guests in on this program, i'd like to welcome them out of belfast, after and west asia expert, saib shath." and peter ford, former british ambassador to syria out of london. oh, thank you both for being with me on this spotlight. i'd like to start off in belfast and sub, at least 28,500 palestinians have been killed in gaza, and now 1.5 million people are in raffa, the most populated place on earth that israel has been bombing and threatening a ground invasion. your perspective, what is the israeli regime's goal at this point in time? the israeli regime's goal is the the design projects goal from the beginning to create israel, a greater israel, and they they want to cleanse the palestinian people out of the gaza strip, they trying to do it in a way which is will look like the pandemic got them, a starvation and hunger got the people, and voluntary they went and the broke made a hole in the egyptian fence at the border and rafah near rafah crossing which they call it the philadelphia corridor and that's the ideal scenarios which the zianist entity genocidal war planning for from the begin

let's continue the conversation with my guests desmond thompson and saib shath as we enter the final segment of this show and i want to stay with sayap briefly if possible um the arab league is struggling to ward off claims, it hasn't done more to aid palestinians at the moment, how do you see it? the arab league, to be honest when we watch the arab league and is islamic organization meeting of 50. seven countries on october after the attack on gaza, and all of them, they didn't manage even to brusherize with egypt, including this entity to bring even a bottle of water inside at the time of gaza, this is shows the lack of power and the lack of well, since the arab league, if they were serious about saving lives in gaza and stop the genocide, they could have stopped it. straight away with imposing all embargo by the saudis, the emirates, the qataris and when when qatar just because of the the yemanies control of babel not letting the zinest entity shipments and they decided to stop the liquid gas from going from that affected the prices all over europe, so you can see the effect strai

with that brings us to the end of the program, uh, like to thank both of you for being with us, saib shath, author and west asia expert out of belfast, peter ford, former british ambassador to syria out of london, and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight, i'm marza hashimi, signing out for myself and other group right here in tehran, hope to see you right here next time, goodbye. in this week's show we'll be explaining how professor david miller created a legal precedent by making opposition to zionism a protective characteristic. this means that employers can no longer use opposition to zianism as a pretext to discriminate, dismiss or destroy people's careers. and now it's established that actually that are not statements which are out there in any way racist, not anti-semitic, and these are views which... perfectly legitimate for anti-racist to hold as as we had always maintained, it's a very comprehensive um robust judgment, a judgment that's been made by the most senior judge in that particular uh region um and so yes it is a very interesting judgment absolutely. i

saib shath, author and west asia expert out of belfast, peter ford, former british ambassador to syria out of london. and thank you viewers for being with us on another spotlight. i'm marza hashimi, signing out for myself and other group right here in tehran, hope to see you right here next time. goodbye. uh, the progress between saudi arabia and israel was was progressing incredibly well, wel build new corridor of peace and prosperity that connects asia through the uae, saudi arabia, jordan, israel to you.

iraqi politician from baghdad and saib shath author and west asia expert joining us from belfast.s even been demanding the us. departure from iraqi soil? yes, thank you very much. the iraki parliament have been calling now for number of months for the termination of the presence of the american troops and all international troops in the region, in iraq in particular. the government started certain negotiations last week with the americans on this issue, but we haven't heard any further progress in this... matter from the iraqi government, what is very surprising is that the americans sometimes speak of human rights and the rights of the individual and their agents here in iraq who are those who wishes to continue the american presence in iraq speak about the uh um death penalty and why we should stop the death penalty and release the isis prisoners that they were tried and convicted and that we should forgive them, and we should forgive alqida, and then the americans come and assassinate a resistance fighter with no trial, with no conviction, with nothing, just because they think

triad. for this program iraqi politician from baghdad and saib shath author and west asia expert joining us from belfast gentlemen, i like to welcome you both to the program here, hope you're both safe and doing well, i guess we'll start there in baghdad with you, mr. libi uh, your initial thoughts on rising tensions between resistance groups, what they're all about and why the iraki government has first quite some time before these attacks even been demanding the, us departure from iraqi soil? yes, thank you very much. the iraqi parliament have been calling now for number of months uh for the termination of the presence of the american troops and all international troops in the region, in iraq in particular. the government started certain negotiations last week with the americans on this issue, but we haven't heard any further progress. in this matter from the iraqi government, what is very surprising is that the americans sometimes speak of human rights and the rights of the individual and their agents here in iraq who are those who wishes to continue the american presence in iraq spea

saib shot, welcome to the program, mr. shath, i should say pardon, and it's very ironic here that these resistance groups are a product of occupation, resisting occupation. in the region when it was uh daesh trying to occupy and use genocide to maintain its occupation in syria, in iraq, it was these groups that came and fought these wahabi forces, they're against us occupation, and and i mean we were talking about nearly 30,00 deaths in in occupied palestine in gaza, hundreds of thousands of deaths were result and most of them civilian due to us occupation forces, so when we're talking about occupation, what comes in mind, us daesh, the israelis in occupied palestine, and what results from this occupation? death and destruction, to maintain that occupation, this is what these factions are opposed to, what they're resisting, and that's why they're being targeted by us forces, your initial thoughts please, the the the the american forces, uh, they are now in iraq as invited, there is no a treaty of status force agreement authorizi