welcome to spotlight: after killing dozens of lebanese people over two days of detonating communication devices, israel has conducted another air strike on lebanon. the occupying regime targeted a residential building in the south of the capital bayrut, killing at least dozen people, including children. in the occupied west bank. footage has emerged of israeli forces throwing bodies of palestinians from rooftops and in the besieged gaza strip, it's hard to even mention war crime or crime against humanity that the zionist regime has not committed over the past 350 days, yet the so-called champions of democracy and human rights spare no effort in supporting the regime in tel aviv. let's see what our guests think about israel's adventurism in the region tonight's edition of spotlight. here are our guests. author and political activist eve angler joining us from montre. all and we also have

author and journalist robert fantina joining us from kitchener ontario. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. angler in montreal. please share with us your perspective on the recent isrady destabilizing actions and escalations which have left many innocent civilians dead. injured the attack in southern beirot and the recent terror attacks uh the pager and walkie talky blasts across lebanon. hezbolah chief hasan nasulah says that the detonation of the communication devices carried out by israel amount to a declaration of war on lebanon. uh, i mean, how who can argue with that? it's just mass terror. i mean, there thousands and thousands of people injured, uh, now they go

blow up building, many kids killed, many kids are under the rubble, uh, this is uh, mean, this is just keeps going and going, and they clearly want to ignite uh, as much of the region in war, um, this is the level of criminality, the level of uh, destruction is just uh, it's remarkable, and and there's no stop, and they they do it ever. and uh and if you were to watch the media in my country here in canada, they will find any any level of justification, i mean this the killing of all these people in the with the pagers and the walkie talkies and the solar panels and all this, they they they have on these people that justify it as a you know targeted uh whatever now if we were to just start killing all the all the bureaucrats in the uh

wind towers right downtown uh manhattan that was lots of c, cia officers working from those buildings and stuff like that, so the idea that this is wouldn't be viewed as a terrorist act is is remarkable, but that is how the media in this country and the politicians in canada and for that matter the us, they act like there's this is sort of no big deal, it's um uh but yeah israel just keeps killing and um and they continue to have either aggress or or quiet backing of of the us, canada and the other nato countries. robert fantina, israel willfully aimed to kill thousands of people in civilian areas with the terror attacks across lebanon. the

question is, why now? we're close of as well, we're close to the one-year mark of the gaza genocide, and it's believed that netanyahu is buying more time by opening up new. front in in south lebanon withbullah, do you see it in that night as well? yes, it is giving him more time to continue with his expansionist ideas. also, he has been emboled because everything is done in gaza, the war crimes, the crimes against humanity, the blatant and constant violations of the human rights of the palestinan people, have not been punished, the other countries in the world have talked about israel to... defend itself, a country can't defend itself against its victim, that's just illogical, some countries, germany and canada for example have slowed or stopped some weapon shipments to them, but the united states has accelerated weapon shipments to israel, so israel knows that if it wants to annex as

much property as it wants, as much territory as it wants, in international law, it can do so because the united states will always bail it out and always support it now these uh terrorist attacks that it's committing in lebanon now against innocent people, there there are stories of there was one little girl who's whose uh father's pager was buzzing on the kitchen table, she brought it to him and it blew up in her in her hand and and basically blew her faceoff, this is how is this a targeted attack, how is it uh targeting uh israel's so-called enemies? israel anyone who is not israeli who's not zionist i should say is an enemy to israel, so men, women and children are all all potential victims and for israel their legitimate victims and the world allows this to continue, this has to stop, people around the world have to force their governments to take action against these horrific crimes

that are being perpetrated a daily and hourly basis, being being perpetrated each minute of the day, it has to stop, evenler, we've seen what the resistance is capable of in. and of course the regional resistance has been carrying out retaliatory attacks against uh the occupation ever since uh the the genocidal war started in october of last year, can the israelis deal with the consequences of a full-blown war with hezbulah and potentially the entire resistance front at this point, and if the answer is no, then that means they want to get the us involved, am i right? well, i, i think they can deal with a... war, i think israel has a really big problem, the longer things go on, the bigger the problem it is for israel, it's a fairly small country, if it was to lose us support, i mean it would collapse basically immediately in terms of its ability to fight fight these these, gaza and lebanon and elsewhere, um, i, i think it

it it it can you know uh keep fighting for uh a long time uh, it these are causing big economic problems, it's causing big fizures, there's lots of israelis that have left the country, um, so there is serious toll, obviously there's people who are you know moved away from the border with lebanon, and that's now been going on for almost a year, so there's some serious uh uh consequences, um, now does it want to draw the us in? yes, i do think it wants to draw the us in, i think it wants to draw the us in for a war with uh full-on war with iran, i think that's the maximalist aim of of netanyahu, i i i'm still skeptical that will happen um, but they have, to some extent that has happened with regards to us uh patrols and whatever with yemen, with yemen, um, obviously there's been huge amounts of us assets, military assets that have move to the middle east, though

