Numbers of people in these countries are taking to the streets and saying, enough is a enough, condemning the Israeli Regime and demanding an end to the violence. Is the regime starting to lose control of the narrative, which is so important for it to of always be portrayed as the victim. Well be looking at all of this on this spotlight, and now youre looking at one of those demonstrations right there out of washington dc right now. Coming to you live, as i said in the intro, people, more and more people from countries around the world, and also those countries where their governments actually supporting the Israeli Regime, people are starting to uh show uh that skism, that divide between their perspectives and their governments. Now we have seen the United States of course uh come out very strongly in supporting the israeli re throughout this onslot, despite that over 4,000 palestinians have been killed, um, and of and i think that the sheer numbers uh, are actually what bringing people out on the street and also the blanket support, whether were talking about washington or london or paris, and other western countries that theyre showing uh for what is taking place, this unbelievable bloodshed thats taking. Place in the gaza strip and of course uh with the uh unbelievable hit on the hospital a few nights ago and also the one of the oldest churches in the world also being hit and people being killed. I think that uh really really people are saying enough is enough and were going to be looking at that on the spotlight. My first guest is saib shaf out of belfast and zakir ahmed out of johannesburg. Thank you both for being with me on this program. Well, lets start off in belfast and sap, almost 4400 palestinians in have been killed in two weeks and the bombing simply continue, how can this be allowed to continue to happen . And do you think that uh over the years the media has played a major role in first dehumanizing palestinians, which has opened the door um to basically uh having a lot of these regimes look the other way and and also affected many of the people. How do you see it . The reaction uh of the people. On the streets of western europe and the United States of america uh can interpret one thing, thats these people dont believe their media and their politicians, today i was in in belfast in one huge rally which was called in a short notice yesterday and this week maybe there was a three massive demonstrations, hundreds of thousands of people, we seen even the drawn footage of. London, its hundreds of thousand people in the streets of london, the same thing in manchester, the same thing, so the the people are watching and live genocide is unfolding in live tv, and they they heard what the Israeli Soldiers were saying on their own national tv, with that they they they are not going there. To fight hamas, they gonna, they fight all the civilians, that without doubt that means the soldiers received orders commit genocide in gaza, and lets say under International Law genocide requires two stages one intent to destroy a national or ethnic or religious or racial group, and the second stage is the attempt of destruction of of that group, and then in the International Law, without intent, it means the action amount ethnical cleansing, if it deliberate then its considered genocide, and this is exactly we see in both actions happening in gaza, and in contradiction to. International law which prohibit collective punishment and the target of civilians in and which both are actually amounts to warm war crimes or crimes against the humanity. Few days ago the the president the science entity ishak herzog which he is from the labor party the the left said the gazan are not innocent civilians, it is and entire nation out there that is responsible, so he gives the green light, the head of the state to to destroy the whole population, and we heard as you mentioned, the dehumanization the palestinian, by the by galand, which is initiating, it means initiating a full scale of genocide, that the minute gallant described the israeli entity, defense minister, the palestinians as human animal and then give the orders to cut water, electricity, fuel, this dehumanizing language, we remember was used in the Second World War by hitler, when he described the the the the jews in europe and some others as rats, and then we know what happened after that, the same nazi language and the same nazi. The are using in gaza today, the cry were the survivor, the grandsons or the sons the survivors of the holy coast which them, right . Zak, you heard what saib said, it is mind boggling, when we think uh that the excuse for the creation of the regime, was the holocaus, and yet, what we see taking place in 2020. Th and these bombs, powerful bombs, phosphorus bombs, um, and just hitting all these residential areas and hospitals and ambulances and and not showing any kind of compassion at all, i mean were just its really mindbockling when we think in such a short period of time and were looking at such a you, a tragedy that these same people then are descendants of some of them. Can do what theyre doing and justify what theyre doing . I think it should not come as a surprise to those who are fully aware of the palestinian situation and the reason why i say this is because we are cutely aware of the fact that israel is a colonial settler apart state and when you consider israel as a colonial colonial state, it obviously follows through with colonial ideology from the. Century, the spaniords had come up with this idea, particularly with african slaves, that these are people without souls, the animal imagery was already created then, and it has been a fundamental part of colonialism, and then you see the same sort of image projecting itself, as the my fellow panelist has referred to your gallant making the statement that we are dealing with human animals, but it wasnt just your galant, it was a chekat which. Referred to a post on her social media that refer to the palestinians as snakes, the same imagery comes out with danielles article in 2021 where he says that if you fail to do mowing the lawn, meaning the periodic killing and brutalizing of palestinians, then if you fail to do so, weed will grow wild and snakes will begin to slither around in the bushes. This is the same type of thought that