within that building right there, as i zoom in, you can see that robot, it's unclear what the robot was used for, but you see some debris on the exterior, the fbi investigators were looking at that, it just a short.

eu aide that would barely fit two trucks to take many days to reach the gaza shores, a us gaza port that would take 60 days to build, yet there are palestinians in the north of the gaza strip who are fighting for their lives due to their starvation. this is while of the us president and israely prime minister are reportedly at odds over israel's rafa offensive with netanyahu threatening to go ahead with it, with biden saying that is the us red line, and all of this. happening while

the israeli regime is killing palestinians with us made bombs, since the us says israel has the right to defend itself. all of these angles and lot more coming up in this edition of the spotlight. first let me introduce our guests. alberto garcia watson, political analyst and activist, joins us from malaga, spain. also joining us is angler, author and of political activist who joins us from montreal. welcome gentlemen, alberto watson, let me first start with you, the issue of aid, uh, we know that is very contentious of topic, we're looking at uh, one that has gone from hypocrisy uh even um being so illogical that some are saying that that's just plain stupidity, the way that the approaches are being made, we can talk about how the us has said it will take 60 days for this gaza port to be built, while there are eight trucks that are waiting. at the border crossings and

the un has come out and said, but the best way to deliver aid is through the land, yet the us also has opted to drop food uh parcels of from the air uh, why are we looking at this issue the way that it's being put out there from the us and also i should say the eu, but actually the western perspective is absolutely ridiculous in this case, we have hundreds of lorries and trucks waiting at. side the rafa border and the egyptian side ready to bring aid, food, medicines, water, and and everything needed for a catastrophic situation that at least 567 people that are in the arge of starvation are suffering in in in the gas strip, the fact you're throwing with parachutes food, just few thousand meals per day, that is not going to help anyth. at

all when we're talking about 2.3 million people waiting for food and the the building of a port a port, how ridiculous is that to wait two more months, it's it's going to be nobody left by the time that they finish building the port, when actually the port is not there to bring humanitarian aid, it's actually and most probably for the exploitation of the gas that has been found and the coast of gaza, 1.4 trillion cubic meters of gas that the israelis and the americans are going to exploit stealing away from the gas and so this is absolutely and ridiculous excuse of building a port that it's going to take two months to bring humanitarian aid when thousands and thousands of tons of food are waiting just meters away in the uh gaza border with with egypt all right so eve zangler. let's uh dive into this of

a little bit deeper uh, so i'm the us president for example, right, and you have a report uh in front of you given by the pentagon that states it'll take 60 days for this. port to be built, there's another report that's staring the us president in the face uh that has come out from the un saying that there's almost 700 thousand gazans that are dying in the north of the gaza strip, these are people who are starving and they're fighting for their life, when you look at the timeline versus that and then making that announcement, knowing all the other options that are out there, what is that say? well, it says the american government doesn't care about the 700,000. palestinians that are starving uh, but we knew that, they don't care about the people that israel's been slaughtering. uh, this is think a public relations exercise of course, and if the us decided to put some pressure on israel to

demand israel start letting trucks into gaza, that could happen quite quickly, and they don't want to do that, they they want to make a big public relations exercise. that they are trying to do something about the starvation um while not really doing anything about the starvation. taking a look at the uh uh another perhaps implication of this, i don't know for you what you think about alberto watson and that is the fact that if the us says it takes two months for this gaza port to be built, do you think that that maybe is a by design that maybe the us along with israel obviously want? uh this 60 days to be out there in order for israel to achieve any of its military objectives, which one of them, which it has not been able to do is to defeat the hamas fighters. absolutely, two months is, but actually is a time that israel needs is supposedly to get rid of

exterminate the hamas movement in the gaza strip, and that's absolutely ridiculous, the situation cannot wait two months, the situation cannot wait two weeks, we talking about about hundreds of thousands of uh gas uh people that are actually in the verge of dying of a salvation and those that are not dying by a salvation they're dying by the bombs thrown the american bombs thrown by the israeli forces or diseases because there no uh hospitals that are working at this point because israel makes sure that the majority the hospitals were bombed just like the schools the universities every single structure, every single single critical structure, israel has bomb, and over the okay the united states, the united states is just making time, it's prolonging two more months, but actually the whole world is demanding and as a permanent, immediate seasfire, two

months to build a port, when we have, as i said before, hundreds of thousands of tons of food, aid of all types and medicines, just few meters away, it just shows that the call nation between israel and the united states is is stronger than ever. well, you have this intel report that came out of zangl, i don't heard about it. it's a us one, just days ago, it was released, and one of the things that it talked about was hamas and it it said israel will probably face a lingering armed resistance from hamas for years to come, and that the israeli military will struggle to neutralize hamas's underground infrastructure, allowing insurgents, they call them insurgents, we call them fighters, to hide regain. strength and surprise israely forces, given this intel report and given this harsh reality and slap in the face of israel, do you think that uh then what what aims does israel have to continue uh this aggression on the gaza strip? first of all,

