how designs come from across the world to palestine to occupy a land belonging to another nation? how do they form their secret army, hagana? how do they grab lands belonging to palestinians? how did they build and expand their illegal settlements? israel's former prime minister goldomir answers these and more questions in this documentary.

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130 days of the israel genocidal war, more and more rebutes by world leaders, including western leaders, some of whom have been standing by the israeli regime in its ethnic cleansing of the palestinians in gaza. not recently, you can hear more strongly worded condemnation of the televid regime and washington by number of european statesmen and women, but you don't see less violence and on the ground in gaza, now more than half of the gaza's population has been forced to take shelter in raffa, which israel has threatened to keep pounding from air and land, also the ground invasion is going to stuck soon. now shouldn't world leaders take action to stop the genocide of palestinians instead of giving lap service. welcome to the spotlight. i'm najafy and these are our guests. author and peace activist. in

pittsburgh, also with us is daniel shaw, academic and commentator from new york. welcome to the spotlight, gentlemen, we got to, we got two daniels now, beginning with daniel kovalik, uh, in the early hours of monday, the israeli military launched air raids on rafa, the forces said that they were mounting this raid to rescue two hostages there, there is...

well, first of all, of course, many are referring to this as the super bowl massacre, because israel waited till people were watching the super bowl to begin the bombing of. um, the problem is that yes, there are many world leaders condemning israel, but very few are withholding aid to israel, and most specifically the united states. in fact, the senate just overwhelmingly voted to provide $14 billion and emergency assistance to israel to give joe biden cart blanch to provide. piled weapons to israel and and even voted to cut off funding to the un refugee association for uh agency for palestine, so words aren't much when you continue to provide the material support for this

massacre, and that's exactly what's happening. now daniel shaw, european union foreign policy chief has urged allies of israel. the us in particular to stop sending the israeli regime weapons and joseph boral called on president biden who said that you know israel's military action was over the top in his words and this is what borel said i'm quoting him directly he said if if you believe that too many people are being killed maybe you should provide less arms to prevent so many people from being killed so let's talk a bit about europe's response to the israeli atrocities in gaza. "the biden regime's hypocrisy is on full display, he went before the nation and the world right after the tucker carlson putin interview last thursday and the most he could muster were the words that israel's responses over the

top, over the top is if you you know eat one too many hamburgers at night, a genocide is much more than over the top, and after that biden and and..." congress continue to approve another $14 billion dollars for what? for genocide? almost two million people are gathered in rafa, many of them two, three, four times are displaced since 1948 and in the past 130 uh uh days, how are these people supposed to survive? this is a systematic israeli us campaign of dehydration, of displacement, of starvation, of carpet bombing of gaza, gaza is roughly the size of of a larger, slightly larger than manhattan, this is david versus a genocidal goliath, and mr. kovelik, myself, so many others, we've been saying this since before october 7th,

and certainly since october 7th, um, it's impossible to express the despare uh that people feel around the world in the powerlessness is this super bowl. massacre advances forth, not uh, daniel, the chief for you diplomate also slimmed an order by prime minister netanyahu that the 1.4 men palestinian sheltering in the gaza stafa need to be evacuated ahead of this planned plan military operation there, the question is where where should they go, they have nowhere to go, even if they they want to go, yeah there is nowhere to go uh "most of the people there now have already moved more than once because of this war, um, they are now pressed up against the rough of crossing of egypt, which is close to them, i know many people trying to get out, they can't get out, people

are paying bribes to the egyptians of thousands of dollars to get out of rafa, these people are stuck there, and so what you're looking at potentially..." is essentially israel shooting fish in a barrel that they're just going to massacre people, because there is nowhere to go, and israel knows that, and so sadly, even though we've already seen something like 35,00 deaths at this point, the worst may be yet to come, i fear. daniel shaw, president biden has said that he's trying to get israel to agree to a cease fire, but netanyahu is code giving him help. and is impossible to deal with, then we have this congress, approving and you mentioned this legislation to give israel 14 billion dollars and it's war on gaza, and president biden again has been you know saying that he is frustrated and his private conversation, sometimes with campaign

electoral campaign donors over his inability to persuade tel aviv to change military tactics in the gaza strip and his name prime minister netanyahu. is the primary obstacle, so is president really unable to make benjamin netanyahu, stop this genocide? that's ridiculous, if they cut off? that $14 billion dollars, if they cut off the more than $4 billion they send uh every year, perhaps tel aviv would get the message and be forced to change their genocidal actions against palestinian nationhood, but we know, we know what the zionist regime wants, there's a database of more than 500 statements from key zionist officials and politicians where they very openly uh stated... that their intention is to uh empty palestine of the palestinians. they don't