established the state of israel begin saying that the palestinians are animals walking. In two legs, so when you dehumanize, its part of colonial ideology, and it is for this specific reason that we see colonial powers coming to the aid of israel, the United States, the uk, italy, france, and germany, these are a colonial powers, it comes as no surprise to me, what comes as a surprise to me though is that some of the arab nations have dragged their feet, they have just provided lip service to the palestinians, when it should be the complete opposite, those that are providing tangible support and changing equation on the ground are the those from the access of resistance islam we see whats happening in we seeing whats happening in syria we whats happening in yemen with ansar line, we see whats happening in iraq, that is practical support for the palestinians, not mere lip service and having meeting after meeting while innocent people are being slaughted a daily basis, we are just providing lip service to try and appeal conscience, that needs to change okay, im going to get back to what you mentioned, but i i also want to look at the west bank, because the situation there is horrible also with more predon rate. More death, more destruction, at least 84 people have been killed there with over a thousand being arrested since october the seventh, i mean your thoughts on the reason the regime is more out of control than ever, and do you think that this will backfire on it . No, the regime is not out of control, the regime is acting according to a plan, and this plan the palestinian and arabic and Islamic Resistance but it on reverse, they were planning to have siness entity call it a greater israel from the nil to the and we witnessed what the lebanese resistant hezballah inflicted on them in the year 2000 and 2006 defeated them and spelled them out of South Lebanon the same thing the palestinian did in gaza in 2005 uh the spell them out of gaza, but then they put a massive huge blocade and siege on gaza, nothing moves in and out of gaza, which is in its own is as a continuous war crime for the last over 17, 18 years, so there is a zionist, politicians, member of kinaset now calling for second nakba referring to the mass of course displacement of palestinian 1948 with the help. The British Empire and then establishing of israel after expelling hundreds of thousands of palestinians again to deliberately create another nakba which means the targets the west bank and it target gaza and the west bank they want to push the people to jordan okay this is what what is the jordanian and in gaza they want to push the people to uh to egypt and this is what buckles the egyptians and worries them the they the politicians openly. Now in the z entity talking about nakbah which is that mean amounting to genocide not only in gaza as well in the west bank and this is we can see their action in the nur shams refugee camp in tulkarim or in jeneen or trying to put the palestinians in the west bank in in three bond stands and beseed them worse than gaza and then push their majority. Outside to jordan and let jordan deal with them and they grab the best of the lands of the west bank, because today we have nearly one million settler in the west bank and the settlers in the west bank they are calling their government to create the settlers estate in the west bank today, so this is coupled with what happened in gaza, we can read this, the west is behind israel totally to try to push for the creating of great. Israel, but they are mistaken, they are failing even to protect themselves from gaza, and the and the resistance within the west bank, with all the cost incurd in gaza or the west bank are formidable and is moving to stop this project. Lets talk about the possibility of the ex expansion of this war, i mean you mentioned hezbullah, because we know that some border areas in South Lebanon ben bomb and hezbullah has engaged in precise attacks on Regime Forces and their equipment uh we also saw a law that fired rockets toward the regime which were intercepted and in iraq the the us nel assad base has been attack, American Forces also in syria have been attack, your your analysis of all of this. So what we are sitting with at the moment is equation that israel find. Itself in, and regardless of how you work this out, israel is doomed, its the end, we have spoken about this before on your show, and ive always said that israel is about implode, its its its death and that there will be a regional war, however i believe this is not going to be a regional war, i miscalculated before, this is going to be a global war, what we are seeing now is Global Parties intervening on behalf of israel, there is an inevitability, but if israel continues with its massacres in the manner and fashion that its currently going about, i think that we will start seeing different fronts opening up, the resistance and has already sent sign that they are prepared to enter, we have seen senior commanders appearing along the border of lubnan, the deputy of the imam ali brigades, the commander of spotted in, so these are indications that this is going to be a multifront war. Israel is finding itself a very difficult position at the moment, israel does not have an operational theory as to how to enter gaza and commit their genocide, that is number one. One number two is that israel is trying extremely hard to maintain all fronts because they cannot fight two proong war, they can fight an offensive war in gas and defensive war in the north, but they cannot manage two front offence of war, and this is the crisis that israel finds itself in today, it is also the assessment of internal israeli generals in their discussions is that if hazballah enters the battle, it will obliterate israel. The us air power can only go so far, israel is not ready for ground war against, the United States does not have the assets to commit to a ground operation in lubnan, and then you have the other problem with with the eastern flank of syria, the golan and iraq as well as ansarlah, this only spells one picture and that is the complete demise of the zionist entity, that is why we are seeing them hold true to what they are. Genocidal maniacs and that is why they are fighting for their very existence, the embarrassing situation that they had