the west bank. gdp has fallen by 22%, unemployment has skyrocketed to 30%, up from 14% before the onslot. well, they called the war, we call it the onslot, also saying because of the supply chain bottlenecks, prices are going up, then incomes are lower and the demand is shaking. next, issue that we have paid more attention to later on in the program, the us treasury secretary janet yellen urging israel to restore economic ties to the west bank. she said that she had called on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. of israel to reduce barriers to commerce for palestinians, then we took a look at another website, it said the gaza war, again they call it war, we call it an onslaught or aggression, turns the west bank into... economic time bomb, well not to say israel's decision to ban cross-border workers and block palestinian funds has pushed the local economy to the brink of collapse. and we squeeze in one more, the world bank warns on the dire state of the palestinian economy because of the continuing wa

uh, the economy of the west bank is uh in trouble. you got 170,00 palestinians that have been taken out of the economy because of this really regime preventing them from uh coming to work. a decline in consumption as a result, uh, you have a reduction in the uh tax revenues is another. example, result of that uh restriction, and this is money that israel collects on behalf of the pa. how can there be any hope for the west bank economy? um, when you have those types of uh practices by the israeli regime, and uh, what are we looking at uh when it comes to the future uh, when there's such violence happening in the occupied west bank as a whole? the situation in in the west bank was a really suffering from the... since the beginning of 200 there has been a stepped up in violence and restrictions with the new government, settler violence was very much problem with palestinians, both that in their own places like in the agriculture, having their lands taken or restricted or even at their harvest being stolen or burned by israeli fanatical se

i think the main _ the west bank. what can be done? i think the main things _ the west bank. about - think the main things about accountability. it is about holding all due to barriers to the rights of children are universal, they are unambiguous and unequivocal, meaning every single right applies to every single child all of the time to stop no matter the circumstances. we cannot pick and choose which rights to defend. in the west bank, again, the situation is deteriorating, we see the numbers of children being injured and killed, the number of demolitions and evictions and forcible transfers taking place. pre—0ctober seven, 2023 it was already at the deadliest year for palestinian children in the west bank, this year alone we have had early had 31 children killed, soon to eclipse another —— and soon to be the deadliest rate for children in the deadliest rate for children in the west bank as well.— the deadliest rate for children in the west bank as well. good to talk to ou, the west bank as well. good to talk to you. jason. _ the west bank as well. good to talk to you, jason

that's the west is trying to impose . i think this is all just for everybody for every unbiased scroll for every unbiased diploma is absolutely clear. or what has happened? impossible, and what are the for a lot, what does that fall out of? it's on all of us. if i can turn away from the yeah, you can stop the underbrush tree for a moment or 2 and talk about the un security council itself. so to what extent is it still relevant able to fully function when it comes to conflicts like a train on gaza? some critics say it's turning into another league of nations which became the funds they had of the 2nd world war. how does the time come to reform the u. n. s. c, and what sort of changes are needed there in your if you well, frankly, i don't think that the skillets across the security council is the relevant. and the, i don't think that it's a price comparison between the u. m. and the league of nations. the big difference is of the existence of the permanent members of the security council who have the right to veto. this is a

well, in fact, 30 years ago the west presented the washington consensus to the whole world.this is democracy, this is economic prosperity. well. who, who, who in their right mind and sober memory would object to this , everyone agreed, especially ordinary soviet people, who were tired of standing in lines all their lives for a piece of food on ration cards or chasing some kind of shortage, here they were offered so we didn’t stand for cards, all our lives we didn’t stand with cards for a piece of bread, no, i didn’t say that for a piece of bread, for food, we paid kars, but, well, i mean, cards appeared under gorbachev. yes, it was in moscow that they appeared under gorbachev, in the provinces they appeared and they were there before, everywhere, there were no cards in uzbekistan, in torshka, in torshka in torshka everyone went to a restaurant, ate pozharsky coffee, in the city of gorky, between by the way, the workers there were given meat only on very big proletarian holidays, this was still dear leonida and licha, returning the ration system like this. that this is given

