of just shy of the six months that the u.s. israely genocidal war on the palestinians in the gaza strip, the israeli regime has shown of its true colors yet again by targeting a us-based aid truck. does this incident show, regardless of the origin of aid, israel targets them to prevent aid from getting to palestinians? in this addition of the spotlight we will look at other targets from the press to hospitals, also a look at the developments in the occupied west bank. of

deaths and the number of palestine entertainments in particular continue to rise. first let me introduce our guests. patrick hennicson, geopolitical analyst joins us from los angeles. also joining us charlotte cats, international coordinator at the sami doen palestinian prisoner solidarity network from vancouver. welcome to you both, of patrick hanning, let me first start with you in this incident with the us based. truck uh where seven gaza aid workers, it included uk, us and australian citizens. we saw lot of uh reaction from this overwhelmingly uh around the world, but in particular one that stood out was the way that the us president donald trump came out and uh compassionately said that uh, this was just such an unfortunate mistake uh, which it was uh, but when you put that into context of over 32,00 palestinians of to have been murdered all this time, he did not show that kind of compassion. for the

genocide that's taking place, first give us your reaction on the incident itself and the way that the us president reacted to it. yes, yes, well, the incident itself, it's debatable whether uh, it was accident or not, i think it's very, it's too early to make that determination, uh, it's very specific uh targeting uh, and very specific operation, that wasn't just striking one vehicle, but three in total, as the occupants of the vehicle fled to uh escaping another vehicle. that was hit when they fled second time that was hit, so um to say this was accident is still up for debate, i think that's very important uh second of all um what what does this mean, look at the overall ramifications of it, what what's the end result? the end result is less aid uh getting into gaza, so we still have to sort of siff through uh the incident and the after effects of this uh to find out what it really means uh going forward, i really have a hard time believing the israel did this by accident, i think this

more likely was intentional, but intentional with a certain set of objectives um to come out the other side, um, also it could have been a case where there could have been somebody on board uh that became suddenly became a target uh for the idf, these are all things open for discussion um at the present time as far as donald trump's reaction to it uh and just general western selective outrage, it's selective outrage uh they can't find it within their uh within their hearts with in their moral or ethical center uh to condemn what's clearly a brutal genocide which has been carried out for the last six months against the native palestinian population in gaza, but yet it's time for you of know moment of silence because of west western aid workers uh were killed, there's been a number of un employees that dozens in fact killed since the beginning of uh this phase of the conflict, not a tear was shed, not a word was raised in concern from any...

uh us officials or european officials that i could see uh after all these un workers were were killed in the opening weeks of uh israel's repacious bombing campaign on gaza. yes, the fact the data that we have is 196, including more than 175 un staff. so charles case, what do you think? is this a considered effort by israel um given the fact that uh even the coordinates uh were given out on this and yet despite the coordinating movements uh relate to the israel um i guess army the convoy was sit anyways. um, is there a considered effort by israel to stop aid of from getting to palestinians? it doesn't even matter if this was us-based or any aid type of assistance, is that what their goal is? yes, of course, i mean, the the zionist regime is carrying out a genocide in palestine, particularly in gaza right now, and part and parcel of that is denying basic services and needs to the palestinian people in gaza. um, this includes the brutal at in

attacks on health facilities such as the massacre that we just witnessed at alsifa of just days ago, this includes the ongoing targeting of bakeries that we have seen throughout the past six months, this includes i mean, historically, in gaza, we have consistently seen the zionist forces targeting uh farming areas along the so-called borders of gaza, the colonially imposed borders and fishers out at sea in order to prevent gaza from developing food security and food sovereignty, so this is just a continuation and an exacerbation of the existing policy of the zionist regime in targeting the food needs and food resources the... palestinian people in gaza. this is part of the same policy that we've seen time and time again. what we initially saw from the zianist regime was this demand to dissolve unra and instead replace it with private institutions with relationships with western intelligence agencies, but

