of hello and welcome to press tv spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, thanks so much for being with us. "over 10 months have come and gone, and those entities which are supposed to prevent of genocide, our crimes against humanity taking place uh, without severe repercussions and deterrance have greatly failed the of palestinian people. instead of stopping the israeli genocide against palestinians, the united states and its european cohorts continue to give blind support to the zianist regime. israel has committed one massacre after another in gaza, including..." the

recent targeting of a school were displaced men, women, and kids were blown to bits during morning prayer. washington's response to the continued holocaust has been to send more money, equipment and support for the zionist regime. we're going to take a look at the continual travesty that's taking place in gaza and the support by the western hegemonic front. i'd like to welcome my guests to the program. said mosan abbas, journalist and political commentator out of london and said maz shah, executive director of center for islamic law and human rights out of karachi. well, thank you both for being with us, starting it off in london, and said moson, i mean, though the whole western hegemonic front has failed the palestinians at the sign. same time it appears that it has done

everything it possibly could for the israeli regime during this genocide. i mean, your thoughts about that, and what does it really mean? well, first of all, i think uh, the the lies and the hypocrisy of the collective anglosphere has been exposed more in this particular genocide, this particular scenario of war, than in any other. that i can leave, i can really uh remember, there's nothing in living memory that i can recall really lays bear the hypocrisy, the lies, the the genocidal intent, the the the fraud that is really what we now know as western neoliberalism, in reality what we've got is set of global international structurested by this this anglosphere, which are not fit for purpose, which are clearly operating l

actually in in cahoots with the the angles interests, but what we also seeing is that the death and the dye, the death nail the dying of this the dominance or the hegem of the the imperialist in west asia is being kind of really played out for us day by day and we're seeing it also of course undermine their reputation globally, we're seeing their institutions gradually losing the the trust of uh certainly the global. south and well beyond, the allies and those erstwile puppets of these uh these uh anglespetic regimes, the the neoliberal imperialism now losing confidence more and more that the likes of saudi arabia for instance and the rest of the gulf nations are just one set of examples of where faith is being uh eroded and so what we're seeing is really empire in decline and i think the beginning of the end can be cited not only the empire but of course it's israeli uh occupy a colonial settler outpost,

the last outpost of imperialism in the formal sense that we can we can really point to uh, it is a throwback from colonialism, it is neocolonial uh outfit there in israel, they are racists, they are apartide regime which is held bent on genocide, and now the world absolutely knows it, but they also know that it's the west that's financing and supporting and engaged fully in this genocide. all right, well said moaz, mean do you find it o ironic that the us is trying to punish those who are standing up to the zionist regime or is it natural because in reality this is a us zianist genocide? okay, it seems like unfortunately our video is frozen there in karache, can you hear me? said earlier this week, yes, i can hear you, can you hear me? yes, yes, please, yeah. so you you made, you

reminded me of camala harris and what happened in her, oh no, i'm not sure that's good for me, but go ahead and the the sirelity of of that rally where some... protesters had come in the rally protesting on the ceaspire and camala harris says, oh, i'm with you guys, the president and i are working, but we need to focus on the race, you know, that's the surreal nature of the the this response is that we have hundred people who died at morning prayers like my fellow uh, just mentioned, um, you know, where women and children have been the victims of that, you have hamas's leader who was negotiating, assassinated. in iran earlier and now all the sudden they want to come back to the peace talks table on august 15th uh negotiating new terms you know this is this and and the united states is actually behind that as well the united states called on that meaning and can you imagine you just killed a negotiator uh you're still bombing

gaza and instead of saying okay let's go back to where we started now you want to restart the negotiation which clearly indicates that the support of the united states of america uh to israel is very clear. "they are not sincere in this process to come through with mediated solution, and this is something that we're repeatedly seeing again and again, these half-hearted attempts, the gaza peer, the so-called biden's red line of raffa, if you remember, all these things have been crossed, so in reality these are empty words with no meaning, and we see the reality in israel's society is erupting right now, not just on the protest against netanyahu, we have ultra orthodox protesting their..." uh essence as well and then you have far right people or it's completely out of control and as as my fellow said this is the last straw internally we see a collapse there's no sense of direction we have netanyahu kicking out his own ministers and talking against them and their it's it's a mess it really is a

