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The following film was shot
over a twenty-five year period
in Israeli occupied
Palestinian Territories
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Crew: Peace.
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Hi.
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Hello.
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Where you come from?
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United States
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I thought that.
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“We have forgotten
that we have not come
to an empty land to inherit it,
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we have come
to conquer a country
from the people inhabiting it”
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Moshe Sharett 2nd Prime Minister of Israel
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Why is it that Palestine has always been
a source of trouble to the world?
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IIt is only 200 miles long
and nowhere more than 50 miles wide.
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Ever since the days of the Roman empire
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this little country on the east of the Mediterranean
has been the scene of wars and revolution.
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Yet today the Jews are spending millions of pounds building a National Home here.
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And on the other side the Arabs are fighting
for what they consider their natural rights in the country.
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What is it that causes so much trouble in Palestine?
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[00:02:22.03I got very interested in Israel,
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went through a search for identity
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and found it in connection with the Jewish people.
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Came to Israel as a student in 1971.
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Stephen was the first
Jewish American to receive
Conscientious Objector status
during the Vietnam War.
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Met Melga then, my wife.
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I was raised in a regular assimilated
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American-Jewish family in New York.
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Umm, knowing just a little about
some of the holidays and not much more.
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And,uh,as a teenager I became religious,
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and I also became a Zionist.
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ZIONISM
Zionist political ideology holds that
Jews are a people or nation like any other,
and should gather together
in a single homeland.
Source: Zionism-israel.com
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Adam: Zionism is a creation of the end of the 19th century.
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It is first of all a creation of society where
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discrimination against national ethnic minorities
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and specifically against Jews,
was an acceptable and respectable thing to do.
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Plus the fact that at that time it was considered
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that it is quite legitimate and okay for Europeans to go to
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to countries outside of Europe and settle there
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whether or not the people who live there
want them to do it or not.
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Efrata Settlement, Occupied West Bank
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Ardie: Our decision to move here
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was based on religious values and religious beliefs.
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As Jews we feel a religious imperative to live here.
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We sort of, ahh,
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combined our religious belief and our idealism
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to come back to our homeland.
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Stephen: Here alone in history do you have a case
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where a people has retained
its national identity in dispersion for 2000 years,
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and now comes back to the land from which it's been exiled.
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Now what happens, a people's dispersed.
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It is not in any particular land anymore.
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It's all over the place, but keeps its identity as a people.
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What happens to the land where they started at?
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Well someone else comes in.
People don't look at that land and say,
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"Hey, the Jews once lived here so let's not go in there."
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No, people come and live there,
as happens whenever one people moves from it's land,
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leaves it, another people's living there.
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We have here a situation of two peoples,
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each of them deeply conscious in their minds,
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and feeling in their bones,
that this country is their country.
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Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz
(1903-1994)
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Tomer: I was born in a Kibbutz in the north of Israel
called Kibbutz Dan.
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And in Kibbutz Dan there is a big museum
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for, uh, nature and the history of the Galilee.
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The museum is a very impressive building,
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It's by far the most beautiful building in this community.
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Some years ago, a friend of mine told me that he heard a rumor
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that this museum is built from the stones
of a demolished Palestinian village.
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I found a very deep irony in this because it is
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a museum for nature and history of the upper Galilee and,
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if you go inside this museum, you wouldn't know
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that there were ever any Palestinian or Arab villages in the Galilee.
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And so I went on a search, and I found out that it is true.
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The village was called Hunin.
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Hunin 1935
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Hunin 2014
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And I tried to study how a village is turned into a history museum,
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which tells nothing of the history of the village
from which it is built of.
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And I think this is a metaphor for Israeli architecture.
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And architecture again is a metaphor also, but not only.
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No one knows what this place we are living in is built of,
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and, it has no past.
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Humans first emerge
here [Note: place text beside red pointer]
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The only permanent
land bridge between
Africa, Asia, and Europe [Note: place text upper frame left]
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Is the area that became
known as Palestine [Note: Add this text to GFX 12, above]
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It was one of humanity’s
gateways to the world [Note: place text upper frame left]
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Homo Erectus had
settled here as early
as 800,000 years ago [Note: place text upper frame center]
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Modern humans have
continuously inhabited
Palestine for 40,000 years [Note: place text upper frame center]
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Palestine’s
strategic location
between continents
made it a highway
of imperial conquest [Note: place text upper frame left]
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The inhabitants
of Palestine
have been
occupied by: [Note: place text upper frame left]
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[Note: place text frame right and roll upward beside GFX 17]
Ghassulians
Edomites
Hittites
Philistines
Tjekkers
Hebrews
Horites
Assyrians
Babylonians
Macedonians
Yarmukians
Moabites
Romans
Sassanids
Nabateans
Amorites
Tulunids
Ikshidids
Fatimids
Seljuks
Mameluks
Mongols
Franks
Norwegians
Khwarezmians
Archeamenids
Parthians
Byzantines
Abbasids
Ptolemies
Sleucids
Umayyads
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The Ottoman Empire
occupied Palestine in 1517
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The British Empire
occupied Palestine in 1917
at the end of World War I [Note: Place text upper frame, center]
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In 1917 the British decided to
“establish a national home
for the Jewish People”
in Palestine. [Note: Place text upper frame, center]
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“we do not propose to go through
the form of consulting the wishes of
the present inhabitants,”
Lord Arthur Balfour [Note: Add this text below GFX 20]
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This is the Gaumont British News,
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1936 [Note: Place text frame center]
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Presenting the world to the world.
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Jewish settlement in Palestine is the cause of Arab discontent.
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This modern city of Tel Aviv already houses 100,000 Jews
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who have accepted Britain's invitation
to make the Holy Land their national home,
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apparently with success.
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Arab towns nearby, built in ancient Eastern Style,
are in striking contrast.
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Naturally, the Arabs, old and young,
resent the influx of the go-ahead Jews.
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They fear that the white man,
with his totally different outlook,
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may oust them from their own country,
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back to the nomadic life of their forbearers,
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driven to seeking pasture on the desert fringe.
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For so many centuries,
the Muslim Arabs lived respectfully
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toward the Jews and the Christians
because they were people of the book.
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And before the rise of the Jewish national movement
jjin this country
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there was a good deal of mutual respect and regard
between the Muslims and the Jews.
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I don't think anti-Semitism is something that is a natural product,
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or a natural thing, in the Arab world.
But indeed the conflict has fanned this.
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Hunin 1935
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Tomer: I will try to make a free translation
of a document that I've found
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during my search about the history museum
and the village called Hunin.
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This is a document from 1948,
from the Haganah archive in Israel.
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Haganah
Zionist/Jewish armed group in
Palestine from 1920 to 1948.
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It says Urgent. Top Secret.
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Military Order Number 2.
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The Enemy: The enemy - the village Hunin
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was partly evacuated during an exchange of fire.
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It maybe that in the meanwhile
the villager's have returned to their homes.
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Our aim: to enter the village of Hunin,
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to kill a number of men,
to take some prisoners,
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to blow up a couple of the village houses,
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and to burn what can be burned.
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You know the aim here was terror.
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Terror also in the meaning of
making somebody afraid.
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So you kill some people.
You just need to kill some of them,
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and then the people from Hunin will flee,
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and probably also the people
from around the other villages will flee
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because they know that
they killed some people in Hunin,
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And then you don't even need to go and kill
some people in the neighboring villages.
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It doesn't even matter,
because they will be afraid.
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Before the 1948 war,
there was some 850,000 Palestinians
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living in the area that became the state of Israel.
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Of those 850,000
some 718,000 became refugees, were expelled,
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basically were expelled by the Israeli forces
during the war.
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Today in the near east a suffering people,
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1948 [Note: Lower frame right]
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the Palestine Arab refugees,
are struggling for survival.
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Three quarters of a million displaced human beings
are dependent upon charity for their very existence.
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In these camps of misery live the scores of thousands
whose native land was, for centuries, Palestine.
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The expulsion of Palestinians in '48,
which was a very terrible national trauma for them,
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and I think a very big injustice
which Israel did in order to create itself,
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was more or less pushed aside,
and I think, "Oh there is a refugee problem,
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but let the Arab world take care of these refugees."
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[00:12:27.04The greatest battle is against infant mortality.
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Only one out of five lives longer than six months.
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Between 600,000 and 800,000
Palestinians became refugees.
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Now in every war there are refugees,
but what is specific about this war was that
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after the war was over.
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United Nations
General Assembly Resolution 194
11 December 1948
Resolves that the refugees
wishing to return to their homes
and live at peace with their neighbors
should be permitted to do so
at the earliest practicable date.
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Most of these people left their homes
two years ago in clothes they stood up in
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since they all expected to return home
when order was again established.
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There are likely to be ugly political consequences.
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The idea was to establish a Jewish state
where Jews could live in safety and self-determination.
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But it's turned out to be the un-safest place.
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Because you cannot come into an area
where other people are living,
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establish a state, confiscate their lands,
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and expect to live in safety.
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And that's what happened.
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They came in, conquered and confiscated.
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Confiscated Palestinian Homes
Haifa, Israel
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Tom: U.N. Resolution 194 clearly states
that people have the right
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to return to homes from which they were displaced
during times of war.
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True, but in spite of those agreements
it's just not always done.
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It's just not always done.
And it's not going to happen in this case either.
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So I suggest we just move on.
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Um Muhammad,
Rashidiyyah Palestinian Refugee Camp,
Lebanon, 1983 [Note: Right justified, lower frame right]
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Special card for Palestinian refugees.
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Lebanese government, Ministry of Emigration.
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The main director for handling the affairs
of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
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certifies that this person is Palestinian, living in Lebanon.
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And in witnessing this, I have given this card.
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Chief Director for handling the affairs
of the Palestinian refugees, Beirut.
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130,000 Palestinian’s remained inside
the territory that was renamed “Israel.”
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They became citizens of Israel
but were denied rights of
“Jewish Nationality.”
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“The attitude we adopt toward the
Arab minority will provide the real
test of our moral standards as a
people.” Albert Einstein
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[00:15:35.05After 1948 until 1966
there was a long period of military rule
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inside the state of Israel
on its Palestinian citizens.
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The same as now in the West Bank,
this military rule was not applied to a geographical space,
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but to ethnicity, nationality,
I don't know.. Well, to Arabs.
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[00:15:59.00In order to leave your village
you had to have a permit
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from the military governor.
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In order to travel from one village to another.
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Land confiscated.
Workers being forced out of agriculture,
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forced to become a commuting laborer population.
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Jeff: Between 1948 and 1966,the Palestinians
in Israel were under a military government.
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Like an occup..
They were under occupation for almost 20 years.
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'67 happens, that entire mechanism was simply transferred
to the West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem.
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June, 1967, Israel bombs
Egyptian airbases.
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Egypt’s allies, Syria, Jordan, and
Iraq counterattack.
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Israeli troops then invaded
Syria’s Golan Heights.
The West Bank
The Gaza Strip
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
[Note: Add West Bank, Gaza, Sinai as areas of the map turn yellow]
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The six day Middle East War echoes along a second front:
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the diplomatic struggle at the United Nations Security Council.
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While Russia and other iron curtain countries
label Israel's victory as aggression,
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insisting she pull back to original boundaries.
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Israeli Premier Eschkol, equally adamant,
insists Israel alone will determine her future.
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[00:17:34.10It's not an occupation, this is liberated territory.
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The Arabs went to war against us and they lost.
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This is our territory returned, returned by God,
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and we, the Jewish people,
have a right to our one God-given country.
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[00:17:50.00I am Israeli born, I was born in Haifa.
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My parents came from Germany, very early, 1933.
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Even before Hitler came to power.
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F or a few years I worked for the Prime Ministers office,
I was the Prime Minister's secretary.
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The Prime Minster then was David Ben Gurion.
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Hanna: He was one of the first people who said after '67,
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"We should leave the occupied territories immediately,
because occupying is corrupting."
