of 333 days of mass killings, destruction and in all kinds of crimes against the palestinians and all that in broad daylight. the us has been directly involved in the ethnic cleansing of gazons fidies rated regime and acting as a partner and accomplice. still the occupation military has not been able to accomplish any of its stated goals. now there is one big accomplishment though, taking the

lives of innocent civilians, just today the iof killed a couple of teenagers in the west bank and tends more across the gosbus trip. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host berrus najafi. let's see who's joining us in this episode. sab shaf, author, commentator and west asia expert is with us from belfast. and ken stone with the executive committee. member of the hamilton coalition to stop the war in hamilton ontario. welcome to the show, gentlemen. now, sab, let's begin with you. as you know, tens of thousands of palestinians have lost their lives, so this is already genocidal war on the gaza strip over the past 10 months. and you see, the west did not show the reaction to all these killings, large numbers of palestinians, compared to the death of only six israels. uh we had the news

all over the wall to wall coverage and western media and social media was exploding with this, so what does this indicate? how come palestinian lives don't matter to the west? there is a journalist was arrested a couple of days ago because she was rebusting the articles and news about gaza, and in here she was in. reviewed by the media couple of days ago and she mentioned something, the security forces when they arrested here, they ask in here like in a way why you treating the palestinians are equal to us, which is shows how racist the the system within west europe as the security apparatus, the government, the the the civil service, all of

that and in europe itself, they look at what they did in the second world war, when they b put millions of people, the imperialist germany at the time in ovens, and these not just jewish innocent people on lives, the were romanians, they was russians, they were polish, there was so many nationalities, they don't talk about that, but they want all only to focus at what happened to the jews and made the palestinians who took a lot of them uh refugees on their home land to pay the price so the in west europe all what you hear from the eu or from the governments or from any state apparatus is double standards they look at the palestinians like they have not to exist in there since the the british occupation of palestine in november 1917,

when belford declaration was issued on the 2nd of november before the occupation of palestine, they declared they're going to make a homeland for the jewish people in palestine, that's before the holocaus and the second world war, the whole design started within the british mindset to cleanse europe, especially britain and germany from the the of the jewish people and put them in palestine to use them, the idea... of creating a jewish homeland at the time to install people in top of people, which means what that means when you bring a whole armed people against defenseless people, the palestinian people weren't armed, weren't armed at all, because at the under the ottoman empire rule, the palestinian not allowed to to hold guns or one bullet even, so the british arrived after the defeating the... ottomans to palestine a

defenseless population and they stop raising it, even they did their best to resist and still resisting, but installing an armed nation fugs they... from all europe and they kept training them till 1970, 1947 when the british handed the americans the control of these fogs and then that in its own in the belfort declaration contain the term genocide, how you gonna put people top of people, one have to eliminate the other, the palestinian is the underdog there, the weaker, so the whole western elite within britain, within west europe and the united states of america. help in creating the slow, easy going genocide, now the genocide going a frasentic kind of move in gaza and the west bank, yeah, and that the slow genocide has now turned to pretty fast genocide, it seems, now can uh 333 days, that means we've just

entered the 11th month of this ethnic cleansing campaign by uh israel, now which one name one stated goal that the televiv regime? long-term plans, long-term project of the israeli zionist regime to ethnically cleanse the palestinians and drive them out of the of all of historic palestine, not just uh um the areas that were cleansed and as your former

your former guess referred to in the knockb 1947, 1948, but also from gaza and from the west bank. and that's the underlying project here uh that the israelis are trying to accomplish nakba 2.0 and um they are they are proceeding at the at the great speed at this and uh the unfortunate part is uh in my view that the uh the world uh community as you say as you said at the very beginning is not um not intervened. to stop this genocide, but rather has allowed the us to have a monopoly over the peace process, as you see, anthony blincon is shuttling from one arab capital to another, and this, but the united states is not a impartial mediator, it is belligent in

this conflict, without the money and arms that are flowing in every day from the us and those the 500 shipment of arms just arrived by a giant carrier plane. a few weeks a week ago, without those uh arms and that money uh the israeli government would have had to stop at the genocide after the first two or three weeks, so what is really needed now, especially since the chinese government was so um was so careful and so beneficial in bringing together the 14 palestinian organizations to speak with one voice so they couldn't be used uh by one party to against another is... is to see that the peace process is taken away from the us and handed over by the un security council to uh other countries, other organizations that have the confidence of the uh the respect of the world

