This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world.

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Today we're speaking to independent journalist Jasper Nathaniel.

You can catch his work at Infinite Jazz.com.

Today Jasper is going to be speaking to us about how he was ambushed with a group of Palestinians

by Israeli settlers just a month ago now in the occupied West Bank. You may have seen the footage,

it went viral, it was absolutely brutal, young settlers beating old women over the head with bats,

just awful. If you like what we're doing here at Popular Front, support us, patreon.com

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I think maybe let's really explain what happened to you.

I came across your work and I'm glad I, but it was a horrible way to come across your

work, this awful video of you being attacked by Israeli settlers. I think let's just start there.

How did that come about? What happened? So I was in a town called Termasaya, which is a village

in the Ramallah government, so just outside of Ramallah,

it's an interesting place because the town is about 80 to 90 percent American citizens.

And so the population is made up of mostly people who travel back and forth.

You know, they obviously have Palestinian roots.

And many of them have homes in the U.S.

There's communities in Florida, in New Jersey, in California, and all over the U.S., really.

And the community, Termosiah, it's really built on the American economy.

And because a lot of these people own businesses in the U.S.,

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