Occupation 101 - Full Documentary

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The award-winning documentary film "Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority."

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Palestine-Israel conflict and U.S. government involvement.

http://www.occupation101.tv

Message from the Maker of the Film:
"This high-quality Internet broadcast is brought to you as a free public service to raise global awareness about the unlawful and inhumane military occupation of Palestine."

Israel has attacked the U.S. several times, once admittedly in 1967 when they tried to sink the USS Liberty after they felt that the navy was out of line surveilling them and documenting their war crimes in the '6 day war'. And they got away with it with no retaliation from the U.S. government. The U.S. has never attacked Israel. Also here's a quote relevent to recent events in the U.S./Israeli relationship:

"The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, and spat in the face of the President ? they wiped the spit off their faces and smiled politely ? as the saying goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends that it is raining"
Uri Avnery Israeli Jewish journalist 13/3/2010.

Got it from this enlightening article from James Petras: The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel's Humiliation of America

More quotes illustrating it:

"I've never seen a president -- I don't care who he is --
stand up to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles your mind.
They always get what they want. The Israelis know what's
going on all the time. I got to the point where I wasn't
writing anything down. If the American people understood
what grip those people have on our government, they would
rise up in arms. Our citizens don't have any idea what goes
on."

-- Admiral Thomas Moorer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Washington Report December, 1999, page 124, quoting from
Andrew Hurley's book "One Nation Under Israel".

Expose psyops, eugenics and Arcana Arcanorum, the Brotherhood of the Snake and Luciferianism, upheld by Jesuits - Scottish Rite - Masons - Vatican - Zionists - Monarchy - Intel Agents - Bankers - Politicians - False Prophets - Military / Judges / CEO's / Media / Scientists / Celebs - Average Joe.

http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/illuminati.htm

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. -John Lennon

When two Jesuits meet, the devil is always there to make a threesome. -old French proverb

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The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
.
.

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The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
it is the illusion of knowledge.
.

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The greatest enemy of knowledge in not ignorance
it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking

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*Where is the voice of the day?*

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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.

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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?"

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They are living now in their third house.

1020
01:14:05,064 --> 01:14:12,705
We were opposing the demolition of farmland
and other property, Palestinian property,

1021
01:14:06,361 --> 01:14:11,661
Joe Carr
ISM Activist
{\an4}

1022
01:14:12,728 --> 01:14:16,038
by Israeli destruction force bulldozers.

1023
01:14:23,588 --> 01:14:28,018
And a bulldozer drove up, and it kept
going, and she tried to move back,

1024
01:14:28,151 --> 01:14:31,140
but she couldn't move back, and
she got caught underneath.

1025
01:14:31,277 --> 01:14:33,438
She got caught underneath the bulldozer.

1026
01:14:36,197 --> 01:14:39,344
Many other internationals began to
surround the bulldozer and yell at it

1027
01:14:39,375 --> 01:14:41,983
and tell it that there is somebody
there, and it did not stop.

1028
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:02,306
Where Rachel was killed, she was
protecting a doctor's home.

1029
01:15:02,368 --> 01:15:05,649
And that's important to realize,
and the three children and his wife.

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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,

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I was totally shocked and began to

1040
01:15:39,466 --> 01:15:44,466
Rachel Corrie
5th Grade Speech
{\an4}

1041
01:15:41,622 --> 01:15:44,951
and because 40,000 people die each day from hunger.

1042
01:15:45,243 --> 01:15:48,477
I'm here because those
people are mostly children.

1043
01:15:48,860 --> 01:15:52,805
We have got to understand that the poor are
all around us and we are ignoring them.

1044
01:15:52,961 --> 01:15:56,386
We have got to understand
that these deaths are preventable.

1045
01:15:56,730 --> 01:16:00,035
We have got to understand that
people in third world countries

1046
01:16:00,299 --> 01:16:04,689
think and care, and smile, and cry just like us.

1047
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:09,156
We have got to understand
that they are us; we are them.

1048
01:16:09,359 --> 01:16:12,344
My dream is to stop hunger by the year 2000.

1049
01:16:12,445 --> 01:16:14,960
My dream is to give the poor a chance.

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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,

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so they began to beat me

1060
01:16:59,322 --> 01:17:04,411
severing travel for work,
health care, and education,

1061
01:17:05,465 --> 01:17:10,590
separating farmers from their lands,
and families from loved ones.

1062
01:17:12,264 --> 01:17:17,875
An Israeli study revealed that the barrier's
route was chosen in order to confiscate land

1063
01:17:18,010 --> 01:17:22,919
intended for illegal settlement expansion,
not for security reasons.

1064
01:17:24,583 --> 01:17:29,606
Here you have this huge wall being constructed,
right in the middle of the West Bank.

1065
01:17:25,052 --> 01:17:29,583
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor - Tikkun Magazine
{\an4}

1066
01:17:29,747 --> 01:17:33,845
How can anybody believe that there is
going to be the creation of a real state?

1067
01:17:33,931 --> 01:17:37,384
It's a symbol and a reality of oppression.

1068
01:17:37,860 --> 01:17:42,985
Anybody outside of Israel who supports a
two-state solution has to be very careful

1069
01:17:43,008 --> 01:17:48,472
because what they mean in a two-state solution is that
90 percent of historical Palestine will be Israel.

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and pull my hair.

1070
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Illan Pappe
Israeli Historian and analyst
{\an4}

1071
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In the remaining 10 percent,
you'll have two huge prison camps.

1072
01:17:51,631 --> 01:17:53,818
One in the Gaza Strip
and one in the West Bank.

1073
01:17:53,991 --> 01:17:59,398
There are currently over 420,000 Israeli settlers
living inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem

1074
01:18:00,399 --> 01:18:05,390
Over the coming years, Israel intends
to expand that number by the thousands.

1075
01:18:05,813 --> 01:18:07,920
Maj. General Ya'ir Naveh,
head of Israel's West Bank occupation forces:

1076
01:18:07,968 --> 01:18:14,037
"We have no intention of leaving Jedea and Samaria
[West Bank]. We will remain here in one way or
another for hundreds and thousands of years."

1077
01:18:14,131 --> 01:18:15,963
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
Settlement Report Nov-Dec 2005

1078
01:18:17,511 --> 01:18:22,855
The people who fought in the war were also the
people who wrote the history books of the war.

1079
01:18:22,957 --> 01:18:27,676
And they already had the story that they
made up about what had really happened.

108
00:08:19,540 --> 00:08:23,396
As the bulldozer was to begin the demolition

1080
01:18:27,715 --> 01:18:31,245
And that story was integrated
in the Israeli education system.

1081
01:18:31,276 --> 01:18:35,276
It was integrated in the media,
in the political discourse.

1082
01:18:36,396 --> 01:18:39,747
Some of us who work as Jewish
educators have been admitting,

1083
01:18:36,869 --> 01:18:42,326
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}

1084
01:18:39,763 --> 01:18:42,677
over the last maybe ten years,
that it is propaganda.

1085
01:18:42,817 --> 01:18:47,199
Israelis don't understand what's going on.
They don't know the occupation.

1086
01:18:47,824 --> 01:18:49,659
We began to educate ourselves.

1087
01:18:48,559 --> 01:18:53,855
Gila Svirsky
Coalition of Women for Peace
{\an4}

1088
01:18:49,855 --> 01:18:54,456
And the first thing we did was invite women, Palestinian
women, to come into our homes and talk to us,

1089
01:18:54,519 --> 01:18:57,507
and tell us what exactly was
the problem, as they saw it.

109
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I remembered that my

1090
01:18:57,663 --> 01:18:59,897
And little by little,
we learned about their lives.

1091
01:19:00,085 --> 01:19:03,639
We learned about the suffering,
they encountered on a daily basis.

1092
01:19:03,913 --> 01:19:05,960
We learned about the
killing going on there,

1093
01:19:06,022 --> 01:19:13,178
about the lives that were completely circumscribed
by an occupation that they had no control over.

1094
01:19:13,451 --> 01:19:16,553
I'm one of the few Israelis not
in uniform and not a settler

1095
01:19:13,451 --> 01:19:17,357
Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Rabbis for Human Rights
{\an4}

1096
01:19:16,598 --> 01:19:19,020
that's been in the territories
in the last nine months.

1097
01:19:19,432 --> 01:19:22,037
You just see that the army was
actually waging a very cruel war.

1098
01:19:22,154 --> 01:19:26,573
On the Israeli side, there seems to be no
understanding that this how you create terrorism.

1099
01:19:26,675 --> 01:19:31,917
If you are so repressive on a people, you
give them the sense of having no options,

11
00:00:37,022 --> 00:00:39,547
*Where is the voice of the people?*

110
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son was sleeping inside

1100
01:19:31,956 --> 01:19:34,605
and that's a very dangerous place.

1101
01:19:38,690 --> 01:19:43,217
In fact, there's a very clear correlation
between the kind of human rights abuses

1102
01:19:40,246 --> 01:19:45,756
Peter Boukaert
Human Rights Watch
{\an4}

1103
01:19:43,232 --> 01:19:45,803
that Israel commits in the West Bank and Gaza

1104
01:19:45,818 --> 01:19:50,662
and the Palestinian militant
response to those abuses.

1105
01:19:50,741 --> 01:19:52,468
A report that examined the background of 87 suicide concluded:

1106
01:19:52,559 --> 01:20:06,007
"Suicide bombers often experience personal trauma
related to the Israeli forces prior to their volunteering,
such as the death or injury of a family member."

