before our very eyes, joining us on this edition of the spotlight, we have co-founder of the scottish palestine solidarity campaign, mr. mcnaper joining us from edinbrow, and miss sarah flounders joining us from new york from the international action center. welcome to the program, to the both of you. let's start off with mr. napier and edinbrow, day 140, mr. napier, israel's attacks from airland and see continue on the southern city of rafa, now that's where uh around 1.5 million palestinians have taken shelter with a full ground offensive looming, also in the south, israeli troops have once again stormed the nasa medical complex, preventing the entry or exit of medical personnel and civilians, so the north of gaza has been demolished, the death tool is close to 30,000 mostly when... and children, how

far will this clear intent to destroy gaza continue? it's impossible to tell, it looks very much as if the israelis intend to bring this to a completion and to reduce palestine to area without sorry to reduce gaza to area without palestinians, maybe driving them into egypt, which seems to be getting ready to receive them, but they come up against the of problem that they are now becoming a... serious embarrassment to their uh to their paymasters and to their to their supporters in the west, because israel is israel is is making their supporters pay a price uh the barbarity, the mean everyone has a particular story which they will carry to the grave, but for me it's the doctors who had to amputate their own children's limbs without anesthetics and then to read that the israelis had allowed few trucks into gaza but had removed. anesthetics from those trucks

before allowing them to proceed, so what we're seeing is utter barbarity um, drilled into our consciousness, so that people know in a way that they didn't even know about the vietnam war or the devastation of iraq, because the images are so powerful, are so are so constant um that that people are just horrified, so resistance is beginning, we see we see social movements beginning to move in america. britain uh, my own city, city in scotland, uh, the the major parties have just passed the motion, denouncing the genocide, but also because of the the case at the icj or the ruling by the icj that there was a plausible case for genocide against israel, the great majority of the counselors have said that their council, our council must make sure that they don't uh be in any way complicit with the genocide, even inadvertently, which has implications for

investments in pension funds, various other trade arrangements with israel, so it's beginning to filter through um into movements, mean arms companies are being of blockaded, there was an incident in the scottish parliament a couple of days ago where arms companies could not get into the parliament because of a blockade, um, so i think this price that the british and american in brussels uh british and american governments and the eu are paying for their support for israel has begin to work its way through into a profound crisis in the political system. we saw this in london in the parliament yesterday or the day before, where they voted on gaza, and because the the the opposition labor party, which is led by a complete zionis and very very militant zionist felt the need for protection from the population, from from from strong from major section of the population that's furious at his support for israel, they had to resort to shakenery in the parliament, which is... self

becoming a bit of a crisis, but ultimately it comes down to the situation in gaza, the horror, the savagery of what israel is doing, the fact that palestinians are still resisting and are undefeated, and also that of course in yemen we see the the the the the the yemenies enforcing international law or trying to enforce international law and and the convention against genocide and being bombed by america and britain for their of trouble, so this crisis has a long way to go, but the question is, how much of a price are washington and london prepared to pay before they take very dramatic efforts to rain in israel. britain has already talked about the cutting arms sales. i think it's the beginning of the the fear that popular resistance could become stronger and stronger. right uh miss flounders a top un court, the icj. it's holding the fifth day or basically it it summed up the fifth day of public hearings on israel's decades long occupation of palestinian territories almost.

all participating countries, that was over 50 countries, and number of rights organizations, they were in agreement issues like the illegality of the occupation, the illegality of this settlement. the apartite practices of the israeli regime, the genocide taking place in gaza, and also they were in total agreement that israel must be held accountable for its crimes and violations. i want to get your thoughts uh on on the statements that were read out today at the icj, and do you think this is the most isolated israel has been in recent memory? well, what's most important about the icj hearings, which have no power in and... themselves is it is enforcing an isolation that israel will not recover from. the statements from country after country, 52 countries, the arab league, the african union, the organization of islamic cooperation, many others are all scheduled to

speak, and one after the other, these statements based on international law, their condemnation of israel and also of the u.s. and britain for their embrace, their support, their weaponizing of this genocide. it is changing the consciousness. all these statements on international law have long been on the records and long been ignored, and israel wants to continue to ignore them, but they cannot ignore what is happening on the ground. there is sea change in consciousness, and that's a global. fact here in the us where support for israel in a in a large way was it given uh totally in control by the corporate media here, that is changing and overwhelmingly in every recent poll, particularly among young people, but now in

