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hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm of marza hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. well, as the israeli regimes genocide against palestinian continues, more than 31,600 people have been killed. this includes the slaughtering of over 13,000 infants and kids, as netanyahu continues. used to say

israel has a right to defend itself, more and more settler colonialists inside of the regime are protesting and clashing with police, they say regime leaders, have created more insecurity for the people, and have not freeed the captives, the settler colonials want a change in the regime, this has increasingly some of the regime's closest allies are starting to, at least on the surface distance themselves from netanyahu, but in reality, what... it all mean, well of stay with us as we take a look at all of this and more on the spotlight. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. sarah of flounders, international action center out of new york, and syd maz, journalist and of political commentator out of london. well, welcome both of you to the program. let me start it off in new york, and sarah. is the

main problem with the israeli regime due to netanyahu being prime minister, or is the reality beyond who is prime minister? well, it is far beyond. on netanyahu, this is zionist policy from day one for 75 years and even earlier, but right now there are us politicians that are desperate to save israel as a zionist outpost for us domination and power in the region, and they seem to think maybe the only way forward is to dump netanyahu, clearly that was true in senator schumer's statements the other day. "and increasing number of politicians, they face a real problem that israel's global reputation has been absolutely destroyed, it's clearly been proven it's no longer invincible, it's certainly not the iron dome, the new tanks, the missiles, the weapons, they have all uh

been found to be not so invincible at all, but also israel's reputation, its standing has been completely destroyed. "and overwhelmingly, even here in the us, more than two-thirds of the population uh, is for the palestinians, now that's a big problem for us politicians, democrat and republican, they're both zionists, absolutely, but they face an election coming up, so they got to act like they're for something different, whether there's anything different, that's even possible, that's a real question, because everything means they still want." israel to survive and that is what is being uh threatened and challenged by a unif resistance. well, said mosen, we've seen across the board support for the genocide in gaza from all factions of the israeli regime as well as from the settler colonialists uh

on the ground themselves. i mean your thoughts overall, is there actually as a divide between the people and that regime, and is it related? to the genocide itself or is it related to how they are being affected by it all? well it's a very fascinating uh situation internally uh the people, the jewish uh occupation of citizenry etc. is certainly behind the war, they're certainly behind the genocidal tactics being used by netanyahu, but they're not necessarily for benjamin. yahoo himself, he was in trouble long before this war and in fact there were all sorts of issues constitutionally and in terms of the the whole the grave political, constitutional and domestic crisis which was which he brought about through his own

efforts to try to reduce the judiciary's power, to increase his own power, to bring in essentially a jewish religious jurisprudence of hugely fundamentalist nature, there was hardly anything secular left within the uh the plans that they were rolling out and essentially he's increased the racist approach to palestinians if that could be increased anymore with the uh with the the the the necessity that he's created of of support from uh you ultra nationalists uh ultra extreme violent jewish politicians like smodridge and and all the other entourage that have become very infamous across the screens but in reality also that public which is backing the war, which also doesn't necessarily like like netanyahu is hugely aware now that the entire north part of israel has been evacuated, so the the wall which by extension uh obviously drew in hesbollah has essentially created a huge deal

of paranoia, i mean entire entire settlements in that northern part of uh you occupied palestine have be had to be... evacuated, that's one result of this this this war which gets little coverage, but the the the israeli public is even in more insecure as a result of this, because don't forget what they haven't forgiven yahu for is is the the failure of security, he was mr. security, and yet what he's done, he in october the 7th is created the biggest amount of paranoia and insecurity among the israeli public uh that's that's ever been known, top of that he's failed on the uh the retrieval of uh hostages, he's failed in terms of wiping out hamas, which was another pledge of his, what he has done is also undermined israel's cover story, which was that they were the victims and that the palestinians were terrorists. now, well, of course, what's happened is the whole world sees the emperor is naked, they can uh realize that he has no clothes and

that all the lies of the hasmara uh are there for the world to see, and i think israel's standing certainly won't recover from this, what the implications of that are for its long term. survival uh are of course open to debate. well, sarah, um, the demonstrations on saturday in tel avive and other cities led to the first major clashing amongst israelis and security forces since out. october the 7th, is this significant and indicative of a transition taking place inside of the regime in your perspective? well, there has been a growing number of demonstrations, disruptions, encampments, vigils going on within israel, among the zionist forces, they are deeply, completely divided, and the animosity and the failure of security - that rankles deep and it will grow worse and worse because in the hundreds of thousands israelis

