us aggressions will come and will be near and any new aggression will also not pass without retaliation and without punishment the yemani armed forces will continue with their military operations to enforce the movement of of israeli vessels in the red sea until the end of the aggression and the breaking of the siege on the gaza strip the yemeni armed forces. stress also that they will allow the movement of all merchandise and movement to any destination except to the destinations of occupy palestine and that it continues to take all procedures in defense and even offense even to stop the aggression of the us and uk and god will be our victor, he is the main leader and the main victor may yemen live strong and sovereign and independent and

proud and may there be freedom for all the nation, this is in sanha on the 15th of january 2024, and a statement issued, okay, there was a statement by yemani armed forces, the spokesman brigadier general, he said that they've targeted the us vessel off the gulf of eden with appropriate missiles, the target was hit, he said the arm forces considered a uk vessels. near yemen as legitimate targets, his stress retaliation for us aggression is around the corner and that uh once again he said that israeli vessels uh will be hit until the aggression on gaza comes to an end, other vessels are free uh to do their own business safely, and that's a back to our normal programming. crisis devastating wars, of terrorism, the israeli lobby. crackdown,

of diplomacy, on ebated genocide against palestinians. of

day 101 of the us israely genocide of palestinians in gaza. the result, according

to euromed human rights monitor, 100 thousand palestinians have been killed, wounded or gone missing. palestine resistance fighters are engaging and the invading troops on land and responding to the air strikes and artillery shelling with their missiles and rock is at the same time. now, more importantly, tel aviv has not been able to achieve any of its estated goals of eradicating hamas, pushing the palestinians out of gaza or releasing its captives. welcome to the spotlight. i'm... let me introduce our guests in this edition. sahaab shah, author and west asia expert is joining me from belfast. also with this is glenn deeson, professor of political science at the university of southeastern norway in oslow.

now welcome to the show, gentlemen, let me begin with saib shath, unprecedented dimensions of this war, as you now uniquely you recorded around the world. and live tv, targeting civilians including women and children, hitting schools, hospitals, un offices, shelters, stealing of body parts, and now we have reports of looting and thieving, reports of thieving emerging now of palestinian's property, beating gaza or the west bank. let's begin with your thought on this, and what kind of atrocity can we call this? this is not a new to start with the... the whole of palestine, they as they say, they took a country with the turn of the key, palestine was one of the fewest countries on earth was documented by the united nation prior to the 181 resolution of the division

of palestine mistakenably issued by the united nation, at them the palestinians were everything was surveyed what the palestinian. so if you go back to this the statics and the calculation they done, you would know what the z entity gangs stole with the help of the british and the americans and the western of course from palestine, today as in west bank or in the gaza strip when the ziist entity goes invade village or house or anything, the first thing they go and they look for the... these families and they sometimes like what happened in gaza, some of the of the victims they said the they even when they stole their jewelry they burned their money in front of them and they throw them nearly naked in the street, i'm talking about women and men in

the gaza strip, so the looting is is part of the the style of the invasion and incubation forces they do all the time and the palestinian, they as as one of the uh the their minister was saying we have to invent a way of inflicting pain on the palestinian worse than death, by they mean by that is killing their own, killing their kids in front of them, shooting pregnant women in front of them, their parents or their husbands or this and that is kind of ' maniacs and psychopathic army is the zianist entities have and this is done with the knowledge of the west, i'll give you a maltese member of the european parliament said the describing the eu, he said the funny

enough unique is starting with the eu, the word, which is making the eu is like part of the american harim, his stating while they are killing and assassin and helping this entity committing genocide and we cannot do anything about it, so they admit to this in the european parliament, sure. now glenn, sevens are being killed, execution style as you might have seen the footage, medical staffers are killed, journalists are intentionally gone down, and in the face of all of this, just check out the reaction by those western countries. is that cried out of the top of their voice for helping ukraine when the conflict started there, so what can you call this? selective human rights or human rights for select people? yeah, i think selective human rights would probably be a

good a good description. obviously this is not a new thing, because we see that calling for human rights, it's often instrumental for. power politics now, after the cold war when it was asked that we would elevate the role of human rights in international affairs, the idea was that we would all try to transcend power politics and put the human security first, but instead what we see is being used very selectively, so so for example we we we like to call out human rights abuses when we would like to reduce the sovereignty of other states, so be it you know from yugoslavia uh iraq, syria, and it's used as an excuse to bomb, uh, meanwhile, uh, when this real severe human rights abuses, such as the genocide going on in gaza, uh, it seemingly doesn't matter at all, so it's uh, it's not a new phenomenon, we see this over

