not facing a us vetor this time, the un security council finally called for immediate cease fire in the gaza's trip, which has so far fallen on televis's deaf ears. israel definally insisted will perform an operation of on ratha where a million and half palestinians have taken shelter. this is faced global criticism and stern warnings even from israel's closest ally, the us. now meantime, truce negotiations are still ongoing in doha qatar, though with no breakthrough. so far as holocaust in gaza has

killed more than 32,00 palestinians, some half million gazans are already facing starvation and many more are on the brink. welcome to the spotlight. i'm your host berruz najafi and these are our guests in this episode. kim sheriff activist and lawyer is joining me from london. also with us is shabir. the political commentator in chicago. of okay, let me welcome both our guests. welcome both of you. so beginning with kim. kim, you're you are a lawyer uh, so uh, at last uh, the us abstained, deciding not to use its video power, the un security council. what in your minds i motivated washington to do so, and does this mean a change of hearts? and

his policies vis the televive regime, is it a publicity stunt or what? yeah, good afternoon to you, it seems to me that that that that after i've analyzed the situation very in carefully and i've been thinking about it, and i've listened very carefully to the speech of the us representative at the un security council as to why they have um abstained, um, it is very obvious to to me, and i don't know about others, but it's very obvious to me that it was a uh publicity stunt, the us is aware that the whole world is now uh totally against its uh uh position in relation to supporting this uh genocidal regime and uh it has lost a moral compass, it has lost the moral authority, it has lost a great deal uh that that that uh perhaps we can't even measure it at this stage and therefore it has decided to take this uh position b and and make it seem like it is concerned and and it wants the right thing to

happen and so forth, but when you listen to the speech of the us representative for the security council, you will see that her entire focus and attention was on basically uh blaming and deflecting uh blaming blaming the whole delay in in getting the the the uh resolution voted on on the chinese and the russians and forgetting completely that they themselves three times vetoed - proposal to end the uh genocidal campaign of the israeli regime and um so it seems to me that this was clearly a political stunt because if they really want to stop, if they really want to stop the genocide, the holocaust in palestine, today all they have to do is make a phone call and i'm pretty confident that they will be obeyed uh because they will they will be able to cut uh military aid, they will be able to cut all kinds of other aid, they will be able to put to bear a huge pressure on them, they will be... able to

sanction them, so it is, this stunt, this doesn't work, and i am not persuaded, i don't about others okay, now uh, shabir, all un security council resolutions are considered binding, and this is in accordance with article 25, the un charter, which is ratified by the united states, but this one, the us has described the monday resolution as non-binding, how's that? yeah, that's certainly interesting, i mean, i think if we need to..." analyze history, there are actually dozens of unsc resolutions that israel has violated uh time and time again, we see it with the west bank, we see it with gaza, we see it with lebanon, this is a, this is an occupation that cannot be trusted, and so what the united states is doing is they're saying it's non-binding, why are they saying it's non-binding, because they know right now israel has become a parius state, and not only has it become a parius state in the...

the international community, i would say, lot of us have known from the very start, it's been a pr state, but all eyes are on israel, it's image as never been more tattered, its image has never been this horrific in the... with the international community, so what the united states is doing right now is saving face of its most loyal junior partner and saying that these are non-binding um in that it knows that israel is going to violate uh the ceasefire resolution or whatever its terms may be, in fact they're already violating it, there were several bombings last night, there were several massacres last night, and so what we see is that israel is very much intent on continuing this carnage um and so for one, "the united states is trying to save face and to we know that from the gecko uh the israeli occupation will not honor this this resolution uh no matter what its terms may be right now kim israely prime minister netanyahu has canceled the visit of a ranking delegation to washington seemingly

in protest at monday's un security council resolution and b is already facing division among cabinet members also opposition from the israeli'. people who've been out on the streets uh for a long time holding rallies against him and his policies, so would he in your opinion eventually get off his high horse or would he still presis to act stubbornly? i think this this act of counseling his visit to the us is just another one of those media game that they play to make it seem like they are now in a tef that that's not. true because if they are in the tif the genocide the holocaust would stop tonight, that's a fact, everyone knows it, and we don't need to be missing our words about that, and this man's life, livelihood, political career, everything, together with his wife also who's been accused of certain things depends on continuation of this uh