have left uh uh israel itself either uh to avoid uh being drafted or just wanting no part of this war that's a big loss the economy is in shambles uh unemployment is really higher than it's ever been and their standing in the world is completely shattered and lost uh so the divisions are real and the growing actual fights, repression, you know, so on, are becoming stronger and stronger, the failure on every front of the aims of the war in terms of regaining the hostages, defeating hamas, all that, here it is, more than five months in, and they not, haven't succeeded in anything, so that will mean greater division. and greater hostility within the state, which is illusion from its

very beginning, so now you have millions of people waking up and frustrated and angry, so will they break with zionism? very few of them because the racism is so deeply ingrained, but will they um break in all kinds of ways against the government, that's what it certainly looks like uh is happening and "and then there also are voices who really were never for this policy, who are becoming more outspoken uh and and gutsy, so there are a lot of tensions going on in israel today, and also the big thing that everyone in israel knows is that world support has completely broken and us support is waining, so this is uh a fragile effort from the very beginning and now it's in really..." you now bad shape, israel can't prevail, and uh, as i say, they've lost

support everywhere, it's a failed, and that will create greater and greater tension, animosity, opposition within the israeli state. well, said most, speaking of the captives, i mean, protesters say that netanyahu has done nothing to try to reach deal to bring the captais home. do you think that the reality is that the... leaders really did not want the captives to be returned home? well, the hanabut directive is something which is on record and it's something which the israeli establishment had had decided was going to be a policy, and they've exercised that policy quite ruthlesy, it essentially says that in a situation where hostages or israeli lives can be saved and the the alternatives of course is to stop their military actions, they will always plumb for sacrif. the hostages and that's what netanyahu has done essentially, he's actually responsible for directly killing

many of the hostages, many of them have been uh have been essentially uh murdered alongside all those women and children, the 31,000 plus and being killed from the the palestinian civilian fraternity, so his the his own people's blood is on his hands, there are huge questions he has to answer in terms of what his military forces uh were doing on october the 7th when they... sent in apache helicopters and mowed down uh israeli citizens essentially, they he's he's got to answer for those issues, so to be honest with you, there there is a clear set of evidence that this establishment's incompetence in dealing with this whole situation from start to finish, and it's now uh very well documented uh you know genocide and uh ethnic cleansing and starvation of people who are already destitute and their last legs uh is is recorded and he is now spoken ultimately

he's going to be spoken in the same breath as named like paulpot um hitler and churchill i'd like to add because these people were all responsible for some of the biggest genocides the 20th century well congratulations netanyahu you've managed to get yourself in auspicious uh list there and uh that won't go away israel itself is now also tarred with that brush uh nobody's buying the victim uh victim story, but what they will do is they'll try and uh their advisers are already trying to do this, what the they're planning is to meet this challenge by essentially getting new political real... alignmentts done in the backgrounds, so benny gents and and the national unity party for instance will be pushed, think into the foreground as the replacement, they'll probably try and bring together some kind of coalition uh which will try to uh you know patch things over, mean they've already tripled their their their popularity in the uh in the uh in

the various um election general election polls, so we know that the nup will... be rewarded for this war and benny gants is the one to watch, but then benny gance's policies are not going to be that different from netanyahu, he's part and parcel of this zionist terrorist mindset, and unless they are willing to really give the rights of palestinians unless they're willing to conceed the land and and give people back their properties, allow uh the the repatriation of all palestinians expelled and their heritage children. abroad, unless they're willing to settle for a one-state solution which is based on democracy and the rights of palestinians, we're not going to see uh an end to this uh this uh this situation, in fact done is they bread an entire generation of palestinians who will now fight, literally fight for the the the the the the return of their people's rights.

well sir, some of the protesters were saying that the policy has to change by the israeli regime towards palestinians or... will no longer exist, your assessment of that statement, mean is there a greater awareness by the settler colonialist that the regime um is in danger? uh, i think so, marzia, and i very much agree with this, that that what it would take though is something which would really mean the end of zionism, mean it the return of these settlements, it means uh, israel out of gaza, it means the end of the attacks, that's the only way, and that seems to be almost an impossibility, that's not on benny gants's agenda or any of the israeli politicians, so that is the quandry, they have an absolutely failed war, they're no longer clearly invincible, that's been

