hello and welcome to spotlight. israel is pressing ahead with its relentless aeral and ground attacks on gaza. in the 100 days of the us backed israeli genocide in the besieged strip. 24,000 palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, schools, mosks, churches, refugee camps and hospitals are frequent target of strikes, half of the population are starving, and millions... have

been displaced. this is why resistance fighters in gaza, the occupied west bank and other parts of the region are inflicting heavy blows on israel, and pro-palestinian protests around the world have not lost any momentum. our guests for this edition of the spotlight are. director of the institute of contemporary islamic thought, zafa bangosh, joining us from toronto and and uh political commentator shabir rizvy joining us from chicago. gentel, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. zafar bangosh in toronto. now the total death tool from israel's 100 days of incessant bombing and attacks is nearing the 24 thousand mark. over 60,000 people have also been injured, schools, mosks, churches, hospitals, ambulances, they've been a frequent target of the strikes uh, which have left only a handful of medical facilities partially operational. palestinian officials say only

six ambulances are still operational in the entire gaza strip, only six ambulances. please share with us your perspective on the horrors that gazen have been enduring for 100 days. let me add that the total casualties are probably more than 3000, not just 24000, because there are approximately 7000 people that are under rubble that have not been dig out because there isn't any. machinery and even if people go to dig these bodies out, they are attacked by israeli snipers, so in that sense the death toll is much higher, with respect to these horrendous casualty figures and then the death and destruction that the zionist regime has inflicted upon the palestinian people, it is absolutely they are perpetrating a genocide against the palestinian people in gaza, and that's what we hear the case that south africa has so...

eloquently presented in the international court of justice and israel has trotted out all the old lies which have no basis in fact, the fact that the zianists have destroyed most of the 66 hospitals in gaza, the most horrifying part of this is that there is no anesthesia and unicef has reported that approximately a thousand children have had to had their limbs amputated without anesthesia. can you imagine the horror of... that situation and the bodies that are lying in in you know the bodies that are in the in the buildings etc. stray dogs are attacking them, so this is an absolute catastrophe for the palestinian people in gaza that the zionist war criminals are inflicting upon them, but designs are not succeeding in their military mission and that is to wipe out hamas. fighting is still going on, hamas is still confronting the zionist war criminals and still inflicting casualties upon them. so in

that sense israel's actual military and political objectives have failed. shar is the since the beginning of the israeli unslot on gaza, the uh israeli regime has sought to dismantle the resistance groups there after 100 days of lethal and deadly attacks, palestinian resistance groups are fighting back strong both inside and outside of gaza, those were um also uh uh statements that were echoed by the spokesperson of... the algasam brigades abu ubaida who we were listening to uh just little earlier, the alasam brigades, they've released footage of attacks on invading israeli troops and military vehicles in hannunes, the uh brigade said it targeted several israeli settlements, so that means that the israelis have not achieved their military objectives, even the israelis are admitting this, so other than becoming record holders for murdering children, what have the israelies achieved? yes, thank you for having me uh, in the hundred days of this including

the golani brigade, which is one of their most infamous brigades, it's been in operation since 1948, we see new videos of israeli troops being confronted point blank every day um released by the alcasson brigades, there's reportedly over 4,000 uh permanently disabled israeli troops, and this is just the military component, we also have to examine the economic component where the israeli mil, israeli economy is basically plummeting uh day after day to the tune of millions of dollars, the port of islet, which has been targeted by various resistance forces, including the iraqi resistance uh now being able to reach that far is quite quite a feet of its own, has shut down the port entirely, it's down 85%, and then to the north you have hezbulah clearing out entire

settlements, which is also drastically not only impacting the economy, but the actual morale of of israeli settlers, they do not feel safe there, they have evacuated, and over a quarter... alone have been evacuated from the north, of course they're going to you know uh delute these numbers of how many people actually left uh how many settlers actually left occupied palestine since october 7th, but all this to say they have a diminishing a diminishing workforce economy and lastly very lastly politically they they're they're facing international condemnation they're being taken to court uh on the charges of genocide and whether those you know those charges stick or not that's that's yet to be determined, but the fact is they were taken to court, they have international condemnation, they have millions of people across the west marching against them, so the entire view of how israel has carefully created itself over the years is now being exposed, and they are very much facing an existential crisis. zapher

bangosh, the hamas representative in lebanon says that israel has failed to achieve any its objectives despite this genocidal war, that's uh something we've been discussing with uh with you, and our guest in chicago osama hamdan said israel has fail failed to break the determination of the resistance of palestinians, also earlier today hezballa leader said hasan described the gazan's resistance as legendary. now resistance has been described as the only viable option for palestinians in spite of all the efforts to weaken it, why is the resistance front still thriving, not just uh in palestine, but also in the region as a whole. first of all, let's look at the resistance inside. palestine, they have endured 75 years of zionist brutality and they have had enough of it, they simply not prepared to put up with this anymore, and they are prepared to make any sacrifice and every sacrifice in order to achieve their freedom from the zionist