1107
01:20:06,286 --> 01:20:11,240
Most Israelis have very clear views.
This is a very political country.

1108
01:20:11,817 --> 01:20:15,011
And when you talk to somebody,
you can argue all night,

1109
01:20:15,145 --> 01:20:17,949
and you can go red in the face,
or blue in the face,

111
00:08:27,997 --> 00:08:32,471
so I ran towards the house to get him

1110
01:20:16,927 --> 01:20:21,927
Peretz Kidron
Yesh Gvul - Soldiers who refuse to serve
{\an4}

1111
01:20:18,005 --> 01:20:20,466
or whatever color, you won't get anywhere.

1112
01:20:20,674 --> 01:20:22,470
But when somebody says:

1113
01:20:22,533 --> 01:20:24,963
"I refuse to do this.
This is wrong.

1114
01:20:25,103 --> 01:20:27,597
For me, for us,
for our country.

1115
01:20:27,733 --> 01:20:31,083
This is immoral, and I'll go
to prison rather than do it."

1116
01:20:31,122 --> 01:20:33,959
And one guys does it, five guys,
then 50, then a hundred.

1117
01:20:34,006 --> 01:20:36,670
And people say,
"Hey, what's going on here?

1118
01:20:36,788 --> 01:20:40,045
These aren't cowards.
These aren't traitors."

1119
01:20:40,546 --> 01:20:42,389
Most of them are officers, by the way.

112
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as I ran the soldiers tried to hold me back

1120
01:20:42,467 --> 01:20:46,475
"So, if these guys are refusing,
there must be something wrong here."

1121
01:20:46,710 --> 01:20:51,273
Currently 1674 Israeli Soldiers
refuse to serve the occupation.

1122
01:20:51,398 --> 01:20:53,226
At least 323 have been imprisoned for objecting.

1123
01:20:53,343 --> 01:20:57,913
Nobody can argue with what I've seen.
I mean, they may not like how I say it.

1124
01:20:58,124 --> 01:21:01,416
Or they may not like all the facts that I convey.

1125
01:20:58,624 --> 01:21:03,324
Thomas Getman
Director, World Vision Jerusalem
{\an4}

1126
01:21:01,721 --> 01:21:04,267
It may sound like I'm imbalanced.

1127
01:21:04,670 --> 01:21:08,588
But the fact is, when you're dealing
with oppression, there is no balance.

1128
01:21:08,752 --> 01:21:12,158
Even someone with a 20 percent open mind

1129
01:21:08,752 --> 01:21:13,752
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}

113
00:08:36,735 --> 00:08:40,314
They began beating and kicking me

1130
01:21:12,221 --> 01:21:15,611
would reach the same conclusions
that our commission reached.

1131
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:21,072
You could be pro-Israel and still,
if you saw these realities,

1132
01:21:21,189 --> 01:21:28,890
you'd have to have a completely closed mind not
to come to the same conclusions that we reached.

1133
01:21:30,845 --> 01:21:33,634
So the violence begins with the occupation.

1134
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:37,001
The opposition is resistance to the occupation.

1135
01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:40,524
Resistance to violence is legitimate
in any country in the world.

1136
01:21:40,610 --> 01:21:43,782
I may disagree with some of the acts of resistance.

1137
01:21:42,665 --> 01:21:45,596
Peretz Kidron
Yesh Gvul - Soldiers who refuse to serve
{\an4}

1138
01:21:43,891 --> 01:21:46,838
I think some of the tactics are stupid.

1139
01:21:47,580 --> 01:21:51,580
Attacks on Israeli civilians are stupid,
immoral, and counterproductive.

114
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and pulled my hair

1140
01:21:49,176 --> 01:21:52,595
Rashid Khalidi
Professor of Eastern Studies - Columbia U.
{\an4}

1141
01:21:51,642 --> 01:21:52,642
They should be stopped.

1142
01:21:52,727 --> 01:21:55,437
We should not use violence, whatsoever

1143
01:21:54,427 --> 01:21:57,614
Dr. Iyad Sarraj
Prominent Child Psychologist in Gaza
{\an4}

1144
01:21:55,487 --> 01:22:00,008
because it really destroys our intentions.

1145
01:22:00,058 --> 01:22:02,098
And it destroys our position

1146
01:22:02,106 --> 01:22:07,442
which is in the higher moral standing

1147
01:22:07,492 --> 01:22:09,176
we are the victims

1148
01:22:09,226 --> 01:22:11,148
and the world should now understand

1149
01:22:11,198 --> 01:22:12,281
that we are the victims.

115
00:08:42,572 --> 00:08:46,483
I managed to push one to the ground

1150
01:22:12,438 --> 01:22:16,540
Criticizing the Israeli government
policy for assassinating people,

1151
01:22:16,580 --> 01:22:20,798
or for shooting children, and maiming
them, for thousands of children...

1152
01:22:20,961 --> 01:22:23,227
That's not anti-Semitic.
That's humane.

1153
01:22:21,061 --> 01:22:23,258
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli human rights lawyer
{\an4}

1154
01:22:23,391 --> 01:22:27,383
We have to tell the truth about what's
going on, and say, as clearly as we can

1155
01:22:27,414 --> 01:22:30,687
"If you keep going down this path,
you're going to destroy yourselves.

1156
01:22:31,007 --> 01:22:32,984
No enemy will have to destroy you.

1157
01:22:33,124 --> 01:22:34,632
You're rotting from within

1158
01:22:34,781 --> 01:22:38,586
because of the methods you're
using against innocent people."

1159
01:22:41,109 --> 01:22:44,796
I don't think, even with the
best video that you can make,

116
00:08:46,608 --> 00:08:50,568
and ran inside to my son

1160
01:22:45,116 --> 01:22:51,424
Americans will really understand what it is
like to be a Palestinian under occupation.

1161
01:22:49,035 --> 01:22:54,035
Doug Hostetter
Fellowship of Reconciliation
{\an4}

1162
01:22:51,944 --> 01:22:56,522
I guarantee you, if you
spend one week in Gaza,

1163
01:22:56,647 --> 01:22:57,983
or in the West Bank,

1164
01:22:58,076 --> 01:23:01,441
you will understand it
in a very profound way.

1165
01:23:10,390 --> 01:23:12,858
All the wars of independence

1166
01:23:11,867 --> 01:23:16,288
Hava Keller
Committee for Women Political Prisoners
{\an4}

1167
01:23:12,898 --> 01:23:15,421
you can start if you want with

1168
01:23:15,451 --> 01:23:17,764
war of independence of the United States

1169
01:23:17,789 --> 01:23:21,725
They said: "No Taxation Without Representation"

117
00:08:50,693 --> 00:08:54,330
and carried him out like this.

1170
01:23:22,116 --> 01:23:24,037
and we demand taxation

1171
01:23:24,201 --> 01:23:25,470
from the Palestinians

1172
01:23:25,495 --> 01:23:26,695
and don't give them

1173
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:27,920
any representation

1174
01:23:27,945 --> 01:23:31,414
It is the same all over the world

1175
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:36,062
and nobody wants to be under somebody's occupation.

1176
01:23:50,741 --> 01:23:56,299
As an Israeli, we go to India, and to South
America, to meet the Native American Indians.

1177
01:23:54,444 --> 01:23:58,784
Neta Golan
Israeli Peace Activist
{\an4}

1178
01:23:56,376 --> 01:24:04,033
We're looking for these, like indigenous people
with some kind of more rooted wisdom, you know?

1179
01:24:04,112 --> 01:24:07,604
And they're right here.
They're right here, right under our noses.

118
00:08:58,898 --> 00:09:01,483
Rodina and her children were once again homeless,

1180
01:24:07,643 --> 01:24:08,877
Nobody ever comes here.

1181
01:24:08,924 --> 01:24:12,615
You know, the "Felaheen," for me,
the Palestinian "Felaheen"...

1182
01:24:12,750 --> 01:24:17,953
It's like, everything that people go looking for,

1183
01:24:18,445 --> 01:24:21,463
People with deep, deep roots,
really connected to the Earth,

1184
01:24:21,573 --> 01:24:24,510
with this romance with their land,
you know?

1185
01:24:24,588 --> 01:24:30,000
And just incredibly wise and
open-hearted, and simple, beautiful.

1186
01:24:30,188 --> 01:24:35,913
And Israelis never see them unless it's through

1187
01:24:36,048 --> 01:24:37,276
a target.

1188
01:24:46,192 --> 01:24:48,835
I wish that people knew what
was really going on here.

1189
01:24:48,866 --> 01:24:52,405
And I wish that people could see
these people through my eyes.

119
00:09:01,530 --> 00:09:04,499
and had to endure living in a tent for many months.

1190
01:24:52,616 --> 01:24:55,623
That's what often I'm looking at
people, and they're so incredibly beautiful.

1191
01:24:55,662 --> 01:25:00,031
And I'm just thinking, "I wish that Israelis could,
for one minute, see them through my eyes."

1192
01:25:18,181 --> 01:25:20,794
Rachel Corrie's final thoughts,
emailed to her mother prior to her death:

1193
01:25:20,958 --> 01:25:25,801
No amount of reading, attendance at
conferences, documentary viewing,

1194
01:25:25,817 --> 01:25:30,304
and word of mouth could have prepared me
for the reality of the situation here.

1195
01:25:30,769 --> 01:25:33,932
You just can't imagine it unless you see it.

1196
01:25:40,809 --> 01:25:45,009
This is not at all what I asked for
when I came into this world.

1197
01:25:45,103 --> 01:25:49,852
This is not at all what the people here
asked for when they came into this world.