holocaust in gaza, because up to now six months later all he has achieved is damaged the reputation of israel in the world and um cut cut its own possible uh benefit that it may had derived from any other sources if it had taken different course in relation to dealing with october the 7th and so he's now a situation hasn't achieved any of his objectives from the time he entered uh gaza other than committing a holocaus that people are now comparing it to the nazi germany of uh second world war and so um him pretending that he's not going is to give a america some kind to give america some kind of uh gravitas in the world platform to make america seem like you know it's now taking a very firm uh stance towards israel and the the the reality is far from that if it wants to take a firm stances for for for them to say stop it now

or else we are going to um apply sanctions on you we're going to send our troops there to you to make sure that you don't invade do you what you're threatening to do raffa and and do that that kind of thing, they have done that many times before, in relation to many other people, but not in relation to palestine, because they are a party to this holocaust, the us regime is a party to this holocaust, so is the uk, unfortunately, yemen is the only one that is upholding the international uh rule of law, right? now shabir, officials in tel aviv have taken no heat of the un call for ceasefire, nor have they abided by the uh icj. ruling, so what else can be done to force the regime to stop this genocide or holocaust or whatever else we call in gaza? yes, so as we know, israel is a prior state, it doesn't care for um, what international mechanisms are being used

against it, and so what it's going to have to come down to is that countries will have to take a bold stance, they're going to have economically cut ties with the zin and state, they're going to have to cut political ties with the... state, they will have to turn to their own workers and their own uh their own locally uh their own local businesses and say you cannot do business with the zionist regime, this is what it's going to have to come down to that and of course uplifting the resistance and politically backing the resistance, because as you know under international law resistance against an occupying enemy is completely justified, as soon as that justification is made well known and it's honored internationally uh as we saw china. made similar comments a few weeks ago um we are going to see slowly but surely um sort of just like how south africa apartide south africa was diminished the same diminishment of the israeli regime right now it's it's basically being politically as it always has it's being politically backed and

militarily backed by the united states as soon as countries are able to independently say we will no longer do business with the zionist regime that is when that first domino will fall and it will... cascading effect that's going to take care of the israeli regime that's going to make it eventually fall because it cannot stand its own two legs without any. and economic assurances from basically the western world, now kim, let's now review israel's failure in the gaza war. hamas leader ismail honey is now in tehran and he says that palestinians have shown in his words legendary resistance in the war and that israel has failed to achieve any of its military objectives. let's face it, it's a fact. i uf has failed to defeat even one single palestinian resistance group. yes, you know, this is remarkable, it's been 75 years

or so that that this regime has been applying this genocidal schemes, because genocide is not a one of action of of of one party against another, genocide is a thing is a process, the thing that takes time, so over the past 75 years they have been applying this genocidal policy towards the palestinian people, yet remarkably, they they remain. main stead fast, strong, and carry on their resistance operation, which is their inalienable right guaranteed by the un charter, and occupied people are entitled to do whatever is necessary to uh resist the occupation, and the occupation doesn't have rights, the occupation has obligations to preserve the lives of the occupied, to to protect them, to do all kinds of things to make sure that their human dignity is not userped from them, and so... yes, in this, i totally agree that they haven't achieved any their objectives especially in relation to

the current genocidal campaign uh, they haven't freed any of the hostages, they haven't uh eliminated hamas, as they claim that they were doing, the only said they were just applying collective punishment uh policies killing everybody, and it is horrowing to hear what the uh un uh human rights council uh special reporter francesca albanesi says today, she says this is the genocide. is in gaza is so conspicuous and so ostentatious and she's absolutely right, i'm quoting her verbatum there, she's absolutely right, because it's it's live, it's unfolding before the eyes of humanity all over the world, and yet these guys are arrogantly carrying on and they assume that they going to achieve something and they are not going to. i totally agree with those who say that the the the people of paleston have shown a remarkable uh very moving uh fortitude and resilience. and ability to resist their rather horrific, monstrous, nasty uh,

