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tv   Mideastream Ceasefire Talks Falter  PRESSTV  March 16, 2024 5:02am-5:31am IRST

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it is evident that the ceasefire negotiations have entered of a state of deadlock with conflicting paths toward collapse. palestinian sources confirmed that the stumbling of the negotiations essentially began with the retreat of the four parties that prepared the paris paper, namely the united states of america. egypt, qatar, and zinus israel at the end of last january from the provisions of the paper. will the faltering of cease fire agreements in cairo and the escalation of the israeli entity threats to expand grand operations towards the city of rafah, the last area in southern gaza that has yet to be entered by occupation tanks, the resistance has once again brought the fight back to the of initial point, the city of b hanoon in the northernmost part of the gaza strip. while the israeli occupation arm assumed that the... northern part of the strip was no
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longer a part of the confrontation since the major ground operations ended there two months ago, the al-qassam brigades managed to carry out qualitative operations. a drone belonging to the resistance dropped two bombs in the midst of the gathering of soldiers at the infiltration point north of baithanoon. similarly, the military media of the al-qasan brigades distributed a video clip documenting a sniper operation targeting one of the enemy soldiers in the same axis. meanwhile the al-aqsa marters brigades announced. that its fighters carried out artillery fortification operations using mortor shells, targeting enemy troops, gatherings and vehicles in the combat access in bet han as well. the military spokesperson of the al-qassam brigades abu ubaidah appeared friday march 8 evening, delivering several important messages. firstly, he stated that the october 7th operation was motivated by the obstruction of the most extremist and nazi- like projects in the history of the occupations entities governments, notably those related to temporal and special. the
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vision plans for the al-aqsa mosk as a prelute to its confiscation. the second indication he mentioned was the enemy soldiers, both captives and those remaining are suffering from starvation, similar to our people in palestine as a result of the ongoing israeli siege. furthermore, abu ubaida's speech conveyed a message that the resistance still controls the elements of the battlefield. it can be said that the integrity of the resistance's media apparatus represented by the appearance of abu ubaidah as one of its icons, signifies that the rest of the... arms are still intact. additionally, abu ubaidah outlined three conditions for accepting any exchange deal and cease fire: the withdrawal of the enemy's occupation army from the gaza strip, freedom of movement for residents from north to south, and relief efforts coinciding with reconstruction. speech, which came days of before the beginning of the holy month of ramadan, is now being interpreted as an indication of the resistance's determination escalate the intensity of field pressure from all external and internal fronts, notably the west bank. and the occupied territories.
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welcome to the meast stream, i'm madman. with the return of hamas delegation from cairo following the failure of the latest round of negotiations on seasfire and prisoner exchange between it and the occupation state. palestinian sources confirmed that what is proposed. now does not meet the minimum demands of the resistance or the needs of the gaza strip for that matter, and that the resistance factions that authorized hamas to take the appropriate stands, had agreed with the leadership of the movement on the necessity of returning everyone to the first paris paper. to discuss this issue with us from beirot is professor of political sociology at the lebanese university, dr. hasen rahal. it's a pleasure having you with us, dr. rahal now, according to the information from cairo, the meetings of the new round which were expected to be held. this past saturday with the
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participation of an israeli entity delegation have been basically postponed if not failed shattering hopes of possibly reaching any deal uh before the holy month or during the holy month of ramadan. amid what egypt says our fears of its own of turning the current situation in gaza into a permanent one, but was there hope actually that these talks would be successful to begin with? bismillahirrahmanirrahim. in the name of allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, hopes were few for many reasons, first among them being zainess, stubberness and unwillingness to cease aggression against gaza. the second reason is the lack of seriousness from the americans in pressuring the israeli entity, with pressure only focused on the palestinian side by the americans and also by countries considering themselves mediators, which contributed to the failure or diminished hopes of success.