completely destroyed, and dumping netanyahu or new coalition government, won't fix this, won't won't solve it, and and the us is desperately seeking for a way to act like they're not for this policy, the're for something else, can they restabilize, and that doesn't seem to be in the works, it's not in the works even because of the actions taken in yemen by the encera movement, the the blockade, the israeli ports are all but closed, so while they have imposed a complete closure. and created a famin in gaza, they haven't been able to open their own economy, as a driving economy it was, so they can't seem to prevail anywhere either economically or militarily, the big win that they expected, it isn't in the cards with any of the um israeli politicians, this is a real uh

crisis that they face and actually that us imperialism face. because they have completely banked on israel from its very foundation and now they see it literally crumbling, they see the popul at each other's throats and many others just opting to leave out of the whole project, it's a it's a big problem and it's part of global change that is really happening among many countries realigning and rethinking where they stand, well speaking of that actually of that real alignment said mosen as the regime continues to be animate about its invasion of rafa and continues to commit mass murder a daily basis. do you think that there is real distancing um taking place on an international level of some of the international allies of the regime or or is it just for show? i think there's a lot of

show, there's a no genuineness about the allies, the allies are fully part and parcel the gen'. side, they've been aiding a betting, aiding and a betting the the murder the genocide, the ethnic cleansing with weapons supplies, hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons from germany, from britain, from america have been pouring in, their alliances have are just as solid as they were before, in fact what they were, what one has to realize that israel is their means for controlling west asia, but what's happened is that uh israel's own um, if you like uh invincibility, has been uh undermined so much that it's putting doubts earstwile allies. this is what's really important, the likes of saudi arabia, the likes of jordan, egypt, all these, collaborators, collaborators in the genocide of palestine, because don't forget the saudis been allowing food and commodities to come through their territories into jordan

via uae, don't forget that egypt has been trying to prevent yeministic missiles reaching israel and are also holy and soly responsible for the the starvation that's going on also from the rougher crossing because they are also absolutely hand in hand in glove with israel with this this policy. so it's this exposure of the regional u essentially uh israeli allies, covert, many them previously covert now are exposed, saudi arabia is finding increasingly embarrassing, turkey and the likes of azerbaijan have been exposed for their oil exports, so israel's actions have actually exposed all of the collaborators and the public knows, the arab public in the region now knows and i think that that realization isn't going to go away, it will... affect those governments and it's also exposed the likes of the the zire western establishment clearly china with me said mostly buse i only have a couple of minutes left want to get a couple more

questions in well sarah us senator chuck shumerch zianis supporter of the regime in washington has said that netanyahu has lost his way and is an obstacle to peace what are your thoughts on why schumer is saying that now and what does it really mean well schumer is an arch zionist. strongest zionist, longest supporter of israel in the us, top top representative, so netnyahu has lost his way, and it just means schumer is in a panic, how to distance himself from this politician who's now radioactive, that is the problem, and so schumer's got to act like he's for something different, what it is, he doesn't say, and frankly he doesn't know, that is what they can't overcome, and it's also true in... us and britain th these are the supporters, the the eu, these are the supporters of zionism from the very beginning, and now frankly they are scared,

they are worried and they don't have an option, that this is the quandry that they're in, and the regime that were complicit in western asia and talking about as as i did, jordan, saudi arabia and egypt, they're also now looking east, they are looking to new... relations, there no longer is the us and the, that imperialist economy, the only game in town. okay, stay with me, sarah, so sorry to interrupt you and say moson, at the end of the day, um, is there anything besides or any group besides the resistance that is going to bring this genocide against palestinians in gaza to an end? no, the only chance that exists for the liberation. of palestinians in my opinion is the resistance of the people inside palestine and the support of the resistance both in from lebanon, iraq, uh, iran and yemen. i mean, the reality is that

uh, without, i mean, i don't know of any any peoples in history who have managed to overthrow the kind of oppressor that israel is, the kind of vicious oppressor that israel ideologically is, uh, by peaceful means, and we've not seen any evidence for for the western powers or the... the the un or any of the operators controlled by the anglo-zionist empire uh in really being serious to create any solution for palestins we're seeing more the same, it has to be a military resistance which is going to ultimately achieve israel's downfall and on that note thank you both for being with me on this spotlight seraf londers from international action center out of new york said mosan abbas journalist and political commentator out of london and thank you virus for being with us on another spotlight i'm marzia hashimi hoping you right here next time on another spotlight. goodbye for now. noruz

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nearly 100 palestinians are killed in the latest round of israeli strikes on gaza while the overall death toll is approaching 32,000. israely prime minister benjamin netanyahu vows to launch a ground invasion. against calls to stop the genocide in gaza. the netherlands, the uk and several other european countries witness fresh rallies against the us israel war on the gaza strip.