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around the world, and this is exactly what we will be talking about in the next half an hour. i am your host kisum shah ahmadi and you're watching the spot. fight and to delve into the issues i just mentioned, we have with us ali salam, editor in chief of basira press who was joining us live from tehran and also ramiro funes, there he is, ramiro funes, activist and commentator who is joining us live from los angeles. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen for joining us on this edition. the spotlight now, the daily assault on the human dignity of palestinians is creating a crisis that is undermining credibility of the international community in general, the entire world seems to be silent, uh, mr. salam from tehran, what do you have

to comment on this one? the latest massacres are absolutely barbaric, it's incredible to just see what's coming out, it's not just for example in the ones that we've seen in the past where they... kill a bunch of people flat out, this time they're resorting to very sadistic acts of torture and revenge, specifically in the siege of al shifah hospital, they the we've all seen the reports about how they've been raping women, raping pregnant women, beating pregnant women and then killing some of their victims and forcing the men to watch it, that's you know while being it's one thing when they kill people which is obviously brutal, but to leave people... and then to subject them to this kind of physical and psychological torture is absolutely unimaginable, it's it breaks the human hearts into million pieces and the fact that they were able to get away with the lies saying that hamas was the one who did this despite no proof, and in fact

many of the israeli outlets backing away from their original claims because not because they care about telling the truth, but because they realized their lives were too absurd to stand the light of day, but this is this is their sadistic. and very satanic uh sense of revenge and these types of massacers as well as the terrorist attack in moscow occurred around the time of the holiday of purum which is actually a quite racist and genocidal holiday which basically celebrates the genocide of persians in the book of esther in the old testament where the king of persia was married to a jewish queen and she suspected that one of the people were trying to kill all the jews essentially but turned out that's not the case, but she still ordered basically a mass murder spree of of innocent people suspected of being you know the enemy of the people of esther, and so every year this holiday is celebrated, and it's not just extending to persians, but anybody who they view as their enemy, this is like celebration of revenge, it's very, you

know, very, very sick stuff, and it's it's the invasion of iraq in 2003 happen around this time, so see these types of vengeful acts, these bloody acts happen to happen around this type of... this time of the year, so this is very sick and twisted army and their terroristic acts should be condemned by the whole world, and the fact that the international organizations are just sitting there shows how useless they are, no matter no matter what kind of statements they make, a statement is not going to make a difference, the only thing that is really hopeful for the palestinis to end this absolute night merits i described is the is the armed resistance uh and and allies in the world, well you're absolutely right, and the whole world recognizes that it has uh it is passed time uh to be silent and there needs to be some uh effective measure taking place, so let's bring in our guests from los angeles to explain and elaborate more on that, as our

guest from tehran just mentioned, we need mores in just rhetoric at this point in time, we need some action on the ground, so what do you expect from these international organizations? the international community to do, like brother ali said, the international organizations are completely useless, the united nations, and lot of the western led multinational institutions are not doing anything to rectify the situation, because they're never going to fundamentally get to the core problem, which is the existence of the settler colonial state of israel in general, lot of the dialogue has been presented as two state solution or... how do we calm down the israelies, how do we get them to pacify a little bit, to relent from gaza, from to relent from the west bank expansions, but the problem is israel in and of itself, the very nature of its existence, the very foundation of its creation, going

back to theodore herzel and the world zionist organization, just as allie pointed out very brilliantly as well, the zionists are very much portrayed as in western media at least the... as secular, democratic, they're not these crazy religious fanatics, as unfortunately muslims are portrayed in western media, but if we look at the people who are running israel, they are very much religious fanatics. and lot of these attacks coincide with puram with uh with the book of esther with ishar which is uh the actual meaning of uh esther ishtar which is one of the canaanite gods that they worship for fertility goddess uh if we go into the avenue but lot of this stuff goes deep into um their mysticism and their religious extremism they view palestinians as animals they don't see them as human beings they don't see them as equals who they can coexist with they see as obstacles to their complete expansion, at the end of the day we know that the two blue

stripes on the israeli flags represent denial and the euphretes, they want to expand as much as they can, and for them they see the palestinians, the arab peoples, the muslim people in general, as the biggest obstacle, because at the end of the day the biggest resistance to israeli zionism is islam and the axis of resistance, because the access of resistance is firm in its faith and it's the lifestyles and appartenences of zionism, of commercial banking, of usery, of of loaning money on interests and all these horrible things, and it is the muslims in the access of resistance that are giving the the best fight to israel because they are guided by an ideology that promotes humility and subservience to god and fear of god alone, and i think what we're seeing, i'm very actually very optimistic about the prospects of change against israel, it's not going to come from the un, it's not going to come from the... western europe, it's going to come from the uma, it's going to come from the axis of resistance uh in actually defeating