the economy of the west bank in israel as a result of the on the side of war is still suffering from lack of economic activity or low economic activity. many stores uh are still uh closed tourism at record low levels and lack of workers top of everything else is playing the economy. whether there's a chance for the palestinians to get back on their feet over israel's economy to get jump started is the subject of this edition of economic divide. coming up in this program: palestine's economy. first we're going to take a look at the gdp decrease. for the fourth quarter minus 33%, then uh the west bank gdp that was a low of minus 20 2%. so uh, there is obvious concern there, unemployment plus 30%, another concern for the economy of palestine. consumer price increases in the west bank is also a source of concern, lower incomes, supply chain bottlenecks and transport costs are some of the factors. then we're going to take a look at israel's banks and uh their credits, well five of them have been downgraded, the higher borrowing costs based on uh the moodi's credit downgrading them, and al

show so bad. the occupied west banks economy is doing. all right, let's uh bring in our guests for our first uh q&a of the program. 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

my gosh, long uh as far as the, the west jews you can use. there's a lot of words to retail suddenly condemn elation since, but that's happening so much. okay, but let's to the countries in asia and africa and left america to decide for themselves, lose these developing countries to talk to themselves what they think about the arguments one side. and the accusations coming from the other side. you have to respect all the nations, read them as adults as an equal source of the, of the ocean of the, you know, know, supposedly, after all, that's our investigators had been working quite actively throughout the world, explaining to everyone the reasons for the complex and they austin, our counterparts to take into account our assessment. as easement polluting was within the un on the west debit clarified their positions. the news that some passages to issue ultimatums you, they travel around the world, say you have to condemn russia. you have to join design. sions, and you have to, you have to subtract the field. well no, it doesn't have a lot of ac

economy. first we're going to take a look at the gdp decrease. for the fourth quarter minus 33%, then the west bank gdp, that was a low of minus 22%. so uh, there is obvious concern there, unemployment plus 30%, another concern for the economy of palestine. consumer price increases in the west bank is also a source of concern, lower incomes, supply chain bottlenecks and transport costs are some of the factors. then we're going to take a look at israel's banks and uh their credits, well five of them have been downgraded, the higher borrowing cos based on uh the moodies credit downgrading them, and also these higher prices are passed to the consumers. israel's genocidal war on the gaza strip and its hostilities toward lebanon has displaced thousands of israeli's inside the regime. thousands of israeli settlers have been forced to leave their towns and villages near the regime's separation line with gaza strep in the south and lebanon in the north. the northern occupied lands are primarily agriculture along with tourist spots and tight communities with small businesses, thus the sudden unexpected

the west is declining. best way to clear out the voices of the african agent ways in american countries. uh, sounding loud and louder and they are not codes in the security call. so either way they should be hers. and just finally on the, i hope i don't part of the phrase you wrongly but, but earlier you're saying that if you don't have an understanding of the past, you're doing to repeat the mistakes in the future. not if we go, if you look at certain things in the recent past, the past 100 years or so, you've got to san francisco conference and 1945 famously leading out the post world war 2 order of international relations the most to summit in 1989, the us and the soviet union to turn the end of the cold war, essentially paving the way for a uni portal world order. know that the world is again, going through a huge change. the next lunmark peace conference be as world offering it. is there it is there a bill it so you for that to happen on where could that happen? well, it's difficult to speak about throu

consumer price increases in the west bank is also a source of concern. lower incomes, supply chain bottlenecks and transport costs are some of the factors. then we're going to take a look at israel's banks and uh their credits. well, five of them have been downgraded, the higher borrowing cost based on uh the moodies credit downgrading them and also the... higher prices are passed to the consumers. israel's genocidal war on the gaza strip and its hostilities toward lebanon has displaced thousands of israelies inside the regime. thousands of israely settlers have been forced to leave their towns and villages near the regime's separation. line with gaza strep in the south and lebanon in the north. the northern occupied lands are primarily agriculture, along with tourist spots and tight communities with small businesses, thus, the sudden, unexpected and unprepared population drop has shocked the economy. in november, the bank of israel estimated the absence at work of 144,00 evacuated settlers, about 40% of whom fled the north, had cost israel's economy abou

