of hello and welcome to that night nearly six months into israel's genocidal war on gaza, the regime's relentless bombardment and shelling has claimed more lives in the besieg territory. the palestinians death toll has now surpassed 32,000 who are mostly women and children. israel keeps expanding the scope of its crimes against palestinians by bombing and raiding hospitals, opening fire at displaced people quewing to receive aid and assassinating civilians with drone strikes, and all these atrocities are committed with impunity. due to the unconditional support

from western powers, particularly the united states, we'll discuss that more in tonight's spotlight program. our guests joining us are author and political activist eve angler of joining us from montreal, and from chicago we have political commentator shabir rizvy. gentlemen, welcome to the program. start off with mr. angler in montreal uh now attacking hospitals and shelters uh, it's been a hallmark of the israeli regime's conduct throughout its genocidal assault. now of al-schifa hospital where 30,000 palestinians are taking shelter, has been under attack and under seach for almost a week now, some of the details of what's going on there, israeli forces have cut off water and electricity uh to the uh medical facility, has the impunity of the israelis completely in line with an

the inaction of the international community reach this point where they can push the boundaries of monstrosity and act in complete contravention of all international conventions and rules of armed conflict. uh unfortunately it has, mean it's war crime after war crime after war crime after war crime uh they boast about it is really you of know soldiers boast about it online and um "it looks like the us is going to be vedoing another un resolution uh, they they uh, i mean the israel just keeps getting the support, gets new weapons and um, there seems to be almost no threshold which they can um surpass, that's that leads to uh serious uh consequence, um, it's uh, it's almost uh, it's almost beyond belief. uh, but um, this

is uh, we just have to keep raising the pressure in uh, in the countries like canada where i am, that have been enabling this uh, unbelievable uh, horror. uh, mr. rizy, the us proposed a resolution at the security council earlier today, calling for a cease fire in gaza and hostage deal, that was not passed as russia and china vedoted. moscow and beijing, of course, voting down the us resolution. uh, it shouldn't come as a surprise as immediate and unconditional ceasefire not linked to the release of the captives was all they would accept. break down what happened today at uh at the security council and how did you view the us proposal in the first place? yes, well, it's clear that the us so-called ceasefire proposal isn't a real proposal for ceasefire. if you read the details, this is this basically just abides by israel's demands without making. any real concessions

to the palestinian resistance, and first and foremost, this so-called deal would allow for the full invasion of rafa where the israeli army would without a doubt continue the ethnic cleansing, continue the war crimes and continue the genocide. this is being falsely promoted in my opinion as a cease fire deal in order to make russia, china and whoever else disagrees with the that that may disagree with the seasfire proposal, look like the... guys a time where there is more violence and more ethnic cleansing happening before our eyes, within the actual ceasefire resolution, the quote unquote cease fire resolution proposed by the united states, this was basically just blanketed as israeli demands and they may they might say that they're allowing or they're they're asking for more humanitarian aid to come into uh gaza, but what we're seeing is the delivery of the humanitarian aid is being impeded by israeli s block off access to the

humanitarian aid, to the delivery of the humanitarian aid in itself is a weapon, because as palestinians are being starved out, starving palestinians run to the deliveries wherever the... the the aid is being delivered, only to be shot down by israeli forces or be crushed by the the crates that are being air dropped anyway, so in and of itself the the delivery of the so-called humanitarian aid is actually allowing for the further elimination and ethnic cleansing of palestinians and last but not least uh baked into that would likely be the expansion of the so-called humanitarian port that's being built on gaza, which by the way, the palestinians never had access to or the ability to... to build their own ports in the first place due to being beseed by the israeli occupation, this would allow the united states to then create this port, which would lead to more further occupation of palestine, perhaps even um installing some sort of us israel uh partnership base to

