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. Popular Front is

completely independent. Today we're speaking to journalist Sally Hayden. She is

without a doubt one of the best journalists working today.

She's going to be talking about a bizarre recent press tour.

She went on with Israeli settlers.

They basically took a load of people all around to these

different settlements, said why it's good that they've taken the land there, but were

unusually mask off. They said a lot of things that would be very interesting to anyone keeping an eye on

Palestine and Israel. Support us at patreon.com slash popular front.

Before we get into your recent trip out there I think maybe just briefly explain at least

and your understanding and how they would understand it what is a settler in this instance?

Yeah, sure.

So just to be clear, like my job,

I was the Irish Times, Africa correspondent

and I've only recently become more covering more

international general international news and I had never covered Israel

Palestine before so hopefully the listeners can forgive me if I mess up any terminology or yeah any

pronunciations or anything like that and this was my first time ever going

there but yeah what is a settler basically to my understanding

settlers are people who have entered or gone to live in the kind of so-called

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