10
00:00:33,428 --> 00:00:35,588
*Where is the voice of the day?*
100
00:07:47,177 --> 00:07:50,880
So that valley has had repeated home demolitions.
1000
01:12:26,528 --> 01:12:30,129
It is most difficult for me to
think about what's going on here,
1001
01:12:30,184 --> 01:12:33,004
when I sit down to write back to the United States,
1002
01:12:33,326 --> 01:12:36,747
something about the virtual portal into luxury.
1003
01:12:40,523 --> 01:12:43,602
I don't know if many of the
children here have ever existed
1004
01:12:43,736 --> 01:12:46,415
without tank shell holes in their walls,
1005
01:12:46,540 --> 01:12:52,144
and the towers of an occupying army surveying
them constantly from the near horizons.
1006
01:12:53,333 --> 01:12:56,293
I think, although I'm not entirely sure,
1007
01:12:56,450 --> 01:13:02,781
that even the smallest of these children
understand that life is not like this everywhere."
1008
01:13:03,062 --> 01:13:09,226
It was Sunday afternoon in Charlotte,
about noon, actually,
1009
01:13:09,343 --> 01:13:11,648
and I received a phone call.
101
00:07:54,467 --> 00:07:58,836
Rodina, herself, has lived
through two home demolitions.
1010
01:13:11,734 --> 01:13:15,699
And my son-in-law, Kelly, was on the phone.
1011
01:13:15,773 --> 01:13:19,011
And he asked if Craig was there.
1012
01:13:19,321 --> 01:13:22,660
And something about the way
he asked made me realize...
1013
01:13:22,745 --> 01:13:25,472
I felt right away that something was wrong.
1014
01:13:25,612 --> 01:13:27,375
And then I asked, "Why, Kelly?"
1015
01:13:27,514 --> 01:13:30,008
And he hesitated for a minute, and he said:
1016
01:13:30,266 --> 01:13:33,000
"We've had some very sad news."
1017
01:13:33,119 --> 01:13:36,931
And then my daughter, Sara,
I could hear her in the background,
1018
01:13:37,158 --> 01:13:42,524
and she got on the telephone, and
she said, "Mom, it's Rachel."
1019
01:13:42,662 --> 01:13:48,035
And I think the first words out of
my mouth then were, "Is she dead?"
102
00:07:58,972 --> 00:08:01,770
They are living now in their third house.
1020
01:14:05,064 --> 01:14:12,705
We were opposing the demolition of farmland
and other property, Palestinian property,
1021
01:14:06,361 --> 01:14:11,661
Joe Carr
ISM Activist
{\an4}
1022
01:14:12,728 --> 01:14:16,038
by Israeli destruction force bulldozers.
1023
01:14:23,588 --> 01:14:28,018
And a bulldozer drove up, and it kept
going, and she tried to move back,
1024
01:14:28,151 --> 01:14:31,140
but she couldn't move back, and
she got caught underneath.
1025
01:14:31,277 --> 01:14:33,438
She got caught underneath the bulldozer.
1026
01:14:36,197 --> 01:14:39,344
Many other internationals began to
surround the bulldozer and yell at it
1027
01:14:39,375 --> 01:14:41,983
and tell it that there is somebody
there, and it did not stop.
1028
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,306
Where Rachel was killed, she was
protecting a doctor's home.
1029
01:15:02,368 --> 01:15:05,649
And that's important to realize,
and the three children and his wife.
103
00:08:03,052 --> 00:08:06,322
A bulldozer arrived with soldiers
1030
01:15:05,782 --> 01:15:11,930
She knew that family, and that doctor felt
that Rachel was like a daughter to him.
1031
01:15:12,032 --> 01:15:14,254
He bought that house, it was
in the middle of a neighborhood.
1032
01:15:14,340 --> 01:15:18,886
There were other rows of houses
between his house and the border.
1033
01:15:19,207 --> 01:15:23,519
Those other homes, those other streets,
were all destroyed and now it was his turn.
1034
01:15:24,228 --> 01:15:26,696
And I've had people say:
"Well, she was in a war zone."
1035
01:15:26,735 --> 01:15:30,657
And somebody points out, that war
zone is people's neighborhoods.
1036
01:15:30,712 --> 01:15:31,964
Those are children.
1037
01:15:34,286 --> 01:15:36,403
I'm here for other children.
1038
01:15:36,575 --> 01:15:38,458
I'm here because I care.
1039
01:15:38,599 --> 01:15:41,403
I'm here because children everywhere are suffering,
104
00:08:06,422 --> 00:08:09,640
I was totally shocked and began to
1040
01:15:39,466 --> 01:15:44,466
Rachel Corrie
5th Grade Speech
{\an4}
1041
01:15:41,622 --> 01:15:44,951
and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger.
1042
01:15:45,243 --> 01:15:48,477
I'm here because those
people are mostly children.
1043
01:15:48,860 --> 01:15:52,805
We have got to understand that the poor are
all around us and we are ignoring them.
1044
01:15:52,961 --> 01:15:56,386
We have got to understand
that these deaths are preventable.
1045
01:15:56,730 --> 01:16:00,035
We have got to understand that
people in third world countries
1046
01:16:00,299 --> 01:16:04,689
think and care, and smile, and cry just like us.
1047
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:09,156
We have got to understand
that they are us; we are them.
1048
01:16:09,359 --> 01:16:12,344
My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000.
1049
01:16:12,445 --> 01:16:14,960
My dream is to give the poor a chance.
105
00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:13,584
argue with them not to demolish my home
1050
01:16:15,187 --> 01:16:18,913
My dream is to save the 40,000
people who die each day.
1051
01:16:19,085 --> 01:16:23,374
My dream can, and will, come true,
if we all look into the future
1052
01:16:23,514 --> 01:16:25,702
and see the light that shines there.
1053
01:16:25,796 --> 01:16:28,741
Rachel Corrie died at the age of 23.
1054
01:16:29,273 --> 01:16:35,534
The U.S. Congress has refused her parent's request to
conduct an independent investigation into her murder.
1055
01:16:36,724 --> 01:16:39,670
As Israel completed its withdrawal from Gaza,
1056
01:16:39,806 --> 01:16:45,641
the following day, it issued orders to confiscate
additional Palestinian land from the West Bank
1057
01:16:45,845 --> 01:16:48,951
and continue the construction of a separation wall.
1058
01:16:51,558 --> 01:16:56,112
This wall is twice the height of the
Berlin Wall and four times longer.
1059
01:16:56,439 --> 01:16:58,268
It rips through villages,
106
00:08:13,671 --> 00:08:17,443
so they began to beat me
1060
01:16:59,322 --> 01:17:04,411
severing travel for work,
health care, and education,
1061
01:17:05,465 --> 01:17:10,590
separating farmers from their lands,
and families from loved ones.
1062
01:17:12,264 --> 01:17:17,875
An Israeli study revealed that the barrier's
route was chosen in order to confiscate land
1063
01:17:18,010 --> 01:17:22,919
intended for illegal settlement expansion,
not for security reasons.
1064
01:17:24,583 --> 01:17:29,606
Here you have this huge wall being constructed,
right in the middle of the West Bank.
1065
01:17:25,052 --> 01:17:29,583
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor - Tikkun Magazine
{\an4}
1066
01:17:29,747 --> 01:17:33,845
How can anybody believe that there is
going to be the creation of a real state?
1067
01:17:33,931 --> 01:17:37,384
It's a symbol and a reality of oppression.
1068
01:17:37,860 --> 01:17:42,985
Anybody outside of Israel who supports a
two-state solution has to be very careful
1069
01:17:43,008 --> 01:17:48,472
because what they mean in a two-state solution is that
90 percent of historical Palestine will be Israel.
107
00:08:17,543 --> 00:08:19,441
and pull my hair.
1070
01:17:45,161 --> 01:17:50,159
Illan Pappe
Israeli Historian and analyst
{\an4}
1071
01:17:48,608 --> 01:17:51,522
In the remaining 10 percent,
you'll have two huge prison camps.
1072
01:17:51,631 --> 01:17:53,818
One in the Gaza Strip
and one in the West Bank.
1073
01:17:53,991 --> 01:17:59,398
There are currently over 420,000 Israeli settlers
living inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem
1074
01:18:00,399 --> 01:18:05,390
Over the coming years, Israel intends
to expand that number by the thousands.
1075
01:18:05,813 --> 01:18:07,920
Maj. General Ya'ir Naveh,
head of Israel's West Bank occupation forces:
1076
01:18:07,968 --> 01:18:14,037
"We have no intention of leaving Jedea and Samaria
[West Bank]. We will remain here in one way or
another for hundreds and thousands of years."
1077
01:18:14,131 --> 01:18:15,963
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
Settlement Report Nov-Dec 2005
1078
01:18:17,511 --> 01:18:22,855
The people who fought in the war were also the
people who wrote the history books of the war.
1079
01:18:22,957 --> 01:18:27,676
And they already had the story that they
made up about what had really happened.
108
00:08:19,540 --> 00:08:23,396
As the bulldozer was to begin the demolition
1080
01:18:27,715 --> 01:18:31,245
And that story was integrated
in the Israeli education system.
1081
01:18:31,276 --> 01:18:35,276
It was integrated in the media,
in the political discourse.
1082
01:18:36,396 --> 01:18:39,747
Some of us who work as Jewish
educators have been admitting,
1083
01:18:36,869 --> 01:18:42,326
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}
1084
01:18:39,763 --> 01:18:42,677
over the last maybe ten years,
that it is propaganda.
1085
01:18:42,817 --> 01:18:47,199
Israelis don't understand what's going on.
They don't know the occupation.
1086
01:18:47,824 --> 01:18:49,659
We began to educate ourselves.
1087
01:18:48,559 --> 01:18:53,855
Gila Svirsky
Coalition of Women for Peace
{\an4}
1088
01:18:49,855 --> 01:18:54,456
And the first thing we did was invite women, Palestinian
women, to come into our homes and talk to us,
1089
01:18:54,519 --> 01:18:57,507
and tell us what exactly was
the problem, as they saw it.
109
00:08:23,496 --> 00:08:25,921
I remembered that my
1090
01:18:57,663 --> 01:18:59,897
And little by little,
we learned about their lives.
1091
01:19:00,085 --> 01:19:03,639
We learned about the suffering,
they encountered on a daily basis.
1092
01:19:03,913 --> 01:19:05,960
We learned about the
killing going on there,
1093
01:19:06,022 --> 01:19:13,178
about the lives that were completely circumscribed
by an occupation that they had no control over.
1094
01:19:13,451 --> 01:19:16,553
I'm one of the few Israelis not
in uniform and not a settler
1095
01:19:13,451 --> 01:19:17,357
Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Rabbis for Human Rights
{\an4}
1096
01:19:16,598 --> 01:19:19,020
that's been in the territories
in the last nine months.
1097
01:19:19,432 --> 01:19:22,037
You just see that the army was
actually waging a very cruel war.
1098
01:19:22,154 --> 01:19:26,573
On the Israeli side, there seems to be no
understanding that this how you create terrorism.
1099
01:19:26,675 --> 01:19:31,917
If you are so repressive on a people, you
give them the sense of having no options,
11
00:00:37,022 --> 00:00:39,547
*Where is the voice of the people?*
110
00:08:26,021 --> 00:08:27,972
son was sleeping inside
1100
01:19:31,956 --> 01:19:34,605
and that's a very dangerous place.
1101
01:19:38,690 --> 01:19:43,217
In fact, there's a very clear correlation
between the kind of human rights abuses
1102
01:19:40,246 --> 01:19:45,756
Peter Boukaert
Human Rights Watch
{\an4}
1103
01:19:43,232 --> 01:19:45,803
that Israel commits in the West Bank and Gaza
1104
01:19:45,818 --> 01:19:50,662
and the Palestinian militant
response to those abuses.
1105
01:19:50,741 --> 01:19:52,468
A report that examined the background of 87 suicide concluded:
1106
01:19:52,559 --> 01:20:06,007
"Suicide bombers often experience personal trauma
related to the Israeli forces prior to their volunteering,
such as the death or injury of a family member."
1107
01:20:06,286 --> 01:20:11,240
Most Israelis have very clear views.
This is a very political country.
1108
01:20:11,817 --> 01:20:15,011
And when you talk to somebody,
you can argue all night,
1109
01:20:15,145 --> 01:20:17,949
and you can go red in the face,
or blue in the face,
111
00:08:27,997 --> 00:08:32,471
so I ran towards the house to get him
1110
01:20:16,927 --> 01:20:21,927
Peretz Kidron
Yesh Gvul - Soldiers who refuse to serve
{\an4}
1111
01:20:18,005 --> 01:20:20,466
or whatever color, you won't get anywhere.
1112
01:20:20,674 --> 01:20:22,470
But when somebody says:
1113
01:20:22,533 --> 01:20:24,963
"I refuse to do this.
