Western Standard - Bethlehem and the West Bank Behind Iron Gates and Open-Air Prisons

00:00:00.000 We should put up some images or video on a side here that I shot while I was in Bethlehem.

00:00:07.320 I had heard it described as an open-air prison before,

00:00:09.980 and I always just assumed that was kind of radical Hamasnic propaganda.

00:00:15.080 But then I saw it with my own eyes.

00:00:16.700 You walk through Bethlehem, and you think you're incarcerated in an American prison.

00:00:23.860 Yeah, unfortunately, recently, the Israeli army is stealing more iron gates,

00:00:28.480 which is literally what open air prison means when we say that that word that term

00:00:32.920 is that like literally it's your uh your movement your movement it depends really actually on the

00:00:39.800 israeli army if they would open the gates or not so you are literally in in a prison there in in a

00:00:45.900 place where you can't move you can't get out of your town and get into a few house if the israeli

00:00:51.180 army exists or their army decided to shut down the the gates and this is like we are talking about

00:00:57.440 uh around a thousand iron gates and checkpoints suffocating the west bank and including the

00:01:03.240 christian towns and cities and we are talking about christian towns and cities yeah like most

00:01:07.820 of that most of the christian towns and cities are mixed with muslims like half and half or

00:01:13.140 something but there is although the entirely christian village in the west bank which is

00:01:18.180 and taibi also like they just recently instilled uh instilled like uh three iron gates around it

00:01:24.860 and suffocating it and turning it like n to a pen and a bris

Western Standard - March 17, 2026