"the genocide that is occurring in the gaza strip has been described as one of the most intense in modern history. as such, the lack of a will by the so-called international community to stop this genocide is of epic proportions as well. the us, one of the biggest supporters of the israely regime has been doing double talk telling israel that there is disproportion to force leading to too many civilian casualties while providing the armaments that lead to the killings. meanwile, what about other countries like those in west asia? why have..." they done

more, like resistance groups who have done so much, including that movement, just some of the angles we'll be looking at in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests: co-founder of the scottish palestine solidarity campaign joins us from edinburg. also joining us is mo, human rights activists who joins us from houston, texas. welcome to you both. i'll start first with you, nap here and uh taking a look at what the us uh role is in all of this, well uh based on some comments that we're reading on the us it's been described as being very hypocritical where it tells uh israel uh not only to watch out for civilian casualties, but uh just recently the us president joe biden uh said that uh what's happening there is over the top uh but then we know that uh they're providing uh the of israeli regime with arms and weapons. uh what

do you make of the us stance when it comes to this uh genocidal war? well, i'm sure it's a all being negotiated or pretty much all being negotiated between washington and and tel aviv what the american utterrances are going to be. it's clear the americans want to exert some kind of gentle pressure on the genocide. i believe a couple of weeks ago mr. mr. blincan asked for the american, the israelis uh, maybe use smaller bombs to do the killing, not 500. £1 bombs, i think blincan seems to want kindler gentle genocide because they are getting up to us elections. baiden would prefer to win um and there's no mandate among the public for what america is is supporting. i mean, that's in the usa, so i mean obviously it's hypocritical, i mean hypocrisy doesn't begin to describe the american position, which is to send the weapons to carry out the genocide, to protect israel diplomatically at the un and in other international. fora and at the same time to

appear publicly to say, could you alleviate some of the bad publicity eminating from this genocide which we support and which we have always supported? we've supported previous genocidal attacks, we're supporting this one, we will support previous, we will support future ones, but just have an eye to our uh to biden's election needs and try to help us to manage it in terms of public opinion, but it seems that that's a that's a very tall order indeed and seeing a readiness on the part of larger numbers of people than ever before to take action against the us government inside the usa. our other guest can can shed much much more light on that, but we seem to certainly i can say that that's the case in in the uk and and in the eu that the the the us regime and the other pro israel regimes seem to need to ride a wave of of popular hostility to what they're doing. we saw recently in in holland, in the

netherlands, sorry, that pop, popular pressure has l supreme court there to forbid the the dutch government from sending more aircraft parts to to israel, so there's of interesting things developing at that level, it's a response to public opinion, but of course the american government is completely dishonest in managing the genocide and appearing to try to be critical at the same time, well muss and maybe you can tell us why this hypocrisy is going on, "i'm going to make a reference now to the eu foreign policy joseph barall to confirm what i just asked uh our guest mcnap here where he pointed to us president joe biden's uh remarks about over the top and he said well if you believe quote too many people are being killed maybe you should provide list of arms in order to prevent so many people to to be killed um first of all is that does that surprise you that it's coming from the eu uh and the foreign policy chief of the eu joseph barall yeah so it's uh it's not surprising." because

a the atrocities that israel is committing in gaza has had an effect on on all global powers, so for a scottish... person who is also the head of the eu for him to come out and announce his solidarity towards palestine and announce his his his his willingness to pressurize the governments who support israel in terms of demilitarizing israel by by by stop by by stopping their funding that goes to towards israel is commendable um having said that just ago, as you've already mentioned, $4 billion dollars um were were signed off by by congress to support israel, so we see blincon, we see we see blincan and we see joe biden trying to show solidarity, trying to to tell their constituents that

they have soft corner for palestine, but their actions are very different, you see the democrats and like the republicans rely on the muslim vote, rely on the arab vote, they they're very sensitive to any kind of accusations of islamophobia, as protests in the us are rising and as people are coming to the streets, that is putting lot of pressure, especially on the democrats especially on joe biden, and with the elections close by, we will see hypocritical statements from democrats specifically, in which at the back end you see them funding the crimes of israel, funding this genocide, enabling this genocide, but also hypocritically showing their empathy and sympathy towards towards the gazons. um, it's quite incredible the way that the us however is playing this out, if