This is wrong.
1114
01:20:25,103 --> 01:20:27,597
For me, for us,
for our country.
1115
01:20:27,733 --> 01:20:31,083
This is immoral, and I'll go
to prison rather than do it."
1116
01:20:31,122 --> 01:20:33,959
And one guys does it, five guys,
then 50, then a hundred.
1117
01:20:34,006 --> 01:20:36,670
And people say,
"Hey, what's going on here?
1118
01:20:36,788 --> 01:20:40,045
These aren't cowards.
These aren't traitors."
1119
01:20:40,546 --> 01:20:42,389
Most of them are officers, by the way.
112
00:08:32,596 --> 00:08:36,635
as I ran the soldiers tried to hold me back
1120
01:20:42,467 --> 01:20:46,475
"So, if these guys are refusing,
there must be something wrong here."
1121
01:20:46,710 --> 01:20:51,273
Currently 1674 Israeli Soldiers
refuse to serve the occupation.
1122
01:20:51,398 --> 01:20:53,226
At least 323 have been imprisoned for objecting.
1123
01:20:53,343 --> 01:20:57,913
Nobody can argue with what I've seen.
I mean, they may not like how I say it.
1124
01:20:58,124 --> 01:21:01,416
Or they may not like all the facts that I convey.
1125
01:20:58,624 --> 01:21:03,324
Thomas Getman
Director, World Vision Jerusalem
{\an4}
1126
01:21:01,721 --> 01:21:04,267
It may sound like I'm imbalanced.
1127
01:21:04,670 --> 01:21:08,588
But the fact is, when you're dealing
with oppression, there is no balance.
1128
01:21:08,752 --> 01:21:12,158
Even someone with a 20 percent open mind
1129
01:21:08,752 --> 01:21:13,752
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
113
00:08:36,735 --> 00:08:40,314
They began beating and kicking me
1130
01:21:12,221 --> 01:21:15,611
would reach the same conclusions
that our commission reached.
1131
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:21,072
You could be pro-Israel and still,
if you saw these realities,
1132
01:21:21,189 --> 01:21:28,890
you'd have to have a completely closed mind not
to come to the same conclusions that we reached.
1133
01:21:30,845 --> 01:21:33,634
So the violence begins with the occupation.
1134
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:37,001
The opposition is resistance to the occupation.
1135
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:40,524
Resistance to violence is legitimate
in any country in the world.
1136
01:21:40,610 --> 01:21:43,782
I may disagree with some of the acts of resistance.
1137
01:21:42,665 --> 01:21:45,596
Peretz Kidron
Yesh Gvul - Soldiers who refuse to serve
{\an4}
1138
01:21:43,891 --> 01:21:46,838
I think some of the tactics are stupid.
1139
01:21:47,580 --> 01:21:51,580
Attacks on Israeli civilians are stupid,
immoral, and counterproductive.
114
00:08:40,414 --> 00:08:42,547
and pulled my hair
1140
01:21:49,176 --> 01:21:52,595
Rashid Khalidi
Professor of Eastern Studies - Columbia U.
{\an4}
1141
01:21:51,642 --> 01:21:52,642
They should be stopped.
1142
01:21:52,727 --> 01:21:55,437
We should not use violence, whatsoever
1143
01:21:54,427 --> 01:21:57,614
Dr. Iyad Sarraj
Prominent Child Psychologist in Gaza
{\an4}
1144
01:21:55,487 --> 01:22:00,008
because it really destroys our intentions.
1145
01:22:00,058 --> 01:22:02,098
And it destroys our position
1146
01:22:02,106 --> 01:22:07,442
which is in the higher moral standing
1147
01:22:07,492 --> 01:22:09,176
we are the victims
1148
01:22:09,226 --> 01:22:11,148
and the world should now understand
1149
01:22:11,198 --> 01:22:12,281
that we are the victims.
115
00:08:42,572 --> 00:08:46,483
I managed to push one to the ground
1150
01:22:12,438 --> 01:22:16,540
Criticizing the Israeli government
policy for assassinating people,
1151
01:22:16,580 --> 01:22:20,798
or for shooting children, and maiming
them, for thousands of children...
1152
01:22:20,961 --> 01:22:23,227
That's not anti-Semitic.
That's humane.
1153
01:22:21,061 --> 01:22:23,258
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli human rights lawyer
{\an4}
1154
01:22:23,391 --> 01:22:27,383
We have to tell the truth about what's
going on, and say, as clearly as we can
1155
01:22:27,414 --> 01:22:30,687
"If you keep going down this path,
you're going to destroy yourselves.
1156
01:22:31,007 --> 01:22:32,984
No enemy will have to destroy you.
1157
01:22:33,124 --> 01:22:34,632
You're rotting from within
1158
01:22:34,781 --> 01:22:38,586
because of the methods you're
using against innocent people."
1159
01:22:41,109 --> 01:22:44,796
I don't think, even with the
best video that you can make,
116
00:08:46,608 --> 00:08:50,568
and ran inside to my son
1160
01:22:45,116 --> 01:22:51,424
Americans will really understand what it is
like to be a Palestinian under occupation.
1161
01:22:49,035 --> 01:22:54,035
Doug Hostetter
Fellowship of Reconciliation
{\an4}
1162
01:22:51,944 --> 01:22:56,522
I guarantee you, if you
spend one week in Gaza,
1163
01:22:56,647 --> 01:22:57,983
or in the West Bank,
1164
01:22:58,076 --> 01:23:01,441
you will understand it
in a very profound way.
1165
01:23:10,390 --> 01:23:12,858
All the wars of independence
1166
01:23:11,867 --> 01:23:16,288
Hava Keller
Committee for Women Political Prisoners
{\an4}
1167
01:23:12,898 --> 01:23:15,421
you can start if you want with
1168
01:23:15,451 --> 01:23:17,764
war of independence of the United States
1169
01:23:17,789 --> 01:23:21,725
They said: "No Taxation Without Representation"
117
00:08:50,693 --> 00:08:54,330
and carried him out like this.
1170
01:23:22,116 --> 01:23:24,037
and we demand taxation
1171
01:23:24,201 --> 01:23:25,470
from the Palestinians
1172
01:23:25,495 --> 01:23:26,695
and don't give them
1173
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:27,920
any representation
1174
01:23:27,945 --> 01:23:31,414
It is the same all over the world
1175
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:36,062
and nobody wants to be under somebody's occupation.
1176
01:23:50,741 --> 01:23:56,299
As an Israeli, we go to India, and to South
America, to meet the Native American Indians.
1177
01:23:54,444 --> 01:23:58,784
Neta Golan
Israeli Peace Activist
{\an4}
1178
01:23:56,376 --> 01:24:04,033
We're looking for these, like indigenous people
with some kind of more rooted wisdom, you know?
1179
01:24:04,112 --> 01:24:07,604
And they're right here.
They're right here, right under our noses.
118
00:08:58,898 --> 00:09:01,483
Rodina and her children were once again homeless,
1180
01:24:07,643 --> 01:24:08,877
Nobody ever comes here.
1181
01:24:08,924 --> 01:24:12,615
You know, the "Felaheen," for me,
the Palestinian "Felaheen"...
1182
01:24:12,750 --> 01:24:17,953
It's like, everything that people go looking for,
1183
01:24:18,445 --> 01:24:21,463
People with deep, deep roots,
really connected to the Earth,
1184
01:24:21,573 --> 01:24:24,510
with this romance with their land,
you know?
1185
01:24:24,588 --> 01:24:30,000
And just incredibly wise and
open-hearted, and simple, beautiful.
1186
01:24:30,188 --> 01:24:35,913
And Israelis never see them unless it's through
1187
01:24:36,048 --> 01:24:37,276
a target.
1188
01:24:46,192 --> 01:24:48,835
I wish that people knew what
was really going on here.
1189
01:24:48,866 --> 01:24:52,405
And I wish that people could see
these people through my eyes.
119
00:09:01,530 --> 00:09:04,499
and had to endure living in a tent for many months.
1190
01:24:52,616 --> 01:24:55,623
That's what often I'm looking at
people, and they're so incredibly beautiful.
1191
01:24:55,662 --> 01:25:00,031
And I'm just thinking, "I wish that Israelis could,
for one minute, see them through my eyes."
1192
01:25:18,181 --> 01:25:20,794
Rachel Corrie's final thoughts,
emailed to her mother prior to her death:
1193
01:25:20,958 --> 01:25:25,801
No amount of reading, attendance at
conferences, documentary viewing,
1194
01:25:25,817 --> 01:25:30,304
and word of mouth could have prepared me
for the reality of the situation here.
1195
01:25:30,769 --> 01:25:33,932
You just can't imagine it unless you see it.
1196
01:25:40,809 --> 01:25:45,009
This is not at all what I asked for
when I came into this world.
1197
01:25:45,103 --> 01:25:49,852
This is not at all what the people here
asked for when they came into this world.
1198
01:25:49,989 --> 01:25:55,934
This is not the world you and Dad wanted me
to come into when you decided to have me.
1199
01:25:58,019 --> 01:25:59,721
This has to stop.
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ALGERIA
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Her husband, Ata, was even imprisoned for
protesting the destruction of their home.
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01:25:59,865 --> 01:26:06,185
I think it is a good idea for us all to drop
everything and devote our lives to making this stop.
1201
01:26:25,049 --> 01:26:31,853
The real battle for justice in the Middle East
has to be fought and won here in America.
1202
01:26:32,213 --> 01:26:33,909
This is an American issue
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01:26:34,026 --> 01:26:37,268
because this is an issue of American foreign policy.
1204
01:26:37,354 --> 01:26:38,750
Israelis are talking about this,
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01:26:38,773 --> 01:26:42,406
and I think it's time for Americans to realize
that they're the only ones not talking about it.
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01:26:42,438 --> 01:26:45,951
It's actually very dangerous for their own interest
and for the interest of Israeli Jews here.
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01:26:46,029 --> 01:26:47,568
I mean, we're not going to be tossed in jail.
1208
01:26:47,614 --> 01:26:48,513
We're not going to be tortured.
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01:26:48,591 --> 01:26:51,716
We're not facing what people
in the occupied territories are facing.
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As I was cooking for my children
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And if we decide we don't want to do it, fine.
1211
01:26:53,692 --> 01:26:56,121
But then, try to look yourself in the mirror
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and say, "I'm a murderer."
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It's really high time for Americans
to step up to the plate,
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to do whatever we can, encourage our government to
take a strong initiative to end the occupation.
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01:27:09,867 --> 01:27:14,781
Those who really care about the interests of
Israel should exert all the pressure possible
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in order to force Israel to stop the aggression,
stop the repression, end the occupation.
1217
01:27:20,046 --> 01:27:24,483
And the just solution has to
be ending the occupation.
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Ending the occupation is Step Number One.
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Justice is the best way of
bringing about security and peace.
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I noticed that one of my daughters
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There'll be no security for Israel as long
as this kind of oppression continues.
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01:27:45,303 --> 01:27:52,391
*Close my eyes tonight*
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01:27:53,156 --> 01:28:00,748
*My conscience by my side*
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01:28:01,297 --> 01:28:08,348
*It's hard to live this lie*
1224
01:28:09,405 --> 01:28:16,286
*When truth begins with light*
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01:28:17,046 --> 01:28:19,347
*So I won't sleep*
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01:28:21,217 --> 01:28:24,727
*I will stay awake*
1227
01:28:25,188 --> 01:28:28,066
*'Cause if I dream*
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01:28:29,259 --> 01:28:32,897
*Then they'll take their claim*
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01:28:33,363 --> 01:28:40,967
*Oh, I try, oh, I try to fight*
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had tied a rope to a tree and around
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*To stay awake tonight*
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*Palestine, Palestine, Palestine*
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01:28:58,221 --> 01:29:04,850
*Always on my mind*
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01:29:22,445 --> 01:29:28,570
*Truth is where desire ends*
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*A meaning to an end*
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01:29:38,428 --> 01:29:45,539
*I search myself all the time*
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01:29:46,302 --> 01:29:53,970
*To change what's in my mind*
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01:29:54,110 --> 01:29:56,037
*So I won't sleep*
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*I will stay awake*
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her neck to attempt to hang herself
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I asked her "What are you doing?"
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she said "how can we live outside
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in the sun like this?
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I don't want to live. I'd rather to die."
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It was a miserable time for us
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imagine a mother seeing her own
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child trying to kill herself.
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Their mental condition ia awful!
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They don't even sleep at night
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they ask: "mommy! What's that?
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Check if it's the army!"
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3 days ago, the army came at night
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and my children began screaming
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from all directions
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and the soldiers are yelling for my ID
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in the middle of the dark
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I tell them not to be fearful
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and try to calm and console them
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but I'm even more afraid than they are.