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Ben Guiron said that. But people were so taken
with this wonderful winning we had.
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We managed to win this war.
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And at the time I also believed that the war had a sense.
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It took me a while to realize that it was all for nothing.
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And that it was one of the darkest moments of our lives.
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I remember my family went to see East Jerusalem
and to Hebron, Bethlehem, and Nablus
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like the new owners coming to inspect their new property.
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In 1967, the lives of
a million more Palestinians,
including 250,000 1948 refugees,
fell under Israeli’s control.
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One of these peoples
occupies the entire country by force.
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Deprives the other people
of their political, national independence,
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and tries to maintain this situation by violence.
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Because this situation can be maintained only by violence.
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There's no peaceful way of maintaining the domination
of one people by another people without violence.
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And now the Israelis have to decide,
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Do you want to share this country with those people or not?
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This is the question. Now that ..Why I'm asking that,
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that it's an Israeli question, not a Palestinian question,
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because they are now controlling and leading all the country,
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and the keys and the decision in their hands,
not in the hands of the Palestinians.
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Certain basic human rights are denied
by the very fact of military occupation.
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I mean the Government of course is not voted,
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there is no freedom of speech, freedom of movement,
freedom of organization.
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Beyond that, of course the main problem
is still to date the killing
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in large numbers, of Palestinians.
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United Nations Security Resolution 242
22 November 1967
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Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition
of territory by war
1. Requires
Withdrawal of Israel army armed forces from
territories occupied in the recent conflict
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Since 1967
we are in occupation of the entire country,
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and, not yet ready to recognize a Palestinian state
in a part of this country.
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Which means today we are responsible for the situation as it is.
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1993
4 a.m. Palestinian refugees
coming from Gaza to work in Israel
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The old concept was Moshe Dyan?s concept.
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It was the idea
that we would tie the Palestinians to us economically.
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By bringing them into,
by giving them jobs in Israel, the lowest scale jobs.
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For 26 years the refugees
were allowed to work in Israel,
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even in the towns
their families were expelled from,
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though it was illegal for them
to sleep in those towns.
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Letting them come into Israel to work,
to be your hewers of wood and your drawers of water,
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your manual labor power.
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Commuting back and forth,
getting up 2 in the morning 3 in the morning
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to get on line to get through the checkpoints, to get into Israel
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for the privilege of working there, and then going back.
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So on the one hand you’re flooding their market,
preventing the development of an economy.
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On the other hand you’re using their labor force,
exploiting their labor force,
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and no economy grows there.
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Anat: Walking in the street and seeing an Arab walking on the sidewalk.
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Knowing that in his pocket he has an orange I.D.
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and I in my pocket have a blue I.D.
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And the difference between the colors is striking,
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and so is the difference in the treatment.
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It’s easy to get by with a blue I.D.
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It’s hell to have an orange I.D.
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It’s a bitter life.
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Palestinian’s are forbidden
to leave their houses without their
Israeli issued I.D.
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Israel soldiers have confiscated
these men’s I.D.’s
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To force them to load this tree trunk
into a truck
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The tree was used to block the road
during demonstrations
against the occupation.
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We need a forklift.
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You are the forklift.
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The whole world sees the immorality of our situa,
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of what we’re doing, and of what we’ve been doing
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since we’ve been occupying the West Bank for 22 years.
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1989 [Note: frame left above subtitles]
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For two decades the world didn’t see it
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because the Palestinian’s
seemed willing to live under Israeli rule,
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that is, they didn’t revolt.
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The children who grew up in that period,
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seeing their parents bending their heads under Israeli occupation,
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said to themselves, “When I grow up I’m not gonna put up with this,”
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and so began the Intifadah.
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NO NO
ZIONISM
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LET THE BANNER OF FREEDOM FLY
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December 15, 1988
21 years into the occupation
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Palestinians declare
an independent state
in the West Bank and Gaza.
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95 Nations extended diplomatic
recognition to the new state of
Palestine
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There was much rejoicing
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Israel and the United States
refused to recognize the new state
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The uprising escalated
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“WE ARE ONE LIFE
WE ARE ONE BLOOD”
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00:26:17:21 – 00:26:20:09
“WE ARE ONE LIFE
WE ARE ONE BLOOD”
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Beit Sahour
A Palestinian Christian town
Israeli Occupied West Bank
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A Sunday morning in 1989
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The first Uprising (Intifadah)
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In The Name of Freedom
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We Sacrifice Ourselves
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Palestine Is Arab
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Oh Land of Struggle
Oh Land of Struggle
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Hand-sized chunks of Palestine
were their primary weapon.
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Israeli riot gear
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THE DEMOLISHERS ARE COMING!
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The trouble begins with the sort of regulations,
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the open fire regulations, that allow shooting
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in situations where the soldiers do not have to defend their lives,
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when
they
lives
are not
being
threatened
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Col. Fogel: We’ve spent quite a bit of resources
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in trying to find non-lethal ways to deal with the Intifadah.
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Plastic bullets, rubber bullets, sand bullets,
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a large variety of ways aside from tear gas
and the regular ways of dispersing demonstrations.
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“Rubber Bullets”
Used by Israel
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15 gram metal core
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14 month old girl
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“Rubber Bullet” version 2 [Note: Center frame]
15 Gram metal core [Note: this line on lower bullet]
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“Rubber Bullet”
[Note: center frame]
GFX 68: 00:29:53:13 – 00:29:55:01
“Rubber Bullet”
[Note: Frame right]
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“Rubber Bullets”
[Note: center frame]
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“Plastic Bullets”
Used by Israel
[Note: Lower frame right]
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“Plastic Bullet” wound
[Note: lower frame center]
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“Plastic Bullet” wound
[Note: lower frame center]
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In 1989, Stephen refused army orders
to perform reserve duty
in the occupied territories.
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The army sent him to jail.
[Note: frame center]
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Stephen: For years, I had been looking for a way
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to express my feelings about the situation.
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I wrote a few articles for the paper.
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They didn’t quite do the trick.
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And finally the army made it very easy.
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The way for me to express my feelings
about the situation was to go to jail.
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And I felt tremendous relief.
A tremendous sense of lightening.
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There are hundreds of them, hundreds,
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who refuse to serve in the occupied territories.
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They are not pacifists. They serve wholeheartedly in the army,
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but they won’t take part in the atrocities.
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Nurse: He’s also 14 years old from Jabalya Camp.
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[00:31:34.00Israeli soldiers’ role is to use minimal force,
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to try to have purity of arms, of what we call moral principles,
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which will not be degraded
or eaten away by years of Intifadah,
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by years of dealing with this type of situation.
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And use our force in a very selective manner,
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and to try to have as few casualties as possible.
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You use a variety of measures
that are not supposed to be lethal.
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You have a five and half year experience
that proves beyond any doubt
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that these measures are extremely lethal.
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Killed by the Israeli Army
[Note: place just above subtitles]
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That they have killed hundreds of Palestinians,
hundreds of children.
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The question is, if a certain measure
that is supposed to be non-lethal is lethal,
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why don’t you do away with it? Why don’t you change it?
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In the long-run, respecting human rights now
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means even a better present, let alone future for us here,
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because every killing of a child means that
another Palestinian would, sooner or later, take up arms.
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Imad Arqawi
Age 13
[Note: centered on Imad’s chest]
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Imad
Age 19
[Note: Lower frame right]
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A bullet through the neck
for holding a stone in his hand
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Imad’s
mom
[Note: Lower frame right]
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He died for his homeland.
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He died for Palestine.
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All the boys in Palestine are your sons now.
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Is what we see the Jews doing to the Palestinian’s,
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is that Jewish?
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There are two interpretations of Judaism in Israel
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There are those who would define being Jewish as this:
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to be rooted in one another.
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Meaning in all human beings, not just Jews, alright?
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To be rooted in other people, and not in a piece of Earth.
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The clearest exponent of this attitude is Martin Buber.
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Buber summed up the whole message of the prophets
from the bible as “Holy insecurity.”
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Don’t give yourself the illusion of, of security that your rooted in the earth,
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and that you have roots, and therefore you’re gonna be secure.
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But be delivered over to one another so that you’re security depends
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on your maintaining good relationships with your fellow human beings.
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That’s one Judaism.
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It’s not the attitude we see being exemplified
by Israel’s actions for the last 100 years,
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or 60 years of its’ existence, and then before that.
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From a distance this Jewish colony in Palestine
looks as romantic as a Dutch picture.
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Close to, it’s different. The guards are Jewish colonists
armed with shotguns. They watch all day.
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There was a basement room
in a very neglected part of the town,
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and there was there a solider in uniform.
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The solider was talking about terrible things,
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about executions without trial, about destruction of houses,
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about just stopping people in the street and beating them up.
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What you could call collective punishment. And all kind of terrible things.
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And, and, there were people protesting and saying “That’s not true!
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Our army’s not doing such things.”
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And then the soldier said, “Yes the army’s doing such things,
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I have done it myself, and now I cannot sleep at night
because I have done it.”
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I would suggest that the disproportionate violence
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is much, much heavier from the Palestinian side
towards the Jews.
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CHILD FATALITIES 1988-2000
18 Israeli kids killed by Palestinians
Source: B’Tselem
[Note: Place first line below wounded child’s face
GFX 81: 00:35:40:03 - 00:35:46:15
304 Palestinian kids killed by Israelis
[Note: add GFX 81 to GFX 80 below “18 Israeli” text line]
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Look what the Israelis are doing!
You’re murderers.
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At least try to draw parity between the two sides,
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if not just trying to make the argument that
the Israeli Army is really an army of murderers,
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which is something I completely reject.
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And I, you know I think it’s a good propaganda line
for people who, who believe it.
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Israeli’s find it hard to believe
that their army does certain things
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and would rather either ignore the facts,
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or attack them vehemently
without actually checking them thoroughly.
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You’re talking now about over 3,000 Palestinian civilians
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have been killed over the past four years. Ah,
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2004
[Note: Place frame left]
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More than half of those are unarmed civilians
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who did not take part in fighting against Israelis,
or attacking Israelis.
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We unfortunately have wound up killing Palestinians
who are innocent victims.
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They, the Palestinian terrorists, murder us.
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They’re less human,
therefore we don’t really have to deal with them as human beings.
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We don’t have to relate to them as equals.
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When their children die, well that’s not, you know,
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that’s not the same as when our children die.
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That’s racism.
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When two children are killed, it’s an accident.
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When 200 kids are killed, it’s a policy,
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and you’re asking me how I feel as a mother
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of someone who’s exactly the age of these kids?
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I feel pretty horrible.
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These black widows are traitors to their country,
their God, and their people.
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And these traitors, every one of them are traitors, weaken the country.
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They’re sick demented Jews,
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I don’t even think they’re Jews. I think they’re Arabs.
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I’m an organizational psychologist and,
when I was still doing reserve duty,
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I worked with soldiers who have been in the position
of firing their weapons into crowds of school children.
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Not only is what were doing to the Palestinians unspeakable,
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00:37:53,417 --> 00:37:59,500
but what we’re doing to ourselves as a people
is just .. depressing.
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I was even a soldier in the occupation army
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and now I try to fix that.
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It’s my way to fix the wrongs of Israel.
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We’re talking about one side that has the guns and the power,
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and one side that is under the gun and the power.
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We're not talking about equals.
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And, you know, people don’t like when we say
that they’re fighting for their freedom,
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but that’s what they’re doing.
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Stop referring to it as resistance,
and stop referring to it as fighting the occupation,
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and say “Okay, we want peace.”
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If tens of thousands, twenty thousand, hundreds of thousand Palestinians
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came out into the streets and said “Peace now. Now.”
That would be the end of it.
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Nonviolence gained zero traction
against the occupation
GFX 84: 00:38:56:12 – 00:39:01:15
Bi’lin Village
Occupied West Bank
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A nonviolent protest
against Israeli land seizures
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Soldier: No Demonstrating!
