a hello and welcome to spotlight. the israeli regime's relentless bombing of the gauza strip keeps claiming civilian lives for more than 11 months. the world's institutions and the international community have so far failed to stop this genocidal campaign which enjoys full support from washington. palestinians, however remained steadfast in

their resistance and refused to give in, despite all their suffering and hardships. the access of resistance in the region has also played a significant role in impeeding israel's plots against the palestinians, and that's why many believe that weather israel continues with the war on gaza or agrees to a cease fire, it has already failed and has suffered to defeat at the hands of the resistance. stay with us tonight's spotlight. we have sadnim professor of political science joining us uh from b university in raman law we also have co-founder of the scottish palestine solidarity campaign mr. mc napier who's joining us from glasgow. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with professor nimr and ramala, day 343 of the genocide in gaza over. palestinians, mostly

women and children, have been slaughtered in cold blood. the international community has done nothing for almost a full year. how many more innocent women and children, aid workers, doctors and journalists have to be killed before this appalling massacre is stopped. well, good evening to you and to make in scotland and to all your viewers, it will continue as... far as no one is holding israel in front of its responsibility for this genocide, then definitely they are going to continue with this genocide and killing palestinians. so far, what kind of any action being taken by any country around the world, apart from the some countries and the axle mainly of the resistance who took some some actions apart from that where is these kind

of actions taken by any of these world community countries to stop israel or to force israel or to show israel their concern really by taking action like you know maybe economic buycots maybe reducing the diplomatic relationship maybe doing anything nothing nothing we we just fit up with these statements of you know turn and condemmination without doing anything, in spite of the fact that everyone is watching in front of them, this kind of genocide and massacers going on every day for the palestinians all over gazda strip and now it's also started in the west bank, so we believe that yes we need to see action and enough of you know statements and nation

statements and all kind of you know describing also the situation without doing anything in reality. mic napier uh the un says 90% of the population in gaza is now displaced. schools, camps and shelters housing displaced families in gaza continue to be attacked by the uh israelis and the regime is using starvation and hunger as a weapon of war. how is fighting hamas and the resistance in any way? high inducing famon and hunger on palestinian children in gaza. this israeli onslot and massacres, not just against the resistance. it's a genocide of against all of the people in gaza. do you see it in that light as well? i think any honest and intelligent person could not see it in any other way. um, the idea that this is a war between israel and hamas. um, it's true at one level in that it's the palestinian resistance are fighting. and and so far

actually succeeding, they're paying terrible price, but in a war such as this for israel to win netanyahu's original. more aims would need to be realized and palestinian resistance totally crushed uh for the palestinian resistance to win, they merely need to continue to deny victory to israel. this is the case in every asymmetrical anti-colonial war, and by any yard stick, i'm not a military expert, but i'm sure in the staff colleges around the world, they know these things and they know that israel is losing uh by by the usual criteria for. these things, but israel is certainly a world leader in killing civilians, there's no doubt about that, they go to the top of the league, 500 killed, bombing one hospital, uh, creating the conditions were all of the neonates, the the the newborn infants die,

where all the elderly people in the sick and the intensive care unit are killed as well, i think if a if novelist, if famous novelist had produced a draft of novel uh, year ago and he had put this kind of information into it. for example, he he said that doctor would be amputating the limbs of his own children without anesthetic. i think it would be sent back to the to the author because that's over the top, but this is the dark hideous reality of gaza today. um, it's a deep pit of horror, and every week brings deeper and deeper horror. it is of course genocide and is... well before october the 7th, i mean had a had a had temptation towards genocide, genocide doesn't mean the extermination of every last person in rwanda or or jews in europe or palestinians, genocide means the deliberate

