welcome to spotlight. the gaza genocide is uh closing in on six months now as the israeli attacks continue all across the besieg territory causing more deaths and destruction. during three weeks of siege on the al-shifa hospital, israeli forces have killed hundreds of civilians in and around the medical facility. iof troops still attack hospitals in as under the pretext of finding

members of the hamas resistance movement. after 177 days, the death toll from the u.s. israeli genocide in gaza is approaching 33,000 from beseeging hospitals to wiping out entire families, crimes unimaginable are being committed by the israeli regime against the palestinians and as the world watches on, the nightmare continues. joining us tonight's spotlight we have. activist and political analyst alberto garcia watson joining us from morocco and former black panther party member jihad abdul mamed is joining us now from stone mountain georgia. gentlemen, welcome to the program. let's start off with mr. abdul mamet from stone mountain georgia, sir, just about every... crime uh imaginable has been

committed against the people in gaza, give us your perspective on why the israeli regime is acting in this savage manner against a civilian population? yes, bismillah rahmanirrahim, in the name of allah, most gracious, most merciful, uh, we look it is being uh rabbit dog uh fighting desperately to maintain the hegemony in that area supported by the united states and now that uh the iron dome has been cracked. by hamas, they see their vulnerabilities, and the only way that they can eliminate this, this people's threat, this revolutionary threat, of this this threat against their colonial regime and their apartty regime, it's a fight back and decimate everything that they possibly can, i think this is the normal history, at least definitely so for the united states and for over 70 years for the israeli regime has been taken and goble gobbling up the land of our palestinian sisters and brothers ever since the beginning, now now we have heighten form of genocide, but it's... always been the

genocide, it's always been the open air prisoners, it's always been that, and it's always been supported by the united states of america, which is one of the first countries to support israeli regime when they raised their flag high over 70 years ago, so what you see is very normal activity at his height in the state, there's no way in the world that the united states or israel is going to allow a block of muslim countries, a block of socialist countries, a block of any other countries to be able to get in that area and and away the united states bastion to power their front there, so now you see this this effort to to raise the ground to raise everything, so they think, but just like a grass growing up through the cement uh sidewalk, they'll never extinguish that, and they'll definitely never extinguish the light of the muslims fighting back against oppression, never ever. right, mr. garcia watson, attacking hospitals and schools, uh, it's been a hallmark of forces in gaza, even in in past wars and... massacres, do you think

the israelies are committing uh such brutality against the civilian population because it is not been successful against the resistance? well, definitely, israelis have always even before the state of israel was ever declared in 1948, the terrorist attacks from the radical streamers sionist jewish groups was always focused on a civil. and they committed massacers that could just be compared to the ones committed by taeshh in syria and in turkey in iraq, i mean, they've always pointed at at civilians because they know that that is what the call the attention, and that's what actually the majority of the population of israel approves, 68% of israelis today approved the military operation in the gaza strip by the of israeli for... but it's even close to a 70%

of israelis that wish that the israeli forces will be even more brutal against the civilian population, they really cannot fight against. uh hamas, hamas is not the only resistance group in the in the gaza strip, we have the islamic jihad, we have the popular front for liberation of palestine, we have different groups that are involved in this struggle, but it it's it's only is only when they fight against this groups that they have to wear diapers and this is not a joke, they do wear diapers, israeli forces when they confront their resistant forces, actually fighting. the civilians is so much easier and it gives much better result for their goals, which is to kill as many people as possible and create the terror and the gaza strip to make the people live in in a situation that is absolutely unbearable and push them out of the gas strip whenever they have the

occasion. israelis have proven not to be very different than any other terrorist group or even the nazi. reg in germany in the 40s, the actually very much the same, they have picked up really the civilian population as the target because they know they can't fight the resistance, the resistance i will say that is almost intact the capacity that they have at this point of fighting back, and they haven't been able of liberating the hostages and they haven't been able of finishing and exterminating hamas as they want, and this can take years before they can reach that goal so... "the meanwhile they're going to kill as many civilians as possible. mr. abdul mahmoud, this genocide in gaza has been extremely but bloody for journalists as well. why are journalists uh the one of the targets of choice for the uh israeli regime, and should we be hearing more from international

