Efraim Sneh

They have been emptied out, and I'm afraid you can see why Ilana Dayan on our podcast earlier this week referred to these as pogroms.

You can see why former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former Minister Ephraim Sneh call it ethnic cleansing.

It's a terrible phrase, and yet I noticed in your own writing recently in an essay for Foreign Affairs, you also didn't hold back using that term.

Uh, it's a chilling and sobering experience to be there, and, uh, I know, as I say, it's something you yourself have done and seen, Amos.

Like, you know, not, these aren't, uh, peaceniks.

Um, and they're saying that what is happening, what the settlers are doing, uh, one retired Brigadier General, Efraim Sneh, said, "This is ethnic cleansing," he said.

Yeah.

It's always the-

So let's just listen to what he said on ethnic cleansing.

Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, has described what is happening as, I quote, "A violent and criminal effort to ethnically cleanse territories in the West Bank." The former Minister of Health and retired Brigadier General from the IDF, Ephraim Sneh, has said, and I quote again, "This is ethnic cleansing pure," uh, to, to put it simply.

Madam Deputy Speaker, ethnic cleansing is defined by the UN as a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing-