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PressTV 0:07
And I welcome everyone to Press TV's news review program, where we get
in-depth in one of the day's top stories. And now today in review, the
UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA says over 50,000 children
across the Gaza Strip are suffering from acute malnutrition. UNRWA
described the humanitarian situation as catastrophic, adding Gazans are
now facing desperate levels of hunger due to the Israeli blockade. UN
children's agency UNICEF also said the children of Gaza are living in
constant terror due to Israeli bombardment. UNICEF said Israeli forced
displacement of Gazans in Rafah has caused agency to lose track of over
3,000 children. It added the humanitarian conditions and the suffering
of citizens in Gaza is worsening by the day, due to the continuous
blockade by Israeli forces.
1:00
And joining us for our program now forward is Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor
at "Veterans Today", joining us at Saidia, Morocco; and Gilbert
Doctorow, independent international affairs analyst, joining us out of
Brussels. Gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you both to the program. Dr.
Barrett, we'll start with you. Hope you're doing well out there in
Morocco. Your thoughts about the regime continuing to block all
humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza, and that's impacting the
development of vulnerable small children?
Dr Kevin Barrett 1:31
Well, the genocidal Zionist regime is deliberately starving children of
Palestine, and they're admitting this. They're not even trying to hide
it. Numerous Israeli leaders have spoken about, made clearly genocidal
statements, such as these statements about how the children who survived
when we "mowed the lawn" in 2008 or 2014 are the same people who then
grew up to support Hamas and so on. So we really should have just killed
all the children back then, and by implication, we should kill them
now. The top rabbi in Israel has basically said this, as have a number
of the other Israeli leaders. So they're not even hiding the fact that
they're deliberately slaughtering, torturing, and maiming children as
national policy.
2:21
And the fact that this is allowed to happen in today's world is
astonishing. Right now we're celebrating Eid al-Adha in the Islamic
world, which is the celebration of the end of human sacrifice, and
specifically the end of sacrificing children. That was a common practice
in the ancient Mediterranean, among the Venetian Carthaginian culture
particularly, but others as well. And when God told people to stop
sacrificing their children, that was a momentous step forward for
civilization. But apparently we're going back to the era of the
sacrifice of children as this bizarre, psychotic, millenary and
messianic, genocidal cult of satanic so-called Jews, really Zionists in
occupied Palestine, is sacrificing children by the tens of thousands.
3:16
And the low estimate of the number of children murdered so far is
somewhere in the neighborhood of the 15, 16, 17,000 children. The
reality is much higher, of course, as so many children have been lost
track of, as we've heard, are buried beneath the rubble where they've
died very slowly and painfully in horrible anguish, due to the Zionists
deliberately dropping their buildings on top of them. So this is, it's
completely disgusting and unacceptable that the world is allowing this
to continue.
Press TV: 3:43
Thank you, Dr. Barrett. And Gilbert Doctorow, welcome to the
conversation, sir, and welcome to the program. Mr. Doctorow, I mean, the
Israeli regime has the bigger guns, the tanks, the bigger bombs, the
helicopters and fighter jets, far superior firepower. Why do you need to
pick as your main victim the women and hungry children of Gaza?
Gilbert Doctorow, PhD 4:06
Well, I add my voice of outrage to what Israel is doing in Gaza. This
genocide is unacceptable, but who is acting against it? And I would like
to use this opportunity that you have given me the microphone to
suggest a way out of this. The way out is to follow a page from the
American playbook, it's called "form a coalition of the willing". It is
clear for understandable reasons that Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other
neighbors of Israel are reluctant to enter into a military confrontation
with Israel because they know very well that this will be very damaging
to their own populations and many people will die in a valiant effort
that may or may not succeed.
4:52
It is a different situation if it's not one country or two countries
that go up against has blockade of Israel, but a coalition of nations.
And I would propose, insofar as I am well aware that Russian officials
follow your Press TV, I make a proposal to them that they lead this
coalition. The ability of the Russians who are based in, have naval base
in Syria, and who are present in the region is large. The Israelis will
not go to war with Russia if Russia heads a coalition to break the
blockade.
I didn't say to break the Israeli army. No, to break the blockade for
humanitarian grounds. That will be morally acceptable, and if it is not
one nation [sound breakup]
PressTV 5:52
Thank you, Mr. Doctorow. We're kind of having a loose connection toward
the end of your words there, but hopefully that will get resolved. Dr.
Barrett, a lot of people say that's exactly what the Israeli regime
wants. It wants to see a coalition on the other side with opposition to
the atrocities that's committing in Gaza. It wants to see regional
powers get involved, so the U.S. gets involved, so Berlin and London. So
basically, a world war erupts to try to protect the starving children
of Gaza. Is that really what it's going to take?
