hello and welcome to the spot. flight in this edition, a statement on thursday, hamas announced that it had put forth new proposal for sease fire that also includes a pris prisoner swap deal, but while gaza is looking for ways to end the war, word is out that netanyahu has approved attacking rafa, a city in gaza that was expected to be safe place for displaced palestinians. in this edition of spotlight, we will be discussing the...

hier situation in the besieg coastal strip and israel's true intentions in continuing the war. our guests in this edition are masud shajade, chairman of the islamic human rights commission joining us live from london and also saib shath, author and west asia expert from belfast. thank you very much to both of you gentlemen. let's begin with mr. masud shajare. mr. shajare, we have just heard that netanyahu has approved uh attacking rafa. now this is a city that from the very beginning was deemed to be safe place for displaced palestinians. that is according to israeli sources, it's themselves. why is this happening now at this point in time when uh how? is putting forth a ceasefire deal, a

prisoner swap deal, and is looking for ways to end the war. well, it's very clear that israel, it's this ziinus state, from the outset was set to exclude palestinians from that land, ethnic cleansed them, and by any means possible, and grab as much land as possible. but this particular government in particular, it it actually been committed to ethnic cleansing and genocide long before 7th of october to the extent that there has been even conflict internally in uh this uh regime uh because of this policy, this particular government is committed to that, so will use any possible... avenue, any possible

opportunity to kill as many palestinian, kill as many children, kill as many women, and in their eyes, the children of gaza are the future palestinians and they need to be eradicated, they need to be killed, and this is why the policy since the 7th of october, which has been unleashed, it shows very of clearly, that they are targeting innocent civilians with a brutality, without any mercy in front of tv cameras and while the international community is watching and at worse united state and western allies are equipping and this zinust state to kill most effectively, most brutally and most systematically - "this is not what is

happening right now, the fact that netanyahu wants to use this opportunity to kill as many people, innocent people as many palestinian and ethnically cleans the gaza, it's not a surprise, and it's not a new policy, it's been their policy, and they are pursuing it so openly and so publicly, and i think we need to wake up to this reality, otherwise..." there otherwise this is going to go on and on and the you know international community is just doing nothing and and wishing for a change of policy which is not going to happen without enough pressure being put on designer state. well, mr. shajar, you raised some very important issues right there, but i would like to rewind what you said and go back to a part which is very important, you said all of this is happening in front of tv cameras and the

international community is watching, so let's bring in our guest from belfast, mr. mr. shath, i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing your name correctly, i hope that i do, but uh, israel israel is committing war crimes, crimes that have been defined by international law as war crimes. israel has completely neglected what is known to be as the geneva convention uh or what the icrc itself claims to be rules for war. uh, so what do you think the intention of israel is by so openly neglecting everything that um modern human beings? uh believed to be the pillars of the modern society? let me just grasp the last statement you said, this modern civilized society which you talking about, it's all fake and and hypocracy, it was, it used to be used just by the west when

they want to intimidate a country or impose sanction or just get their interest through and the international and international community and international organizations being formed after the second world war like the united nation and these bodies and geneva even convention and the special the fourth article of it and it's all approven gaza is approved all of that was fake and it was just hypocracy since the united states of america as they claim the leaders of the free world which means the western camp they they themselves who showed us in gaza, they they they said they pretend with this zist entity as their outpost military posts in there, and i want to say it's their banana republic in the middle in the middle of west asia, which is the the designist try to deny that like

bengivir when said we are not a banana republic to the to the americans, they are a banana republic in there and they without support of the... united states without the money, without the funding, without the arms, they would be disappear in weeks and this is one point, the united states of america who can open the the the land roots from rafak or kar abusalem to bring the miles upon miles from aid waiting in the borders of rafa can do it with one full call to order not to ask netanyahu and they would obey because they... without the united states of america uh they they can't, but biden said there is no red line when he was talking about for netanyahu for the israelis means they can do whatever they want and the united states of america can can ask protend like they care for the palestinians once they start the this air

drops of aid which is landed in top of people and killed seven at some stage uh the united states of america drop few barcels of aid on gaza on this hand and on the other hand tons upon tons of ammunition going to the the science entity supplying it, the same goes for the british, for the germans, for the french, for australia, for canada, all this western camps is becoming disgusted because they are involved in, they are complessed in genocide now, if we can hear the the rulings the international. board about asking israel to follow one two three steps and and provide this report and as well to take steps not to put the palestinians lives in harm way and to allow the the aid in and telling the