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Here, you have Palestinians that have no input
whatsoever in the policies that are made.
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Jeff Halper
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition
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They're not on the City Council.
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They're not in any of the decision-making
bodies on the West Bank or Gaza.
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They're certainly not in the government.
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The policies are made in order
to ensure Israeli control.
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Malcom X: *They attack all of us*
*for the same reasons.*
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So the law is designed in a way,
in a very cynical way
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to prevent Palestinians from building,
and to keep them confined in little islands.
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So that most of the land of the occupied
territories is free for Israeli settlement.
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These are armed settlements,
about 190 of them,
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Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
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spread all over the West Bank.
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Settlements are strategically
built colonies of Israel
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that are connected by a network of roads
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which separate each Palestinian
community from the next
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and confine their ability to expand.
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*All of us catch hell from the same enemy.*
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They are often constructed around the
best farmland and water resources.
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They are surrounded by barbwire.
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They are armed inside.
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Settler residents are required
to be armed by the Israeli military.
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And they are defended from the outside,
by the Israeli military itself.
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The purpose of these settlements today,
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number one,
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is to continue the Israeli control and
domination of the occupied territories.
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Allegra Pacheco
Israeli human rights lawyer
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And the bottom line in all of this is
to make Palestinians leave the country.
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*We're all in the same bag,*
*in the same boat.*
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It's a very hard term, I know, but in a sense,
it's a kind of ethnic cleansing.
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The Israeli government and the Israeli
army is not dealing with people as equal.
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I mean, I think that that's the main problem
that Palestinians are not considered,
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Yael Stien
B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
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or not perceived as equals to Israelis.
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There is no specific discrimination
against Palestinian Christians
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Douglas Dicks
Catholic Relief Services
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as opposed to Palestinian Muslims.
It's a shared suffering.
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Christians see themselves very much a part
of the Palestinian national movement.
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Father Drew Christiansen
United States Catholic Conference
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*We suffer political oppression,*
*economic exploitation,*
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They identify with the Palestinian
people as being their people.
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Palestinian Christians have difficulty
getting to churches on Sunday morning
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if they wanted to come to Jerusalem,
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because they don't have that
permission, or that legal right,
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according to the Israeli government,
to come to Jerusalem, for worship.
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This, I picked up in a home of a
wonderful Christian family in Beit Jala.
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Thomas Getman
World Vision International - Jerusalem
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And this is the kind of armor-piercing weaponry
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that's being used against civilians,
innocent civilians.
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It's not easy to tell everything, you know
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*and social degradation.*
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it's easy to say some words
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but you can't tell how do you feel
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As every body I want my children to be happy
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to live their right life as children
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we just think about one thing
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where can I put my children
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while they are shooting?
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They didn't want to go to school
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because they are scared to come back
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and there is no house
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*All of them from the same enemy.*
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they don't want to go without me
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and their father because
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they think they will lose us.
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What about the children?
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Why they are going to the streets?
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They don't think let's go to swim
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because I'm sure they
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have no right to swim now
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Why?
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Because we are Palestinian
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Thanks God.
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I don't imagine that there is a woman
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in all of the world
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can send her child
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or her man, just go to die.
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Do you think we are working all of this life
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to give them something and to let them die in a minute
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Can you?
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The suffering, the persecution of Christians,
they've been robbed of their heritage.
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They've been robbed of their ancestral lands.
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Mandela: *It is useless and point futile*
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They've been robbed of their culture.
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Some of the first converts to the
teachings of Jesus were Palestinians.
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Dr. William Baker
Former Professor of History and Biblical Studies
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So that's how long Christians
have been in that land.
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Their quarter, the Christian quarter
has been really really decimated
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and taken over and sliced up.
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That has really bled the Christian communities,
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Bishop Allen Bartlett
Diocese of Washington
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to where they're less than two
percent of the population now.
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The presence of a Christian community,
within the Holy Land, Can you imagine?
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*for us to continue talking peace and*
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Where Jesus first stepped foot,
will no longer be there.
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I know both from the moral sense,
and from the practical sense,
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that the only way to stop the violence
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Adam Keller
Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Group
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is to treat the root cause from which
the violence has started.
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Root Cause of the Conflict
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The number one myth that Westerners
have about this conflict
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Douglas Dicks
Catholic Relief Services
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is that Arabs and Jews have been
fighting for thousands of years
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and they're going to continue to fight.
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*non-violence against a government whose*
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This is really quite bizarre
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because all it takes is a little bit of reading
of history to find out that this just isn't true.
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James Akins
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - 1973 - 75
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There is no congenital, historical
enmity between the Arabs and the Jews.
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The Jews flourished in the Arab world,
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at a time when they were being
persecuted throughout all of Europe.
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At the end of the 19th Century,
because of antisemitism in Europe,
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Rashid Khalidi
Historian - Columbia University
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European Jews began to try and figure
out a solution to the Jewish problem.
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A very small minority adhered to Zionism,
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*reply is only savage attacks on an*
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the idea that the only place in which they
could be safe is within a Jewish state.
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Zionist Jews actually had a
design on the land of Palestine,
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the idea of creating a homeland
for Jews in the land of Palestine.
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And this is really the beginning of the conflict.
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The mainstream Israeli Jewish society
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believe, because that's the
way they have been educated,
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Ilan Pappe
Israeli Historian - Haifa University
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That Palestine was empty, had been empty
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when the Jewish settlers came there.
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Who paid the price when they settled there?
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*unarmed and defenseless people.*
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Is it really true, that Israel was a land
without a people for a people without a land?
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Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
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Palestine was not empty.
It was a land populated by Arabs,
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who had a high level of culture,
a high level of education.
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With farms and markets and
towns and villages and roads
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and commerce and lots of interaction
with the rest of the world.
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The population was overwhelmingly,
overwhelmingly Arab.
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Population Distribution in 1878:
Total = 462,465
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Muslim & Christian Arabs = 96.8 %
Jews = 3.2 %
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1882 - 1914
immigration of 65,000 European Jews
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*This year will be a year of violence.*
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Jewish immigration increased under
British rule following World War I
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when Britain implemented the Balfour Declaration,
promising a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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This measure conflicted with Britain's
previous promise of self-rule
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for Arab inhabitants throughout the region.
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Britain was basically extremely
supportive of the Zionist movement.
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It helped to establish
all of the structures of a state.
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At the same time, the Arabs of Palestine
were denied the right of self-determination.
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Population Distribution in 1922:
Total = 757,182
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Muslim & Christian Arabs = 87.6 %
Jews = 11 %
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The Palestinians saw a European power
decide the future of a non-European territory
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*This year coming, the keynote is violence*
*and the slogan is attack!*
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in flat disregard of both their
presence and wishes.
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In the 1920s, as land was being
stripped away from local residents,
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the first clashes between
Palestinians and Jews began,
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and would continue on for years to come.
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1920 - 1931
108,825 additional Jews immigrants arrive
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Until the early 1930s, the Jewish population
of Palestine remained under 17 percent.
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Population Distribution in 1931:
Total = 1,035,154
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Muslim & Christian Arabs = 81.6 %
Jews = 16.9 %
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Hitler's rise to power in Germany
completely changed that.
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In just five years,
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*I am minded of young David.*
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174,000 Jews flooded into Palestine,
doubling their population.
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1932 - 1936
174,000 additional Jews immigrants arrive
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1937 - 1945
119,800 additional Jews immigrants arrive
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As the world attempted to make amends
for the horrors of Nazi genocidal policies,
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efforts to make Palestine
a Jewish homeland increased.
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The Palestinians, they were not the Nazis.
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They were not responsible for the Holocaust.
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But they were the ones who paid the price.
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In 1947, with the conflict spiraling out of control,
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Britain decided to turn the problem of
Palestine over to the United Nations.
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The UN, under pressure, proposed
to divide the land into two states:
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An Arab state and a Jewish state.
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Arabs were to be given
43 percent of the land,
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despite the fact that they made up
more than two thirds of the population
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and owned over 92 percent of the land.
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Jews were to be given 56 percent,
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although they comprised only
one third of the population
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and owned less than eight percent
of the total area.
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Nevertheless, they were given not only most of
the land, they were given the most fertile land.
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Zionist leaders took advantage
of their superior military preparation
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*I am minded of young David,*
*the shepherd boy.*
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and immediately began occupying
major Arab cities in Palestine.
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I was among the people that conquered Acre
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we were walking around
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we entered a flat
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Hava Keller
Israeli Soldier 1948 War
{\an4}
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there was a pair of shoes
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of a small child, maybe 2 years old
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they didn't have time to put on the shoes
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so they left the shoes and they run away
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they left everything
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*Who stood up before the great warrior*
*of the Philistines.*
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we found out there was a systematic
expulsion of Palestinians
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and there was, as I said, there was an
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Ilan Pappe
Israeli Historian - Haifa University
{\an4}
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ethnic cleansing operation taking place.
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The most infamous campaign was the
massacre at the village of Deir Yassin
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where over 100 men, women, and
children were systematically murdered.
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Me, my children and my brother
were hiding in this house.
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My brother spent the night
in order to keep us company
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They threw bombs at our home and
my children an I got wounded
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when things calmed down the Jews
broke the door down and took us out
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*Young David having all the courage!*
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they started to beat up my brother Musa severely
331
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I gave a solder some money so
that he wouldn't kill Musa
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he took the money and said: you
are kind-hearted. I will show you
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what I will do to your brother
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he threw him to the ground and
my brother fell down like this
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the soldier then pointed his gun to
Musa's head and shot him five times
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The majority of her family members
and relatives were killed.
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Which include her two sons and one
stepson, her father and mother,
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her two brothers, her grandparents,
her uncle and aunt and their children
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The ruthlessness of the attack on Deir Yassin drove
fear and panic into the Palestinian population
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*There must be someone somewhere.*
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and led to the flight of unarmed civilians
from their homes all over the country.
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As a result, maybe three hundred-or-so-thousand
Palestinians had already been expelled
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before the first Arab soldier entered Palestine.
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Some of the neighboring Arab armies
finally intervened after May 15, 1948,
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when Israel officially announced its statehood.
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Although there was a lot of
war rhetoric on the arab side
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very few Arab soldiers were
sent into the battle field.
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And actually for most part of the war
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there was superiority on the side of the Israeli army.
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Arab Soldiers Total: 68,000
Jewish Soldiers Total: 90,000
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*There's got to be somebody*
*somewhere that cares.*
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The Israeli army cleansed much of the territory
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Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}
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and took over a large part of the
designated Palestinian state.
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The new state of Israel encompassed 78
percent of the total land of Palestine.
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The West Bank came under Jordanian control
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and the Gaza Strip under Egyptian dominion.
356
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Although a truce was declared
between Israel and the Arab states,
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true peace remained elusive,
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as over 700,000 Palestinian refugees
languished in nearby camps,
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often in sight of homes to which they still
held the deeds and a deep desire to return.
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*Young David took that one small stone*
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Most of the deserted and evicted
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Palestinians villages were erased from
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upon the earth and were either turned into
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Jewish settlements or into fertile land.
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00:25:45,537 --> 00:25:51,826
Of the 500 Palestinian villages, in what
became Israel in 1948, 400 were destroyed.
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00:25:53,012 --> 00:25:56,971
These efforts to destroy the
possibility of their returning home
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were countered by the United Nations,
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which continues to affirm their human right
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enshrined in international
law and morality, to return.
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00:26:06,925 --> 00:26:10,861
A Palestinian who had lost
her land, or lost his land,
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*and the faith of his God*
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as the result of the creation of Israel in 1948,
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cannot come back even for a visit.
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00:26:17,166 --> 00:26:21,126
I can go back to Israel as if I were returning
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Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
{\an4}
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and claim immediate citizenship, having
no historic tie, speaking no Hebrew,
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00:26:26,512 --> 00:26:31,211
knowing no one in the country,
having no family who ever was there.
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00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:36,845
All that one needs is being Jewish,
a religious group, like any other.
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00:26:44,032 --> 00:26:47,196
I am from Al-Quds (Jerusalem), I am a witness
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I know the Arabs, the Arabs are very good
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no problem until the Zionist movement start
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*and slay the giant Goliath!*
380
00:26:53,188 --> 00:26:55,008
my grandmother tell me
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00:26:55,052 --> 00:26:57,571
before the Zionist movement start
382
00:26:58,048 --> 00:27:01,212
they baby sitting each others' kids
383
00:27:05,687 --> 00:27:07,983
they borrow both from each other
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00:27:08,059 --> 00:27:11,663
like brothers
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00:27:15,283 --> 00:27:18,632
the idea of Zionism, you take away land
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00:27:18,769 --> 00:27:20,464
from the Palestinians, from the Arabs
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00:27:20,525 --> 00:27:22,394
started all the fighting
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00:27:22,419 --> 00:27:23,619
not Arabs the problem
389
00:27:23,644 --> 00:27:25,587
not Jews the problem, not Judaism
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*Cry out!*
390
00:27:25,612 --> 00:27:26,876
not Muslim
391
00:27:27,121 --> 00:27:28,933
only Zionism
392
00:27:36,448 --> 00:27:40,782
The events of 1948 were a defining
moment for the Middle East,
393
00:27:40,919 --> 00:27:45,822
and from that point onward, created
instability throughout the region.
