Rory Stewart

They're all out of work.

More and more gates have now emerged around and between each different settlement.

Movement is becoming increasingly impossible.

This is mass unemployment, massive collapse in government revenue, threats to the banking system, real problems with inflation and the cash economy, and this macroeconomic damage.

increasingly deliberate.

I mean, before October 7th, some of this stuff happened under a security pretense.

Now it is quite clearly driven by Smotrich as a punishment measure.

Yeah, absolutely.

And again, you know, why was this not tied into the so-called peace plan?

When

Donald Trump and your friend Tony Blair were putting this all together, this is exactly the kind of stuff that should have been specified and tied into it.

Because if there's no economy in the West Bank,

Those millions of Palestinians, and the only part that Palestinians not in Gaza, can't function at all.

But for some reason, that wasn't in the deal.

Yes, but as you will remember from the Good Friday Agreement, what you need is not just a statement about prosperity.

You need to talk about excess shekels.

You need to talk about...

bank indemnity, you need to talk about customs revenue and percentages of customs revenue.

The devil's in the details, and it's through the details that Smarttritch is crushing the economy of the West Bank.

Question for you, as we come towards the end, maybe the last serious question.