"it is becoming more apparent that the israeli regime is using food as a weapon in line with his genocidal and ethnic cleansing mission in the gaza streb. not only has it destroyed infrastructure needed for food production, it has prevented aid trucks from entering the gaza strip. meanwile, the us has airdropped around 38,00 food stuff. this is while there are over two million palestinians, many of them children who are going hungry, putting into question washington's real motives. in this edition of the spotlight we will look at how the israeli regime with us assist. is trying to starve

the gazan population into signing to a temporary ceasefire while hamas officials are calling for a permanent one. first let me introduce our guests for this edition of the program. alberto garcia watson, political analyst and activist joins us from malaga, spain. also joining us jihad, abdul mohmet, former black panther. party member uh joins of us from stone mountain over in georgia. welcome to you both. i'd like to start with you, alberto, uh, watson, if i may, uh, this uh notion of using food as a weapon has come about and it's a war crime, but the israely regime uh is pretty much leaving no doubt that it's indeed guilty of that. uh, because we're looking a couple instances such as not letting eight trucks into the gaza strip. we know that there's two thousand of them for example waiting. the crossings and when they

do it's just a trickle and also instant where you have this is just a couple instances that i'm noting here uh one instance where you had the palestinians gathering around the a-truck and then they uh um shot at them killing over hundred of them even though of course this regime claims otherwise is israel guilty of using food as a weapon well absolutely they're responsible and their guilt. as charged um what happened last thursday with of the so-called flower massacker where they um shot at thousands of people killing over hundred hungry palestinians and wound in close to a thousand, it just proves what kind of genocidal mentality israel has to watch the palestinian residence in the gaza strip, but then again... sunday they sort of

repeated the strategy of attacking uh people in their bala uh while also approaching a food convoys and they did last night again near the kuwait round about uh in the uh gaza strip in the northern part in the gaza city when people were approaching again to get some food uh it repeats the story over and over. they want to use food as a weapon, they want to use the starvation now that today the 20th victim of a salvation has fallen and the gas are strip, they want, as matter of fact, having thousands of tons of food waiting outside the border with the rafa and the uh and the egyptian side of the of the border, it's so undecent and it's so... seen that 2.4

million people has to staff to death, this this was actually not expected from so-called modern nation like israel is, but they usually they actually using the same methods that were used in the varsov ghetto during the second world war by the nazi troops that are starved to death almost 400 thousand people for several months and we see that they're not going to stop unless uh the international community that is not responding to this call do something about it? well - the us roll has also become a bit more prominent here uh jihad abdul mahamed i mean if there was any doubts about that uh let's look at and get your idea about this uh uh food air drops that the us uh did uh where it involved jordan and it was about 3800 food parcels that were involved here now um it seemed like the us was uh very enthusiastic

about doing that, that it was a goodwill gesture on their part to give that impression anyways, but uh, they have been facing a barrage of critiques, how can 38,00 food pos satisfy almost 2 million palestinians who are dying and i must say f 500 thousand of them are on the on starvation meaning their um fighting for the for their life. what do you think about this so-called airdrop that has happened of food from the us? yes, thank you. i always begin with bismillah in the name of allah. i thank you very much. it's all it's all a pretense. i am a citizen of the united states. it's been very clearly stated as very recent. by president joe biden a program, very unabashed, very unapologetic, he said clearly to the american public that, you do not have to be a jew to be a zionist, and i want to tell you right now that i a zionist, right there and then, he's saying that he is

a white supremist, he is racist, he he sides with the apartty colonial state of israel, he's made it clear, so this whole thing about dropping the food is setting the state. for the us and israel to maintain and continue control of that area, and i can fores more gestures, fake gestures, all leading to control, so here you are denying aid coming in from other countries, you are setting yourself up to be the one that's the benefactor, you're the one that's that's bringing the humanitarian relief, you're the one that's that's making sure that you control everything, so when this... decimation is over, you can for you can forceed the united states pumping more aid into that area for the sole purpose of controlling that and setting up neocolonial arrangement if in fact anybody is even left, so it is it is not charity, it is definitely not goodwill, is it is the same uh uh process

