Alastair Campbell

I always got the feeling that when I turned up at select committees as a witness that they had prepared quite well.

There was lots of, that's a very good question.

Now, Thomas in Bristol...

What explains the lack of international attention to the West Bank's collapsing economy, made dramatically worse by intensified Israeli restrictions since the Gaza war?

And what are the implications of this silence for regional stability?

Now, I know you've been looking at this, but just before that, I think this is so relevant as well to the...

The discussion about Ukraine, because it's not that long ago that Trump was parading in front of huge, great signs saying peace 2025 and saying that he had delivered peace and stability.

There have been over 300 Palestinians killed since then.

There have been Israelis killed as well.

And it's as if it's not happening.

So what's Thomas' worry about the economy in the West Bank?

But the World Bank has published a report warning that this could lead to the absolute collapse of the Palestinian Authority economy.

Absolutely.

So it's a form of economic warfare alongside the psychological warfare that Ben-Gavir and Smotrich are essentially saying that Mahmoud Abbas should be taken out, that other members of the Palestinian government should be executed.

That's a sort of psychological warfare going alongside the military and the economic.

But it does go back to the, in a sense, the, I don't know whether it's strategic or tactical, but the sort of

the stupidity in a way of the attack in the first place.

You had lots of people going backwards and forwards every day.

And okay, it might be a bit of buggeration from time to time, but essentially Palestinians could go to Israel.

They're working in Israel, getting paid, remittances being taken back to Palestine.