as for the west, we are here and nothing. there is mainly silence just to read just some of the headlights fresh of the price right now in the u. k. for example, all these people that are sending the congratulations of the leaders all these countries. apparently they're just sports because this is what the headline states despots of rushed to congratulate fruits and after his sham election. victor, of course we've heard that this is a slight sham election before the election. they even started with the president congratulating vladimir preaching before the vote. and have been sorted, as i said with a landslide victory, but of course, even they probably could not expect that their results would be so high. and that's support for vladimir putin would be so hot. but again, they claim that this is all ashamed that the elections are fake. and, and the other headlines that i'd like to read is the western leaders dismiss of hooton's, illegal poll victory. there's also a lot being said in western media about this awkward silence. were

in other words, it's a program of destruction in the west. and what's interesting, you, you might have thought that it would stop when trump left the office. actually the opposite is the case. i think that here in the united states, these conspiracy theories are more potent and omnipresent. then they were before. so we start and then didn't cite. there is the soros himself. now $93.00, he's slowly stepping out of the spotlight hunting the range of his philanthropic foundations to his son alice. but as to what he's come to represent the 1000000000 as the shadow escape. the pop mazda post on the final leave. now that is taken on life. i think it's really hard to say what through this is legacy will be . i went to the last c, e o. graduation. i was sitting there thinking, gosh, why per soros? who were people going to like, were they going to attack? and then alex arose, walked onto the stage, and i had this moment like, oh yeah, right, of course. so i, i certainly think that people will try to run the same script if you think of the think of star

that's the only problem is this of the west. all the, all the hopes that there will be a fair international system built up to the dissolution of the soviet union out that the west will keep the problem is that where you want to, to solve you attend the russian leaders at that moment. all these hopes are absolutely useless and baseless the west is having its own agenda and it's implies these, these time. and that is implies a doing away with us live in serbia who knows what will be next time. so the moods right them where kind of a shock, because people really where hoping that this going out, this would never happen. that way hoping that where there were certain openings in the relations between the russian and the west. they were hoping that the, the 30 minutes of the cold war has gone forever. but the west with his actions proved otherwise. and we are where we are. i think that a lot of things that happen easily, also route back to these very unfortunate to the criminal decision by anybody need to lead us just to point out wha

in the occupied west bank a palestinin man was killed after stabbing three israeli settlers in baits kamakiboots to further discuss the significance of palestine. unian retaliatory operations, we were joined by our guests earlier in on news review program. let's see what they had to say. this time now for the news review of this bulletin. at least three is really settlers have been injured in an alleged stabbing operation in bet kama, kiboots and occupied palestinian territories. according to the israely media, one of the angeled settlers is in critical condition. and the palestinian man that carry out the operation has been killed. there is no report on the identity of the palestinin man yet. on wednesday, a 15-year-old palestinian was killed after allegedly stabbing and wounding two israeli settlers a checkpoint outside of algots. the back-to-back incident comes in rising israely crackdown on palestinians during the first days of the holy month of ramadan. is a palestinian scientist and author joins us from bethlehem, asad abu shark is palestinian academic and activist joining us fr

the west is declining. best buy the clear sounds, the voices of the african agent. ways in american countries. uh, sounding loud and louder and they are not codes in the security call. so either way they should because i'm just finally on the i hope i don't part of phrase you wrongly but, but earlier you're saying that if you don't have an understanding of the past, you're doing to repeat the mistakes in the future. not if we go, if we look at certain things in the recent past, the past 100 years or so, you've got this san francisco conference in 1945 famously leading out the post world war 2 order of international relations the most to summit in 1989, the us and the soviet union to turn the end of the cold war, essentially paving the way for a unit portal world order. know that the world is again, going through a huge change. the next lunmark peace conference, b as world altering it is there, is there a bill it so you for that to happen on where could that happen? well, it's difficult to speak about through