united states have done in many countries around the world, the once they decimated the area to come in with their their pretense of aid only for the purpose of securing their power and control. of that area, not concern at all with human life, let's continue with this uh us air dropping of aid uh alberta watson, because it's really confusing what the us is trying to do here, on the one hand you have two million palestinians who are starving uh 500,00 of them life and death situation, but yet you have 38,00 of these air drops of food, which by the way, from what we understand there were dates and sandwich, i don't how that's going to be suffice, and then you have eight trucks waiting uh on the... border crossings, 2000 them, but the us was responsible for it to get to the situation with the military assistance that it gave, and there was just a report out in the washington post indicating how many thousands and thousands of bombs were actually provided to israel, so isn't

this a somewhat hypocritical of the us to think that air dropping, the minimal amount is going to give the impression that they're not guilty, maybe actually this has just happened. uh the same day of the day before, the super tuesday primary elections in the united states, so it's just a propaganda strategy that the president biden has used, because if it really was meaning to help the population and the gasa strip to get fed and and and in moments and which as you very well said we're talking about 567 people at this... moment are in the verge of a starvation, he will actually convince the israeli ally, the israeli authorities to open the border and let those, if not hundreds thousands of trucks with food, with medicines, with water to actually enter the

gas strip, we're just talking about um four, five six days left for the start of ramadan and the people are dying of a... avation in the gas strip, the majority of which, if not the 100%, are civilians and their miners, the big majority, this is not hamas fighters that there after the israelis, the actually after dicimating the entire civilian population of the gaza strip, and they actually not even enable or capable of fighting hamas, which is so much stronger in the gaza strip that the israeli army is, so the americans... are just on one hand given a little bit of food, peanuts, basically, and on the other hands they given enough ammunition to killed whoever uh survives from this little um kind of silly help, as i'm saying, the food that

they receiving some of the food is so ridiculous, the people were yesterday and they kuwait uh round about in gaza city complaining that even some of the food that they were receiving had to be prepared in microwave when actually they don't even have electricity already for months, so this is an irony, it's an insult and it's absolutely absolutely upseen. you now what's what's strange over here is jihad abdul mohamed is the fact that uh you have uh this truce that's now uh being discussed and hammered out in a sense and uh the us says the balls in the court of hamas now we have a situation we have 500 thousand or based on our guest data there 567 palestinians who are starving meaning they're fighting for their life do you think that the us is actually using this starvation as a tool in order to bring haman. into submitting and succumming to the will of

the us and the israeli regime, since you have that many palestinians that may unfortunately and hopefully won't happen die as a result of starvation, and again using that as a tool to make sure that it meets the demands, yes indeed, i think in your question there lies the answer, and and even and even before that, this is not confusing, this is not confusing, not unless a person has been living under rock. for the last since the united states started his 1950s and manifest destiny policy of imperialist aggression, the united states has said clearly out of the mouth of joe biden himself that if israel did not exist, the united states would have created its own israel to make sure it maintain control in that area of the world, so this is just military strategy, has absolutely nothing to do with the good will the people. helping the people, the media over here, listening, if you was to tune into

the abc, nbc, cbs, cnn and dephanie fox news, you would get total different perspective, that little bit of food dropping, that air drop was telled as being the biggest thing in the world, to do the the gollable, naive american population, which becoming, which is becoming more conscious, that the united states is doing a good de, finally, hey, the united states is coming to the rescue, it's all war strategy. and it is not confusing for those that understand history, they know a little bit about history, the how the united states has been involved in in in the muslim world, in the in the middle east, in the far east, and latin america, all around the world, we know that this is the same agenda, it's all ill, sure, we'd like to discuss this truths a little bit more um whether it's going to work or not, alberta watson, i mean we're we're looking at different angles of it, one of them is the fact that uh, why should hamasi? and go ahead with the truth. i mean, if you think about the device of issues that exist, one of them is the fact that