fundamentally the purpose of that demand is to deny palestinians access to basic fundamental needs in attempt to drive palestinians from the land and complete a genocide. um, the... regime is using starvation as a weapon of war, there's no question about that, they want to carry out a genocide, they want to impose uh conditions of surrender on the palestinian people, and the people in their resistance are refusing this completely, and so they're determined, um, this is very much like when we think about the siege of leningrad or the battle of stalingrad when people were fighting back against the nazi forces, that's what the palestinian people and their resistance are doing, right now, and they're facing the same kind of siege that's determined to attack human life in all of its capacity. so that's the reality of what the situation is, and that's why, yeah, of course they're going to attack aid workers, and when aid agencies responded to those attacks by saying, oh,

well, we're going to stop providing aid and gaza, that's doing nothing but aiding the zionists and carrying out their genocide and war crimes. try to understand here, what the us has gone himself into patrick henning on the one. on the one hand, unless the us is aware of what's happening, because when you take a look at what is happening, it's nothing short of a genocide, along with all the other uh gruesome facets of this uh uh war that's happening in and and all the different, for example our guest there talked about uh this massacer that uh was it pretty much unfolded, we weren't even aware uh up to 400 dead bodies, some were tied behind their backs, some were executed, many of them women and children and the bodies of decapitated that had happened from a short while ago, and there are many instances of that. we're coming up on the six months of this genocidal war. does the us realize what's happening when it comes to the israely regime and does it approve it and give it give it a green light? the green light we see given is through the arms sales. yeah, i i think uh being being in the united states i can tell

you that uh the the basic level of political awareness of the average uh media consumer uh member of the american electorate it's extremely low uh because the the media coverage is completely uh uh one-sided uh censorship by omission is the basic order of the day when it comes to any coverage uh relating to uh israel or gaza, there's been a few breaches uh in this information firewall, but on the whole how the political uh establishment operates in america is um they will not ver from any policy if there's not any significant public pushback, so how do you control public pushback, you control the images that are shown uh in the media, any emotive images that might ellic a public reaction, those are those are uh basically muted and rarely shown, so the average american doesn't know the true scale of the the horror of the situation there, so that's the main problem, and the the united states government is completely on board with, i would say everything that israel has done

from the beginning and continues to do, to think that the united states and its military would be constructing a jetty or appear in the almost along the sort of the green line. of of north and south gaza uh and that somehow this doesn't have any military or strategic uh aspect to it is totally naive, okay? what they're trying to do is effectively cut off the north and the south of gaza in order to finish emptying out the north and make it a military security zone, and so this is a this is peer to bring in us ships and transport ships to evacuate the poor gazans and and this is how the united states plans to turn the public relations. war back in its favor to use its military, to use its ngos (uscid etc.) to rescue and bring aid to the poor people of gaza, when all along the united states has been the main enabler of the bombing campaign of this absolutely unprecedented, violent, destructive, and you can only call it a mass

a mass killing on industrial scale by the israelis and the united states military, the israeli couldn't couldn't carry this out for another minute uh if not for. the bombs, the ammunition, the targeting assistance, the satellite reconnaissance, the drone technology, the us personnel, the patriot missile batteries that that form the iron dome etc. wouldn't happen? without the united states, so and that's what this whole sharad that you're seeing with the world uh uh kitchen uh ngo and this this facade of air dropping aid into gaza by the united states, this is just public relations to turn the tide on what's been a to an unmitigated disaster for the biden administration and the democratic party an election year, i know that sounds crass and craven, but that's exactly i believe what we're looking at. all right, uh, about 700,00 uh more or less uh is what we're looking. case when it comes to northern gaza in terms of the uh palestinians who are grappling with starvation, some are

fighting for their lives uh we're looking at increased number who have uh died as a result uh this is really a horror that's unfolding and soon it's going to spike because there's no aid there's no food what do you make of the fact that if you do a simple google search it was just three weeks ago that there's any news on this uh so-called us gaza port that's supposed to bring in food except for the two i guess runs that maybe the eu made and some of these airdrops that are killing palestinians also, it just puts into question the sincerity of the us when it comes to the food aspect and aid for palestinians? well, i don't think the sincerity of the us is in question, the fact is that the the us is is very clearly entirely insincere when it comes to the needs the palestinian people and is very sincere when it comes to sending billions of dollars more weapons to this. zionist regime to carry out the genocide of the palestinian people, um, there there's no question about what the

