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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
12 00:00:52,186 --> 00:00:54,186 ALGERIA
120 00:09:04,938 --> 00:09:10,313 Her husband, Ata, was even imprisoned for protesting the destruction of their home.
1200 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
1203 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,
1205 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.
1206 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.
1207 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.
1209 01:26:48,591 --> 01:26:51,716 We're not facing what people in the occupied territories are facing.
121 00:09:14,257 --> 00:09:18,730 As I was cooking for my children
1210 01:26:51,818 --> 01:26:53,614 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
1212 01:26:56,137 --> 01:26:57,098 and say, "I'm a murderer."
1213 01:26:57,168 --> 01:27:01,906 It's really high time for Americans to step up to the plate,
1214 01:27:01,969 --> 01:27:09,648 to do whatever we can, encourage our government to take a strong initiative to end the occupation.
1215 01:27:09,867 --> 01:27:14,781 Those who really care about the interests of Israel should exert all the pressure possible
1216 01:27:14,843 --> 01:27:19,952 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.
1218 01:27:24,608 --> 01:27:27,803 Ending the occupation is Step Number One.
1219 01:27:27,858 --> 01:27:32,327 Justice is the best way of bringing about security and peace.
122 00:09:19,802 --> 00:09:24,131 I noticed that one of my daughters
1220 01:27:32,428 --> 01:27:38,059 There'll be no security for Israel as long as this kind of oppression continues.
1221 01:27:45,303 --> 01:27:52,391 *Close my eyes tonight*
1222 01:27:53,156 --> 01:28:00,748 *My conscience by my side*
1223 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*
1225 01:28:17,046 --> 01:28:19,347 *So I won't sleep*
1226 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*
1228 01:28:29,259 --> 01:28:32,897 *Then they'll take their claim*
1229 01:28:33,363 --> 01:28:40,967 *Oh, I try, oh, I try to fight*
123 00:09:24,231 --> 00:09:28,887 had tied a rope to a tree and around
1230 01:28:41,771 --> 01:28:49,188 *To stay awake tonight*
1231 01:28:49,546 --> 01:28:57,150 *Palestine, Palestine, Palestine*
1232 01:28:58,221 --> 01:29:04,850 *Always on my mind*
1233 01:29:22,445 --> 01:29:28,570 *Truth is where desire ends*
1234 01:29:30,253 --> 01:29:37,517 *A meaning to an end*
1235 01:29:38,428 --> 01:29:45,539 *I search myself all the time*
1236 01:29:46,302 --> 01:29:53,970 *To change what's in my mind*
1237 01:29:54,110 --> 01:29:56,037 *So I won't sleep*
1238 01:29:58,281 --> 01:30:01,816 *I will stay awake*
124 00:09:28,987 --> 00:09:33,466 her neck to attempt to hang herself
125 00:09:33,566 --> 00:09:36,777 I asked her "What are you doing?"
126 00:09:36,877 --> 00:09:39,381 she said "how can we live outside
127 00:09:39,481 --> 00:09:41,715 in the sun like this?
128 00:09:41,815 --> 00:09:44,411 I don't want to live. I'd rather to die."
129 00:09:46,053 --> 00:09:48,996 It was a miserable time for us
13 00:01:11,842 --> 00:01:13,842 INDIA
130 00:09:49,096 --> 00:09:52,304 imagine a mother seeing her own
131 00:09:52,404 --> 00:09:54,473 child trying to kill herself.
132 00:09:54,573 --> 00:09:57,082 Their mental condition ia awful!
133 00:09:57,182 --> 00:10:00,463 They don't even sleep at night
134 00:10:00,563 --> 00:10:03,004 they ask: "mommy! What's that?
135 00:10:03,104 --> 00:10:05,244 Check if it's the army!"