recognize palestinian nationhood, they don't recognize the thousands of years the palestinians have lived there. they're drunk off of colonial arrogance, off of white supremacy off of zionist uh arrogance, and it seems like every day when you think things cannot get worse for the palestinian people, the violence, the uh the holocaust against palestinian life in. ifies, we have civil disobedience, we have marches every day in new york city, in los angeles, across this country, but we continue to be censored, so the united states from their police departments through washington dc, all of the us troops that they've sent to surround gaza, to occupy syria, to occupy iraq, the united states is really the colonial overloids, the puppet masters overseeing this. side and it's well recorded in history and the world will not forget the role that the us government

has played in supporting israel 110% in their genocidal actions for 75 years now, daniel kavalic, we have mr. biden again saying that a us uh has been working day and night on efforts you know to agree a six-week pause and just fighting uh as a stepping stone to a longer cease fire and he says that key elements of the deal are on the table. with some gaps remaining, so i want to ask you if washington truly wants a cease fire, and uh, if if so, why does he keep funding and arming the israely regime? well, that's the point is, isn't it? i mean, again, actions speak louder than words. biden could end this right now, if he told netanyahu as danny said, that they weren't going to get this $14 billion dollars, that they weren't going to... get diplomatic support at the un, you know, the us could sponsor resolution at the security

council right now that would get uh voted in if the us wanted to, that would say that the war has to end, that would call for example for no fl over gaza, the us could do that, the us doesn't want to do that, so then one asks to ask why, and that's because the us appears to share the same goals is israel, now would would the us officials? like them to maybe go a little more uh easier on the civilian population, i'm sure only because it's hurting biden and the democratic party, and it will hurt them at the polls in november, but they're not willing to do anything about it, and until they are, this bloodshed unfortunately will continue. okay, and daniel shaw, there have been some reactions by other world leaders, like we have king abdullah of jordan, he said that we cannot stand by and let this continue when... a lasting cease fire now and that this war must end, so let's evaluate the standpoints

and stances that uh arab countries have adopted regarding this genocidal war raging in gaza? well certainly ansa allah movement in in in yemen has been the most uh proactive, they're really the the model of solidarity and internationalism with the palestinian. people at this point, i think the world over has a deep admiration for what the yemenes have done throwing in their destiny their lot with the dispossessed, silenced, censored voices from gaza and in palestine, king abdullah ii, so many other arab leaders have perhaps talked tough game, as well as these un officials, these un officials every day have their press conferences and their coffee, and they say that... israel does, i mean, look at the, look what the international court of justice

has said in the icc, but nothing changes, so uh, this is a breaking point for humanity, never has humanity realized how worthless the united nations, and these quote unquote international bodies are, the access of genocide, the united states and england and france, in full support of the zionis project, continue to disrespect and over international law, and it really makes the term neocolonialism redundant, this is colonialism, this is 1492, this is 1620 playing out in 2024. in front of the entire world, now speaking of yemen, daniel kovalik, the anser leader uh, just a couple of hours ago he uh slammed some arab states for actually lack of action, even not tolerating voices, people raising their voices against these really crimes being committed against palestinian, especially in gaza these days,

so he condemned some of those arab states even silence anti-israel ralliers instead. standing by palestinians, yeah, well, that is act criticism. the gulf states for example, are still providing support to israel in the form of oil. they could cut that off right now, and that would be very significant in terms of stopping israel's offensive in gaza, but they're not doing it. you actually went to the west. bank in december and i went over from jordan across the king hussein bridge and i saw all these oil tankers going into israel and of course they all at arabic uh language on the side, why is that happening? there should be an oil embargo against israel, that's a minimal thing that the arab world do to help palestine, and they're not

doing it. and why are they not doing this? i mean, because they want the money. "i i i don't know what to say, mean they they have no principles because they're lackeys of the united states, mean take your pick uh, it seems to me that uh, they've lost their soul, their governments have, not the people, but the govern, the leaders of their governments have, they've sold out to the west uh, for money and for privilege, and they don't want to give that up apparently. okay, daniel ch, what privilege, they have not benefited anything from the..." so-called deal of the century, you when that normalization that some of them have actually done with the israely regime, what did they receive it in return? well, the saudis and the gulf kingdoms can live in absolute luxury as lackies of us empire, they don't want to come into any contradiction, uh, they know the israelis do the us is uh bidding, the

israelis have functioned for seven and a half decades is a giant us battleship, uh in the middle east, we do see the access of resistance, the lebanese, the iranians, the yemenese, the syrians, the iraqis, the militias, hezbolah, but there's a huge consequence that they incur for standing up on the right side of history, they then become a target practice for the uh israelis and for the us, we've seen the us carry out more than 100 attacks against syria and iraq. since the three uh young us soldiers were were killed there and who are they killed by? they killed by an aggressive us foreign policy which continues to invade, occupy and pillage uh western asia. it's on us here in the us to continue to organize an anti-war movement as dan uh laid out. biden is feeling