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No, no, I am a mother and I say no shooting!
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Everybody has a right to exist.
No more shooting.
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Israeli
Peace
Activist
[Note: place on women frame right]
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Don't shoot! Don't shoot.
351
00:39:38,333 --> 00:39:41,583
This is not right. Put the gun
352
00:39:41,583 --> 00:39:43,250
It's not right?
353
00:39:43,250 --> 00:39:46,208
No, no. No, it is not right
for you guys to be shooting anybody.
354
00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:49,083
They don’t have guns. This is not fair.
355
00:39:51,250 --> 00:39:55,208
So remember, remember where you come
.. wait, wait, wait!
GFX 87: 00:40:14:08 – 00:40:19:10
Women in Black (Jewish Women)
GFX 88: 00:40:20:03 – 00:40:23:24
Have come out every Friday,
for decades
GFX 89: 00:40:24:10 – 00:40:29:05
protesting under the slogan
STOP THE OCCUPATION
356
00:40:32,333 --> 00:40:34,375
Doctor: Actually the bullet was superficial one.
357
00:40:34,417 --> 00:40:37,083
It went like that, and came to his arm,
358
00:40:37,125 --> 00:40:41,500
so it didn’t penetrate to his lung. So he was lucky.
359
00:41:22,250 --> 00:41:24,583
History is going to make us pay for this.
360
00:41:24,625 --> 00:41:28,291
This is not going to pass like nothing.
361
00:41:28,333 --> 00:41:30,542
We’re going to pay for this.
362
00:41:30,583 --> 00:41:33,375
There is a price to such crimes.
363
00:41:33,417 --> 00:41:37,333
Even if it takes time.
Look at other countries. What happened?
364
00:41:37,333 --> 00:41:39,792
These are war crimes.
365
00:41:39,834 --> 00:41:43,041
Israel is living by the sword,
366
00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:47,291
and I’m not a Christian, I’m not a religious believer at all,
367
00:41:47,333 --> 00:41:51,208
but I think that Jesus was speaking very good sense
368
00:41:51,208 --> 00:41:54,959
when he said that one who lives by the sword
will die by the sword.
369
00:41:55,291 --> 00:41:58,333
Now the efforts of all who have labored before us
GFX 90: 00:41:56:12 – 00:42:01:18
Oslo Peace Accords
Signing Ceremony
[Nore: Place above subtitle lines]
370
00:41:58,375 --> 00:42:03,125
bring us to this moment, a moment when we dare to pledge
371
00:42:03,166 --> 00:42:06,500
what for so long seemed difficult even to imagine.
GFX 91: 00:45:05:04 – 00:42:09:12
September 13, 1993
372
00:42:06,542 --> 00:42:13,458
That the security of the Israeli people will be reconciled
with the hopes of the Palestinian people,
373
00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:19,041
and there will be more security, and more hope, for all.
374
00:42:22,917 --> 00:42:29,250
We have come to try and put an end to the hostilities
375
00:42:29,291 --> 00:42:33,583
so that our children, our children’s children,
376
00:42:33,583 --> 00:42:42,250
will no longer experience the painful cost of war,
violence and terror.
GFX 92: 00:42:43:16 – 00:42:51:09
Murdered at a peace rally
November 4, 1995
GFX 93: 00:42:51:10 – 00:42:56:10
by an Israeli Jew
377
00:42:59,583 --> 00:43:05,333
Another interpretation of Judaism is the kind of
interpretation that you run into among the settlers of the West Bank,
378
00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:13,291
which develops a mystique of the connection
of the Jewish people to the Holy Ground, to the Earth.
GFX 94: 00:43:12:10 – 00:43:18:01
Israeli Settlement
in the center of
Khalil
(Hebron)
[Note: Center above subtitle lines]
379
00:43:16,291 --> 00:43:19,500
We are not occupiers, we are pre-occupiers.
380
00:43:19,542 --> 00:43:26,083
We’ve been here before and we have been pre-occupied
with this land for the last 2,000 years.
381
00:43:26,083 --> 00:43:29,125
We are here because today we are celebrating 40 years
382
00:43:29,166 --> 00:43:32,583
of the return of the Jewish people home, to Judea, Samaria, Gaza,
383
00:43:32,583 --> 00:43:35,709
to our biblical homeland,
the land that God gave to the Jewish people.
384
00:43:35,792 --> 00:43:39,417
This is our home, this is our land.
Our land is very important to us,
385
00:43:39,417 --> 00:43:42,333
not simply because it’s physical, because it also has I think,
386
00:43:42,333 --> 00:43:45,500
for many of the religiously observant Jews among us,
387
00:43:45,542 --> 00:43:49,208
uh, a spiritual element in there too.
GFX 95: 00:43:49:13 – 00:43:56:03
Shilo settlement sits on the lands of
the Palestinian village of Turmas ‘Ayya
GFX 96: 00:43:58:11 – 00:44:04:23
According to Ottoman records
Turmas ‘Ayya had a population
of 216 in the year 1596
388
00:44:04,834 --> 00:44:06,458
Under international humanitarian law
389
00:44:06,458 --> 00:44:10,333
the status of Israeli settlements
in the occupied territory is unequivocal.
390
00:44:10,333 --> 00:44:14,291
Settlements are a violation
of the prohibition in the fourth Geneva convention
391
00:44:14,333 --> 00:44:20,583
of transferring population from the occupiers population
to the occupied territory.
392
00:44:20,583 --> 00:44:25,250
So settlements are a violation of humanitarian law.
GFX 97: 00:44:25:14 – 00:44:28:21
Rimon Settlement
Occupied West Bank
393
00:44:27,208 --> 00:44:29,041
Reuven: Illegal Jewish settlement’s are any Jewish community
394
00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:33,291
outside the land of Israel.
Jews don’t belong outside of Israel.
395
00:44:33,333 --> 00:44:36,583
It’s against Jewish law for Jews to be outside of Israel.
396
00:44:36,583 --> 00:44:40,458
They should only live in the land of Israel, and nowhere else.
397
00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:45,458
Batya: The fact that Israel, in its defense,
398
00:44:45,458 --> 00:44:49,417
was able to gain control over this land
399
00:44:49,417 --> 00:44:53,250
does not mean that we owe anybody anything.
400
00:44:53,250 --> 00:44:58,417
This is ours. In every sense of the word.
401
00:45:04,208 --> 00:45:09,417
After 67’, we took land that in the bible maybe is ours,
402
00:45:09,458 --> 00:45:13,500
but it definitely wasn’t empty. There are people living here.
403
00:45:13,542 --> 00:45:17,583
Look at all these villages. This is their land.
404
00:45:25,083 --> 00:45:31,083
There are sometimes claims of expropriation.
GFX 98: 00:45:29:09 – 00:45:35:03
EXPROPRIATION
Taking property from someone
through theft or fraud
405
00:45:34,583 --> 00:45:38,500
We know that Arabs have won cases such as this
406
00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:41,083
[00::38.13]when they can prove that the land is privately theirs.
407
00:45:41,250 --> 00:45:45,083
These people have to prove that the land is theirs.
408
00:45:45,125 --> 00:45:49,333
Now this sounds to us Europeans like nothing very serious.
409
00:45:49,333 --> 00:45:53,166
You just go and bring the papers. But this is not so here.
410
00:45:53,208 --> 00:45:56,291
Because this country changed hands many, many, times.
411
00:45:56,333 --> 00:46:00,417
And every time we changed hands, the system changed.
412
00:46:00,458 --> 00:46:04,250
And the land registration books are done by the British,
413
00:46:04,291 --> 00:46:08,166
by the Ottomans, and now they have to prove that it’s theirs.
414
00:46:08,458 --> 00:46:12,041
After ‘79, they found a legal theory by which
415
00:46:12,083 --> 00:46:14,583
they just come to the Palestinian farmer and say,
416
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,250
“We have discovered that this land is state land,
417
00:46:17,250 --> 00:46:20,250
so we discover that it has all the time been our property,
418
00:46:20,291 --> 00:46:22,458
and you have been just an illegal squatter.
419
00:46:22,458 --> 00:46:27,000
So now we take back our property and we chase you out.”
420
00:46:27,166 --> 00:46:30,375
The land that we’re sitting on, working on, living on,
421
00:46:30,417 --> 00:46:34,542
is state land and, uh,
422
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:39,208
It doesn’t belong to any private Arab landowner or villager.
423
00:46:39,458 --> 00:46:42,542
You just declare a certain land as being state land,
424
00:46:42,583 --> 00:46:47,333
and then, if it is state land,
then it is open for building of a Jewish settlement
425
00:46:47,333 --> 00:46:51,166
from which the original owners would be excluded.
426
00:46:51,208 --> 00:46:55,458
Not only that they cannot live there, they cannot even go to visit there,
427
00:46:55,458 --> 00:46:59,375
because a fence would be erected
in which they would not be allowed passage
428
00:46:59,375 --> 00:47:04,417
for reasons of security of the settlers who are going to live there.
429
00:47:07,792 --> 00:47:11,291
Israel says, “This now is land that belongs to the state of Israel
430
00:47:11,333 --> 00:47:14,208
because we don’t recognize your deeds.”
431
00:47:14,250 --> 00:47:17,375
Or if Israel says. “Okay, you know what? You have your deeds.
432
00:47:17,417 --> 00:47:22,083
We don’t care, but this is land we’re going to take anyway,”
433
00:47:22,125 --> 00:47:26,083
For public purposes, to build a settlement, to build a road.
434
00:47:26,083 --> 00:47:30,417
Or, because Israel says, “Okay, you can think you own the land,
435
00:47:30,458 --> 00:47:35,250
but were not gonna let you build on it. Because its open green space.”
GFX 99: 00:47:35:10 – 00:47:39:04
Mount Abu Ghnaim
near Bethlehem
[Note: Place upper frame centered above green trees]
436
00:47:39,166 --> 00:47:42,542
You know the green, the green mountain there?
GFX 100: 00:47:43:11 – 00:47:48:15
1997
Declared “Open Green Space”
by Israeli occupation authorities
[Note: [lace above mountain, centered]
GFX 101: 00:47:52:09 – 00:47:54:23
Mount Abu Ghnaim/
Har Homa Settlement
2000
[Note: same position as GFX 100]
GFX 102: 00:47:58:13 – 00:48:01:17
2001
[Note: change only the year number, leave rest of GFX 101 up]
GFX 103: 00:48:02:17 – 00:48:04:15
2004
[Note: year number only, same position as GFX 101, 102]
GFX 104: 00:48:05:08 – 00:48:08:08
2008
437
00:47:56,583 --> 00:48:00,458
Yeah it was a forest. It was very green, you know?
438
00:48:02,458 --> 00:48:06,083
In all the different mechanisms that Israel has,
439
00:48:06,083 --> 00:48:09,417
in effect it’s alienating the Palestinians from their land.
440
00:48:09,458 --> 00:48:14,333
Israel’s actually taken about 40% of the West Bank,
441
00:48:14,375 --> 00:48:20,583
and it’s frozen for Palestinian building, 70% of the West Bank.
442
00:48:21,166 --> 00:48:24,250
Adam: When the state of Israel was created in 48’,
443
00:48:24,291 --> 00:48:28,125
there was still, the racial segregation in the United states
444
00:48:28,166 --> 00:48:31,583
was still a quite respectable institution.
445
00:48:31,583 --> 00:48:37,041
So you could say that the state of Israel was left behind.
446
00:48:37,083 --> 00:48:41,250
The standards of Israel, are essentially the standards
447
00:48:41,250 --> 00:48:46,375
which were prevailing in the Western World
until the end of the 50’s,
448
00:48:46,417 --> 00:48:51,125
before Martin Luther King in the United States.