do you agree with what this report has revealed? oh, mean i think that that's the report is is absolutely correct and i would i would extend it out further so long as israel uh imposes a system of apartide, of occupation, of violence against palestinians, there's going to be some form of arms resistance, of course there is, they know that, that is the history of uh of colonialism, um, maybe israel could wipe out palestinians so successfully uh that that you know there wasn't resistance, but even i mean that's you know hard to imagine they could drive them to lebanon, they could drive them to jordan, they're probably. still be resistance, so long as they impose this brutal colonial system that there's going to be a form of resistance. now, more concretely in gaza, or specifically about hamas, that's also the case. i mean, this is a, this is a uh, you gorilla of warfare, uh, and the

population uh, in gaza does not like the brutal uh uh occupier that is, slaughtered more than 30,00, that expelled most of them, uh, uh 70 some years ago - that's why they're in the gaza strip because they were driven from their homes within uh parts of what is now current day israel um and so so this is this... "this is a reality, the israeli government knows this, their rhetoric about defeating hamas is is never been something that i believe that the certainly the leadership of the israeli military took seriously, they knew this was going to continue uh, that they weren't going to be suc successful on that, and in fact i i think it's in large part just the cover for uh justifying the you know genocide, and and that's what we're i think seeing with rafa is that this whole rhetoric about israel to go..." defeat the last remnance of hamas and raffa and and whatnot is just of course uh

part of a desire to drive as many palestinians out to drive them into egypt or where wherever. um now does israel have the means? i mean israel clearly we see within israeli uh public um the support for this genocidal uh quite frankly i don't even want to use the word genocide anymore more use the word holocaust that israel's uh starvation and mass slaughter policy in gaza, the israeli public seems pretty on board, um, they might not be totally supportive of benjamin netanyahu, but they seem pretty on board with these policies, so um, how do we uh rain in this this nuclear armed uh uh country, um, and the obvious ways of raining it in are that the us stops providing the bombs uh, that countries like canada, which where where i live, which has ramped up arms deliveries to israel since uh this... slaughter campaign uh that it stopped that uh that it you know at least start talking about

what's going on in the proper language, start referring it as a genocide uh stop enabling all these kind of policies and so so long as there's this backing principally from the us but also from the other anglosphere and nato countries right uh israel has the means sure well i think the the publications that are out there whether websites uh or what have you are picking up on this and are really covering it think um, alberto watson, for example, headlines reading, providing both bombs and food, biden puts himself in the middle of gaza's war, they call it a war, we call it an onslaught, and another one that says more than 100 people were killed, and hundreds more were injured last month offer a crowd gathered around the convoy, stating you can't have a policy of giving aid and giving israel the weapons to bomb the food trucks and kill the palestinians who have gathered around it at the same time, so what is the thinking? the us or should i say the strategy, what is it doing, is this all to

put it out there and have the audience figure it out? well, biden knows that he's got elections on the 5th of november and he has to attract the vote of those people that voted for him in the past, that are states like michigan and others, with total of over 300,00 people that have the primaries. to an uncommitted vote, which represents a big amount, actually very, very high percentage the votes that actually, if we have this elections that are going to be quite tight between donald trump and joe biden he's gonna need, so most probably he's been trying to attract back this uh votes from this say arabs and muslims and young the base of the democrat. party that is now quite far away politically and ideologically from joe biden,

so yes it is, it sounds absurd, we're going to help, we're going to bring food, we're going to bring uh uh construct a port to bring the humanitarian aid, but at the same time all the people getting killed in gaza, the dozens of thousands of civilians, mostly children and women are killed with american weapons, so you cannot... provide weapons and at the same time intend and pretend to be uh to actually care for this population when actually you providing everything needed to provoke what it was actually mentioned before, not just a genocide but a holocaust as a colleague in montreal said and it's actually true, this is it's absurd, it's cynical and and and it's ironic that you try to uh so you pretend that you're interested or... you are very very careful with the situation and concern about the the situation

of all the thousands of people dying and more that are going to die was a un report a couple of months ago saying that in the situation continues like this this was the end of december we will have actually more people dying of salvation and diseases than those that are killed by the bombs that the united states give israel so situation is dramatic and united states could... stop it and they can stop it very very fast, but they don't have an interest, there as interested as the israel is in keeping on, they never going to finish with hamas, the actually the biggest factory of resistance ever. existing of israel because every single member of the palestinian resistance you're going to find 10 more members in the next few years, all those children that will survive are traumatized for life and they will fight back. all right, um, we're going to get into a stat on the children which the unra gave out, which is very startling, but on the us

support for israel we're kind of seeing this spat between bb. netanyahu benjamin netanyahu and the us president uh joe biden uh come out in the open now uh based on what we're looking at eve zangler and the most recent indication of that is what uh you have had uh this um very popular and stanch supporter of the israeli cabinet in particular netanyahu and that came from chuck schumer chuck schumer has come out and said that uh he believes and i'm quoting him a new election is the only way to allow for healthy and open decision-making process about the future of israel. now he's the highest ranking jewish politician in the us. first of all, what's your reaction to him calling for new elections? and by the way, that did come out in one way or another in that us intel report that we just mentioned few minutes ago. yeah,