governments who supply this entity with lot of with cash and with the ammunition and with that are complicit with it, this is a clear but non lesson since design entity, they they think they are shield and by this western diplomatic shield from any organization to impose it anything, we witness the united states of america use three vetos against the seas firing gaza to save the the people in gaza, the they can 30% of the children in gaza matrictions now and lot of them dying from hunger and starvation and we can see the roundabout of the... in in western gaza become the call nickname the flower massacers since people go gather there waiting for any trucks to get them any kind of aid or flower to get to their starving children the rest their life and lot of them knows they can go

there and not coming back since but they have to do something for their kids and this is all done at the watch of the united states of america exactly it's all happening under the watch of the us and also mr. shajare, the us also did some kind of what i would like to call a propaganda move to send some aid that at best can be described as drop in the bucket uh something that could only uh make some headlines for just few days uh sending some kind of uh meger amount of aid to gaza while it is supporting israel by sending tons of weapons, all kinds of weapons that israel needs. let alone as our guest in belfast just mentioned all the support that uh it gives to the zionist entity in the... united nations by vetoing any attempt for a ceasefire? it

really is outrageous, it is outrageous that this level of killing and brutality, it goes on, it's outrageous that no attempt is being made to stop it, and indeed there is veto taking place to make sure that it will not. stuff, there is a political cover for um this zionist state by united state and its western allies to make sure that the killing will continue with its brutality and with its totality, and indeed arms are being pourred in free of charge, they're not even being, they're not even being sold to kill innocent people. everybody knows what's going on and indeed let us not forget that the corridor

for aid to go into israel to go to this zinist estate and feed not just the pe zionist but feed the war machine is going through saudi arabia, emirat and and jordan and you know oil is going through turkey, this is our... outrageous, it's outrageous because it's happening in front of the world population, we are seeing it day in day out. i'm sick and tired of actually seeing this, i'm sick and tired of seeing myself and my family crying their eyes out in this month of ramadan for human beings being treated in that way, and at the same time united state claim to be champion of the... democracy, champion of human right, champion of of a

standing for the weak ones around the world, and this is outrageous, it has to stop, where is the democracy? 70 to 80% of western nations population is asking for cease fire now, right now, and you know these, these criminals who are in power. bit in britain, france, germany or united states are indeed ignoring their own people, and then they claim that this is democracy. i i think what is now is very clear that all the institutions that when been set up to stop uh these sort of brutal war crimes, be at the united state, international courts and so forth are not fit for purpose, and we need to... bring a change, and we need to bring a change not just in these international

institutions, but citizens in britain, france, germany and united states need to ask themselves, do they want this direction of going towards sort of jungle, law of jungle, people killing each other and being allowed to commit genocide in such open way, or they... are responsible to bring an end to it and you know they will put more effort already, take my hat out to people in britain, france, germany and others who are coming out in demonstrations day in day out, but it needs to go far beyond demonstrations, we need to sort of say enough is enough, and i think we need to demand that there has to be some justice prevailing at this 11th. power: you're absolutely right, mr. shajar, and these grassroots campaigns have proven to

be successful in inflicting heavy losses on corporations that support israel. we've had mcdonald's and also starbucks announcing heavy losses. so, mr. shath, could you please tell us, in your opinion, could the same grassroot campaigns puts the same amount of pressure on their governments who are? clearly against their people's will, are still supporting israel? i just came today from a massive demonistration in belfast and... addressed it in front of the american counsulat and the people are outraged and the outraged at their own local politicians and in ireland they are outraged at the irish prime minister and irish leaders of the biggest political parties going in saint patrick day which is the irish national day

to hand a sham rock to joe biden and they say like you don't go and check. hands with genocidal jew and the the the people are disgusted with the with with with their leadership with their political parties ofen trying to implicit their political parties in supporting genocide by going and sitting with joe biden that limit it's it's it's a massive call uh for them to uh to turn away from doing that but tomorrow "the whole thing will be, so i don't think the the united states of america, even in the the congress, the the issued bill for banning or taking over took, because they think it is lot of the youngs are getting their news from there, not from the mainstream media, because of palestine,

because of the what's going on in palestine, they they want only the lies comes from ' the fox news or cnn or bbc to trickle to the people, they want to control them and make them ship people, they don't understand the people are educated and they can think and make decision for themselves, they do want to keep bombarding them with lies, since studies says there is 80% of the people who read the news, they don't go to find out was it right or wrong to analyze, so they depend on that, and there is a... huge industry in design entity in fake news and telling lies, since that entity itself was based on lies, lie, religious lies, national lies, ethnic groups lies, everything about that entity and its leadership, designist entity is lies, and the united states of america, i want to say to my

