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A disabled young man is the latest victim of the Israeli regime’s deadly incursions into the occupied West Bank. The 23-year-old Mohammed Ahmed Maslameh was shot in Beit Awwa west of the city of al-Khalil. He was brought to hospital with critical gunshot wounds to the chest and succumbed to his injuries shortly after. The Israeli forces also raided the village of Umm Safa northwest of Ramallah. Local officials said the regime soldiers stormed the village shortly after the Friday noon prayers, preventing the movement of residents and searching their vehicles. Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli genocidal war on Gaza last year, Israeli forces have intensified their raids in the West Bank, abducting at least eleven thousand nine hundred Palestinians.

Mr. Barrett, welcome to the program. Let's jump right in and get your perspective on this continued aggression against Palestinians in the West Bank that we've been seeing by the Israeli regime, a nonstop trend ever since the genocide war on Gaza started in October of last year.

Yes, this is not only a ramped up genocide of Gaza, but they're also targeting the rest of Palestine as well. And in fact, the Zionists have made it absolutely clear that they are planning to murder and expel all Palestinians from all of historic Palestine. They've ordered their captive American politicians to stop referring to the West Bank and instead use these biblical genocide names of Judea and Samaria for this region.

And although Smotrich and Ben-Gavir and people like that are the only ones who are saying it completely out loud, the entire Israeli leadership is pretty much singing from the same hymn book, just a little bit quieter. And they've got the incoming American administration on board with this now. Sheldon Adelson's widow, Miriam Adelson, gave Trump $100 million, allegedly in return for Trump's promise to allow the Zionists to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and declare their sovereignty over it.

So the West Bank is being targeted along with the rest of Palestine. And the slow motion genocide and the genocidal violence afflicting the West Bank may not be as spectacular as Gaza—I don't know if any violence in all of human history ever has been quite as spectacular as this absolutely insane bloodshed, these deliberate massacres of civilians and women and children that have been going on in Gaza.

But they're also planning to expel Palestinians from the West Bank as well. And they're planning to steal as much of neighboring countries as they can possibly steal. We just saw them try to steal parts of Syria. They were rebuffed trying to steal parts of Lebanon, but they're not going to give up forever.

The Zionists are completely out of control. This project is genocidal. It's criminal. It's a classic war of aggression against all of its neighbors. And the region, the Muslim Ummah and the Global South, realizes that this whole Zionist project needs to be put out of its misery. And the problem is how to do that. And it's going to be a problem for apparently the coming years at least, if not decades.

And one more issue, Mr. Barrett. I guess one of the matters that is the most perplexing here is how mainstream media has basically swept whatever is taking place in the West Bank under the rug. And it's completely turned a blind eye to all the atrocities and the crimes that the Israelis are carrying out in the occupied West Bank.

Yes. I noticed that, for instance, this report about the killing that we just saw is nowhere to be found in Western mainstream media. I used t