harming, killing, damaging of people because of who they are, genocide is all about intention, and the israelis have demonstrated, "for anybody with eyes and ears, over many decades, their intention to ethnically cleanse palestine, periodically to massacre large numbers of palestinians, 2009, 2014, the current one dwarfs even the other ones, um, so this is this is genocide, and but the language with which this is reported in the mainstream media in the west is deeply dishonest, it's always portrayed as a war between hamas and and and and the..." israelis as if a resistance exists in vacuum and as if the mass killing was a different thing all together, so yes i mean i mean i'm sharing a platform here with sad nemer in romala and i you know he is enduring the mass killing not just of gaza but of the west bank

um and i'm speaking to you from a country whose foreign minister last week tried to portray himself as human by saying that he was going to suspend 30 arms deal to israel and allow 300 arms deals to go forward. my government is deeply involved in this genocide. professor nim, israeli forces continue to conduct raids on several towns and villages across the occupied west bank, breaking into palestinian homes and making arrests. give us your assessment of the increased israeli violence in the west bank as the genocide in gaza is still ongoing. is this part of the regime's plans to tighten control? over uh occupied outs and the alamos compound as well, absolutely, if we don't want to mention the statements by many of the ministers, foreign minister, israel said that we have to remove and to move the palestinian

in in the west bank and we have to treat them exactly like what happened in gaza, the statements of smotric who said for the palestinians everywhere, you have three options in front of you, either to be to accept to be a slaves for us or to depart and to go outside the country to jordan or any other country, or to be killed, and these are the only three options that he is offering the palestinians, or it mar or even netanyahu who was in three occasions showing map with mentioning to... there was it means that he showing the historic historical palestinian map without any indication of the existence the palestinians, so the intention is there. now how to do it and the justification to do that, this is something else. now the israel

are unknown growing in the north of palestine and particularly in this refugee camps. it started earlier than 2015 after the war. in gaza in gene refugee camp and then it started to grow to reach to nablos and then to tubas and then to karem with its two refugee camps and to... echo and started and israeli noticed that and they realized that the palestinian there now are totally convinced that's the only way to deal with this occupation and to deal with this colonial power is and to at the beginning you know small thing but apparently it started to grow and it started also to affect the whole west bank now the israeli they claim that they want to put an end to these this resistance groups, but apparently it's not the case

only, because when they go there and they destroy everything and especially the infrastructure of the cities, city like genine, it's not only in the refugee camp, but in the city itself, the roads, the electricity, the water system, the suish system, everything, and you you can see also some of the pictures here from gen, these pictures, yeah, then you can imagine what's the idea? "the israeli troops, they told the people in jinine, and leave, leave the refugee camp, we don't want you here, go outside the country, this is, so so they are making life also unbearable and miserable for the palestinians in in in the west bank, let alone the other actions that's taken by israeli army and policies regarding the settlements, the settlers who are attacking the palestinian village." so we think that next it will be the west bank and we have

enough evidence by all these ministers who are you know encouraging the government to go ahead an operation similar to what's going on in gaza maybe with some differences but to use the same force used in gaza in the west bank um ministers from muslim and european countries along with the european union's foreign affairs chief they've gathered in madrid. to discuss a two-state solution uh to the uh israeli palestinian conflict. now the meeting is called for a clear schedule for the international community implement two-state solution in the occupied territories and also first cease fire in the gaza strip and the delivery of humanitarian aid. first of all, give us your thoughts regarding the issue of the two states solution. the israelis have effectively uh terminated that, they've made it impossible with their illegal settlement expansions and their land grap policies in addition to that, also does this meeting show that so many countries worldwide are now going against the

agenda being pushed by the us, israel and co? yes and yes, um, the american press, american prestige around the world, often based on violence, but also sometimes on soft, so-called soft power, is - is plummeting around the world when america talks about human rights and two-state solution, people say one word, gaza, and that's enough to silence, silence those with any sense of shame. the two state solution was always an illusion, it was perhaps a necessary illusion when people are desperate, but ever since the inception of zionism, their plan has been abundantly clear, they want all of palestine with either no or very, very few palestinians permitted to remain, nothing in the history. of zinanism has changed that and all their spokes people well before netanyahu who's