community and who can start a peace process that will result in a just lasting and comprehensive peace. all right, okay, we'll come to the peace talks later in the show of course, now let me... ask another question uh sab, it's not only gaza, it's also the west bank, especially in the past week, it's been seventh day now, the end of the seventh day, and there is this large scale offensive is really incursion there, i wonder if you noticed the the footage of bulldozers and all those big machines, what are they doing plown the land there, i mean just today they killed a teenage boy, teenage girl there, they have killed tens of palestin the occupied west bank in just one week. "the ugliest scene you can see of an equibine territory run by this entity which is supposed to adhere to the geneva fourth convention uh which they don't and the whole world is watching that when you see the cutter biller i want to call them the

cutter killer uh going in the streets of the west bank as they did in gaza from day one and they put their forks on the uh on the roads and abroads the road up to meter and a half deep, which means they taking this suwage vibes, the water pipes, the electricity, the communications everything and destroying at. mean the very north city and the same thing going in tolkarm and in nablos in in hebron now and all of that it's it's the idea of making the cities and the refugee camps not livable anymore so this is part of what the the uh smartrich the zianist entity finance minister had designed a plan and mab to ethnically cleanse the north. a part of the west bank accordance to the what they did in their this military operation

trying to achieve demographic shifting and people displacement exactly in the same scale they did in the north of gaza shift them to the west and then shift them to the middle mean and then shift them to the south with the design and designated zones and then he play football with them exactly as or these areas, people being been displaced over 12 times in in a city like hun, so they see the zionist entity, the the fight, the resistance groups are putting in the west bank is threatening that science project is the ethnically to finalize the cleansing of of palestine the and shift those people in the... bank toward the south toward gaza and maybe the future toward egypt and the rest

toward uh the the eastern bank of the of jordan river to jordan and this is this is the whole idea so they want to make the cities for the middle classes and the in palestine and the west bank is unlivable and ask them to move out bit by bit and send them to the eastern uh uh the river, this is this is the design, but they are facing formidable resistance, which is showed its face in the west bank, in the west bank you can see the fat resistance from aqsa marter brigades and the new brigades called a boi yad marters brigades are both joining the the the the resistant in their struggle against this kind of military actions in the west bank, we seeing even some people from the security apparatus of the palestinian authority is joining exactly in the same fashion happened

in the second intifadah in the year 2000 and we see disobedience to the palestinians authority since the now they talk in the west bank since the palestinian authority cannot take any steps to to save the the villages around the the settler settlements which these settlers settlers the fascist. attacking them, they now they talking of arming the resist, the residence of these villages and towns, otherwise the palestinian authority have to interfere, and we don't see any that, there is a talk among all the resistance group in the west bank inarming the sensitive areas or interface areas, they call them, which is adjacent to the settlements, now ken, let's now up talk about the what the us has been doing in the middle of all of this, "i mean, how can washington not heat the demands of the people, american people? i mean, they want an end to the

genicide of palestine, you've seen these large rallies, campus and other events, us officials, they have the ado, they they pretend they are pushing for peace talked, as you just said uh, blincon on diplomatic shuttles from the scout dack capital, if they want to stop this war, can they do it, stop giving the regime arms, stop giving them..." the money, why are you just talking about him, and what is this? they could do it in a five minute phone call, it could have been done 11 months ago, but the us government has its own agenda, and in my view, the us government, the israeli government takes its queue from the us and not the other way around, the us is empire, it's its national interest according to its ruling class, is to main hegemony over west asia and they lost some of that hegemony in 1979 when iran had a

popular islamic uprising which established the islamic republic and they lost one of their other main supports or at least they partially lost it saudi arabia a couple of years ago when the after the us debockle in... and china was able to broker a reconciliation between saudi arabia and iran, so the only really firm support left for the united states in the middle east is its unsinkable aircraft carrier known as israel, and that's why they are sticking with it and supporting it unconditionally with all kinds of arms and money. so i would say that yes, the us could listen to the majority of people, according to recent polls in the united states who don't want the us to continue that helping israel in its genocide

the palestinians, but they're not doing it because they have their own national interest which... according to the ruling elites is to maintain its maximum power in the middle east, which means supporting the state of israel, and that's really sad state of affairs for uh for the entire world, because uh the longer this goes on, the more likely it is that the uh israelis will be able to provoke some kind of regional war taking in all of the all of west asia, including iran and we could end up as a result of that in a world war, so it's a very dangerous situation, it's a reckless game the us is playing, but they cannot seem to stop themselves from uh being uh overbearing and trying to um have their manifest destiny of ruling the world right, so so uh sah