you agree, mean i'm looking a headline here, mcnapier that says a democratic senator has called the israeli leadership war criminals, but then votes to send them $4 billion. anyway, i mean, is that what we're looking at when it comes to the us? i mean, this is just um, i'm not too sure, it's a different, those two clash together in terms of the stance, what do you make of that? well, this is, i'm sorry, sorry, go ahead, thank you, i mean it's incredible, isn't it, what we what we see from from from from our public figures, the fact is they have no mandate um among public opinion for. supporting genocide, but on the other hand, let's remember the american state has supported multiple genocidal violent attacks over the years in southeast asia, in central and south america and elsewhere. this is new to some extent

because it's visible on tv, but the but the killing of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of people in southeast asia, is something that's on the public record, so this is something which the u does and it always has to manage public opinion, they remember that they were forced by the vietnamese resistance and the american people to to to to to to retreat from vietnam, it was a it was an amazing moment in history, and they're worried about that, they're always worried that a popular anti-war movement can get out of can spiral out of control, so they have to manage... it's not, it's not even just that they look at the level of our of our movement at the moment, they have historians to teach them lessons, and they know that this can become much much bigger, so therefore they need a soft message. i mean it's ridiculous in a sense while you send one thous pound bombs

and and and tens of thousands of shells for the commission of what the international court of justice says is very plausibly a genocide, um, and then on the other hand try to... say that um really israel has to has to do it a little bit more gently, it's preposterous, it's absurd, um, but i think everything now depends upon the the tenacity the palestinian resistance, the the resistance is heroic, it's it's it will go down in history as something utterly remarkable against insuperable odds, the the the yemeny uh the yemeny the yemen is coming to their support so so wonderfully um and and can we apply some also some significant pressure in the us and in the eu as well. can i just say a words sir? that it's not, it seems to be an article of faith that the only government that can really influence israel is the us, but actually the eu is israel's

biggest trading partner, and without the sweetheart deals from the eu, israel could not exist in its present form, so they're very worried about that as well. we see movements in spain in belgium ministers calling for finance to to um to continue to pursue the the israelis at the at the international court of justice so they're worried about the potential and balancing between those two things, the the the the ongoing and repeated support by the state for genocide and this current genocide and the fact that there's no popular mandate for that whatsoever and growing popular rage, i would say is not too strong a word. well, here we are, mean we're looking at uh the way that there's a double standards that are play here, for example even what the you uh foreign policy chief joseph barell has said was criticized by the former finance minister. greece uh uh varofacus uh he has said uh you know when uh joseph barall says

that as we speak germany and i'm quoting him france and italy are sending armaments that are being used in raffa to kill people so uh you know this brings us to the whole point of uh slamming uh israel or criticizing israel for the deaths but at the same time as foreign policy chief when you could exert your influence to stop you member countries. from sending arms uh to the israel regime, which has resulted in the obviously the deaths of palestinians, so isn't there a double standards that play here, that is just all talk when it comes to uh these important officials, well as my counterpart mentioned, the role that the eu has played in in the support of israel and the fact that without the the trading relations that the eu has with israel, it would have been, it would be practically impossible for israel to exist, but it's com the way we've seen ireland and the way we've seen spain come out, not just

the people, but a governmental level, the the fact that they have expressed solidarity towards palestine and they have, i think unepically stated their their their understanding, their correct understanding, which to some extent is in line with the icj the zionist actions in in palestine, it's these are things that we've never seen before, and as my counterpart was also also mentioning that the popularity of the resistance, the popularity of the palestinians right to to struggle and exist has now expanded in territories which we thought were impossible in our in our minds, meaning we see the we see west asia, we've seen south asia give so... support to palestine, but we now see north america, the people of north america, we see countries in

the eu showing support to palestine and also pressurizing their governments through through through to different means, through protests, through non cooperation movements, to doing die in protests outside their government officials who are responsible, who are the decision makers in their countries, so these are these are these are development that we haven't seen before. south america, south america stands, the stands that african countries are taking, it almost seems like the world is for palestine, except a few countries who stand with israel, and those countries without a doubt, if not now, then soon will be isolated by the world. mike here, so let's focus on some of the countries in this region, namely the west asian region. um on the one hand you have countries like lebanon, iraq, iran, syria, they're doing what they can, in their own form, in their