very crude and open, but his predecessors also had this idea, they just spoke differently, but the plan was always from the beginning of thesignist project to remove all the native people as they thought as they think had been successfully done in large parts of north america, australia, canada and so on, and they were merely building on this. horrendous history of european ethnic cleansing, so that was always the plan, but the talk of the two state solution was just in order to give western governments a pretense for doing nothing, when they looked at the crimes, the barbarity of israel before october the 7th, when they looked at this barbarity, there's popular pressure to do something, the response has always been two state solution sometime in the future, but in the meantime we will not... take any sanctions against this murderous regime, so the two state solution, the sooner it, the

sooner it goes in the bin the better, because the problem is not that israel wants part of palestine, the problem is that israel wants all of palestine and probably some areas beyond it, not not the lunatic fringe, but some sections of the israeli cabinet, smr, but also others are talking about overturning the monarchy in jordan and expand. even into jordan, so there's nothing to suggest that the appetite of the zionists to drive out natives and replace them is limited even to historic palestine, so that's the first thing. "the second thing is, many of our governments are deeply embarrassed because israel seems to be insane. popular opinion is running very, very strongly against israel. great majorities in every country, in germany and britain and elsewhere favor immediate cease fire and are very critical of what israel has done. we have the international court, i think was it yesterday or the day before, even even the weather vein who's at

the head of the united nations general sec has has condemned israel's extreme. violations of human rights, so we've reached a situation where i think many of us have learned a lot. before october the 7th, many of us knew that in algeria or vietnam or anywhere else, the price of freedom for the palestinians would be huge, but that they could secure freedom, but we didn't understand how that would proceed. now we see that palestinians are paying huge price in suffering and killing and death and mayming, but israel has lost. it's lost the struggle against the resistance, but it has also lost even perhaps the equally important struggle for worldwide public opinion, that has swung decisively against israel as never before. professor nam, political leader of hamas, yahya sinwar has recently sent a message to

hez, said hasan where simar hailed the lebanese resistance movement support for palestinians unpacked for. us uh this strong ties that exists between the resistance and their leaders that has been displayed time and a time time and time again like with this letter. yeah, i think that the new realities created after the 7th of october, one of those realities is in the regional level, let alone the one inside palestine and internal palestinian politics, the one also... affecting israel inside israel itself and internal politics also and the third change is the regional and on the regional one now we are talking about axle of resistance consists of hizballah syria iraq yemen and the palestinian resistance so we are talking

about one front against the aggression in the region in in the opposition to the what the united states and israel wanted in the region, what they wanted to, you know normalize relationship between israel and some gulf states and to form kind of a coalition led by israel top to say that this is the power you know against iran and to prevent the expansion under their pretension of iranian forces in in the in the... in reality what happened that this war the 7th of october showed clearly that israel is weaker than they thought and it it it can't even defend itself and and they can't even you know when in in in a a war that they are number four as as as an army and number one in the middle east and they couldn't end you

know the palestinian resistance in gaza after now we are entering our 12 months. of this genocide and that prove also by hazballah and the yemanis and the iraqies that this front from now anything in the middle east is going to happen by the americans and for the interest of the americans and israel with it and i do agree absolutely with mec because the appetite of this zionism as a colonial power is going to to exceed only palestine and they wanted even be in in more areas and particularly maybe in jordan and parts of syria as well and lebanon, so there there have to be now kind of new reality in the region that we are talking about axle of of of resistance who are sticking each other, so definitely from sunwar point of view, the palestinan resistance if you want and hamas, the help of hizballah and the hizballah

interference in this war and this war going on in the north of palestine. definitely had helped lot the palestinian resistance in gaza and is the situation even because israel have to move many of their troops to the north, so this kind of relationship, it is kind of a relationship which is based on on mutual interest for us as people who wanted freedom and wanted to get thread of the colonial powers in the region and the interest of of america in the region and the control. of america and israel of the region to be free in in the region, this is new reality was created after the 7th of october and from now on israel had to consider it, america has to... considerate and if they want to go into regional war as israel try to pull the americans into a a regional war, it means now that we are talking about this axle is going

