our guest today is investigative journalist patrick henningson who joined us via skype from arizona. as well as being investigative journalist. also an author and the founder of the independent news and analysis website 21st century wire. 21st century wire digs behind the headlines to provide listeners with better insight into world events. welcome to the show. david, there's been a a constant process of revision hasn't there about what actually happened on october the 7th? there certainly has. i mean, first of all, we heard this the totals of casualties, 1400, sometimes more, and then what's happened is that there's been a various different eyewitneses, some of them have been people who turned up later after it happened, some have been released uh by the resistance movement, yasmin parat in particular is what one of the ones who says first of all that uh what happened was that the idf, the occupation forces had themselves killed some of the hostages and then of course that we learn later that many of the the hostages uh were killed in uh in fires caused by the shelling. tanks of hou

patrick henningson is a geopolitical analyst who joins us from los angeles. also joining us is john phoenix, journalist and international relations expert who joins us from london. welcome to you both. first i will start with you patrick if i may and we are taking a look at ash hospital as you well aware that's being targeted by the regime forces. um at this point we understand that that has included murdering palestinians. they've arrested some. not only patients, but also people work there like engineers, and at the same time obviously patients alives are at risk, because overall they wanted to evacuate the hospital, i'm not too sure if they're going to be able to do that, and this is all under the understanding that they think that the hospital is being used for military purposes by hamas, no evidence of that, nothing has been shown yet, uh, what do you think about the fact that the hospital which is being targeted by israel, and that is something that is banned under international law. yeah, it is, it is pretty amazing, i mean, we've seen the systematic t

patrick henningson is a geopolitical analyst who joins us from los angeles. also joining us is john fenix journalist on international relations expert who joins us from london. welcome to you both. first i will start with you patrick if i may and we are taking a look at shifa hospital as you well aware that's being targeted by the regime forces. um at this point we understand that that has included murdering palestinians. they've arrested some not only patients. but also people work there like engineers, and at the same time obviously patients lives are at risk because overall they wanted to evacuate the hospital, i'm not too sure if they're going to be able to do that uh, and this is all under the understanding that they think that the hospital is being used for military purposes by hamas, no evidence of that, nothing has been shown yet. uh, what do you think about the fact that the hospital which is being targeted by israel uh, and that is something that is banned under international law. yeah, it is, it is pretty amazing. i mean, we've seen the systematic

reserves and maybe elderly left there, so all right, thank you very much for that, thank you, patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst from los angeles, and thank you john phoenix, journalist and international relations expert from london, with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight, for me and the team, it's goodbye. remarks by minister of defense. first of we headlinees israelly forces attack bause hospital with thousands of the injured and people have been trapped. the one stop diplomat urges getting much needed to. aid to gaza in his meetings with un officials in geneva. and us president joe biden is coming under test fire from his own administration employees over his unconditional support for israel's genocide in gaza.

to prevent, no indeed, well, i'm afraid we are out of time. again, so let me thank our guest patrick henningsonrogram on your social media platforms to help us counter the political and corporate media's flagrant misrepresentation of the situation in gaza and occupied palestine. and remember, you can follow the show on facebook, twitter and telegram where we post regular clips and updates. so until next time. this is chris williamson saying bye for now. they think they've done a good thing because they don't have to look in the eyes of these mothers who know they are going to die, going to die before their children's justices delivered the truth about their child who was not a gun man or a gun woman who was not someone that the british army could just take away and snuff out their life and then cover up the files and hide them away for until 2064 or 2070. those women know they're going to die without having any of truth and without any justice. chris heat and harris doesn't have to look into any of their eyes and it doesn't matter if it was the british army or the... uc or the ira or loyalist t

patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst. is joining us from los angeles, also with this is shabir risvy, political commentator in chicago. now gentlemen, uh, welcome to the show, let me start uh with uh patrick, first question i want to ask you because the whole world is talking about it, the un has been pushing uh for this. since almost day one, but this is being vetoed or rejected, you know, and that's truth that is urging and lean it, so tell me on what ground is washington refusing a ceasefire to be established in gaza? very good question, and the answer is uh quite simply, this is on political grounds, so it's the in terms of at the un security council level, it's it's the language, it's the language in the drag text, the us has particular problems because they want to insert political designations, ie, the condemnation of hamas, as a terrorist group, etc., this is also very important, and also to insert the concept of israel has a right to defend itself, now these two concepts are usually problematic, and if you listen to uh the russian deputy to the permanent representative of th

israeli propaganda machine is in overdrive, but i, but i think it is failing, this is as um patrick henningson. is a israel is a damaged brand now that will never recover, their invincibility is shattered, their the most moral army in the world, nope, not anymore, nobody believes any of this, and their superior fighting acumen has been destroyed as well, they're they're visibly terrified, their their shrillness and hysteria speaks to to a almost palpable fear when you when you listen to to israeli leadership, starting with uh netanyahu on down, ben gaveer and avigdor, leaberman and all of these people who are you know essentially fanatic fascists, uh, and and and that's not hyperboly, i mean people have to read what these these leaders actually say in israel, uh, it's a genocidal regime, it's an apartide regime, it it sell by date. is is pass du, it is time for this to change, and and uh, racially pure jewish state is an anachronism, and and it has been abused, it served the purposes of imperialism, the us imperialism, uh, but but that seems over, um, okay, my john white wrote an article today