it enables the PA to argue that their policy is the correct policy and we should even be more

collaborative than before we should even prevent resistance from happening in the West Bank that it's

illogical that it's a form of adventure that it's madness that it's you know that that is the type of

discourse that the PA and its you know supporters are describe, you know, any form of resistance, whether, again, armed or non-armed for that matter.

So it's a moment that actually feel more empowered rather than we can.

I mean, this is the paradox of the current situation because they realize that the larger society, the Palestinian society,

you know, either impoverished, incapable of mustering opposition, fearful of Israel's, you know,

taking off the gloves and using this monster city, and they realize that this is their moment

to actually even announce

it an even worse form of collaboration than the one before.

Hi everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Magdisi Street podcast.

We're very, very happy today to have with us, Habda Jowad Omar, who's a Palestinian writer

and a lecturer at Beersait University in

Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

We want to talk with him today about what's going on, in particular since his work, both

his policy and scholarly work, he explores questions, important questions of resistance,

settler colonialism and the revolutionary thought

in Palestine. He does write regularly for various outlets, including the electronic intifada and

Montwise, and it publishes in scholarly journals as well. So, Aboud, welcome to the show,

and we would love to hear more about your own kind of thinking.

And since you're in Ramallah, and you teach at Beersait University, it would be great to hear about what's going on now around you.

And if you could just kind of paint a picture for us about what's going on in these very dark times, really. Well, I mean, at the current moment, of course, a lot of Palestinians

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