of of well the us israelity genocidal war in gaza continues for the 145th day with death doll nearing 30,000. the us president had few words to say about a truth deal that's being discussed. licking on some ice cream, he said that there will be a truth by monday. well, this goes flat against what hamas, political bureau chief moheniya has said, and also the hamas rep in lebanon, asama hamdan. in this edition of the spotlight we will look at the genocidal war and how nothing has prevented civilian killings from the icj to protest to a possible truth deal.

in gaza, it's quite incredible and shocking that we're approaching 30,00 in terms of the death toll, 145 days now, and just in the past 24 hours over 100 palestinians have been murdered, what do you think about the fact that nothing is preventing the genocide from stopping? well, just make it clear that the the main factor of the support for the israeli army. genocide in gaza is obviously

the american government, if the united states wanted to end this massacar, when to end this genocide, you only had to pressure the israelis and you start the sending daily inition and daily support for the israelis, in fact the the clear now from the reports that even the from the last uh i think 26th of december till now israel did not after the cc stop killing the palestinians you know so the only brusher can actually stop designing entity killing more palestinians is the is of the americans because in the other hand you have the neighboring arab regimes who is actually as clear now from what happening 145 days the are obviously american public to of cannot take any decision, they fail even to

to to to actually smuggle, not even deliver smuggle glass of water to the palestinians who are starving in gaza, especially the north of gaza, obviously no feed food at all, we were driving dead on the north because of the the lack of food and medicine and and and water, they salvation became a win now in the hand of the israelies because they make it clear as one of their member of the parliament said if we stop them they will be able to come and give us information about hamas, so it's actually intent to start people to death, so the the way out of thismary is only the americans, the government was sponsoring this massaks, sponsoring the genocide. sure, sure, well, let's talk a little bit more on the humanitarian level before we get into the american complicity, i should say, and nicholas davis, when you take a look at for example, the un organizations um you had a

recent incident on february the 5th where uh the israeli regime forces fired at the un convoy that was carrying vital supplies of food for the starving palestinians um and uh at the same time the regime forces they blocked these trucks and uh that has led many to say food is being used as a weapon of war um so so much so that the the humanitarian organizations are saying we're not going to be able to function in the gaza strip as as it is it's been uh it's been almost impossible. um, why do you think israel is using uh food as a weapon of war? gustar talked about how it wants to extract information on hamas, but is that the only reason? well, well, no, of course not, and and i mean, this is, this is an integral part of why the icj uh, has essentially accepted that this is case of genocide, um, because clearly the... intent is to completely

destroy gaza and kill thousands of civilians. this is not what the americans like to call collateral damage, these are. actually the targets, under whatever pretext the israelis come up with, the goal is to make gaza uninhabitable and to inflict so much death and destruction and sheia terror on the people of gaza, that eventually israel will be able to push them out into egypt or just out into the desert, um, so... so yeah, no, none of the pretexts cited um have any validity whatsoever, this is genocide, pure and simple. you talked about the us assistance uh, john phoenix, maybe you could expand a little bit more about how vast uh

this is, i mean we have at some point uh former or a pentagon spokesman said that the security assistance continues to arrive a near daily basis to the israeli regime, throughout this time the us is saying, not throughout this time really, but in the past month or so that it's telling, it says it's telling israel to really watch out for the civilian casualties, but it continues to supply israel not just sporadically, but almost a daily basis, if not daily. um, how much of a contributing factor is that to the genocide taking place? well, from the beginning of genocide, from the october when the uh americans actually noted that the uh israel sc civilians, they did not actually stop the israelis killing civilians, they actually deny the figures, if you remember biden said, i do not just believe hamas figures, this figures was coming from united nation and other independent organization who

saying the civilian being targeted, houses been demolaged, children of women being killed, hundreds of kids under the rivers, so... "the americans knows that there is, when i say americans, i mean the american government, they knows that they is targeting deliberately civilians, that's explain why they, i mean, that's obviously explain why the you have 8,800 women, you know, killed, 700 children killed, so 75% of the casuality in gaza, the are civilians and the..." the big text of fighting hamas, there is no hamas to fight, i don't see the logic that israel is by buming houses and killing civilians, it's fighting hamas, 65% of the houses in gaza destroyed, total of 80%, the rest of the