besege gazza even further, so the whole deal is not really deal. mr. angler, the us, it wants to establish a port to deliver humanitarian assistance in gaza, but at the same... time it provides weapons and lethal arsenal to the israelis, break down this uh questionable and appalling hypocrisy and inconsistency by the us. many critics have described the us's involvement in efforts force fires, nothing but fasad. correctly, so uh, there is no problem with getting food and other things into gaza if israel just stops blocking it by truck and a simple way to pressure israel to stop blocking it by truck would be to say that we are going to at minimum stop the weapon shipments until you stop doing that, let alone the four billion dollars a year annual military donations or

aid donations to israel that the us gives plus this plan to expand that um so this is not uh rocket science, there is no reason why there can't be hundreds, if not thousands of trucks that enter gaza every single day, like they have in the past, this is just that israel um wants to collectively punish palestinians, israel wants to uh drive palestinians out, israel wants to make it unlivable, and um and it's the responsibility of those governments that have provided so many forms of diplomatic, financial, military, etc. support to uh withdraw that um uh to make sure israel uh lets in food, but so that's that's not that's not complicated,

this is a this is a sort of all a big um diplomatic game, americans are playing to act like they're getting tough on israel uh they against the operation. and rafa uh uh because it's bad for public opinion when it comes to uh the us internationally and so they're making a big huge uh show of uh you know visiting blinkin visiting israel and acting like they're trying mean the yeah if if if if they really want this to happen they really want there not to be a full-onsaw arafa they really want food to get in they have to exchange that you know bring in pressure it's it's it's simple and it's not um, it's not even, it's not, we're not talking about boycotting and devestment and sanctions, which many people are calling for, we're talking about just stop these huge uh uh financial uh subsidies that are already being given, just withdraw this this unique form of

support that's that's already being given to this country that you know going back five months was a brutal apartide state and is now in engaged in a uh holocaust in uh in gaza. mr. uh rizvy, israel has backtracked a photo collage of resistance fighters, it claimed to have captured during uh the raid on al-shifa hospital. hamas said of course earlier dismissed the israeli regime's allegations that tens of members of the palestinian resistance movement had been arrested during the ongoing attack uh and siege of the al-shifa hospital in gaza. hamas says: that the attack on al-shifa is part of the systematic destruction of health facilities by the israeli regime, do you see it in that light as well? absolutely, what the israeli regime is doing is they're intentionally attacking hospitals and when people are in the hospitals they're going to pull out

anyone that is a military age male, which to them by definition is going to be anyone that looks remotely like teen all the way to maybe ev even the elderly and they're going. to accuse them of being hamast just because they fit that description, this then they turn around and tell the international community that this justifies their operations within hospitals, everyone knows that this is this is... false that the they are lying, but they are going to keep pedaling this lie in order to continue their their their war crimes against these hospitals, against the palestinian people. it's becoming clear that it's becoming clear at least to the international community. i mean, i've known about this for years, many people that are familiar with the palestinian issue i've known about this for years that israel has always wanted to ethnically cleanse the gaza strip, that's always been a thorn on their side, and they are taking this opportunity. to commit an ethnic cleansing before the world uh and and kick out the palestinian

people and one of their ways of doing this is as you said systematically destroying whatever healthcare is left in the in the gaza strip which to begin with was already terrible um people couldn't get cancer treatment people couldn't get um treatments for various diseases they actually had to leave the guzza strip to do it so these health facilities were already uh not in grape shape they weren't allowed to have various devices various medicines. and even even doctors weren't even able to be trained properly uh by world health standards and so what israel is doing is eliminating what's left so that if uh so that when palestinians return back to their to the guzza's trip to these various hospitals they have absolutely nothing to start off with um and so it's clear that um what we're seeing here is war crime upon war crime and they're justifying it by calling anyone uh that stands in their way hamas or hamas affiliates. the rafa offensive uh, it appears to be imminent on

that issue, the us secretary of state anthony blinkin has called it a quote unquote mistake. now that's a severe understatement to call it just a mistake, as it would be a mass slaughter of civilians taking shelter and their last refuge as their homes have been demolished, uh, what has the international community learned uh over the past? si months of this genocide unfolding, and with that, how can the international community stop this massacre of rafat from happening? well, i think most of the world's population has had it confirmed that israel zionism is a absolutely brutal country political movement that needs to be ' overturned, needs to needs to be uh um