us takes seriously and what it and what it's lying about, kind of in a very bold faced lie, um, and attempting to kind of uh sanction and target anyone who does otherwise, i mean, just yesterday at the united nations, um, at the emergency hearing the security council convened against the zionist regimes uh, horrific, illegal attack on the iranian embassy in damascus, the us representative uh spent his time talking quote warning iran and talking about the so-called syrian regime um when it was iran and syria that were the victims of a bladent aggression and violation of all forms of international norms and principles, so it's very clear what the us is serious about and what it's and what it's bladently lying about, and one of the things... bladently lying about as any interest in providing aid and support to the palestinian people. the

so-called port off of gaza is nothing more than excuse to introduce even greater and more overt military us presence directly in the region. and further more, the us um is the entity that is making sure that the rafa crossing remains closed. if the united states wanted to ask egypt to open the rafa crossing, it is capable of do... so any minute, it is just as much as it is capable of putting pressure on the zionist regime and cutting off the flow of weapons, it's also equally capable of putting pressure on the egyptian regime to open the rafa crossing and allow the thousands and thousands and thousands of trucks that are stacked up there uh passage through, what what are the um, mean this is it's very obvious what the us would do if it were interested in the humanitarian needs of the... people, the us is interested in maintaining imperialist domination and hegemony in the region and

it's going along and arming and aiding israel's genocide in order to do so. some countries are shying away now, not shying away, they're putting a ban on their export of arms there. uh, patrick, in terms of that, we can look look at canada, halting arms sales to israel, denmark and italy have already suspended their arms exports and uh, according to netherlands has ruled the government to do the same, although some of these licenses uh uh are from before where the uh they're still getting exported to israel, but uh from january on um do you think that uh we're looking at countries realizing and the uk is mulling this over realizing that we need to we need to stop uh uh associating is with israel in a military aspect because clearly the number of deaths are pointing to the fact that genocide indeed is taking place yeah i i don't have a hard time uh accepting that um any of these countries are seriously. considering some kind of an arms embargo or sanctions against israel, look at how quickly the world jumped

top of the russian federation uh in the opening weeks, the opening days and weeks of their special military operation uh in the dumbas in the ukraine, it was global full sanctions package, the likes of which the world had never seen before, and if you look at the civilian casualties in that conflict over two years, this is even backed up by un data, it's it's the lowest in terms of... conflict of that scale, conventional conflict, the lowest amount of civilian casualties, more more casualties in fact on the russian in eastern ukrainian russian side, what a point i'm making is israel. at all records in terms of the speed and the repaciousness of the killing uh since october 7th, and there's not been one call for sanctions against uh israel, the most obvious sanctions would be in arms embargo, so the united states is really the main country, i think that matters uh in that equation, but there are other nato member states like

france, germany is also a big supplier of equipment and support for the israeli government for the... idf and so is britain, and so that would be the most obvious place. the only reason you're hearing noises about it now is because they're starting to get some serious pushback from important sections the electorate and governments are losing confidence uh from the people and also credibility, because they are backing what is ostensibly now, and i think everyone can agree, it is a genocide that's taking place in real time, so if these governments want to maintain any credibility to the g20, uh any these global confab. uh at the united nations, un security council, they're going to have to start making some serious moves, but i honestly don't think they're serious about it, because then the talking point comes from the israeli lobby, which is that you can't leave us in the lurch, you, you know, you can't leave us exposed here, uh, we've got to hamas and the iranians and hezballah, they want to push israel into the ocean, so that's the talking point, you must

arm us because otherwise we'll be overrun by the arabs, i know this sounds like ridiculous, but this is the general. narrative and this is what flies in washington, that is the acceptable storyline in washington, and that justifies the full-throated support for israel on every single conceivable level militarily. yeah, but the buyers uh have to be also in tune with the facts, charlot kates, you're looking at uh the fact that uh, well, let's put aside the one that stands out, over 32,00 palestinians killed, looking at uh, for example, the gaza strip. 70 to 80% of that strip is uh basically destroyed, turned into rubble, you're looking at uh the medical uh facilities that have been destroyed, you're looking at the maskers in different instances and you're also looking at the press uh where you have uh, i think close to 200 uh reporters and press people that have been also killed, mean everything is to the max