to be involved not only one country by one country as israel used to to do to fight you know in against one country, but now it's totally different situation where we ab of resistance make nape your families of israely captives and have held a new protest in tel aviv calling uh for deal with the palestinian resistance groups. israel has been the scene of such anti-netanyahu rallies for months as uh netanyahu is being accused of systematically obstructing the ceasefire for his personal and political gains, he's also failed to achieve any of the stated military goals following the regime's invasion of gaza. is netanyahu prolonging this war just to keep his head above water? 'well, of course he has a personal interest in avoiding going in into an israeli jail cell, but you know, he he also he he's also failing, and i

think not just israeli public opinion, which is often very uh, violent and hostile towards the palestinians, but not just israeli public opinion, but also the americans, they can they they can forgive almost anything except failure, and netanyahu's failing, i mean'. this could this we have to look back at at israel's huge successes in the past in 67 israel defeated three arab armies in six days, they, but since then israel hasn't really won a war, and and the and their ability to terrorize the neighborhood, the whole middle east is being reduced by hisbollah in 2006 by the by by the resistance today by the yemenis as well, so i think what we see. is definitely the beginning of the end of zionism, because the zionist pitch to britain and then to america was, we can be your policeman in the area, you don't need to

have boots on the ground, we can be the attack dog for europe or for america, and we can chastize powers in the region, countries in the region, which america disapproves of, that's no longer the case, i mean they cannot, as sas pointed out, they cannot even defeat lightly. armed irregular irregulars in gaza who have no place to retreat to um that they're unable to to to achieve very much without a a permanent supply of american billions, literally billions of dollars and 2ous pound bombs airlifted into israel simply to allow israel not to be completely humiliated by by the palestinian resistance so the zionist play the zionist claim that they could be an asset to the collective west, it's shown to be tatters and when they come into when they come into a conflict with local actors, they need america in order to

support them and britain and france and others, so i think uh the the failure of designers project, not just the failure of netanyahu and his generals over the last 11 months, is going to be looked back on from the from the vantage point of history as very, very dramatic, very significant, and we not hope, but i think coldly and and and and by calculating calmly, i think we might be watching the beginning of the end. okay, of design is nightmare. and one last question for professor nimr, briefly if you make buse we're running short of time, the us, it's facing widespread protests and demonstrations for its complicity in the gaza genocide, most notably at university campuses, which are gaining steam again in the new semester. uh, what do these protests say about the increased? of public awareness regarding the israeli crimes and how can american politicians just ignore the anger over this war and uh with uh with americans tax dollars

being sent off to fund this genocide, most american and even western politicians having even second guess their support uh for the israelis. yeah, and that's exactly the fourth level of the effect of the 7th of october, which the international one. and especially in the united states now, at this moment the democrats and especially camilla harris who's running for presidency by the democrats is is getting really in a very very tight situation and very bad situation, on the one hand uh there is the arabs and muslims in america and the movement of the students and the young people in united states who are against the policies of administration to support israel in this war and to participate in this war in all levels and on the other hand she had the

zionist lobby and the the those who are in support of of israel and she can't also you know offend them by saying something that could help the palestinian in any way, so i think that gaza is all over this elections now in in in your in america and it it might be the reason of camilla harris to lose the election in america because of the situation, she's... using now huge number of young people in america because of her situation and i believe now after the return of the students back to schools and to universities we will witness more and more of this activities in in in united states. thank you very much uh professor saad nimbr um professor of political science at beerzaid university joining us from romalaw and thanks to mr. mc napier co-founder of the scottish

palestine solidarity campaign. joining us from glasgow and also special thanks to our viewers for staying with us tonight's edition spot night. it's goodnight for now and see you next time. this is story of an unrival champion of the african continent who captivated audiences with a skill. and determination, hero who made history with a bold decision to withdraw from the olympics, refusing to face an israeli opponent in solidarity with his principles and beliefs.

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