Patrick hennikson, geopolitical analyst joins us from los angeles. Also joining us charlotte kates, International Coordinator at the sami doon Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from vancouver. Welcome to you both uh patrick hanning, let me first start with you in this incident with the usbased a truck uh where seven gaza aid workers, it included uk, us and australian citizens. Uh, we saw lot of uh reaction. From this overwhelmingly uh around the world, but in 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 that have been murdered all this time, he did not show that kind of compassion for the genocide thats 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, its debatable whether uh,
But by few other countries as well who are against the ceasefire, and also the possibility of their involvement in this war. Of scott ritter, former un weapons inspector, joining us alive from new york, also we have with charlet kates, International Coordinator of samidun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from. Thank you very much to both of you for joining us, lets begin with scott, we are witnessing massacre a large scale that could be called based on textbook definitions, a genocide, ethnic cleansing, and despite that we are witnessing countries such as the us, few western European Countries supporting israel, why is that . Well, i mean the United States and europe have for a long time uh been the top supporters of israel, i think its linked to the lets just be very honest here, the the strong jewish communities in both locations and uh the i guess the romance they have attached to the israeli state based up on the horrors of the holocaust, the notion that there needs to be a
Reinforcement, not only emotional force, have now been closed for. It is genocide, but a massive scale. 12,00 tons of bombs, equivalent to the bomb the us dropped in hiroshima, which killed hundreds of thousands, new fuel to run the generations, the generators, that is for electricity to save human lives and starvation due to no food supplies. The gazan people are being massacred with multiple war crimes committed by the israeli. Regime and its accomplices such as the us. Welcome to this edition of the spotlight. In this edition we will look at why this massacre is being pushed not only by the us but by few other countries as well who are against the seasfire and also the possibility of their involvement in this war. Scott witter. Former un weapons inspector, joining us alive from bethlehem, new york, also we have with charlie kates, International Coordinator of samidun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from vancouver. Thank you very much to both of you for joining us, lets begin
Edition of the spotlight in this edition we will look at why this massacre is being pushed not only by the us but by few other countries as well who are against the seasfire and also the possibility of their involvement in this wart ritter former un weapons inspector whos joining us live in Bethlehem New york also we have with Charlie Kates and International Coordinator of samidun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network from vancouver. Thank you very much to both of you for joining us. Lets begin with scott. We are witnessing massacre a large scale that could uh be called based on textbook definitions, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and despite that we are witnessing countries such as the us and few western european countries. Supporting israel, why is that . Well, the United States and europe have for a long time uh been the top supporters of israel, i think its linked to the lets just be very honest here, um, the strong jewish communities in both locations and the i guess the romance th
Other war scenarios may open up uh for example with syria were not sure uh there was some uh actually rocket fire from syria i believe into israel and um israel uh also attacked the um aleppo and the Damascus International airport uh so how think can israel be actually stretched uh many are saying it cant and if it were all these other fronts to open up that uh it would ultimately be led to israels defeat what would israels defeat even look like, you see, it is imperative that other fronts are opened against israel, particularly in the north, through along the lebanese border, along the Syrian Border in the golan highs, this is an opportune moment for the Resistance Forces to stretch israelly forces in, in fact you know there are reports that literally tens of thousands of israelis want to flee the country if they were able to, if the their airports were open, the airports are not open, lights are not coming in and out and therefore these people cannot flee the country, and so if there