449
00:48:57,417 --> 00:48:59,583
Arik: You know in that picture you see behind me,
450
00:48:59,583 --> 00:49:02,333
the man with the white hair, that looks like a prophet
451
00:49:02,375 --> 00:49:06,417
with Martin Luther King, is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
452
00:49:06,417 --> 00:49:09,458
He’s in many ways our role model of a rabbi and a scholar,
453
00:49:09,458 --> 00:49:11,417
who was also a social activist.
454
00:49:13,208 --> 00:49:18,583
One of his most famous sayings was,
“In a democracy, some are guilty,
455
00:49:18,583 --> 00:49:20,834
but all are responsible.”
456
00:49:21,333 --> 00:49:22,291
Tom: Is this a settlement up here?
457
00:49:22,333 --> 00:49:25,250
Najib: Yeah. It’s Ofra
458
00:49:25,333 --> 00:49:28,875
What if a Palestinian wants to
go for a walk over there?
459
00:49:28,917 --> 00:49:30,125
Where, in the settlement?
460
00:49:30,166 --> 00:49:30,750
Yeah.
461
00:49:30,792 --> 00:49:32,250
Are you crazy?
462
00:49:32,291 --> 00:49:34,166
Are there any people that are non-Jews
463
00:49:34,208 --> 00:49:35,625
living in any of these settlements?
464
00:49:36,041 --> 00:49:39,291
Never. Never!
465
00:49:39,333 --> 00:49:42,250
I cannot imagine that you could ask this question
466
00:49:42,458 --> 00:49:47,333
Here in this town,
the Palestinian third is being discriminated against
467
00:49:47,333 --> 00:49:53,250
in a very serious way
because they are not represented in City Hall.
468
00:49:53,250 --> 00:49:57,166
The only person in City Hall who’s an Arab
469
00:49:57,208 --> 00:50:00,125
is the one serving the tea.
470
00:50:01,458 --> 00:50:02,291
He’s serving the tea and coffee,
471
00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:04,458
and probably the one cleaning the toilets.
GFX 105: 00:50:04:20 – 00:50:12:00
Anata
A Palestinian refugee camp
in occupied East Jerusalem
472
00:50:09,250 --> 00:50:12,208
Meir: This is part of the city of Jerusalem,
473
00:50:12,208 --> 00:50:15,583
and the municipality doesn’t give any any service,
474
00:50:15,583 --> 00:50:19,417
municipal service in this place.
475
00:50:19,458 --> 00:50:23,083
Even garbage they didn’t take.
GFX 106: 00:50:23:04 – 00:50:29:11
Meir also works with the Israeli
Committee Against House Demolitions
476
00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:32,583
The minimum service that the municipality
have to give to the people
477
00:50:32,583 --> 00:50:37,083
is to take the garbage. To collect the garbage.
478
00:50:37,083 --> 00:50:42,083
I don’t talk about the roads. You can see the roads.
479
00:50:42,083 --> 00:50:47,125
I don’t talk about, eh, lights. I don’t talk about school services,
480
00:50:47,166 --> 00:50:52,125
and water services. Even water the municipality didn’t give them.
481
00:50:52,166 --> 00:50:54,083
The municipality says
482
00:50:54,083 --> 00:50:56,458
No peace, no peace at all, no peace.
483
00:50:56,500 --> 00:50:58,542
There is no peace at all.
484
00:50:58,667 --> 00:51:02,083
This is all done on purpose.
485
00:51:02,083 --> 00:51:07,583
Nothing of the occupation happens by chance. No!
486
00:51:07,583 --> 00:51:10,333
It happens on purpose.
487
00:51:10,333 --> 00:51:15,834
It happens in order to make the Palestinians’ life a hell.
488
00:51:15,917 --> 00:51:18,208
We have dehumanized the enemy.
489
00:51:18,250 --> 00:51:23,083
As we have been dehumanized, only a short time ago.
490
00:51:23,083 --> 00:51:29,166
We call them .. a two-legged animal.
491
00:51:29,208 --> 00:51:33,542
We are reenacting, without being able to control it,
492
00:51:33,583 --> 00:51:35,417
we are reenacting what happened to us,
493
00:51:35,417 --> 00:51:38,208
as if we’ve never learned anything.
494
00:51:38,417 --> 00:51:40,375
Tom: There are Jewish only roads.
495
00:51:40,417 --> 00:51:42,250
There are Jewish only communities.
496
00:51:42,291 --> 00:51:46,583
If somebody in, let’s say Hebron, wants to come up here
497
00:51:46,625 --> 00:51:49,291
and buy one of these beautiful houses
498
00:51:49,458 --> 00:51:52,166
Could absolutely do so. Absolutely.
499
00:51:52,208 --> 00:51:57,333
There’s no law on the books preventing a non-Jew
from buying a home here.
500
00:51:57,375 --> 00:52:00,458
Well, uhh, no. Haha.
501
00:52:02,208 --> 00:52:06,208
Settlements are defined as closed military zones.
502
00:52:06,208 --> 00:52:08,458
And now it’s a funny kind of a closed military zone
503
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:12,250
because you’d never know it.
You would walk into a settlement freely,
504
00:52:12,250 --> 00:52:14,250
without knowing that you’re in a closed military zone,
505
00:52:14,291 --> 00:52:16,375
as would I, a citizen of Israel.
506
00:52:16,417 --> 00:52:19,291
It’s a closed military zone that applies to a Palestinian.
507
00:52:19,333 --> 00:52:23,417
So not only can a Palestinian not buy
or rent a house in a settlement,
508
00:52:23,458 --> 00:52:27,709
he can’t physically enter a settlement without a special permit.
509
00:52:31,875 --> 00:52:34,208
There are certain areas defined as danger zones,
510
00:52:34,250 --> 00:52:36,583
No-Go zones for Palestinians.
511
00:52:36,583 --> 00:52:38,458
The orders given to soldiers;
512
00:52:38,458 --> 00:52:42,083
Any Palestinian entering those areas can be shot at.
513
00:52:42,083 --> 00:52:45,208
In some cases the order is, any Palestinian has to be shot at,
514
00:52:45,250 --> 00:52:47,417
if they enter those danger zones.
515
00:52:47,458 --> 00:52:51,625
The areas around settlements and the areas around military bases.
516
00:52:52,041 --> 00:52:55,041
And we have many cases of Palestinians injured,
517
00:52:55,083 --> 00:52:59,125
and in some cases killed,
simply for approaching those danger zones.
518
00:52:59,875 --> 00:53:02,041
You know there are Palestinian houses
519
00:53:02,083 --> 00:53:04,458
on the top of this tunnel.
520
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:08,125
And they are not allowed to drive their cars,
even to walk,
521
00:53:08,208 --> 00:53:10,917
in the tunnel under their houses.
522
00:53:10,917 --> 00:53:12,417
It's only for Israelis.
523
00:53:12,500 --> 00:53:14,208
You’re not allowed to build settlements.
524
00:53:14,208 --> 00:53:18,458
You’re not allowed to build highways
that link those settlements into your country.
525
00:53:18,458 --> 00:53:22,083
You’re not allowed to use the resources of an occupied power.
526
00:53:22,125 --> 00:53:26,083
Israel takes a third of its water from the occupied territories,
527
00:53:26,083 --> 00:53:31,250
which is illegal looting of the resources of an occupied territory.
528
00:53:31,917 --> 00:53:40,625
This segregation comes, you know,
most manifest in the summertime.
529
00:53:41,041 --> 00:53:45,333
When the Jewish settlers have all this water,
530
00:53:45,583 --> 00:53:50,041
and the Palestinians, you turn on, you open the faucet,
531
00:53:50,083 --> 00:53:53,583
no water. No water.
532
00:53:53,625 --> 00:53:55,625
One group going thirsty,
533
00:53:55,667 --> 00:53:59,875
while another group, a few yards away,
is living it up with swimming pools.
534
00:53:59,917 --> 00:54:03,208
It’s incredible.
GFX 107: 00:54:05:14 – 00:54:09:08
Village of Tawani
535
00:54:16,625 --> 00:54:18,583
Mary: When we talk about segregation,
536
00:54:18,625 --> 00:54:21,417
we’re talking about electricity, we’re talking about the road,
537
00:54:21,417 --> 00:54:23,625
we’re also talking about water.
538
00:54:23,667 --> 00:54:26,500
There’s one well here for 170 people.
539
00:54:26,542 --> 00:54:31,417
The village has requested repeatedly
to have water hooked up to the settlement.
540
00:54:31,417 --> 00:54:33,083
But that’s been denied.
541
00:54:33,083 --> 00:54:35,417
So the settlement that’s less than a mile from here
542
00:54:35,458 --> 00:54:37,375
gets all the water that they want,
543
00:54:37,417 --> 00:54:41,083
where the people here are limited to well water
544
00:54:41,125 --> 00:54:44,417
that’s actually very low.
545
00:54:51,875 --> 00:54:54,208
Cheryl: Where you staying? Nice hotel?
546
00:54:54,208 --> 00:54:56,625
Crew: When there’s hot water. Ha ha ..
547
00:54:56,667 --> 00:54:59,208
Cheryl: If you want you can come to my house and take a shower.
548
00:55:00,125 --> 00:55:02,458
Long, right, that’s the operative word.
549
00:55:02,458 --> 00:55:05,917
Long hot shower. Yeah.
GFX 108: 00:55:06:01 – 00:55:09:22
Te’ena
Israeli Settlement
550
00:55:09,375 --> 00:55:12,709
In terms of the access to resources, to land and water,
551
00:55:12,750 --> 00:55:17,375
a person’s ethnic origin clearly determines
how much water comes out of your faucet,
552
00:55:17,417 --> 00:55:21,250
and what access you have to land, where you’re allowed to build,
553
00:55:21,291 --> 00:55:24,291
and how you go about getting a building permit.
554
00:55:24,333 --> 00:55:28,000
Across the spectrum, in the occupied territories,
555
00:55:28,041 --> 00:55:33,166
nationality is determining access to rights and benefits.
556
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:41,667
The occupation isn’t something extra
that happened in 67’ because of the war.
557
00:55:41,709 --> 00:55:44,834
It’s really an extension of where Israel was going.
558
00:55:44,875 --> 00:55:48,709
Israel has always claimed. Zionism, for a hundred years
559
00:55:48,750 --> 00:55:50,458
has claimed this entire country.
560
00:55:50,583 --> 00:55:54,250
We Own A Land
We Own A Sea
561
00:55:54,291 --> 00:55:58,166
We Own A Sky
And Everything Beneath It
562
00:55:58,208 --> 00:56:01,917
An Inherited Land
Sine the World Was Created
563
00:56:01,917 --> 00:56:05,250
Forever Affirmed
Our Land Is From Sea To Sea
GFX 109: 00:56:05:22 – 00:56:09:18
Village of Tawani
564
00:56:08,583 --> 00:56:10,667
Mary: This village cannot have electricity.
565
00:56:10,709 --> 00:56:14,083
You’ll see there are electric wires that an NGO put in,
566
00:56:14,083 --> 00:56:19,083
but the Israeli military will not allow them to hook up to the electric grid.
567
00:56:19,083 --> 00:56:23,959
If you can imagine that kind of racism.
568
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,166
I believe if people in the U.S. were to be treated like this
569
00:56:26,208 --> 00:56:28,208
we would blow up the planet.
570
00:56:28,250 --> 00:56:33,166
You know I’ve seen the most heinous crimes
committed against Palestinian’s.
571
00:56:33,208 --> 00:56:39,417
And my Israeli friends
would stand with me in saying the same thing.
572
00:56:47,667 --> 00:56:52,208
The fact that there are Americans
who are accepting, tolerating, in Israel,
573
00:56:52,208 --> 00:56:55,458
what they would not tolerate in the United States itself.
574
00:56:55,458 --> 00:56:59,500
And American Jews who accept that Israel behaves
575
00:56:59,542 --> 00:57:04,208
in a way which they would very much object to
people behaving in the United States itself,
576
00:57:04,208 --> 00:57:06,083
is very bad for Israel.