136 00:10:05,344 --> 00:10:08,134 3 days ago, the army came at night
137 00:10:08,226 --> 00:10:10,478 and my children began screaming
138 00:10:10,578 --> 00:10:11,826 from all directions
139 00:10:11,926 --> 00:10:14,763 and the soldiers are yelling for my ID
14 00:01:22,886 --> 00:01:24,886 AMERICA
140 00:10:14,863 --> 00:10:16,245 in the middle of the dark
141 00:10:16,345 --> 00:10:18,585 I tell them not to be fearful
142 00:10:18,685 --> 00:10:20,850 and try to calm and console them
143 00:10:20,950 --> 00:10:23,630 but I'm even more afraid than they are.
144 00:10:26,453 --> 00:10:31,805 Here, you have Palestinians that have no input whatsoever in the policies that are made.
145 00:10:30,838 --> 00:10:35,705 Jeff Halper Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition
146 00:10:31,858 --> 00:10:33,037 They're not on the City Council.
147 00:10:33,085 --> 00:10:36,256 They're not in any of the decision-making bodies on the West Bank or Gaza.
148 00:10:36,337 --> 00:10:37,821 They're certainly not in the government.
149 00:10:37,864 --> 00:10:42,392 The policies are made in order to ensure Israeli control.
15 00:01:24,912 --> 00:01:26,943 Malcom X: *They attack all of us* *for the same reasons.*
150 00:10:42,535 --> 00:10:45,663 So the law is designed in a way, in a very cynical way
151 00:10:45,805 --> 00:10:52,516 to prevent Palestinians from building, and to keep them confined in little islands.
152 00:10:52,878 --> 00:10:57,604 So that most of the land of the occupied territories is free for Israeli settlement.
153 00:10:57,675 --> 00:11:02,807 These are armed settlements, about 190 of them,
154 00:10:57,675 --> 00:11:03,238 Richard Falk U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
155 00:11:02,922 --> 00:11:05,384 spread all over the West Bank.
156 00:11:09,629 --> 00:11:13,292 Settlements are strategically built colonies of Israel
157 00:11:13,433 --> 00:11:15,594 that are connected by a network of roads
158 00:11:15,735 --> 00:11:19,364 which separate each Palestinian community from the next
159 00:11:19,506 --> 00:11:23,340 and confine their ability to expand.
16 00:01:27,314 --> 00:01:30,021 *All of us catch hell from the same enemy.*
160 00:11:23,476 --> 00:11:28,607 They are often constructed around the best farmland and water resources.
161 00:11:29,482 --> 00:11:31,661 They are surrounded by barbwire.
162 00:11:31,810 --> 00:11:33,976 They are armed inside.
163 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,851 Settler residents are required to be armed by the Israeli military.
164 00:11:37,991 --> 00:11:43,647 And they are defended from the outside, by the Israeli military itself.
165 00:11:43,975 --> 00:11:45,993 The purpose of these settlements today,
166 00:11:46,132 --> 00:11:47,190 number one,
167 00:11:47,287 --> 00:11:52,161 is to continue the Israeli control and domination of the occupied territories.
168 00:11:47,849 --> 00:11:52,153 Allegra Pacheco Israeli human rights lawyer
169 00:11:52,310 --> 00:11:56,872 And the bottom line in all of this is to make Palestinians leave the country.
17 00:01:30,308 --> 00:01:34,110 *We're all in the same bag,* *in the same boat.*
170 00:11:57,210 --> 00:12:01,827 It's a very hard term, I know, but in a sense, it's a kind of ethnic cleansing.
171 00:12:09,334 --> 00:12:14,115 The Israeli government and the Israeli army is not dealing with people as equal.
172 00:12:14,225 --> 00:12:18,381 I mean, I think that that's the main problem that Palestinians are not considered,
173 00:12:14,311 --> 00:12:20,775 Yael Stien B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
174 00:12:18,465 --> 00:12:21,074 or not perceived as equals to Israelis.