394
00:27:45,958 --> 00:27:51,157
Violent tensions continued
and led to another war in 1967.
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00:27:56,735 --> 00:28:01,263
In that war, Israel occupied
the remainder of historic Palestine,
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00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,050
what is known today
as the West Bank and Gaza.
397
00:28:06,003 --> 00:28:09,518
Another myth was that Israel was
about to be pushed into the sea.
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00:28:06,011 --> 00:28:09,217
James Akins
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - 1973 - 75
{\an4}
399
00:28:09,596 --> 00:28:11,810
But I was working in the
State Department at that time.
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Any violence by a large population
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Occupation 101
.
400
00:28:11,950 --> 00:28:14,887
There was no question of Israel
being pushed into the sea.
401
00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:19,047
The question was just the rapidity of
the totalness of the Israeli victory,
402
00:28:19,191 --> 00:28:21,421
and the victory was crushing.
403
00:28:22,169 --> 00:28:28,447
During the 1967 war,
Israel displaced more than 400,000 Palestinians
404
00:28:29,540 --> 00:28:36,313
half of whom were 1948 refugees, displaced
for a second time, in less than two decades.
405
00:28:38,377 --> 00:28:42,404
It became clear that the world
was not going to address their plight.
406
00:28:42,548 --> 00:28:48,227
Palestinians in Israel lived as third class citizens
of a state whose core identity excluded them,
407
00:28:48,554 --> 00:28:54,718
while those in the newly occupied territories
and abroad continued as dispossessed refugees.
408
00:28:55,494 --> 00:29:00,173
The United Nations passed resolution after
resolution, affirming their rights.
409
00:29:00,462 --> 00:29:06,055
Leaders of surrounding Arab nations verbally
championed their cause but failed to take action.
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00:03:52,585 --> 00:03:55,546
Occupation 101
voices of the silenced majority
410
00:29:06,704 --> 00:29:10,304
Finally, Palestinians took
matters into their own hands.
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00:29:10,442 --> 00:29:14,879
There was a mass uprising, in Arabic,
an "Intifada," "shaking off",
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00:29:15,013 --> 00:29:18,505
as people throughout the West Bank
and Gaza Strip rebelled.
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00:29:25,757 --> 00:29:30,936
The Israeli government adopted a strategy
in the words of Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
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00:29:31,096 --> 00:29:33,189
of "might, power, and beatings"
415
00:29:33,332 --> 00:29:37,166
which became known as the
"Break the Bones Strategy."
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00:29:59,686 --> 00:30:07,019
Thousands of Palestinians were rounded up
and imprisoned; since 1967, over 400,000.
417
00:30:07,699 --> 00:30:11,999
Many were held without any charges
whatsoever, under harsh conditions,
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00:30:12,137 --> 00:30:15,402
where physical abuse
and torture were rampant.
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00:30:20,409 --> 00:30:22,109
During the first Intifada (Uprising)
Dec 1987 to Dec 1993
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1947
*A Pathe dispatcher shows the scene in Jerusalem*
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00:30:22,157 --> 00:30:24,357
Palestinian civilians killed = 1,100
250 of them were minors.
421
00:30:24,431 --> 00:30:26,631
Jewish civilians killed = 114
5 of them were minors.
422
00:30:27,241 --> 00:30:30,656
By the end of 1993, the first
intifada began to wind down.
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00:30:30,796 --> 00:30:34,221
For the next seven years the Palestinians
entered into a peace process with Israel.
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00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,959
Today, we bear witness to an extraordinary act
425
00:30:41,319 --> 00:30:43,997
in one of history's defining dramas.
426
00:30:44,184 --> 00:30:46,860
The Oslo process begins officially with
the handshake on the White House lawn.
427
00:30:58,917 --> 00:31:03,768
I think the main misconception is the
years of Oslo were years of peace.
428
00:30:59,398 --> 00:31:03,964
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
{\an4}
429
00:31:04,690 --> 00:31:08,908
And in that period, when there was
supposed to be a peace process underway,
43
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*as Jewish and Arab mobs*
*clashed in the center of the city.*
430
00:31:08,961 --> 00:31:13,617
in fact, the daily lives of Palestinians,
throughout the occupied territories
431
00:31:13,708 --> 00:31:15,812
got worse and worse and worse.
432
00:31:17,259 --> 00:31:19,233
The reality, and I saw it with my own eyes
433
00:31:19,371 --> 00:31:23,683
that this was a new form of Israeli
domination over Palestinians.
434
00:31:26,645 --> 00:31:31,105
Economic and social rights, which are rights
to health, education, work, etc.
435
00:31:26,645 --> 00:31:30,915
Roger Normand
Center for Economic and Social Rights
{\an4}
436
00:31:31,249 --> 00:31:35,639
these areas are the areas that declined the
worst for the majority of Palestinians,
437
00:31:35,694 --> 00:31:37,022
almost all Palestinians.
438
00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:43,801
All the economic indicators turned for the
worse under Oslo, during this peace process.
439
00:31:39,245 --> 00:31:43,801
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli Human Rights Attorney
{\an4}
44
00:04:04,359 --> 00:04:05,539
*It remains to be seen*
440
00:31:44,019 --> 00:31:48,362
Moreover, Israeli settlements have continued
to expand throughout that period.
441
00:31:48,810 --> 00:31:52,632
Israeli settlements doubled in size and population.
442
00:31:53,060 --> 00:31:56,382
The number of Jewish settlers
increased from 200,000 to 400,000.
443
00:31:56,541 --> 00:31:59,942
At the same time that Israeli control was expanding
444
00:32:00,078 --> 00:32:03,241
the Palestinian authority was
given the trappings of power
445
00:32:03,382 --> 00:32:07,182
over the shrinking and
noncontiguous Palestinian land
446
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,379
being held out as a
future Palestinian state.
447
00:32:10,956 --> 00:32:16,401
The challenges of governing, for the Palestine
authority, are extraordinarily complex.
448
00:32:16,595 --> 00:32:19,621
This is an authority that
has very little authority.
449
00:32:19,765 --> 00:32:23,272
It has virtually no power.
Its power is derivative.
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00:04:05,594 --> 00:04:08,798
*whether a threatened full-scale
war will materialize.*
450
00:32:23,616 --> 00:32:26,694
It has the power that is given to it by Israel.
451
00:32:27,005 --> 00:32:30,616
And, at any moment, any of those
powers can be taken away.
452
00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:36,864
It was very convenient to believe that there
is no occupation, that the occupation is over.
453
00:32:38,708 --> 00:32:41,751
How many aspects in your life
somebody else determines for you?
454
00:32:41,887 --> 00:32:43,514
This is occupation.
455
00:32:43,655 --> 00:32:47,426
And Israel could determine,
in the last ten years, could determine everything.
456
00:32:48,460 --> 00:32:51,793
But everybody heard Arafat
saying ten times, a hundred times,
457
00:32:51,930 --> 00:32:54,687
that Ramallah is liberated and Gaza is liberated.
458
00:32:54,773 --> 00:32:58,116
How can it be liberated
if there is an army around it?
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00:32:54,773 --> 00:32:57,926
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
{\an4}
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2004
*Soldiers take over homes and*
460
00:33:02,941 --> 00:33:08,409
The Palestinian officials spoke very warmly
about the situation, about the reality,
461
00:33:08,550 --> 00:33:10,209
and they were hiding the fact,
462
00:33:10,348 --> 00:33:14,206
that for the great majority of the
population, these years were a disaster.
463
00:33:17,956 --> 00:33:22,252
Those abuses, those violations of the
public trust, had been happening regularly,
464
00:33:22,427 --> 00:33:23,909
since the Oslo process began.
465
00:33:24,041 --> 00:33:28,103
Palestinians who would protest against
Oslo were labeled as terrorists.
466
00:33:28,353 --> 00:33:30,329
The authority would not allow it, The PA.
467
00:33:30,430 --> 00:33:34,860
Instead of having a real national authority,
you had this corrupt institution,
468
00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:38,301
whose main task, as far as Israel was
concerned, was to police the Palestinians
469
00:33:38,510 --> 00:33:41,611
and prevent them from resisting
the continuing occupation.
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00:04:11,408 --> 00:04:13,898
*snipers don't hesitate to shoot at*
470
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:48,462
It has wasted a lot of the money the
international community has given it.
471
00:33:43,611 --> 00:33:47,611
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
472
00:33:48,787 --> 00:33:53,781
One sees the villas of leading
Palestinian officials
473
00:33:53,925 --> 00:33:59,736
and the poverty with which
the Palestinian masses are living in.
474
00:34:00,631 --> 00:34:05,787
The performance of the PLO in
running the Palestinian authority
475
00:34:02,211 --> 00:34:06,711
Rashid Khalidi
Professor of Eastern Studies - Columbia U.
{\an4}
476
00:34:06,104 --> 00:34:08,800
and its failures in negotiating with Israel,
477
00:34:08,940 --> 00:34:13,017
have very much diminished
support for the PLO leadership.
478
00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:19,256
In January 2006, elections were held and the
Palestinians voted PLO led government out of office
479
00:34:19,424 --> 00:34:24,301
giving Hamas the required seats
to form a majority government.
48
00:04:13,998 --> 00:04:16,841
*anything that moves in front of them*
480
00:34:25,556 --> 00:34:30,016
While Americans were being told by the media
that a peace process was moving forward,
481
00:34:30,189 --> 00:34:33,428
Israel continued its policy of home demolitions.
482
00:34:34,123 --> 00:34:39,471
Since 1967, about 12,000 Palestinian
homes have been demolished.
483
00:34:40,629 --> 00:34:46,031
More than 740 of those homes were
demolished during the Oslo Peace Process.
484
00:34:48,046 --> 00:34:52,827
What you've got to have, and I think it's a
fair demand on the part of Palestinians, that
485
00:34:50,507 --> 00:34:55,631
Edward Walker
U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1997 - 1999)
{\an4}
486
00:34:52,936 --> 00:34:59,279
during the process of negotiation, you're not turning
over more and more territory to Israeli settlers
487
00:34:59,424 --> 00:35:03,775
and changing the character of the land that
you're supposed to be negotiating about.
488
00:35:04,362 --> 00:35:07,338
The notion that this is going
to be a negotiable question
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00:35:08,330 --> 00:35:14,259
does not ring true to any Palestinian who
lives up against one of these settlements;
49
00:04:16,941 --> 00:04:19,563
*which includes journalists as well.*
490
00:35:14,306 --> 00:35:15,967
which are continually expanding.
491
00:35:16,107 --> 00:35:20,036
And what does it mean to expand?
It means you steal more land.
492
00:35:20,612 --> 00:35:27,080
Abdul Jawad is a Palestinian farmer whose family
has lived there and tended the land for centuries.
493
00:35:28,030 --> 00:35:32,615
The Israeli authorities have confiscated
countless acres of their farmland.
494
00:35:35,029 --> 00:35:37,700
Look at the beautiful trees
495
00:35:37,761 --> 00:35:39,486
that used to be in this area.
496
00:35:42,907 --> 00:35:45,218
Basically I had cultivated a
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00:35:45,686 --> 00:35:47,439
garden of heaven on earth.
498
00:35:50,206 --> 00:35:54,741
And look, instead of this heaven what they have done
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00:35:55,357 --> 00:35:58,754
I wish you can just see what they've done here
5
00:00:15,934 --> 00:00:19,832
is not because these people are
more violent than any other.
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As a journalist,
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Jewish Settlement
501
00:36:06,587 --> 00:36:14,403
Look how the trees continue
to grow underneath the rocks
502
00:36:15,213 --> 00:36:17,037
Isn't this a sin!
503
00:36:18,143 --> 00:36:22,924
How can a human being that mentions God, do this?
504
00:36:27,781 --> 00:36:29,805
This here is our food supply
505
00:36:29,887 --> 00:36:33,711
we don't have anything important from anywhere.
506
00:36:34,662 --> 00:36:38,019
And we wait for God's mercy! what else can we do?
507
00:36:50,669 --> 00:36:55,684
These settlers live and prosper at
the expense of the Palestinians,
508
00:36:51,224 --> 00:36:55,428
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
{\an4}
509
00:36:55,785 --> 00:37:00,316
and the Palestinians' well-being, present
well-being and future well-being.