1198
01:25:49,989 --> 01:25:55,934
This is not the world you and Dad wanted me
to come into when you decided to have me.

1199
01:25:58,019 --> 01:25:59,721
This has to stop.

12
00:00:52,186 --> 00:00:54,186
ALGERIA
{\an5}

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
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INDIA
{\an5}

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
{\an5}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
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SOUTH AFRICA
{\an5}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
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*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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

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
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in flat disregard of both their
presence and wishes.

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In the 1920s, as land was being
stripped away from local residents,

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the first clashes between
Palestinians and Jews began,

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and would continue on for years to come.

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1920 - 1931
108,825 additional Jews immigrants arrive

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Until the early 1930s, the Jewish population
of Palestine remained under 17 percent.

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Population Distribution in 1931:
Total = 1,035,154

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Muslim & Christian Arabs = 81.6 %
Jews = 16.9 %

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Hitler's rise to power in Germany
completely changed that.

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In just five years,

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*I am minded of young David.*

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00:20:18,650 --> 00:20:24,302
174,000 Jews flooded into Palestine,
doubling their population.

291
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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
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As the world attempted to make amends
for the horrors of Nazi genocidal policies,

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efforts to make Palestine
a Jewish homeland increased.

295
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The Palestinians, they were not the Nazis.

296
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They were not responsible for the Holocaust.

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But they were the ones who paid the price.

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In 1947, with the conflict spiraling out of control,

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Britain decided to turn the problem of
Palestine over to the United Nations.

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HOLY LAND
{\an5}

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The UN, under pressure, proposed
to divide the land into two states:

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An Arab state and a Jewish state.

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Arabs were to be given
43 percent of the land,

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despite the fact that they made up
more than two thirds of the population

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and owned over 92 percent of the land.

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Jews were to be given 56 percent,

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although they comprised only
one third of the population

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and owned less than eight percent
of the total area.

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Nevertheless, they were given not only most of
the land, they were given the most fertile land.

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Zionist leaders took advantage
of their superior military preparation

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*I am minded of young David,*
*the shepherd boy.*

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and immediately began occupying
major Arab cities in Palestine.

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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
{\an4}

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

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they didn't have time to put on the shoes

318
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so they left the shoes and they run away

319
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they left everything

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*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
{\an4}

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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

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*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

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*There's got to be somebody*
*somewhere that cares.*

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00:24:53,252 --> 00:24:56,345
The Israeli army cleansed much of the territory

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00:24:54,443 --> 00:24:58,468
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}

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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
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*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.

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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*

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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
{\an4}

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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,

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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,

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00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,050
what is known today
as the West Bank and Gaza.

397
00:28:06,003 --> 00:28:09,518
Another myth was that Israel was
about to be pushed into the sea.

398
00:28:06,011 --> 00:28:09,217
James Akins
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia - 1973 - 75
{\an4}

399
00:28:09,596 --> 00:28:11,810
But I was working in the
State Department at that time.

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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.

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00:03:52,585 --> 00:03:55,546
Occupation 101
voices of the silenced majority

410
00:29:06,704 --> 00:29:10,304
Finally, Palestinians took
matters into their own hands.

411
00:29:10,442 --> 00:29:14,879
There was a mass uprising, in Arabic,
an "Intifada," "shaking off",

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00:29:15,013 --> 00:29:18,505
as people throughout the West Bank
and Gaza Strip rebelled.

413
00:29:25,757 --> 00:29:30,936
The Israeli government adopted a strategy
in the words of Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin,

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00:29:31,096 --> 00:29:33,189
of "might, power, and beatings"

415
00:29:33,332 --> 00:29:37,166
which became known as the
"Break the Bones Strategy."

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

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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
{\an4}

429
00:31:04,690 --> 00:31:08,908
And in that period, when there was
supposed to be a peace process underway,

43
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
{\an4}

436
00:31:31,249 --> 00:31:35,639
these areas are the areas that declined the
worst for the majority of Palestinians,

437
00:31:35,694 --> 00:31:37,022
almost all Palestinians.

438
00:31:38,290 --> 00:31:43,801
All the economic indicators turned for the
worse under Oslo, during this peace process.

439
00:31:39,245 --> 00:31:43,801
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli Human Rights Attorney
{\an4}

44
00:04:04,359 --> 00:04:05,539
*It remains to be seen*

440
00:31:44,019 --> 00:31:48,362
Moreover, Israeli settlements have continued
to expand throughout that period.

441
00:31:48,810 --> 00:31:52,632
Israeli settlements doubled in size and population.

442
00:31:53,060 --> 00:31:56,382
The number of Jewish settlers
increased from 200,000 to 400,000.

443
00:31:56,541 --> 00:31:59,942
At the same time that Israeli control was expanding

444
00:32:00,078 --> 00:32:03,241
the Palestinian authority was
given the trappings of power

445
00:32:03,382 --> 00:32:07,182
over the shrinking and
noncontiguous Palestinian land

446
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:10,379
being held out as a
future Palestinian state.

447
00:32:10,956 --> 00:32:16,401
The challenges of governing, for the Palestine
authority, are extraordinarily complex.

448
00:32:16,595 --> 00:32:19,621
This is an authority that
has very little authority.

449
00:32:19,765 --> 00:32:23,272
It has virtually no power.
Its power is derivative.

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
{\an4}

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
{\an4}

472
00:33:48,787 --> 00:33:53,781
One sees the villas of leading
Palestinian officials

473
00:33:53,925 --> 00:33:59,736
and the poverty with which
the Palestinian masses are living in.

474
00:34:00,631 --> 00:34:05,787
The performance of the PLO in
running the Palestinian authority

475
00:34:02,211 --> 00:34:06,711
Rashid Khalidi
Professor of Eastern Studies - Columbia U.
{\an4}

476
00:34:06,104 --> 00:34:08,800
and its failures in negotiating with Israel,

477
00:34:08,940 --> 00:34:13,017
have very much diminished
support for the PLO leadership.

478
00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:19,256
In January 2006, elections were held and the
Palestinians voted PLO led government out of office

479
00:34:19,424 --> 00:34:24,301
giving Hamas the required seats
to form a majority government.

48
00:04:13,998 --> 00:04:16,841
*anything that moves in front of them*

480
00:34:25,556 --> 00:34:30,016
While Americans were being told by the media
that a peace process was moving forward,

481
00:34:30,189 --> 00:34:33,428
Israel continued its policy of home demolitions.

482
00:34:34,123 --> 00:34:39,471
Since 1967, about 12,000 Palestinian
homes have been demolished.

483
00:34:40,629 --> 00:34:46,031
More than 740 of those homes were
demolished during the Oslo Peace Process.

484
00:34:48,046 --> 00:34:52,827
What you've got to have, and I think it's a
fair demand on the part of Palestinians, that

485
00:34:50,507 --> 00:34:55,631
Edward Walker
U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1997 - 1999)
{\an4}

486
00:34:52,936 --> 00:34:59,279
during the process of negotiation, you're not turning
over more and more territory to Israeli settlers

487
00:34:59,424 --> 00:35:03,775
and changing the character of the land that
you're supposed to be negotiating about.

488
00:35:04,362 --> 00:35:07,338
The notion that this is going
to be a negotiable question

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
{\an4}

509
00:36:55,785 --> 00:37:00,316
and the Palestinians' well-being, present
well-being and future well-being.

51
00:04:20,792 --> 00:04:24,104
the more you look into the
issue of Israel and Palestine,

510
00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:07,452
And they don't see this horrible,
disproportionate allocation of resources

511
00:37:01,688 --> 00:37:05,288
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}

512
00:37:07,519 --> 00:37:12,684
where Jewish settlers get water and
electricity and gas, garbage pickup,

513
00:37:12,824 --> 00:37:16,658
all kinds of things that their
Palestinian neighbors don't get,

514
00:37:16,795 --> 00:37:19,218
because of the military occupation.

515
00:37:21,148 --> 00:37:27,062
That village over there isn't allowed to visit us

516
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,468
Look, do you see anyone outside?

517
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,390
Not even one Arab is outside!

518
00:37:38,437 --> 00:37:40,015
If this car wasn't Israeli

519
00:37:40,304 --> 00:37:42,151
it wouldn't allowed on the road

52
00:04:24,304 --> 00:04:27,364
the more you sense that
something is not quite right.

520
00:37:42,721 --> 00:37:49,135
They lost the middle of the valley for a bypass
road which is now an Israeli-only bypass road.

521
00:37:49,194 --> 00:37:51,822
They can't drive on it to go to their homes.

522
00:37:51,963 --> 00:37:54,509
The thing is extremely ugly to watch.

523
00:37:53,076 --> 00:37:56,330
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}

524
00:37:54,799 --> 00:37:57,767
This is just day to day life.
I'm not talking about the fighting here.

525
00:37:58,036 --> 00:38:01,096
I mean, you walk through Hebron;
you've got an Arab city;

526
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,639
100,000 Arabs;
a couple hundred Jews;

527
00:38:03,775 --> 00:38:06,209
and settlers walking around with rifles, you know?

528
00:38:06,344 --> 00:38:08,039
Looking as if they own the place.

529
00:38:10,648 --> 00:38:14,929
The settlers can go in a Palestinian
village and burn the fields there,

53
00:04:28,671 --> 00:04:33,671
Alison Weir
Journalist & founder of "If Americans Knew"
{\an4}

530
00:38:14,953 --> 00:38:18,445
destroy the house, hit Palestinians,
even shoot Palestinians.