175 00:12:27,499 --> 00:12:32,499 There is no specific discrimination against Palestinian Christians
176 00:12:30,232 --> 00:12:35,156 Douglas Dicks Catholic Relief Services
177 00:12:32,579 --> 00:12:35,930 as opposed to Palestinian Muslims. It's a shared suffering.
178 00:12:42,856 --> 00:12:48,355 Christians see themselves very much a part of the Palestinian national movement.
179 00:12:42,722 --> 00:12:48,195 Father Drew Christiansen United States Catholic Conference
18 00:01:34,763 --> 00:01:39,365 *We suffer political oppression,* *economic exploitation,*
180 00:12:48,410 --> 00:12:53,230 They identify with the Palestinian people as being their people.
181 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:58,385 Palestinian Christians have difficulty getting to churches on Sunday morning
182 00:12:58,425 --> 00:12:59,940 if they wanted to come to Jerusalem,
183 00:12:59,979 --> 00:13:03,275 because they don't have that permission, or that legal right,
184 00:13:03,409 --> 00:13:07,709 according to the Israeli government, to come to Jerusalem, for worship.
185 00:13:13,286 --> 00:13:20,130 This, I picked up in a home of a wonderful Christian family in Beit Jala.
186 00:13:17,434 --> 00:13:22,291 Thomas Getman World Vision International - Jerusalem
187 00:13:21,261 --> 00:13:24,560 And this is the kind of armor-piercing weaponry
188 00:13:24,697 --> 00:13:28,656 that's being used against civilians, innocent civilians.
189 00:13:46,163 --> 00:13:49,616 It's not easy to tell everything, you know
19 00:01:39,772 --> 00:01:41,654 *and social degradation.*
190 00:13:49,850 --> 00:13:52,257 it's easy to say some words
191 00:13:52,357 --> 00:13:54,232 but you can't tell how do you feel
192 00:13:55,921 --> 00:13:59,933 As every body I want my children to be happy
193 00:14:00,033 --> 00:14:03,875 to live their right life as children
194 00:14:04,037 --> 00:14:06,372 we just think about one thing
195 00:14:06,763 --> 00:14:08,432 where can I put my children
196 00:14:08,532 --> 00:14:10,320 while they are shooting?
197 00:14:15,948 --> 00:14:18,210 They didn't want to go to school
198 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,371 because they are scared to come back
199 00:14:20,571 --> 00:14:22,543 and there is no house
20 00:01:42,229 --> 00:01:43,856 *All of them from the same enemy.*
200 00:14:23,226 --> 00:14:25,373 they don't want to go without me
201 00:14:25,635 --> 00:14:27,509 and their father because
202 00:14:27,815 --> 00:14:30,129 they think they will lose us.
203 00:14:43,234 --> 00:14:44,467 What about the children?
204 00:14:44,667 --> 00:14:46,836 Why they are going to the streets?
205 00:14:50,322 --> 00:14:52,988 They don't think let's go to swim
206 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,059 because I'm sure they
207 00:14:55,179 --> 00:14:56,680 have no right to swim now
208 00:14:57,797 --> 00:14:58,219 Why?
209 00:14:58,329 --> 00:14:59,529 Because we are Palestinian
21 00:01:44,256 --> 00:01:46,256 SOUTH AFRICA
210 00:14:59,626 --> 00:15:01,243 Thanks God.
211 00:15:01,556 --> 00:15:04,459 I don't imagine that there is a woman
212 00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:05,934 in all of the world
213 00:15:06,365 --> 00:15:07,802 can send her child
214 00:15:07,827 --> 00:15:09,697 or her man, just go to die.
215 00:15:10,865 --> 00:15:13,655 Do you think we are working all of this life
216 00:15:13,755 --> 00:15:17,191 to give them something and to let them die in a minute
217 00:15:17,764 --> 00:15:18,964 Can you?
218 00:15:35,495 --> 00:15:39,901 The suffering, the persecution of Christians, they've been robbed of their heritage.