own way, uh, especially when you're looking at obviously what's happening, um, and i should obviously mention yemen also, um, but then you have other countries like saudi arabia, bahrain, the uae, egypt, why do you think those countries are not doing more uh to help with - what's happening there, this genocide and onslot on the gaza strip. 'i think because the rulers of these countries are locked into the alliance um of last resort with the usa, they depend upon the usa to protect them against their own peoples um and and and you ever since the ever since design is conquest of most of of palestine the jordanian regime and uh has you know seized a part of it, the egyptians were happy enough to take a small piece called gaza and and and the other regime'. stood aside by and large, um, so and there's a long history of

of under the table collaboration that comes out into the open with morocco and oman and others um of collaboration with israel, they have no loyalty whatsoever to the palestinian people, and they have a long record of supporting the people who are trying to disposses them, there's nothing mysterious about this, because they are um sort of antique uh monarchies relying on, um you know public pasivity or or or disempowerment in order for the regimes to survive, they really do need the usa um as as the ultimate protector in britain sense and special forces to crush insurrection in oman, some decades ago, and the americans were could be relied upon to do something similar if called upon, so they all report to the same head office at the moment, um, and for many of them the price of good relations with uh with washington, the sale of arms, diplomatic military support and so on, is that they

soften any opposition to israel or build an or build an open security? cooperation with israel in the case of the of the uae, so so i mean, i think the idea that any arab regime will support or will will fight against a regime, which kills palestinians because they are arabs and not jews and wants to drive them out and replace them with jews, i think that idea is is passed it cell by date, because the tight relationship between these regimes and washington uh predisposes them to to align with israel, and if that's too unpopular with their pop. relations who hate these policies, then they try to mask it to some degree, but there's a long, long uh disgraceful history of relations between these arab regimes ever since egypted the peace treaty soon after the 73 war uh up to the present day when when saudi arabia was on the brink of normalizing relations with uh with israel before uh before before the

before the october 7 breakout which upset that particular apple cart well you it's one thing for these arab uh countries, most enoughly not to help uh or do much more uh than what they have not done at this point, but it's another thing to actually help israel when it comes to for example um the uh transit of goods, from what we're looking at you have countries like the uae, egypt, morocco, jordan and bahrain where their exports to israel has increased, and there's even reports of how uh because of the red sea tensions. uh the land area that involves uh whether saudi arabia, the uae or egypt for route to be taken uh to reach the occupied palestinian lands uh leading the uh trade aspect of this morocco a 128% increase and then you have egypt that 73.5 uh followed by uh bahrain 54.5 i mean isn't that a stap in

the back to the palestinians? there's no doubt that that's a stab in the back and what else do we expect from from these kings, from these rulers who impose their their their their system on their people who are oppressing their own people. um, a country like yemen who just survived the war, takes a solid stance against israel and attempts to help their palestinian brothers by by engaging aid to israel at their front, and you find you find their own muslim brothers, so callalled muslim brothers in in the shape of countries like bahrain, qatar, morocco, who are basically jeopadizing the action of the yemanies by stabbing them in the back, by giving way and giving space to israeli supporters, this is no doubt a stab in the

back, and the the one thing that these so-called arab rulers need to understand, is that history will not forget the crimes that they have committed, the crimes that they have committed against their muslim brothers, the crimes that they have committed against humanity as a whole, because um, there is so heavily dependent on the us government, it is almost as if the us government controls them, they have no, they have proven to have no sovereinity whatsoever, how can how can a kingdom? a ruling body show any kind of effort or show a stance against oppression when they are funded by the very oppressor which is the us and the eu, so there is zero hope from from these people, they have proven to be criminals, they have proven to be a party to the genocide and the atrocities that

the israelies have committed, and for the most part until they revoke their... their current, their current status in terms of their actions towards israel, they stand parallel to the us, to the eu and the zionist regime today. make here, this talks or should i say pause or a truth that's being discussed in kairo egypt at this point is the second round that's happening, and and there's such divergence views when it comes from either side on some key issues that it's an it should spell a non-starter but yet the talks are continuing anyways um how do you see these talks? first of all, um, we've had netanyahu dismiss it in the first uh round, if if i may use it that use that word, and then now here we are we're looking at uh what

