palestine rally, if we can take a look at uh that um and see how many people have come out and what they're saying, wow that looks pretty big, this is a live coming through from washington dc, uh people have gathered their

demonstrations there calling for the ceasefire in gaza and end to the us attacks on yemen and it's..." uh chris pretty amazing, i should say that uh the the people have embraced this, and naturally they should, i mean really, when you take a look at the genocide, but also the fact that they um also came out for what the us and the uk did attack on yemen, um, and i think london also uh obviously experienced a huge uh rally today, the areal shots of the drone shots were testament to that, um, tell us the role that uh the people in general have played. when it comes to this genocidal war, in terms of what it did, maybe the divisions that it caused, etc. uh, just to take a sides up, since we're we just showed some of these uh, this massive rally that was happening in washington, well, i mean, i think what's happening is that the people of the world are united in their solidarity with the palestinian people, many people, millions of people who were unaware of the israeli

regime's utter brutality, you know, the the apartide regime, you know, the the the daily... dignities that they inflict on the palestinian people are now known by people who previously were unaware of this because the way in which the media tends to censor lot of this information, but of course this information is now getting out through through social media on people's smartphones on their pcs as i was referring earlier on and that's why we're seeing unprecedented numbers of people week after week turning out all over the world to express their support for the palestinian people and their... fortune their horror of what the israeli regime has been inflicting, and you know, i think this will, well, i think it's certainly concentrating the minds of certain politicians, i mean they are completely out of step, certainly the western political class is completely out of step with the public at lord, i mean some of the european countries for example have gone as far as to bantinian demonstrations, but in spite of

that, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are still turning out in in defiance of the law which has been pasted in. those lands to try and suppress that expression of solidarity, and so this is, i think we're going to see elections, unprecedented numbers of elections, i think around the world, and i think many of the politicians who have thrown their lot in with the - with the zionist entity will pay very heavy price, and i think this will also weigh on the minds of the judges sitting in international court of justice, it should do, i mean the case is overwhelming, and what could happen, if that uh uh that decision goes the way it should do is it could lead to israel being suspended from the united nations, it could result in palestine being admitted as a as a full member, it could result in an international criminal tribunal being established to prosecute the israely officials who are responsible for ordering this genocide, but it also has implications as i was mentioning earlier for those who are

complicit with the uh with the genocide and that includes politicians, particularly in... united kingdom and the united states of america, but but also really right across the western world uh, you know, they they really, i think, uh, will be looking over their shoulder, and the course of history could indeed turn uh, very favorably in favor of the the palestinian people, and and could be decisive in terms of, you know, the the the future of of palestine and the the future of the the zionist entity, this could be pivotal year, it seems to be in the in the palestinian. struggle, which is well has been going on now for well over 70 years. indeed, unfortunately we're fresh out of time, we have to end it here. thank you so much, chris williamson, former british mp and host the president to classified and also to... will be on in the studio, pleasure to see you, uh, professor of history, california state university, san bernardino, thank you so much to you both, with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight, thanks for

tuning in, from and the team, this goodbye.

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your headlines on press tv: the palestinian resistance movement hamas says israel has failed to achieve any of his objectives over the past 100 days despite committing. genicide in gaza, the lebanese resistance mov at hezballah launches retaliatory strikes on israely military targets and with escalating tensions in southern lebanon. and people around the world take to the streets to condemn the us-israeli genocide in gaza.