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Press TV: Rick Sterling is an investigative journalist joining us from Walnut Creek in California. We also have Kevin Barrett, editor at Veterans Today joining us from Saidiya over in Morocco. Welcome to you both. Rick Sterling, I'll start with you. There's a couple of real shocking, not that before we didn't hear shocking news coming out of the Gaza Strip. One of them is the fact that you have people in one particular incident that's now been broadcast that are eating cactus for food. The other is the massacre that took place where the military aid convoy comes, not the military, but aid convoy comes, Palestinians line up for food and then they get shot at by the regime forces and they killed over a hundred. What do you make of the fact that this is still continuing by the Israeli regime?

Rick Sterling: Well, I think Israel is spitting in the face of the International Court of Justice which ruled at the end of January that Israel should stop this and they're just continuing as before. The Israeli tanks and soldiers have fired on the civilians lining up to try to get food. It's just another continuation of the genocide.

Taking a look at the way that this genocide has continued, Kevin Barrett, it would not happen were it not for the U.S. support militarily for the Israeli regime. We had at one point where a Pentagon spokesperson has said that Israel has unfettered access to military equipment of all kinds, bombs, you name it. That's happening almost on a daily basis, if not on a daily basis. So doesn't that make the U.S. complicit in this and as guilty?

Kevin Barrett: Yes, the U.S. is 100% complicit, and American leaders ought to be right up there on the defendant's stand in the world court, along with the Israeli leaders, and they all need to be tried, convicted, and sentenced, and in many cases executed. These are among the worst war criminals in history. There's no reason that this has to happen. There are wars that are driven by actual necessity. This is not. This is basically an act of pure aggression by these Zionist genocidal maniacs who have a crazy fundamentalist religious view. It's actually not even an authentic traditional religious view. But it's a satanic spin-off of millenarian messianic lunacy that's been percolating in that community for hundreds of years now, and it's turned into sheer genocide driven by utter madness.

There's no military purpose to luring people, to starving them until they show up in the thousands to try to get a sack of flour, and then firing into the crowd with tanks, which is what just happened. Killing over a hundred people and wounding many, many hundreds more. And this is just one example of so many of these extreme, sadistic, genocidal actions by the Zionists that have nothing to do with any kind of military necessity.

The Israelis keep posting videos of themselves performing atrocities and acts of extreme cruelty. For instance, just recently, I just happened to look at a few of these. An Israeli soldier filmed himself proudly destroying a children's toy store, attacking the toys. They seem to really hate children and mothers. There's some kind of psychological complex at work here.

The Americans are indeed totally guilty. Joe Biden was recently filmed licking an ice cream cone and blabbering about a possible ceasefire, which he claimed, while he licked the ice cream cone, would be coming this weekend. But as the people of Gaza starve, and then are mowed down by the hundreds as they line up for the food that would keep them alive, Biden’s promises while he’s licking ice cream don’t look very sincere.

They don't. Another act that has not received yet an official reaction from the U.S. President or many