Barrett: 6:25
Well, that seems to be what Netanyahu and his camp are working for.
Netanyahu has been trying to unleash a big war in the region, and a
potential world war, in order to create the fog of war under which he
could finish the genocide of the Palestinians. And he's been trying to
do this since, well, really for his whole political career, which began
by creating the so-called War on Terror at the Jerusalem Conference on
International Terrorism in 1979, where he summoned a number of top US
leaders and set out the agenda, which was that post-Cold War, they would
transition to a so-called War on Terror, which would really be a war by
the West against Israel's enemies. And so Netanyahu was then involved
in the public relations launch for this on September 11, 2001. 9-11 was
an Israeli job. And since then, Netanyahu and his faction has been
pushing for a world war, trying to drag the Americans into a big war.
Again, that's the way that he thinks he could finish the genocide of
Palestine.
7:32
And that is a pretty horrific prospect. As for to what extent does that
limit the military options against the Zionist entity, I'm not sure
that, again, yes, if we were talking about trying to bring a coalition
of the willing into outright war with the Zionist entity that could
easily spin off into a World War III. But a blocking effort, if it were
the right coalition of nations-- that would have to include not just
Russia and its allies, but also countries like Turkey, and maybe even
Saudi Arabia-- that is a kind of a bridge- building exercise across the
contours of the current system of alliances that we're seeing as we see
the U.S. imperial occupied Zionist world on one side and this emerging
independent BRICS world on the other.
8:26
If you had a coalition that included members of both, if you could get
Norway and Spain and these other-- Ireland and pro-Palestinian NATO
countries on the side of sending military forces to break the blockade
along with Russia and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, with countries like Iran
in a secondary role, that actually might have a chance of succeeding.
But of course, the question is who's going to bail the cat? Who has the
courage to actually stand up against these monstrous forces? But at some
point, we need that courage if we're going to stop this mass slaughter
of children. So I think this is an idea that should be explored.
Press TV: 9:00
Thank you. And final thoughts with you, Mr. Gilbert Doctorow there. Why
are Western leaders so, I mean, obviously, they've all said time and
again, nothing justifies the collective punishment taking place, the
endless war crimes and atrocities being committed, especially against
the children of Gaza, why are they not doing more to put a stop to it,
to feed the children throughout this onslaught campaign?
Doctorow: 9:26
The answer is "Never again." The unfortunate aspect of everything that
has proceeded since October of last year is that European nations, and
Germany in particular as a leader in this, have a collective guilt for
the awful things they did to the Jewish people before and during World
War II. And for that reason, "Never again" is the slogan that justifies,
they think, the ongoing genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza.
That has to be broken. Unfortunately for the Jewish people, for the
Israeli population, they have destroyed their moral authority, and they
have desecrated the memory of the six million people who died in the
Holocaust.
10:13
That is a tragedy that will take them several generations to live down.
But we have to begin with remedying the situation today. And I totally
concur with my fellow panelist that a broader coalition that takes in
some NATO members who have recognized Palestine would be ideal. I was
not suggesting at any point that they all march in and try to defeat the
Israeli army. That would be a very good formula for the start of World
War III. But a more modest, limited, and urgent effort to break the
blockade, I think that will work.
Press TV: 10:52
And you know, I was going to sign off, but I really want to get Dr.
Barrett's take on that. And that's a powerful argument that Mr. Doctorow
is making, that somehow giving Israel, the West giving Israel this
carte blanche to do what it wants in Gaza, it's pathetic to think, but
I'm sure some Western leaders feel it's some kind of reparation for the
Holocaust.
Barrett: 11:15
It's become the new religion, it's replaced Christianity, the gas
chambers are the crucifixion, Israel is the resurrection, and so on. And
so it's a new de facto religion in the West. And I personally think
that that's the product of the Zionist propaganda machine that dominates
Western media, rather than the historical reality in which I think that
the conflict between Jews and non-Jews throughout all of history has
not been one of spotless victims on one side and evil perpetrators on
the other. It's been a mixed bag. And if anything, I think the Jewish
people have been more sinning than sinned against. And I know that's an
absolutely heretical thought to end the show on, but I'm sorry. I
believe it's the truth.
Press TV:
All right gentlemen, stay safe, to both of you. And thank you both for
your input on our program here. Dr. Kevin Barrett there, editor at
"Veterans Today", joining us out of Morocco, and Gilbert Doctorow,
independent international affairs analyst joining us out of Brussels.
12:06
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