this at the polls. biden's headed to dearborn michigan with some of his representatives to quote andqute listen to vote. is in michigan, that is arab american voters, i mean this is such tone deaf administration, all the studies have come out, the medical studies that biden is losing his memory, and one is left to ask, why would the democratic party continue to go, was someone who suffering from memory loss in series of medical conditions, so they've have him propped up as puppet who's not even responsible for his own words of actions at this point. daniel, the australian foreign minister suggested that uh failure to ensure special care for civilians and rapha would quote cause serious harm to israel's own interests, and we have another official like german for example foreign minister warning that an is really offensive on rafa would be humanitarian catastrophe in the making, and the people of gaza cannot

disappear into thin air, and this after more than four months, this is the 130th day is... isn't just too little too late? well, certainly it is too late for the thousands of people have already died. it's late for these children who even the children who survive who can you imagine the trauma and mental scars are going to happen. it's too late for lot of people, but of course still over two million people in gaza survived, and so it's not too late for them. "we have to do something to stop this. i'm certainly very critical of the western leaders for allowing this to go on as long as it has, but they do something to stop it now than good. i mean, something has to..." to stop this, we're watching a genocide in real time on our telephones, this has never happened in the history of the world, and uh, it can't be

allowed to go on further, and countries need to do whatever they need to do to stop it, i agree with danny, yeah, we need more demons that are willing to do what they're doing to stop this, i mean, i'm sorry, the only thing that stopped the nazis was the red army, you know, and that... the type of spirit we need now, so daniel shaw, is it really the are the europeans really interested, i mean do they believe in what they're saying, or is it just lip service? if they want to stop it, are they able to stop it? think it is uh lip service, we've heard from the prime minister of uh great britain that it is uh jewish communities across the world that are under attack, as a genocide plays out that we're all witnessing, "the brits are concerned about anti-semitism and anti-semitism is a real concern, but they have weaponized and misused anti-semitism to also justify their

extreme censorship. our individual rights, constitutional rights, first amendment amendment rights have been trampled upon here in the united states, they can shadow ban us on twitter, they can deplatform us on instagram, they can delist us on tiktok." so in order to carry out a genocide of this nature, the zionists have also resorted to the worst forms of fascism in of uh censorship, but the uh almost 8 billion people of the world are are are witnessing uh this play out, it's not lost upon the quote unquote arab world and the muslim world and the third world, in the global south, what is truly happening, i don't think we've ever felt this level of collective powerlessness, you can almost hear it in our... voices, it's been four months, we're standing up every day, we've incurred all types of threats and and and doxing and i'm not trying to paint us as victims, it's the palestinian people that

are the true survivors and they continue to resist by any means necessary, but it's just it's just not enough against the access of genocide, right? daniel shaw mentioned the uk and you know what they have done regarding what they call antisemitism, but we also have the uk government recently announcing new sanctions on four they call extremist israeli settlers have committed human rights abuses against palestinians in the west bank. you see, do they really mean it? or is this because public pressure? you know, we have huge rallies in london and elsewhere in the uk? yeah, no, i mean, the the protests are important, they may be preventing the worst case scenario that we aren't even privy to what those, that worst case scenario could be. um, but yes, uh sanctioning a handful of settlers isn't going to do anything and it's not, because in the west bank people were being killed, houses are being demolished, thousands of people have been arrested, many

children since october 7th, and that's not slowing down because of these types of sanctions, these are symbolic acts being done again because they don't want to take real action to stop what uh the israeli armed forces are doing. gaza and again to the west bank as well, yeah daniel shaw uh palestinian uh you know uh actually the yemen leader i'm sorry uh was uh giving some advice to number of arab states who have remained passive and even uh silenced the voices of descent you know against israel he said there are a whole uh you know array of measures that you can take, you don't really have to take action like yeminies do and you know go to a war and target american... uk ships, whatever israels, you could do a whole lot of different things to pressure the israeli regime to stop this genocidal war, we have this netherlands for example court there,

it's ordering the dutch government to stop the export of f35 fireges to israel, they say this is a clear risk, they could be used to violate national humanit law, maybe the bands, the the boycut and the protest rallies, you have a couple of minutes if you could tell us what other ways could be resorted to to stop this regime to end the genocidal war? there's so many different forms of resistance from the oil boycott that we saw in the early 1970s to a full economic boy of the apartide kkk state of israel. mean there's a number jim crow israel there's so many different adjectives we could use. there could be a realer journalism across the middle east and across. the world to just tell the truth of the 75 year plate of the palestinian people, and and that's what big tech and the us government are doing, they're

trying to prevent any type. of uh resistance here at the local level, if we even pick up any type of bullhorn to try to project our voices here in the bronx or in manhattan were immediately put into handcuffs and and brought to jail. um, so this is asymmetrical war. we have anthony blincan functioning as the secretary of state of both designist entity as well as the dc, going back and forth uh playing the same type of uh genocidal um shuttle diplomacy role that kissinger and nixon uh once played in in in the middle east, so they're giving a cover, they they know for biden or blinking or or any of these officials to say that they don't know israeli intentions is ridiculous, all you have to do is pick up one of these history books of sociology books all right, i'm sorry for jumping, that's all the time we have, thank you so much daniel kovalic in uh pittsburg and daniel shaw in new york and

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