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Let's do this.

We, the people of Israel, are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.

There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace between their ups and Israel or the Jewish people.

I think they're home.

I don't think I have to tell any of our listeners or viewers about the difficult topic,

the painful topic of Palestinian terrorism.

Palestinian terror attacks in the West Bank and elsewhere have

taken thousands of innocent lives, women, children, families targeted in their homes on the roads

and in their beds. But in recent years, there's been a different, disturbing trend that has

emerged. It's a small but dangerous fringe that targets Palestinian civilians and

their property. They're Jewish extremists, whom many Israelis see as vigilantes and who many

Palestinians see as carrying out acts of terror. Haviv Retagor is here with me to have this

conversation about this topic. Chaviv, I am so happy to have you on this podcast. Noam, it's really good to be back. Thanks for having me. It's always awesome having you. And let me read for you, Jav, a letter that we got from a listener named Aryei. So he writes, hi, Noam. What's up, Arya? I've been seeing a lot of videos on X about

violence between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. What's the background

to the stories? Is there more context to the videos than just a bunch of wild teenagers

beating up on Arabs? Why isn't the army taking more control of the situation?

Can you dedicate some time to the ongoing tensions? So, Kaviv, you probably would not be so

surprised to hear this, but maybe some people watching or listening are, we didn't get this

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