and over again, this is uh, we pick and choose which human rights we care about, so it's very damaging, i think for the eu as well, because it built up its entire reputation. as being a sort of normative power, one that uh, attempted to primarily advanced uh, values primarily than human rights values. "and instead we see that it's become maaraly instrumental, it's simply a tool used to advance power politics and of course this is not a new accusation, but in gaza due to the grotesque and severe extent the war crimes being committed, it's quite glaring and obvious that uh yeah human rights are not really uh a principle which is just held right sab uh regarding uh these reprised" attacks by resistance fighters, yemenese have been pretty active, we just had a statement by the yemen armed forces, terron

warning washington london against militarizing right see and attacking yemani cities and iran regards western anti-yemen attacks as strategic mistake, now you know yemen force intend to just stop israely boundships and that in response to the atrocities in gaza, the uh yemen is estated the... from the beginning that they are taken a brothery action to support their brothers in in palestine and that is to impose like a blockade in any of these bound to go to the design entity ships entity ships or ships carrying goods to the zinist entity and they put a condition this is will stop if they left siege and the blockade on gaza and allow humanitarian aid in gaza and stop this

genocidal war in gaza. the united states of america and britain supported by canada and allland and bahrain as well, they they didn't see uh that they wanted to act in more protection to to to bring more protection to the zianist entity trade. and they said this is was a threat to the to the international maritime, which is not, but this is shows how much is the united states of america is gonna go to support the ziist entity in his genocide against the palestinians and the yemani people demonstrated their will to go further. today they targeted an american ship which is container. ship in 95 miles away eastern of of the port of aiden as as a reply

to the american attack on on the united on yemen. the yemen knows they've been attacked by the united states of america since 2014 uh they disguised that with saudi emarati and that but the yemani knows they've been under attack by the united states of america led campaign so this is will be a continue the campaign. and this is will show they are not gonna stop till this war is stopped and this is actually show weakness of the united states of america and and and the british militarizing the red sea and the gulf of eden to the limit they threat themselves the international uh maritime roots right okay let me go to oslow and ask glenn about the same question staying with yemen according to a new york times report glenn despite the us let you now so... called task force operations, the em military retains two-thirds of its ability to fire at vessels

transiting the red sea and just did one uh just minutes ago and they insist that the anti israel anti us operations will go on until the aggression in gaza stops. your thoughts on the same question? well, i don't doubt that they will continue. i mean, this is not new for the people of yemen, they've been as the other guest... correctly pointed out uh the americans been killing them uh in horrific numbers uh since 2014 15, of course they did it primarily through their uh proxies so being saudi arabia uh but the us and uk has been waging this war in yemen for quite some time so i assume that they will continue with this uh obviously people point to the fact that they've been able to intercept a lot of the missiles and the drones uh but but again they don't really have to hit any of the ships in order to be successful uh, first of all, if you look at

what one of these cheap drones cost for yemen versus the huge cost of missiles for the united states, it's already imposing a cost, and also if you see the the increased safety concerns, insurances goes up for these israeli ships, the ports are israeli ports are used less, so this this is also then can be ticked off as a win for yemen, so they does they don't really have a reason to... to discontinue this, if anything, i think after the united states and britain attacked them, uh, i think we will probably see more efforts to to strike back a retal. so hitting one of the british or american warships in the in the region, but of course overall this is all very, very dangerous, we see that, the genocide in gaza now threatens to spread, obviously yemen already been attacked, the many in israel and also many in america was very eager to also go after lebanon, and

obviously given the instability from this, we see now us occupation forces in iraq and... area also coming under greater pressure and of course in places, well people like lince graham for example united states also sees this is a great opportunity to bring a war to iran saying they should strike their oil refineries and wipe iran off the map so there's no there seems to be enough people hungry for for more war uh but i think yemen will restrain itself for now to to attack these ships as well. american warships, okay, yes, the better deal with the one palestinian uh, let's say resistance uh faction hamas first and then think of greater targets like iran, nice joke, now uh uh saib, let's take a look at the situation of captives held in gaza, some of them are getting killed in israely bombardment, at the same time israeli uh occupation forces are abducting more and

more palestinians especially from the west bank simultaneously, what about the fate of these israelity captives, does tell care at all about them? the the zinest entity have this what they call the doctrine of hanaval doctrine, which means they they give orders to their soldiers to shoot anybody whose they think they fall captive in the hands of the resistance, the same thing they d uh when the helicopters were attacking the concert in near the border of gaza in the 7th of october, they thought these people are some them fall in the hands of the resistance, so they start shooting them, and this is when some of the even the zin entities, it's own people now saying in the investigation about some of these settlers in their homes were blown up by tanks when they said there is resistance with some captives in there, so this is is not an new on that, so this is why