531
00:38:18,590 --> 00:38:22,043
Several of the women have been beaten
by settlers on different occasions.

532
00:38:22,327 --> 00:38:26,436
In each of those cases, we were just being
a nonviolent presence on the street

533
00:38:25,881 --> 00:38:30,335
Kathleen Kamphoefner
Christian Peacemaker Team
{\an4}

534
00:38:26,483 --> 00:38:28,905
observing when settlers were acting out.

535
00:38:29,401 --> 00:38:32,427
And they just attacked different ones of us.

536
00:38:32,717 --> 00:38:33,917
From what we've told you, we only

537
00:38:33,942 --> 00:38:36,427
mentioned a fraction of what happens

538
00:38:37,780 --> 00:38:40,442
The Israeli government is not doing anything

539
00:38:40,677 --> 00:38:45,512
to try and stop the settlers from
violating Palestinian rights.

54
00:04:27,828 --> 00:04:30,173
The images and the narration are out of synch,

540
00:38:50,151 --> 00:38:55,956
From all the cases that settlers actually killed
Palestinians, very few were accused of murder,

541
00:38:55,994 --> 00:39:01,125
but then the president came and gave
amnesty or shortened the punishment

542
00:39:01,266 --> 00:39:03,029
that they received from the court.

543
00:39:03,638 --> 00:39:06,747
And, in some cases, they cooperate with them.
They guard there.

544
00:39:03,638 --> 00:39:06,458
Yael Stien
B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
{\an4}

545
00:39:06,817 --> 00:39:11,672
Like one case, the settlers went and
took a house, Palestinian house,

546
00:39:11,731 --> 00:39:13,270
and just said, "Well, now it's ours."

547
00:39:13,344 --> 00:39:18,179
So the border police stood down there to protect
them, because the Palestinians were angry;

548
00:39:18,249 --> 00:39:21,589
so the border police just stood
there and protected the settlers,

549
00:39:21,894 --> 00:39:25,058
instead of, of course, arresting them,
just saying it's illegal.

55
00:04:30,694 --> 00:04:33,685
a little like a foreign film
that has been awkwardly dubbed.

550
00:39:25,156 --> 00:39:28,577
The bottom line is to make things
so difficult for the Palestinians

551
00:39:25,156 --> 00:39:30,398
Jeff Halper
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolition
{\an4}

552
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,658
that anybody that wants a future for their children,

553
00:39:31,796 --> 00:39:33,286
anybody that wants to get ahead in life,

554
00:39:33,352 --> 00:39:35,734
anybody that wants a normal life,
will leave.

555
00:39:36,141 --> 00:39:40,881
Why would anyone who owns a heaven like this

556
00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:44,867
abandon it and leave?

557
00:39:44,991 --> 00:39:48,211
Where else would we go?

558
00:39:52,750 --> 00:39:56,584
The Jabber family continues to
live under constant harassment.

559
00:39:56,721 --> 00:39:59,383
Most recently, Abdul Jawad broke his leg

56
00:04:34,085 --> 00:04:37,702
*Damaged homes and roads destroyed*

560
00:39:59,524 --> 00:40:03,059
while trying to protect his
grandchildren from settler attacks.

561
00:40:04,534 --> 00:40:08,114
Many of us feel hostage, that we're
held hostage to the settlers.

562
00:40:07,878 --> 00:40:12,798
Jeff Halper
Professor of Anthropology - Ben Gurion U.
{\an4}

563
00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:12,882
Because I think the vast majority of Israelis
don't care about the occupied territories.

564
00:40:12,997 --> 00:40:14,575
But we're held hostage to the settlers

565
00:40:14,606 --> 00:40:18,450
that have enough political power
within the Israeli political system,

566
00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:20,820
that they can frustrate any
attempt to get them out.

567
00:40:20,845 --> 00:40:23,930
And as long as they're there,
the Palestinians can't possibly make peace.

568
00:40:24,261 --> 00:40:27,145
There are two kind of settlers basically

569
00:40:24,261 --> 00:40:29,424
Adam Keller
Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Group
{\an4}

57
00:04:37,977 --> 00:04:41,146
*and only skeletal remains of cars*

570
00:40:27,195 --> 00:40:30,308
there are the ideological settlers

571
00:40:31,424 --> 00:40:34,861
who feel that these territories

572
00:40:35,290 --> 00:40:37,885
have been promised to the Jewish people by God.

573
00:40:38,125 --> 00:40:40,204
And they feel that every place

574
00:40:40,274 --> 00:40:41,657
which is mentioned in the Bible

575
00:40:41,682 --> 00:40:44,017
they have not only the right but

576
00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:47,252
a scared duty to come and to build

577
00:40:47,277 --> 00:40:50,101
a modern Jewish settlement and if

578
00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:52,181
Palestinians who live on that spot

579
00:40:52,447 --> 00:40:54,127
have other ideas than they have

58
00:04:41,171 --> 00:04:44,084
*even food and medicine are ever scarce.*

580
00:40:54,175 --> 00:40:56,080
the right to break their resistance

581
00:40:56,153 --> 00:40:58,284
by force or to call in the army.

582
00:40:59,223 --> 00:41:02,846
And the other kind which are the majority

583
00:41:02,862 --> 00:41:05,113
of the settlers are in fact ordinary

584
00:41:05,138 --> 00:41:06,799
Israelis who came there simply because

585
00:41:06,861 --> 00:41:09,205
the government was offering them

586
00:41:09,253 --> 00:41:10,956
very cheap housing and when you go

587
00:41:10,981 --> 00:41:12,612
to live there most of the money

588
00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:15,081
you get as a government loan and

589
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,711
if you stay there ten years then

59
00:04:44,745 --> 00:04:47,145
As you look into it for yourself,

590
00:41:16,792 --> 00:41:18,392
you don't have to pay back the loan.

591
00:41:19,108 --> 00:41:23,085
Only 10% of the West Bank is
populated with Jewish settlers

592
00:41:23,140 --> 00:41:28,462
yet they enjoy superior privileges at the
expense of the native Palestinian population.

593
00:41:29,015 --> 00:41:34,211
Well, I think the unpleasant
and unavoidable comparison

594
00:41:29,992 --> 00:41:32,837
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}

595
00:41:34,252 --> 00:41:37,811
is with South Africa during the apartheid period.

596
00:41:38,189 --> 00:41:42,091
And I must say that, having visited South Africa,

597
00:41:42,455 --> 00:41:49,980
that they were much better off than the
Palestinians living in the refugee camps.

598
00:43:04,973 --> 00:43:09,598
We went to jail because it was impossible

599
00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:14,327
to sit still while the obscenity of the apartheid system

6
00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:22,902
It's an alarm, it's a sign, it's a signal

60
00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,808
you begin to suspect that there is
something extremely odd going on.

600
00:43:14,352 --> 00:43:17,194
was being imposed on our people.

601
00:43:28,128 --> 00:43:32,862
The United States is seen, quite correctly,
as being the sole supporter of Israel,

602
00:43:31,050 --> 00:43:36,397
James Akins
Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
{\an4}

603
00:43:33,191 --> 00:43:37,105
and that Israel would not be able to do what
it is doing without American green light.

604
00:43:37,685 --> 00:43:43,817
The US-Israel relationship
is really unique on Capital Hill.

605
00:43:44,849 --> 00:43:50,048
In my 22 years that I served there,
there was never a moment

606
00:43:47,130 --> 00:43:51,427
Paul Findley
Former U.S. Congressman
{\an4}

607
00:43:50,220 --> 00:43:54,759
when there was really a debate about
US policy in the Middle East.

608
00:43:55,610 --> 00:43:58,101
It was always,
"What does Israel want?"

609
00:43:58,188 --> 00:44:04,079
And almost always, Congress gave them exactly
what they wanted without any debate,

61
00:04:53,712 --> 00:04:57,842
The more you look into it,
the more you begin to feel it is not just odd,

610
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,729
without any amendments being considered.

611
00:44:07,362 --> 00:44:12,831
This type of policy exists as a
result of a number of factors.

612
00:44:13,752 --> 00:44:18,431
First of all, there is the lobby,
the US lobby, for Israel:

613
00:44:18,916 --> 00:44:22,595
AIPAC, American Israeli
Public Affairs Committee.

614
00:44:22,774 --> 00:44:25,250
It has a multi-million dollar budget.

615
00:44:25,288 --> 00:44:29,832
It has a highly professional group
of people working on Capitol Hill.

616
00:44:29,855 --> 00:44:33,258
They know the legislative process,
they know the personalities,

617
00:44:33,399 --> 00:44:36,672
and therefore, advance what's
best for the state of Israel.

618
00:44:36,790 --> 00:44:39,790
Congress seems to think that if
you oppose what Israel wants

619
00:44:39,790 --> 00:44:41,868
you'll be defeated in the next election.

62
00:04:58,125 --> 00:04:59,907
it is deeply disturbing.

620
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,735
From 1978 - 2006 Pro-Israeli
Political Action Committees

621
00:44:46,844 --> 00:44:51,790
have contributed $43,724,035 to candidates who vote
in Congress according ti AIPAC's recommendations.

622
00:44:52,703 --> 00:44:58,453
Another factor is the
fundamentalist Christian community.

623
00:44:59,059 --> 00:45:04,710
Fundamentalists are often represented
by the televangelists that are on TV.

624
00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:08,780
They believe that a strong
Israel is a part of God's plan.

625
00:45:09,023 --> 00:45:13,882
They believe that the day will come
when a battle will occur

626
00:45:14,193 --> 00:45:17,083
on the plain of Armageddon in the Middle East.