almost when you take a look at the proportion of it, what else then can there be de deduction i other than that israel in almost all aspects is uh after a genocide and it's eliminating basically anything that stands in the palestinian way. mean this is absolutely the case, the zionist regime is carrying out a genocide. the zionist project has always been a genocidal, colonial, illegitimate project since its inception, it has never been anything else, and it is a project that is fully aligned with imperialist powers, the leading imperialist powers. in this case the united states um as well as to a lesser extent because of the the balance of power that exists in the world, britain, france, germany, uh, canada, the european union, etc. um, the zionist regime is carrying out, is carrying out a genocide, it is failing to accomplish, it's a stated military goals, it

has not destroyed the palestinian resistance, it has not, it has completely, it is failed to quote and quote dismantle hamas and it will continue to fail to do so, it's failed to destroy the palestinian resistance for the past 75 years and it's going to continue to fail to do so, but what it is uh obviously quite willing to do and in fact dedicated to doing is uh throwing massive weapons of destruction against the palestinian people, the civilian population, schools, hospitals, places of worship, residential buildings, that is what is being targeted very explicitly and very... officially uh by the zionist regime and any attempt to claim otherwise is is a bladent lie in a misdirection, all you have to do is look at what the zionist leadership are saying themselves, not to mention the kind of tik toks and social media content that are being posted by their soldiers. this is content that's being posted by active duty soldiers. if the military didn't want them posting this kind of content, clearly they wouldn't be

enabled or allowed to do so. the fact that they are allowed to do so and enabled to do so means that that content is part and parcel the zionist propaganda war against the palestinian people, it's deliberately being created uh to show off how horrific their genocide is and how proud they are of their war crimes. uh, the way that the gaza strip is experiencing this genocide um is almost um mirroring what's happening or on the occupied west bank is meroring what's happening there a sense where it's not in fifth gear yet uh if you agree. with that patrick, i mean we're looking at uh, for example, today there were some massed arrests, 30 were detained, but the rests are have uh really dramatically increased uh, on record, i believe it's around 7,00, some indicate. 10 thousand have been arrested since october 7th, the number of deaths is also has also spiked since october 7th. what are we looking at when it comes to that aspect of uh occupied

palestine? sure, sure, i mean, we we've the journalist getting 5 am raids in the morning after posting uh things on facebook uh that the israelis did not like, so you're not allowed to talk to western journalists, they're not allowed to have any freedom of speech or expression, everyone's kind of cowering. and fear, so clearly the the israel's uh stepped up uh aggression and control measures uh in the west bank and that itself is going to be the next powder kick. um, if you look at what some of the main reasons for uh operation alaxa flood uh are if you actually pay attention uh if if the us or anybody did bothered to pay attention uh it's the huge amount of people uh stuck um incarcerated uh in in extradition. extrajudicially in uh israeli gulag prisons and so they're just adding to those numbers um in the west bank because maybe it's a soft touch for them at the moment um so they can

feel they can get rid of and disappear and sort of incarcerate any potential uh resistance activists right now and that's only going to fuel i think the uh the anger and the the the sort of out uh out uh the sort of hitting out that you see from palestinians. that we saw on october 7th, so they're not addressing that problem at all, and instead they're they're gaslighting the public about israeli, the remaining israeli prisoners in gaza, and not talking about the many thousands uh, including women and children that are being carcerated right across this uh completely illegal and barbaric uh israeli prison system, but that's not that's a conversation you're not allowed to have in the united states, you're not allowed to have that conversation. conversation in britain, it's a completely one-sided conversation where it's all about what hamas is doing, and israel's not doing anything wrong, and they haven't systemically incarcerated and killed, destroyed, abused,

raped, how many tens of thousands of people in these prisons over the years? thank you very much for that, we're just fresh out of time, patrick henningson, geopolitical analyst from los angeles, thank you, charloth cats, thank you so much, international coordinator, samy doon, palestinian prisoner solidarity network from vancouver. with that we come to an end for this edition of the spotlight, from me, and the team, it's goodbye. the museum of miniature, simple things are converted to historic handcrafted masterpieces. it rises from the creativity of the inner child and has tourist attraction.

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