tv SPOTLIGHT PRESSTV September 8, 2024 2:02am-2:31am IRST
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"all is not well with palestinians in the occupied territories, even though the iof regime forces have withdrawn from the west bank for now, the numbers of deaths had over 20 falls pail to the level of infrastructure damaged to areas like janin for example, or the tulkarm refugee camps. this top of how an american turkish citizen was killed by israely sniper. meanwhile, the gaza strip's death tool continues to mount. as the iof
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killing spree continues to get his backing from the us, this is what the us claims cease fire talks are still alive, even saying it may negotiate with hamas without the participation of the israel regime. is that even possible? just one of the questions we'll be asking our guests in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce them. alice roth child, author, activist and filmmaker joins us from seattle, washington. so joining us is sarah tuesdale, human rights activist who joins us from manchester. welcome to you both, alice rothchild, our first start with you. this west bank genene withdrawal is what's uh one of the news when it comes to the occupied territories that this regime forces have actually pulled out. uh, can you please tell us what you think about that? first of all, and also if you can't put that into context for us, because when we take a look at the occupied territories, the types of violations that have happened, which i'm... sure you're very
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familiar with, has been uh occurring for the past decades and the past 10 days, it was kind of like what has happened in the past, but of warp speed. i think that's a correct assessment. keep referring to the gasification of the west bank, and so what we see is similar kind of tactics being used in janine particularly, but also tokaram and tubas, with massive amounts of military might and destruction and killing and... 'ripping up roads and interfering with healthcare and just the same kind of things that have been going on in gaza, but this has happened in the west bank before, um, in the early 2000s, janin was massively attacked by israeli forces and this is very reminiscent of that attack only worse, so it's kind of uh attacks but on steroids, i think you're right, and i think it's uh partly driven by the right-wing government uh in israel that's farther right than previous governments, so they have sort of..." mission to commit genocide, permission
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to commit war crimes from the top. indeed. well, let's move to another uh, i guess headline grabber, and that is how there's been this unfortunate death of this american turkish citizen, uh, that is making the news quite a bit, sarah truisdale. i'd like to get your impression on that, and uh, it's somewhat uh, incredible in the sense where you have this unfortunate death happen, but yet we have. in the tens, sometimes more than hundred deaths happening in the gaza strip a daily basis. um, i would like to be sensitive obviously towards the um, woman who's been shot in the head by the illegal occupation, um, but what you say, every single day now, i speak to people on the ground, i have friends in palestine, every single day, people are dying because the legal occupation as i do...
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app um cutting off water and food so the thing that makes me very angry about the situation is um why does one american wife mean more than 40,000 and candwas other wives that that's the that's the answer to that question they say like you don't in we had doctors come back from gaza and they said that they seem. todwards with two sniperinds, that's not unintentional, they have killed this journalist for a reason and um yeah, it's the illegal occupation are getting away with war crimes that i'm not sure that anyone else in history has ever gotten away with without being called out, so that's the my answer to that question, i want some respect for the uh family because okay, well uh...