i think that they they don't like um some of the ways that netan yahoo is ' uh managing some of this, i don't i think that the broad, the us is supportive of the broad outlines of what israel is doing in gaza, but but there are uh, they i don't think they like the optics of uh ben gadvier, smaldrich, uh, some the hardline factions, extremist factions in the netanyahu government, and uh, benny gance would be a preferable face uh, and he probably be a little bit more um, compliant with what us, how us would want to lead this? um, now then, but biden has also said that he's not, while, while he thinks that netan is doing things that are against israel's interests, he's not gonna stop um, and that he doesn't want them to go into rafa, he's not going to stop the weapons deliveries, so

so it's quite a contraradictory position uh, how biden is said that publicly, um, i, i think the... "i think they would like, they know that the israeli public doesn't really like netanyahu anymore and that that elections would probably serve uh us interests, so you would have a new government that's more uh you know better kind of optics and and is is um willing to be a bit more compliant with the us and i think they so they want they would like to see netanyahu go and i think that probably is what schumer you know i i'm a a critic." of uh of us coup policies and us interference around the world uh and the us of course has overthrown governments and dozens and dozens of countries. um, in this case, i i'm - i sort of, i don't like the idea of the us interfering uh, because that's usually a bad thing, but in this case if they interfere and make slightly less bad um uh regime in place,

maybe that will be uh for the better uh, maybe the the starvation policy won't. be as as uh horrendous um, but this is mostly about managing the um the sort of pro israel policy of of how to uh, what's the better optics and what's the, you know, there's some things that they go a little too far for washington is liking, well we know that this unshakable bond between the two is never going to go away based on what we've seen for the past decades, obviously alberto watson, but what was reported first was that biden netanyahu? uh have this rift, it's on public display uh headlines reading that uh bb is hurting israel more than helping it, something that uh the us president joe biden had said um and that they were a collision course, and now you have chuck schumer uh coming out and he's the leader of the us senate who has said uh that you know there's got to be new elections, not only that uh there's also

indications from him based on the statements he made uh that uh the question of the aid the defense of israel and the even the un uh assistance that us gives israel and restrictions on the use of us weapons by the iof forces is something that needs to be looked at based on what chuck schumer has said so we looking at this again the leveled against netanyahu for this to go to the way where they want netanyahu out and will that actually become a reality you think they want netanyahu out uh netanyahu is not wanted in the united states but is not wanted in israel either, so situation is that um for the palestinians would not change much, because when when there wasid or... sharon, hud barak or shimon perez, it never stopped, even jisak rabin, the great jisak rabin signed the alls law courts when he was minister of defense

during the first cifada, he created this doctrine of breaking the bones of the little children that were throwing stones, so it's it's whoever you put there - is is actually gonna react in the same way to what's the palestinian, certainly cleansing and kill as many as you can, but the thing with... netanyahu is that with his cabinet of extremis and fascists that he surrounded with, looks like we may have lost alberto watson. all right, eve zengler, let me come at you. alberto watson, we just lost you there at the end, if you can repeat the end of your statement there. i was mentioning that it's not much of a difference if you have a jail lapid or neftali benet or if you have an sharon. "all of them are war criminals, but the way that this new cabinet uh with behamin netanyahu and its mortrige and and benkiver and his big bunch of fascis

supremacists that are in the government give a real bad name for the united states and for the western world in general, um, this is the very very first time that israel is brought in front of a international tribunal of of justice, and this..." "supporting uh israel at this moment for the united states is something really terrible to do, they do it for their interests obviously, but what do they will do whatever it takes to get rid of bahamy netanyahu and put someone like they have done so many times, hundreds of times, okay since the second world war, change the presidents and put them to work in the and the payroll, well maybe that's why the us is after that and this because of what the commissioner general of the un relief and works agency onrah has said philip lazarini." " andler, i'm going to direct you to this particular stat, the number of children reported killed in just over four months in gaza is higher than the number of children killed in four years of wars around the world

combined, so what uh, first of all, what what's your reaction to that, and uh, do you think that that's something that the us has has taken into consideration when it comes to uh the military assistance that has given israel? i think that's absolute unbelievable and if you if you get into the stats even more, you think it through a little bit more, i mean we're talking about very small, we're talking about two million people versus wars where countries areas 20, 30, 40 million people or even bigger countries, so this is this is an that's an absolutely astounding statistic, you now ukraine, i think it's like 500 um children, 550 children killed in two years, ukraine's a country of 40 million around. million people, guys is just over two million people, this is absolutely beyond belief, um, obviously anybody with an ounce

of humanist ethos in their in their mind and body, obviously this leads to stopping the simplest thing, stopping the weapons, the simplest, you don't directly contribute to killing more babies and children, obviously that's what the canadian, us and other government. giving selling or giving those weapons need to do, will they? mean, they've seen these numbers go up, this is not, this is now put together in, think a very powerful way, but this is we've seen this, and and and of course this number is an undercount, we still know there's many children under the rubble, let alone starvation questions, this is it's just it's beyond belief, thank you, well unfortunately gna have to end it there, that was angler, author and political activist montreal, alberto garcia watson, thank you, political analyst and activist from malaga, spain. with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight for me and the team it's goodbye.

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