journalist organizations condemning what the uh israeli regime is doing? yes indeed, well targeting the the the the journalist is..." blotting out what's really happening the best way that they can so that the rest of the world won't see their atrocities and as brother bertle just said earlier why would they do these are the same this is white suprematy white supremacy its best its best these are the same type of people that would hang a black person from a tree and have picnic and have their children these this is the same mentality that we dealing with so when we say oh they're killing they are intentionally killing children they're intentionally killing... journalist so they block out the truth so the rest of the world won't won't see what's going on, they're like rabbit dog, they are so serious about this, to maintain their hegemony over that area so when they beseed they don't care about hospital, just like they couldn't care about hanging and cutting a black woman stomach out and let the baby come fall out and feathering

people castrating people here in united, this is the same mentality, so don't be surprised and it can get worse because their bestiality has no limits whatsoever in the... world is seen and you have to take my my my strong words to show this, all you have to do is turn on youtube alzazer or press network and you can see press news and you can see what is actually going on, so there you have it, so um this is this is their effort to maintain, they're scared, they cannot defeat the resistance movement, now they may kill and kill and kill, but the baby that's being born today, 15 years from now that'l be the warrior fighting them, they'll never extinguish the light of allah, the... never extinguish the resistance movement, they'll never ever, but what they have done for themselves, they have, they have shown the world their immorality, they are no longer as if they ever were in the first place, we no better than that, but they have shown the world what type of beasts, what type of devils, what type of demented thinking it is,

and so there you have it, but they will lose, they will lose. mr. garcia watson on sunday, the regime targeted tents of journalists uh, addition to uh more uh displaced people. in gaza, what do you believe uh the regime is trying to accomplish by uh committing such crimes and do you think that this clearly shows that the israeli war is not just with the resistance, but it's on all of the people in gaza. definitely, and and and one of the big targets are the journalists, they don't want israelis don't want that the world sees what's going on in the gaza strip, however... "now nowadays any palestinian in the gaza strip that's got a mobile has become a reporter, is is uploading images, photographs, videos and the social media so the rest of the world can see what's going on, but they have killed already so many journalists, they have killed more

journalists than in the entire 10 years in the vietnam war, which actually shows the brutality and how they target them, and the way that they do it is very often they wait till..." these journalists have returned back home so they can kill not just the journalist but the entire family, this this is the way they operated so brutal and so vicious, what what can explain what? is the justification and that is everything that and everyone that moves around on the gas strip is hamas. when i went to the gas strip, the times that i went as an activist, as as a human shield, they used to also tell me and the rest of the international brigades that we were also members of hamas. i remember even one correspondent of the spanish tv called jolanda alvarez in 2014, she was a correspondent in jerusalem and she was in the... strip during the operation in 2014, the israelis have to pressurize in spain, the

spanish, the israeli ambassador in madrid, the spanish government that this woman, this correspondent was actually member of habas undercover, and the spanish at that time, the president of the conservative party, just sat the... is correspondent and brought it back to madrid and and you know if you show the truth of what's going on in every single operation that the israel is inflicting the gaza strip right away or is a threat for the israeli security or they just get rid of them like so many so many correspondents have died and the duty of informing the world of what's going on this is information for israel is a big threat and showing the brutality of what the israel is. trating the terrorism that they perpetrating against civilians, it's a

shame and embarrassing that the international community is just keeping such an ambigurous position towards this situation, because if this what happened in ukraine, right away like it did happen, we will have orders of arrest against vladimir putin, we will have all the sports, the athletes, the football players a musical contest, we will have a russia band with... is what happened just in the in the weeks after the special uh russian military operation in ukraine, but when it happens with israel it's untouchable, i mean they can continue participating um in the european tournaments even though it's not a european nation and they can still keep on participating in absolutely everything, that is actually embarrassing. mr. abdul mahmut, the uh shifa hospital, it's still under siege and other hospitals. are under attack and now camal one hospital, which is the uh, it's basically the only facility left to take care