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in these negotiations, because what was required was to acknowledge outcomes in favor of the zionist enemy that the occupying army couldn't achieve militarily. yes, the occupation indeed killed civilians and committed massicers reaching the level of genocide, but militarily they couldn't reach their announced battle goals. therefore, they wanted to give the killer and the butcher political gifts and strategic gains at the expense of the steadfastness and sacrifices the palestinian people. hence these negotiations were viewed from the beginning as difficult and might not lead to results with the israeli entity, possibly exploiting them to achieve gains at the expense of the palestinian people. well dr. hen, officials involved in this negotiation round, they were saying that on the field pressures exerted by the resistance to potentially cause a breach were awaited to at least influence maybe the losses incurren by the occupation and its
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failure to achieve any of its goals, the covert and overt goals for gaza, in addition to internal israeli entity pressure as well that is mounting as we speak, how do you think the site of resistance fight? fighters, palestinian resistance fighters reemerging again in the northernmost part of gaza, in bet han if any hit the zionists while they are preparing to invade supposedly south in rafah after maybe thinking that the northern part has already been dealt with and there's no longer any potential threat against the zionist entity in the north? yes indeed this issue troubles the zionist army, there is frustration. at many levels among officers or former officers who work as political advisers for zionist parties. the resurgence and control of palestinian resistance fighters in many areas in northern gazza confirmed the failure of the israeli entity announcement of its success in cleansing these areas of fighters and fully illustrates
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that the occupation army couldn't actually reach the leaders or the capture zinus or establish real control within these areas. here we see major military failure. the israeli occupation army, therefore israeli zionists resort to taking palestinian civilians as hostages, they precious civilians and destroy infrastructure in exchange for this military failure. whenever the occupation army senses its failure to achieve actual military objectives, you find it retaliating against civilians, increasing its bombardment of infrastructure and adopting a policy of starvation to counterbalance the resistances resilience. the israeli entity. seems to use two and a half million palestinian citizens as hostages, either killing them or crippling the resistance. this is terrorism, an act only carried out by gangs and road bandits, not by any state in the world. unfortunately, this policy receives actual american support
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regardless of the criticism voiced by president biden against netanyahu, because biden clearly and explicitly states that there are no red lines for the israely entity in this battle and he hasn't cut off military supplies sent to the israeli entity. in this case, we find that the israeli entity relies a policy of destroying what remains of infrastructure in rafah. they don't want to leave palestinians with any infrastructure that would allow them to return to normal life in case the fighting stops. and this is indeed serious matter falling within the framework of comprehensive human extermination. well, communications between uh egyptians and zinus israelis dr. hussein witness repeated israeli entity demands to open the rafa crossing only for the passage of thousands of palestinians into the egyptian borders uh temporarily as they say, which we don't believe, for a specific period of time to be agreed upon. why not just agree
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to open the border first for the uh food, for the aid, for the medicine that the palestinian people in gaza severely need. what, why are the parties involved in the... talks with the zionist entity allowing the zionist entity to keep the border in rafa closed in the faces of the palestinians and the faces of any aid that would come to the palestinians, why are they so uh okay with this, why is this okay for them? at night netanyahu announced that the construction of the sea port was his idea which reinforces the occupation because israely entity soldiers would be stationed there to liver what is called. this is a real disconnect from reality and the disregard for the human spirit of the palestinian people. yes, rafa crossing can be open to provide aid, which is the easiest, most effective and most humane
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solution. unfortunately, there is a zionist american decision to prevent the opening of this crossing. it's worth mentioning that many palestinians leave through this crossing by bribing egyptian officers station. there to temporarily or permanently leave, however, unfortunately, the egyptian decision still prohibits the entry of aid without american and israeli permission. this is indeed surprising, even to the... we notic that during this period there are pressures on egypt from various aspects, including financial temptations, for example from the united arab emirates to maintain the stance of preventing the reinforcement of the resilience of the palestinian people within the sector, as this resilience could lead to a complete failure of the zionist invasion. this is a surprising matter that cannot be understood neither from humanitarian nor from legal perspective, because egypt owns. and controls a land border route where any crossing can be established, but it hesitates
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to do so because it falls within the framework of american policy. the primary fear here in gaza is the implementation of a zianist goal, which is the displacement of the population. this is a goal that the israeli entity has not retreated from, and i don't know to what extent the egyptian government can withstand the immense pressure it faces. as we have seen, it could be much easier to accomplish than sending aid that kills people. from hunger or waiting 60 days to secure the ports. we have a clear crossing that could be the real alternative to delivering aid, and this is very detrimental to the egyptian situation and to the arab countries, and it's utterly condemnable. definitely professor of political sociology at the lebanese university, dr. thank you very much for being with us to discuss this very pressing issue at the moment in palestine. ladies and gents, please stay tuned because next. we're going to talk about how the us is complicit in genocide in gaza.