219 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,228 They've been robbed of their ancestral lands.
22 00:01:49,177 --> 00:01:51,179 Mandela: *It is useless and point futile*
220 00:15:43,382 --> 00:15:46,264 They've been robbed of their culture.
221 00:15:47,702 --> 00:15:51,991 Some of the first converts to the teachings of Jesus were Palestinians.
222 00:15:50,801 --> 00:15:56,124 Dr. William Baker Former Professor of History and Biblical Studies
223 00:15:52,311 --> 00:15:56,084 So that's how long Christians have been in that land.
224 00:15:56,178 --> 00:16:00,248 Their quarter, the Christian quarter has been really really decimated
225 00:16:00,348 --> 00:16:02,217 and taken over and sliced up.
226 00:16:04,123 --> 00:16:08,724 That has really bled the Christian communities,
227 00:16:07,459 --> 00:16:12,531 Bishop Allen Bartlett Diocese of Washington
228 00:16:09,162 --> 00:16:12,632 to where they're less than two percent of the population now.
229 00:16:13,833 --> 00:16:19,223 The presence of a Christian community, within the Holy Land, Can you imagine?
23 00:01:51,208 --> 00:01:53,158 *for us to continue talking peace and*
230 00:16:19,332 --> 00:16:22,781 Where Jesus first stepped foot, will no longer be there.
231 00:16:35,354 --> 00:16:39,051 I know both from the moral sense, and from the practical sense,
232 00:16:39,192 --> 00:16:41,285 that the only way to stop the violence
233 00:16:39,416 --> 00:16:44,325 Adam Keller Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Group
234 00:16:41,364 --> 00:16:45,562 is to treat the root cause from which the violence has started.
235 00:16:46,539 --> 00:16:49,496 Root Cause of the Conflict
236 00:16:53,473 --> 00:16:58,496 The number one myth that Westerners have about this conflict
237 00:16:56,940 --> 00:17:01,929 Douglas Dicks Catholic Relief Services
238 00:16:58,543 --> 00:17:01,273 is that Arabs and Jews have been fighting for thousands of years
239 00:17:01,384 --> 00:17:02,902 and they're going to continue to fight.
24 00:01:53,163 --> 00:01:54,976 *non-violence against a government whose*
240 00:17:04,383 --> 00:17:05,664 This is really quite bizarre
241 00:17:05,699 --> 00:17:10,727 because all it takes is a little bit of reading of history to find out that this just isn't true.
242 00:17:06,593 --> 00:17:10,727 James Akins U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - 1973 - 75
243 00:17:11,057 --> 00:17:17,002 There is no congenital, historical enmity between the Arabs and the Jews.
244 00:17:19,232 --> 00:17:21,291 The Jews flourished in the Arab world,
245 00:17:21,363 --> 00:17:24,890 at a time when they were being persecuted throughout all of Europe.
246 00:17:29,008 --> 00:17:32,828 At the end of the 19th Century, because of antisemitism in Europe,
247 00:17:30,314 --> 00:17:34,313 Rashid Khalidi Historian - Columbia University
248 00:17:33,066 --> 00:17:37,719 European Jews began to try and figure out a solution to the Jewish problem.
249 00:17:37,917 --> 00:17:40,943 A very small minority adhered to Zionism,
25 00:01:55,036 --> 00:01:57,058 *reply is only savage attacks on an*
250 00:17:41,188 --> 00:17:45,370 the idea that the only place in which they could be safe is within a Jewish state.
251 00:17:48,264 --> 00:17:54,349 Zionist Jews actually had a design on the land of Palestine,
252 00:17:54,459 --> 00:17:58,555 the idea of creating a homeland for Jews in the land of Palestine.
253 00:17:58,673 --> 00:18:01,252 And this is really the beginning of the conflict.
