E245 - Israeli Annexation in the West Bank w/ Oren Ziv

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek welcome to the show Oren Ziv to talk about Israeli settlement expansion and political changes in the West Bank. They discuss the legal and political structure of Areas A, B, and C; the proliferation of settler outposts; displacement of Palestinian communities; state support for settlers; Bezalel Smotrich’s sovereignty plan; new settlement approvals; the weakening of the Palestinian Authority; and potential future scenarios for the territory. Read Oren’s article in The Nation, “Erasing the Lines.” Don't forget to subscribe to our Marx Prestige miniseries. New episodes on Tuesdays! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3	Hello, Prestige Hads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison. And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today, Orrin Ziv. Orin is a journalist with 972 and Local Call. And he's also the co-author of the recent Erasing the Lines,
1:12.3	House Settlers are seizing New Regions of the West Bank for the nation, and that is what we have
1:17.5	invited him to talk about. Orrin, thank you so much for joining us.
1:20.7	Thank you for having me.
1:22.3	So I think the first thing maybe to do for people who might not be overly familiar is, could you
1:28.5	tell us a little bit about the West Bank, how it differs from Gaza, what is its legal role
1:34.2	in the Israeli state project, how is it viewed?
1:40.2	So people might be aware that there's something called the West Bank and there are settlers
1:43.5	there and they're kicking out Palestinians, but beyond that, they might not be aware that there's something called the West Bank and there are settlers there and they're kicking out Palestinians.
1:45.3	But beyond that, they might not be aware of how it functions.
1:48.2	So could you let that be known?
1:51.7	Yes, definitely. Thank you for asking this.
1:54.7	So generally, the West Bank was occupied in 67 by Israel and was never officially an axed like East Jerusalem and the
2:03.9	Golan Heights. So basically the Palestinians living there are not residents or not citizens.
2:09.7	They are under control of Israel. Israel affects all aspects of their life from going out,
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