is happening where for the next couple days to three days they're going to continue even though netan again is uh being defined and saying that uh hamas demands um are not things that we're going to comply with, what do you think? it's very difficult to predict, but what we do know for sure is... is that in a war between a military power such as israel which has the latest technology on the military technology in the planet, sometimes it's delivered to them before the american army even gets it, between a force like that and a popular fighting force like the palestinian resistance probably working under the most difficult conditions in history of any of any anti-colonial. resistance much harder even than than than than than than south y than in the past or algeria or city or whatever, the fact that the israelis have

not won is really decisive, because in such a war that the the military power has to exterminate their enemies, has to crush them and defeat them, whereas the popular forces only have to continue fighting, and they're winning, uh, they only have to avoid defeat. "and that's what's happening in gaza at the moment, against overwhelming odds. israel went in there thinking that they could uh defeat the palestinian resistance in a very very short time, and from october till till february, they're still fighting, they're still not winning, and so so that that aspect is is absolutely remarkable. now in that situation, what's israel going to do, it it it can't, it's it's it's taking tremendous pressure inside israel from the families of the..." of of those who are captured and taken back into gaza uh by by the palestinian resistance, tremendous pressure, so is netanyahu going to continue carpet bombing,

um, killing large numbers of palestinians, tens of thousands, but in the process killing more and more of the israeli uh captives, he might say that he's going to do that, but that's a very difficult road for him to take, he's already deeply unpopular in israel and the families uh are determined in and opposing him. but on the other hand, israel is a regime of 6 million zanist jews, there's another million jews are not zinius, surrounded by hundreds of millions of people in the region who know what israel is, who hate that regime's crimes, okay, and and for israel to to continue to exist, it needs the support of america and europe, yes, but it also needs to terrorize some of the regimes in the region, otherwise, otherwise it could not possibly... survive and such sea of intense hostility for what they've done and increasing numbers of people across the region understand that when the ministers and the government currently uh their supporters

dance and sing and say we're coming for lebanon after this we'll take jordan uh cini and so on increasing numbers of people realize that this monstrous regime is lethal for palestinians but it's also a threat to the entire region so how this is going to play out in the short term we don't know. israelis don't have a plan, um, it's difficult to know how they're going to behave over the next week, except murderously. well, we're looking at the short-term here where the prime minister benjamin netanyahu m has said, we're going to fight until complete victory, and this includes powerful action in raffa, after allow the civilian population to leave the battle zones. the question is, where are they going to where they going escape to? there's nowhere safe in gaza, and we know that, and you're looking a 1.4 roughly palestinians who are there, and uh, where is there going to be considered effort to prevent another genocide top of the genocide that's happening to take place? um,

rafa is a red line and israel has already crossed that red line, um, after facing defeat from on all different fronts, and you see the attack, the recent attack on rafa is evidence to... defeat of israel, it shows how desperate they are, they're willing, they're willing to take um the criticism of the world, they they're willing to take all of that, because they see attack on innocent women and children who are who have nowhere to go, they see that attack as a way to pressurize the resistance movement, as a way to as a way to pressurize the resistance movement, so there's the only the only way out for the palestinians now even in rafa would be to fight back when you when you they have nowhere else to go, egypt is not

complying, it's... quite clear and that they won't comply there is it's either egypt or it's it's the it's the sea so the only thing that those palestinians will be left with will be to also fight back thank you so much for that human rights activist mcnapper thank you for your contribution co-founder of the scottish palestine solidarity campaign from edinburgh with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight from the team it's goodbye. 1500 is the number of political prisoners who are still languishing in the presence of the al khalifa regime in bahrain which have housed 5000 detanees over the years since the beginning of the february 14th 2011 bahraini revolution. members of the bahraini opposition have been judged in illegitimate courts on political, sectarian and religious

grounds with fabricated. malicious charges, many political detainees have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment with revocation of citizenship based on confessions extracted under torture in brutalizing interrogation rooms with ready-made charges determined by the executioners, and yet the revolution lingers to its 13th year. bahrain continues to rise up this week on the medie stream.

the world health organization says israel is denying its request to get aid to people in need in gaza where the health system is absolutely overburrded. pro palestine activist stage protest actions outside two uk based firms over role. in uh fueling israeli regime's genocide in the gaza strip and hezballa warns israel's latest strikes on southern lebanon will not go unanswered, vowing movement's response is sure to come.