the whole population there is a solidarity or an identification with palestine and its goals or call for a cease fire, that is... change that israel won't recover from, they're they're continuing isolation, horror, and the and the resolutions being passed to to disinvest, to block, to stop, whether it's weapons, economic aid, the actions, and i'm talking about everything from sit ins and shutdowns to port closings are important, and especially i do think it's always important to salute... the action that yemen has taken completely legal in international law and has not led to one not one death or casualty, actually even when ships were sunk as they were a british ship, they it was yemany navy that evacuated the entire uh staff. what's

the u.s. and the british response? it's to bomb yemen also to creating hundreds and hundreds of deaths and injuries. so they are 100% behind israel, they are pushing to widen the war, the bombing of certainly of and syria confirm this. it's a very dangerous moment, but the world, the whole world movement uh is so totally with palestine that that consciousness becomes material force in history, and i think this is moment where every force in the world has to find every... possible weapon, every mobilization that they can to show solidarity uh with palestine and to on every level denounce this criminal activity by israel, but also by the us and britain. make nape here, the us as we to

third un security council resolution on gasa cease fire. that move, it's sparked widespread criticism not only um on the us, but the security council itself. prompting many commentators to call for total reform of this 15 member un body, do you also see this as major flaw in the world body's functionality? of course, um, if you give america and even britain a veto power over protecting people from genocide, then clearly the system is is simply not fit for purpose, and it's not as if this started of course a... over the seventh or even five years ago, this has been the longest running genocide for very long time, uh, it's been going on effectively since since 1948, and you know, some, some people who deny the genocide really don't understand what genocide is

about, genocide jews in europe or against people in rwanda, doesn't mean the extermination of every last member of that group, genocide means deliberately setting out to kill and to damage the group in whole or in part as as as the law says and and what's happening in gaza clearly amounts to genicide every denial by the usa and and the uk and it's and and its allies, simply, simply makes them more and more isolated worldwide. it's not lost on people that watching the news from ukraine, it was terrible tragedy, uh, rocket struck a market, 17 people were killed, and zelensky rushed to say this was the most barbaric act imaginable, and it was seen to be the worst uh attack in in europe for many many months. this is a morning's work in gaza, or not even a morning's work, and... and if you deny that there's that what's happening in gaza is genocide, you simply reduce your own credibility, and when when the west talk

lectures people in africa, asia and elsewhere about the so-called rules-based international order, they're now telling people, the rules now include genocide when it suits nato and genocide when it suits these powers, so if the rules include genocide, it means where in we're in a jungle, it means that uh there is you know that there isn't even the pretense of international law. so yes, there's a the palestinians for the last 50 years have been winning major battle, they have won the battle for world public opinion very decisively, and if you measure that public opinion a whole number of different ways is done, including by the eu and by by by governments, we find that israel has been a parious state for very long time, um, un reports have reported have have found uh that is... quote unquote kills children indiscriminately. the last unhcr report

during the great march of return, i think or in 20-2021, said israel is killing medical workers, uh, journalists and children, knowing they are medical workers, knowing they are journalists and knowing that they are children. so this has been out for very, very long time. it isn't as if our intelligence agencies don't know, but they have continued to supply weapons, they've continued to supply. smart bombs made in america or made in britain or made in belgium in order to carry out the genocide in gaza. this is now widely known and and every time the america or britain or the eu start to lecture the world about a rules-based international order, never mind democracy and human rights, i think they're going to be met with that with laugh or with a cruel smile and and told this doesn't wash anymore, so i think yes the collective. is going to suffer massively because of this, because the longer they stick to israel, the more israel will

drag them down, and we can see this at the un and elsewhere that it's the west which is isolated, and inside the west, it's governments which are isolated from their own populations were increasingly beginning to take action, so the latest us veto uh on the un security council must have did make many, many millions of people, probably hundreds of millions of people around the world shake their heads and say, this is savage, this is american bombs being sent being sent to to carry out the genocide, and i think the collective west is being a very high price for their attachment to the israeli genocide. miss flonder is about the ongoing cease fire talks in in cairo, many experts have described us's involvement in the talks as nothing but facade, because if washington was seeking a ceasefire then it wouldn't veto uh multiple. security council attempts to stop the bloodshed and death of innocent women and children, now what it? well, at the us

statement at the un security council showed, the us is there to take the exact position of israel, not to move forward any negotiations, they again simply called for the release of the hostages and a short pause in the bombing, that's not a negot. position at all, now what's the impact of this world outrage on israel, and it will get worse and worse. israel's ports are blocked, ships are no longer willing to dock there or come through the s canal to israel, its industries are increasingly shut down and its population in the hundreds of thousands is leaving. this is a war that is so... criminal, it can't be defended, and the us continues to do that, they are, their only role in the negotiations