to call in the United States to bring not one but two aircraft carriers and go to the United Kingdom and bring in the royal navy, the colonialists are fighting for the existence, the world will never go back to how it was before this war, this war is only beginning and i believe at the end of it we will see a world based on justice, there is no. Hope for the apartate state as we see it. Well, how do you see it . Because what uh zakirer has described, mean when we look at again, i want to look at these individual western countries that they are continuing of course to support uh the Israeli Regime, but there seems to be a growing devide between those western regimes and the people on the ground at the beginning of. Show, we look live at what is happening right now in washington dc, we saw earlier today huge demonstration in london, and of course this is taking place all over the world, i want to look at the possibility, zaker talked about the demise of that regime, but i want to talk about even beyond that, and how these western regimes can be majorly affected by all of this uh, two days ago, was a. Massive demonstration in city of belfast, hundreds of thousands were in it. I addressed the demonstration myself and i reminded the people who attended the demonstration with the lies and the fabrication, the United States of america and the british, at the time tony blair and george bush used to sell to the media and to the United Nation these life fabrications for invading iraq. About mass weapons of mass destruction and and the rest and the cost of that of these lies how many civilians been killed in nearly amount to over million how many children died from the sanctions in iraq which is the the the the americans foreign minister at the timeline when they ask her abc news is it worth it half million it shall to die from sanctions for what happens in iraq, she still insist, its worth it, live on tv, disgusting, and the people today, we they witness as well, the United States of america is using what we call atrocity propaganda, especially about things proven wrong and proving total fabrication and lies like beheaded babies and stuff, so and couple with that, the people lost, lost you know uh faith in their government in their political system, you cant see it in the streets, they dont believe, and they heard the United States of america, Us State Department in fact has warned the diplomats to stay away from phrases such deescalation and see fire, people asking for the war to stop, and the American Administration ordering its own diplomat to stay away from end the violence or blood shed and restoring calm. These phrases are forbidden in the United States of america, while as well with us and the collective west funding the genocide which they are party to it today and the. People in the street they say that they see that from the taxpayers money and just few days ago netanyahu came in a press conference bragging with the the romanian Prime Minister who came to show support and to show up the zin entity in behalf of the west as well, he said they fight in gaza in behalf of the civilized world and this man, the remaining and the Prime Minister didnt comment anything on that, even when he have the chance to Say Something or to answer for a question, so they they they proved their own people, they are complicit, but there is huge gap now in the streets between the politicians which theyre going to pay for a price, because there is a group of activists whos led by some former mps in the uk taking the some politicians from the British Government to court. For supporting ethnic cleansing or the idea of genocide, so these things are making the people today opening their eyes, and but as my friend from south africa said, they find themselves today, they gonna go for a global war, it seems, this is why they want to assure the state of israel, okay, i only have just one minute, your take on this, pr uh transition it seems because israel has always been very big the regime and trying to sell itself with the as the most moral army, the only democratic entity in the region, but it seems to be losing that pr battle now, the importance of that and where do you see it going . I only have 30 seconds, israel has failed on its pr campaign, they have claimed selfdefense impossible, concentration camp card does not have the right of selfdefense against those that he holds in the concentration camp number one, number two is that the global population can see the disconnect between the selfdefense talk of israel and the revenge that it is taking out on the palestinian people, massacre after massacre dismentles israels Propaganda Machine in front of the entire world and it is being exposed for what it is and apart settle colonial state and on that note appreciate both of you being with me on this spot. Shath, author and west asia expert out of belfast and zakar ahmed matyet, attorney, activist and political analyst out of johannesburg, and as always viewers, we appreciate you being with us on another spotlight, im hashimi, signing out for myself and other group right here in tehran, hope to see you right here next time. There are currently two Million People living in the. Gaza strip, of which 52 are children, 70 plus percent are also refugees, all packed into area more densely populated than tokyo. From technical point of view, it is impossible to survive under discipline, simply, you dont have any water resources, theres no available water up hells and into gaza, by fragmenting not only the palestinians politically, but also geographically by fragmenting the fragmented. We now continue the journey, turning our attention to the issues of refugees, resources and what trumps assault on the palestinians has meant for the people of the gaza strip. يعني هذا حال هذا الطفل الذي لا يريد مغادره منزلهم الذي قصف او عفوا يعني هذا المحل الذي قصف. To headlines for this hour, israel says it will intensify if indiscriminate bombing of the besieg ghaza strip after killing thousands of palestinian women and children in the past two weeks. The deputy secretary general of lebanons Resistance Movement hezbullah warns that israel will pay high price if it launches ground operation in the gaza strip. And people around the world take to the streets to condem israels atrocities against the people of palestine