254 00:18:02,525 --> 00:18:04,564 The mainstream Israeli Jewish society
255 00:18:04,738 --> 00:18:08,222 believe, because that's the way they have been educated,
256 00:18:06,131 --> 00:18:11,131 Ilan Pappe Israeli Historian - Haifa University
257 00:18:08,419 --> 00:18:10,745 That Palestine was empty, had been empty
258 00:18:10,809 --> 00:18:12,793 when the Jewish settlers came there.
259 00:18:14,220 --> 00:18:16,509 Who paid the price when they settled there?
26 00:01:57,108 --> 00:01:59,270 *unarmed and defenseless people.*
260 00:18:16,607 --> 00:18:22,084 Is it really true, that Israel was a land without a people for a people without a land?
261 00:18:16,607 --> 00:18:22,084 Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies
262 00:18:22,199 --> 00:18:25,822 Palestine was not empty. It was a land populated by Arabs,
263 00:18:25,873 --> 00:18:29,365 who had a high level of culture, a high level of education.
264 00:18:29,634 --> 00:18:35,290 With farms and markets and towns and villages and roads
265 00:18:35,361 --> 00:18:38,441 and commerce and lots of interaction with the rest of the world.
266 00:18:38,998 --> 00:18:42,677 The population was overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly Arab.
267 00:18:42,881 --> 00:18:44,342 Population Distribution in 1878: Total = 462,465
268 00:18:44,498 --> 00:18:47,016 Muslim & Christian Arabs = 96.8 % Jews = 3.2 %
269 00:18:47,697 --> 00:18:52,962 1882 - 1914 immigration of 65,000 European Jews
27 00:02:00,631 --> 00:02:03,209 *This year will be a year of violence.*
270 00:18:53,439 --> 00:18:58,220 Jewish immigration increased under British rule following World War I
271 00:18:58,464 --> 00:19:04,648 when Britain implemented the Balfour Declaration, promising a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
272 00:19:05,058 --> 00:19:09,275 This measure conflicted with Britain's previous promise of self-rule
273 00:19:09,475 --> 00:19:12,318 for Arab inhabitants throughout the region.
274 00:19:13,646 --> 00:19:17,481 Britain was basically extremely supportive of the Zionist movement.
275 00:19:17,650 --> 00:19:21,001 It helped to establish all of the structures of a state.
276 00:19:21,352 --> 00:19:25,875 At the same time, the Arabs of Palestine were denied the right of self-determination.
277 00:19:26,079 --> 00:19:28,055 Population Distribution in 1922: Total = 757,182
278 00:19:28,141 --> 00:19:31,824 Muslim & Christian Arabs = 87.6 % Jews = 11 %
279 00:19:32,071 --> 00:19:37,594 The Palestinians saw a European power decide the future of a non-European territory
28 00:02:05,710 --> 00:02:09,803 *This year coming, the keynote is violence* *and the slogan is attack!*
280 00:19:38,137 --> 00:19:41,971 in flat disregard of both their presence and wishes.
281 00:19:42,191 --> 00:19:46,883 In the 1920s, as land was being stripped away from local residents,
282 00:19:47,149 --> 00:19:51,000 the first clashes between Palestinians and Jews began,
283 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:53,917 and would continue on for years to come.
284 00:19:54,818 --> 00:20:00,317 1920 - 1931 108,825 additional Jews immigrants arrive
285 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:06,922 Until the early 1930s, the Jewish population of Palestine remained under 17 percent.
286 00:20:07,110 --> 00:20:08,618 Population Distribution in 1931: Total = 1,035,154
287 00:20:08,728 --> 00:20:12,228 Muslim & Christian Arabs = 81.6 % Jews = 16.9 %
288 00:20:12,949 --> 00:20:16,606 Hitler's rise to power in Germany completely changed that.
289 00:20:17,239 --> 00:20:18,585 In just five years,
29 00:02:30,077 --> 00:02:32,068 *I am minded of young David.*
290 00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:24,302 174,000 Jews flooded into Palestine, doubling their population.
