Some 50 truck loads of human aid, which according to un officials is that drop in the ocean given the urgent needs of the besieg people in gaza. Now how far would this go, how many more innocent palestinan lives would be lost until this unprecedented genocide stops . These are the questions and more of those questions, im going to ask our guests in tonights edition of the spotl, let me introduce our guests. Richard methers, a of journalist. And commentator in vienna. Also shabia rizby political commentator is in chicago. Okay, welcome to the show gentlemen. Uh, beginning uh, with richard. Richard, one basic question, who should pay the price of thousands of innocent lives in gaza. Thank you for having me on the program, sure uh. The thing is that we we cant just uh hold the israelis accountable, this is really being done with the uh the United States supplying the infrastructure, the weapons uh for israel to carry out this genocide, and of course the politicians in westminster and in b
Destroyed, more than million gazans have been displayed, some 7000 of them taking shelter in schools, the israeli army saying its amast some 100,000 reserve troops to stage a Ground Invasion of gaza, large scale and discriminate taxs of hit houses, mosks, churches and even hospitals, the death toll so far close to 6, only 74 in a matter of 24 hours and one third of them even more than one third. Children, rafa crossing only led in some 50 truck loads of human aid, which according to un officials is that drop in the ocean given the urgent needs of the besieged people in gaza. Now how far would this go, how many more innocent palestinan lives would be lost until this unprecedented genocide stops . These are the questions and more of those questions im going to ask our guests of in tonights edition of the spot. Let me introduce our guests. Richard. Metters, a journalist and commentator in vienna. Also of shabia rizby, political commenter is in chicago. Okay, welcome to the show gentlemen.
Led in some 50 truck loads of humanitarian aid, which according to un officials is that drop in the ocean given the urgent needs of the besieged people in gaza. Now how far would this go, how many more innocent palestinan lies would be lost until this unprecedented genocide stops . These are the questions and more of those questions, im going to ask our guests in tonights edition of the spot, let me introduce our guests. Richard methers a journalist and commentator in vienna, also shabia rizby, political commentator is in chicago, okay, welcome to the show, gentlemen, beginning uh with richard, richard, one basic question, who should pay the price of thousands of innocent lifes in gaza . Thank you for having me on the program, sure that the thing. Is that we we cant just uh hold the israelis accountable, this is really being done with the uh the United States uh supplying the infrastructure, the weapons uh for israel to carry out this genocide, and of course the politicians in westmins
Pistorius is sentenced to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend and 2013. In 2013. Has justice been served . And another suspicious killing of a black man by u. S. Police officers. One activist calling it, a legal lynching. Brent it is good to have you with us. We begin with the grave mistakes of the past. That is the assessment of the uks role in the invasion of iraq in 2003. The chilcot report concludes the war was launched on flawed evidence from the field to achieve evidence, and has left the world in dire consequences to this day. Former Prime Minister tony blair defended the decision to go to war as the hardest and most agonizing decision of his time in office. [chanting] war criminal. Reporter families of british soldiers killed in iraq and other protesters gathered for the conclusion of the report as it was red. Several years in the making, following the decision of tony blair to go to iraq, has released a document with 2. 6 million words. The head of the inquiry sai
The war was necessary and the cost in lives justified. The answer delivered bite inquirys chairman, sir john chilcot, it wasnt. There was no imminent threat from saddam hussein. Reporter at the center of the inquiry, the relationship, the bromance it was called between then president george bush and the british Prime Minister at the time, tony bl r blair. Both men were convinced saddam had stock piles of chemical and weapons of mass destruction and needed to be disarmed. The bush policy was regime change. War. Blairs public position was to push the u. S. To seek a u. N. Mandate before attacking. But a note from blair to bush, sent before the war and revealed bite inquiry seems to promise unconditional support. I will be with you whatever. It says. And he was. When u. N. Weapons inspectors went into iraq looking for wmd and couldnt find any the u. S. Attacked anyway. And the british, true to blairs private promise, did too. Blair has been villified since and was again today. He was also