hello and welcome to spotlight. israel is now seeking to expand the scope of its genocidal campaign against palestinians to the occupied west bank as well. it's as if not enough palestinian blood. has been shed in the gaza

strip where nearly 41 thousand people have been killed in about 11 months. the regime was already setting new records in the occupied territories with number of people killed, number of abductions, number of approved illegal settlements among many other crimes, but now enjoying the inaction of the international community, particularly many arab and muslim countries, the occupying regime seems to be setting its site on all of the palestinian territory, especially the holy sites in al-quts. vicious campaign that this week saw dramatic escalation, that's what uh we'll be discussing in this edition of press tv's spotlight with our guests, author and political activist eve angler joining us from montreal, and also we have journalist and political commentator boss joining us from the british capital, london.

welcome to our guests, let's start off with mr. angler in montreal, uh, sir, israel is carrying out a military operation in the west bank, which is the biggest in the occupied west bank over the past two decades, give us your perspective and assessment of this increased um israeli violence there is the genocide in gaza is still ongoing, why are the israelis carrying out these operations on such vast scale now? uh, well, i think it's mostly about if they can get away with the horrors and killings in gaza, why not see how far you can get away with it uh in the west bank? uh, we know that the uh, zianist movement, certainly the current government, or certainly uh, important ministers in the current government want to expel all the palestinians from the west bank, they want to uh, build more settlements, they've been doing that in recent years, uh, and uh and so

i think that they want to they're giving it a try to ramp things up um see what the reaction is uh from those countries like my government in canada that are uh and the us and others that are uh sponsoring uh so much of israel's crimes and uh and they're moving forward with it obviously they make all kinds of claims of hamas this hamas that or whatever but but i think that the the bigger aim is the people in charge of israely government see this as a potential opportunity over the past 10 months of course this is just increasing it to expand settlements terrorize palestinians more uh in of the west bank sayid boss in london palestinian resistance group islamic jihadis called israel's extensive aggression against palestinians in the occupied west bank as an open and declared war is this part of the

regime's plans to tighten control over occupied outs and especially the holy alakh. 'i think obviously they had this kind of plan from day dot, the truth is that the war is on palestinians, it's not a war on hamas, there are no real huge hamas backings in the occupied, well in the occupied territories where essentially the palestinian authority controls affairs along with the israeli their israeli masters, the truth is that they are taking the the opportunity to do what they've always really wanted is to ethnic'. even the west bank, they want to try to uh do exactly what they've done in gaza, they're starting with the same kind of language, i mean you can hear their foreign minister who said that uh, we want to fight in the west bank based on having this kind of uh same strategy,

basically he's saying that we want to go in and actually uh clear out those so-called you know people they regard as terrorists, but they're actually after... "the the civilians as well, they're doing the same tactics as they did in gaza, and that's something i think that they are doing absolutely with full knowledge, and their idea is probably to gradually edge edge in, and they've been doing this in the in the the west bank since even october the 7th, they've increased the amount of attacks on settlements on pushing the agenda for occupying those territories even further for for quite some time, so it's not something that's out of the blue and it's something which is sanctioned of course by..." "their western backers, backers, the americans know it's illegal, but they've not done anything to prevent or stop it, so i think that yes, there is a there's a a complete tactical effort here to to expand the situation in into the west fight. right,

and i'm going to stay with you, mr. abbus for the next question, if the israelies are attempting to forsibly displace palestinians from both the gaza strip and the west bank, it potentially means driving..." palestinians into uh egypt and jordan, that's similar to what happened uh during the nakba, which apart from being a war crime will have serious repercussions uh for the countries around palestine. well, you're absolutely right, i mean egypt has rejected the idea on paper of accepting palestinians, they've tighten up their borders and they weren't persuaded ultimately to go all the way, which was what israel wanted, i 'the expulsion of all palestinians from gaza, and their idea was to send them into the desert in egypt. that didn't happen. it's obviously clearly huge uh security issue even for the egyptians. the egyptians don't want the palestinian uh situation spilling into their

territory. they're happy to support and help israel in palestine, they're happy to support them in any way they can to to subjugate the the palestinians, but they don't want them in their territory. the same goes for jordan.'' "i mean, both of these countries are are strong allies, they're basically zionist establishments, the jordanians and the egyptians, you you can tell that from uh the increaseing egyptian support on every level, they've been doing all kinds of um collaboration, cooperation militarily, economically and otherwise to make sure that israel is is more than sustained and then and that it continues its strategy that of of ethnic cleansing and expulsion and genocide, so i i "i think the egyptians and jordanians aren't buying into it because they know that they'll end up getting toppered because their people are clearly not overwhelmingly happy with uh what is going on in palestine, they too have sympathies, so what happens is that the people would become increasingly