291 00:20:24,592 --> 00:20:27,694 1932 - 1936 174,000 additional Jews immigrants arrive
292 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:34,795 1937 - 1945 119,800 additional Jews immigrants arrive
293 00:20:35,628 --> 00:20:40,948 As the world attempted to make amends for the horrors of Nazi genocidal policies,
294 00:20:41,401 --> 00:20:45,891 efforts to make Palestine a Jewish homeland increased.
295 00:20:46,234 --> 00:20:48,632 The Palestinians, they were not the Nazis.
296 00:20:48,774 --> 00:20:51,546 They were not responsible for the Holocaust.
297 00:20:51,804 --> 00:20:54,469 But they were the ones who paid the price.
298 00:20:55,193 --> 00:20:59,873 In 1947, with the conflict spiraling out of control,
299 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:05,020 Britain decided to turn the problem of Palestine over to the United Nations.
30 00:02:32,378 --> 00:02:34,378 HOLY LAND
300 00:21:05,599 --> 00:21:10,985 The UN, under pressure, proposed to divide the land into two states:
301 00:21:11,130 --> 00:21:13,860 An Arab state and a Jewish state.
302 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,026 Arabs were to be given 43 percent of the land,
303 00:21:17,169 --> 00:21:21,128 despite the fact that they made up more than two thirds of the population
304 00:21:21,273 --> 00:21:24,538 and owned over 92 percent of the land.
305 00:21:24,677 --> 00:21:27,271 Jews were to be given 56 percent,
306 00:21:27,413 --> 00:21:30,780 although they comprised only one third of the population
307 00:21:30,916 --> 00:21:34,352 and owned less than eight percent of the total area.
308 00:21:34,988 --> 00:21:39,347 Nevertheless, they were given not only most of the land, they were given the most fertile land.
309 00:21:40,292 --> 00:21:44,888 Zionist leaders took advantage of their superior military preparation
31 00:02:32,746 --> 00:02:35,456 *I am minded of young David,* *the shepherd boy.*
310 00:21:45,031 --> 00:21:49,730 and immediately began occupying major Arab cities in Palestine.
311 00:22:01,822 --> 00:22:04,869 I was among the people that conquered Acre
312 00:22:05,011 --> 00:22:06,653 we were walking around
313 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,697 we entered a flat
314 00:22:09,017 --> 00:22:13,339 Hava Keller Israeli Soldier 1948 War
315 00:22:09,115 --> 00:22:10,951 there was a pair of shoes
316 00:22:11,051 --> 00:22:13,747 of a small child, maybe 2 years old
317 00:22:13,972 --> 00:22:16,489 they didn't have time to put on the shoes
318 00:22:16,589 --> 00:22:18,775 so they left the shoes and they run away
319 00:22:19,186 --> 00:22:20,795 they left everything
32 00:02:36,276 --> 00:02:40,854 *Who stood up before the great warrior* *of the Philistines.*
320 00:22:28,937 --> 00:22:33,504 we found out there was a systematic expulsion of Palestinians
321 00:22:33,604 --> 00:22:35,290 and there was, as I said, there was an
322 00:22:33,604 --> 00:22:37,913 Ilan Pappe Israeli Historian - Haifa University
323 00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:37,913 ethnic cleansing operation taking place.
324 00:22:38,250 --> 00:22:43,585 The most infamous campaign was the massacre at the village of Deir Yassin
325 00:22:43,867 --> 00:22:49,146 where over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered.
326 00:22:49,382 --> 00:22:54,782 Me, my children and my brother were hiding in this house.
