Unpacking the West Bank Conflict: A Closer Look at Israeli Settlers and Palestinians
In the latest episode of “60 Minutes,” the complex and often volatile dynamics of the West Bank conflict are brought to the forefront through the lens of Israeli settlers. Farmers using sheep as part of their agricultural practices have become emblematic of the larger struggle for land and rights in the region. This insightful report explores the rising tensions as these settlers vie for territory, leading to clashes not only with the local Palestinian population but also with Israeli peace activists advocating for coexistence.
The segment delves into the motivations behind the settlers’ actions and the implications for ongoing peace efforts in the region. With historical depths and contemporary challenges, “60 Minutes” provides a balanced and impactful examination of a conflict that has persisted for decades.
Since its inception in 1968, “60 Minutes” has maintained its status as a hallmark of investigative journalism, adeptly tackling pressing issues with rigor and integrity. Tune in to witness this important dialogue about land, identity, and the future of the West Bank.
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Is not a war 😢😢is a genocide against Palestine 😢
Reminds me of the MAGAs of America…. Netanyahu gives them his blessing to do violence while Trump gives NAGA his blessings and immunity to be violent.
WHY IS OUR COUNTRY SUPPORTING ANY OF THIS???
Show the faces
The Palestinians have been under Israeli rule, apartheid and ethnic cleansing since the 1948 Nakba . The European Jews settled in Palestine and inflicted the pain and torment they were feeling on the Palestinians. The US tax payer has been funding it. I for one am sick spiritually and heartbroken by this. I’m angry that someone like Bari Weiss and the Ellisons think they are going to own our media and lie to us. Thank you Lesley Stahl for using your power at 60 Minutes to get this aired.
Every bomb that Israel drops on civilians women, children, elderly, students ordinary people trying to live their lives, in Gaza in Lebanon etc are made in the USA with USA tax dollars. Usually given to Israel at no charge either.
The West is to blame
the interviewer lady asked the settlers "it must be painful for you" for standing against other settlers, while showing almost no empathy to the story where the Palestiena descibeing his family get murdered /his hand got stolen by the settlers
Peace will prevail of the U.S.stops supporting Israelis atrocities
If Israel wanted to stop this, they would. The idf and Israelis are complicit
And France is peacefully protesting 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Why do you start out with labelling one group as a terrorist, while you’re describing activities that sound like terrorism? That makes no sense in neutrality.
Qatar is getting their money's worth of investment in CBS News. I've seen their projected stories for the rest of the year and there's a definite pattern established. Good stuff!
Settlers? They are citizens. There's no west bank. What west bank? Of what?
There are TWO groups that fight a dispute over a land that is NOT PRIVATE LAND. It is since the Oslo Accords clearly regulated and mostly Israel did not claim land back, settleby palestinians, but had the right to do. Even SETTLEMENTS ARE FROM BOTH PARTIES. In Different Areas different settler buildings were rightfully removed. IN YOUR VIDEO YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT ONLY DOCUMENTING – NO: YOU PICKED A SIDE IN ADVANCE.
THERE IS NO "American MILITARY AID" it is AN Alliance of USA – and Israel AND IT BUYS THE weapons. No money goes from Americans into the settler movement or anything else that would hinder or promot this settler confrontations of both sides. You did not manage to show this truthfully.
This is disgusting.
Born 1950, this conflict was going on when I came into the world. I am pretty sure it will still be going on when I depart it.
Settlers have killed 23 Palestinians since the beginning of 2026, burned thousands of cars and homes, and displaced hundreds of Palestinian families. They act as a military arm of the Israeli occupation army
לכי לעזה😂 עם ישראל חי 🇮🇱❤
Free Palestain🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
"They being going to war with Palestinian since Oct 7th". No – Isreal has been bombing and stealing their land for the last 60 years.
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Ok, I didn't get more than a minute in before having to confirm whether or not this was Israeli propaganda. It is!!! The map they show in the beginning is completely and utterly misleading at best. The entirety of the West Bank is under Israeli military occupation with partial Palestinian control scattered around for the sake of keeping up appearances. The dots they say are settlements in a sea of red is another glaring understatement meant to distract from the total control of the entire area. There are almost 150 government recognized Israeli settlements and somewhere between two and four hundred outposts that are unofficial. Make no mistake. Everything that follows in this report/video is filtered through a lens approved by someone's handlers.