israel has said, and it has repeated it that they still want to eliminate hamas at the end, no matter what. however, given that, and the fact that hamas is demanding a permanent cease fire, but yet israel and the us wants a temporary cease fire. it puts it the question why hamas should even go ahead with this. well... for any hamas has already for the past weeks uh rejected any offered of uh temporary trues in the gaza strip uh and they actually will accept a only a permanent truth where all the uh prisoners are exchanged and all the troops the occupation israeli troops are withdrawing from the g's a strip. this is what they have been already saying for the past weeks if not months. this is what the

delegations in the past have brough to doha and to cairo, and they're not going to change their mind, because the fact that only through the ramadan uh, some more trucks uh with aid is going to be allowed into the gass trip. this is just going to white wash the image of israel and the united states. but then shortly after they'll be bombing again and killing again by the thousands of women and children like they've been doing in the past five months, so definitely for hamas this is no resolution capable of being approved by them and i do understand them uh what what actually the israeli forces and the israeli authorities want, it's an ethnic clingsing, they actually want that the situation is so... for the population of gaza, that eventually they just cross the border by jumping the fence with egypt so

they can at least do what actually they promoting in countries like the united states and canada at this moment in synagogues, which is the selling of palestinian territories and palestinian land to jewish around the world, especially american jews to move now to the to the west bank, but shortly after it happen also in the casser strip when they cleaned up completely, that's actually their project, however they are finding lot of resistance in the past 76 years. populations that is not willing to repeat a nagba 2.0 because they had enough of it and they will resist and they will prefer to die actually in their land before having to cross to the border with with egypt. it's very confusing when you take a look at the amount of military assistance jihad the us has given

the israeli regime forces uh where on the ground we know that so many bombs have been u used and i refer to this washington post article, but it revealed that more than 100 separate for militaries sales to israel has been done since the onslot began, it said amounted to thousands of precision guide ammunitions, bombs, bunkerbusters, small arms and all this, but they have not been able to defeat hamas, i mean at this point we know 350 iof regime forces have been killed, so uh the question comes about why they haven't been able to defeat hamar. and what their aims would be if if many have said that that's just going to be an impossibility overall right, it makes me think about the battle about the time of the prophet muhammed peace and blessing be upon him where 313 people defeated a much more serious army and forces so looking through it through islamic lens and many of these sisters and brothers are muslims that's why we we're not going to

lose even in death we don't lose dying as a marker is not a loss those that are living and fighting that's why they won't leave because of the resoluteness in the world needs to take note of when you see mother holding her baby you know praising allah that is a strength that you don't see in many places of the world if at all so i look at at what's happening if you look at it through secular eyes it is oh my god which it is and when you look at how the muslim countries around is scratching their head and not helping you know because they are nation states carved out by colonialist themselves you know and they're not abiding by the principle of there's no god but muhammad is messenger and one uma and i'm a muslim so everything you ask me is going to come from an islamic analysis not a secular analysis we are winning in the united states and israel has forever lost their moral authority their moral ground if they ever had it but people over here are realizing the hypocrisy they're realizing uh what's really going and it's

going to forever change and the united states response over here is beginning to build up to to develop fascist state to be able to control the resistance inside the united states, this is very, this is very serious what's happening around the world, this is the most serious contradiction that's been happening, i know there's genocide in parts of africa, many other places, but this here it bakes the possibility of a world war, and um and and and so lot of religious history forms right there in palestine, lot of the prophets come from that area, we're not losing, we're not losing, the united states can do whatever they want is all in the control of allah and you can believe as sure as i'm sitting here, united states and israel will be the loser in this b, i don't care how many of us die, persecution is worse than slaughter, persecution is worse than slaughter, persecution is worse than slack, thank you for that, we do appreciate that, and on a side note there, i'm i'm sure that you may have heard this, albert watson, that