577
00:57:06,125 --> 00:57:10,583
If anything has defined the American Jewish community,
578
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:16,291
it’s been a commitment to human rights, civil rights, social justice.
579
00:57:16,333 --> 00:57:18,542
You can’t have that and then at the same time say,
580
00:57:18,583 --> 00:57:22,917
"But not Israel, Israel’s an exception."
581
00:57:22,959 --> 00:57:26,083
And that in fact is the core of anti-Semitism,
582
00:57:26,083 --> 00:57:29,625
is the idea that the rules apply to everybody but not to the Jews.
583
00:57:30,041 --> 00:57:33,375
That used to be an anti-Semitic claim.
Now the Jews are claiming that.
584
00:57:34,001 --> 00:57:39,542
The Israeli settlers are not under military rules.
585
00:57:39,583 --> 00:57:44,417
What is under military rules is only the Palestinians
586
00:57:44,458 --> 00:57:46,083
in the occupied territories.
587
00:57:46,083 --> 00:57:48,291
From a human rights perspective what is most problematic
588
00:57:48,333 --> 00:57:54,166
is that two people can be living side by side,
and be governed by two legal systems,
589
00:57:54,208 --> 00:57:58,041
where one is the legal system
of a liberal democracy, like the state of Israel,
590
00:57:58,083 --> 00:58:01,333
and the other is the legal system of a military occupation.
591
00:58:01,333 --> 00:58:04,250
So, I take the most striking example;
592
00:58:04,291 --> 00:58:08,583
Palestinians and Israelis living side by side
in the city of Hebron.
593
00:58:08,583 --> 00:58:11,333
Literally one house next to the other house,
594
00:58:11,333 --> 00:58:14,250
and if both of them commit the same crime,
595
00:58:14,291 --> 00:58:17,333
the Palestinian will be tried in a military court,
596
00:58:17,375 --> 00:58:21,625
the Israeli will be tried in an Israeli criminal court.
597
00:58:22,041 --> 00:58:25,291
And then the rights and benefits that accrue to each person
598
00:58:25,333 --> 00:58:28,250
in those very different legal systems are quite different.
599
00:58:32,125 --> 00:58:34,333
The fact of the settlements in the occupied territories
600
00:58:34,333 --> 00:58:39,125
has caused a range of human rights violations for Palestinians.
601
00:58:39,166 --> 00:58:43,250
We have seen a very severe restriction
on Palestinian movement in the West Bank.
602
00:58:43,291 --> 00:58:46,583
That is the result of the need to protect settlements.
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Zionist Caging Behavior
GFX 111: 00:58:53:20 – 00:58:59:11
In the 1980s the Israeli Army
began blocking streets
in Palestinian towns
GFX 112: 00:59:05:09 – 00:59:11:03
to keep Palestinian’s off roads
Israeli settlers use.
GFX 113: 00:59:14:15 – 00:59:19:01
Then Israel built cages
around the Palestinian refugee camps
GFX 114: 00:59:19:15 – 00:59:23:11
Far’a Refugee Camp
GFX 115: 00:59:26:03 – 00:59:29:10
Tulkarem Refugee Camp
GFX 116: 00:59:32:23 – 00:59:35:15
Deheisha Refugee Camp
603
00:59:39,917 --> 00:59:45,000
Prior to 1991, Palestinian’s could walk freely into Israel,
with no obstacles.
604
00:59:45,041 --> 00:59:48,375
Could travel between the West Bank and Gaza, with no obstacles.
605
00:59:48,500 --> 00:59:52,333
Beginning in 1991, and then much more clearly in 1993,
606
00:59:52,333 --> 00:59:56,917
you had restrictions on travel between
the West Bank, Israel, and the Gaza Strip.
607
01:00:00,083 --> 01:00:03,583
120,00 Palestinian workers
who we made dependent on Israel.
608
01:00:03,583 --> 01:00:07,458
The economy of Gaza depending on Israel for half its income.
609
01:00:07,458 --> 01:00:09,417
The economy of the West Bank dependent on Israel.
610
01:00:09,417 --> 01:00:12,083
All of you said goodbye, goodbye.
611
01:00:12,125 --> 01:00:15,417
It’s been nice knowing you. No more. Closed, out.
612
01:00:15,417 --> 01:00:22,208
Collective punishment because of fifteen
lethal attacks on Israelis in the month of March.
613
01:00:22,542 --> 01:00:27,208
Many Palestinians who had worked in Israel are now unemployed.
614
01:00:27,250 --> 01:00:30,250
Many Palestinians who had worked in East Jerusalem,
615
01:00:30,291 --> 01:00:32,583
which has been cut off from the rest of the territories,
616
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,250
cannot go to their place of work.
617
01:00:35,291 --> 01:00:39,458
People wanting to go, for instance from Bethlehem to Ramallah,
618
01:00:39,458 --> 01:00:43,458
have a problem because they need a special license
to pass through East Jerusalem.
619
01:00:43,458 --> 01:00:46,083
The main fact about the closure is that Jerusalem,
620
01:00:46,125 --> 01:00:52,542
for the first time in history, is closed off
to the Arabs of the West Bank, and Gaza.
621
01:00:52,583 --> 01:00:54,583
That is they can’t come into Jerusalem.
622
01:00:54,834 --> 01:00:57,166
Tom: Could you tell me about the license plates?
623
01:00:57,208 --> 01:01:01,208
Najib: Yeah, the yellow ones is the Israeli’s.
624
01:01:01,208 --> 01:01:06,250
The Palestinian ones have white and green.
625
01:01:06,291 --> 01:01:10,583
If you drive with the yellow ones, you will not stop in the checkpoint.
626
01:01:11,041 --> 01:01:13,250
You will just continue driving.
627
01:01:13,250 --> 01:01:15,583
And the Palestinian’s have to stop and to be checked.
628
01:01:17,041 --> 01:01:19,291
So yellow is for go.
629
01:01:19,333 --> 01:01:22,041
Yellow is for go. Yeah.
630
01:01:22,625 --> 01:01:25,125
This is Route 60 where we are driving now.
631
01:01:25,166 --> 01:01:28,583
If you live on Route 60 you are really punished by God.
632
01:01:28,625 --> 01:01:33,250
Because this is a settler’s road.
633
01:01:33,250 --> 01:01:36,083
They all use Route 60.
634
01:01:36,083 --> 01:01:40,291
And any village that has an opening to Route 60 is closed.
635
01:01:40,333 --> 01:01:43,667
By dirt mounds, or by something.
636
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,583
This street served the Palestinian towns,
637
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:55,667
and it’s blocked from long, long, long years.
638
01:01:55,709 --> 01:01:59,166
You know in one side the Israelis say that road 60,
639
01:01:59,208 --> 01:02:02,083
it’s open for the Palestinians. It’s not apartheid.
640
01:02:02,125 --> 01:02:04,250
But let them go.
641
01:02:04,250 --> 01:02:09,041
The connection of those Palestinian’s to that street is blocked.
642
01:02:09,792 --> 01:02:12,500
This is another closure of another village,
643
01:02:12,542 --> 01:02:17,125
so from this village to this village your road’s blocked.
644
01:02:17,166 --> 01:02:18,250
Its crazy.
645
01:02:18,375 --> 01:02:21,500
Leave the human rights alone.
Leave the human rights alone.
646
01:02:21,583 --> 01:02:23,709
Let’s not offend anybody.
647
01:02:23,750 --> 01:02:26,583
Let’s let the nice little old grandmother’s go through,
648
01:02:26,583 --> 01:02:30,083
and let’s let the little school children with their backpacks go through.
649
01:02:30,125 --> 01:02:32,625
Do you know? And then?
650
01:02:33,041 --> 01:02:36,417
Well? If a train station is blown up?
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Hanna spends every Sabbath
observing the checkpoints
for “BLOCKADE WATCH”
GFX: 118: 01:03:12:05 – 01:03:16:21
Woman Inspection Booth
651
01:03:25,667 --> 01:03:28,458
Hanna: These are not major events.
652
01:03:28,458 --> 01:03:31,375
No one is killed, and no one is hit.
653
01:03:31,417 --> 01:03:35,041
Just his life is made into hell.
654
01:03:35,083 --> 01:03:39,458
His little life. His everyday life.
655
01:03:46,834 --> 01:03:48,458
Sometimes the soldier
656
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:50,667
he close it in the middle, like that.
657
01:03:50,709 --> 01:03:52,834
And the people, they stuck in the middle.
658
01:03:52,875 --> 01:03:54,792
You can't go, and you can't come back.
659
01:03:54,834 --> 01:03:58,583
And the soldier is moody. He does whatever he wants.
660
01:03:59,583 --> 01:04:05,625
I have to put all the metal things here
and come back and check my body.
661
01:04:05,667 --> 01:04:07,375
Now I am clear.
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Checkpoint between streets
In Khalil (Hebron)
GFX 120: 01:04:11:19 – 01:04:17:24
This baby’s pediatrician
is four miles
beyond this checkpoint
662
01:04:20,834 --> 01:04:25,083
Jessica: It is not the case
that an individual who poses a security risk is restricted,
663
01:04:25,125 --> 01:04:28,083
and the general population is free to go about their business.
664
01:04:28,375 --> 01:04:29,583
In fact the opposite is the case.
665
01:04:30,041 --> 01:04:32,166
The entire population is restricted
666
01:04:32,208 --> 01:04:36,208
and only an individual who manages to get a permit
can move around freely.
667
01:04:36,208 --> 01:04:39,208
That is a collective punishment.
GFX 121: 01:04:39:12 – 01:04:41:16
Another checkpoint
between streets
in Khalil.
668
01:04:49,083 --> 01:04:52,291
Hanna: I call it The Time of the Natives.
It has no value.
669
01:04:52,333 --> 01:04:54,208
If the Israeli’s would have to stand like this
670
01:04:54,250 --> 01:04:56,417
you’d hear it in the radio, they will get out,
671
01:04:56,417 --> 01:05:00,875
they will make a big fuss if they have to stand for 10 minutes and wait.
672
01:05:00,959 --> 01:05:02,458
This can take an hour.
673
01:05:02,500 --> 01:05:06,250
I remember I was held up traveling
between the United States and Canada
674
01:05:06,250 --> 01:05:09,417
for ten minutes once.
675
01:05:09,458 --> 01:05:13,583
I was an American citizen. I think it’s perfectly okay.
676
01:05:13,917 --> 01:05:17,125
Tom: Did you ever get stopped
between Evanston and Chicago?
677
01:05:17,166 --> 01:05:21,333
Well there’s no national border between,
we’re talking about national borders.
GFX 122: 01:05:22:10 – 01:05:29:12
Checkpoint between cities of
Nablus and Jenin
678
01:05:32,542 --> 01:05:37,001
Hanna: I must emphasize
that we are speaking about the inner checkpoints.
679
01:05:37,041 --> 01:05:40,001
Checkpoints inside the West Bank.
GFX 123: 01:05:40:00 – 01:05:46:20
We are traveling with a yellow plate
so we don’t have to stop
680
01:05:43,917 --> 01:05:47,166
Najib: Let us ask them how long they are staying here.
681
01:05:47,583 --> 01:05:48,417
How are you.
682
01:05:48,458 --> 01:05:50,375
Praise God, good.
683
01:05:50,375 --> 01:05:51,750
How long have you waited?
684
01:05:51,792 --> 01:05:52,792
About 3 hours.
685
01:05:52,834 --> 01:05:54,458
NO!
686
01:05:54,458 --> 01:05:57,792
I swear to God.
687
01:05:57,834 --> 01:06:00,250
Since 10:45
688
01:06:00,458 --> 01:06:04,208
2 hours and 30.
689
01:06:04,375 --> 01:06:08,583
The Geldman family knows what it’s like to be on a road,
690
01:06:08,583 --> 01:06:10,417
which was open to everybody,
691
01:06:10,417 --> 01:06:14,500
and having a Palestinian car drive by us
692
01:06:14,542 --> 01:06:17,375
and then fire a sub machine gun into our car.