president biden at times said like the other day he said that uh netanyahu is not doing enough, does it mean he's not killing enough? i mean buse uh the us has made two arms deliverys a day to the israeli regime in the past 10 months, so it makes you wonder if it is the us war against palestinians or israels? no, you're right, it's united states of america, and i want to second your guess what he said, i agree with him totally, this is the united states of america's war, from this is why i mentioned in my talk, in my discussion here 1947 the british handed over palestine to the americans and the americans will continued this slow genocidal project, the united states of america is arming and strengthening israel to project its power in the middle east which is control and west asia in general the arab world and west asia to control the whole of the resources in

there and the transportation, it's the very important geopolitical ' position in the and it's won't uh the united states of america seen losing the arab world and west asia, it means losing its number one status as superpower in the world uh then it will become a power like any other force like the like the chinese or less like iran like the russians, this is why unite and the world sea, the united states of america as injured bull and the the the and this injured bull is racking. havoc in the region and the united states of america more than netanyahu wants a regional war, trust me on this, it's not the united states doesn't want war, no, biden wants more before he leaves, he wants to engage because he want to sustain the united states of america control of the region, they don't want to be bleeded out bit by bit in this war of attrrion, in the the which is

happening in west age and in ukraine as well, and the united states of america will start slow. losing power, they want to direct massive blows in the region right now, the americans want and that's why they pushing netanyahu to rick havick in in the region, but seeing saying that the resistance itself, the palestinian one is directing massive blows of the israeli army, and the same thing in lebanon, and the the the the attack of all, which is the response of hizballah against the... end of killing his commander uh ali shukr uh which is hit unit 8200 and it killed its own the leader of that unit now this news were saying a week ago the guy is missing the guys may be going to resign but today there is news of he's been killed assassinated in that this unit is the brain

the resist entity that shows if hizballah can reach and hit the brain of the designist. entity, the united states of america in trouble in the region and the zist entity in trouble, and i see the demise of it slowly, slowly, and that's why they do want netanyahu and the united states of america to to play the game of negotiating with the resistant and accepting this, no, united states of america is harder on the negotiation than natanahu himself, i heard myself in 2000 from the late yasar arafat him. self saying about the camp david negotiation to reach deal at the time that the proposal, the former israeli prime minister barak yahuda barak was putting. is easier to to digest than what clinton was trying to to impose and so from that time the palestinian understood the

americans are harder, even olmet himself in 2006 told the the palestinians, if you want to agree deal with us, agree now before the american racket, so united states of america is after war in the after genociding the palestinian people okay, thanks for the though explanation now. can uh sab talked about hisbollah so let me ask you about uh the resistance front in this you know unlike some reactionar arab states the resistance front did not sit on the fence or suffice to lip service only or maximum maybe words of condemnation they did take action and they retaliate the israeli crimes and they're doing it so 2500 operations the past 10 months your thoughts on that we have two minutes well i'd like to tackle the remarks of president assad of syria who's not among the uh little puppies that the us has as leaders in the various arab countries in that

region, he said that the resistance uh should inspire us uh to do more to help the palestinian people, what the hezballah has done, what the iraqi resistance has done, what ansrala has done um are all are all really... uh, inspiring examples of international solidarity, and you know, that's the kind of thing that uh, the international solidarity is the kind of thing that ordinary grassroots people in the west are doing too, they're out demonstrating in the street, and canada, for example, we had victory uh, a week or two ago a small level, but it's not so small when you think about it, the the canadian government, after 40 years of pressure, including pressure from our organization, uh, ended the the charitable status of the jewish national fund and another group in canada who raives money tax free from uh from wealthy zionists in

this country and send it all to israel to be used to build settlements to help the army to recruit etc etc. so these kinds of victories are done by ordinary people, the boycott thevestment and sanctions is another thing people can do, and you know we can also put pressure on our governments in the face of the the united nations not doing its job properly, you know, we can put pressure on governments such as canada and its free trade agreement with uh with israel, to end it security agreement with israel, and to try and turn as the the late president rizi of iran said, turn israel into the same kind of paraya as the apartide south african regime was turned into a paraya in the 1980s, we can do all these. thanks, okay, hopefully, okay, thank you so much, we're out of time, uh, thank you my guests s shath and belfast, ken stone and hamilton, and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on

press cv, i've been your host behrus, i'll see you next time. the siege of gaza must end, allahu ekber, allahu ekber. "we're coming back and we'll keep coming back until palestine is

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