disturbed if they saw this situation spilling over into their own territories and they would regard israel as the as the cause of it, so i don't think the these uh these uh these puppet establishments in egypt or jordan." really relish the idea of uh of having israel force more of these palestinians, which they of course did before, they've done this before in the nagba and prior to that we've seen the the the palestinians go into those lands and uh and have never been allowed to return essentially, and i don't think that the jordanians and these uh these other pupitzionist regimes can sell it to either their people or do they think they can handle it if it happens and they have to take charge of it, so i think they're doing everything they can. to avoid that option, and the right-wingers like smodrich and ben gavire who were actually in charge of the palestinian uh, territories, the pa territories, these two absolute raving uh racist uh fascist genocidal maniac are the ones in charge of that region, they're

pushing for the the opposite policy, which is to get rid of all palestinians. mr. angler, the west bank has seen significant human rights abuses in addition to the israeli military offenses since octor. over 2023, at least 650 palestinians have been killed, more than 10,000 detained by israeli forces, which has also uh carried out air strikes on densely populated areas. such as refugee camps, how come these crimes keep getting swept under the rug by mainstream western media? the the it's the israel exception right, and the canadian us government, they back israel and they white wash all its crimes. mean it's uh, i agree, it's hard to, the whole claim is we're doing all this because of the hostages, they have the israeli host. in gaza and because of hamas, the bad hamas and yet there are no israeli

hostages in the west bank, the hamas is not in control of any serious territory in the west bank, and they continue their war against palestinians, it's it's remarkable, i mean the hostages issue is one that i find maybe the the starkest with canadian politician. and media outlets, they'll talk about hostages endlessly uh, endlessly here, 11, 11 months later, they're still talking endlessly about hostages, and yet they never mention all the palestinian hostages that israel has has uh taken in the past 10 11 months, which is now it's like hundred times more uh palestinian hostages that have been taken by by israel as... occupying power, it has no right to do any of this stuff, it's all this is the international court of justice only six weeks ago, just over a month

ago, said it's all illegal that israel needs to pay reparations, they had to get out immediately of of the you know occupied west bank um and uh and things just continue on with uh almost no mention of that ruling in the dominant media here uh and and of course as you know almost very little mention of all the uh all the killings and uh and hostage taking by the occupation forces. said mosanabus, you earlier mentioned israeli far right minister itamar ben gaver who recently outraged palestinians after he called for building a synagogue uh in the alas hamas compound. hamas said israel is playing with fire and has warned to the israeli authorities against igniting a religious war. unpack those comments for us please. i think at the heart of. "the resistance now in in palestine is new factor, something which wasn't there, i think in previous decades and

that is uh the spiritual commitment of the the axis of resistance and the palestinian resistance, whether it's islamic jihad or whether it's hamas, at their heart, they have this commit commitment to liberating uh, you know the occupied lands of the palestinians, they want to do it not only for the people in terms of their land, but there's also a strong commitment to..." protecting the holy sites, the sacred sites of islam, baitul muqaddas is very, very important, and the these people like ben kaver who are of course very, very extreme fundamentalist jews, they literally want to blow up this this, this holiest of holy sites of of of islam, they want to at one stage, now they've been talking more practically of setting up a synagogue inside there, they've been deliberately or... organizing of course prayers and they've been you know invading

the uh the actual compound and they're going against even the official israeli and global uh unanimity, mean even the israeli government is obliged to to not do anything to that com compound and to protect it and to let the authorities were running it run it the way it's uh it's always been run now the truth is that all this incitement this provocation is designed to rile up palestinians and there to provoke and instigate more trouble because that's exactly what the racist, right-wing, fascist zionist extremists like ben gavir and small rich want, they want the collisions, that's why they will continue to aggravate on religious grounds, that's why they continue to create an apartide system, that's why when they were given these ministerial posts by netanyahu and lekud, they went in to the west bank and imposed, they handed out more guns to... settlers, they collapsed the banking system, they stopped the money to the pa, they've

destroyed the court system, the court systems can't operate properly, the nurses etc. and the civil servants aren't being paid, so half the time these people are operating just free of charge with no money, so they created a situation in the west bank of collapse, and they're creating a situation in of course the the the religious arena for also agitating the the the palestinians that live in side what is known illegally as israel, so everything about this establishment of israel is designed to provoke attack, and what's criminal, more criminal really, is the americans have done nothing in the international. community from their perspective, the anglospher related international community also has done nothing, not just done nothing, but since october the 7th, the americans have have made 500 us cargo plane loads of deliveries of weapons and arms and those in the last month have have increased, they've done the largest consignment of arms to this rapid uh israeli

genocidal regime with with increase, i mean with a greater... 'the greatest amount of military hardware that that they've given to them since the very first uh initial start of this campaign, that was in way back in october october last year, so they're actually helping, aiding and abeting and increasing encouraging israel to continue on this kind of violent justification of everything they do, and you know they the rapes are now clear, there was a 13-year-old palestinian who was raped and the americans knew about it and their own state department fellow uh whistleb'. "but the americans had agreed with all that, they were perfectly fine with the raping of a palestinian child in the custody of the israelis. this is the situation we have that there's complicity all the way down the line to support these fascist, racist, genocidal, israeli leaders. evenler, since october of last year, over 600 incidents of settler violence has been reported at west bank, resulting in the force