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let me get your impression, alice rothchild of this incident, um, we're looking at the fact that this is this is not the soul incidence that has happened, perhaps you can give us some comparisons maybe. to put it into context for us as they say, and uh, also how and why would israel regime forces um, from what we understand, there was, it was sniper who did this or israel regime force, it doesn't matter, but she was shot in the head, i've actually seen the video and it's quite gruesome, and it's quite sad that you have people like her who wanted to give so much for the palestinian cause to be taken out in the form of manner that they have. well, there is pattern of this, i mean we have shirina. akla, we have rachel corey, i mean, there has been repeated attacks on people who carry american citizenship who are working in solidarity with palestinians or who are palestinian americans working in solidarity with palestinians, and i think i cannot speak for the brains of an israeli
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soldier, but the messaging is that these people need to be taken out as an example, so that other people will be afraid to do what they're doing, and i think the message also is that they don't matter, um... that it is very clear that there's a huge amount of anti-palestinian racism within israel and within the united states and elsewhere, and so it comes out in these kind of horrific um sniper attacks that are are clearly deliberate. um, you know, but sniper attacks are also deliberate against palestinians, as our previous speaker mentioned, uh, but i think it's a warning, and it's a devaluation, and um, it also means that israeli soldiers are feeling threatened by international... by journalists because huge number of journalists have been killed both in gaza and in the west bank, so anyone who's reporting on the ground is a threat, because then the international community might, might, might begin to pay attention. well, the problem that one of the problems that exist over here
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um is the fact that you have this uh sarah truedal, this far right cabinet with these extreme thoughts of murdering palestinians, the likes of smoke. rich and the likes of ben gavier who have advocated for uh the death of palestinians in ways that uh one would never think even though the israel regime has stooped to certain lows, they have really brought that to new lows. maybe you can uh tell us is this something that's topped down when it comes to the way that the israeli regime forces are uh killing palestinians murdering them whether it's in the west bank which uh has grown up to about 700 plus from october the 7th or in the gaza strip? i'll tell you something as an english person, as a white english later. i have never been more ashamed of my country, i have never been more ashamed international war has been ripped up,
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ripped up for an occupation, because we are obviously doing this on television, i've been trying to keep calm, but the things that we are seeing, the things that... are saying, i saw a video last night of the occupation force and they've got palestinian prisoners faced down on the floor, the nazies, the nazis, it's that simple, it's that simple, i get told to not uh, like sir, we need to calm down, blah blah, i'm a white english womanan sat in england and i am watching there and i woke up the day and the first thing i saw was dead child, a child died in in in palestine because of fear, because of fear, because the amount of bombs that they dropped, and then i've got starmer and sunak, both in the house of commons going and tsunat's going, the chief rabbi is going to be very upset that we've cut off the. i would like to point out
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um that our governments aren't supposed to openly work for foreign entity, i'd like to point out that under international law everything that is... israel is doing, israel is not country, it's an entity, everything they are doing is a war crime, is a war crime, i have never seen anything like it in my life, i've never seen anything, the lining children up to take them to concentration cams and people are picturing it and going, but buse the palestinian children that's okay, is it? so i'm sorry, i've even forgotten the question, the rage i feel inside my home, do apologize, do apologize, we are... watching the worst things we've ever seen, we are watching war crimes on levels that every single day flow my mind, we are watching this, and yeah, i don't understand how the international community is just watching it, and i certainly don't
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understand how america has got the cheek to stand up and in my country, i'm english, dharma, both of the the prime minister who got less than 20% of the vote. i might point out and the opposition are both stod up arguing about who can defend this illegal occupation more, sure, so i can't remember the question, but my answer to the question is the entire. international community should be rising up against this because they are literal nazis. well thank you uh, i forgot what the question was myself because i was listening to you, so that's okay, mean when you hear the things that our guest from manchester said, alice roth child, perhaps we think that we have reached a new level of how war crimes are being committed and the grusome details in the... actions that are that constitute war crimes, but there's always for some odd and sad reason a new peak
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that we see. one of them was released by an organization, it's a magazine, plus 972. i don't know if you read what happened there, and it came about when there was this video played by another channel about how these palestinians walking on the shoreline of the gaza strip, they were just walking. and they were taken out, they did a investigation, it turns out that uh, well let me read the title, it starts with a quote, the title of this entry, i'm bored so i shoot, the israely army's approval of free for all violence in the gaza strip, and it goes down and recounts some of these regime forces of how they go into no go zone, and they just routinely just start killing people, shooting at homes, i mean this just - is is another low in the way that the occupation forces are carrying themselves. i don't think the world is aware