altered, radically altered, whatever you want to call it, um, so i think the for the vast majority of the world's population, they've learned just that there is kind of um no horror that that israel won't uh won't commit, four, when we talk about the international community, when we talk about the the powerful uh anglosphere or nato countries, um, anyone with the minimum of of heart of humanism in those positions of of authority and power, they should have learned at this point that the only way that israel is is going to be restrained from its most odious tendencies is to end the the forms of support that we are giving to it, mean so so no matter how many times blinkin repeats some

some concern about human lives being lost there's too many or biden uh claims that he's caught in a hot mic saying that there's too many people being killed and this kind of stuff uh it's a matter of bringing in something that's going to bring some form of cost to the israeli government and quite frankly to the israeli public there is... public are genocidal, the israeli public are drunk on supremacism and they need to be restrain, they need to, they need to understand that the the world's hegemon and the powerful countries are no longer going to provide the weapons, to give one example for the holocaust they're committing, so so yes, the mean the international community if you know... blinking at this point, if if he's has any seriousness about wanting to curtail

a slaughter top of the however many slaughters that have been committed, um, he has to bring in some form of of of sanction in israel. shab video has been released showing israeli forces killing or better set executing four unarmed palestinians in gaza using drones. now the unfolding events of the past few... the continued blocking of entry of a the siege of shif hospital, they clearly expose israel's intentions of engineering this famine and contributing to this... genocide that's taking place, is this a clear indication that this massacre has not only been a war aga's resistance, but against all the population of gaza? i saw it was terrible, it it made me tear up just how criminal they are towards the palestinian people. i think from day one, even in day one being years ago, day one was on october 7th,

i think from day one israel sights for set on on gaza and removing all the palestinians from there. what we're seeing right now is for israel uh a closing window because they feel that you know the united states, as netanyahu said earlier that they want to continue the operation with or without the united states support, we all know the united states is the main financier and the main political backer of israel, in fact without the united states help israel wouldn't last second, it would be crushed, and what we're seeing is an un' israel that knows that the united states will support it no matter what, but now clearly being challenged to some degree as joe biden and the democratic party here face resistance not only in the streets the united states for millions and millions of people across the country weekly demonstrate for the palestinian cause, the palestinian cause in the united states is more popular than ever, but now it's actually

even reflecting at the polls where in states like michigan which has a significantly large..." an arab population and a muslim population um, they're they're voting uncommitted to to point where it's showing in the polls, it's hurting biden where 10%, 20%, 30% of people are voting uncommitted. i live in the state of illinois where in chicago, a significant portion of people that typically vote democratic are now voting uncommitted. in fact, they wrote down the words, they wrote down the word gazah in instead of uncommitted. the palestinian cause is becoming more. popular and with this israel is afraid, israel is afraid of the the the support that it used to enjoy throughout the international community, and so right now what it's doing is it's lashing out, and unfortunately their soldiers also have, unfortunately for them, i should say, their soldiers have no discipline, they feel completely embolden if you check their telegram channels, they're uploading videos them torturing palestinians, of them

massacring palestinians and the world is seeing this, the world is seeing the israeli experiment for what it has been since it started. "these types of massacres have been happening since the 1940s and they've happened every year since then. the world is finally waking up to the the ongoing horror that palestinians have have faced, and the israeli regime for this part is panicking. they see to some extent a window closing on that support, and they're willing to do whatever is what necessary within that window to meet their goals. those goals are clearly not being met. the palestinian resistance is still alive and well, they still have not been able to save any hostages. um without massacring uh, without even massacring those hostages and in fact they've allegedly killed 70 out of the 100 something hostages um with their own bombs and bullets um we're seeing this israeli regime fall apart in real time and with this falling apart they're becoming more and more heinous and committing more war crimes in order to meet their political goals but to no avail. mr. angler uh iran's foreign