many actually in the states and western countries have uh looked at uh islam in a different way based on the uh perseverance of the palestinians in the gaza strip, so it goes along the lines of what our guest are said, but i'd like to now take a look at the occupied west bank, alberto watson and ask you about um uh the crisis that's there that has been there for decades, but obviously it has picked up since october 7th, uh not only do do you have so many people who have been uh killed at this point uh i think it's over 400 about 412 or so um in terms of the numbers that have been arrested. shocking uh you have about 8,00 since october 7th, but the us secretary uh treasury secretary came out recently and said in a warning to pister netanyahu, you need to do something about the economy of the west bank, you need to take care of it, you need to make sure that it's in motion uh, because that's going to spell another disaster, that warning is isn't that

um somewhat synonymous with the fact that if the west bank falls apart as it is, that that will then pose an existential threat. to the israeli regime, because it also does involve the israeli economy at the same time, and if that goes anywhere close to what the gaza strip is experiencing, then uh, that could spell the end of the israel regime, but definitely, because actually israel is in charge of collecting uh, the taxes from the west bank, and they're not even delivering the money to the palestinian national authority to pay their workers in the west bank and in the gaza strip. so it is actually very important for the israeli economy uh despite the fact that they actually need thousands of palestinian workers in the west bank working uh and the israeli uh society, the economy in in in israel is actually down going down the train in the past months that actually invest in over 260 billion dollars

per month uh and this war per day actually not uh per month per day and that is actually collapse in the economy of israel, israel cannot depend on the help that it receives from the united states uh at all times. so they they actually need that the commercial activity and the economy of the west bank continuous working, which is actually been partially collapsed by uh the since last year uh uh the incursions and the rates of the israeli troops into and and not only the israeli troops but also the settlers, the israeli settlers and in the west bank that has been... created a total chaos, not just in the economy, but in the social life in the west bank. sure. um, what you describe the jihad abdul mohammed is very touching, and

uh, the genocide, however, has continued. i think many people, unfortunately, and i don't want to blame people, but when you when you continue hearing hundred every 24 hours or more palestinians are being murdered, there's something that is happening here. where it makes it become uh part of the language now and part of the the landscape that this is normal and uh i think it was riad mansor who said you know this shouldn't be normal when it comes to the world reaction that has have however continued what else do you think can be done uh to stop this genocide from happening yes indeed this is very very uh daughting scary scenario when you have when you have a genes you know as poet here gilscott harren said the revolution will not be televised, but ironically the genocide will, when you see children, as you said hundred children a day on the average of

being killed as a direct result and not to mention been mamed and crippled and not to mention the mothers and women and adults uh 10 thousand, it it it it defies any any type of comprehension about that, but the scary scenario is that the world at this point since october... and even the 70 years prior to that have watched this genocide, the world has watched it, that means that the world cannot muster the will or determination and strength to stop two countries, israel in the united states, two white supremist countries, and i'll call a spade of spade, this is white supremacy in his glory, this is white supremacy in his glory, unabashed, they'll tell you that and i'll call it exactly what it is, the united states is a white supremist government built on the back of african slaves, we all know that, it is manifest, destiny has conquered and taking over all country, people of color, so what you're

seeing now, the only way that this is going to stop is by the will of allah and the people coming together in country, and that hasn't happened yet, thank you for that, it's a shameful testimony for muslim countries not to help, because they're clinging to the duyer, they're afraid, i don't know what their national policy is, but if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. smells like a duck is a duck and that duck is called colories. thank you for that. we're unfortunately fresh out of time. jahad abdul mamet there, former black panther party member from stone mountain georgia, alberto garcia watson, political analyst and activist from malaga, spain. with that we come to end for this edition of the spotlight. fromway and the team is goodbye. last year iran's president ibrahim raisi visited three african countries, kenya, uganda and zimbabwe. president rais witness the signing of

bilateral cooperation agreements in economic, scientific and educational sectors among others. and in this regard, iran has granted full scholarships to ugadan students to study in iranian universities.

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you're pressing the headlines scores of palestinians lose their lives as israeli regime pushes ahead with this war of genocide. on the gaza strip. south africa is the world court to take additional emergency measures against israel to prevent eminent famon and starvation in gaza. and yemini armed forces hit a us cargo ship in the gulf of aiden in retaliation for western attacks on yemen and in support of palestinians in gaza.