West Bank

explanation.

And, I mean, essentially the question that Fadli posed on 7th October, which is in the Hanzat, it was to ask the Senior Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, i.e. Shamogam, whether Singapore discussed with Israeli officials on addressing illegal settlements and settler violence in the West Bank during a recent meeting, and if not, why not? whether Singapore requested that the meeting be secret, and if so, why, and if not, why a correction under the POFMA Act was not issued against Haaretz's reporting.

Haaretz being an Israeli newspaper that is very critical about the government there.

So Shamugam responded, and then finally clarified and answered some of the questions that Shamugam responded in his written reply, and then there was a back and forth.

Yeah.

so when fatherly uh clarified um against the questions that uh shamugam had asked um basically uh there were there were three questions um he said la in in his written statement yeah which um and if i kind of like summarize yeah i mean the first ones

whether singapore discussed uh the illegal settlement issue yeah in uh israel right yeah yeah in israel and settler violence in the west bank Second one is whether Singapore requested that the meeting be secret.

If so, why? And if not, why was a POFMA not issued against Haaretz?

Well, I think the Israeli government's under pressure public relations-wise.

Israeli President Herzog is now warning that Jewish terrorism in the West Bank against Palestinians can cause and spark a civil war.

I can't believe I'm actually reading this, but it shows you how the winds are blowing here.

slightly differently right now as a result of the elections in Israel and also the U.S. elections as well.

So here we have up on here the Benjamin Netanyahu urgent letter to the caretaker government from Israel cats of all people.

Very hawkish letter.

ethno-nationalist defense minister there, basically pleading, warning that Jewish violence in the West Bank could spiral into a civil war.

We are a step away from disaster.

We have seen it in the Arab states until the Arab capitals are being hit by the Iranian fire right now.

And the West Bank, the West Bank with the gasification of the West Bank.

The

West Bank was... was the victim of the Gaza war in terms of it was an opportunity for Smotrich to put his decisive plan into action, into implementation, that he was talking about it since 2015.

And he's doing it.

And now he's given more power, actually.

It was not supporting Hamas, but it was against the PA, against Fatah, because Fatah was there for almost 12 years.

And, yeah, the corruption, the ineffectiveness, and everything that was...

As Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory, it also serves to inflame passions against them.

Recent actions by settlers in the West Bank have turned global public opinion against Israel in many ways.

The Israeli government has claimed that the occupation Amounting to about 6% of Lebanon's territory is only temporary, and they claim that it's just a security buffer to stop rocket attacks into its cities.

But Hezbollah claims that the security action by Israel is an attempt at permanent occupation, and they point at the settlements along the West Bank as proof of that.

This could help the group regain more control if the public agrees with their version of events in Hezbollah.

This can easily inflame support for Hezbollah.

Now, certainly that has to be qualified.

I mean, Israel is continuing its bloody, murderous siege in Gaza that has now migrated to the West Bank.

where settlers have grown more brazen, more violent.

They have been facilitated by the Israeli state, and the United States systematically looks the other way.

But the campaign of violence, intimidation, warfare has been carried over into the West Bank.

And so So victory has to be qualified, but on ideological terms, the hegemony of Israel and the protection of Zionism as a political, a worthy political project, an admirable political project, I think has been completely undermined in the U.S.

The majority of people in the United States, no longer see Israel as the victim.

And I think it did so in a way that social movements are often successful in this way, which is that it forces a mainstream media that is really disinterested in the topic to more deeply engage with it because it won't go away.

So if you look at the war zones around the world right now, Gaza was effectively genocide as a service that was testing Palantir technology.

Occupation as a service in the West Bank is how do you deal with extreme circumstances of military resistance using technology? Ukraine became a testing ground to fight till the last Ukrainian by testing drone technologies and integration with Palantir, artificial intelligence, Starlink and Elon Musk's satellite infrastructure.

So you can look at all the different contracts that are being tested.

And you can see that before you had Trump installed, you had open borders and closed borders.

And the Israeli context is interesting, too.

Like, talking to people from the West Bank, like, and talking to people who kind of analyze this more on the ground, like...

In Israeli society, it's like the military is also not just a jobs program, but like a key educational operation within the Israeli colony.

Like to be successful in the private sector and like do stuff outside of the military once your service is up, you kind of get all of that training inside of the military because Israeli schools are kind of shit.

Israel issues tenders for 91 new settlement units in occupied West Bank's Qalqileya Governorate just days after October 27th Israeli elections and Palestinian Commission is saying so.

Israel also receives bidding scheduled for even settlements project east of Jerusalem covering 2,167 units in total.

Now, Palestinian Commission says the E1 tender east of Jerusalem covers 2,161 settlement tenders.

And that's

been a pattern in Gaza and the West Bank and elsewhere, that the more and more radical demands are kind of moving toward the center of Israeli

politics.

Exactly.