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Hey everybody, welcome to the buck brief on this episode.

Matthew Tierman is with us.

Investigative journalist, a man who knows many things

about many people and places all over the world.

He was just in Ramallah,

place I haven't been to in a while but I have been and I'm sure it is every bit as

lovely as when I was there. Tell me about your trip into the West Bank, Mr. Tierman, and

what you learned, what you saw, what's going on?

Well, you know, Ramallah is just the money laundering capital of the world.

I don't know how long ago you were there, but I gotta say it's kind of nice.

Maserati's not Ricshaw's, Range Rovers, Mercedes,

BMWs, jeeps with American flags on them, believe it or not.

I mean, lots of Western goods and accoutremen. I mean, that place is loaded. It was a little bit shocking to the degree that it was so surprising.

I was there almost 20 years ago and it was not like that. So yeah. Yeah. So that tells you a lot. I mean I know that you know I was there during these

hostilities I went in on a Polish passport since you know American relations are not so good. I did not you know telegraph that I'm a American Jew from New York even though I don't know look at me they might have figured that out I end up talking to some guys from Chicago in New York but I mean that place is loaded now.

20 years of money laundering since you were last there between US taxpayers, EU taxpayers,

the United Nations being the vehicle through which those laundered funds enter Ramallah, American

School, Unru schools, the place was over the top.

People were pretty friendly, it's not Gaza. The hostilities were not of the same sort. They certainly

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