israel, not just fighting for its solution, not just ending this uh current struggle that's going on, but completely and totally freeing palestine and leaving israel and the dustpin of history where it belongs, but that is going to take just as you mentioned very long time, so uh considering the situation on the ground, what do you think would be the best solution for at least ' short uh term humanitarian ceasefire to get aid inside the gaza strip, let's see what mr. ali salam from tehran believes we should be doing? well, as um, as our uh brother ramiro uh pointed out that they want to expand to the nial and euphrees, but you see they're so fragile even within the borders that they have, they can't capture the westpink, so i'm optimistic as well. "and they have been militarily humiliated in the past uh two times in

lebanon, and even now we can consider this a big humiliation, because never before has hamas are the islamic resistance in palestine been able to do these kinds of feats, um, if they expected anything around the time of last year, they they didn't expect something of this magnitude, um, they wouldn't have expected anything. that would have humiliated them because the uh battles in the past have just been exchanges of rocket fire and air rocket fire on the side of the palestinians and air strikes on the side of the zianist occupation. perhaps they thought it was going to be something like that again, few days cleans up, now this is something that has caught them by surprise, nor do they expect lebanon to get in. mean the the north is practically empty, there's no people in northern occupied palestine, and if you look at the statistics of how many uh so called israelis have left palestine and gone back to where they came from originally, like europe

or america or wherever, and people who say that they won't come back, more and more people are packing the airports and and getting out of there, so this will actually eventually break the the regime, the the global shipping blockade imposed by yemen, which is making the entire world pay the price for these horrible atrocities, there's at least some sense of justice here and the optimism that our our guest in los angeles spoke. about this optimism is that they're they're they're paying a price for what they're doing, they're not just sit standing there, killing all these people, raping all these women and getting away with it, that's that's the thing that we should be proud about is this is the achievement of armed resistance, if it wasn't for this resistance they would do what they want to do and they would get away with it, that's that that would be the biggest crimes that they would get away with, but now they're paying the price, eventually it will break them and eventually they'll have to declare uh military defeats, probably their biggest military defeats since uh 2006 uh with lebanon. well, mr. salom, that is absolutely

right, and i believe our guests from los angeles also agrees and i agree as well that, the israelis are now in a situation where the they really have no way to go, and eventually they will be defeated, both on international scale as far as international community is concerned and now uh their true colors have been known to the entire. world so uh they have been practically defeated on all different fronts, but uh what i'm more concerned about in our discussion right now is the situation on the ground in gaza, the situation that our muslim brothers and sisters have uh as they desperately need aid to get in and the trucks are there uh the aid is there but the israelis won't let the aid in and i would like to quote antonio guteresh who just uh said that they desperately need what's been promised but they need a flood of aid not trickles and not drops so uh mr.

funes in your opinion what can be done to get that uh humanitarian aid inside, and that would definitely require at least a temporary ceasefire. i think crucial to this is understanding the geopolitics of gaza. gaza has a large coastal front and access to that coast is very crucial, so if we were to bring aid to gaza, first and foremost, pressuring israel to allow other countries, other forces, no matter what political tendency or ideology, to just bring in... aid from the coast because logistically that is the best option. another option is obviously the elephant in the room egypt which hears a large border in the rafa crossing with gaza, but unfortunately uh egypt in many ways has been difficult and has not been cooperating with the movements toward opening the border and allowing palestinians in and bringing in aid uh and it's very much unfortunately

compromised by the zina so i think uh logistically in real time now on the ground the best situation would be some sort. of massive aid delivery through the mediterranean onto the gaza coast because that is its biggest coastline uh perhaps the us mentioned building pier obviously we don't trust the us in any of their plan but i don't think the pier in and of itself is a bad idea i would just like to see other nations or countries uh be able to be part of that perhaps china or russia or iran uh to be able to airlift uh products and goods and aid through the mediterranean but i think definitely egypt would be a tremendous help. being able to bring aid through the rafa crossing uh, but again, unfortunately egypt is very much compromised, so i think those are our two best options now, and i think any anything that uh iran would try to do would be perceived as a threat to israel, and we know at the end of the day that israel wants war against iran, and so it's very much iranian people want to do more and are doing

lot as it is now uh, but unfortunately it's one of those situations where we also have to tread lightly and delicately in the... region because any site of an iranian, red cresent ship or aid from iran is going to be perceived as uh their supporting terrorism and and this and that so uh i think those are realistically the two probably best options right now, but again very difficult. so mr. salom, in your opinion, why do you think attempts for humanitarian ceasefire, and i'm emphasizing on this ceasefire to be humanitarian in order to get humanitarian aid into gaza uh despite the geneva conventions. and everything that the western world is so proud of calling itself the civilized world, why is it so difficult for them to get humanitarian aid inside and why is this cease fire so impossible? this is really exposed their hypocrisy, as you as you stated, they're very proud of these types of things, their declaration of human rights, geneva convention, we see how it falls apart, we see