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now the united states of america has behaved in this way, knowing that zinus israel from the very beginning has carried out crimes against humanity amounting to genocide such as targeting civilians and seeking to ethnically cleanse the gaza population. hence, americans must think through whether they are willing to carry on with with this policy of passive permissiveness and perhaps one day even face legal accusation that they were participants in the genocide by zionist israel in the gaza strip. more details in this following. report: the united states of america is attempting to reshave the
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narrative in gaza, portraying the current democratic administration as the one innovating solutions eight civilians in the strip. after zianist israel, the primary zianist ally killed and injured over 100,000 palestinians in gaza. president joe biden, who last week reaffirmed his eternal support for zinus, israel has also displaced around 2 million palestinians demolished their home. schools, hospitals and orphanages uprooted and destroyed their infrastructure, rendering their cities and towns uninhabitable. not only that, they were also besieged, starved, and then killed as they tried to obtain some meger food that falls from the sky, only to be killed by one of the deadly projectiles raining down from the sky. as internal pressures increase in the united states, biden innovated with the assistance of consultation of the zinist israelis of course, the idea of a maritime bridge. from the coasts of cyprus to the coasts of gaza, an old new project with entirely inhumane
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objectives. mind you, the border with egypt is right there, and all what is really needed is for the border to be opened. there is not an iota of doubt that the united states of america can stop the carnage and famine in gaza, but has not done so. surely this makes it complicit in the genocide there, as dihar in gaza continues, americans in particular should repeat one simple proposition to themselves: their government is comp in prolonging an unnecessary war in which their close ally zionist israel is actively engaged in starving the palestinian population of gaza into submission. the united states of america, the supposed pillar of an international rules-based order who has defened us that only it holds the vanguard of humanitarian interventions worldwide, is today the patron of a regime that is indifferent even the most basic humanitarian principles. five months into the gaza slaughter, the united states of america is to... large extent responsible for what is taking place. any remarks coming from any us
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official at this point is just vain attempt a white wash. washington has persisted in vetoing all un resolutions calling for sease fire. it has opposed the south african case before the international court of justice icj, accusing zinist israel of genocide, and it has continued to supply the israeli regime with the weapons its occupation forces are using to bomb civilians in gaza. the us has the latitude to withhold. arms shipments to zinus israel and compel the zinust regime to accept a seasfire, but instead has blocked all permanent cease fire proposals. the us has the leverage to push zanus israel implement the icj. interarm decision, but instead has chosen to discredit the court's ruling. the united states of america has acknowledged that zionist israel is at the very least limiting the entry of food into gaza, which even israeli entity organizations have identified as a policy of starvation, but has persisted in publicly supporting those responsible for this outrage. the united states of america is as guilty in
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genocide as zionist israel is (point). now to discuss this issue. with us from moscow is fiorella isabel journalist, geopolitical analyst, host at the convo couch and writer at the fiorella isabel substack, thanks in million for being with us this morning, firela, now uh, the zionist inhumane war, least to say in gaza has provoked legal vortex that incompasses the possibility of acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, now the united states of america officially knows that and yet still chooses to shrug at the thought of a c fire while still arming the zionist entity to its teeth, what makes the us administration firella indifferent to the facts that i just said, is it that they know that there will be no ramifications against them whatsoever? right, so uh, thank you for having me, not only will they not have any ramifications, this is par and parstal to their policy that
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is necessary for the united states to continue having its military. contingent in west asia, and this is precisely what the biden administration knows, that they cannot forgo their zionist uh lobbious, because if you understand the american government, you understand that these lobbists run the entire government, not just zionist lobbists, but corporate lobbists, and among them, of course, biden has to assure that he's going to continue getting the support of apec, that he's going to continue, getting what is necessary to quote unquote get him over the top of uh donald trump who has now won the republican nomination and so when you're looking at this from that perspective, joe biden is positioning these uh these acts now with these new ports and with the actions of of really not really going after israel but
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verbally saying well we need to uh stop attacking the civilians we need to continue to deliver aid. "well, all that they're looking at is what he's saying, not what he's doing, and in comparison to donald trump, uh, he's trying to position himself as somebody that is a little bit more sympathetic to gaza, to palestinians, but still at the end the day does the bidding that israel needs, and so will there be any ramifications from international institutions from any of these individuals and organizations that say they are..." appalled by what's happening in gaza and who have debated whether to call it a genocide or not for nearly six months now, and nothing will come out of it because the united states and israel are the ones that lead these institutions, the israel is under the protection of the united states, therefore nothing will come, but firola,
