Paul Moss

So that was the Israeli government viewpoint.

List is said also spoke to Jonathan Pollack, an Israeli campaigner against Israel's occupation.

Israel is not only trying to block the establishment of a Palestinian state,

but also to dispossess and displace Palestinians from their lands.

We are talking about joint efforts by both Israeli civilians in the form of Israeli settlers and the official Israeli armed forces working in coordination to implement an Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing.

Over the past two years, more than 100 communities have been displaced

forcefully displaced from where they were residing.

And this happened through violence.

I'll give a very simple example.

Just about two weeks ago, the army raided a village called in the West Bank.

This house is the only thing that keeps settlers away from taking over about 60,000 dunams of land.

A dunam is a square kilometer.

The settlers left before the army left the village.

And then the army blocked residents from coming to the aid of the family in the outskirts of the village.

They've stopped an ambulance from getting there.

The wounded could not be evacuated.

So the recognition of these 19 settlements, it is important because it is something that is easy for the world to see.

There is absolutely nothing that Israel cannot do in the occupied territories and with complete impunity.

Jonathan Pollack.

In the previous edition of this podcast, we reported on how the US had seized a second tanker off the coast of Venezuela.