mess and it's really it's like israel can do anything and get away with it and and still be able to kind of just say okay let's just do this and this goes to show at the end of the day that these hjem powers as you stated have no real interest in in establishing peace in palestine, that's where that's that's the bottom line that i get, no honest for that. okay, no, well said, i mean to washington, do you think that palestinian lives are worthless, otherwise, why after the zinanis regime attacked the altbin school and killed over 100 more people with the us release 3.8 billion more dollars. to the regime, well i don't see any difference american regime and the the the the regime tillabi, it's just a simple case of semantics in in the sense that israel is on the front line uh doing the raping, doing the killing,

doing the genocide, doing the infanticide, killing children, they've already killed, i would estimate probably in the region of 60 to 70,00 for figures which lance it... report points to a far more accurate in my opinion about the scale of the genocide that's gone on and the scale of infanticide, you see it's not just these little figures of of 14 or 15,00 which were previously been given, you have to take into account what the lanceit report says is actually the impact of uh disease, the impact of famine, the impact of malnutrition, the impact of psychological damage and trauma to all the individuals in palestine and the early deaths because of the lack of medical care. just take one example, adds to the actual direct killings of palestinians by bombs and missiles, and of course we don't even know how many people are buried under the rebeble rubble, they don't even know, they probably don't have accurate count of that, so i think the figures are far darker, far more dystopian, far more dismal

than we we we we realize, but the the americans know these realities, they've continued to support them, and in in in reaction to this uh... 'm what you've got to remember is hezbollah have been firing weapons at the israelis, they've not targeted civilians, the iranians have fired missiles and drones, not one civilian was killed by by the the the last uh return of fire by iran, the yemenes have been doing the same, they've been hitting the port and they've been hitting military targets and cargo which is being taken to israel for the the killing of children, this isn't this is what you call moral war by the axis of resistance'. you got the the from the israelis and the american is absolutely the most henous, immoral, disgusting war that has ever in my living memory certainly taken place, and i think i mean i'll talk talk more about iran's response because of course the psychological pressure which the israelis are on, which my

colleague hinted at the internal collapse, one of the extra reasons why that collapse is accelerating is that iran is waiting and the the the the... promise of the return of the the the revenge attack for killing or extra judicially killing ismail han the leader of the hamas movement is yet to come and these. are absolutely panicking now because they know that that response is going to be very, very substantial. well, let me stay with you said most and mean just what you've just talked about that, the response by iran and the effect, i mean we we know that iran has said that it will definitely respond and attack israel, i mean your assessment of the response by the us to iran's uh what? as the the upcoming reciprocal response and it said that the us said that it's sending another

naval carrier to the reg to the region. i mean it is absolutely amazing that uh that we see this type of response, mean your your take? well, first of all, what we've got to remember is that the americans absolutely said nothing about this extrajudicial killing, in no way was israel reprimanded for uh violating iranian sovereignty, in no way was israel repremanded by any of the global institutions for actually uh attacking iranian soil, just as they didn't do it when uh the iranian consulate was destroyed in syria the last time iran responded, and of course iran has made it clear that actually there's been no response and the americans rather than uh if you like uh responding in a way where they would uh pull israel back or tamem it in some way by punishing it through uh putting an arms embargo even even temporarily, they can't even do it temporarily, they've been flowing those arms absolutely daily thousands of tons of it and

uh billions of dollars of it, but they've not even done that to israel, they've not rained it in, they've not exercised any uh of their sort of withdrawal of the veto against israel's attack, they've encouraged israel in fact even more, they're encouraging the more and more, even in spite of the fact that they've done this uh this act which could literally trigger a world war, it literally could... mariza be the beginning of much wider war. it's only iran, the islamic republic of iran's cool, calm, uh, circumspect and very considerable responses, which is preventing that world war. iran doesn't want to cause global economic collapse. it respects the concerns of its allies like russia and china, and respects other nations in the region, their instability and sovereignty issues that will result as of as as of this regional. broke world war that could ensue and it wants israel to carry on trying to start this