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what's what's really very interesting is that it has been acknowledged by everyone at this point, even by zinist entity, ngos and civil society that zinast israel is using starvation as means to uh as means of submission against the people of of gaza and yet the us has persisted in publicly supporting those responsible for this outrage uh in gaza and now instant of opening the borders with egypt and allowing the aid in, they are suggesting a maritime uh aid bridge that starts uh in in cyprus and gets into gaza, but what is stopping them from pressuring the zionists into a ceasefire and opening wide from every corner uh with the borders of of gaza, and they can even open the borders with gaza with the illegal zionist settlements, not only with egypt, but they are persistent in the siege. right, what's stopping them is their goal, because israel is is there to meet the objectives and
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goals of the united states military, that is all it is, therefore, that's it. "that's the reason why it was created, we're talking about israel has verbally said that they're going to expand into lebanon like as they have already been doing, they're going to go after syria, iran, this is all, not just israel, this is part of the us plan to take over this entire region, and so they need israel there, so of course biden, the administration and the entire state department are having to do this sort of, oh, we're this is humanitarian act, when as you know, mark." well we have we seen actual humanitarian actions from the united states, it doesn't exist, this is all guys, this is all fasad to really continue pushing their military strategies of... the region so what's actually stopping them is their own military goals, their own objectives. they have zero desire to actually help palestinians in gaza, they would have done
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this hundreds of thousands of of victims of ago if they actually cared, and they're not doing this because that's not their objective. their objective is to appear compassionate, to appear like they're actually trying to get this aid in, but as you said they could do this in a completely different way, but no, is about military targets and establishing these military targets in order to do what they need to do and of course also appear compassionate in that way. well phirolla we have uh under international law the article 54 of the additional protocol of june 1977 of the geneva conventions and article eight as well the rome statute of the international criminal court that using starvation as a weapon of war is prohibited and considered a war crime. now the israeli entity is responsible. for the salvation, we have heard some of the officials of the bider administration saying that this needs to stop like for example camala harris who said the people in gaza are starving, the conditions
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are inhumane, and our community, our and our common humanity compels us to act, but if the us is not acting upon its words, why do they say them even though, i mean if it's only for votes, then why do they say them when they can compel them into action, if there's any way now to pressure the biden administration into obliging sionist israel to... stop the genocide uh against gaza, what is that way? what can the people do? right? the only thing the american people can do right now is continue their uh efforts in going outside of the electoral system, because there is no pressure that the government feels from the american public, because they don't, they're not representing the american public. the government is clearly representing these lobbists or representing these institutions that are very... powerful, they have zero uh representation to the american public, because as you've seen there have been so many protests, so many people protesting, so many people saying we're not okay with with
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this, even from the beginning of this genocide to now, we have seen more and more people say, wait a minute, i don't want my tax dollars going to this, we saw what happened with aaron bushnell and that uh way he protested because he said i don't want to be uh take a part in in this genocide, so more... more people of the united states are actually against what is happening, but they have zero ways to pressure because the american system is not part, it's not, it's not giving them any sort of uh ability to pressure bite and outside of protesting, outside of going and doing these things, so more than protesting they need to actually attack believers of power, what i have seen is attacking the ships that are getting uh going from american... to uh supply weapons to israel, these sort of things need to happen, there needs to be direct confrontation with those in power, i'm not
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talking about just random representatives, i'm talking about those directly with the israel lobby, and that's the only thing that's going to continue putting pressure, but it has to be in a huge amount and it has to be directed at the economics, which is why what we've seen with ansarlah being the most devastating effect towards israel, the united states because that's attacking their economics and that's honestly the best way. the american public is not largely in favor of what's happening, but they actually don't even know what to do, and at this point largely are complicit because uh not much is getting done and again, this is not something that is surprising. the united states will say these words of compassion, they will say that they want to stop what israel is doing, then simultaneously give israel the funds and the the... military apparatus that it needs to continue, because they are the ones that need this to happen just as much as israel does. well, fiorella, isabel, journalist,
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geopolitical analyst and writer at the fiorella isabel substack, thank you very much for being with us, ladies and gents, you can find fiorella on all of social media platforms and hear what she has to say, because what she has to say is basically what the majority of the public in the west are saying against their regimes, so we thank her uh for that, ladies and gents, thank you uh for watching the mad. stream this week and ramadan mubarak to you and all of your loved ones, hopefully this ramadan will be the last ramadan where palestine is not free. hopefully next year will be the free palestine year. ladies and gents, do follow us on telegram and on x and we'll see you again next week right here on press tv's the mideast stream.
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your headlines on press, the israeli prime minister has approved plans to invade the city of rafah in the gaza shrith rejecting new cease fire proposal by hamas. the palestinian islamic jihad says the us is complicit in the israeli onslaught on gaza calling. washington's limited delivery, an act of hypocrisy and hesbollah has warned israel that the lebanese resistance movement is prepared for any escalation of hostilities by the regime.