693
01:06:17,417 --> 01:06:23,208
Missing our bodies but destroying the bottom half of my car
694
01:06:23,667 --> 01:06:28,375
Tom: You have your children in a zone of military conflict,
695
01:06:28,834 --> 01:06:30,750
which is a choice on your part.
696
01:06:30,792 --> 01:06:33,001
And I wonder
why you do that?
697
01:06:33,041 --> 01:06:36,375
Apparently the sense you have
698
01:06:36,417 --> 01:06:40,041
of a immediate danger hovering over us,
699
01:06:40,083 --> 01:06:43,458
maybe you’re particular impression,
700
01:06:43,458 --> 01:06:46,375
but doesn’t reflect the reality on the ground.
701
01:06:46,417 --> 01:06:50,375
Tom: Well you told me your car had been shot up
with your children in it.
702
01:06:50,458 --> 01:06:54,166
Yeah but, uh, you know, that happened once.
703
01:06:55,041 --> 01:06:58,959
There are certain roads where no Palestinian can go.
704
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:03,875
Even by foot, if you cross it by foot,
and you are caught by a Policeman,
705
01:07:03,917 --> 01:07:09,083
you have a fine. A high fine.
You’re not allowed to tread on those roads.
706
01:07:09,125 --> 01:07:12,208
You have Palestinian’s not being allowed to drive on roads,
707
01:07:12,250 --> 01:07:15,291
and Jews being shot up
when they do drive with Palestinian’s.
708
01:07:15,333 --> 01:07:19,291
Maybe Jews dying, maybe, isn’t as important
709
01:07:19,333 --> 01:07:22,333
as Palestinian’s not being able to travel.
GFX 124: 01:07:22:08 – 01:07:26:05
“JEWS ONLY” road
710
01:07:23,083 --> 01:07:27,500
Najib: To keep freedom of movement for the settlers,
711
01:07:27,542 --> 01:07:32,041
the is road blocked in the faces of the Palestinians.
712
01:07:32,083 --> 01:07:36,917
And you know the settlers are,
according to the International community,
713
01:07:36,959 --> 01:07:41,208
and Geneva Convention, and everything, they are against the Law,
714
01:07:41,250 --> 01:07:42,834
and the people suffering because of them.
715
01:07:42,875 --> 01:07:46,625
Every one of these roads that they can’t pass
716
01:07:46,667 --> 01:07:50,083
is making it more difficult to get bread.
717
01:07:50,125 --> 01:07:53,208
They are all connected, this is all connected to one another.
718
01:07:53,208 --> 01:07:56,333
And it’s all in the system, it’s a system:
719
01:07:56,375 --> 01:08:01,041
To make their life so miserable that they’ll go away.
GFX 125: 01:007:59:23 – 01:08:07:15
By 2009 Israel had erected more than
600 checkpoints and barriers
within the West Bank
Source: U.N.
[Note: Center in top of frame]
720
01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:10,625
Is the terrorist sitting with the people in the cars now?
721
01:08:11,041 --> 01:08:18,250
Is the guy with the bomb
now sitting and wait, till the soldiers now check?
722
01:08:18,291 --> 01:08:21,041
It’s crazy! He could cross from everywhere else.
723
01:08:21,083 --> 01:08:25,083
He don’t have to go now by this checkpoint.
724
01:08:26,041 --> 01:08:29,083
They’re called checkpoints but they’re really not checkpoints.
725
01:08:29,125 --> 01:08:31,583
They are road blocks!
726
01:08:31,625 --> 01:08:35,000
A checkpoint is something where you are checked, and you go.
727
01:08:35,041 --> 01:08:37,834
No! Here you are checked and you stay.
728
01:08:37,917 --> 01:08:39,083
Are you allowed to be here?
729
01:08:39,125 --> 01:08:40,208
Yeah, why not?
730
01:08:40,250 --> 01:08:41,125
I don't think so.
731
01:08:41,166 --> 01:08:43,125
Why?
732
01:08:43,166 --> 01:08:46,583
I was born here. This is my house.
733
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:49,083
Listen, you cannot be here.
734
01:08:49,083 --> 01:08:50,333
You’re not allowed to be here.
735
01:08:50,375 --> 01:08:54,375
You can go from around there, from the…exit from the casbah there.
736
01:08:54,417 --> 01:08:56,083
Here you cannot be.
737
01:08:56,083 --> 01:08:57,333
Tell your commander that I want to visit my home.
738
01:08:57,333 --> 01:09:02,875
Listen sir. I’m not having a discussion with you right now.
739
01:09:02,917 --> 01:09:06,291
I need you to leave here.
740
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:12,041
The suffering of millions of innocent people,
741
01:09:12,083 --> 01:09:17,917
who have done no harm whatsoever, ever in their lives,
742
01:09:17,959 --> 01:09:24,041
and have to succumb to this every single step they take.
743
01:09:24,083 --> 01:09:29,333
There must be some better way to prevent terrorist acts.
744
01:09:29,375 --> 01:09:33,959
People get so frustrated that the hatred grows to such degrees,
745
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:38,083
that of course there are terrorist acts.
746
01:09:41,083 --> 01:09:43,500
If a train station has blown up,
747
01:09:43,542 --> 01:09:47,041
if a plane station is blown up, do you know?
748
01:09:47,041 --> 01:09:54,750
Like at what point do you say that a basic right that I have
749
01:09:54,792 --> 01:09:57,458
is to travel safely in my town?
GFX 126: 01:09:59:04 – 01:10:00:08
FORBIDDEN
GFX 127: 01:10:00:09 – 04:10:02:04
YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO MOVE AROUND
GFX 128: 01:10:02:08 – 01:10:04:12
YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO MOVE AROUND
GFX 129: 01:10:04:17 – 01:10:06:22
BY ORDER OF THE MILITARY RULER
GFX 130: 01:10:06:23 – 01:10:09:08
YOU ARE UNDER CURFEW
GFX 131: 01:10:09:10 – 01:10:12:22
FROM NOW
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
GFX 132: 01:10:13:09 – 01:10:16:02
YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE YOUR HOUSE
GFX 133: 01:10:16:03 – 01:10:16:23
FORBIDDEN
GFX 134: 01:10:17:01 – 01:10:20:18
YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO MOVE AROUND
750
01:10:18,667 --> 01:10:21,291
And of course they are the terrorists, and we are the victims.
751
01:10:21,583 --> 01:10:23,625
Everything is turned on its head.
752
01:10:23,667 --> 01:10:27,250
The occupying power is the innocent victim,
753
01:10:27,291 --> 01:10:31,959
and the oppressed people are the perpetrators.
754
01:10:32,001 --> 01:10:32,875
And it works!
755
01:10:33,041 --> 01:10:36,542
Rather than say, “Well let’s talk about the checkpoints,”
756
01:10:36,583 --> 01:10:38,458
I would say let’s talk about the terrorism.
757
01:10:38,500 --> 01:10:40,458
You know, why was there terrorism to begin with?
758
01:10:40,500 --> 01:10:45,709
Why was terrorism ever considered to be
a legitimate form of resistance?
759
01:10:45,750 --> 01:10:55,333
Or a legitimate form of, ah, political,
ah, pressure on the state of Israel.
GFX 135: 01:10:55:20 – 01:10:59:12
Ma’ale Adumim Settlement
760
01:10:59,458 --> 01:11:05,750
It became clear that peace negotiations
were simply a mask for an attempt to gain time,
761
01:11:05,750 --> 01:11:08,417
while continuing to put settlers into the West Bank,
762
01:11:08,458 --> 01:11:11,208
so as to create a defacto situation
763
01:11:11,250 --> 01:11:15,166
where there would be no possibility
for anything like a Palestinian state ever coming into being.
764
01:11:19,750 --> 01:11:22,250
Najib: Oslo started in 1993,
765
01:11:22,250 --> 01:11:27,750
and why the Intifadah start again at the September 2000,
766
01:11:27,750 --> 01:11:37,250
because 7 years after Oslo,
the Palestinians don’t see Nothing on the Earth changed.
767
01:11:37,250 --> 01:11:39,583
And they said, “Hey, it’s bullshit!”
768
01:11:39,625 --> 01:11:43,417
In fact the settler population
doubled during the Oslo process.
769
01:11:43,458 --> 01:11:47,792
So for Palestinians,
the view from their window of increasing settlements,
770
01:11:48,041 --> 01:11:51,417
along with the human rights violations that settlement’s created;
771
01:11:51,417 --> 01:11:55,250
All of that continued despite the Oslo process.
772
01:12:01,250 --> 01:12:03,458
Jeff: Their agriculture’s been destroyed.
773
01:12:03,500 --> 01:12:06,709
18,000 houses have been demolished.
774
01:12:06,750 --> 01:12:09,750
70% of the land has been expropriated.
775
01:12:09,792 --> 01:12:13,250
You’ve got 300 Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.
GFX 136: 01:12:14:04 – 01:12:24:23
133 Israeli kids killed by Palestinians
1,404 Palestinian kids killed by Israelis
Source: B’Tselem
776
01:12:23,750 --> 01:12:28,500
Israeli Jews, I don’t think, have the right to complain
777
01:12:28,542 --> 01:12:35,083
about how backward and primitive and cruel,
etcetera the Arabs are.
778
01:12:35,125 --> 01:12:39,375
As if they were, but that’s the image,
that’s the result of the demonization.
779
01:12:39,417 --> 01:12:42,083
You can complain all you want about it.
You chose to live here,
780
01:12:42,125 --> 01:12:47,125
you chose to come here, to put yourself here.
781
01:12:47,166 --> 01:12:49,291
And now you’re saying you don’t like the neighbors?
782
01:12:49,333 --> 01:12:53,166
They were living here when you, when you put yourself here.
783
01:12:53,208 --> 01:12:56,792
So be ready to talk with them, ah, to deal with them.
784
01:12:57,041 --> 01:13:01,041
Instead of thinking that you’re going to
get them to do your will by hitting them,
785
01:13:01,083 --> 01:13:03,417
hitting them enough over the head.
786
01:13:03,458 --> 01:13:04,875
It doesn’t work.
787
01:13:04,917 --> 01:13:12,291
They fight for their independence using All Means,
788
01:13:12,333 --> 01:13:17,291
and the State of Israel tries to suppress them,
789
01:13:17,333 --> 01:13:22,542
also using All Means.
790
01:13:22,583 --> 01:13:25,417
And you understand the meaning of the term,
791
01:13:25,417 --> 01:13:29,583
“All Means.”
GFX 137: 01:13:32:03 – 01:12:37:23
Bus stops in Jerusalem
GFX 138: 01:14:10:14 – 01:14:15:06
Israel Foreign Ministry footage
Attack on Bus 19
792
01:14:55,083 --> 01:14:59,625
Israel wanted to build a wall
to protect itself against suicide bombings.
793
01:14:59,667 --> 01:15:03,792
And after all, doesn’t any nation
have a right to build it’s boundary
794
01:15:04,041 --> 01:15:07,542
any way it wants to, as long as it’s on it’s own territory?
795
01:15:07,583 --> 01:15:12,542
It’s not like that.
The wall is being built on Palestinian territory.
796
01:15:14,875 --> 01:15:17,500
Jessica: You now have the construction of the Separation Barrier,
797
01:15:17,542 --> 01:15:20,750
justified to prevent Palestinians from entering Israel,
798
01:15:20,750 --> 01:15:25,125
although of course the route of the barrier,
where Israel has chosen to build it,
799
01:15:25,166 --> 01:15:29,166
is mostly inside the West Bank
in order to safeguard settlements,
GFX 139: 01:15:29:05 – 01:15:33:14
Gilo Settlement
[Note: Place in upper right in sky above settlement]
800
01:15:29,208 --> 01:15:33,208
and even to ensure the future expansion of settlements.
