This is a preview for a Patreon only episode.

If you want to hear it in full, go to patreon.com slash popular front.

Click the collections tab at the top.

You'll see bonus episodes there.

There are hundreds of them.

With the absolute horror show going on in Gaza, obviously, understandably, there's been a lot

less attention on West Bank, other areas of Palestine, but there's been a lot going on there.

I think maybe let's kind of recap and start with what has actually been happening in the West Bank

whilst Israel continues this genocide in Gaza. been happening in the West Bank whilst Israel continues

this genocide in Gaza?

Well, the situation in the West Bank is just in, there's struggle to sort of surmise it

other than it's just catastrophic.

From a multitude of reasons, there's been a huge escalation in military activity by the Israeli forces, sort of the largest military operations we've seen since the second infada, obvious surge in extreme settler violence and murders and settlement expansion.

And then, yeah, sort of mass destruction and displacement as well,

the worst we've seen since 1967.

And this is all sort of set against the backdrop of looming annexation

and, you know, the most sort of pro-Zionists in American administration

we've sort of ever seen in terms of foreign policy. So, yeah, the situation is the worst

it's been in decades, for sure. So what the operation's been there? Like, what have they actually been doing?

Notably, sort of around recently, sort of 2025.

I think it's also important to note the role of the PA in all of this.

So, you know, the PA are sort of having, the Palestinian Authority are having a crisis

...