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of maybe this, but uh, i i think the israel regime is losing any type of obviously accreditation that it may have had with the non-believers, let's say, do you think that's the case? well, i would love for that to be the case. i think that first of all there is a willful blindness uh in the international community and for instance in the united. states um about what's happening, you can know if you want to know, um, and if you have um doubts about what's going on, you just have to listen to what the israeli leadership is talking about, because uh, israeli leadership, particularly bengavir and smart and his those types, use very racist genocidal kind of language, and they refer to palestinians as animals, and they talk about anakbatu and just their language is genocidal, so if 'the top leadership is talking that way, then the lower soldiers get
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that message that these people are human, that they are your enemies, that you can kill anyone you want, that every child is a potential homose terrorist, i mean that's the the language that's coming out of israel, and so that's the the environment in which these soldiers who are committing horrific war crimes are functioning. um, now is that going to change the world view? i think we have to look at all the different forces that create'. um opinions within our planet um and it is quite clear that there is huge uh industry to promote uh israeli messaging to go after people who are challenging israeli messaging um there's a massive military industrial complex where you know lot of people are making a lot of corporations are making a lot of money off of this war, if you look at what's going on on campuses in the united states over the summer uh many many campuses have put together really ' worry some pretty horrific rules about what students can do and can't do, and lot of it
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is focused on defining protests against the israeli government as inherently anti-semitic, so there's a massive pushback going on um in that side of the community and how this is all going to play out, i don't know, but i sincerely hope that um there is a uh rising awareness in people who have power and in the people. who don't have power but can influence the people in power to change their attitudes towards the israeli government, which is definitely uh gone so far field, but i don't think um it's a surprise if you look at the whole hundred year history of this country, um, there are a lot of different versions of the history, but one of the themes has been that jewish settlers have a right to live in historic palestine and remove display. kill whatever the people who were there before they got there, and so this is the sort of
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ethnonationalism of zinanism as a political movement, and so what we're seeing now is in some horrific way the fruition of the zionist dream of you know the final expulsion, genocide, destruction of palestinians in the territories, and so i'm not shocked because it's the end point of that ideology, and only when uh "the jewish community in particular, but the international community in general, faces the inherent racism of zionism, and the fact that zionism is based on harming palestinians, that we're not going to see..." to turn around in attitudes until people really deal with that. so is that is that the point that we have reached based on what our guest there said, sarah, tuesday that maybe this is the point that the israel regime and its so-called leaders uh are taking advantage uh of what has happened, what they have executed with the genocide, that they want to get rid of all the palestinians from their homeland, which is a forced displacement, a
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war crime, is that the point that uh we're looking at? i think we're all pretty much. aware of what the point is, netanyahu stands there with his map, his map where palestine is wiped out, again i will try and be calm, i'm a white english woman, i had a penfund in jerusalem as a child, palestine is palestine, and we have watched them take palestine and not just take palestine, but then subjugate, i would like someone to answer the question to me, why are palestinians paying for? second world war, we all understand that everyone went through a holocous, but why are the palestinians paying for that? no one can ever answer that question. i get very irritated about this, when october 7th happened and it was like, oh, like, i don't know how many settlers died, god forgive me, i don't, god forgive me, i don't care, our
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people have been under apathide and and they put children in military. and they've done it for 80 years and every single thing they do, you look now, they literally put war crimes on tiktok, we're going to blow up mosk, we're going to blow up a school, we're going to blow, literally today i saw the lining people up in the west bank in the west bank, it's not as in the west bank, the wing people up to take them to concentration camps, and you're telling me this is moral army, are you, you're telling me this is moral army. brother, if anyone can look at what is going on in palestine right now, i would love right, three questions for people, why are the palestinians paying for what the nazis did in the second world war, why are you okay with people lining children up for concentration, concentration camps man, and
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then you've also, i saw a little girl and she went, we've told the whole world that we're suffering and no one cares. because the palestinian, so again, i've gone off subject, but i don't care, the illegal, it's an illegal occupation, does anyone ever want to point out the fact that hamas under international law are entitled to armed self-defense? does anyone ever want to point that out, ever? sure, sure, those are valid points, do apologize, i'm so sorry, no, no, that's okay, but i'm so angry at this world that's watching this actual genocide of children, and like why is this an argument, why is this a like i don't wha want to hear about your arguments, stop bombing them, stop bombing them, stop bombing children, it's not hard, i apologize and i'll shut up, no that's okay, we have we have more time so i'm going to ask you questions so please um keep with your train of thought so angry like children are dying if right to be angry you have every right to be angry alice roth child in the
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middle of everything that's going on we still have the us and the us president joe biden he's still the us president who says that the seasfire talks are 90% there, you know uh, anthony blinken, the us secretary of state were almost there, and uh, it it's now, i don't know how many times they've been at this uh negotiations or so-called negotiations, but now it's reached a point where the latest news on this, that's my question to you, is that the us may exclude israel from the talks and directly negotiate with hamas? um, what do you think of that? is that even possible? well, i think ultimately, whoever is negotiating a cease fire has to talk to hamas. i mean, that's like bottom line negotiation. i do think that biden and um, his uh pals are hallucinatory a bit, because, uh, they talk about having a cease fire and meanwile they continue to send
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billions of dollars of weaponry to israel, so the messaging isn't consistent with the actions, so the israelis have... no uh reason to uh go for cease fire because they're still getting all the goodies from you know the united states. uh the other thing we have to realize is that netanyahu has some very strong reasons not to want to cease fire because if he uh calls for ceasefire his right-wing coalition will fall apart and then he will lose the election and then he will go to jail and i think he's really lot of this um dancing around is related to netanya u desire to cling to power, no matter what, because he doesn't want to face the music. the other thing is that there's a huge debate going on amongst israeli. security, so the same day that netanyahu said that the israeli army will never leave the philadelphia corridor, which is the buffer zone between
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egypt and rafach and gaza, on that same day his security, one of the security guys said, they are willing to negotiate on philadelphia carter, so they're not even talking each other in the cabinet, so with all that descension in the cabinet, it's i think it's... notory to think that they're going to get a cease fire with israel, now if you have a cease fire with hamas and you don't have a cease fire with israel, i don't know what that means, because israel is continuing to dump, thousands and thousands and thousands of bombs on the palestinian people in gaza and now in their bombing in the west bank as well, um, so what's a ceasefire without the aggressor being part of that cease fire, i don't understand that as a, i'm not a negotiator, but just as a... being, i don't see how that actually works. um, you, israel has to be put under huge amount of international pressure to come to a cease fire, and it also has to be have an arms
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embargo to come to a cease fire. well, since you talk about an arms embargo, so my last question of this program goes to you when it comes to the uk, and how they are at this point uh, after much thought it seems now uh only going to cut uh arm sales to israel to the tune of 10%, which some... say that's just ridiculous, why not cut cut it completely, why assist the genocidal regime um with the arms sales, what were your thoughts when the uk made that announcement in less than a minute please? uh, my thoughts in less than a minute is that car and sun both openly and bitingly work for um an illegal occupation that most of the uh uk public want want the genocide to stop, we want you to stop killing babies. 'k starmer got less than 20% of the vote in less than a minute, every the opposition and the prime minister, both are war criminals and the country is not behind them, the country is
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not behind them, they're not behind them, they both stood there, how can we defend natin yahu and the chief rabbi when you're bowing babies up man and the whole country is going you do not represent me, that's my answer in less than a minute, they don't represent england or most of the world, okay thank you for that, we're fresh out of time, that was sarah tresdale, human rights actor with manchester, many thanks for your contributions, sarah, alice wathchild, thank you, author, activist and filmmaker from seattle washington, thank you to you both, with that we come to end for this edition of the spotlight from the team, it's goodbye. ۵۰ فروند هواپیمای ویژه ا ارتش عراق که هر کدام چهار بمب شیمیایی ۵۰۰ کیلویی حمل می کردند در افق غرب آسمان حلبچه با ریختن ۲۰ بمب شیمیایی
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in today's show we'll be looking how this global war even extends to the annual emi awards that recognize excellence in television and emerging media, this campaign is is uh... something which um which is a feeling and which will will be an indication i think of the uh the general um beginnings of failure of the lobby. bisan is a palestinian journalist um who has been covering the war in gaza from the very beginning. she already won p body award in the news category.
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your headlines on press tv: more palestinians are killed in israel's relentless earren artillery attacks in gaza as death toll from the 11 months of aggression nears 41,000. yewan says the international community is morally and legally obliged to prevent the repetition of the israely war crimes in the occupied west bank and the yemani army shoots down another american mq9 drone while it was carrying out hostile activities in the air space over maaarid province.
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