i spoke to paul salem, president of the middle east institute.sk him how volatile the situation is there. >> definitely the situation in the west bank has been worsening in the last nine or 10 days. there has been increasing violence there. there has been around 60 palestinians killed, largely from settler activity in the west bank. a lot of palestinian protests of course and blaming the palestinian authority, basically being very weak in the situation. i think the situation on the west bank is serious, but not as dangerous and serious as it might be across the lebanese-israeli border where you have a big military force which is hezbollah, which conceivably would join a conflict in the future. nicole: what can realistically he done to prevent that from happening? >> i think the strategy -- in a way, as your previous caller for the journalist was talking, the attack by hamas which most likely was coordinated in coordination with hezbollah, was designed to provoke a very large israeli reaction. so far, in a way you can say things have been going ac

i'm on short while ago i spoke to paul salem, president of the middle east institute, and following protests against the palestinian authority, also in the west bank. i asked him how volatile the situation is there. a duplicate of a situation in the west bank has been no worse ending in the last uh, 910 days. there's been increasing violence there. there has been, uh about 60 palestinians killed largely from uh, from settler activity in the, in the west bank. a lot of palestinian protest, of course uh uh, and blaming the type of student on the tardy for me not speaking out forcefully for basically being very weak in this situation. i think the situation on the west bank is serious, but is not as dangerous as serious as it might be across the news. is there any border where you have a big military force which is has by law, which conceivably could join a conflict in the, in the future? what can realistically be done to prevent that from happening? what i think the strategy uh, i mean, i think in a way as your previous a quarter before the journalist was talking to be attacked by him as which