51
00:04:20,792 --> 00:04:24,104
the more you look into the
issue of Israel and Palestine,
510
00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:07,452
And they don't see this horrible,
disproportionate allocation of resources
511
00:37:01,688 --> 00:37:05,288
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}
512
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:12,684
where Jewish settlers get water and
electricity and gas, garbage pickup,
513
00:37:12,824 --> 00:37:16,658
all kinds of things that their
Palestinian neighbors don't get,
514
00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:19,218
because of the military occupation.
515
00:37:21,148 --> 00:37:27,062
That village over there isn't allowed to visit us
516
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,468
Look, do you see anyone outside?
517
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,390
Not even one Arab is outside!
518
00:37:38,437 --> 00:37:40,015
If this car wasn't Israeli
519
00:37:40,304 --> 00:37:42,151
it wouldn't allowed on the road
52
00:04:24,304 --> 00:04:27,364
the more you sense that
something is not quite right.
520
00:37:42,721 --> 00:37:49,135
They lost the middle of the valley for a bypass
road which is now an Israeli-only bypass road.
521
00:37:49,194 --> 00:37:51,822
They can't drive on it to go to their homes.
522
00:37:51,963 --> 00:37:54,509
The thing is extremely ugly to watch.
523
00:37:53,076 --> 00:37:56,330
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}
524
00:37:54,799 --> 00:37:57,767
This is just day to day life.
I'm not talking about the fighting here.
525
00:37:58,036 --> 00:38:01,096
I mean, you walk through Hebron;
you've got an Arab city;
526
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,639
100,000 Arabs;
a couple hundred Jews;
527
00:38:03,775 --> 00:38:06,209
and settlers walking around with rifles, you know?
528
00:38:06,344 --> 00:38:08,039
Looking as if they own the place.
529
00:38:10,648 --> 00:38:14,929
The settlers can go in a Palestinian
village and burn the fields there,
53
00:04:28,671 --> 00:04:33,671
Alison Weir
Journalist & founder of "If Americans Knew"
{\an4}
530
00:38:14,953 --> 00:38:18,445
destroy the house, hit Palestinians,
even shoot Palestinians.
531
00:38:18,590 --> 00:38:22,043
Several of the women have been beaten
by settlers on different occasions.
532
00:38:22,327 --> 00:38:26,436
In each of those cases, we were just being
a nonviolent presence on the street
533
00:38:25,881 --> 00:38:30,335
Kathleen Kamphoefner
Christian Peacemaker Team
{\an4}
534
00:38:26,483 --> 00:38:28,905
observing when settlers were acting out.
535
00:38:29,401 --> 00:38:32,427
And they just attacked different ones of us.
536
00:38:32,717 --> 00:38:33,917
From what we've told you, we only
537
00:38:33,942 --> 00:38:36,427
mentioned a fraction of what happens
538
00:38:37,780 --> 00:38:40,442
The Israeli government is not doing anything
539
00:38:40,677 --> 00:38:45,512
to try and stop the settlers from
violating Palestinian rights.
54
00:04:27,828 --> 00:04:30,173
The images and the narration are out of synch,
540
00:38:50,151 --> 00:38:55,956
From all the cases that settlers actually killed
Palestinians, very few were accused of murder,
541
00:38:55,994 --> 00:39:01,125
but then the president came and gave
amnesty or shortened the punishment
542
00:39:01,266 --> 00:39:03,029
that they received from the court.
543
00:39:03,638 --> 00:39:06,747
And, in some cases, they cooperate with them.
They guard there.
544
00:39:03,638 --> 00:39:06,458
Yael Stien
B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
{\an4}
545
00:39:06,817 --> 00:39:11,672
Like one case, the settlers went and
took a house, Palestinian house,
546
00:39:11,731 --> 00:39:13,270
and just said, "Well, now it's ours."
547
00:39:13,344 --> 00:39:18,179
So the border police stood down there to protect
them, because the Palestinians were angry;
548
00:39:18,249 --> 00:39:21,589
so the border police just stood
there and protected the settlers,
549
00:39:21,894 --> 00:39:25,058
instead of, of course, arresting them,
just saying it's illegal.
55
00:04:30,694 --> 00:04:33,685
a little like a foreign film
that has been awkwardly dubbed.
550
00:39:25,156 --> 00:39:28,577
The bottom line is to make things
so difficult for the Palestinians
551
00:39:25,156 --> 00:39:30,398
Jeff Halper
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition
{\an4}
552
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,658
that anybody that wants a future for their children,
553
00:39:31,796 --> 00:39:33,286
anybody that wants to get ahead in life,
554
00:39:33,352 --> 00:39:35,734
anybody that wants a normal life,
will leave.
555
00:39:36,141 --> 00:39:40,881
Why would anyone who owns a heaven like this
556
00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:44,867
abandon it and leave?
557
00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:48,211
Where else would we go?
558
00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:56,584
The Jabber family continues to
live under constant harassment.
559
00:39:56,721 --> 00:39:59,383
Most recently, Abdul Jawad broke his leg
56
00:04:34,085 --> 00:04:37,702
*Damaged homes and roads destroyed*
560
00:39:59,524 --> 00:40:03,059
while trying to protect his
grandchildren from settler attacks.
561
00:40:04,534 --> 00:40:08,114
Many of us feel hostage, that we're
held hostage to the settlers.
562
00:40:07,878 --> 00:40:12,798
Jeff Halper
Professor of Anthropology - Ben Gurion U.
{\an4}
563
00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:12,882
Because I think the vast majority of Israelis
don't care about the occupied territories.
564
00:40:12,997 --> 00:40:14,575
But we're held hostage to the settlers
565
00:40:14,606 --> 00:40:18,450
that have enough political power
within the Israeli political system,
566
00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:20,820
that they can frustrate any
attempt to get them out.
567
00:40:20,845 --> 00:40:23,930
And as long as they're there,
the Palestinians can't possibly make peace.
568
00:40:24,261 --> 00:40:27,145
There are two kind of settlers basically
569
00:40:24,261 --> 00:40:29,424
Adam Keller
Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Group
{\an4}
57
00:04:37,977 --> 00:04:41,146
*and only skeletal remains of cars*
570
00:40:27,195 --> 00:40:30,308
there are the ideological settlers
571
00:40:31,424 --> 00:40:34,861
who feel that these territories
572
00:40:35,290 --> 00:40:37,885
have been promised to the Jewish people by God.
573
00:40:38,125 --> 00:40:40,204
And they feel that every place
574
00:40:40,274 --> 00:40:41,657
which is mentioned in the Bible
575
00:40:41,682 --> 00:40:44,017
they have not only the right but
576
00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:47,252
a scared duty to come and to build
577
00:40:47,277 --> 00:40:50,101
a modern Jewish settlement and if
578
00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:52,181
Palestinians who live on that spot
579
00:40:52,447 --> 00:40:54,127
have other ideas than they have
58
00:04:41,171 --> 00:04:44,084
*even food and medicine are ever scarce.*
580
00:40:54,175 --> 00:40:56,080
the right to break their resistance
581
00:40:56,153 --> 00:40:58,284
by force or to call in the army.
582
00:40:59,223 --> 00:41:02,846
And the other kind which are the majority
583
00:41:02,862 --> 00:41:05,113
of the settlers are in fact ordinary
584
00:41:05,138 --> 00:41:06,799
Israelis who came there simply because
585
00:41:06,861 --> 00:41:09,205
the government was offering them
586
00:41:09,253 --> 00:41:10,956
very cheap housing and when you go
587
00:41:10,981 --> 00:41:12,612
to live there most of the money
588
00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:15,081
you get as a government loan and
589
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,711
if you stay there ten years then
59
00:04:44,745 --> 00:04:47,145
As you look into it for yourself,
590
00:41:16,792 --> 00:41:18,392
you don't have to pay back the loan.
591
00:41:19,108 --> 00:41:23,085
Only 10% of the West Bank is
populated with Jewish settlers
592
00:41:23,140 --> 00:41:28,462
yet they enjoy superior privileges at the
expense of the native Palestinian population.
593
00:41:29,015 --> 00:41:34,211
Well, I think the unpleasant
and unavoidable comparison
594
00:41:29,992 --> 00:41:32,837
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
595
00:41:34,252 --> 00:41:37,811
is with South Africa during the apartheid period.
596
00:41:38,189 --> 00:41:42,091
And I must say that, having visited South Africa,
597
00:41:42,455 --> 00:41:49,980
that they were much better off than the
Palestinians living in the refugee camps.
598
00:43:04,973 --> 00:43:09,598
We went to jail because it was impossible
599
00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:14,327
to sit still while the obscenity of the apartheid system
6
00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,902
It's an alarm, it's a sign, it's a signal
60
00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,808
you begin to suspect that there is
something extremely odd going on.
600
00:43:14,352 --> 00:43:17,194
was being imposed on our people.
601
00:43:28,128 --> 00:43:32,862
The United States is seen, quite correctly,
as being the sole supporter of Israel,
602
00:43:31,050 --> 00:43:36,397
James Akins
Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
{\an4}
603
00:43:33,191 --> 00:43:37,105
and that Israel would not be able to do what
it is doing without American green light.
604
00:43:37,685 --> 00:43:43,817
The US-Israel relationship
is really unique on Capital Hill.
605
00:43:44,849 --> 00:43:50,048
In my 22 years that I served there,
there was never a moment
606
00:43:47,130 --> 00:43:51,427
Paul Findley
Former U.S. Congressman
{\an4}
607
00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:54,759
when there was really a debate about
US policy in the Middle East.
608
00:43:55,610 --> 00:43:58,101
It was always,
"What does Israel want?"
609
00:43:58,188 --> 00:44:04,079
And almost always, Congress gave them exactly
what they wanted without any debate,
61
00:04:53,712 --> 00:04:57,842
The more you look into it,
the more you begin to feel it is not just odd,
610
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,729
without any amendments being considered.
611
00:44:07,362 --> 00:44:12,831
This type of policy exists as a
result of a number of factors.
612
00:44:13,752 --> 00:44:18,431
First of all, there is the lobby,
the US lobby, for Israel:
613
00:44:18,916 --> 00:44:22,595
AIPAC, American Israeli
Public Affairs Committee.
614
00:44:22,774 --> 00:44:25,250
It has a multi-million dollar budget.
615
00:44:25,288 --> 00:44:29,832
It has a highly professional group
of people working on Capitol Hill.
616
00:44:29,855 --> 00:44:33,258
They know the legislative process,
they know the personalities,
617
00:44:33,399 --> 00:44:36,672
and therefore, advance what's
best for the state of Israel.
618
00:44:36,790 --> 00:44:39,790
Congress seems to think that if
you oppose what Israel wants
619
00:44:39,790 --> 00:44:41,868
you'll be defeated in the next election.
62
00:04:58,125 --> 00:04:59,907
it is deeply disturbing.
620
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,735
From 1978 - 2006 Pro-Israeli
Political Action Committees
621
00:44:46,844 --> 00:44:51,790
have contributed $43,724,035 to candidates who vote
in Congress according ti AIPAC's recommendations.
622
00:44:52,703 --> 00:44:58,453
Another factor is the
fundamentalist Christian community.
623
00:44:59,059 --> 00:45:04,710
Fundamentalists are often represented
by the televangelists that are on TV.
624
00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:08,780
They believe that a strong
Israel is a part of God's plan.
625
00:45:09,023 --> 00:45:13,882
They believe that the day will come
when a battle will occur
626
00:45:14,193 --> 00:45:17,083
on the plain of Armageddon in the Middle East.
627
00:45:17,262 --> 00:45:21,347
There will be the forces of truth
and righteousness on one side,
628
00:45:21,402 --> 00:45:23,301
the force of evil on the other side.
629
00:45:23,582 --> 00:45:30,050
And in that struggle, the Christian forces, led by
the second coming of Jesus Christ, will prevail.
63
00:05:07,034 --> 00:05:09,362
Our media portray Mid-East violence
630
00:45:30,558 --> 00:45:36,894
All of the Jews will be either destroyed
or converted instantly to Christianity.
631
00:45:37,104 --> 00:45:42,573
It may sound, to the viewer,
as a very far-out notion.
632
00:45:38,346 --> 00:45:42,545
Paul Findley
Former U.S. Congressman of 22 years
{\an4}
633
00:45:43,002 --> 00:45:49,555
But, believe me, it is widely held and
supported by millions of Americans,
634
00:45:49,618 --> 00:45:55,334
whose doctrines really, in the ultimate,
are hostile to the survival of Jews;
635
00:45:55,639 --> 00:46:02,107
but nevertheless, the supporters of Israel
see this vast body of American people
636
00:46:02,154 --> 00:46:06,807
as being a great asset at this time,
so they embrace them.
637
00:46:07,829 --> 00:46:09,750
And Mr. Robertson, who said:
638
00:46:09,828 --> 00:46:12,735
"I had a vision from God
that we have to support Israel.