minister has recently said the world has realized it is prime minister benyamin netanyahu has reached the end of the line and is desperately trying to survive. now us intelligence report had earlier surfaced in this regard that the white house was um likely searching for an alternative to netanyahu, is netanyahu now a liability even not just for israel itself, but for israel's allies, and do you think that he's one of the main reasons that any negotiations a ceasefire keep failing? yeah, well i think netanyahu has been a liability uh, well specifically the the right far right cabinet uh even before uh the last six months, so there was a a concern that these fascists have have taken over um the israeli government um so the us and at this point

nanyahu has very very particulist uh narrow personal interests in uh not having an election and not finding himself in jail and stuff like that um so so that's all part of it and i think that the us uh would prefer benny gants in in in the as prime minister and have a little bit more uh compliant a little bit um less extreme uh uh leader leading this uh denocide um but there but there's not really that substantive difference. and um and and this is this is uh you know the us doesn't need to continue uh you know they can withdraw i mean again they don't have to send weapons the shipments of weapons. don't have to happen, the us soldiers that us intelligence assisting the us doesn't have to happen or assisting israel doesn't have to happen, um, all these different forms of support, they don't have

to happen uh, but um, but i think that netanyahu is a is a liability, but but that was that's been the case for a long time, and yet the the the us is policy is to uh back this uh european uh colonial. post destroying um uh destroying the middle east shaby rizvy uh why aren't regional blocks or even arab governments stepping up and taking matters into their own hands, many officials have called on muslim and arab countries to openly express their opposition to uh to israel, to blockade israel, to cut ties uh with israel, why is that not happening? the sad fact is that lot of these arab leaders are traits uh this... the uae, jordan, they created within months um, within weeks of the rather, the yemeny blockade of the red sea, they created a land bridge to make sure that israel still

gets its exports, or rather gets its imports one way or another, the same could be said for turkia, which has become one of the main exporters of fruits and vegetables to the israeli regime, especially as hezbulah rains down rockets on the north, which hurts their agricultural sector only for. turkia to come around and basically give them the same goods, um, of course they have to pay more for these, but that's besides the point. lot these regimes are now showing their true face, they're showing, these leaders are showing their true colors, they want to be part to some extent of the american experiment, or rather they want to play both sides of it and hope for the best, but the fact of the matter is you can't play both sides, if you're playing both sides then you're essentially playing into the hands of the americans, now is the time to pick aside, do you want to stand with the palestinian resistance or do you want to stand with israel, do you want to stand with the us hegemonic order and eventually become those victims yourselves? and i want to remind

whoever is sympathetic to saudi arabia or to the uae or to the or to turkia, that israel has plans to expand, it's not just going to stop on occupied palestine, there is a concept that many of israel's current leaders flow around called greater israel that actually expands into lebanon that expand. into jordan, that expands into iraq even, and the the fact of the matter is, if they don't retaliate against israel, if they don't do something about this cancer on the region, one day the gun is going to be pointed at them, and the same people that are financing israel right now, the united states will be nowhere to be found, because at the end of the day the united states wants to make the world in its own image, and they will back israel 100% when it comes to this greater israel project, it doesn't matter how... how profane it is, how destructive it is, they want to control that land, they want to control west asia, they want to control the middle east, whatever you want to call it,

israel serves as the 51st state of the united states and it wants to expand to allow that to happen. all right, that's all the time we have for tonight's show, allow me to thank my guest, political commentator shevy rizy, joining us from chicago and author and political activist evangel joining us from montreal. thank you gentlemen, and uh... thanks to our viewers for staying with us tonight spotlight. it's good night for now, see you next time. this time i'm going to visit the largest island in the persian gulf. the island is blessed with endless natural attractions and is larger than 65 countries in the world. the coral beaches of regarded as the most astonishing beaches of iran in the persian gulf. regarded as one of the

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