Fake News 😊
Israel will pay for this if they dont be fair to these ppl god will deal with all evil ppl including me so ppl need to be careful what they do karma is real
Israel funded Hamas, the political party not terrorist group. It’s disingenuous to continue referring to the only organized resistance which is completely legal to have as terrorism. They are defending themselves from a Jewish supremacist apartheid ethno terrorist state.
It's too late to repair the relationship with the United States. I am surprised CBS even aired this story.
3:08 willing to say Palestinian terror but not Israeli terror🙄🙄🙄
MAIN STREAM MEDIA has been covering theses atrocious for decades , this has been going on since and even before 1948 , and the zionist main stream media has been hiding the truth from the world , Thanks to the internet the world is now awake and knows what is realy going on 60 minutes is still lying by telling everyone its the young settlers behind all this when it was the zionist system from the beginning
3 Million Palestinians DO NOT wish it to be the "Heart of their future state". Make no mistake, they are pushing for JERUSALEM. If they did, they would have created a Palestinian state in 1999-2000 with Yasser Arafat, and in 2008 with Mahmoud Abbas, BOTH WALKING AWAY FROM THE BEST DEALS that could be offered with any compromise by Israel. In 2008 Ehud Olmert even offered them complete control of East Jerusalem. But no. Not good enough. But few say the quiet part out loud. Let us not forget that Israel UNILATERALLY gave up Gaza and removed 10,000 Jews from their communities and even dug up the Jewish graves. "From the River to the Sea" is a slogan THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING. And, IT DOESN'T MEAN A PALESTINIAN HOMELAND OF THE WEST BANK with or without Gaza.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip were supposed to be Palestinian territory.
Even 60 Zionist minutes Propaganda Can't Handle the Truth!
This is wrong
We know that 60 minutes is very bias to the Israeli cause being that Bari Weiss was caught on a recording pressuring staff to change their coverage on Israel. For you guys to start this coverage and say "Israel has been at war with the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza since Oct 7" leaving out how Israel had been terrorizing Palestinians for years
I want $0 going to Israel. This has gotten wayyy out of hand. Insanity.
One question here might be, "Who is supplying a certain portion of these hilltop shepherd settler youth with drugs, and is this a constant supply chain; and, if so, what kinds of drugs are being thus so supplied, and to what effective end?"
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
This is DISQUSTING and the thought that a party I have voted for and believe in is ok with this, SMFGDH
How did Weiss feel about this?
Very weak reporting. She never challenged the absurd belief that the land was promised thousands of years ago.
amazed to see a people done so wrong at one time acting like the people who had done them so wrong
Let's count the lies of Leslie… oh it's impossible. It's about every second word
Leslie, show us the "deed". Oh, you can't? It's because it doesn't exist
This is a non-issue. These are a very few isolated cases. There's much more crime in Tel Aviv, but Leslie is not interested in that. And of course, she would not report about Arabs on Arabs violence in Judea and Samaria, which leads to killing of hundreds of people every year, including children. But Leslie doesn't care. And she would not mention Arabs building illegally in Negev, Judea and Samaria
https://youtube.com/shorts/T-936pIls3U?si=_UoKO7hpld04f8Wl
CNN's cheap, orchestrated propaganda. No wonder Trump refuses to answer CNN reporters!
those thugs are a problem and should be dealt with
but the presentation is biased !
1) those thugs are 500 – 1000 out of half a million that are called settlers – you do the math for categorizing the other 499 thousand under the same definition – anywhere else that would not fly – that's just a narrative !
2) why don't present in the same video statistic about palestinian terror in the west bank (please see the ratio)
and the "pay for slay" policy of the peaceful palestinian Authority.
Can you categorize all West Bank palestinian under the same category as those terrorists ? – it goes both ways.
you just interviewed the extreme israeli and the moderate palestinian – that is bias in journalism
Finally some real reporting
I feel like I have to pick a side.
I try to stay neutral.
I respect those who are trying to be moderate and trying to keep the peace as much as possible, I fear for the moderates though.
Sometimes I'm worried moderates will just get run through.
I'm seeing calls for the literal death penalty for blasphemy against Muhammad in different news outlets.
That is something that effects EVERYONE.
Jews, Christians, non religious groups.
That absolutely IS concerning.
It is basically calling for the death of anyone who doesnt submit to Muhammad.
This is something people, religious or not really need to consider and think deeply about..
Why is their faces being blurred
Great report, Leslie.