327 00:22:54,869 --> 00:22:58,659 My brother spent the night in order to keep us company
328 00:22:58,759 --> 00:23:05,390 They threw bombs at our home and my children an I got wounded
329 00:23:05,490 --> 00:23:10,474 when things calmed down the Jews broke the door down and took us out
33 00:02:41,655 --> 00:02:44,206 *Young David having all the courage!*
330 00:23:10,574 --> 00:23:15,089 they started to beat up my brother Musa severely
331 00:23:15,189 --> 00:23:21,798 I gave a solder some money so that he wouldn't kill Musa
332 00:23:21,898 --> 00:23:26,839 he took the money and said: you are kind-hearted. I will show you
333 00:23:26,939 --> 00:23:30,524 what I will do to your brother
334 00:23:30,624 --> 00:23:34,735 he threw him to the ground and my brother fell down like this
335 00:23:35,135 --> 00:23:39,891 the soldier then pointed his gun to Musa's head and shot him five times
336 00:23:40,572 --> 00:23:44,282 The majority of her family members and relatives were killed.
337 00:23:44,786 --> 00:23:49,386 Which include her two sons and one stepson, her father and mother,
338 00:23:49,605 --> 00:23:54,205 her two brothers, her grandparents, her uncle and aunt and their children
339 00:23:54,693 --> 00:24:01,318 The ruthlessness of the attack on Deir Yassin drove fear and panic into the Palestinian population
34 00:03:00,107 --> 00:03:03,270 *There must be someone somewhere.*
340 00:24:01,634 --> 00:24:06,173 and led to the flight of unarmed civilians from their homes all over the country.
341 00:24:14,613 --> 00:24:19,917 As a result, maybe three hundred-or-so-thousand Palestinians had already been expelled
342 00:24:20,052 --> 00:24:22,973 before the first Arab soldier entered Palestine.
343 00:24:23,122 --> 00:24:28,575 Some of the neighboring Arab armies finally intervened after May 15, 1948,
344 00:24:28,961 --> 00:24:31,304 when Israel officially announced its statehood.
345 00:24:32,829 --> 00:24:35,711 Although there was a lot of war rhetoric on the arab side
346 00:24:35,743 --> 00:24:39,680 very few Arab soldiers were sent into the battle field.
347 00:24:40,065 --> 00:24:42,658 And actually for most part of the war
348 00:24:42,773 --> 00:24:47,584 there was superiority on the side of the Israeli army.
349 00:24:48,562 --> 00:24:52,866 Arab Soldiers Total: 68,000 Jewish Soldiers Total: 90,000
35 00:03:03,410 --> 00:03:09,391 *There's got to be somebody* *somewhere that cares.*
350 00:24:53,252 --> 00:24:56,345 The Israeli army cleansed much of the territory
351 00:24:54,443 --> 00:24:58,468 Noam Chomsky Middle East analyst and author
352 00:24:56,399 --> 00:25:00,337 and took over a large part of the designated Palestinian state.
353 00:25:01,493 --> 00:25:06,461 The new state of Israel encompassed 78 percent of the total land of Palestine.
354 00:25:07,399 --> 00:25:10,027 The West Bank came under Jordanian control
355 00:25:10,169 --> 00:25:13,867 and the Gaza Strip under Egyptian dominion.
356 00:25:15,274 --> 00:25:19,370 Although a truce was declared between Israel and the Arab states,
357 00:25:19,511 --> 00:25:21,638 true peace remained elusive,
358 00:25:21,780 --> 00:25:28,083 as over 700,000 Palestinian refugees languished in nearby camps,
359 00:25:28,220 --> 00:25:33,866 often in sight of homes to which they still held the deeds and a deep desire to return.
36 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:17,419 *Young David took that one small stone*
360 00:25:34,484 --> 00:25:37,033 Most of the deserted and evicted
361 00:25:37,133 --> 00:25:39,299 Palestinians villages were erased from
362 00:25:39,399 --> 00:25:41,459 upon the earth and were either turned into
363 00:25:41,559 --> 00:25:45,332 Jewish settlements or into fertile land.