627
00:45:17,262 --> 00:45:21,347
There will be the forces of truth
and righteousness on one side,

628
00:45:21,402 --> 00:45:23,301
the force of evil on the other side.

629
00:45:23,582 --> 00:45:30,050
And in that struggle, the Christian forces, led by
the second coming of Jesus Christ, will prevail.

63
00:05:07,034 --> 00:05:09,362
Our media portray Mid-East violence

630
00:45:30,558 --> 00:45:36,894
All of the Jews will be either destroyed
or converted instantly to Christianity.

631
00:45:37,104 --> 00:45:42,573
It may sound, to the viewer,
as a very far-out notion.

632
00:45:38,346 --> 00:45:42,545
Paul Findley
Former U.S. Congressman of 22 years
{\an4}

633
00:45:43,002 --> 00:45:49,555
But, believe me, it is widely held and
supported by millions of Americans,

634
00:45:49,618 --> 00:45:55,334
whose doctrines really, in the ultimate,
are hostile to the survival of Jews;

635
00:45:55,639 --> 00:46:02,107
but nevertheless, the supporters of Israel
see this vast body of American people

636
00:46:02,154 --> 00:46:06,807
as being a great asset at this time,
so they embrace them.

637
00:46:07,829 --> 00:46:09,750
And Mr. Robertson, who said:

638
00:46:09,828 --> 00:46:12,735
"I had a vision from God
that we have to support Israel.

639
00:46:12,860 --> 00:46:14,563
And no matter what happens,
and what they do,

64
00:05:09,626 --> 00:05:13,213
as though it's an inherent part
of the culture and region,

640
00:46:14,688 --> 00:46:17,250
this is the will of God because
they're God's chosen people."

641
00:46:17,508 --> 00:46:19,174
A couple of weeks later, he added:

642
00:46:19,237 --> 00:46:23,205
"And that's when this ministry started really being
blessed, when we made that commitment to Israel."

643
00:46:23,252 --> 00:46:25,455
Not the commitment to God,
or Jesus Christ's teachings,

644
00:46:25,542 --> 00:46:26,603
but to Israel.

645
00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:31,883
And we have come from all the nations of
the Earth, to say to the people of Israel

646
00:46:27,236 --> 00:46:32,673
Pat Robertson
Founder and Chairman, The Christian Broadcasting Network
{\an4}

647
00:46:31,906 --> 00:46:38,804
we're your friends, we're with you, and we believe
that you're called by God to posses this land.

648
00:46:38,891 --> 00:46:43,109
I, as a Christian, and a Christian
pastor, object, not in my name

649
00:46:39,266 --> 00:46:44,571
Dr. William Baker
Former Professor of History and Biblical Studies
{\an4}

65
00:05:13,643 --> 00:05:19,631
implying that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
an ancient problem with little hope of solution.

650
00:46:43,178 --> 00:46:47,428
and not in the name of over 115
to 120 million Christians,

651
00:46:47,567 --> 00:46:51,661
do you dare say that we
support injustice and deceit.

652
00:46:51,783 --> 00:46:52,750
We do not.

653
00:46:54,110 --> 00:47:03,631
The citizenry of this democratic society is
systematically deprived of access to the real facts.

654
00:47:03,857 --> 00:47:08,900
The American media play a major role
in continuing US support for Israel,

655
00:47:09,064 --> 00:47:11,830
through leaving out vast swaths of information.

656
00:47:12,212 --> 00:47:15,275
It is the classic case of lying through omission.

657
00:47:15,510 --> 00:47:22,326
Major statements by American diplomats, senators,
military leaders, are going unreported.

658
00:47:22,650 --> 00:47:25,642
Sentences are being removed from news stories.

659
00:47:25,787 --> 00:47:29,189
Information is being manipulated.

66
00:05:20,861 --> 00:05:22,935
*Israeli soldiers reign destruction*

660
00:47:29,757 --> 00:47:35,382
Those are the three factors that
work together on Capitol Hill

661
00:47:35,702 --> 00:47:42,191
and lead to such total bias, such total
absence of free speech, of open debate,

662
00:47:42,535 --> 00:47:48,511
that is, I think, very destructive to our institutions,
and to our best interests in world affairs.

663
00:47:48,977 --> 00:47:53,241
So Israel, for example, does not
abide at all by international law.

664
00:47:53,380 --> 00:47:55,569
The entire occupation is illegal.

665
00:47:55,850 --> 00:47:59,624
It's a violation, in particular,
of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

666
00:48:02,421 --> 00:48:06,419
By the rules of the Fourth Geneva Convention,
you're not allowed to build settlements,

667
00:48:06,677 --> 00:48:10,225
you're not allowed to build roads,
you're not allowed to expropriate land,

668
00:48:10,365 --> 00:48:14,495
you're not allowed to deport people, you're not
allowed to restrict their freedom of movement,

669
00:48:14,635 --> 00:48:19,388
you're not allowed to harm their economy, you're not
allowed to make them unemployed and impoverished.

67
00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:25,328
*in all areas of the West Bank.*

670
00:48:21,282 --> 00:48:26,278
Everything that Israel does in the occupied
territories, US taxpayers are paying for it.

671
00:48:22,780 --> 00:48:26,278
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}

672
00:48:26,547 --> 00:48:30,119
The US gives the financing,
it gives the military support.

673
00:48:30,885 --> 00:48:38,690
Israel receives as much foreign economic assistance
as all the countries combined in the world.

674
00:48:31,944 --> 00:48:36,477
Richard Falk
Professor of International Law - Princeton
{\an4}

675
00:48:40,582 --> 00:48:44,254
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America

676
00:48:44,637 --> 00:48:50,340
Total US Aid from 1949 - 1996
$ 62.5 Billion

677
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,329
Israel

678
00:48:57,510 --> 00:49:02,213
Total US Aid from 1949 - 1996
$ 62.5 Billion

679
00:49:03,089 --> 00:49:12,860
Population:
Israel = 5.8 million

68
00:05:25,829 --> 00:05:28,909
*The "City of Peace" is under siege*

680
00:49:14,978 --> 00:49:28,383
Population:
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America = 1.05 Billion

681
00:49:31,157 --> 00:49:36,957
US Aid Dollars Spent per Person
Israel = $ 10,775

682
00:49:38,473 --> 00:49:44,672
US Aid Dollars Spent per Person
The caribbean + Sub-Saharian Africa + Latin America = $ 59

683
00:49:48,344 --> 00:49:57,092
Of the total aid the US gives annually
Israel receives one third

684
00:49:58,842 --> 00:50:07,002
There are currently 191 independently
recognized countries in the world

685
00:50:07,674 --> 00:50:12,713
In March 2003, the US government
approved $10 Billion in aid for Israel

686
00:50:13,739 --> 00:50:21,077
At the same time, it withheld a $3.5 Billion grant
to upgrade the training of first responders

687
00:50:21,438 --> 00:50:26,109
those who be the first to respond to a terrorist attack

688
00:50:26,444 --> 00:50:30,280
Spent domestically that $10 Billion
could buy health care coverage

689
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,524
for 4,202,251 children without proper coverage

69
00:05:29,550 --> 00:05:31,653
*and the Church of Nativity is under*

690
00:50:34,030 --> 00:50:39,560
Or pay for 1,445,573 American children to
attend "Headstart" child development programs

691
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,118
to prepare them for school

692
00:50:41,967 --> 00:50:48,043
Or simply help states offsets the costs of one
of the worst fiscal crises in half a century

693
00:50:49,549 --> 00:50:57,517
From 1949 to 2006 US Aid to Israel amounts to:
$108 Billion

694
00:50:58,648 --> 00:51:04,559
Today it averages $2 to $3 Billion per year

695
00:51:05,292 --> 00:51:12,982
or $6 to $8 Million per day

696
00:51:13,630 --> 00:51:21,608
Israel is currently the most extensive
violator of UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS

697
00:51:22,077 --> 00:51:27,356
The United States has used its Veto
power more than 40 times in the U.N.

698
00:51:27,372 --> 00:51:29,974
To defend Israel violations of international law.

699
00:51:31,899 --> 00:51:36,859
And one of the reasons that the American
commitment to Israel is so strong,

7
00:00:23,852 --> 00:00:27,131
that something is wrong in the
treatment of this population.

70
00:05:31,736 --> 00:05:33,958
*fire by heavy military artillery*

700
00:51:36,977 --> 00:51:45,274
that it's not only reflecting the impact
of well-organized, pro-Israel lobbies,

701
00:51:45,413 --> 00:51:53,033
but it also represents the views of the Pentagon, that
sees Israel now as an indispensable strategic ally

702
00:51:49,030 --> 00:51:53,032
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}

703
00:51:53,096 --> 00:51:58,093
in the effort to control and exert
influence throughout the region.

704
00:51:58,659 --> 00:52:04,059
The main concern for the United States,
like the world, is the oil producing regions.

705
00:51:58,659 --> 00:52:03,961
Noam Chomsky
Middle East analyst and author
{\an4}

706
00:52:04,198 --> 00:52:07,064
And in order to control that,
you need a way of doing it.

707
00:52:20,348 --> 00:52:23,545
Desperate for a peace
that would finally end occupation,

708
00:52:23,684 --> 00:52:27,984
Palestinians again came
to the negotiating table in 2000.

709
00:52:28,122 --> 00:52:30,750
People think, look, Israel was very forthcoming.

