983 - The Killing Fields feat. Jasper Nathaniel (11/3/25)

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jasper Nathaniel is back with another report from the occupied West Bank. He tells us about a band of West Bank settlers attacking him and locals in the olive fields of Turmus’ayya, including an old woman who was beaten unconscious on camera. He then talks about the Israeli military and intelligence’s response to the crime, the footage actually breaking through to the mainstream Anglophone press, and various U.S. Senators’ response to the attack. Finally, he closes with speculation about Trump and Netanyahu’s refusal to sign on to an official West Bank annexation. Follow Jasper’s substack: https://substack.com/@infinitejaz Follow Jasper on Twitter: https://x.com/infinite__jaz?lang=en Follow Jasper on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/infinite_jaz/?hl=en And links for Volunteering in the West Bank: To volunteer in the West Bankhttps://palsolidarity.org/join-ism/https://www.defendpalestine.orghttps://cjnv.orgFundraiser for Umm Al-Khair as it faces impending demolition: https://secure.everyaction.com/LYmVAbNl2UOxgBcaP1mkFA2

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0:00.0	All my
0:02.0	All I'm going to be is
0:18.0	I'll jump
0:20.0	All I'm going to be be is a joke.
0:34.3	Is Javier Jopold, who is just recently back
0:39.7	stateside after several weeks in doing reporting in the West Bank. Jasper, welcome back to the show.
0:46.4	Thanks for having me back.
0:47.4	I just want to begin with, like, you're this most recent reporting trip to the West Bank,
0:52.3	because you've been many times before, but I want to talk about the timing of this recent trip.
0:57.2	And like, could you describe like the context based on your previous reporting and what you know
1:01.6	that made it so important for you to travel to the West Bank at the exact moment when these
1:06.6	so-called ceasefire in Gaza had been implemented?
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:10.2	You know, the situation in the West Bank
1:12.2	has been spiraling for years, as we talked about last time, as you guys know. It actually
1:18.7	started before October 7th when Smotrich pulled off this sort of remarkable bureaucratic coup
1:24.1	to take over governance of the West Bank and basically cleared away all the
1:28.7	guardrails to let settlers fulfill all their messianic dreams. And after October 7th, it just
1:36.0	continued to get worse as, you know, all eyes were on Gaza and the sort of breathless cover of
1:41.4	October 7th. And at various times in the last two years,
1:47.1	over the course of the genocide, when there have been, you know, quiet moments in Gaza or,
1:53.5	you know, ostensible ceasefires pretty much without fail every time the violence in the West Bank
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