639
00:46:12,860 --> 00:46:14,563
And no matter what happens,
and what they do,
64
00:05:09,626 --> 00:05:13,213
as though it's an inherent part
of the culture and region,
640
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:17,250
this is the will of God because
they're God's chosen people."
641
00:46:17,508 --> 00:46:19,174
A couple of weeks later, he added:
642
00:46:19,237 --> 00:46:23,205
"And that's when this ministry started really being
blessed, when we made that commitment to Israel."
643
00:46:23,252 --> 00:46:25,455
Not the commitment to God,
or Jesus Christ's teachings,
644
00:46:25,542 --> 00:46:26,603
but to Israel.
645
00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:31,883
And we have come from all the nations of
the Earth, to say to the people of Israel
646
00:46:27,236 --> 00:46:32,673
Pat Robertson
Founder and Chairman, The Christian Broadcasting Network
{\an4}
647
00:46:31,906 --> 00:46:38,804
we're your friends, we're with you, and we believe
that you're called by God to posses this land.
648
00:46:38,891 --> 00:46:43,109
I, as a Christian, and a Christian
pastor, object, not in my name
649
00:46:39,266 --> 00:46:44,571
Dr. William Baker
Former Professor of History and Biblical Studies
{\an4}
65
00:05:13,643 --> 00:05:19,631
implying that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
an ancient problem with little hope of solution.
650
00:46:43,178 --> 00:46:47,428
and not in the name of over 115
to 120 million Christians,
651
00:46:47,567 --> 00:46:51,661
do you dare say that we
support injustice and deceit.
652
00:46:51,783 --> 00:46:52,750
We do not.
653
00:46:54,110 --> 00:47:03,631
The citizenry of this democratic society is
systematically deprived of access to the real facts.
654
00:47:03,857 --> 00:47:08,900
The American media play a major role
in continuing US support for Israel,
655
00:47:09,064 --> 00:47:11,830
through leaving out vast swaths of information.
656
00:47:12,212 --> 00:47:15,275
It is the classic case of lying through omission.
657
00:47:15,510 --> 00:47:22,326
Major statements by American diplomats, senators,
military leaders, are going unreported.
658
00:47:22,650 --> 00:47:25,642
Sentences are being removed from news stories.
659
00:47:25,787 --> 00:47:29,189
Information is being manipulated.
66
00:05:20,861 --> 00:05:22,935
*Israeli soldiers reign destruction*
660
00:47:29,757 --> 00:47:35,382
Those are the three factors that
work together on Capitol Hill
661
00:47:35,702 --> 00:47:42,191
and lead to such total bias, such total
absence of free speech, of open debate,
662
00:47:42,535 --> 00:47:48,511
that is, I think, very destructive to our institutions,
and to our best interests in world affairs.
663
00:47:48,977 --> 00:47:53,241
So Israel, for example, does not
abide at all by international law.
664
00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:55,569
The entire occupation is illegal.
665
00:47:55,850 --> 00:47:59,624
It's a violation, in particular,
of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
666
00:48:02,421 --> 00:48:06,419
By the rules of the Fourth Geneva Convention,
you're not allowed to build settlements,
667
00:48:06,677 --> 00:48:10,225
you're not allowed to build roads,
you're not allowed to expropriate land,
668
00:48:10,365 --> 00:48:14,495
you're not allowed to deport people, you're not
allowed to restrict their freedom of movement,
669
00:48:14,635 --> 00:48:19,388
you're not allowed to harm their economy, you're not
allowed to make them unemployed and impoverished.
67
00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:25,328
*in all areas of the West Bank.*
670
00:48:21,282 --> 00:48:26,278
Everything that Israel does in the occupied
territories, US taxpayers are paying for it.
671
00:48:22,780 --> 00:48:26,278
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}
672
00:48:26,547 --> 00:48:30,119
The US gives the financing,
it gives the military support.
673
00:48:30,885 --> 00:48:38,690
Israel receives as much foreign economic assistance
as all the countries combined in the world.
674
00:48:31,944 --> 00:48:36,477
Richard Falk
Professor of International Law - Princeton
{\an4}
675
00:48:40,582 --> 00:48:44,254
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America
676
00:48:44,637 --> 00:48:50,340
Total US Aid from 1949 - 1996
$ 62.5 Billion
677
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,329
Israel
678
00:48:57,510 --> 00:49:02,213
Total US Aid from 1949 - 1996
$ 62.5 Billion
679
00:49:03,089 --> 00:49:12,860
Population:
Israel = 5.8 million
68
00:05:25,829 --> 00:05:28,909
*The "City of Peace" is under siege*
680
00:49:14,978 --> 00:49:28,383
Population:
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America = 1.05 Billion
681
00:49:31,157 --> 00:49:36,957
US Aid Dollars Spent per Person
Israel = $ 10,775
682
00:49:38,473 --> 00:49:44,672
US Aid Dollars Spent per Person
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America = $ 59
683
00:49:48,344 --> 00:49:57,092
Of the total aid the US gives annually
Israel receives one third
684
00:49:58,842 --> 00:50:07,002
There are currently 191 independently
recognized countries in the world
685
00:50:07,674 --> 00:50:12,713
In March 2003, the US government
approved $10 Billion in aid for Israel
686
00:50:13,739 --> 00:50:21,077
At the same time, it withheld a $3.5 Billion grant
to upgrade the training of first responders
687
00:50:21,438 --> 00:50:26,109
those who be the first to respond to a terrorist attack
688
00:50:26,444 --> 00:50:30,280
Spent domestically that $10 Billion
could buy health care coverage
689
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,524
for 4,202,251 children without proper coverage
69
00:05:29,550 --> 00:05:31,653
*and the Church of Nativity is under*
690
00:50:34,030 --> 00:50:39,560
Or pay for 1,445,573 American children to
attend "Headstart" child development programs
691
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,118
to prepare them for school
692
00:50:41,967 --> 00:50:48,043
Or simply help states offsets the costs of one
of the worst fiscal crises in half a century
693
00:50:49,549 --> 00:50:57,517
From 1949 to 2006 US Aid to Israel amounts to:
$108 Billion
694
00:50:58,648 --> 00:51:04,559
Today it averages $2 to $3 Billion per year
695
00:51:05,292 --> 00:51:12,982
or $6 to $8 Million per day
696
00:51:13,630 --> 00:51:21,608
Israel is currently the most extensive
violator of UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS
697
00:51:22,077 --> 00:51:27,356
The United States has used its Veto
power more than 40 times in the U.N.
698
00:51:27,372 --> 00:51:29,974
To defend Israel violations of international law.
699
00:51:31,899 --> 00:51:36,859
And one of the reasons that the American
commitment to Israel is so strong,
7
00:00:23,852 --> 00:00:27,131
that something is wrong in the
treatment of this population.
70
00:05:31,736 --> 00:05:33,958
*fire by heavy military artillery*
700
00:51:36,977 --> 00:51:45,274
that it's not only reflecting the impact
of well-organized, pro-Israel lobbies,
701
00:51:45,413 --> 00:51:53,033
but it also represents the views of the Pentagon, that
sees Israel now as an indispensable strategic ally
702
00:51:49,030 --> 00:51:53,032
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
703
00:51:53,096 --> 00:51:58,093
in the effort to control and exert
influence throughout the region.
704
00:51:58,659 --> 00:52:04,059
The main concern for the United States,
like the world, is the oil producing regions.
705
00:51:58,659 --> 00:52:03,961
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}
706
00:52:04,198 --> 00:52:07,064
And in order to control that,
you need a way of doing it.
707
00:52:20,348 --> 00:52:23,545
Desperate for a peace
that would finally end occupation,
708
00:52:23,684 --> 00:52:27,984
Palestinians again came
to the negotiating table in 2000.
709
00:52:28,122 --> 00:52:30,750
People think, look, Israel was very forthcoming.
71
00:05:34,018 --> 00:05:36,195
*Hundreds of citizens are stuck inside*
710
00:52:30,883 --> 00:52:34,956
It offered 95 percent of the West
Bank of the occupied territories
711
00:52:35,002 --> 00:52:37,948
to the Palestinians and they
rejected it in violence.
712
00:52:38,839 --> 00:52:42,237
The assumption of that 95 percent argument is that
713
00:52:42,354 --> 00:52:46,036
getting 95 percent of the land
gives you 95 percent sovereignty.
714
00:52:46,420 --> 00:52:50,589
Jeff Halper
Professor of Anthropology - Ben Gurion U.
{\an4}
715
00:52:46,841 --> 00:52:48,308
A sovereign country.
716
00:52:48,442 --> 00:52:51,535
But I think it's very useful
to think in terms of a prison.
717
00:52:51,779 --> 00:52:56,215
If you look at a blueprint of a prison, it
looks like the prisoners own the place.
718
00:52:56,350 --> 00:52:59,046
And the prisoners have 95 percent of the area.
719
00:52:59,186 --> 00:53:02,139
They've got the living areas.
They have the exercise yard.
72
00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:38,244
*the church without any food or medicine.*
720
00:53:02,209 --> 00:53:05,716
They have the cafeteria.
They've got the work areas.
721
00:53:05,943 --> 00:53:08,372
All the prison authorities have is five percent,
722
00:53:09,059 --> 00:53:10,607
is the control.
723
00:53:11,189 --> 00:53:14,088
The average Palestinian didn't think
they were throwing anything away
724
00:53:13,284 --> 00:53:18,184
Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Rabbis for Human Rights
{\an4}
725
00:53:14,158 --> 00:53:15,096
because there was nothing to throw away.
726
00:53:15,202 --> 00:53:18,431
They had tuned out what Barak
and Arafat were talking about,
727
00:53:18,572 --> 00:53:22,473
because, on the ground, there
were ongoing land expropriations,
728
00:53:22,610 --> 00:53:25,773
tree uprooting, road building,
unfair water allocation;
729
00:53:25,913 --> 00:53:29,749
leaving many Palestinian families, in the summer
and fall, with two hours of running water a week,
73
00:05:38,905 --> 00:05:43,288
These mis-perceptions come from the fact that
we're only hearing a fraction of the story.
730
00:53:29,884 --> 00:53:33,746
when next door you have a settlement
with a swimming pool and green lawns.
731
00:53:33,888 --> 00:53:35,719
So what do you expect people to think?
732
00:53:43,254 --> 00:53:46,972
And it was that pressure,
that sense of being squeezed
733
00:53:44,621 --> 00:53:49,078
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
{\an4}
734
00:53:47,285 --> 00:53:53,873
that finally exploded in September of
2000, in what became The Second Intifada.
735
00:54:16,931 --> 00:54:23,702
What is called "The Second Intifada" is
essentially a mobilization of resistance
736
00:54:23,838 --> 00:54:27,759
against this structure of occupation and oppression.
737
00:54:30,458 --> 00:54:37,055
Israel, from the very beginning of these
demonstrations, had indeed relied on excessive force.
738
00:54:31,063 --> 00:54:35,227
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
739
00:54:37,184 --> 00:54:41,660
They had used live ammunition
against unarmed demonstrators,
74
00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:58,062
You are about to witness images and testimony,
largely hidden from mainstream America.
740
00:54:41,718 --> 00:54:44,269
had inflicted several deaths...
741
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:53,362
...and hundreds of causalities in
the opening days of the Intifada.
742
00:54:53,610 --> 00:54:55,688
In the first 10 days of the uprising alone
743
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,884
The Israeli security forces killed 74
Palestinians and injured nearly 3000.
744
00:55:03,617 --> 00:55:08,247
Sometimes, the Israelis are speaking
about rubber bullets they used.
745
00:55:08,382 --> 00:55:11,759
By the way, it's not rubber.
It's steel coated with rubber.
746
00:55:12,250 --> 00:55:17,156
This bullet, it killed many of
the kids who are demonstrating
747
00:55:12,766 --> 00:55:16,300
Red Crescent Hospital
{\an4}
748
00:55:17,174 --> 00:55:20,855
and who sometimes while they are throwing stones.
749
00:55:20,995 --> 00:55:23,964
As this case, I'll show you what happened.
75
00:06:06,604 --> 00:06:11,229
This place draws many people,
whether they're Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.
750
00:55:24,098 --> 00:55:26,532
He is a 14-year-old from Khan Yunis.
751
00:55:26,667 --> 00:55:30,409
He was shot with one like this,
and it entered here,
752
00:55:30,785 --> 00:55:32,284
and he died.
753
00:55:33,374 --> 00:55:37,869
A lot of the deaths have been children,
and we do have some documentary evidence
754
00:55:35,572 --> 00:55:38,588
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}
755
00:55:38,012 --> 00:55:41,777
that security forces are
firing on crowds of children.
756
00:55:41,941 --> 00:55:44,112
The soldiers weren't at risk.
They're heavily armored.
757
00:55:43,315 --> 00:55:46,385
Thomas Getman
World Vision International - Jerusalem
{\an4}
758
00:55:44,167 --> 00:55:45,985
They have all this high-powered weaponry.