figure houses you cannot return to have to be demiliged and rebuilt, you so the clear that the american government is not only. aiding the part of that because they are not only sending women daily to the israelis, they have actually storage in negative desert which is been there for years and years every time the fort hamas in gaza, they attack the palestinians in gaza, the storage is full, but in this time the toll of the war is taking longer than 33 days last. time or or 25 days the time before, this now nearly six months, so the israelies need a supply and americans happy to supply them to palestinians. now you're talking about the issue of they've been attacking actually on the ages of rafa, they killed people yesterday, they bump houses are ra, so the

media knew that no they're stubbing now because of ramadan you know they're not attacking rafa, they're actually attacking houses in rafah. and the sad thing to see yesterday when the jordanian after all this pressure and being exposed actually aiding the zionist and sending food, they dropped some some food yesterday and ended up in the sea, the poor people want to the sea to to actually collected, they've been shot at by snipers, so you mentioned about the trucks, there is no need to see, there is no point sending a trucks to gaza where palestinians, civilians cannot reach it, you know, there never everywhere, this trucks had to be aided by international force to be able to deliver deliver this to the civilians, otherwise you can have food in the street and you cannot reach to it. sure, but let's talk about this self emilation that is taken place in nicholas davis, which i'm sure you're aware

of, when you take a look at what has happened, the depth of this is not really uh being reflected by us officials, especially the us president joe biden, mean we're looking at this uh um aaron bush now gave up his life for the genocide and the slaughter that's taking place uh, but the fact that he did that um, in addition to the fact that he was a us military person um points to whether... "it the genocide has reached a degree where you have american public to actually be awakened to the point where one them, this uh um brave aaron bushnel went and self-imalated and killed himself because of that. has the awareness gotten to that point? yes, and and i would add first that um, the us role is not limited to providing weapons, um, the right" the beginning they sent a us marine general james glynn who took part in

the us uh virtually genocidal destruction of mosul and before that of falluja in iraq um to help the israelis plan this whole operation and there are us military personnel in israel continuing to do that continuing to work with the israelis to help them to use these us weapons to kill more palestinians, i heard yesterday, a friend of a friend who works in florida here for a company called l3 harris, who um, his friend believes it is currently in israel, because l3 harris um helps to build the the so-called iron dome, israeli and missile defense system, so there are american technicians in israel. working to maintain the uh the weapons that are sold there and there are intelligence officials

and senior military officers helping israel to plan and target these weapons on civilians in gaza. now when it comes to uh aaron bushnell, since october, i believe, he he had been under orders um to be prepared to... deploy to the middle east or to israel, so he he explicitly uh, you know, was was implicated, the the the air force unit that he works with was on deck to to be sent to the middle east to take part in this war, um, so he probably more than most americans uh felt complicit. because actually in fact he is implicit, his the air force that he is

part of is part of the war, and um, so, but i mean, i, i thought his statement on facebook before he did this was just incredibly eloquent, he said, he said, how many times have we all asked ourselves, what would we do if you know we were alive at the time of of ' slavery of african-americans in in america, or if we were, in in germany taking part in the genocide or or or hearing about the genocide that that their country was committing, and he said, well, we don't have to wonder anymore, he said, every one of you can now answer the question, what are you doing while your country is committing genocide? and the answer is obviously. for most americans is little or nothing or even even actually supporting it, so that is that

is the answer to the question, and i mean i had a conversation with somebody yesterday talked about how terrible trump is, and i said, well, biden, biden is, how can, how can anybody be worse than a president genocide? well, we were looking at another um instant that we can make a comparison here, john phoenix, to go along the same topic, and uh, that is uh, back in 2003 where you had rachel cory, i don't know if you recall uh, what she did at that point, and i'm going to refer to what she said then, i think it's a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop, i don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore, fast forward to 2024 with aron bush now, compared to what people have been experiencing in palestine at the hands of their colonizers, this: is not extreme at all, you have these two instances happened, but yet us politicians, joe biden, um, you know, he's

not made really any, not really, he hasn't made any reaction or statements on what has happened, um, why do you think uh, this has been the case, and why do you think all these years you still are getting the silence from the us government on people who are sacrificing themselves for causes that they believe in like this? well, if you look at the cases, when she was in gaza the way she was killed that she was tried to stop the buldoser destroying house and the driver actually drove over here it was clear that she was shouting, make it clear that she's in front of him, he ignore here warning to him and managed to kill her, now the not only that the soldier killed her, when the family decided to take the army to court, the american officials were siding with the

