joining us is oliver boyde barrett. he is the ameritus professor of ohio. and california university, he's author of many books uh such as the conflict narratives in syria. oliver boy barrett, welcome to economic devide, taking a look at the i guess warning that was issued by the world bank on the dire state of the palestinian economy, uh, also on the gaza strip, both are not doing well, there isn't much hope for recuperation at this point, wondering how long this is going to take, because the onslot as we speak is still continuing, and uh, what do you think about the future? the occupied westmank given the fact that you have the the aggression in the gaza strip and the violence that's uh a daily occurrence there in the occupied west bank. what one thing is absolutely for sure is that the uh gravity of the situation uh is unprecedented uh the situation is extremely uh grim uh as i think you just mentioned we've seen a fall uh in the palestinian. uh economic activity of something like uh 80% uh in the last quarter uh we h

let's bring back our guests and uh see what uh they think about all this uh, we have oliver boyde barrett, rejoining us, emirates professor of ohio and california university, author of many books like: conflict narratives in syria. oliver boy barrett, welcome back economic divide. uh, i'd like to zoom in a announcement uh, slash warning that the us treasury secretary janneth yellen actually issued against netanyahu where it's she said that uh, he needs to take steps to prevent the collapse of the west bank economy. as far as i recall, the us has a almost a direct hand in contributing to the uh west bank economy uh, not in favor of the palestinians such as settlements, the freedom of movement, indirectly, these are financially supported by the us, so isn't the us actually responsible in some regards? yeah, i think essentially sorry recently got it right when he described the the role of israel for the united states is as kind of aircraft aircraft carrier is the term that he used, so united for the united states, i think he has this right, israel is kind of permanent, permanently anchored a

joining us is oliver boyde barrett. he is the emiretus professor of ohio and california university. he's a author of many books uh such as the conflict narratives in syria. oliver boy barret, welcome to economic divide. uh, taking a look at the i guess warning that was issued by the world bank on the dire state of the palestinian economy uh also. on the gaza strip, both are not doing well, there isn't much hope for recuperation at this point, wondering how long this is going to take, because the onslot as we speak is still continuing, and uh, what do you think about the future of the occupied west bank given the fact that you have the the aggression in the gaza strip and the violence that's uh a daily occurrence there in the occupied west bank, what one thing is absolutely for sure is that the uh gravity of the sc situation is unprecedented, the situation is extremely grim, as i think you just mentioned, we've seen a fall in the palestinian economic activity of something like 80% in the last quarter, we have seen a total fall off in the work permits that would be available for gazam

let's bring back our guests and uh see what uh they think about all this uh we have oliver boyde barrett rejoining us, emirates professor of ohio and california university, author of many books like conflict narratives in syria. otret, welcome back economic divide. i'd like to zoom in a announcement slash warning that the us treasury secretary janneth yell. actually issued uh against netanyahu where it's she said that uh he needs to take steps to prevent the collapse of the west bank economy. as far as i recall the us has a almost a direct hand in contributing to the uh west bank economy uh not in favor of the palestinians such as settlements, the freedom of movement, indirectly, these are financially supported by the us. so isn't the us actually responsible in some regards? yeah, i think essentially um robert. sorry uh rfk junior uh recently got it right when he described uh the the role of israel for the united states is as kind of aircraft aircraft carrier is the term that he used so the united for the united states uh i think he has this right israel is kind of permanent permanently