759
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,755
And no child with a stone is
going to be a risk to them.
76
00:06:08,166 --> 00:06:12,166
Kathleen Kamphoefner
Christian Peacemaker Team
{\an4}
760
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:04,188
Most of the Palestinian abuses
involve shooting at settlements,
761
00:55:59,865 --> 00:56:02,687
Peter Boukaert
Human Rights Watch
{\an4}
762
00:56:04,338 --> 00:56:10,640
ambushes on settler cars, and, obviously,
the suicide bombings inside Israel.
763
00:56:11,949 --> 00:56:17,246
There are some risks to Israeli life.
Many Israelis have been killed.
764
00:56:18,085 --> 00:56:22,187
When there was this horrible suicide
bombing, at the pizza place in Jerusalem,
765
00:56:22,323 --> 00:56:26,322
I went to visit some of the kids who
survived that blast, in the hospital.
766
00:56:22,478 --> 00:56:26,843
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}
767
00:56:26,433 --> 00:56:29,932
It was horrible. It was horrible to
see what happened to these children.
768
00:56:30,064 --> 00:56:34,392
You see the blood, you see the agony of the family.
This is what the world sees.
769
00:56:36,785 --> 00:56:39,863
But one cannot take it out of the general context.
77
00:06:11,361 --> 00:06:16,025
This is a holy place to significant
numbers of us, in the world.
770
00:56:39,972 --> 00:56:43,666
And the context is of an Israeli
occupation, which is...
771
00:56:43,807 --> 00:56:47,194
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
{\an4}
772
00:56:44,006 --> 00:56:47,225
It seems not to be so brutal,
but it's very brutal.
773
00:56:47,326 --> 00:56:50,130
It really makes people's lives unbearable.
774
00:56:55,589 --> 00:57:00,185
The use of suicide bombers is an act of desperation.
775
00:56:58,559 --> 00:57:02,071
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}
776
00:57:00,327 --> 00:57:02,067
It's the weapons of the weak.
777
00:57:02,147 --> 00:57:04,570
Israel doesn't do it.
Never.
778
00:57:02,147 --> 00:57:10,679
Hava Keller
Committee for Women Political Prisoners
{\an4}
779
00:57:04,670 --> 00:57:07,636
Because it has airplanes and helicopters.
78
00:06:16,124 --> 00:06:20,827
We all have an interest in sort of seeing what
is this land, and what's the situation here.
780
00:57:07,736 --> 00:57:10,683
Why should they send anybody to make suicide?
781
00:57:12,374 --> 00:57:16,014
I think we have to change our
conception of what Israel is.
782
00:57:16,077 --> 00:57:21,044
Israel likes to present itself as this little
country surrounded by a sea of hostile Arabs,
783
00:57:21,181 --> 00:57:24,009
and we just want peace, and they're violent.
784
00:57:24,451 --> 00:57:27,899
Israel is the fifth largest
nuclear power in the world.
785
00:57:28,251 --> 00:57:30,984
It's got between two and three
hundred nuclear warheads.
786
00:57:31,125 --> 00:57:34,093
So the reality is that Israel
is a regional super power.
787
00:57:36,297 --> 00:57:43,963
For the first time, the resistance to that occupation
had, to a very small extent, an armed component.
788
00:57:44,104 --> 00:57:46,834
There was nothing close to equal force.
789
00:57:49,827 --> 00:57:53,053
Israeli Tanks 3930
Palestinian Tanks 0
79
00:06:20,911 --> 00:06:24,036
And, once you come,
if you open your eyes at all,
790
00:57:53,379 --> 00:57:56,783
Israeli F-16 Jets 362
Palestinian F-16 Jets 0
791
00:57:56,783 --> 00:58:01,196
Israeli F-16 Jets 362
The largest fleet in any country in the world
behind the US
792
00:58:01,655 --> 00:58:06,251
At every stage, they had
used grossly excessive force
793
00:58:06,393 --> 00:58:11,626
against a completely defenseless
civilian population.
794
00:58:15,536 --> 00:58:18,895
The victims have been overwhelmingly
Palestinian civilians.
795
00:58:16,777 --> 00:58:20,480
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}
796
00:58:19,004 --> 00:58:20,501
Overwhelmingly.
797
00:58:20,641 --> 00:58:23,413
Not armed groups or armed individuals.
798
00:58:23,498 --> 00:58:25,261
From September 2000
to February 2007:
799
00:58:25,371 --> 00:58:28,410
Palestinians killed by Israelis: 4,009
Israelis killed by Palestinians: 1,021
8
00:00:30,057 --> 00:00:31,888
*Where is the outcry?*
80
00:06:24,067 --> 00:06:27,780
you can't miss the problems
and the patterns that are here.
800
00:58:28,435 --> 00:58:30,927
More than 935 children were killed
during the current conflict:
801
00:58:31,060 --> 00:58:33,115
816 Palestinian
119 Israeli
802
00:58:41,695 --> 00:58:46,860
Israel has established all of these
checkpoints within the West Bank,
803
00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:53,212
which require Palestinians to wait hours
and hours to go very short distances.
804
00:58:55,342 --> 00:58:59,959
Just the freedom of movement, that's something
that Palestinians are denied on a daily basis.
805
00:58:57,651 --> 00:59:00,498
Douglas Dicks
Catholic Relief Services
{\an4}
806
00:59:00,045 --> 00:59:02,841
The access to Jerusalem,
the access to health care,
807
00:59:03,021 --> 00:59:06,794
the access to hospitals,
clinics, and schools.
808
00:59:09,623 --> 00:59:14,674
We're talking about three million people who've
had the freedom of movement totally stopped.
809
00:59:14,846 --> 00:59:16,494
It's a violation of international law.
81
00:06:29,562 --> 00:06:32,384
I think it's hard to understand
what occupation is.
810
00:59:16,563 --> 00:59:21,211
That the right to freedom of movement is a fundamental
right in the Declaration of Human Rights.
811
00:59:17,849 --> 00:59:21,016
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}
812
00:59:21,329 --> 00:59:26,263
What you have is young Israeli
conscripts who look bored.
813
00:59:26,555 --> 00:59:31,055
These guys are sitting out there, and they're
watching thousands of Palestinians go by.
814
00:59:31,242 --> 00:59:35,874
They have *carte blanche* to pull anyone
over and harass them, for whatever reason.
815
00:59:35,952 --> 00:59:37,718
They can detain them for hours.
816
00:59:37,820 --> 00:59:39,918
And it's a dangerous situation.
817
00:59:41,055 --> 00:59:46,749
The main population that are being affected by
Israeli policies is the civilian population,
818
00:59:46,894 --> 00:59:53,030
the population that is not being involved in any
attacks against the Israelis, civilians or the army.
819
00:59:56,022 --> 01:00:00,616
During this time of closure, unfortunately, there
have been lots of bombings, lots of attacks.
82
00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:38,479
I think it's a foreign concept for many Americans;
what it's like to live under military occupation.
820
01:00:00,941 --> 01:00:05,003
The closure is not meant
to deter suicide bombings.
821
01:00:05,097 --> 01:00:09,761
It's meant to punish and put
pressure on three million civilians.
822
01:00:10,737 --> 01:00:12,215
People do not earn any more
823
01:00:12,352 --> 01:00:15,655
because the majority of the
Palestinians used to work in Israel.
824
01:00:15,789 --> 01:00:19,367
And the majority of the Palestinian
economy was based on the income of people
825
01:00:19,406 --> 01:00:20,898
who were working inside Israel.
826
01:00:21,476 --> 01:00:22,983
Now they cannot go into Israel,
827
01:00:23,018 --> 01:00:27,808
so tens of thousands of families just
lose the source of income that they had.
828
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:29,535
According to World Bank Estimates:
829
01:00:29,684 --> 01:00:34,180
Unemployment is now reaching 53% of the population
75% of Palestinians live in poverty (less than $2 a day)
83
00:06:40,594 --> 00:06:43,953
The definition of an occupation
is when a foreign army
830
01:00:34,420 --> 01:00:36,803
The education system is also affected by that.
831
01:00:36,844 --> 01:00:38,709
Students cannot go to the university.
832
01:00:42,449 --> 01:00:49,152
Birzeit University was subject to army
closures for something like 18 times.
833
01:00:49,311 --> 01:00:52,151
The longest closure was during The First Intifada.
834
01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,994
For five years, we could not set foot on campus.
835
01:00:52,824 --> 01:00:57,410
Dr. Albert Aghazarian
Bir Zeit University
{\an4}
836
01:00:55,129 --> 01:00:58,941
During this period, we organized
what the Israeli army called
837
01:00:59,019 --> 01:01:00,729
"cells of illegal education".
838
01:01:00,868 --> 01:01:04,196
We were teaching in apartments, in rented flats,
839
01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:07,801
in churches, in mosques,
in gardens, in cars.
84
00:06:44,003 --> 00:06:47,484
occupies your land physically
and controls your life.
840
01:01:07,941 --> 01:01:10,980
And we kept our infrastructure, even this attempt,
841
01:01:11,167 --> 01:01:14,210
to minimize the damage and to
keep the university going.
842
01:01:14,291 --> 01:01:15,830
They attempted to crush it.
843
01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:20,616
I went to college in the States
and I found it very different.
844
01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:20,526
Bir Zeit University Students
{\an4}
845
01:01:20,754 --> 01:01:22,984
Your biggest worry in the States,
846
01:01:23,123 --> 01:01:26,701
is if I'm going to pass in class or,
"Oh, I hope I have a lot of friends."
847
01:01:26,771 --> 01:01:28,490
Over here, it's totally different.
848
01:01:28,629 --> 01:01:30,980
You have to worry, "Oh, my God,
would I be able to get to school?
849
01:01:31,027 --> 01:01:33,207
Is there going to be a checkpoint?
Is there going to be a demonstration?
85
00:06:50,504 --> 00:06:53,019
In addition, Palestinians under occupation,
850
01:01:33,246 --> 01:01:35,599
Am I going to get shot at?
Is there going to be tear gas?"
851
01:01:35,736 --> 01:01:39,297
So, it's like, completely different.
852
01:01:42,075 --> 01:01:43,804
And here, it's just like you don't
know if you're going to live
853
01:01:43,944 --> 01:01:45,172
or you're going to die, you know?
854
01:01:45,312 --> 01:01:47,449
It's... You're going to school
as if you're going to fight a war.
855
01:01:49,917 --> 01:01:53,010
You don't find a tank in the middle
of the road on your way to college.
856
01:01:53,088 --> 01:01:55,471
Just the other day, there were
two tanks and an army Jeep.
857
01:01:55,518 --> 01:01:58,720
And they're standing there checking
your passport, and, you know,
858
01:01:58,748 --> 01:02:00,824
your student visa and all this stuff.
859
01:02:00,961 --> 01:02:03,164
And it's just like, "We want to get
to school. We want an education.
86
00:06:51,922 --> 00:06:55,922
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli human rights lawyer
{\an4}
860
01:02:03,197 --> 01:02:06,101
We're humans, and we
have a right to our education.
861
01:02:06,125 --> 01:02:10,656
In places like the United States, people
cannot understand what's going on,
862
01:02:10,687 --> 01:02:15,256
because simply, the experience is
beyond their frame of reference.
863
01:02:15,303 --> 01:02:17,654
I can't study at night because my
bedroom light is going to be on,
864
01:02:17,744 --> 01:02:19,905
and it's across the street from a settlement.
865
01:02:20,047 --> 01:02:23,422
They shot at me.
I was reading my biology book.
866
01:02:23,461 --> 01:02:24,906
I was studying for my mid-term.
867
01:02:24,952 --> 01:02:27,510
And my mom and dad are like,
"No, get out of the room,"
868
01:02:27,588 --> 01:02:30,088
because they started shooting.
869
01:02:30,123 --> 01:02:32,614
I was like, "No, Mom, I want to get
an "A" in the class. Let me study."
87
00:06:53,089 --> 00:06:55,964
- and this why there's so much
struggle against the occupation -
870
01:02:32,686 --> 01:02:34,021
So I'm sitting there and all of the sudden,
871
01:02:34,161 --> 01:02:38,030
you hear something on my bedroom window.
872
01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:42,678
And I was just like, "Okay,
maybe I should go downstairs."
873
01:02:42,736 --> 01:02:43,935
I couldn't study for my test.
874
01:02:44,004 --> 01:02:46,234
It's like...
I tell my American friends:
875
01:02:46,373 --> 01:02:49,103
"It's like, do you understand
what I'm going through?"
876
01:02:50,477 --> 01:02:55,074
The amazing thing is not that you
have cases of suicide in students.
877
01:02:55,215 --> 01:02:59,542
The amazing thing is the bulk of them, they
try to carry on in the middle of this mess,
878
01:02:59,686 --> 01:03:04,123
as if life is normal, as if they want
to celebrate their graduation,
879
01:03:04,258 --> 01:03:07,140
and they want to build their life,
and they want to carry on.