displacement of 35 palestinian communities and estimated 1,0 villages. have also been driven from their homes due to the coordinated attacks by the settlers who've destroyed homes, agricultural land and vital infrastructure. an activist that we spoke to a while back here said that the settler violence is a part of a greater plan to eraticate palestinians and it has intensified on purpose. do you think that the settler violence has been coordinated all along? well, it's certainly coordinated with with elements of the israeli government and... "and the fanatic ministers in charge of the west bank, yes, i think there's no doubt this is or and this preceeds the the uh, even the current government, so yes, the the israeli settler supposed vigilanty kind of violence

is is, it's it's a bit of a game that the israeli government plays." where they you know don't want to be taken complete responsibility, but they provide the cover, i mean there's an infinite number of images of of settlers attacking palestinians and israeli soldiers being there and and just overseeing basically the attacks so they make it so that the palestinians can't respond because if they do respond then the israelis will shoot and kill them uh but they won't. stop the uh the vigilanty uh settlers, so so yeah, it's it's it's part of a sort of public relations dance uh that's been going on for you know decades literally uh and and with the current government in place uh it's being uh much more officialized uh but this is uh

this isn't something new and uh and it's it's uh you know and then you see when like the canadian us government they'll like they'll like they've sanctioned a couple of the most extreme kind of figures the individuals like five or six 10 figures have been sanctioned um a couple groups of these most extreme uh settlers while providing all the weapons and all the assistance to the military that is providing the aid to these uh to these vigilant vigilanty settlers so it's it on the flip side it's also part of the pr dance of the us and canadian governments to pretend like they are objecting to the the most extreme uh of the zionist uh forces while basically subsidizing the the the bulk of the uh of the criminality. said boss about the us complicity in israel's crimes, the us

constantly claims it doesn't want to broughter war or any dangerous escalations, but its words and its actions, they're actually uh and contradiction, it's hard to even think that any israeli offensive, whether in lebanon, syria, yemen, the west bank or anywhere else could happen without a green light from the u.s. or it's all out support, describe for us the us's shameful hypocrisy regarding uh the gaza genocide and israel's regional crimes. well, when they say they want to cease fire, really that's just the way of trying to buy time, benjamin netanyahu plays with them to say, oh, i, i want this new clause, that new clause. but there's no intention for ceasefires, the mission when biden greenlighted this with netanyahu uh long before october the 7th very likely in my opinion uh was that they would go out and create the... final solution, they're doing the nazi final solution on the palestinians and they wanted to do that uh from day dot, so they've set about very methodically trying to do that, of course

they failed, of course the tunnels are still there, of course the hostages haven't been released, of course uh israel's economy is collapsing, of course israel is losing the actual war on the ground because they've not been able to dismantle hamas, of course israel has managed to unite the entire axis of resistance on five fronts and is getting hammered in yemen with with its uh with various ships uh merchant ships trying to get to them uh to support their genocidal war being destroyed daily this week more more of those ships have gone down a greek tanker went down this week as far as i know of course the iraqies the syrian resistance the lebanese resistance all of them are now allied and yet israel is still the instigator and the aggressor in lebanon for example uh let's just take out of the 8,53 or so attacks that have been recorded uh they have done uh they've instigated 80% 6% of them, israel is has has attacked lebanon, 8, 82% of in in the current clash, even in the current october 7th, 8th kind of scenario, israel trying to

pretend that it's the victim, yet in reality they're the ones who are being the aggressor all the way down the line, of course hezball has just recently destroyed the the the unit 82, 8200 hq etc. and has had lots of successes, but let's not forget who... is the aggressor within this, and their own minister has said of of of the west bank, and goes for the rest of palestine, and the americans are totally in support of this, don't forget is that forced evacuations of civilians in the territory are necessary, and he says, we need to deal with the threat of the palestinian resistance, exactly as we dealt with it in in gaza, by attacking the infrastructure and including including policies like uh, so he says temporary evacuation. of palestinian civilians and any other step needed. this is israel cats who said this just very recently and so you can see just from there that language, that political language which is

well known to the americans uh is something which they support, so they have no care for human rights and equality, they have no care for any of the the the things they talk about, democracy and freedom, what they actually are doing is weaponizing the entire issue of human rights as and when it suits them, and in the case of israel. "they don't want to talk about human rights, because in reality uh, it's the israelis who are violating uh the palestinian human rights on every level and and more, more than anyone, everything from sodomy to rape to murder to torture to killing to to you know ethnic cleansing to violating and and psychologically destroying those people, they have done everything and it's all absolutely with the complicity of the americans because they have around a couple of thousand american troops on the ground and are militarily involved in every way." okay, well apologies, gentlemen, we're fresh out of time for tonight's show, thanks to uh author and political activist eve angler joining us from montreal, journalist and political commentator, speaking to us from the british

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