71
00:05:34,018 --> 00:05:36,195
*Hundreds of citizens are stuck inside*

710
00:52:30,883 --> 00:52:34,956
It offered 95 percent of the West
Bank of the occupied territories

711
00:52:35,002 --> 00:52:37,948
to the Palestinians and they
rejected it in violence.

712
00:52:38,839 --> 00:52:42,237
The assumption of that 95 percent argument is that

713
00:52:42,354 --> 00:52:46,036
getting 95 percent of the land
gives you 95 percent sovereignty.

714
00:52:46,420 --> 00:52:50,589
Jeff Halper
Professor of Anthropology - Ben Gurion U.
{\an4}

715
00:52:46,841 --> 00:52:48,308
A sovereign country.

716
00:52:48,442 --> 00:52:51,535
But I think it's very useful
to think in terms of a prison.

717
00:52:51,779 --> 00:52:56,215
If you look at a blueprint of a prison, it
looks like the prisoners own the place.

718
00:52:56,350 --> 00:52:59,046
And the prisoners have 95 percent of the area.

719
00:52:59,186 --> 00:53:02,139
They've got the living areas.
They have the exercise yard.

72
00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:38,244
*the church without any food or medicine.*

720
00:53:02,209 --> 00:53:05,716
They have the cafeteria.
They've got the work areas.

721
00:53:05,943 --> 00:53:08,372
All the prison authorities have is five percent,

722
00:53:09,059 --> 00:53:10,607
is the control.

723
00:53:11,189 --> 00:53:14,088
The average Palestinian didn't think
they were throwing anything away

724
00:53:13,284 --> 00:53:18,184
Rabbi Arik Ascherman
Rabbis for Human Rights
{\an4}

725
00:53:14,158 --> 00:53:15,096
because there was nothing to throw away.

726
00:53:15,202 --> 00:53:18,431
They had tuned out what Barak
and Arafat were talking about,

727
00:53:18,572 --> 00:53:22,473
because, on the ground, there
were ongoing land expropriations,

728
00:53:22,610 --> 00:53:25,773
tree uprooting, road building,
unfair water allocation;

729
00:53:25,913 --> 00:53:29,749
leaving many Palestinian families, in the summer
and fall, with two hours of running water a week,

73
00:05:38,905 --> 00:05:43,288
These mis-perceptions come from the fact that
we're only hearing a fraction of the story.

730
00:53:29,884 --> 00:53:33,746
when next door you have a settlement
with a swimming pool and green lawns.

731
00:53:33,888 --> 00:53:35,719
So what do you expect people to think?

732
00:53:43,254 --> 00:53:46,972
And it was that pressure,
that sense of being squeezed

733
00:53:44,621 --> 00:53:49,078
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
{\an4}

734
00:53:47,285 --> 00:53:53,873
that finally exploded in September of
2000, in what became The Second Intifada.

735
00:54:16,931 --> 00:54:23,702
What is called "The Second Intifada" is
essentially a mobilization of resistance

736
00:54:23,838 --> 00:54:27,759
against this structure of occupation and oppression.

737
00:54:30,458 --> 00:54:37,055
Israel, from the very beginning of these
demonstrations, had indeed relied on excessive force.

738
00:54:31,063 --> 00:54:35,227
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}

739
00:54:37,184 --> 00:54:41,660
They had used live ammunition
against unarmed demonstrators,

74
00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:58,062
You are about to witness images and testimony,
largely hidden from mainstream America.

740
00:54:41,718 --> 00:54:44,269
had inflicted several deaths...

741
00:54:48,285 --> 00:54:53,362
...and hundreds of causalities in
the opening days of the Intifada.

742
00:54:53,610 --> 00:54:55,688
In the first 10 days of the uprising alone

743
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,884
The Israeli security forces killed 74
Palestinians and injured nearly 3000.

744
00:55:03,617 --> 00:55:08,247
Sometimes, the Israelis are speaking
about rubber bullets they used.

745
00:55:08,382 --> 00:55:11,759
By the way, it's not rubber.
It's steel coated with rubber.

746
00:55:12,250 --> 00:55:17,156
This bullet, it killed many of
the kids who are demonstrating

747
00:55:12,766 --> 00:55:16,300
Red Crescent Hospital
{\an4}

748
00:55:17,174 --> 00:55:20,855
and who sometimes while they are throwing stones.

749
00:55:20,995 --> 00:55:23,964
As this case, I'll show you what happened.

75
00:06:06,604 --> 00:06:11,229
This place draws many people,
whether they're Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.

750
00:55:24,098 --> 00:55:26,532
He is a 14-year-old from Khan Yunis.

751
00:55:26,667 --> 00:55:30,409
He was shot with one like this,
and it entered here,

752
00:55:30,785 --> 00:55:32,284
and he died.

753
00:55:33,374 --> 00:55:37,869
A lot of the deaths have been children,
and we do have some documentary evidence

754
00:55:35,572 --> 00:55:38,588
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}

755
00:55:38,012 --> 00:55:41,777
that security forces are
firing on crowds of children.

756
00:55:41,941 --> 00:55:44,112
The soldiers weren't at risk.
They're heavily armored.

757
00:55:43,315 --> 00:55:46,385
Thomas Getman
World Vision International - Jerusalem
{\an4}

758
00:55:44,167 --> 00:55:45,985
They have all this high-powered weaponry.

759
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,755
And no child with a stone is
going to be a risk to them.

76
00:06:08,166 --> 00:06:12,166
Kathleen Kamphoefner
Christian Peacemaker Team
{\an4}

760
00:55:59,856 --> 00:56:04,188
Most of the Palestinian abuses
involve shooting at settlements,

761
00:55:59,865 --> 00:56:02,687
Peter Boukaert
Human Rights Watch
{\an4}

762
00:56:04,338 --> 00:56:10,640
ambushes on settler cars, and, obviously,
the suicide bombings inside Israel.

763
00:56:11,949 --> 00:56:17,246
There are some risks to Israeli life.
Many Israelis have been killed.

764
00:56:18,085 --> 00:56:22,187
When there was this horrible suicide
bombing, at the pizza place in Jerusalem,

765
00:56:22,323 --> 00:56:26,322
I went to visit some of the kids who
survived that blast, in the hospital.

766
00:56:22,478 --> 00:56:26,843
Rabbi Rebecca Lillian
Jewish Peace Forum
{\an4}

767
00:56:26,433 --> 00:56:29,932
It was horrible. It was horrible to
see what happened to these children.

768
00:56:30,064 --> 00:56:34,392
You see the blood, you see the agony of the family.
This is what the world sees.

769
00:56:36,785 --> 00:56:39,863
But one cannot take it out of the general context.

77
00:06:11,361 --> 00:06:16,025
This is a holy place to significant
numbers of us, in the world.

770
00:56:39,972 --> 00:56:43,666
And the context is of an Israeli
occupation, which is...

771
00:56:43,807 --> 00:56:47,194
Amira Hass
Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz
{\an4}

772
00:56:44,006 --> 00:56:47,225
It seems not to be so brutal,
but it's very brutal.

773
00:56:47,326 --> 00:56:50,130
It really makes people's lives unbearable.

774
00:56:55,589 --> 00:57:00,185
The use of suicide bombers is an act of desperation.

775
00:56:58,559 --> 00:57:02,071
Richard Falk
U.N. Human Rights Fact-finding Commission
{\an4}

776
00:57:00,327 --> 00:57:02,067
It's the weapons of the weak.

777
00:57:02,147 --> 00:57:04,570
Israel doesn't do it.
Never.

778
00:57:02,147 --> 00:57:10,679
Hava Keller
Committee for Women Political Prisoners
{\an4}

779
00:57:04,670 --> 00:57:07,636
Because it has airplanes and helicopters.

78
00:06:16,124 --> 00:06:20,827
We all have an interest in sort of seeing what
is this land, and what's the situation here.

780
00:57:07,736 --> 00:57:10,683
Why should they send anybody to make suicide?

781
00:57:12,374 --> 00:57:16,014
I think we have to change our
conception of what Israel is.

782
00:57:16,077 --> 00:57:21,044
Israel likes to present itself as this little
country surrounded by a sea of hostile Arabs,

783
00:57:21,181 --> 00:57:24,009
and we just want peace, and they're violent.

784
00:57:24,451 --> 00:57:27,899
Israel is the fifth largest
nuclear power in the world.

785
00:57:28,251 --> 00:57:30,984
It's got between two and three
hundred nuclear warheads.

786
00:57:31,125 --> 00:57:34,093
So the reality is that Israel
is a regional super power.

787
00:57:36,297 --> 00:57:43,963
For the first time, the resistance to that occupation
had, to a very small extent, an armed component.

788
00:57:44,104 --> 00:57:46,834
There was nothing close to equal force.

789
00:57:49,827 --> 00:57:53,053
Israeli Tanks 3930
Palestinian Tanks 0

79
00:06:20,911 --> 00:06:24,036
And, once you come,
if you open your eyes at all,

790
00:57:53,379 --> 00:57:56,783
Israeli F-16 Jets 362
Palestinian F-16 Jets 0

791
00:57:56,783 --> 00:58:01,196
Israeli F-16 Jets 362
The largest fleet in any country in the world
behind the US

792
00:58:01,655 --> 00:58:06,251
At every stage, they had
used grossly excessive force

793
00:58:06,393 --> 00:58:11,626
against a completely defenseless
civilian population.

794
00:58:15,536 --> 00:58:18,895
The victims have been overwhelmingly
Palestinian civilians.

795
00:58:16,777 --> 00:58:20,480
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}

796
00:58:19,004 --> 00:58:20,501
Overwhelmingly.

