, saifo, mantula is our first guest, thabombeki, african school of public and international affairs, the university of south africa joins us. welcome to the program sir, taking a look at uh what is happening here in terms of israel's economy, we want to focus on the west bank in this question, uh, the economy there obviously has been very fragile, it's easily impacted now because of the confrontations that are happening with israel regime forces and the palestinians, basically aparthite practice. and the pression that they're experiencing given the increased violence from the israeli regime forces against palestinians, how do you see the economy of the west bank and the future that it faces there? what is very important is to understand that the ripul effects of a conflict has an impact on economics and on the trade relations and also when you look beyond their ratings, i think what is important for us to can contextualize the conflict in the... middle east, it is to understand that the conflict of israel and palestine even in 2014 when there was one operation by israel, there were a