some have left because it becomes very costly and difficult to sustain that for a long periods of time, even for the us empire, um, but uh, so it can, i think, to uh, a certain extent, i don't know what like, what is the the big aim here, i think that they have failed, mean just this israeli soldiers being killed, continue to be killed in gaza, and they've had to go back. back into rafa five months after after uh going in and and so so they are they are um they're not succeeding in terms of destroying uh uh i mean hamas even and obviously hezball is much more difficult now it does serve you know going into lebanon is going to be a disaster for israel i mean i think what they're doing now and blowing stuff up f-35s and drones uh they can sustain that for a long time but actual ground. invasion is going to be something very different uh, this is current type of fighting plays to israel's strengths and um,

but but how long can can this go on from israel's perspective, with all the the economic and other costs, um, i don't know, but definitely think they want to draw the us in, i think iran is obviously very reluctant to be drawn in, it would prefer to uh to you know provide support to hezballah rather than you know get more engaged a direct sense, but this can go on for you a while, but it's all kinds of damage for israel, that's for sure. robert fantina, what do you think about the us's position regarding the gaza genocide and israel's regional crimes in addition to that? how can washington push for a ceasefire and claim that it doesn't want a broader regional escalation, but at the same time provide israel with the tools and the arsenal and the all-out support to continue killing innocent. women and children because innocent women and children are not just dying in gaza anymore, we've seen what's happened over the past week

uh in in lebanon as well, break down for us this us and western hypocrisy regarding israel's regional crimes, but it is, it is the height of hypocrisy, joe biden, president joe biden, sometimes referred to as genocide joe, says that he is working around the clock a cease fire, and yet he is sending, as you said, all the weapons. uh that israel is using for the genocide and he is providing israel with diplomatic cover on the world stage in the united nations are vetoing resolutions that call for a cease fire uh in the general assembly which fortunately doesn't have veto power but he voted against resolution that says that israel must end the occupation the united states another hypocritical thing the united states says it wants peace in the middle east and yet if peace will come to the middle east, if and when israel is forced to adhere to

international law, that's the whole problem in the middle east is israel's uh complete disregard of international law, of the human rights of the palestinian people, and uh it's aggression toward uh lebanon and and and iran and other names syria uh and yemen. israel is very war mongering, warmaking nation. "it wants to, it's an expansionist nation, it wants to gain more territory, which of course in violation of international law, territory cannot be expanded to conquest uh, but israel, the israel leadership doesn't now and never has cared about international law, all they care about is power and profits and expansion, and the united states, completely hypocritically, the united states spokes and say there a beacon of peace and freedom and democracy, and yet around the world and especially in the middle east, "they violate the very principles that would lead to peace, freedom and democracy. sure uh, eveler, we've

seen the condemnations coming uh from countries in the region and from the resistance front. why are these condemnations not coming from the likes of the us and other western allies of the israeli regime? hezbollah would have been condemned immediately as terrorists if the scenario was reversed." of course, that's undoubtedly true, but we've seen the same pattern go on and on. i mean, uh, when, uh, israel uh, blew up the diplomatic iranian diplomatic compound, i think in early april, uh, in damascus, uh, which actually partly partly damaged the canadian uh, embassy, which is right next door, and uh, the canadian government just stayed quiet, and then when when iran responded, uh, they condemned that, and this goes on and on, they... similar example when the response they will condemn uh you know i don't kills some israeli

soldiers or maybe a couple civilians in the coming days, the canadian officials will condemn that while they won't condemn uh the the aggression obvious aggression that escalated it all that led to the response uh from hezbillah they will they will uh they will condemn the other side so the hypocrisy is just flagrant probably the... most stark one though, i think is is actually israel's you know killing in in uh syria for the past years, mean you know at least with gaz, mean it's not correct? of course, but they they kind of claim that it all started october 7th and uh and this is all israeli response and what not, it's all you know not very untrue, but at least that's what of the claim, but the but the israeli killing in in in syria is just violation of international law kind of like once or twice a week, every week now for it was it is it five years now, six years, and it's literally like i've never found one

comment by a canadian uh government official suggesting this is... is wrong or illegal or and i and i presume if you look at us officials you find the same thing, so it's it's completely one-sided, it's taking the whole region from uh israel's perspective, and um the israeli government gets the message, i mean they get the message at the diplomatic level where they you know refuse to canadian, us and others refuse to condemn or if they do, the really mild criticism, it doesn't come from the foreign minister, it comes from like a unimportant. to global affairs canada twitter account doesn't come from the prime minister for minister um, but they also get the more fundamental message, which is that even if there is some sort of mild sort of condemnation or criticism, the weapons keep coming, the the even when they bring in the canada has brought in this like you know farsical kind of uh pause and permits for new weapons, they allow all the