364 00:25:45,537 --> 00:25:51,826 Of the 500 Palestinian villages, in what became Israel in 1948, 400 were destroyed.
365 00:25:53,012 --> 00:25:56,971 These efforts to destroy the possibility of their returning home
366 00:25:57,116 --> 00:25:59,914 were countered by the United Nations,
367 00:26:00,052 --> 00:26:02,612 which continues to affirm their human right
368 00:26:02,755 --> 00:26:06,782 enshrined in international law and morality, to return.
369 00:26:06,925 --> 00:26:10,861 A Palestinian who had lost her land, or lost his land,
37 00:03:17,824 --> 00:03:19,778 *and the faith of his God*
370 00:26:10,996 --> 00:26:14,693 as the result of the creation of Israel in 1948,
371 00:26:14,833 --> 00:26:17,001 cannot come back even for a visit.
372 00:26:17,166 --> 00:26:21,126 I can go back to Israel as if I were returning
373 00:26:17,166 --> 00:26:21,143 Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies
374 00:26:21,307 --> 00:26:26,408 and claim immediate citizenship, having no historic tie, speaking no Hebrew,
375 00:26:26,512 --> 00:26:31,211 knowing no one in the country, having no family who ever was there.
376 00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:36,845 All that one needs is being Jewish, a religious group, like any other.
377 00:26:44,032 --> 00:26:47,196 I am from Al-Quds (Jerusalem), I am a witness
378 00:26:47,289 --> 00:26:49,648 I know the Arabs, the Arabs are very good
379 00:26:49,813 --> 00:26:52,914 no problem until the Zionist movement start
38 00:03:20,127 --> 00:03:23,270 *and slay the giant Goliath!*
380 00:26:53,188 --> 00:26:55,008 my grandmother tell me
381 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
384 00:27:08,059 --> 00:27:11,663 like brothers
385 00:27:15,283 --> 00:27:18,632 the idea of Zionism, you take away land
386 00:27:18,769 --> 00:27:20,464 from the Palestinians, from the Arabs
387 00:27:20,525 --> 00:27:22,394 started all the fighting
388 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
39 00:03:32,439 --> 00:03:34,236 *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.
395 00:27:56,735 --> 00:28:01,263 In that war, Israel occupied the remainder of historic Palestine,
396 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.
398 00:28:06,011 --> 00:28:09,217 James Akins U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - 1973 - 75
399 00:28:09,596 --> 00:28:11,810 But I was working in the State Department at that time.
4 00:00:10,569 --> 00:00:15,224 Any violence by a large population
40 00:03:50,671 --> 00:03:52,585 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.
41 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.
411 00:29:10,442 --> 00:29:14,879 There was a mass uprising, in Arabic, an "Intifada," "shaking off",
412 00:29:15,013 --> 00:29:18,505 as people throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip rebelled.
413 00:29:25,757 --> 00:29:30,936 The Israeli government adopted a strategy in the words of Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
414 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."
416 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,
418 00:30:12,137 --> 00:30:15,402 where physical abuse and torture were rampant.
419 00:30:20,409 --> 00:30:22,109 During the first Intifada (Uprising) Dec 1987 to Dec 1993
42 00:03:58,231 --> 00:04:00,392 1947 *A Pathe dispatcher shows the scene in Jerusalem*
420 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.
423 00:30:30,796 --> 00:30:34,221 For the next seven years the Palestinians entered into a peace process with Israel.
424 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
429 00:31:04,690 --> 00:31:08,908 And in that period, when there was supposed to be a peace process underway,
43 00:04:00,777 --> 00:04:03,949 *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
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
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.
45 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?
459 00:32:54,773 --> 00:32:57,926 Amira Hass Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
46 00:04:09,192 --> 00:04:11,346 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.
47 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
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.
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)
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
489 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
497 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
499 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.
50 00:04:19,706 --> 00:04:20,643 As a journalist,
500 00:36:03,701 --> 00:36:05,357 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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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