is to attempt the sabotage and negotiations and to pressure the surrounding arab states to make concessions, trying to force them to back solidarity with palestine, and it's actually doing the opposite, the the us position is totally unreasonable, so totally supportive. of israel and this genocide that's taking place that is like the mask is being ripped off and that doesn't quickly come back in in people's eyes in countries throughout the... the entire region, they are looking for other alternatives, they no longer look to the us, and that also has long-term implications, not only for israel, but also for the us and britain, they are no longer looked to as providing for people's needs in any way whatsoever, new trade arrangements are being made and many other

things are happening that are changing the inational order, and this is accelerated that very process. why why aren't regional blocks or even arab governments stepping up and taking matters into their own hands? yesterday, the leader of iran's islamic revolution, he called on muslim countries to openly express their opposition to israel and severtize with the israeli regime. why is that not happening? when the resinus conquered palestine, the jordanian king took a bite as well out of... palestine uh collusion between between arab regimes and and and and and via washington has has been growing for decades and decades uh the saudi crown prince spoke a couple of years ago a conference in new york which was attended mainly by zionists um and they came away uh shocked actually surprised at the vehement of

the saudi crown prince's attacks on on on the palestinians. mouthing zinus mantras that the palestinians are responsible for their own uh problems and so on, so this collusion goes, you know, has has has very deep roots and i think that one, it's fear uh, do they want to rely on washington to protect them from their own populations, many of them are very archec regimes, cliptoctocracies uh run by kings and amys and so on, there's very little popular support, they rely on the usa as to... protect them um and you know if if push comes to shove and the only way america will will uh will build a deep alliance with any of these regimes is by forcing them to recognize uh israel which is currently a projection of american power into the region so in order to say sweet with america you have embrace israel to so to one degree or another and that's what's been happening now of course

that brings them into collision with their own populations who can see on tv this regime killing arabs. and muslims because they are arab muslims, it's a racist monstrosity, so that creates an incredible tension in cairo or a man or or or or the gulf or north africa, now how how soon can that pressure make itself felt, how soon can these dictatorships be challenged uh successfully is something that we don't know until it happens, but you know there are seven million jews israel, probably six million zanist jews, um and by 250, 270 million, 300 million people who know what they're doing and are bitterly hostile to that state and wish to see it disappear, so in order to survive, i have no sympathy for israel of course, but if that tiny number of people are to maintain themselves through terror in the region, and they can't do it through love and admiration and building relationship, it can only be

through terror, that terror has to be extreme, and given that they got such terrible shock, the palestinian resistance on october the 7th, the ferocity of the response is kind of scientific, it's it's israel seeing it only has one way to restore its deterent edge against the palestinians by mass killings, but also against the whole people of the region, because the appetite of israel for palestine could even one day go beyond palestine, and already elements in the israeli governments muttric and ben givier are talking about possibly uh overthrowing the government in a man um and uh and expressing an appetite for again for parts of lebanon parts of egypters uh over uh four and a half months of lethon deadly attacks the resistance groups uh in the gaza strip, the palestinian resistance groups, they're fighting back strong both inside and outside of gaza. resistance leaders say that despite

the western aid for israel, the regime has failed to achieve its stated. goals in gaza and will continue to do so, how does this, first of all, what have the israelies achieved in your opinion, and how does this reflect on the israeli regime? well, in terms of what the israeli regime has achieved, they have achieved global isolation and outrage and the isolation of their own regime, the partide. couldn't be clearer, they have achieved militarily, not one thing that they started out to achieve, they said that they were going to completely destroy and dispand. "the resistance, the government of hamas, the administration, they haven't achieved that at all, and even in areas that they declared

were safe, two months ago, maybe three months ago, almost, northern gaza, to resistance continues there, although the the tol is enormous, 600 thousand people have not received food or medicine, water, anything, and the whole area has been totally destroyed. and yet the resistance does very much, there's not one area that's safe, every single day there are ambushes and israel also, and this has been so clear in in videos now that are produced by the resistance movement, every bomb that falls, 15% of them don't detinate, they are picked up by the palestinian movement and repurposed into the missiles and the weapons that they fire back, so the more... real bombs, the more the resistance will find ways to resist from the very weapons that fall on them. now that is incredible statement, because it shows that