outstanding permits to keep being fulfilled and then they allow the permits that gum where the... weapon shipments that come via the us, canadian companies providing to us which then ships to israel, so so if you look at the the the the big picture the is that the the canadian, us and other officials are just they are, they are they are not just a complicit, they are part of uh the violence israel's committing in the region, most obviously against palestines and gaza, but against uh arab and and broader uh uh uh region um for not just recent months but for years and years and years. robert fantin, i saw you noding there about this double standard and hypocrisy, so if an arab or muslim majority country did what israel has done uh over the past few weeks and months, how would the west responded? the united states would have called for a uh resolution

in the united states in the united nations security council uh would have called for armed intervention to punish them and to prevent any future victimization, because these people are the the so-called perpetrators in this case would have been arab and muslim, and they in the eyes of many western governments, at least if not the people in the countries, but the governments view them as less than as inferior, they aren't white, they don't have the same religious practices that so many in the west have, and the... for they are to be feared and when whenever possible and justifiable, destroyed. this what we're seeing constantly. imagine if the russia had blown up the cell phones or walkie talkies of ukrainian uh government officials, how would the united states in the west have reacted? they would

have seen as uh terrorism as outside of the norm and just uh shocking, yet when israel does the same thing uh, then it's approved, it's seen as a legitimate, legitimate battle against or legit act against so-called terrorism, it's just that the hypocrisy is so stark, i don't understand why anyone doesn't, why everyone doesn't see it, even angler, it's day 350 of the genocide in gaza, are you appalled at how the international community? has been so ineffective and incapable of stopping innocent palestinians from being slaughtered? well, i'm appalled at how the canadian government, the us government have enabled. i don't think stopping is this this is not sort of like stopping kind of implies some neutrality, so i think i'm appalled at how they've enabled it. the king government's

response to the killing in gaza was to speed up arms permits, that was what the response. was for the first few months of the killing in gaza - and then they you know after pressure just got bigger and bigger they started they started going bit in the other direction but that was their response so the the it's it is appalling i mean it's it's uh it's criminal it's these these officials should all end up in jail i mean i don't think there's any how could you argue against the fact that joe biden should be in jail for the rest of his life for what he's done to to palestiny. to palestinian children, to for that matter even to lebanese and and and more broadly, mean it's it's a level of criminality, it's this is this is not i don't even think it's fair to do the to do the russia ukraine analogy, because israel has been the aggressor clearly for a century. i

mean, this is crimes, this is killings, this is blowing up of of, israel was the occupying power in lebanon for decades and continues to occupy some of the territory, so this is this is the the already uh criminal uh colonial enterprise just putting more... more crimes top of decades and decades of of violence and and illegality. um, it's it's it is definitely appalling. anyone who has an ounce of of humanism uh should be absolutely appalled by what uh is going on, has gone on, what's going on, and unfortunately what's going likely to continue for some time. robert fantina, after close to year uh the palestinian resistance. continues to fight back hard inside gaza, which speaks a lot about the steadfastness of the resistance, does this also mark a massive failure for

israel's military campaign and military objectives in gaza uh and their claims that they wanted to eradicate hamas, yes, which of course is a completely unrealistic goal, and everyone should have known that from the start, but you talk about the resilience of the palestinian people in gaza. and in in the west bank also their their resilience is absolutely remarkable, the courage they demonstrate just to be able to continue day by day living, not only the the resistance forces uh within gaza, but the individuals who are involved in active resistance, just providing food for themselves and their families a daily basis, providing shelter uh despite the horrific conditions israel is putting them into. this this strength and resilience should be rewarded and should be uh commented about around the world, and yet what we hear is about resistance to israel, the people of palestine have every right to

resist israel because israel has oppressed them for decades. this is not something that happened, that started on october 7th, the secretary general of the united nations pointed that out when when it happened, that the the history before that, the oppression, the the humiliations, the degradations that... experience a daily basis and yet they continue to persevere, they continue to resist. there's a post that sometimes shown existence is resistance, and just by existing, by living their lives, caring for their families as much as they can and these horrific conditions, it shows tremendous resilience, and that is a form of resistance. israel cannot defeat this, it is tried for 70 years, it is tried in a most horrific and brutal way for the... last almost one year now, and it has not succeeded, it is not going to succeed, despite the support of the united states and other western governments, the people around the world support the palestinians and the palestinians know this,

and hopefully they are drawing strength from this support. okay, that's just about all the time we have for tonight's show, eve angler, author and political activist from montreal, robert fantina author and uh journalists from kitchen and ontario, gentlemen, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us here on press tv spotnight. and it's also uh a good night and thanks to you our viewers for staying with us on this edition, it's bye for now, see you next time everybody, the sun shown to announce the beginning of new day, it was the 13th day of the war on the gazas rap, look at the missile. what did we do to deserve being hit by this? the army bombed the children on the beach and destroyed our houses. they

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that lines, the israeli regime conducts another deadly air strike in lebanon, targeting southern beirot and killing multiple people, including children. israeli forces push bodies of three palestinians off a rooftop during their latest raid in the occupied west bank and at least two dozen palestinians are killed in the latest israeli attacks in gaza where the total death tool tops 41,200.