the severely injured. what do you think uh the aim of the israeli regime is when it's targeting hospitals in such a brutal manner and kidnapping and even killing uh many patients and hospital staff as well, right? and so this is as my brother watson just said, this is is terrorism, this... this is terrorism, this is state sponsored terrorism, historically and systemic the terrorism unabashed, and so now that you're targeting the hospital it is to break the will of the people, it is destroy every last vestage of anybody, i don't care if you're sick, crippled, starving to death from malnutrition and disease and famine, you know, under the broken bones of buildings falling on you, this is this is terrorism, and terrorism is to to be to to put strike fear in the hearts of anybody any remaining person after this

decimation is over, so to think that you never going to do this again, and i didn't answer the second part of your question before, the reason why there's such insipit, weak, timit response for so many countries, you know, is is because over the centuries many of these countries throughout africa and the rest of the world have become bed fellows with the united states and israel seeking the advantage the benefits that they think they can. get that they really don't buse the united states has raked the whole continent of africa of all as resources so have other european countries now they have to reconsider because of the egreges they have to draw a line in the sand and it's very difficult for now that you've been bed fellows with the colonyless for so long now you have to think and consider how am i going to stand for justice how i going to stand against this oppression when i have for decades been bed fellows and seeking the benefits uh um self-serving interests of mine nation states, forget about the one of the prophet, but the nation states that the

europeans help you carve out and establish. now you have to think, i going to lose the little crumbs that they give you on the table? that is the deal, and the fear and the fear of losing the material benefits from the united states and whatever comes to israel, and so now you have to recalculate that what it is, so it's putting pressure on countries the world, and this is a good thing, so it's going to see if you're going to stand up for what is just, stand up for what is right, you have to deatach yourself from the nipple of oppression, from the nipple of imperialism, from the nipple of colonialism, from the nipple of apartide, that's what you have to refigure, and that's what these countries have to do, that's why it's so... difficult, you just can't jump up and say, okay, we're going to support our sisters and brothers of gaza, you know, once your brother, if any part of body hurts, the prophet sallam says, that means the whole body hurts, but we're not really under, we're not wanting to feel that hot deep, and what it really means, so there you go, mr. garcia watson, there have been attempts to have a cease fire in place

for the month of ramadan, of course, the most recent one being the united nations security council resolution was passed. and subsequently ignored by the israeli regime, so that didn't happen, now new round of talks have resumed in cairo, how likely are we to to see humanitarian ceasefire soon, what will it take, and who do you think is impeeding from a cease fire from being put in place? the united states could actually make much more of an effort, when i say the united states. obviously i mean the white house, i don't mean the people, we seen some of the most massive demonstrations against uh the genocide taking place in in in the united states, but as long as president joe biden keeps on and one hand saying that um, well yes we are pressurizing israel not to

perpetrate the land invasion rafa, but however gonna do it by our weapons here, you have few millions and and weapons to keep on killing people and keep on destroying uh this palestinians lives, the only one at this point that actually apart from the entire world together that doesn't seem to do anything but obey what the united states imposes, i've never seen that before happening, europe used to be quite independent in the past, never seen how united states at this point is just imposing and the international community is absolute submission over their policies, but united states could actually stop it, and because we see, i mean, the the the international court of justice already in january sentence israel for committing what they understand traces

somehow of of gestures of facts of genocide. and imposed support to stop doing it ever since that declaration of the of the international court the rhythm of kins had increased then we see that the unit united nations resolution that took place a couple of weeks ago hasn't been obeyed and it's no reprecussions we see that is no reaction against that is no arms embargo is no orders of it's absolutely nothing happens when it comes to israel, it's absolutely untouchable, it's like mafia like a sicilian mafia that nobody dares dealing with or or or actually taking any sort of measures against, so united states and i just understand joe biden and times that now a big part of the democrats voters are uh showing the

disapproval and the in the politics and in the policies. the united states towards this genocide uh taking place in the gaza strip that he doesn't change, he does not want to change, he's going sacrifice his presidency just to keep loyal to the cionist regime, as he said, you don't have to be a jew to be a sonis and i am a sionist, he says, and and that and that is sad, and that is actually sad that the only one that could actually stop him abstains in the voting of of the resolution voted in the security. council of the united nations recently, but they will continue giving the weapons to keep on killing 20 tons bombs that have been provided in the past days to israel to keep on killing the population and actually the the so very very wrong because what they're creating is more and more resistance, every single child

