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In two years of fighting, Israel couldn’t even come close to defeating Hamas and allied Resistance groups. All they could do is commit genocide, taking their frustration out on women and children and hospitals and starving people lined up for food. The basics of this deal—a prisoner swap, an end to the blockade of Gaza, Hamas stepping down in favor of a united Palestinian front backed by regional countries—could have been reached on October 8th, 2023. That would have saved Israel from the complete delegitimization it has suffered after two years of genocide.

Below is today’s Press TV interview.

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Press TV: We’re now joined by Mustafa Ahmed, Director of Asia Center for Asian Studies, from Cairo. And we’re also joined by Kevin Barrett, from Saidia, Morocco. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. I’m sure you guys have been reading, as we all have been, on the very little details that we have about this very important ceasefire that has been announced by the Trump administration. I’m going to start from Morocco. Give us an update on what you think the ceasefire entails and if we are welcoming it or not.

Kevin Barrett: Yes, it’s good news, obviously, in terms of the possibilities for humanitarian improvement. That is, at least a slowdown of this Zionist genocide of Palestine that’s been ongoing since at least 1948, and has been in high gear for the past two years. It amounts to a victory for the Palestinian resistance.

And I said right after October 7th, 2023, that this is how it would end: The Israelis are going to be forced to essentially commit all kinds of horrendous war crimes because that’s their ideology that they operate under, and they’ll do that for a while. I didn’t think it would last longer than a few months.

It’s been two years. But at some point (I said in early October 2023) they will fail in the announced objectives of Netanyahu. Those objectives, as he laid out very clearly after the October 7th raid, were to completely annihilate Hamas and gain return of all of the Zionist captives. Well, he failed miserably. What the Israeli entity succeeded in doing was in destroying their own legitimacy by committing the world’s first ever live streamed genocide that the world has been watching with horror for two years.

And the world now knows what so-called Israel is really all about. Essentially, that fake nation signed its death warrant by choosing to attack Palestinian civilians and massacre them, massacre people in hospitals, massacre people lined up for aid, and just repeatedly top themselves with evil behavior that we could all see for two years. So now they’re finally being forced to stop. They realize if this continues, they will implode. Their legitimacy will completely disappear, and the whole world will cut them off, and that will be the end.

So they’ve been forced into this settlement, which they could have had, immediately after October 7th or a week after or any time during that period. This is the settlement that Hamas has been calling for from day one, which is full Israeli withdrawal, allowing aid into Gaza, unlimited aid, the reconstruction of Gaza, and a prisoner swap. This is what they’ve been asking for, and they finally got it after two years, because if things continued like this, the Zionist entity would completely implode.

Okay. Stay with me, Mr. Kevin Barrett. I want to go to Ahmed Mustafa in Cairo. Mr. Mustafa, you are in one of the countries where the ceasefire agreement (was negotiated). We saw many, many delegation visit Egypt in order to try and get that agreement going, even the previous ones. In your opinion, can the people and the countries who negotiated this drill guarantee the implementation, especially fr