joins us now. joe quinn is an editor at sat.net. joe quinn, welcome to economic divide. our guests are talked about the worker crisis. here we have another crisis that's been ongoing for quite some time, but it has... increased and that's uh these uh vicious settlers who are attacking palestinians, at the same time the restrictions on mobility has increased multifold, tens of thousands of cancelled work permits, which goes to the palestinian workers, and th the withholding of tax revenues from the palestinian authority, they're all contributing to this economic crisis, um, but all of these problems are originating from israel, uh, why is israel shooting self of the foot this way? well, yeah, pretty much every problem that the palestinians have originates with israel, um, of course, when when a state like israel with the backing of the west, initiates kind of that kind of genocidal policy against an entire people, well yeah, they do across the board, they're not just bombing, they're uh, they're creating, they're trying to create intolerable living conditions for, they're obviously crea