801
01:15:33,417 --> 01:15:37,375
The barrier is encircling empty lands
and settlements inside the West Bank,
802
01:15:37,417 --> 01:15:42,250
causing further hardship to Palestinian’s.
803
01:15:45,083 --> 01:15:50,000
Arik: Yes we have real, legitimate, security needs.
804
01:15:50,041 --> 01:15:58,083
Yes, building a barrier could be a legitimate way to help protect Israelis.
805
01:15:58,125 --> 01:16:02,083
But the route of the barrier, as now constructed,
806
01:16:02,083 --> 01:16:05,583
disproportionately and unnecessarily,
violates Palestinian human rights,
807
01:16:05,583 --> 01:16:07,125
and international law.
808
01:16:07,166 --> 01:16:09,500
You know the International Court at the Hague
809
01:16:09,542 --> 01:16:11,750
condemned the course that the wall’s taken.
810
01:16:11,750 --> 01:16:16,500
Because Israel, very unwisely I think,
chose to build the wall inside Palestinian territory,
811
01:16:16,542 --> 01:16:20,583
thus annexing large swatches of Palestinian land.
812
01:16:20,625 --> 01:16:23,625
Israel ghettoizes the whole population in,
813
01:16:23,667 --> 01:16:27,083
and doesn’t even build its wall on its own territory.
814
01:16:27,458 --> 01:16:34,333
The Israelis had a very big, dirty,
815
01:16:34,375 --> 01:16:41,583
opportunity for land grabs under security excuses.
816
01:16:43,959 --> 01:16:49,000
And you see that the wall (is) built just beside the houses
817
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:50,542
They touch the houses.
818
01:16:50,583 --> 01:16:53,375
And all their property, their land,
819
01:16:53,417 --> 01:16:56,041
is still outside the wall.
820
01:16:56,417 --> 01:17:00,667
This is the dream of the Israeli authorities.
821
01:17:00,709 --> 01:17:03,375
A land without people.
822
01:17:03,417 --> 01:17:06,875
So you see the people still in one side,
823
01:17:06,959 --> 01:17:13,709
the land is still, still and stolen,
by the Israelis.
824
01:17:30,041 --> 01:17:34,208
This wall is basically a Western wall,
825
01:17:34,250 --> 01:17:36,667
a European wall,
826
01:17:36,709 --> 01:17:41,750
separating Israel as the kind of last foot of Europe set into this area,
827
01:17:42,041 --> 01:17:48,875
and then we have this wall, and from beyond it
begins the Dangerous East.
828
01:17:48,917 --> 01:17:52,792
Which we don’t want to see,
and don’t want to have anything to do with.
829
01:17:52,834 --> 01:17:57,083
That won’t work. It won’t work.
830
01:17:58,083 --> 01:18:01,083
Another form of collective punishment
which is much more explicit
831
01:18:01,125 --> 01:18:03,208
is the demolition of Palestinian houses.
832
01:18:03,250 --> 01:18:08,083
There are three different forms of house demolitions
taking place in the occupied territories.
833
01:18:08,083 --> 01:18:12,458
The first is what Israel calls a deterrent house demolition.
834
01:18:12,500 --> 01:18:15,500
And these are the demolition of houses of Palestinians
835
01:18:15,542 --> 01:18:18,291
who have been involved,or are suspected of being involved,
836
01:18:18,333 --> 01:18:21,458
in violent activities against Israelis.
GFX 140: 01:18:21:11 – 01:18:26:10
Three families
live in this house
GFX 141: 01:18:27:21 – 01:18:33:12
The son of one of the women
living here attacked an Israeli
837
01:18:33,375 --> 01:18:36,583
Most of the perpetrators are either dead or in prison,
838
01:18:36,625 --> 01:18:38,417
so they are not being punished.
839
01:18:38,417 --> 01:18:42,291
Who is being punished is the person’s family.
840
01:18:46,792 --> 01:18:49,709
There is no way to understand
these kind of house demolitions,
841
01:18:49,750 --> 01:18:52,375
except as a collective punishment.
842
01:18:52,417 --> 01:18:57,041
Even if the person is a murderer,
the people being punished are the murderer’s wife,
843
01:18:57,083 --> 01:19:00,792
the murderer’s children, or brother, or parents, or neighbors.
844
01:19:01,125 --> 01:19:04,583
Most of the victims of this policy are children.
845
01:19:06,333 --> 01:19:10,750
The policy of demolishing Palestinian homes didn’t begin in 1967.
846
01:19:10,792 --> 01:19:18,250
In 48’ and after, Israel demolished
more than 400 entire Palestinian villages inside Israel.
847
01:19:18,291 --> 01:19:21,583
Two thirds of the villages of Palestine were demolished by Israel.
848
01:19:21,750 --> 01:19:27,625
The government afraid that this village will expand
849
01:19:27,667 --> 01:19:31,000
toward the Pisgat Ze’ev Jewish neighborhood.
850
01:19:31,041 --> 01:19:34,709
So in order to stop expansion of the village,
851
01:19:34,750 --> 01:19:39,000
they demolished all the houses in this peripheral area.
852
01:19:39,041 --> 01:19:45,000
So the idea is that the Jewish,
they have the right to expand.
853
01:19:45,041 --> 01:19:46,709
The Palestinians, no.
854
01:19:46,750 --> 01:19:52,041
In fact the Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’Ev
are in Palestinians’ lands.
855
01:19:52,083 --> 01:19:57,166
The people that lived there
before the settlements have been Palestinians.
856
01:19:57,208 --> 01:20:00,083
They lived there for generations.
857
01:20:00,083 --> 01:20:04,083
So to come and to say "I’m sorry Mohammed,
this belongs to the state.
858
01:20:04,083 --> 01:20:09,291
Go on and we will build here a settlement for Jewish alone."
859
01:20:09,333 --> 01:20:11,709
This is a ..
860
01:20:12,125 --> 01:20:15,083
This is a crime.
This is racism.
861
01:20:15,166 --> 01:20:18,125
This is segregation.
862
01:20:18,250 --> 01:20:22,750
The building is continuing,
and we feel very confident
863
01:20:22,750 --> 01:20:27,083
that the idea of a return of the Jews
to the land of the Jews,
864
01:20:27,125 --> 01:20:30,375
despite the political differences, and the security problems,
865
01:20:30,417 --> 01:20:36,291
all this is continuing, and growing, and expanding.
866
01:20:36,500 --> 01:20:40,125
This house, they demolished two weeks ago.
867
01:20:40,166 --> 01:20:43,250
They are 24 members in the family,
868
01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:46,166
and they live peacefully.
869
01:20:46,208 --> 01:20:48,667
They are not terrorists. They are not criminals.
870
01:20:48,709 --> 01:20:50,208
It’s a shock.
871
01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:55,959
It’s a traumatic moment for the family,
and especially for the kids.
872
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,083
The kids are tremendously traumatized.
873
01:20:59,083 --> 01:21:06,291
Can you imagine? Just getting up in the morning,
having breakfast, trotting off to third grade.
874
01:21:06,333 --> 01:21:10,417
Coming back at one o clock for lunch.
There’s no house.
875
01:21:10,417 --> 01:21:13,083
It’s the stuff of horror movies.
876
01:21:13,125 --> 01:21:15,208
I’ve seen kids go into convulsions.
877
01:21:15,250 --> 01:21:19,000
Here you come over the hill, and your house is gone.
878
01:21:19,041 --> 01:21:21,375
Your house is gone. You don’t see your parents.
879
01:21:21,750 --> 01:21:24,458
Everything familiar is missing.
880
01:21:24,500 --> 01:21:29,291
You know, and kids, they enter into, they enter into a trauma, and a panic,
881
01:21:29,333 --> 01:21:32,667
that has to last with them for their whole lives.
882
01:21:32,834 --> 01:21:35,083
More than 20 children lived here.
883
01:21:35,083 --> 01:21:41,959
If one of them, one day will, eh ..
will be a terrorist, who can eh ..
884
01:21:42,667 --> 01:21:44,583
Who can blame them?
885
01:21:44,625 --> 01:21:46,375
How do say in English?
GFX 142: 01:21:48:03 – 01:22:51:07
GAZA
886
01:21:50,083 --> 01:21:52,417
The most widespread form of house demolition
887
01:21:52,458 --> 01:21:58,667
is what Israel calls clearing operations,
or houses demolished during military operations.
888
01:21:58,709 --> 01:22:02,500
This has taken place on a very large scale in the Gaza strip,
889
01:22:02,542 --> 01:22:04,750
and most dramatically in Rafah.
890
01:22:04,750 --> 01:22:08,458
Where what was once
a very densely populated refugee camp,
GFX 143: 01:22:04:19 – 01:22:08:08
Rafah Refugee Camp 1993
GFX 144: 01:22:08:09 – 01:22:12:21
Rafah Refugee Camp today
891
01:22:08,500 --> 01:22:12,709
now a sterile strip has been created on the border with Egypt.
892
01:22:12,750 --> 01:22:16,083
Hundreds and hundreds of houses demolished there.
GFX 145: 01:22:15:13 – 01:22:19:24
Israeli mass demolition
Rafah Refugee Camp
GFX 146: 01:22:30:08 – 01:22:34:15
Residents of the camp
are trying to stop the destruction
893
01:23:24,041 --> 01:23:25,792
It’s clear that there will not be peace
894
01:23:26,041 --> 01:23:29,750
if we continue to demolish houses of innocent people.
895
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:37,500
But what is more dangerous is what this do
to the Israelians people.
896
01:23:37,542 --> 01:23:41,333
So you’re right, to the Israelian soldiers,
to the Israelian civilians,
897
01:23:41,375 --> 01:23:45,875
because we become from year to year, more ..
898
01:23:46,792 --> 01:23:49,083
Animals.
GFX 147: 01:23:50:21 – 01:23:54:21
Amateur video shot by a Palestinian
GFX 148: 01:23:56:15 – 01:24:00:06
An Israeli settler
has forced her way onto their porch
899
01:24:00,583 --> 01:24:01,667
Get the camera out of here.
900
01:24:01,709 --> 01:24:03,458
Call the police!
901
01:24:03,500 --> 01:24:05,083
Turn the camera off
902
01:24:05,208 --> 01:24:06,750
I'll call the police.
903
01:24:06,792 --> 01:24:09,208
What do you want from us?
904
01:24:11,001 --> 01:24:12,709
Whore.
905
01:24:13,750 --> 01:24:15,834
Whore.
906
01:24:15,875 --> 01:24:17,458
You are!
907
01:24:17,500 --> 01:24:20,709
Whore.
908
01:24:20,709 --> 01:24:22,542
They’re trespassers.
909
01:24:22,583 --> 01:24:25,375
The Arabs are trespassers in the land of Israel.
It’s not their country.
910
01:24:25,417 --> 01:24:28,250
They have 22 countries,
let them go live in their own country.
911
01:24:28,291 --> 01:24:30,083
The land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people.
912
01:24:30,083 --> 01:24:31,291
Not to the Arabs.
913
01:24:31,500 --> 01:24:37,625
The idea is you’re security lies in implanting yourself in the earth.
914
01:24:37,667 --> 01:24:40,250
And so we have this movement, the Zionist movement,
915
01:24:40,291 --> 01:24:45,041
and it’s no surprise therefore,
when we find Judaism as it’s practiced,
916
01:24:45,083 --> 01:24:48,750
as it expresses itself in Israel,
to be an earth rooted movement,
917
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,750
not a people rooted movement.
918
01:24:51,792 --> 01:24:54,083
And to behave in the way that earth rooted movements
919
01:24:54,125 --> 01:24:58,375
have always behaved toward strangers in their midst.
920
01:25:02,417 --> 01:25:06,083
Religion and politics have gotten interwoven here
921
01:25:06,125 --> 01:25:08,417
in an immoral way.
922
01:25:08,458 --> 01:25:11,375
It’s immoral what they do with religion, to my mind.