he's born intokaram in the west bank. he holds a doctorate economics from george washington university in the us. he has also worked at the world bank for 15 years. other notable points of his resume, he has served as pa's deputy prime minister, the economy minister, and as abbas's economy advisor. other close to mahmoud abbas, he is not a fatha member. mustafa has also sat on the palestine liberation organization executive committee since the year 2022. now he's also served as the chairman of the palestine investment fund since 2005. this is important since he oversaw a fund with nearly billion dollars in assets, so that's a lot of money. why is that important? not only did he oversaw gaza's reconstruction under hamas rule after earlier war between israel and hamas, mustafa will be responsible for overseeing billions of dollars and expected international aid. the introduction of new prime minister is part of an effort by mahmoud abbas to reform the pa, to create a technocratic government in the west bank. mustafa himself

of this, the killings in gaza children now, 27 kids died in the past week for lack of food, but the west bank also is not to be forgotten, the settlers have expanded their... destruction have expandednically cleansing palestinians, the soldiers are on the rampage, shooting palestinians, preventing us from even getting out of our ghettos like the bethham ghetto, you to move to another ghetto or another concentration camp, so trip that used to take an hour now takes several hours if at all possible, this this and the continued settlement expansions and the approval of the israeli government of thousands and thousands of settlement units have made the west bank boiling point. now comes ramadan of course and you know we have the first two three days of ramadan and tomorrow is friday, israel is preventing people from getting to aloxamos so people are frustrated and it is not surprising that we see reactions like the one you described. well i said abu shark when you take a look at the life of uh palestinians in the west bank uh we understand that obviously on the economic side things are very

more than 50 have been arrested in the west bank. many of them jailed usually without charge, locked up in definitely under what israel euphemistically calls administrative detention. often that means that attacks by settlers in the westbank were more than 500 palestinians have been killed in the last year alone. go on report it. following the news that does come out has its dentures. one month after october, 7th, israel past the new law criminalizing the sharing or consuming of online content. that the is really authorities deem related to terrorism. leading to arrests like this one of a palestinian couple after the woman had changed her. what steps that was the the bible says you're not going to have the new law could effect any palestinian including journalist in the westbank who faced so many challenges. just getting to stories that need to be covered for the student joy in the west bank. and the biggest problem is that move with restrictions that when students instruct over 7 check points, roadblocks flying checkpoints just liter

this is a fairly new type of tactic used to seize land by settlers in the west bank. ally, settlers setting up outposts. these are illegal under israeli law, not only under international law. however, israel has -- was supporting them in setting up the outpost. take consulted with many branches of government. they got support from the army. this outpost that i went to was sort of a small farm where they have a bunch of sheep. the idea of these shepherding outposts is the settlers, with relatively small number of people, can control a large area of land. what they do is they go out and graze their sheep and forcibly push out any palestinians that are in the territory. so they are part of a strategy which is to sort of clear the part of the west bank known as area c, 60% of the west bank that is essentially under israel i control, to keep a clear palestinians in the hope of eventual annexation to israel. amy: i want to interrupt for a second because when you talk about area c, i don't think most people understand the divisions. if you can explain? >> and the oslo accords

that's the west is trying to impose. i think this is obvious for everybody, for every unbiased scroll up for every unbiased diploma is absolutely clear. what has happened? impossible, and what are the for a lot, what does they fall out of? it's on all of us. if i can turn away from the uh you can stop the underbrush tree for a moment or 2 and talk about the un security council itself. so to what extent is it still relevant able to fully function when it comes to conflicts like a train on gaza? there's some critics say it's turning into another league of nations which became the funds they had of the 2nd world war. how does the time come to reform the u. n . s. c, and what sort of changes are needed there in your if you well, frankly, i don't think that the skillets across the security council is the relevant. and the, i don't think that it's a price comparison between the u. m. and the league of nations. the big difference is of the existence of, of the permanent members of the security council who have the right to veto.

