This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batser. I welcome Malcolm Holline, Conference

of Presidents, Major American Jules Organizations, returned from the Holy Land. I thank Malcolm

for his report in the midst of the crisis and the tragedy several days past. But here

we are looking at a larger crisis, and we're very pleased to welcome Joe Truzeman of the

Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, also the Long-Word Journal. We will help us

understand the IDF is a raid around Gaza. The IDF is opposite the Lebanese Hisbalah

in the North, but the West Bank is an unknown. There said to be bad actors there for some

time, standalone organizations and organizations linked to Islamic tea had another bad actress.

So Joe, welcome. What are we looking at? Two fronts, three fronts. What is the West Bank

look to you right now? Good evening to you.

Hi, thank you for having me. It's truly a pleasure to be back on the show. So yes, so

the West Bank. It's small. One of the pieces to this overall puzzle of Iran-backed groups

on Israel's borders. But yes, specifically the West Bank. What's going on there? So in

the last, I'd say about two, two and a half years, there's been a spike in violence in

the West Bank. Specifically armed groups, terrorist groups, I'd rather say, links or rather

not linked, but they're well established there. And they're belong to groups such as Hamas

and Islamic Jihad. There are other groups as well. These groups have over the past past

two and a half years carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli forces and Israeli civilians,

including Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And the problem that has been occurring

as well is the expansion of these groups. Okay. So for instance, let's say the first year

that there was, there was that the vines occurred. It was mostly in the northern West Bank in

Geneva, okay. But as time went on, these groups expanded. And they went to other cities and villages

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