regional world war, which is exactly what n yahu has been doing, so iran is holding back because even when its responses, it's holding back in a way where it's still being a responsible member of the international community, in return what israel and america and the british are doing is their lighting the fire even more, they want, they seem to want this regional war, but none of them is willing to see... come forward and and take head on, these are these these warships turning up, a warship these days can be taken out by any number of hypersonic missiles that will surround uh israel, and in the return uh in the in the response that iran gives it could knock out all of these american uh naval fleets whether it was the fifth, sixth or whichever one it is, they could knock them all out to be honest uh, but they're being responsible, they're trying to give israel and the world a chance to sort this out ' let's see what happens. okay, stay with me, said more, well, sas, we have you by phone

now, sorry about the technical difficulties, now said, according to international law, does iran have the right to retaliate, and and if so, if it does, then why do we see the uk, germany and france calling for restraint now from iran? well, this is kind of a catch 22 question, because... "the reality is, everybody in the world, down to even the children know that israel committed that act in tehran, everybody knows that, but israel has not come out openly to accept that, there's still investigation to figure out how it happened, and so in reality we haven't legally speaking identified a culprit, now if we find some sort of evidence that there was an israeli agent or a piece of a missile from israel, then we can then connect the dots, so that is a technical." issue, but because this is kind of like an open secret, clearly the

and this is the giveaway, the western nations jumped on, hey iran, please don't do anything, which which is kind of the giveaway, and goes to show that israel's completely uncontrolled behavior, the americans weren't aware of it, and this is how israel's acted like a spoiled child, just going around really nearly doing what it wants, and and to be honest, everybody was pushing towards the mediated solution, the cease fire, the un effort. biden's plan um with the ruling of the icj that came in and all the sudden here comes israel, the spoiled children, i won't accept this and creates another rukis and tries to shift it. to the southern lebanon, trying to shift the conversation from gaza, and then still doesn't want to really let go of gaza, so then they go ahead and bomb and kill 100 people and still get away with it, and then we're back to square one trying to build ourselves up, i mean how many more hospitals need to be bombed, how many schools no need to be bombed, how many more people need to be assassinated to get back to where we were right before ismaya haniah was was killed, so let me let me just jump in here, let me jump

in here, so you believe that the israeli regime uh... took this in its own hand that the united states did not have knowledge of uh the regime uh assassination of or wanting to assassinate ismail hannah from the prior to it happening or tell me what you're saying yeah no absolutely i i i completely believe this uh that the americans were not aware and and i'll give you a reason why because when israel wants to use the american uh shield they use it to the maximum extent and then when they realize you know what, "we can't get anymore out of this, so just let's act on our own, they can never say no to us, no matter what we do, we can wipe out hospital, we can bomb people while they're praying, we can do all this and america can't do, redline rafa, huh, let me cross it, and that's what they've been doing, they've been stepping over the united states and the united states has sent that blanket check continuously,

which goes to show united states has absolutely no power over israel, it does not, i it's it's like a..." like completely cannot even control itself and stand on it, it shows a weak in united states, i cannot tell you how weak the united states is today in the middle east crisis and that's why china is filling in that gap and it's realizing that the americans can't seem to get this right, and this is what i'm really thinking that what is israel is really afraid of is another superpower getting involved, and as we spoken earlier, in july the palestinian groups are united in beijing and they have a hamas is an ideology. the people of palestine stand with them like other, and that's why hamas turned down the western approach that we're going to come back to the negotiation cable and start all over again, they're like, no, you killed our negotiator, what sort of, what do you want us to tell our people, you just killed a hundred of them while they were praying, women and children, and you want us to come back and restart negotiations, you got to be kidding me, you know, it's absolutely

unreasonable to even request, and just what israel says, israel said if they don't come back thursday, then we're going to decimate gaza continuously, that's their response, so now you see how they're trying to flip the script, this is the game that israel has been playing from the beginning, and and guess what, they don't care about the americans, we know about the uss liberty incident, when they want to do something, they go ahead and do it, it doesn't matter who they have to kill to get there, okay, stay with me, let me get sed moson back in on this conversation, said moson uh, those three european countries that we just talked about um said that if iran responds, it will jeopardize cease fire talks. i mean, what is your perspective about how these regimes are using ceastfire talks to say that iran should not retaliate, and i mean, where were they when the israeli regime killed the hamas leader and also the hezbollah commander? well, let's first get a couple of things straight about these european regimes. europe, you're the european