as the sunsets and the village of boot in the occupied west bank. but as long as the family is getting the dinner table ready to break their daily fast. it's the holy month of the month on a time for family gatherings, but the buzz around the table is missing. the woman who used to put it all together ended but a whole c. a mother of 5 was the rest of the week before them on the on started is really officials have not given their reason yet for detaining her during, at 8 of their home 18 year old. so it'd be, just as her mother spoiled her. she doesn't know how to cook or do the house tours, but that has southern new changed. now all the house responsibilities fell in my life. i clean and tidy up and help my little sister study. she tries to stay positive, but behind her anxious smile. there is pain i ask her, what worries her, the most people that i don't know how my mom is doing now in prison. the night before she was arrest the she was preparing the don drinks and sweets look at us now trying to keep life going without her. you know, the family re

and of course, the west doesn't want to acknowledge it. they, they say that doesn't matter very much. they are now referring to the ones that happened in 2022, but they are absolutely authentic and trying to conceal the truth about this aggression and its role in the international relations of the they're all always fall out and that the national relations years a lot of fab big topics there. i'll return to something a little bit later if i can, but just returning to 1999. what was your assessment? what is your assessment of russia's stance on the nato bombing campaign after time on? has most schools position shifted at all over the years since then as well that was the turning point. i remember it's quite well that was already a young diploma to me before and service and the very many people remember as well that's uh there was these famous. so you turn over the atlantic or the russian by the russian federal government. so you've given you pretty my goals, you was going to washington to sign. so it's in the agreements about financial assis

i'm curious as to the state of affairs in the west bank, i mean this particular piece of news we had uh involving the incident is uh just a little, guess snipit into how dire the situation is there, maybe you can give us an overview, we know that over 500 palestinians have been killed, i think for the month or for the for the year 2024, about 150 or so, but uh, what are we looking at when it comes to the occupied west bank? uh, yes, indeed, the break of explosion, there's a lot of people here that are very angry about what's going on in gaza, just... the hunger and all of this, the killing jingad children, now 27 kids died in the past week for lack of food, but the west bank also is not to be forgotten, the settlers have expanded their destruction, have expanded ethicly cleansing palestinians, the soldiers are on the rampage shooting palestinians, preventing us from even getting out. of our ghettos like the best in ghetto, you to move to another ghetto or another concentration camp, so trip that used to take an hour now takes several hours if at all possible, this this and the continu

the west sometimes behaves funny. olation of cuba began about 60 years ago, and the isolation of syria in 1979. that same year, sanctions were introduced against iran. the dollar began to lose its weight and value, this is good, in general i think that isolation strengthens other countries and weakens the dollar and works for us in the long term, this is not bad, this is idiocy, let them continue in the interests of the whole world, not only russia and syria, this will bring good, maybe even in in the medium term, but when will it be... if the west deprives a person of something, then he will either die or become an outcast. in the west they believe this. they don't believe that the world can change. when they make such decisions, they are aimed primarily at western citizens. poor people who don't know what 's going on in the world believe that president putin is suffering and can't sleep at night because of this decision. this is the reality, they are such simpletons, i’m talking about officials, not peoples, so when

the conditions in the west bank are dire and of course for polish things in the west bank. there is that recognition and expectation that as soon as israel finishes with besides the, it's going to begin intensifying attacks and the wellness bank and seller attacks against palestinians are increasing and is really ministers are arming. is really settlers who are legal in the west bank with new assault life rifles as they have been since october 7th. and then adding to that, i think, in light of the travesty and how profoundly violent the, the attack of israel. and the idea is that we're not able to fully process and understand the level and extent of attack that is happening in the west bank. israel is using aerial bombing through drones on palestinian civilian homes. it is locking up refugees in their own refugee camps, including elderly and children for days at a time. now imagine being locked in your kitchen for 3 days, you're 80, you have 0 access to your meds. you have 0 access to a phone, and that's become the norm here. you're talking about the increasing settler atta