occupying force, right? now shabir, ismal saying that political support for the tel aviv regime is waining, and he cited the un security council monday resolution demanding the seasfire, so we have pro- palestine rallies and full swing around the world, as you know, we have israel's allies, even their closest one turning their backs, boycots. is really made goods by large number of countries underway, severance of relations or limiting relations, summoning ambassadors, filing lawsuits and international fora, so what else could be in the offing? yeah, we're seeing multiple cascading effects of uh the october 7th resistance operation, hamas has basically bloody the nose of israel to such an extent that they will never ever be able to recover. i think what's going to happen now is is... tightening of these uh different types of uh resistance that we're seeing, whether that's resistance directly on the

ground uh from you know groups like hamas or the pflp, whether it's boycots expanding, as you can see more companies are being targeted um to the point where you know sometimes even shipping lanes are being blocked, airports are being stopped by you know groups here in the united states, and and there's just more general political pressure being added to specifically the united states political apparatus. as you can see uh from the primary results coming in, lot of voters are saying that they're uncommitted uh to joe biden specifically as a protest vote due to his uh direct complicity in this genocide, and i think that's where it hurts the political system the most, because joe biden has been the number one backer of this genocide. if it were not for his policies, this would not have gone to the extent that it has. now that the political pressure is being applied to the number one finance. here and the number one political backer of the zionist regime, things are going to start changing, and it's

not only just the voting that's you know going to be taken into effect. if you look at what's happening on the ground in the united states, politicians are being made uncomfortable, they're having these fundraiser events where activists are popping up and shutting down the fundraiser event, roadways are being blocked, highways are being blocked, entire docs are being blocked, and i think the united states is at risk of losing its own... political legitimacy if it keeps backing this genocide, because as you can see there's millions of people on the streets collectively uh, not only in the united states, but across the entire world, they all support palestine, in fact, "the only people that are supporting the israeli cause are specific zionist groups, people that are tricked into supporting zionism, and of course the united states ruling class who seeks to make, as jared krishner said, a port could, lead to lot of revenue for the united states capitalist class, the the people of the united states are directly at odds with their own ruling class, so why would they support some things, why would they support

israel, when they know that israel is committing this genocide, is in bed with the ruling class that's..." oppresses them day in and day out, there's no reason to support this, and the longer that the united states digs its heels into this genocide, the more contradictions arise between the population the united states and the government of the united states, which clearly shows that it, it does not have the interest of the people at hand, it does not have the interest of peace and security at hand, rather it has the interest of few select billionaire elite that want to expand their operations across west asia and into asia. for their own personal gain, right? turning to the humanity and aids situation in gaza, kim, uh, some people have been crushed to death you in the stamped, some of them drowned while trying to get a drop from the air, some of them were hit by those, air drop, aid, so this kind of, you know, aid air drop one, i mean has proved not only humiliating, but deadly. i mean, if the

donors really want to help the people in gaza, why don't they simply force? to open land crossings, indeed, i mean, that is the easiest and the quickest way and the honest uh, bonafied method of of alleviating the suffering there, vis the humanitarian catastrophe aspect of it, you have to also look at who is creating that environment, who is doing this, the israeli vicious regime, it's doing it in because it uses hunger as a weapon of war, it wants to flatten out the whole of... the the whole conflict is now becoming clear that that it is about to do with with the uh natural mineral resources of gaza itself, apparently there's so much gaz in the sea of gaza, there is a talk about turning gaza into an attractive holiday resort and said it by jared krishna the other day, so an interview, horrified, horrified to here, this is the ultimate, the ultimate

psychopathy, you don't have to be psychologist expert to identify these people are very... very very sick and dangerous people because they don't seem to appreciate the value of human life, they don't seem to appreciate that the importance of preserving human life, instead they think any people can just be exterminated systematically like they're doing it now, whether you they using whether using hunger as a weapon of war or or denying them access to basic necessities like medicine and water and uh just outright shooting them and and buldosing them and continue to attack the same hospital over and over again raping women in the in in there are allegations of rape taking place by the israeli soldiers there and it's month of ramadan people are fasting we feel we understand what it is to be hungry and thirsty can you imagine what it is like for the people of gaza that has been the situation for nearly 20 years for them and now it's just been intensified what needs to

