Hello American Prestige listeners. It's Derek. I'm joined, as always, by my friend and comrade Danny Bess bestner and we are very pleased to welcome to the program

for the first time jasper nathaniel an independent he's an independent reporter i'm sure you've seen

his work or listen to him on chapo or any number of places uh he's got a substack infinite jazz

infinite jazz dot substack dot com we'll have a link to that in the show description.

Jasper, thanks so much for coming on the program.

Yeah, thanks for having me, guys.

And obviously we want to talk about your somewhat harrowing experiences with the fine Israeli settlers in the West Bank of late,

which you've written about at your newsletter,

you've been tweeting about,

you've been on other shows about,

but we wanted to get you on to talk about this.

Let's start with something very basic.

The town you were in Tormus Ayya, can you describe this town for people,

who's living there? How pressed is this community by the settlers kind of creeping in around it?

Just give people sort of a lay of the land. Termos Aya is different. It's probably not what people expect when they think of the land. Termos I is different.

It's probably not what people expect when they think of the West Bank.

It's one of a handful of towns that is heavily American.

So something like 80% of the population there are Palestinian Americans who have dual citizenship, and a lot of them go back and forth.

It's mostly built on the American economy. A lot of the people there are like small business owners in the U.S.,

and they raise their families in Termesia or in the West Bank to, you know,

maintain a connection to their roots.

But it's pretty wealthy as far as the West Bank goes.

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