the cold results, the 1st of its kind in west africa, we were surrounded by a wild life. from the moment you enter the a coupon occupied right now able to practice what the now be used. only look, just very close here, like come in here, sits on to play with a large tears face of a look in my private for me. now. thanks. royal, i can also offer a lot of if somebody value equal, resulted in gone as israel continues its own slot in gaza. progressive jewish groups across the world have protested in solidarity with palestinians. so is there a generational shift within jewish communities when it comes to israel? and palestine in liberation, and if so, how sustainable is that? conversations coming up with 1st ceasefire talks between from mass and israel have stalled smoking fears that the world does that has no immune and insight. meanwhile, in the west bank palestinians have continued to rally in solidarity with god in the midst ongoing raids, interest. we'll discuss the situation in the west bank and the future of parents, the leadership with this week's headliner. from ramall

bank, hamas is not in the west bank, so what's going on in the west bank during the last few years? we've been under a really heavy aggression by the israeli army and israeli settlers, so it will be the same, at least for the garzan hamas at least retaliate sometimes you know against the israelis and they were through many wars now with the israelis and their ability is being developed all the time, so they might be able to protect the people or to at least prevent any kind of uh air raids and attacks by the israelis because the israeli knows that hamas will retaliate, so because of that, this is one aspect, the other aspect, why not, yeah, and at the same time, hamas 2006 won in the election, and they didn't even get the chance to rule by that even winning in the in the parliament, and at the same time, all palestinian factions now, and especially those who are in favor of the resistance are saying, okay, let's go back to the pots and form a government. we prefer a unity government of all palestinian factions, but even for the elections, whoever will win the elections should be rul

yes, during a special military operation, during a confrontation with the west, but this is development after the victory, here, of course, some people began to get jittery, but what about us, what about us here, threatening that we would send in troops, here we were sending in, here’s another, here’s f16, yes, of course, they’ll be fine with this it’s very difficult to live, how much do they want to confiscate from us? 300 billion, well, there are kopecks, and how many programs we have sounded, the amounts are such that 300 billion seems like kopecks, relatively speaking, even if - as they say, do not touch what they have here, but simply use them with these - just interest on profits, which - the money of western investors that is here for the needs of our development, the amounts that the president has outlined, but they show, well, firstly, we will take it anyway, then with interest. but all these threats of yours about how we ’ll squeeze 400 million from one state bank there, well, i’m kind of like, you know, i look at this whole story, the west is only ready to pick pocket change

in the region, and the west supports it accordingly. very well , thank you, mr. royoran, for being a senior expert on international issues. don't continue in el'. destruction, ruin, waqulwa ahna means to remove the safe area and prosperity, pay attention to prosperity and bijawa al-madinah, bijawa al-nazahin alina hana farfah. and when we hear what is happening among them, i am the jews , and from god, what happens is fine, i say, "i will go away , it will be fixed, it will be fixed , the damage will be fixed." israel is the goal of the house, the house of the house, of the house we are displaced people , they have a lot of damage , and the damage is big, that is, the whole amount is paid to us, and we are safe. according to al-mayadeen network, in this operation, in which the occupation forces used helicopters and drones to kill the executor, one occupation soldier was killed and 6 others were injured. the unique operation of a palestinian near dolio town in the occupied west bank with its difficult and dangerous results. once again att

you have to move to the west is the west. it is always fed to the expense of someone, and it would be bad for the rest, and they would roll over the rest of the world. but they won't succeed. now, there will be a re shuffle of the entire world order. we have the most, the version of it, the most, the i think that now those policies to oriented towards the west, the full, probably the russian speaking population falls of some kind of venture people leave before and communicated in this thing, these and understood each other, the full, i believe basil needs to leave in peace and harmony. for as far to russia stated that it cannot let its citizens in the region be victims of any responsible plan by the western leaning models and government. some old open leadership is not an independent actor, but just another geo political project promoted by the collective wes, as represented by the united states. and the european union is up to the my assigned to in her cabinet, including the newly appointed for administer me. i pop so i demon