that is going to survive this genocide is going to become one more member of the resistance and israel then is going to... a real trouble and a real problem in the future. mr. abdul mohmet, it appears that the regime's goal is to create hell on earth for palestinians in order for them to leave gaza. that's what you and our guest uh mr. watson pointed out earlier for us, but we've seen that despite all of the horror and devastation, the majority of palestinians say that no matter what, they will not leave their homeland. with this being the perspective of uh of the majority of gazans, can the israel. regime ever be successful taking control of gaza? they'll never be successful, well they may take control in the immediacy, but in the long run they'll never be successful at all, the just is... is always going to prevail as allah says in the holy quran, you know, but so their days are are numbered, even though it may not look like it right now, how we look at time and the passing of time, and yeah, in the

mediacy, this is going to be just what we see it to be, but uh, as as my brother watson said, not only did joe biden said that uh, he's a zionist also, but they said that if if there was, if israel didn't come about on their own vallition and accord and then the united states first declared that they supported that they would have created their own israel that lets you know you know that the imperialist design of the united states ever since its existence has always been that the whole um uh uh manifest destiny from sea to shiny from sea to shiny c that means going from the west coast going around the world and coming to uh the back to the atlantic ocean not talking about coming across the land mass you know so it's always was about this aggression gobbling up land mass uh exploiting extrapolating the minerals and the resources and now that whatever is there they're going to make sure that they have full control of it and they're going to see this, think they going to see this as an opportunity, so no, we don't see them stopping, but we see them failing, and in

allah's the best of man plans and allah plans and indeed allahs the best of planners, we cannot lose, my dear brothers, we can even when we die we're not losing, a marter goes to paradise, those that are living will remain to populate the world you know to cause more resistance, this is the struggle of in this dunya and this worldly life that we live and the law says it makes it very clear in the we will not lose to answer your question they will be the ones that's going to fail and one last question for you mr. garcia watson with everything that's taking place now is there any viable option for the palestinians other than resistance absolutely that's what is been in the past 75 years resistance resistance from all points of view resistance with a with with a weapon or resistance through. different possibilities like the bds, which is also very, very good weapon against the cionist regime. there are

many ways of of activism that can damage the image of israel, but the number one, the number one and it stands in the quran too, is to do the jihad is to defend the values, is to defend the nation, to defend the people and defend the religion, and when you have the enemy... and the enemy is evil like israel is, resistance is probably the only weapon you can fight back and i met people from the resistance and in the gaza strip and i met them also in lebanon in the years that i was there as a correspondent and there are great people with lot of dignity, some of them are teachers, some are lawyers, some are working construction, they're not professional - fighters and not professional military, they're actually people who ' take the weapon when they need to defend their families and they need to defend their values and their territory and here the only aggressor in the middle east since the the

the 30s and 40s has been this entity the science entity that they called israel, it didn't exist the phenomenon of terrorism before the the first quees started arriving to palestine in the 20s and 30s, they had to grab the land, the land that actually palestinian. were willing to share with them, because every single time that the jews were prosecuted or they were uh killed, they never left to another european white country, they always went to the muslim countries to the uma, why? because they always welcome them because the religion tells them, you come if you are in need and i will provide, but this people when they when they took the finger and they took the whole arm and they took everything, and they not only just... exterminating the palestinians, but they humiliating them too, and one of the most sacred things for muslims, which is their religion, so i think that instead of

exterminating hamas or finishing with the palestinian nation and the palestinian people will they creating this even a stronger resistance for the future. okay, that's all the time we have for tonight's show. thanks to actives and political analy alberto garcia watson joining us from marakish morocco and thanks to uh jih. abdul mamit, former black panther party member joining us from stone mountain georgia and also allow me to thank uh our viewers for staying with us tonight's spot night so good night for now and see you next time. bismillahirrahman.

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