there is massive split now, within within the israeli communities politically and on the streets, some of them want they want the the the resist the israeli government to compromise and the news there is some news since the split in the cabinet, some two ministers went yesterday and joined the demonstrators demanding the cabinet do something to release the hostages, but they don't. netanyahu doesn't want, netanyahu wanted to... continue the war and now playing with the card as well to extend the war till the border with egypt to control the rafaha crossing where the call it the philadelphia crossing uh this uh all of it it's it's a political game and this is political game just to sustain himself and his government doesn't care he doesn't care about genocide doesn't care about his own captives doesn't

care about anything but there is too much pressure now on him to do something okay now in terms of justice of glenn, at the icj international court of justice, israel accused south africa presenting a distorted view of the hostilities, and all of them are of course being reported and the reporters are being shot dead. now israel denies that its military operation gaza is a stateled genocide campaign against palestinians. not some countries like germany also stood by the telaviv regime, now can the tribunal bring the perpetrators and criminals to justice? uh, it's well, that remains to be seen, it's uh, it is quite unique to have this trial going to begin with, and regarding the evidence though, what is quite unique in this trial is that israel has been very eager, it seems to provide evidence against themselves, because it's very difficult to prove genocide, because there has to be both the

action uh, which means to seemingly destroying either part of a population. nation or it soul and also there has to be the proven intention that this is what they're going for. now it just happens that israeli leaders, many, many leaders including prime minister, keep making genocidal statements all the time calling you dehumanizing the palestinians, calling them human scum animals, you have to be driven into the sea, this kind of rhetoric, so so the israel has provided lot of evidence for their own genocidal intent as well, so this is quite unique. "if the if the trial will lead to anything, it remains to be seen, obviously the israelis will always rely on american support, which is unconditional, the europeans are..." less less so, but still firm support. i think the europeans were very committed to israel after the attacks on the 7th of october, but then i think many were shook when they saw this indiscriminate mass

killings which the israel has been continuing for the past three months, so i i think many europeans might be sitting on the fence except for countries such as germany who will yeah commit themself completely to israel for historical reasons, historical guilt as it is. all right, sab, the us has announced it's sending 1500 troops to syria and iraq to fight in their words isis or daesh, and you now us bases have been attacked 130 times by resistance fighters, so us troops are not invited by the syrian government to be there, so what's the purpose behind the deployment? oh, what a good question, this is where is the spill overcoming towards syria, these? designist army and entity and the united states of america, they designs and we witnessed start the activation of daeshh in

near the taraf area and near badia which is the desert of of syria and this is the the plan is to to to further the the war into syria, they want to take syria, this is what the americans and plan. they gna succeed or not, this is will be seen, and definitely they're gonna be defeated. they want to take syria out of the equation, since they believe syria is the the the root connection between iraq and iran toward libanon hisballah, so this is the first, they want to try to wage a war on syria, dismantle syria and unleashed more of the terror takfiri groups within syria to to keep uh syria in and cannot protect itself and to stop these roots of supply and then the further move will be targeting the lebanon, the hizballah, this is

what they are planning to, if they succeed they think on doing that, then there are brushes on the iraki government of withholding the iraki money in the in the american banks and not given as as a... to be used against iraq to restrain hashd shabi, the popular mobilized unit which is and its resistance groups, this is the the scenario the american trying to deploy to to strangle the resistance within iraq and within syria. okay gen, if you want to comment on that, we have 30 seconds left only, no, i agree, i think they will try to continue regime change in syria and of course. continue to take their resources and also weekend a key ally of iran uh case, also i would also add that they're also in occupying force in iraq given that the iraki parliament has asked the

foreign forces to leave its soil and refusing to do so effectively makes the us and occupying force there as well, exactly. okay, on that note we come to the end of this program and west asia expert joy me from belfast, glen deeson, professor political science at the university of southeastern norway from oslow. and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight, i'm your host behrus, i'll see you next time, when palestinian journalist shirin abule was killed by nisvy sniper on may 11, 2022, these... really is meant to get across a clear message that they don't want any narrative other than their own under decades old occupation of palestinian lands and their

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101 days into the us is really genocide in gaza and the death toll is 24,100, mainly women and children. palestinians in occupied territories carry out operations in the isw city of ranana and retaliation. regimes onslot against the compatriots in gaza. another israel linked ship comes under fire off the coast of yemen, tensions in the red sea keep rising over the aggression on gaza.