797
00:58:20,641 --> 00:58:23,413
Not armed groups or armed individuals.

798
00:58:23,498 --> 00:58:25,261
From September 2000
to February 2007:

799
00:58:25,371 --> 00:58:28,410
Palestinians killed by Israelis: 4,009
Israelis killed by Palestinians: 1,021

8
00:00:30,057 --> 00:00:31,888
*Where is the outcry?*

80
00:06:24,067 --> 00:06:27,780
you can't miss the problems
and the patterns that are here.

800
00:58:28,435 --> 00:58:30,927
More than 935 children were killed
during the current conflict:

801
00:58:31,060 --> 00:58:33,115
816 Palestinian
119 Israeli

802
00:58:41,695 --> 00:58:46,860
Israel has established all of these
checkpoints within the West Bank,

803
00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:53,212
which require Palestinians to wait hours
and hours to go very short distances.

804
00:58:55,342 --> 00:58:59,959
Just the freedom of movement, that's something
that Palestinians are denied on a daily basis.

805
00:58:57,651 --> 00:59:00,498
Douglas Dicks
Catholic Relief Services
{\an4}

806
00:59:00,045 --> 00:59:02,841
The access to Jerusalem,
the access to health care,

807
00:59:03,021 --> 00:59:06,794
the access to hospitals,
clinics, and schools.

808
00:59:09,623 --> 00:59:14,674
We're talking about three million people who've
had the freedom of movement totally stopped.

809
00:59:14,846 --> 00:59:16,494
It's a violation of international law.

81
00:06:29,562 --> 00:06:32,384
I think it's hard to understand
what occupation is.

810
00:59:16,563 --> 00:59:21,211
That the right to freedom of movement is a fundamental
right in the Declaration of Human Rights.

811
00:59:17,849 --> 00:59:21,016
Sharon Burke
Amnesty International
{\an4}

812
00:59:21,329 --> 00:59:26,263
What you have is young Israeli
conscripts who look bored.

813
00:59:26,555 --> 00:59:31,055
These guys are sitting out there, and they're
watching thousands of Palestinians go by.

814
00:59:31,242 --> 00:59:35,874
They have *carte blanche* to pull anyone
over and harass them, for whatever reason.

815
00:59:35,952 --> 00:59:37,718
They can detain them for hours.

816
00:59:37,820 --> 00:59:39,918
And it's a dangerous situation.

817
00:59:41,055 --> 00:59:46,749
The main population that are being affected by
Israeli policies is the civilian population,

818
00:59:46,894 --> 00:59:53,030
the population that is not being involved in any
attacks against the Israelis, civilians or the army.

819
00:59:56,022 --> 01:00:00,616
During this time of closure, unfortunately, there
have been lots of bombings, lots of attacks.

82
00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:38,479
I think it's a foreign concept for many Americans;
what it's like to live under military occupation.

820
01:00:00,941 --> 01:00:05,003
The closure is not meant
to deter suicide bombings.

821
01:00:05,097 --> 01:00:09,761
It's meant to punish and put
pressure on three million civilians.

822
01:00:10,737 --> 01:00:12,215
People do not earn any more

823
01:00:12,352 --> 01:00:15,655
because the majority of the
Palestinians used to work in Israel.

824
01:00:15,789 --> 01:00:19,367
And the majority of the Palestinian
economy was based on the income of people

825
01:00:19,406 --> 01:00:20,898
who were working inside Israel.

826
01:00:21,476 --> 01:00:22,983
Now they cannot go into Israel,

827
01:00:23,018 --> 01:00:27,808
so tens of thousands of families just
lose the source of income that they had.

828
01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:29,535
According to World Bank Estimates:

829
01:00:29,684 --> 01:00:34,180
Unemployment is now reaching 53% of the population
75% of Palestinians live in poverty (less than $2 a day)

83
00:06:40,594 --> 00:06:43,953
The definition of an occupation
is when a foreign army

830
01:00:34,420 --> 01:00:36,803
The education system is also affected by that.

831
01:00:36,844 --> 01:00:38,709
Students cannot go to the university.

832
01:00:42,449 --> 01:00:49,152
Birzeit University was subject to army
closures for something like 18 times.

833
01:00:49,311 --> 01:00:52,151
The longest closure was during The First Intifada.

834
01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,994
For five years, we could not set foot on campus.

835
01:00:52,824 --> 01:00:57,410
Dr. Albert Aghazarian
Bir Zeit University
{\an4}

836
01:00:55,129 --> 01:00:58,941
During this period, we organized
what the Israeli army called

837
01:00:59,019 --> 01:01:00,729
"cells of illegal education".

838
01:01:00,868 --> 01:01:04,196
We were teaching in apartments, in rented flats,

839
01:01:04,227 --> 01:01:07,801
in churches, in mosques,
in gardens, in cars.

84
00:06:44,003 --> 00:06:47,484
occupies your land physically
and controls your life.

840
01:01:07,941 --> 01:01:10,980
And we kept our infrastructure, even this attempt,

841
01:01:11,167 --> 01:01:14,210
to minimize the damage and to
keep the university going.

842
01:01:14,291 --> 01:01:15,830
They attempted to crush it.

843
01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:20,616
I went to college in the States
and I found it very different.

844
01:01:16,923 --> 01:01:20,526
Bir Zeit University Students
{\an4}

845
01:01:20,754 --> 01:01:22,984
Your biggest worry in the States,

846
01:01:23,123 --> 01:01:26,701
is if I'm going to pass in class or,
"Oh, I hope I have a lot of friends."

847
01:01:26,771 --> 01:01:28,490
Over here, it's totally different.

848
01:01:28,629 --> 01:01:30,980
You have to worry, "Oh, my God,
would I be able to get to school?

849
01:01:31,027 --> 01:01:33,207
Is there going to be a checkpoint?
Is there going to be a demonstration?

85
00:06:50,504 --> 00:06:53,019
In addition, Palestinians under occupation,

850
01:01:33,246 --> 01:01:35,599
Am I going to get shot at?
Is there going to be tear gas?"

851
01:01:35,736 --> 01:01:39,297
So, it's like, completely different.

852
01:01:42,075 --> 01:01:43,804
And here, it's just like you don't
know if you're going to live

853
01:01:43,944 --> 01:01:45,172
or you're going to die, you know?

854
01:01:45,312 --> 01:01:47,449
It's... You're going to school
as if you're going to fight a war.

855
01:01:49,917 --> 01:01:53,010
You don't find a tank in the middle
of the road on your way to college.

856
01:01:53,088 --> 01:01:55,471
Just the other day, there were
two tanks and an army Jeep.

857
01:01:55,518 --> 01:01:58,720
And they're standing there checking
your passport, and, you know,

858
01:01:58,748 --> 01:02:00,824
your student visa and all this stuff.

859
01:02:00,961 --> 01:02:03,164
And it's just like, "We want to get
to school. We want an education.

86
00:06:51,922 --> 00:06:55,922
Allegra Pacheco
Israeli human rights lawyer
{\an4}

860
01:02:03,197 --> 01:02:06,101
We're humans, and we
have a right to our education.

861
01:02:06,125 --> 01:02:10,656
In places like the United States, people
cannot understand what's going on,

862
01:02:10,687 --> 01:02:15,256
because simply, the experience is
beyond their frame of reference.

863
01:02:15,303 --> 01:02:17,654
I can't study at night because my
bedroom light is going to be on,

864
01:02:17,744 --> 01:02:19,905
and it's across the street from a settlement.

865
01:02:20,047 --> 01:02:23,422
They shot at me.
I was reading my biology book.

866
01:02:23,461 --> 01:02:24,906
I was studying for my mid-term.

867
01:02:24,952 --> 01:02:27,510
And my mom and dad are like,
"No, get out of the room,"

868
01:02:27,588 --> 01:02:30,088
because they started shooting.

869
01:02:30,123 --> 01:02:32,614
I was like, "No, Mom, I want to get
an "A" in the class. Let me study."

87
00:06:53,089 --> 00:06:55,964
- and this why there's so much
struggle against the occupation -

870
01:02:32,686 --> 01:02:34,021
So I'm sitting there and all of the sudden,

871
01:02:34,161 --> 01:02:38,030
you hear something on my bedroom window.

872
01:02:40,100 --> 01:02:42,678
And I was just like, "Okay,
maybe I should go downstairs."

873
01:02:42,736 --> 01:02:43,935
I couldn't study for my test.

874
01:02:44,004 --> 01:02:46,234
It's like...
I tell my American friends:

875
01:02:46,373 --> 01:02:49,103
"It's like, do you understand
what I'm going through?"

876
01:02:50,477 --> 01:02:55,074
The amazing thing is not that you
have cases of suicide in students.

877
01:02:55,215 --> 01:02:59,542
The amazing thing is the bulk of them, they
try to carry on in the middle of this mess,

878
01:02:59,686 --> 01:03:04,123
as if life is normal, as if they want
to celebrate their graduation,

879
01:03:04,258 --> 01:03:07,140
and they want to build their life,
and they want to carry on.

88
00:06:56,031 --> 00:06:57,623
they're not citizens.
They don't have rights.

880
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,256
That's the other part of the coin.

881
01:03:12,823 --> 01:03:17,971
The root problem here is occupation.
Everything else emanates from there.

882
01:03:25,412 --> 01:03:28,763
The most severe problem is
people who need medical care.

883
01:03:29,757 --> 01:03:33,570
We've documented numerous cases,
cases where people have died.