happen is just like francesca albanizi the special reporter of the human rights council said uh today uh she's calling for sanctions and embargo on israel, the whole world needs to now stop dealing with them, literally kick their embassy ambassadors out, close down their embassies and tell them you're going to stop this uh systematic extermination of these people, or else we're not going to talk to you, we're not going to deal with you, and of course we need to reprimand and maybe even have them investigated those countries that have been creating a land passage for the israeli vicious regime. uh whilst the uh gazons are are starving, the air dropping of the food was pretty hollywood movie stunt to make it seem like they care, they trying to do. this is a classic example where a narcissist or psychopath pretends to have empathy, do you understand what i'm saying? so these guys are psychopaths, they are dangerous and they the palestinian people

need to be protected from the evils of these people. all right, now shabir uh, israel saying it can... not defeat hamas without going into rafa, what it says, the movement has four battalions composed of thousands of fighters, now even if that is true, would that be the right thing i mean to wipe out the entire population there to achieve the goal? no, of course not, there's no reason for this the siege even be happening in the first place, i'm not just even talking about after october 7th, i'm talking about the history of the the... they have to go and guarantee no matter what they do, as we have seen time and time again, year after year, they they say that they have targeted bombings, that's just simply not true, the

their bombs are unguided, and what they're trying to do is massacre as many people as possible, they're trying to force them out, there is nothing surgical about this, and even if it was, this is a full-blown occupation, it is an illegal occupation, hamas has every right to exist, any resist. group has any right to exist illegal occupation. this is under the un's own law. um, what they're trying to do here is is ben laws is take advantage of the fact that they are politically and military backed by the united states and commit a massacre of untold proportions. we we have never seen anything like this on in history where such sophisticated military has backed all these people into a specific ' into a specific corner, has deprived them of food and medicine, has broken them psychologically, has broken them physically, and now wants to finish them off, they're asking the world for

permission to commit massacre that will surely finish off the population of gaza, and they want the world's approval to do it, but they have become so illegitimized, they have become a parios state, and they're going to be unable to do this, and now they're trying to make a gamble at it and say that they're going to go in, um, and it's just... not going to work out for them, this this objective that they have of destroying hamas is not going to work, and they don't even consider that every time that they kill a palestinian, who else is going to rise up to rise up to the task of joining the resistance and fight back, this is something that they are not considering whatsoever. now kim, in terms of the true stocks, now qatar is saying that the adoption of the un security council resolution uh has not had any immediate effect on the talks for now, at least these... media said the talks had fallen through, they blame hamas's response to a us proposal for a prisoner swap. now hamas is saying that israel is entirely responsible

for the failure of the negotiation efforts, so do you see a ceasefire deal around the corner? do hope so, but i can imagine, mean you know going a high level negotiation meetings of of this sort, it's a very tense atmosphere, mean as a commercial... i have attended these negotiation sessions, it's a very, very tense atmosphere, and you need to have parity between the negotiating parties, if you know what i in the sense of like they need to be of equal strength, but here we got two parties of totally unequal strength, one party which is supremacist in its ideology and its position and its assumption, it thinks it is superior to all other humans and and of course in relation to hamas it seeds. itself as even more superior and sees hamas is a mere hot spotch of terror militia which is not true and they know it, but uh and so

having negotiation in in a room like that it is filled with with contempt what by one side to the other side and another side trying to uphold its rights with with with all it can uh despite all the obstacles that it has in front of it so it's a very difficult scenario and i can imagine i commend all those uh medi 'who are in there who are maintaining the uh uh the peace in there and uh so i i i hope there will be, i hope some somebody will tell israel for god's sake, listen, the whole world now is aware of your henous crimes, the whole world sees you as a proper psychopath, this is what you need to tell your client when you are in negotiating like that, you know your client is unreasonable, you have to bear upon them and tell them, listen, you are going to have to come enter into a deal here and if you'. and going to backfire on you very, very badly. okay, uh, on that now we come to the end of this uh episode of the spotlight, i apologize for that. kim sharif,

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