spotlight. is a palestinian academic and activist joining us from dublin. also joining us is harley schlanger, spokesman at the international shiller institute. who joins us from potstam, germany. welcome to you both. i'll first start with you. if i may, we're looking at this uh uh raffa ground invasion, which has been uh compared to a slaughter to take place if it's not prevented. the prime minister is defined. netanhou says we're going to go ahead with it. it has disregarded any of the warnings and it says that uh we have evacuation plans. now the eu foreign policy chief says they're going to evacuate where to. the moon, where are they going to evacuate these people? isn't that a viable point that joseph is making, where can these people go? first, let me congratulate the great iranian revolution its anniversary, and to pray god to shower his peace and blessings upon the great leader khumin. i think israel has been committing a genocide for the last now four and now we are entering the fifth month and israel is killing and over killing and over killing and murdering even incubator babies ch

my guest to this news review, harley schlanger, spokesman of lauru organization out of germany and johnart it off in germany. um, your thoughts on, tell me, why is this happening in the way it is at this time? well, there's a lot of discontent, but it's being focused now, especially on the european union policies and the german government policies. these include the green regulations, which are cutting back on pesticides, fertilizer and so on, which are useless, the do nothing to protect the climate. secondly, the effective sanctions on oil and gas, the russian oil and gas, iran's oil and gas uh is leading to higher prices for farmers. there had been subsidies, but the government cut. those because it's intent on spending more money on the ukraine war than protecting the food supply, and third, the cheap imports coming in from ukraine, which is the european union policy, which is underpricing the the goods produced in germany, so the farmers have been on tractor cades going back to november and december, these have included very large demonstrations, thousands of tractors in in hundreds

also joining us is harley schlanger, spokesman at the international schiller institute.