{"id":"1794303355995-news-segment","slug":"al-jazeera-documents-soldier-settler-attacks-in-west-bank","title":"Al Jazeera documents soldier-settler attacks in West Bank","summary":"Al Jazeera's investigation documented Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in the West Bank in civilian clothes; reporting linked 14 Palestinian deaths to Israeli occupiers serving in the army or appearing in military uniform. This is an opinion column making a political argument, not a verifiable factual claim.\n\nThe NATO-Russia Council was not formally suspended after 2014. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014, but the Council remained a dialogue channel until after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. The reported Kushner proposal could not be confirmed from the provided search results.","publishedAt":"2026-11-10T09:35:55.995Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"Overnight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Al Jazeera's investigation documented Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in the West Bank in civilian clothes; reporting linked 14 Palestinian deaths to Israeli occupiers serving in the army or appearing in military uniform. This is an opinion column making a political argument, not a verifiable factual claim.\nSource: [aa.com.tr](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-in-civilian-clothes-join-attacks-on-palestinians-in-west-bank-probe/4118102), [aljazeera.com]( (https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2120079031005511926)\n\nMISLEADING: The NATO-Russia Council was not formally suspended after 2014. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014, but the Council remained a dialogue channel until after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. The reported Kushner proposal could not be confirmed from the provided search results.\nSource: [nato.int](https://www.nato.int) NAMES: NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Jared Kushner = former White House adviser and Trump son-in-law. (https://x.com/LetsArmUKR/status/2119388915605913917)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Al Jazeera's investigation documented Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in the West Bank in civilian clothes; reporting linked 14 Palestinian deaths to Israeli occupiers serving in the army or appearing in military uniform. This is an opinion column making a political argument, not a verifiable factual claim.","sourceName":"[aa.com.tr](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-in-civilian-clothes-join-attacks-on-palestinians-in-west-bank-probe/4118102), [aljazeera.com](","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/2120079031005511926","claim":"An Al Jazeera investigation has documented evidence of Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in civilian clothes and then returning back to the same villages they attacked in military uniforms. Al Jazeera’s @emma_withrow explains. https://t.co/ZPahl5VU55","author":"Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish)"},{"verdict":"MISLEADING","summary":"The NATO-Russia Council was not formally suspended after 2014. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014, but the Council remained a dialogue channel until after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. 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Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Brian","text":"Al Jazeera just posted on X about an investigation into Israeli soldiers joining settler attacks in the West Bank in civilian clothes."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The report says they attacked Palestinian villages, then came back to the same villages wearing military uniforms."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Al Jazeera's reporting links those attacks to fourteen Palestinian deaths, according to the report. This isn't a couple of rogue soldiers."},{"host":"Brian","text":"It looks systematic—and that should trouble Israel's own commanders. It blurs settler violence with military operations."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I'd stop short of calling it official policy. Armies have criminal elements, and this could be a failure to police them."},{"host":"Brian","text":"When it's documented across villages, failure becomes policy. It's impunity, not a few bad apples."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I hear you, but there's a difference between a black-ops order and tolerated thuggery. One is command failure, the other is criminal policy."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And tolerated thuggery by armed men in uniform is a military problem. Uniform means accountability."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Fair. If they won't investigate, that tells you which one it is."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Right. And the documentary evidence is the part that's hard to wave away."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Another security story is making the rounds on X: Jared Kushner wants to bring back the NATO-Russia Council for postwar Europe, according to a Washington Post column."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Anton Gerashchenko shared it on X, and the line people are quoting is that Kushner wants to \"revive the NATO-Russia Council model.\""},{"host":"Brian","text":"One correction before we get into it—some versions say the council was suspended after 2014. That's not accurate."},{"host":"Brian","text":"NATO cut practical cooperation after Crimea, but the council stayed open as a channel until the 2022 full-scale invasion."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And the column itself hasn't been independently confirmed. But the idea is what people are reacting to."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That council began in 2002, after the Cold War. It was meant to keep dialogue alive even when tensions ran high."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And tensions ran high in 2014, then much worse in 2022. Reviving it now feels like rewinding the tape."},{"host":"Brian","text":"It's not automatically bad. At some point Moscow has to be in a room. A council gives you structure."},{"host":"Bella","text":"What exactly did Moscow do to earn that? It has bombed Ukraine's grid and annexed territory."},{"host":"Brian","text":"It's not a reward, it's a channel. You don't have to trust someone to talk to them."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Then call it what it is—appeasement with better lighting. You don't rebuild security with the arsonist at the table before the fire's out."},{"host":"Brian","text":"No, wait. You don't get peace by refusing to talk! A ceasefire has to be negotiated with somebody."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Ukraine and its partners, yes. Not a revived council that lets Moscow pretend it's a normal partner again."},{"host":"Brian","text":"A veto? The council never gave Russia a veto over NATO decisions."},{"host":"Bella","text":"It gives Putin a stage to split the alliance. That's been his playbook for twenty years."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So we just skip a forum because we're afraid he'll exploit it? That's weak."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I'd rather be skeptical than hand him a platform before there's even a ceasefire."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's not a strategy, that's a slogan."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Maybe. But trusting the process has gotten Europe burned before."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fine, we disagree. The part we agree on is that Europe's security after this war can't be decided by Washington and Moscow alone."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Absolutely. And whatever replaces this council has to include Ukraine, not just consult it."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That much is non-negotiable."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Now to a number that should make Washington nervous: Reuters is reporting on X that China's trade surplus has reportedly blown past a trillion dollars, powered by the artificial intelligence export boom."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I can't confirm that number from official data yet. But even if it's close, that's a staggering imbalance."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The AI boom is real. China is shipping chips, servers, components—and the world is buying."},{"host":"Bella","text":"A trillion-dollar surplus means the rest of the world is buying Chinese, and China isn't buying nearly as much back."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So maybe the tariff warnings were overblown? China's still exporting like crazy."},{"host":"Bella","text":"It means tariffs haven't fixed the gap. If anything, exporters found workarounds."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But at what cost? Higher prices here, and China still wins. That's not a policy, that's a tax on consumers."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And letting subsidized Chinese goods flood the market is better? That's how you lose factories."},{"host":"Brian","text":"I'm not saying do nothing. I'm saying tariffs alone clearly aren't doing it."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Fair. We need a strategy that isn't just squeezing American buyers."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And if that trillion-dollar figure holds, the clock is ticking faster than our trade policy."},{"host":"Bella","text":"We should ask whether that surplus comes from smarter Chinese products or from prices nobody can match."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Probably both. That's the problem with a trillion-dollar surplus."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Exactly why the next administration needs an answer that isn't just more tariffs."}]}