the political consciousness, the organization, the determination to resist is stronger than the weapons and and that they will find new ways of making those weapons, they take down drones one after the other and manage to create. new forms, it's a very interesting because it does show that that weapons, money, equipment alone is not decisive, what's decisive is there is a unified resistance of every palestinian current today, secular and religious within gaza, also in the west bank, that's important, you can see in areas that had not been... before the response to these gangs of settler thugs that uh kidnap and grab hostages left and right from the palestinians

and yet they now are facing really organized resistance in city after city so i don't see this um war going in any way the way in which israel declared netanjahu announced in 140 days they have achieved nothing. but further isolation and horror, they are determined to go forward, that is really the terrible part, this on rafa, where they ordered people to flee to, and is the last remaining area not totally destroyed, and they have announced that they are going to attack rafa, i think the people of the whole world have to find same way that the palestinians have found creative ways to resist, we have to find new... ways of challenge this genocide and with greater determination, sure. all right, that's all the time we have uh for tonight's show allow me to thank my guests, co-founder

the scottish palestine solidarity campaign, mr. mcnape, you're joining us from edinburg and thanks to sarah flounders from the international action center in new york, and a special thanks to you our viewers for staying with us tonight spotlight. it's good night for now and see you next time. in this week's episode of irontic we're finally stepping inside the tehran research reactor. we've already featured some of the radio isotopes that have been produced here, but now we're taking a closer look at what happens inside the core of the reactor and how we procure the fuel for the reactor. don't miss it.

it speaks with me, the saint of the soil, from the blood and the ashes, it speaks with me the sound. the rain from the battle and the victory victory.

oh power sign, i free you, i will you. oh palestine, i free you, oh palestine, i free you, oh palestine, i free you, my every prayer is a cry to my enemy, and i cry out, cry out, cry out to the evil. enemy, the

flame within my heart will burn you, i cry out, and the thunder in my voice will deafen you, i cry out and the tornado within my soul, will rul you away. my bleeding wand once felt those on forgotten, but the aching sorrow in me never gone. i raise it will, my anger and love, love. love

of my land, anger at your deeds, raise it with my anger and love, love of my land, anger at your dead, wounded by hatred. i'm breathing, breathing, breathing, the magic perfume of my homeland palestine, wounded in love, my hands turn around the branches of the olive tree, seeking peace, seeking peace, but as long as the pillows of our children

are... i pray you, i miss you, oh my son, i pray you,

i after the israeli entity air strikes that targeted several towns in south lebanon of the past week, resulting in the martterdom of nine lebanese civilians, hisbullah threatened escalation on the border. hisbullah secretary general say hasan nasrullah declared that the latest israeli entity attacks towns in south lebanon constitute escalation because they targeted civilians and killed a large number them hinting at striking the settlement of ilat inside occupied palasty. also warned against the role of the us white house officials who often verbally object to zianist israel's mass killing of palestinians in gaza but continued to send massive quantities of weapons to facilitated. hisbullah vows escalation this week on the mide east stream.

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. edited footage of her there showing her talking to an officer and then collapsing.

the young iranian urdish woman died, masa amini died last week, la, london and paris. it's a movement. the organizers told us they will be here every sunday. iranian women, men families basically saying there are. to leave their homes right now, during demonstrations following the death of massa amini, hundreds of social media posts of people protesting her death have surfaced over the last three months. every day when the sun has come up, the question has been, did more anti-government protesters come out overnight not wearing her hijab? this is my first time in tiran, for decades i've studied, written and taught about propaganda, so i was aware the imperialist propaganda incessantly pumped out by western... media about iran since the islamic revolution 44 years ago. the revolution established the islamic republic, one of the world's leading anti-imperialist powers. tiran was in many ways at the heart of that revolution, and i came here with questions about iranian history and its

politics today. i discovered was intellectual, cultural and artistic hub at the heart of nation, shaping our century. a leading critic of israel aggression against palestiny. david miller, who was sacked from his professorship at the university of bruce dall in 2021? yes, it's the answer to this question. i mean, here we are with all the native countries saying that they're not engaged in the the conflict. my name is david miller, i'm author, academic, sociologist who specializes in the analysis of power and propaganda, especially the way states and corporations lobby to secure their interests. so i, i come from glasgow in scotland. i'm sorry, did you say that was english? i'm not english, i will, i will say, i will save up and and maybe the next time i come, i can afford it, right, so here we are at the uh, national museum of the islamic revolution in holy defense, i was very pleased to see professor marandi have forward his.