923
01:25:11,417 --> 01:25:14,500
And its not Jewish, it’s un-Jewish.
924
01:25:14,667 --> 01:25:21,333
There is a way leading from humanity,
925
01:25:21,333 --> 01:25:23,917
to nationality,
926
01:25:23,959 --> 01:25:27,375
to bestiality.
GFX 149: 01:25:28:01 – 01:25:30:11
cellphone video
[Note: position over black, lower frame right]
GFX 150: 01:25:32:08 – 01:25:35:22
Palestinians detained
and strip searched
GFX 151: 01:25:40:16 – 01:25:45:23
While Israeli bulldozers
leveled their houses
927
01:25:48,834 --> 01:25:52,083
Arik: My appeal to my fellow Jews
928
01:25:52,125 --> 01:25:54,333
is to remember that we’re responsible.
929
01:25:54,375 --> 01:25:56,667
Here more than anywhere else.
930
01:25:56,709 --> 01:26:02,458
It’s easy to be for all kinds of wonderful values in the diaspora.
931
01:26:02,500 --> 01:26:05,333
This is the acid test. This is the reality test,
932
01:26:05,375 --> 01:26:10,333
to all these values that we’ve held for all these generations.
933
01:26:11,041 --> 01:26:12,417
I think the American Jewish community
934
01:26:12,417 --> 01:26:15,542
has played a very dishonorable role in this whole thing.
935
01:26:15,583 --> 01:26:19,709
You know, Israel claims to speak for them.
And they accept that.
936
01:26:19,750 --> 01:26:23,250
That Israel is our country in one way or another.
937
01:26:23,291 --> 01:26:28,625
It’s a Jewish country. It speaks for the Jews.
It represents the Jews.
938
01:26:28,667 --> 01:26:34,583
And so that makes them complicit
in all these human rights violations.
GFX 152: 01:26:34:19 – 01:26:40:02
Detainees returning to their houses
939
01:26:45,417 --> 01:26:49,333
There’s an enormous American responsibility
for this situation here.
940
01:26:49,375 --> 01:26:52,166
So I don’t think Americans can sit back,
941
01:26:52,208 --> 01:26:58,500
as if they were observing the situation from afar,
with a kind of lordly distance.
942
01:26:58,542 --> 01:27:00,583
As if they had no part in it.
943
01:27:00,625 --> 01:27:04,125
It’s because of that American veto in the Security Council
944
01:27:04,166 --> 01:27:08,083
that Israel is able to go on acting the way it has,
945
01:27:08,125 --> 01:27:13,333
which I think will lead to it’s own destruction,
if it’s allowed to go on like this.
946
01:27:14,166 --> 01:27:18,417
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister of Israel.
947
01:27:22,166 --> 01:27:26,083
This occupation is not conceived as an Israeli occupation.
948
01:27:26,458 --> 01:27:30,959
It’s perceived as an America –Israeli occupation.
949
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,333
And its clear that Israel
couldn’t maintain this occupation for a month
950
01:27:35,375 --> 01:27:38,250
without the political, and military,
and financial support
951
01:27:38,250 --> 01:27:40,208
that the United States offers.
952
01:27:40,500 --> 01:27:43,500
God will give strength to his people.
953
01:27:43,542 --> 01:27:46,625
God will bless his people with peace.
954
01:27:46,667 --> 01:27:49,959
Thank you very much.
GFX 153: 01:27:54:11 – 01:28:06:12
The U.S. government has blessed Israel
with over 100 billion taxpayer dollars.
More than any other country on Earth.
GFX 154: 01:28:07:08 – 01:28:20:06
The majority of America’s
U.N. Security Council vetoes
have served to shield Israel’s behavior
from the will of the international community,
and the force of international law.
955
01:28:19,458 --> 01:28:24,458
The very attitude that Israel has a kind of sanctity, holiness to it,
956
01:28:24,458 --> 01:28:26,750
and must not be criticized,
957
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:34,250
enables Israel to perform actions
which make it a very unsafe place for Jews to be.
958
01:28:34,250 --> 01:28:39,583
And which also make the world
an unsafe place for Jews to be.
959
01:28:40,959 --> 01:28:45,166
Anat: We are fantasizing at nights
on how they’ll mutilate and kill us.
960
01:28:45,166 --> 01:28:49,792
We are doing it,
and we are fantasizing how it would happen to us.
961
01:28:50,041 --> 01:28:53,667
This is, seriously, this is what we’re doing.
962
01:28:53,709 --> 01:28:59,083
And, to overcome this,
we must meet the enemy as a human being.
963
01:28:59,125 --> 01:29:04,542
Hi. My name is Shireen. I’m from Gaza.
GFX 155: 01:29:04:18 – 01:59:11:09
Gaza Population
1.8 Million
964
01:29:04,959 --> 01:29:10,583
The Gaza Strip: A space only 22 miles long and 5 miles wide.
965
01:29:13,959 --> 01:29:20,208
I’m Palestinian from Gaza,
which is considered as a big jail.
GFX 156: 01:29:21:05 – 01:29:28:12
1.2 million residents of Gaza are
Palestinian refugees from villages
ethnically cleansed by Israeli forces
in 1948.
GFX 157: 01:29:31:18 – 01:29:43:07
It’s an internment camp
For the native inhabitants
the size of Mobile, Alabama
with ten times the population
966
01:29:48,458 --> 01:29:50,542
That’s about the 4th explosion.
GFX 158: 01:29:48:15 – 01:29:52:16
Voice of Chuck Carlson
American Activist
Gaza Strip
967
01:29:50,583 --> 01:29:52,500
All over the city dogs are barking.
968
01:29:52,834 --> 01:29:56,750
Death is around you,
always around you.
969
01:29:57,166 --> 01:30:00,458
Last night, large numbers of people killed.
970
01:30:00,750 --> 01:30:02,750
Now I hear the ambulances running.
971
01:30:10,500 --> 01:30:15,208
Can you imagine this feeling that I feel always
when we are, we are bombed?
972
01:30:15,542 --> 01:30:20,291
Apache helicopters hovering up there.
973
01:30:20,333 --> 01:30:22,208
It’s happening just at bedtime here,
974
01:30:22,250 --> 01:30:26,250
9 o’clock at night.
Just when the kids go to bed.
975
01:30:26,583 --> 01:30:28,500
This feeling, exactly this feeling;
976
01:30:28,542 --> 01:30:33,750
That you are in your room, in your bed.
You’re praying.
977
01:30:50,583 --> 01:30:54,125
Here we are again.
The choppers very close this time.
978
01:30:54,667 --> 01:30:56,375
Here comes another bomb.
979
01:30:57,417 --> 01:30:58,083
It’s gonna explode.
980
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:26,333
You are praying because you feel that,
your room, only your room
981
01:31:26,375 --> 01:31:31,041
will be bombed from the whole building.
982
01:31:42,458 --> 01:31:46,583
Here comes another one,
fired from a much lower angle, right off to my left
983
01:31:46,583 --> 01:31:50,583
They’re coming right down across the town.
984
01:31:50,625 --> 01:31:56,041
It’s 3 am and the killing is going on.
985
01:31:56,208 --> 01:32:02,291
Imagine.
The United States paying for all this?
986
01:33:47,375 --> 01:33:51,792
They bombed my house.
Why?
987
01:33:54,417 --> 01:33:58,125
You have to be a human being
988
01:33:58,166 --> 01:34:02,375
who understands that other people are also human beings.
989
01:34:02,417 --> 01:34:06,083
And that you can’t punish a whole society.
990
01:34:06,125 --> 01:34:10,166
The war, as Israel calls it,
against the Palestinians
991
01:34:10,208 --> 01:34:13,333
is really a war against the Palestinian people.
992
01:34:13,375 --> 01:34:16,000
Palestinians don’t have a state.
They don’t have an army.
993
01:34:16,041 --> 01:34:18,208
This is a war against people.
994
01:34:18,250 --> 01:34:21,667
And it’s against people who are fighting for their freedom.
GFX 159: 01:34:22:24 – 01:34:30:15
“The Arabs are multiplying
twice as fast at the Israelis.”
Professor Sergio
Della Pergola
The Jewish Journal
April 8, 2010
GFX 160: 01:34:32:02 – 01:34:40:20
“As long as .. west of the Jordan river
There is only one political entity
called Israel it is going to be either
non-Jewish, or non-democratic.”
GFX 161: 01:34:40:25 – 01:34:50:03
If this block of millions of
Palestinians cannot vote,
That will be an apartheid state.”
Ehud Barak
Former Israeli
Prime Minister
995
01:34:49,542 --> 01:34:55,125
You know we would like to have a Jewish Democratic state,
but we’re stuck with Arabs that don’t want to go away.
996
01:34:55,166 --> 01:34:57,667
So I say, forget it.
997
01:34:57,709 --> 01:35:01,000
Jewish Democratic state may have been a dream for a while
998
01:35:01,041 --> 01:35:04,250
but, you know, let’s, let’s leave it now.
999
01:35:04,250 --> 01:35:07,750
You can’t have an ethnic democracy, you know?
What is this ethnic democracy?
1000
01:35:07,750 --> 01:35:10,417
It’s called ethnocracy, you know?
1001
01:35:10,417 --> 01:35:14,250
So, I don’t believe in it.
I think it’s a, I think it's a lie.
1002
01:35:14,250 --> 01:35:16,125
And now if somebody would come and tell me,
1003
01:35:16,166 --> 01:35:18,583
“Look Tomer, I would like to have an apartheid state
1004
01:35:18,583 --> 01:35:23,166
where a small Jewish minority
rules over a large Arab majority,“
1005
01:35:23,208 --> 01:35:26,083
so you know, what can I say? Okay.
1006
01:35:27,083 --> 01:35:30,000
The prognosis is that the majority of people
1007
01:35:30,041 --> 01:35:32,792
living West of the Jordan River will be Arabs.
1008
01:35:33,041 --> 01:35:37,792
Israel’s ruling over a group
where the majority will be Arab.
1009
01:35:37,917 --> 01:35:42,375
Israel’s locked into this apartheid position.
1010
01:35:42,417 --> 01:35:45,458
That it can’t get rid of these Palestinians,
1011
01:35:45,500 --> 01:35:49,250
but in order to control the entire country,
and get them off our hands,
1012
01:35:49,291 --> 01:35:51,083
we have to have a Bantustan.
1013
01:35:51,125 --> 01:35:53,458
It’s exactly the same logic as South Africa.
1014
01:35:53,709 --> 01:35:58,291
If we went by the option of
taking all the Arabs and moving them to one place.
1015
01:35:58,333 --> 01:36:02,542
If we went by the option of saying that it would be a combined state.
1016
01:36:02,583 --> 01:36:06,083
If we went any options, they’re not dealing with the core of the problem.
1017
01:36:06,125 --> 01:36:09,041
The core of problem is educating democracy.
1018
01:36:09,083 --> 01:36:14,750
I’ve lost my patience
for this double-faced talking about Jewish Democracy.
1019
01:36:15,667 --> 01:36:18,333
It doesn't work anymore.
1020
01:36:18,375 --> 01:36:19,458
People come and say,
1021
01:36:19,500 --> 01:36:22,250
“Well you need to understand,
things are complicated.
1022
01:36:22,291 --> 01:36:24,041
There are things here, there are things there.”
1023
01:36:24,083 --> 01:36:26,792
And I say it’s bullshit.
Things are not complicated.
1024
01:36:27,041 --> 01:36:30,083
They're simple,
and things are black and white.
1025
01:36:30,125 --> 01:36:34,417
Either you believe in democracy,
or you believe in a Jewish state.
1026
01:36:34,458 --> 01:36:37,583
And everybody has to make his choice,
and I’ve made mine.
1027
01:36:37,583 --> 01:36:40,625
And I urge everybody else to make theirs.
1028
01:36:41,250 --> 01:36:42,583
Tom: And what was your choice?
1029
01:36:42,625 --> 01:36:46,667
Democracy.