88
00:06:56,031 --> 00:06:57,623
they're not citizens.
They don't have rights.
880
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,256
That's the other part of the coin.
881
01:03:12,823 --> 01:03:17,971
The root problem here is occupation.
Everything else emanates from there.
882
01:03:25,412 --> 01:03:28,763
The most severe problem is
people who need medical care.
883
01:03:29,757 --> 01:03:33,570
We've documented numerous cases,
cases where people have died.
884
01:03:33,593 --> 01:03:38,531
In fact, I believe that one of the last cases
we documented was a woman who was in labor,
885
01:03:38,625 --> 01:03:42,750
who was not allowed to get to the hospital,
and she and the baby both died.
886
01:03:43,117 --> 01:03:48,577
If people like that, people who are really sick and
really need to go to hospitals, cannot do that.
887
01:03:48,769 --> 01:03:53,620
So I think you can imagine what happens to
regular people that just want to go to work,
888
01:03:53,674 --> 01:03:56,808
just want to go to do some shopping,
or even just visit friends.
889
01:03:56,944 --> 01:04:01,381
It's like living in a prison, a gigantic prison.
89
00:06:57,718 --> 00:07:01,029
They don't have civil rights.
They're under a military rule.
890
01:04:04,017 --> 01:04:06,806
Haaretz, the intellectual newspaper in Israel,
891
01:04:06,954 --> 01:04:11,053
ran a whole, like a four-page magazine
article on the refugee issue.
892
01:04:11,085 --> 01:04:13,953
It had a picture of Tel Aviv University now
893
01:04:14,085 --> 01:04:18,643
and what was there before Tel Aviv
University, a Palestinian village.
894
01:04:18,839 --> 01:04:20,422
And those refugees are in Gaza.
895
01:04:23,727 --> 01:04:26,370
Gaza is one place that's seen hell
896
01:04:26,934 --> 01:04:29,567
No lie, I swear Gaza is even worse
897
01:04:29,998 --> 01:04:32,582
than what we've experienced!
898
01:04:32,925 --> 01:04:34,869
Gaza is much worse!
899
01:04:38,752 --> 01:04:41,380
I think that Gaza is a main problem.
9
00:00:32,644 --> 00:00:34,644
IRELAND
{\an5}
90
00:07:02,491 --> 00:07:10,675
This is a particular kind of occupation,
that's both military and settler occupation.
900
01:04:41,423 --> 01:04:44,540
There are lots of violations that you will not
see in the West Bank, you will see in Gaza.
901
01:04:44,610 --> 01:04:47,685
We find it hard to monitor the
human rights situation in Gaza
902
01:04:47,828 --> 01:04:50,469
because the Israeli army do not let us in.
903
01:04:55,902 --> 01:05:01,667
Palestinians in Gaza had been under Israeli
military control for over 38 years,
904
01:05:01,972 --> 01:05:09,356
where 1.3 million Palestinians were crowded
together to make room for 8,000 Israeli settlers.
905
01:05:18,723 --> 01:05:20,747
In August of 2005,
906
01:05:20,927 --> 01:05:27,666
Israel dismantled its settlements and military
posts inside Gaza and relocated its settlers.
907
01:05:29,703 --> 01:05:36,272
The media, along with Israeli politicians,
portrayed this as an unprecedented sacrifice.
908
01:05:36,410 --> 01:05:41,652
In reality, it was simply a matter of Israel
finally complying with international law.
909
01:05:42,491 --> 01:05:47,847
The evacuation of settlers from Gaza constituted
only 2% of the entire Israel settler population.
91
00:07:04,129 --> 00:07:08,781
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
{\an4}
910
01:05:48,567 --> 01:05:52,093
Each illegal settler was promised
an estimated $227,000 to relocate
911
01:05:53,031 --> 01:05:56,858
A total cost of $2.2 Billion an expense
Israel has asked the US to pay for.
912
01:05:56,998 --> 01:06:01,032
Although Israel's presence inside
Gaza is no longer visible,
913
01:06:01,168 --> 01:06:05,460
Israel will still retain ultimate
control over Gaza's borders,
914
01:06:05,663 --> 01:06:10,809
coastal waters, and air space,
creating a virtual prison.
915
01:06:12,211 --> 01:06:19,033
The refugee camps, even if there was no conflict
with Israel, are just humanly horrible.
916
01:06:19,321 --> 01:06:21,736
They're so overcrowded.
917
01:06:23,713 --> 01:06:29,056
And you have 14 to 25 people
living in a space.
918
01:06:38,438 --> 01:06:43,102
There's no place for children to be.
There are no streets.
919
01:06:43,136 --> 01:06:47,300
They're little alleys.
No trees. Nothing.
92
00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:19,829
Bishop Allen Bartlett
Diocese of Washington
{\an4}
920
01:06:52,238 --> 01:06:57,596
Many generations of Palestinians have grown up and
continue to live in refugee camps throughout the region.
921
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,339
In 1948, they numbered over 750,000
922
01:07:01,230 --> 01:07:05,823
Today, those who continue to live
in refugee camps number 4,255,120
923
01:07:06,456 --> 01:07:09,276
Could you live here? Could you?
924
01:07:09,675 --> 01:07:13,378
You couldn't because the conditions are horrible
925
01:07:13,668 --> 01:07:18,863
and you'd be afraid whenever the missiles strike
926
01:07:19,380 --> 01:07:22,261
and the walls begin to crack!
927
01:07:51,582 --> 01:07:54,456
The shelling struck the window
928
01:07:54,544 --> 01:08:00,082
everything broke and got burnt.
929
01:08:02,122 --> 01:08:05,272
Why did they break my things
93
00:07:14,503 --> 00:07:20,674
Settlements are areas of Palestinian
land which are selected,
930
01:08:05,322 --> 01:08:06,940
and break my toys?
931
01:08:06,990 --> 01:08:08,479
I lost a lot of my stuff.
932
01:08:08,529 --> 01:08:11,274
We threw it all in the garbage
933
01:08:11,324 --> 01:08:13,457
We also got rid of our clothes
934
01:08:13,507 --> 01:08:17,017
We beg from our neighbors for clothing to wear.
935
01:08:17,067 --> 01:08:20,931
The food we eat smells like gas
936
01:08:20,981 --> 01:08:23,323
We don't want to get rid of our clothes
937
01:08:23,373 --> 01:08:25,490
even though they smell like gas
938
01:08:25,540 --> 01:08:27,834
Only if you would smell our clothing!
939
01:08:27,884 --> 01:08:30,769
Let the Israelis come and smell our clothes
94
00:07:20,901 --> 00:07:26,502
and whatever is there, whether it's roads,
or whether it's villages, or homes,
940
01:08:30,819 --> 01:08:32,200
and see our home.
941
01:08:32,250 --> 01:08:34,827
Whenever we go to take a shower
942
01:08:34,877 --> 01:08:36,735
or do anything at home
943
01:08:36,785 --> 01:08:40,054
the smell of gas suffocates us to death!
944
01:08:40,124 --> 01:08:42,873
Come and look at my clothes.
945
01:08:42,923 --> 01:08:45,082
Smell them. It's gas.
946
01:08:45,132 --> 01:08:46,289
What can I do?
947
01:08:46,339 --> 01:08:48,781
I didn't even get to enjoy the
948
01:08:48,831 --> 01:08:51,243
sunglasses that my dad gave me
949
01:08:51,293 --> 01:08:53,759
even the bracelets and necklace
95
00:07:26,541 --> 00:07:31,017
they are bulldozed, and then a new
town is built on the hilltop.
950
01:08:53,809 --> 01:08:55,496
that my mom gave me.
951
01:08:55,546 --> 01:08:59,190
I didn't even get to enjoy my rings.
952
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:04,634
How am I supposed to enjoy all of my belongings?
953
01:09:05,471 --> 01:09:09,041
How? Enjoy our things with what?
954
01:09:09,094 --> 01:09:11,923
Our children can't even live
955
01:09:11,973 --> 01:09:14,350
We don't even know how to live.
956
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,347
We live in constant fear.
957
01:09:17,646 --> 01:09:20,364
We live in fear and terror!
958
01:09:25,873 --> 01:09:28,567
On my way to school I hear gun shots.
959
01:09:28,646 --> 01:09:30,825
I get so scared from the shooting
96
00:07:31,511 --> 00:07:34,480
One very good friend is Rodina Jabber.
960
01:09:30,928 --> 01:09:33,247
I begin to tremble all over.
961
01:09:36,961 --> 01:09:39,906
This is what has been fired on this neighborhood.
962
01:09:39,961 --> 01:09:43,235
This is a civilian neighborhood.
There are no soldiers here.
963
01:09:42,899 --> 01:09:47,208
Thomas Getman
Director, World Vision Jerusalem
{\an4}
964
01:09:43,456 --> 01:09:46,992
There are no military installations here.
965
01:09:47,141 --> 01:09:51,672
This is strictly harassment, to get these
people to move away from the border,
966
01:09:52,133 --> 01:09:56,448
so that the Israeli tanks can move at will.
967
01:09:56,902 --> 01:10:02,266
The want these people cleansed from this area.
It's that simple.
968
01:10:03,064 --> 01:10:09,243
And it's a way to get people to be
humiliated and destitute again.
969
01:10:09,775 --> 01:10:12,642
In Gaza, you can see also the
extent of house demolitions,
97
00:07:34,598 --> 00:07:40,340
She and her husband, Ata, have landed in a
rural valley near here called the Ba'a.
970
01:10:11,045 --> 01:10:15,117
Yael Stien
B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
{\an4}
971
01:10:12,689 --> 01:10:15,767
much more extensive than in the West Bank.
972
01:10:15,806 --> 01:10:18,215
Whole neighborhoods have been demolished.
973
01:10:18,433 --> 01:10:20,675
Hundreds of people do not have any houses any more,
974
01:10:20,776 --> 01:10:23,502
because they are next to
settlements or next to the border,
975
01:10:23,541 --> 01:10:26,104
which is, of course, a clear
violation of humanitarian law.
976
01:10:27,723 --> 01:10:30,684
People have no chance to get
their personal items out.
977
01:10:30,824 --> 01:10:32,887
They have no chance to call for help.
978
01:10:32,957 --> 01:10:37,121
And this is far away from most media outlets.
979
01:10:37,355 --> 01:10:42,983
You are amongst the very few
journalists who have even seen this.
98
00:07:40,484 --> 00:07:44,079
And it's pretty clear these
settlements want this land.
980
01:10:43,139 --> 01:10:45,678
European or American journalists
who have even been here.
981
01:10:45,772 --> 01:10:49,400
Because people are afraid to
come or it's too hard to come.
982
01:10:51,772 --> 01:10:58,342
One of the things we were told in Gaza by
a very respected Palestinian psychologist
983
01:10:58,365 --> 01:11:03,265
who had just completed a study
of a thousand Palestinian children,
984
01:11:03,403 --> 01:11:07,863
was that they had discovered that
many of these Palestinian children
985
01:11:07,999 --> 01:11:10,371
no longer had a will to live,
986
01:11:10,535 --> 01:11:16,566
that they were so dehumanized and so affected
987
01:11:16,613 --> 01:11:23,860
by seeing their fathers, particularly,
beaten by Israeli defense forces,
988
01:11:25,149 --> 01:11:29,940
that the psychological condition is
one of the dimensions of the conflict
989
01:11:30,011 --> 01:11:32,411
that is not widely understood.
99
00:07:44,224 --> 00:07:47,106
It's some of the best
agricultural land around here.
990
01:11:36,143 --> 01:11:41,572
Palestinians called for an international
observer force that would stop the violence,
991
01:11:41,675 --> 01:11:44,925
but this action was blocked by Israel.
992
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:50,981
Finally, a group of Palestinian and
Israeli human rights activists, together
993
01:11:51,184 --> 01:11:54,328
created the International Solidarity Movement,
994
01:11:54,594 --> 01:11:58,773
which has brought people from around the
world, of all ages and backgrounds,
995
01:11:59,055 --> 01:12:04,356
to provide a nonviolent, international presence,
to try to fill this need.
996
01:12:05,969 --> 01:12:09,851
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American student,
997
01:12:10,101 --> 01:12:15,263
went to Gaza to join in these efforts,
sending back e-mails to her parents.
998
01:12:15,454 --> 01:12:19,213
"I have been in Palestine for
two weeks and one hour now,
999
01:12:19,502 --> 01:12:23,244
and I still have very few
words to describe what I see.
1
00:00:00,502 --> 00:00:05,173
The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
.
.
2
00:00:05,173 --> 00:00:08,385
The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
it is the illusion of knowledge.
.
3
00:00:08,385 --> 00:00:09,836
The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking