 The strategic, the formal aim of Smotrich is to bring the EPA to total collapse because he really believes in Eretz Yisrael Hashlema, you know, one state between the river and the sea. Part of the reason the Palestinian Authority hasn't been able to pay its workers their full salary since the war is because Smotrich had withheld those tax revenues. Ruba Jaradat is the International Labor Organization's regional director for Arab states based in Geneva.