333 days of mass killings, destruction and 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 by the israel 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 gaza strip. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host 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 israeli captives, we had the news all over the you know wall to wall coverage and western me. 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 reposting the articles and news about gaza, and in here she was interviewed by the media couple of days ago and she mentioned something, the security forces when they arrested here, they asking 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 is the security apparatus, the government, the the the civil service, all of that and in in europe itself

they look at what they did in the second world war when they bit millions of people, the imperialist germany at the time in ovens, and these not just jewish innocent people and lives, they were romanian, there was russians, they were polish, there was so many nationalities, they don't talk about that, but they want only to focus at what happened to the jews and made the palestinians who took a... lot of them refugees on their homeland to pay the price, so 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 their 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 holocaust and the second world war, the whole design started within the british mindset to cleanse europe, especially britain and germany from the the the jewish people and put them in palestine to use them, the idea of the creating a jewish homeland at the time to install a... people top of people, which means what that means when you bring a whole armed people against defenseless people, the palestinians 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 the ottomans to palestine a defenseless population and they start erasing it. them they did their best to resist and

still resisting, but installing an armed nation, thugs, they brought from all europe, and they kept training them till 197, 1947. 'when the british handed the americans the control of these thugs 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 uh elite within britain, within west europe and the united states of america help in creating the slow, easy going genocide now the'. assad going in 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 israel. now, which one,

name one stated goal that the televive regime mentioned that they have achieved in the course of this 10 months of bloody and... this war? uh, well, i can't, because they haven't, the israeli government under benjamin netanyahu has not achieved a single one of its two stated goals, which was to eliminate hamas and the other one was to rescue the hostages, um, so they have accomplished neither, but we know that behind these two stated goals are long-term plans, long-term project of the israeli, uh 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 kockb 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... accomplished kockba 2.0 and um they are they are proceeding at the at the great speed at this and uh the unfortunate part is in my view that the uh the world uh community as you say as you said at the very beginning is not um not interven to stop this genocide but rather has allowed the us to have 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 there

was the 500 shipment of arms just arrived by a giant carrier plane in a few weeks a week ago, without those arms and that money uh... 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 by one party to against another is to see that the peace process is taken away from us and handed over by the un security council to uh other countries, other organizations that have the confidence of the the respect of the world community and who can start a peace processed 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, it's not only gaza, it's also the west bank especially. week you know 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 footage of bulldozers and all those big machines, what are they doing plown the land there, mean just today they killed a teenage boy, teenage girl there, they have killed tens of palestine the occupied west bank in just one week, the ugliest scene you can see of... by 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 beller 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 pibes, the water pipes, the electricity, the communications everything and destroying at gen, the very north city, and the same thing going in, and in nablus and in hebron now and all of that, it's it's the idea of making the cities and the refugee comes 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 northern 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 the middle and in and then shift them to the south with the design and designated zones and then play football with them exactly as happening in kanyunis or in their balah or these areas, people being being... displaced over 12 times in in a city like khainunis, 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 uh to uh finalize the cleansing of of palestine uh the and shift those people in the west bank toward the south toward gaza and maybe the future toward egypt and rest toward 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 in palestine in the west bank is unlivable and ask them to move out bit by bit and send them to the eastern uh bank of 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 abu aliad 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. exactly in the same fashion happened in the second intefada in the year 2000 and we see disobedience to

the palestinians authority since they 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 one attacking them they now they talking of arming the resist the residence uh 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 in arming 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 all of this mean how can washington not heat the demands of the people american people mean they want to to the geneside of palestine, you've seen these large rallies, campus and other events, us

officials, they have the audacy, they they pretend they are pushing for peace stock, as you just said uh, blinking uh on on diplomatic shuttles from discutal 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 uh, 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 uh, its national interest according to its ruling class, is to maintain hegemony over west asia, and they lost uh some of that hegemony uh in 19 '79 when uh iran had a uh popular islamic uh uh uprising which

establish the islammic republic and they lost one of their other main supports or at least they partially lost it saudi arabia uh a couple of years ago when the after the us debockle in afghanistan and uh china was able to broker a reconciliation between'. saudi arabia and iran, so the only really firm support left uh 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 to helping israel in its genocide of the palestinians, but they're not doing it because they have their own national interest, which uh

according to the ruling elites is to maintain its maximum power in the mid. which means supporting the state of israel, and that's really sad state of affairs for uh for the entire world, because the longer this goes on, the more likely it is that the 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 uh sabib 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... "us has made two arms deliveries 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 the united states of america, and i want 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 who continued this slow genocide 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 resources in there and the transportation, it's the very important geopolitical position

in there and the united states of america seen losing the arab world and west. "it means losing its number one status as superpower in the world, 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 see 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." 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 attression in the the which is happening in with age and in ukraine as well, and the united states of america will start

slowly losing power, they want to direct massive blows in the region right now. now the americans want and that's why they bushing netanyahu to rick havick in in the region, but saying saying that the resistance itself and 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 z of killing his commander ali shukr which is head unit 8200 and 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 gna resign, but today there is news of he's been killed assassinated in that, this unit is the brain of the zinist entity, that shows if hizballah can reach and h the brain of the zinist entity, the united

states of america in trouble in the region and the zinest entity in trouble and to to play the game of negotiating with the resistant and accepting this, no, united states of america is harder on the negotiation than netanyahu himself, i heard myself in 2000 from the late yasar arafat himself saying about the cam david negotiation to reach deal at the time that the... the former israeli prime minister, 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 a thorough explanation, now can uh sah talked about hisbolla, so let me ask you about uh the resistance front. in this, unlike some reaction 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 israely crimes and they're doing it, so 2,500 operations the past 10 months, your thoughts on that, we have two minutes, well i'd like echo the remarks of president assad of syria who's not among the little puppies that the u.s. as leaders in the various arab countries in that region, he said that the uh uh 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 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. in canada for example, we had victory 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 you the united nations not doing its job properly, you know we can put pressure on governments such as canada end its free trade agreement with uh with israel to end its security agreement with israel and uh to try and turn as the is the late president raizi 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 things okay hopefully okay thank you so much we're out of time uh thank you my guests s shath and belfist ken stone and hamilton. and thank you for watching this episode of the spotlight on press tv, i've been your host nag, see you next time,

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