union and all all of the the individual nations within it. much uh will support israel until the very last palestinian is exterminated, as far as they're concerned, there is no need for palestinians to be there, uh, if gaza goes down, there's no guarantee that the west bank won't be wiped out next, they're already attacking the west bank where they supposedly didn't have a problem, so this of hamas, so this wasn't just of course a hamas issue, israel has an issue with the entire palestinian population, and the europeans uh know this, and the europeans... themselves of course are are well the british certainly are are responsible for this entire mess really with the way they set this whole situation up, but now uh of course the europeans are just the um they're just the the tail of the americans and then behind that the the the wider corporate industrial military complex and whatever else is going on there and what do

these people support? we've seen over the last week we've seen uh israel in debates where a large number, maybe majority of israelies actually favor the idea of rapes, they've been literally discussing whether it's okay to rape a palestinian if he's in custody, they've been sodomizing and raping palestinian uh palestinian prisoners, they've been murdering and killing them, torturing them, this is all what the european union, the so-called democracies, the so-called champions of human rights, the guys who talk about women's rights all over the world and export revolution. export color revolutions over women's rights, where are they now? where are the women's rights who are getting raped? where are the rights of the prisoners who they bleat on about when they talk about iran or venezuela or any nation that? doesn't bend to their will or russia for that matter, where is where are these international bodies on all of these issues, where are these women's movements that wanted uh, you know freedom for women, the their bodies and

whatever else they wanted to free, the truth the matter is that this is absolute hypocrisy as i said from the beginning, europeans have blood on their hands along with the americans, i personally think that these intelligence agencies, the deep state of europe and america and israel, i think they're one, i don't see the difference, i don't see when they do these killings or anything they do, i don't think it's outside their knowledge, because the zionists we know through pegasus and through their lobbys and through the way that the unit 8200 and most the intelligence networks of israel and mossad, the way they've infiltrated the western establishments, you can say infiltrated or they've been actually let in, there's been no resistance from the western deep state to prevent mossag and the getting into the cyber tech world getting into their their systems, i'm dubious about uh the complicity levels of western governments and israel, i think they all know what's going on, i think i i would, i find it very

difficult to accept that ismail hinia's assassination or the his ex judicial killing wasn't within the knowledge of the cia or wasn't within the knowledge of the mi6, i think that they all very well knew, but they turn a blind eye because israel does the dirty work that they don't want to be seen to be doing on. frontline okay, stay with me, stay with me, sayid, well, saz, us secretary of defense, loyd aweson has said that washington is committed to israel and will do whatever it can to defend it, i mean, what exactly does this mean? going back to something you had said earlier, is it that design is totally control the us, or is it that israel is simply an extension of the regime in washington? you know, i'm just gonna add just to answer your question. and continue mr. sayid's comment, america will support israel into the last american soldiers dies in that cause, that's the level, forget palestinian dets, they're

willing sacrifice their own for this cause, and that's the reality, they will get involved in a regional conflict, israel will get them and they will commit to that, and that's the sad reality, so when you hear this comment that we will defend them to the tilt, this is a repeated mantra we have continuously heard for the past. 75 years pretty much since israel's existence, and i think this is this is something that that really gets kind of old now, what do you defending? are you defending as mr. mosan abbas accurate rape? are you defending the killing of children? are you defending the bombing of hospitals? the same standards that you're holding and pointing fingers at russia about uh these allegations against them of bombing hospitals and the attacking civilian infrastructure over here, you're your pin drop silence, what are you defending?? "and so here we clearly see politics has entered the fray of international law sadly, and therefore the whole international kind of regime, this idea of a way global harmony,

and we're all gonna live together, and the un is gonna be a happy go lucky place, clearly is now faltering, and it's at the worst stage than it's ever been, and it's really about anybody's game right now, and this is the fear, this is the fear and iran actually, as my my colleague has said, is being more responsible in this time." in this time than any other involved in this conflict, and i will repeat that. on that note, so sorry, but i'm out of time. i appreciate both of you being with me said mosan abbas, journalist and political commentator out of london said muaz shah, executive director of center for islamic law and human rights out of karache, and thank you viewers for staying with us for another spotlight. hope to see you right here next time. goodbye. when someone

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