occupies. the reason that the zionists have failed in gaza is that over the years the palestinian resistance there has dug h. of miles of tunnels and in fact you know even the israeli defense minister in the war cabinet, you have gallant admitted few days ago that they the israeli army has achieved its control in northern gaza but only but on the ground and of course he basically was referring that underground hamas is still going strong and this is in fact a brilliant strategy that hamas. adopted in order to dig these hundreds of miles of tunnels and anyt that the israeli army has tried to penetrate those tunnels, they've been blown up and these israelis have suffered massive casualties, so in the sense of the resistance having been able to withstand all of this

zionist onslot despite the fact that the israeli army is the most heavily armed army in the entire region indicates that the resistance is totally determined a fundamental factor of their determination is that it's not only the fact that they are on the right side of history, but the fact that they are motivated by islamic principles and they they consider death to be martydum and they welcome it, whereas the zionist thugs want to live in this world, they are terrified of dying, and so in that sense they the psychological makeup of the resistance visa the zionist army is also extremely important to take into consideration. i mentioned about the external factor, of course, as shabir mentioned, the iraqi resistance firing missiles at at hifi and and shutting it down. we also need to take into account the brilliant, brilliant operations of ansarulah in yemen, who have actually targeted israeli bound ships and israeli

owned ships and even though the united states and britain have entered the free, entered the war on behalf of the zionis, i mean they were supplying the weapons and providing them diplomatic. cover and so on and now they are militarily involved in it, but the americans will also face that defeat because ansar cannot be defeated, they have this experience for seven years fighting against this saudi and emirati. aggressors and they have shown that they have the determination and the will to confront this, so in that sense, even though can you imagine that you americans keep on saying that we don't want the war to be to spread in the region, and yet they are directly involved militarily in spreading the war, and so in that sense i think the effort by the by the ansarullah is very important component and it has caused the zionis enormously in terms of losses, in terms of trade. shall we the issue of yemen has come up? now hezbollah leader hasan asola has said that the us and the uk are committing stupidity in the red sea in support of the

apartide regime of israel. now was the attack on yemen even more of a revelation that the us fully supports the massacre in gaza. absolutely. the united states is the direct player in this genocide um and i think it also goes to show that not only is uh israel on trial internationally here. i think it's a trial of this uh so-called rules-based order that the united states tends to impose on all the countries around it, but itself refuses to follow, and i think you can also kind of see uh the unsc kind of bear some responsibility here, we're hundred days in, there's been countless times where the unsc has been called to reach a cease fire resolution, they aren't able to protect the lives of 2.3 million palestinians, but what the unsc can do at the bheest of the united states is... protect israel is protect the israeli economy essentially they passed the resolution condemming condemning un

condemming yemen um and i know that russia and china uh were both kind of uh uh they didn't vote for it uh they abstained but it just goes to show that these international mechanisms um are built for the united states ruling class they're built to impose united states rule and they won't actually act fairly they won't actually be used to prevent. any sort of massacre uh the united states and the uk entering this is specifically showing not only are they only interested in preserving the israel itself which seems to be dwindling uh hour after hour but they're only motivated by profiteering for their capitalist class uh the joe biden administration specifically stated shipping delays as being the reason uh why they intervene now we know that's only part of it but they are a main player. this and they are attacking uh yemen who is um and who's acting on behalf of the genocide

convention saying if you have the ability to stop the genocide you you have to do it and the united states going against this clearly shows that they are you know the main players in the genside they're stopping the one country that's being able to cripple the israeli economy and then they're arming the country that's actually causing this genocide while while backing them completely politically. so the united states here is the key player, if there wasn't a united states, there wouldn't be in israel. gosh, the israeli prime minister benyamin netanyao is coming under more pressure to step down in the mountain criticism over his handling of the gaza war. thousands of israelis have once again taken uh to the streets in tel aviv to slam netanyahu for his failures uh in gaza, and also earlier today said that the israeli public opinion will... no longer support this genocidal war on gaza, this is all but the end for benyamin netanyahu, isn't it?

absolutely, because netanyahu knows that the moment this war stops, he is going to go straight to prison, i mean he was already facing criminal charges and now he's being held responsible for not protecting the israeli citizens because of hamas's brilliant operation that was launched on october the 7th. secondly, there are hundreds of israeli prisoners that hamas is holding, many of them military personnel and their families are clamoring to get them out of captivity. now it's incredible to see that you know we need to keep in mind that hamas and and the islamic resistance in gaza has been treating these prisoners extremely humanely. these prisoners themselves in their own interviews after they were released have admitted that they were treated humanely and very nicely, whereas the zionists... 'who have taken thousands of palestinians hostages before you know the escalation of activity, there are