what it truly means when the rubber really me when the rubber meets the road, so like our guest said the the egyptian... have the capacity, i mean it's don't they control their own country, aren't they a sovereign government? apparently not, they they have ties to, they normalize, they were one of the first governments to normalize with the israelis and they have huge ties to the us, in fact their current leader was installed by the us, so we can really you know to to open up the to create a scenario for at least humanitarian ceastfire as much as the israelis will violate those terms, but they're going to be forced to the table, the israelies will be forced to the table of doing this for the sake of their their military defeat, that's what will pressure them, just as the first cease fire happened because they were really uh getting hit very hard and they were and they were essentially humiliated so they have to get hit more and

more hard um but i think they don't want to get embarrassed a second time around they don't want to get like the full embarrassed like when the full war ends they'l totally embarrassed because they can't guarantee the safety of their illegitimate settlers. um, but on the diplomatic side, at least when it comes to the untrustworthys and the untrustworthy egyptians, we can hope for the equation of the declining and weakening us and the increasing strength of iran, and to lesser extent russia and china, because iran is the most bold in support of palestine, compared to the latter to... do not exert to the full capacity that they could exert, but still better than what the position of the west is, and in fact we see this in the agreement that ansara of yemen has had with russia and china and that... basically russia and china will uh let go will have no problem with ansara and ansara because the russian and chinese ships are not participating in this genocide, they let the free flow of

russian and chinese and any ship that's not participating in this genocide, they act like um ansar allah is a threat to all global trade, no they are very specific in who that they are targeting, anybody else who's engaging ethical business, free to go, so uh the pressure of this, i think uh this increasing political relations will allow iran the diplomatic strength to put to basically push qatar and egypt and and these other countries in a certain direction. now these countries will always be corrupt, they they were born out of pys people, they were born out of british colonialism and zinanism, but in their lust for power and they are less to want to stay in power and to be relevant in the region, they're going to have to move a little bit and play a little bit of ball with with iran. in order to survive politically in the future, so the the hope is in the increasing diplomatic strength of... iran coinciding with the weakness, the increasing weakness of the united states and we don't have much time left, so mr. funes, let's uh focus more on the situation in gaza

right now, the north of gaza is practically cut off, so even if there is humanitarian aid in gaza, it will not reach the northern parts of gaza, femin is looming there for the people who are still there stuck in that region, and also uh the situation in al-shafa hospital is uh really... terrible is something that is completely appalling, so uh, but what do you think will take the international community to do something to isolate israel to the point where it will have out of at least fear of isolation on the international scale to back off? i think what will work the best in terms of isolating israel and bringing international attention and solidarity with northern gaza will be breaking the spell and idea that israel somehow a victim, this is one of the main ways that zionism functions, it portrays israel and the zinanis settlers as victims who are defending themselves, who are just

trying to survive, who are trying to build a democracy and a stable economy in the region, and these crazy people just woke up one day and attacked them for no reason, and they perpetrate the spell in mainstream media, they perpetrate the spell in academia, we see all over in the western. academic institutions, people getting fired for being any way remotely pro-palestine, and the dominance of zioninism over the major institutions of influence of media, of real estate, of banking, of all these key institutions, the commanding heights of the economy, this is crucial to their power, so as long as they control that, they're gonna distract people, they're going to misinform people, and they're going to most importantly make people afraid to call out zionism because if you in any way call it out then you're somehow anti-semitic. so crucial to that, just as uh brother ali mentioned earlier, is destabilizing the israeli economy

once they are no longer able to maintain their grip over those key institutions and commanding heights. once we see the emergence of iran, russia, china and the bricks global economy as the alternative that is not dependent on zyanus usury, then we can begin to see the destabilization of the israeli economy. "and then these institutions will have more freedom to criticize to actually bring and promote aid for gaza and to change the reality on the ground, but i think right right now, one of the the main issues is that the zionist media is making it seem that if you're bringing aid to gaza, you're promoting terrorism, and thus they're going to accuse anybody of doing that as supporting terrorism abroad, so once we are able to weaken the israel lobby from within, weaken their economy and..." actually create an alternative then it's going to be lot helpful. i know it sounds very long-term and idealistic. but that's just unfortunately one

the realities that we have to face with today, but first and foremost, i think the actions of antara of the access of resistance and cutting world trade and blocking that trade and calling for immediate attention, i think that's the best that we can do direct action leads to direct change, and unfortunately that's what's going to have to take. for israel to understand, they only understand strength and you have to respond to strength with strength. you're absolutely right, mr. funes, whatever happens at this point in time and history, we do know that uh right now uh the armed resistance of the resistance front actually is now very justified by the entire international community. i would have loved to continue this discussion with mr. ali salam editor and chief of basira press joining us live from tehran and ramiro funes. activist and commentator from los angeles, but that's all the time that we have, gentlemen, thank you very much for joining us on this edition of spotlight, and thanks to all of you viewers

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flood lines, day 170 of the us israeli genocide in gaza where the death told tops 20 32,200. the un chief reiterates call. for seasfire in gaza and says the territory needs a flood of aid, and protesters gather outside the british embassy and the iranian capital, condemning the west support for israel, of course war on gaza.