israelis against an american citizen, you know, it take maybe six seven meetings with the their sister in in in tel aviv and it was clear that the american officials especially from the american nbc taking the side of the israelies, only crime she committed that she tried to protect a family where she stayed actually having to stay in in few houses in gaza to help the palestinian refugees and that's what happened so obviously the ' american government had a barage of threat and pressure from the z slabi not to side with the victims, side with israel, and that's what happened, it was the clear that ibak was working hard to be sure that the israelies will not be invited in that crime. sure, well, we we are looking now at what's

been coming out from paris, the news. that has now been uh um spread in the past couple days regarding a possibility of a truice, which uh the're uh differing signals, the revisiveness between what the americans have said, even uh the qataris and what hamas uh and the resistance has said um nicholas davis and i'd like to get your reaction to it because on the one hand uh joe biden and i can't believe that they actually uh i mean it doesn't look good when the president is uh is uh looking ice cream and answering reporters. talking about palestinians and it just doesn't look good, um, correct me if i'm wrong, but he said that there's a deal on monday, and yet you have hamas that came out hours later practically and said that there's still large gaps remain, kind of the same type of reaction that hamas had to the previous truths, tell us what you think about what's out there regarding this uh so-called truce that's in the works, yes absolutely, i

mean this this has been going on for weeks uh that... the us um will will come out with saying that you know there is some sort of deal on the table - but when you when you look at the details uh it it's clear that that that that there isn't and that that you know i mean essentially they they are trying to impose on hamas an agreement in which uh hamas would release the israeli hostages in exchange for a temporary truth and then the the bombing and israeli assault would recommence um and clearly i mean hamas has clearly rejected that over and over and over again and and hamas demands what the whole

world is demanding which is an actual cease fire and end to. to the genocide, and i mean the us is complicit also in in fostering a view of this whole crisis that um that implies a reciprocity between the actions of hamas on october the 7th and and israel's israel's genocide and war crimes. and in fact the secretary general of the un was absolutely explicit um in introducing one of the one of the un security council sessions uh where the which the us eventually vetoed um and he said you know yes we condemn what hamas did on october the seventh but israel's

obligations under international humanitarian law. are independent of whatever happened on october the 7th, and they do not depend any kind of reciprocity. we are talking about enforcing international law, enforcing the genocide convention. it does, you know, in terms of stopping genocide, it actually does not matter what hamas did, because they do not provide, what hamas did, does not provide, legit cannot provide. legitimate pretext for genocide right? well, it seems like throughout the questions that i've asked and the responses that i've gotten, we can't escape the role that the us has played john. phoenix in this and uh the us itself was uh focus of the most recent g20 meeting that was held in brazil uh so much so that the brazilian president came out talked about the

us role there and actually then uh uh made the focus of the g20 in some sense the reform the un because uh the brazilian president and uh um other officials that were present there aside from looking down at the us have said this is where the un has failed it needs to be reformed we've heard that before about you want being reformed, but here is a clear example of how bad things can go, what do you think about nothing to have at this point prevented the genocide from stopping? well, can i just highlight one thing before i answer the question, you sound like little best of briers about the icy cream incident, you know, mean you're talking to about the president to is actually forget what he ate in the morning, when he came to the media and talking about genocide, he knows what the issue, killing civilians, starvation, and he's eating ice cream, which is insult, that remind me of the when i watch the general

list and one of the the nazi officers attacking old lady and the other officers laughing, you know, this is really disgusting to see a president of united states talking about issue which is killing. genocide starvation and eating icy cream, that is really a shame, but do not really obviously blame him, mean he just imagine that he made mitran in the conference in france with mitran died 30 years ago, he called cc prison mexico, so do not blame h for that please, yeah in regard to brazil, not only brazil even algeriable decision emotion that this genocide should be stopped, you know, because there's no end to this cycle, israel is have a free hand, they know that the americans

will v to any decision. now talking about the reform of united nation, and mean anybody can ask the same question is how come 30 countries, 40, 120 countries would take a decision to stop a genocide, and then one country can override this decision, surely... need to have a reform where other countries who are not sitting there like sheeps, you know, and four countries in control of the united nation, you know, so it is really time for reform and time for other countries to have it say on international affairs. okay, thank you very much, we're going to have to add in there uh, let me thank john phoenix, journalist and international relations expert, and thank you nicholas davis, independent journalist and author from miami, with that we come to an end for this edition the spotlight from the team, it's goodbye.

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