probably something like 700 palestinian prisoners and since then israel has taken many more thousands from the west bank, so all together there are probably something like 1000 palestinians that are languishing in israeli prisons that are being tortured, humiliated, some prisoners have been killed, you can see the contrast between how the the palestinians are treating israeli prisoners'. and how the israelis are treating palestinian prisoners, the palestinian prisoners have actually been kidnapped from their homes, so in that sense is internally there is lot of pressure on netanyahu because "the these the families of these israeli prisoners are demanding that netanyahu takes steps in order to get them out and to whatever you concessions need to be made that that he ought to make them, but as we know the moment this war stops, there is sease fire, netanyahu will definitely go to prison because there are a lot of people that are holding him responsible. in fact, there was a survey done in which i think only 15% of the

people support what netanyahu has done, the rest are all opposed to him, so that..." gives us an indication: shaby rizvy, talking about benyamin netanyahu, in a defiant statement earlier, uh, he said that nothing can stop us, not even the hague, and not anybody else, so what are your thoughts about that, about that tone? it does sound like uh, a maniacal war criminal who's not satisfied with the death of 10,00 innocent children. definitely, i mean, if i was a... south african attorney, i'd be looking at these tweets and taking more notes. um, i mean, we see very clearly from the very start of this operation, and actually just even years prior, benjamin netanyahu is israel, whatever israel claims, whatever the the their so-called opposition party claims that this isn't israel, it's it's a complete lie, benjamin netanyahu is the face of what israeli policies are, he's the face of the

israeli experiment, and he is out here specifically making these genocidal statements. "he's telling you exactly who he is, and to go back to you, the the charges at the hag, if if the charges of the hag don't stick, um, when this man is clearly saying this, then i i think that we need to kind of abandon looking at the icj and all these international appendages all together, because the most important thing that you have to understand about this trial is intent, you can kill million people, but if if they if if an attorney can't..." that you had the intent then the genocidal charges won't stick, but benjamin netanyahu and his entire cabinet are out here telling you that they want to wipe out palestinians from gaza, that they want to expel them, that they want to destroy them and their families. the intent is clearly there, and these are blantly genocidal intentions that he is airing out for the world to see, and i think

this is a result of decades long uh israeli comfort that the united states. back them no matter what horrendous evil thing they do, the israelis are now seeing that they have an international scope on them that's more critical than it's ever been and instead of kind of you know walking it back the only way that they see this is the only way that they see out is to go through with it is to plant their feet down and stand their ground and say yes we are committing genocide what are you going to do about it without actually fragrantly saying that and i think this is going to be a test of all these different international institutions of whether they can intervene in the moment and actually do what needs to be done in order to stop massacre from happening that's being displayed before our very eyes day after day. zefer bangosh, tens of thousands have gathered in central london recently uh in front of the parliament voicing their support for gaz and similar pro- palestine rallies were held in indonesia, south korea, italy,

among other countries. uh, these demonstrations have been uh ongoing since the start of the israeli on saut is this most isolated israel has ever been because of this genocidal public opinion is concerned, that's definitely the conclusion that we can draw, mean there have been literally hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating all over the world, including in the united states in canada, britain, france, in fact all of these regimes are dead against the palestinian people, they are even actually criminalizing these protests and yet people are... trying them, so at the level of public opinion, definitely yes, what is obviously very disturbing is that these western regimes, whether it's the united states, britain, germany, canada, france, all of these regimes, they are backing the zionist war criminals because they are their own kith and kin, i mean we must understand that israel is an illegitimate entity, thrust into the

heartland of islam, this is a colonial settler entity that has been trust there and the designist rulers, whether it's the military or the politicians are actually from the west, they are, they don't belong to that land, and so this settler colonial entity, an illegitimate entity has to be demolished, only then we will have peace there, and as shabir said, i don't think that these so-called international organizations are going to do it, i think the only solution is that the resistance front and other organizations must become more actively. involved to put an end to this cancer that is in uh the the heartland of the muslim world. and shall we see final thoughts from you as well? is this the most isolated israel uh has? ever been, yes, i believe this is exosexual crisis that if it doesn't finish off israel uh by the end of this uh this this uh era here by the end of this palestinian

operation then is definitely uh created a domino effect where i don't think israel is going to survive the next decade, in fact i don't think it's going to survive the 20s, they have proven that they are only reliant on the us taxpayer in order to uh barely stand on their two. we have seen that you know hundre days in just an hour ago uh palestinian resistance is still able to launch rockets uh into tel aviv, we have seen the inter the internal crisis of israel itself where they're seeing you know demonstrations of course at settler on settler violence is what i call it, but uh as you can see that they're call they're against their own presidency right now it's a internal crisis and an external crisis and these are the types of crisis that basically highlight the end of whatever state you wanted, whatever state you want to examine throughout history, this has been kind of um the common theme that we see with anything

here. all right, thanks lot, gentleman, zafar bangosh, director of the institute of contemporary islamic thought, joining us from toronto, and thanks to political commentator shaby resvy joining us from chicago, and a special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on tonight spot night. it's good night for now and see you next time.

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