friend, which pretending the leader of the free world and supposed to defend the as you said, mr. shady the the week, they are not, and you know and i know, they the one who committed genocide after genocide in vietnam, they the one who killed the the the first nation in in america, they they inhalated them, they the one who destroy a lot of countries in latin america, they the one who killed nearly two million irakies in iraq under couple of lies which is prove weapons of mass destruction and stuff like that and it's still... stagnating the iraqi economy and looting everything in there, they the one who went in syria under the cover of the want to fight daesh with they created and they looting the oil and the gaz from syria and destroying the country, they the one who want to make sure this entity destroy gaza and crying to netanyahu like the killing them

softly, gently as biden said, it's disgusting and it's about i agree with you brother, the new order supposed to be emerging and learning because gaza exposed them all. so mr. shajar, in your opinion, how much power do these grassroots campaigns have, and can they put enough pressure on the governments? or let's say how far would these governments dare to go? well, i, i think i think what very clear that these governments they have not. morality, morally bankrupt, ideologically bankrupt, and you know when it comes to law and order they're bankrupt, but never before until now they were exposed the way that they're exposed now, it's true what happened in vietnam is true, all the things that brother is is highlighting, but it's

really just now that masses in west are waking. up to these realities, and i think this is the beginning of the end of the influence of these politicians, these politicians have to be punished when it comes to the election, they don't fear anything else, they have no morality, they've got no common sense or dignity, they need to be punished on the ballot on the ballot paper, and and indeed i think that's going to happen. and indeed i think this what we are seeing, this mass awakening that we are seeing right across western world with united states, france, germany, etc. etc. despite the fact that they are using sort of dictatorial policies to stop these demonstrations, to legislate to stop this

demonstration and to stop the voice of those who are standing up for justice and saying never again, but nevertheless is growing, it's growing by minute, it's growing by day, it's growing every month, and so i would my my response to your question is: is that this is not the end, but this is the beginning of the end of this sort of politics being used to con not just people in western asia and around the world, but cunning their own citizens and and this awakening is going to matter and is strength is becoming more powerful day by day. you're absolutely right, mr. shajar and just as mr. shath just mentioned, he has come uh back from a mass demonstration in ireland. we have been seeing pro- palestine demonstrations in countries

that we would never imagine, and mr. shath, in your opinion, uh, how far do you think these demonstrations can go, and we also live in the day and age of social media, so how do you think social media can also uh increase solidarity with uh the palestinians and in order to bring a change in in ireland it's there is similarities because they suffered colonial and they suffered the same thing so there is a connection and the struggle but as well social media influencing big time since the people get their news straight from the source they sometimes they get it even in arabic from someone who's been his house or her house attack and they see the images and they see the starvation and they see the effect of it and they cannot... see any of that being even displayed on their own mainstream media and one of the other things in here which is i been witnessing since from

last november till now, the respect these demonstration shown for the lebanese resistant and mainly for the yemani resistant, it's amazing to see that and see how the people are proud to see there is noble movement like the yemenes. and the lebanese resistant or the iraqi resistant coming to support the palestinians as they they compare that to what che givara done in the late 60s in in africa in supporting the african against the upper tide and trying to fight so there is a movement growing to dismantle one of the slogans they saying you have to dismantle this zinis entity out of and take it out of this region. lot of the youngsters, jewish even voices start to say in that as well, so this is become a grassroot movement which will influence

everything, and the first result you can see of that, the election of the honorable george galloway as member of the parliament in britain, it's he came to the platform on as for gaza and was elected for that, and this movement will become bigger and bigger and bigger and it's will... change a lot of the ruling elite, you not going to see their faces again in offices, i hope so. and in order to wrap this up, mr. shajade, are you hopeful to see this kind of change that mr. shath just mentioned, particularly with george galloway being elected as he mentioned right now? could we see similar changes in other countries, people coming to power that uh are actually in solidarity with palestine? well what happened with the election of george is, it really sets up a precedent that it is possible, it is possible to go in and

actually defeat both main political parties and he got more vote than the other four parties after him put all together and this actually grives gives the electorate. and the the heart that see that it is possible to do this on the day of bat on the election and i think it would repeat itself, but i think as the other contributors said very clearly, there are two awakening, one is on the brutality of zianist state and it intention to kill and commit genocide and for the fact that political parties in the... are supporting it in every way and are duplicit in committing those genocide, and then on other hand, it's what the solution is, the

resistance is: being praised by every freedom loving person around the world, because no one else, no one else, whatsoever is taking any step to stop this genocide, and people beat in yemen or elsewhere are actually sacrificing their lives, sacrificing their wellbeing, sacrificing very little that they have, but to stop this genocide taking place, and that is being app initiated right across the world, so all the propagandas that was being running out of time, those are being exposed. thank you very much, i'm sorry to cut you off right there, but we're running out of time, mr. masoud chajade, chairman of the islamic human rights commission from london, and also mr. saib shath, author and west asia expert from belfast, thanks for joining us on this edition of the spotlight,

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