Louis Theroux

You know, I think I would say like selective compassion isn't compassion.

It is tribalism.

Right.

So it's about trying to throw your arms around the wider community.

But, you know, it all sounds a bit namby pamby when you put it like that.

And it's easier said than done.

There's a couple of dimensions to that.

I think oppression tends to, obviously it happens in different contexts, but one is a sense of victimization.

Like if we take our foot off his neck

then his foot will be on our neck.

And that's very much the thinking among parts of the settler community.

We'll get a jihadi state here, that sort of thing.

Well, not wholly without merit.

There's so much anger, understandable anger and resentment.

And you hear a lot, well, look how many Muslim nations there are, they'll say.

And we want one Jewish nation, and now they're trying to take that away from us.

I also think, you know, never underestimate people's ability to just go along with whatever's happening, right?

You know, Milgram's famous experiments on authority, where he found that people were willing to inflict electric shocks on strangers if someone above them was saying, don't worry, I'm in charge and you have to do this.

You have to remember, in the West Bank, there's several constituencies.

Apart from the 3 million Palestinians who live there and have lived there for generations, you have 700,000 settlers thereabout, of whom most of them would consider themselves non-ideological.