884
01:03:33,593 --> 01:03:38,531
In fact, I believe that one of the last cases
we documented was a woman who was in labor,

885
01:03:38,625 --> 01:03:42,750
who was not allowed to get to the hospital,
and she and the baby both died.

886
01:03:43,117 --> 01:03:48,577
If people like that, people who are really sick and
really need to go to hospitals, cannot do that.

887
01:03:48,769 --> 01:03:53,620
So I think you can imagine what happens to
regular people that just want to go to work,

888
01:03:53,674 --> 01:03:56,808
just want to go to do some shopping,
or even just visit friends.

889
01:03:56,944 --> 01:04:01,381
It's like living in a prison, a gigantic prison.

89
00:06:57,718 --> 00:07:01,029
They don't have civil rights.
They're under a military rule.

890
01:04:04,017 --> 01:04:06,806
Haaretz, the intellectual newspaper in Israel,

891
01:04:06,954 --> 01:04:11,053
ran a whole, like a four-page magazine
article on the refugee issue.

892
01:04:11,085 --> 01:04:13,953
It had a picture of Tel Aviv University now

893
01:04:14,085 --> 01:04:18,643
and what was there before Tel Aviv
University, a Palestinian village.

894
01:04:18,839 --> 01:04:20,422
And those refugees are in Gaza.

895
01:04:23,727 --> 01:04:26,370
Gaza is one place that's seen hell

896
01:04:26,934 --> 01:04:29,567
No lie, I swear Gaza is even worse

897
01:04:29,998 --> 01:04:32,582
than what we've experienced!

898
01:04:32,925 --> 01:04:34,869
Gaza is much worse!

899
01:04:38,752 --> 01:04:41,380
I think that Gaza is a main problem.

9
00:00:32,644 --> 00:00:34,644
IRELAND
{\an5}

90
00:07:02,491 --> 00:07:10,675
This is a particular kind of occupation,
that's both military and settler occupation.

900
01:04:41,423 --> 01:04:44,540
There are lots of violations that you will not
see in the West Bank, you will see in Gaza.

901
01:04:44,610 --> 01:04:47,685
We find it hard to monitor the
human rights situation in Gaza

902
01:04:47,828 --> 01:04:50,469
because the Israeli army do not let us in.

903
01:04:55,902 --> 01:05:01,667
Palestinians in Gaza had been under Israeli
military control for over 38 years,

904
01:05:01,972 --> 01:05:09,356
where 1.3 million Palestinians were crowded
together to make room for 8,000 Israeli settlers.

905
01:05:18,723 --> 01:05:20,747
In August of 2005,

906
01:05:20,927 --> 01:05:27,666
Israel dismantled its settlements and military
posts inside Gaza and relocated its settlers.

907
01:05:29,703 --> 01:05:36,272
The media, along with Israeli politicians,
portrayed this as an unprecedented sacrifice.

908
01:05:36,410 --> 01:05:41,652
In reality, it was simply a matter of Israel
finally complying with international law.

909
01:05:42,491 --> 01:05:47,847
The evacuation of settlers from Gaza constituted
only 2% of the entire Israel settler population.

91
00:07:04,129 --> 00:07:08,781
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies
{\an4}

910
01:05:48,567 --> 01:05:52,093
Each illegal settler was promised
an estimated $227,000 to relocate

911
01:05:53,031 --> 01:05:56,858
A total cost of $2.2 Billion an expense
Israel has asked the US to pay for.

912
01:05:56,998 --> 01:06:01,032
Although Israel's presence inside
Gaza is no longer visible,

913
01:06:01,168 --> 01:06:05,460
Israel will still retain ultimate
control over Gaza's borders,

914
01:06:05,663 --> 01:06:10,809
coastal waters, and air space,
creating a virtual prison.

915
01:06:12,211 --> 01:06:19,033
The refugee camps, even if there was no conflict
with Israel, are just humanly horrible.

916
01:06:19,321 --> 01:06:21,736
They're so overcrowded.

917
01:06:23,713 --> 01:06:29,056
And you have 14 to 25 people
living in a space.

918
01:06:38,438 --> 01:06:43,102
There's no place for children to be.
There are no streets.

919
01:06:43,136 --> 01:06:47,300
They're little alleys.
No trees. Nothing.

92
00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:19,829
Bishop Allen Bartlett
Diocese of Washington
{\an4}

920
01:06:52,238 --> 01:06:57,596
Many generations of Palestinians have grown up and
continue to live in refugee camps throughout the region.

921
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,339
In 1948, they numbered over 750,000

922
01:07:01,230 --> 01:07:05,823
Today, those who continue to live
in refugee camps number 4,255,120

923
01:07:06,456 --> 01:07:09,276
Could you live here? Could you?

924
01:07:09,675 --> 01:07:13,378
You couldn't because the conditions are horrible

925
01:07:13,668 --> 01:07:18,863
and you'd be afraid whenever the missiles strike

926
01:07:19,380 --> 01:07:22,261
and the walls begin to crack!

927
01:07:51,582 --> 01:07:54,456
The shelling struck the window

928
01:07:54,544 --> 01:08:00,082
everything broke and got burnt.

929
01:08:02,122 --> 01:08:05,272
Why did they break my things

93
00:07:14,503 --> 00:07:20,674
Settlements are areas of Palestinian
land which are selected,

930
01:08:05,322 --> 01:08:06,940
and break my toys?

931
01:08:06,990 --> 01:08:08,479
I lost a lot of my stuff.

932
01:08:08,529 --> 01:08:11,274
We threw it all in the garbage

933
01:08:11,324 --> 01:08:13,457
We also got rid of our clothes

934
01:08:13,507 --> 01:08:17,017
We beg from our neighbors for clothing to wear.

935
01:08:17,067 --> 01:08:20,931
The food we eat smells like gas

936
01:08:20,981 --> 01:08:23,323
We don't want to get rid of our clothes

937
01:08:23,373 --> 01:08:25,490
even though they smell like gas

938
01:08:25,540 --> 01:08:27,834
Only if you would smell our clothing!

939
01:08:27,884 --> 01:08:30,769
Let the Israelis come and smell our clothes

94
00:07:20,901 --> 00:07:26,502
and whatever is there, whether it's roads,
or whether it's villages, or homes,

940
01:08:30,819 --> 01:08:32,200
and see our home.

941
01:08:32,250 --> 01:08:34,827
Whenever we go to take a shower

942
01:08:34,877 --> 01:08:36,735
or do anything at home

943
01:08:36,785 --> 01:08:40,054
the smell of gas suffocates us to death!

944
01:08:40,124 --> 01:08:42,873
Come and look at my clothes.

945
01:08:42,923 --> 01:08:45,082
Smell them. It's gas.

946
01:08:45,132 --> 01:08:46,289
What can I do?

947
01:08:46,339 --> 01:08:48,781
I didn't even get to enjoy the

948
01:08:48,831 --> 01:08:51,243
sunglasses that my dad gave me

949
01:08:51,293 --> 01:08:53,759
even the bracelets and necklace

95
00:07:26,541 --> 00:07:31,017
they are bulldozed, and then a new
town is built on the hilltop.

950
01:08:53,809 --> 01:08:55,496
that my mom gave me.

951
01:08:55,546 --> 01:08:59,190
I didn't even get to enjoy my rings.

952
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:04,634
How am I supposed to enjoy all of my belongings?

953
01:09:05,471 --> 01:09:09,041
How? Enjoy our things with what?

954
01:09:09,094 --> 01:09:11,923
Our children can't even live

955
01:09:11,973 --> 01:09:14,350
We don't even know how to live.

956
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,347
We live in constant fear.

957
01:09:17,646 --> 01:09:20,364
We live in fear and terror!

958
01:09:25,873 --> 01:09:28,567
On my way to school I hear gun shots.

959
01:09:28,646 --> 01:09:30,825
I get so scared from the shooting

96
00:07:31,511 --> 00:07:34,480
One very good friend is Rodina Jabber.

960
01:09:30,928 --> 01:09:33,247
I begin to tremble all over.

961
01:09:36,961 --> 01:09:39,906
This is what has been fired on this neighborhood.

962
01:09:39,961 --> 01:09:43,235
This is a civilian neighborhood.
There are no soldiers here.

963
01:09:42,899 --> 01:09:47,208
Thomas Getman
Director, World Vision Jerusalem
{\an4}

964
01:09:43,456 --> 01:09:46,992
There are no military installations here.

965
01:09:47,141 --> 01:09:51,672
This is strictly harassment, to get these
people to move away from the border,

966
01:09:52,133 --> 01:09:56,448
so that the Israeli tanks can move at will.

967
01:09:56,902 --> 01:10:02,266
The want these people cleansed from this area.
It's that simple.

968
01:10:03,064 --> 01:10:09,243
And it's a way to get people to be
humiliated and destitute again.

969
01:10:09,775 --> 01:10:12,642
In Gaza, you can see also the
extent of house demolitions,

97
00:07:34,598 --> 00:07:40,340
She and her husband, Ata, have landed in a
rural valley near here called the Ba'a.

970
01:10:11,045 --> 01:10:15,117
Yael Stien
B'tselem - Israeli Human Rights Group
{\an4}

971
01:10:12,689 --> 01:10:15,767
much more extensive than in the West Bank.

972
01:10:15,806 --> 01:10:18,215
Whole neighborhoods have been demolished.

973
01:10:18,433 --> 01:10:20,675
Hundreds of people do not have any houses any more,

974
01:10:20,776 --> 01:10:23,502
because they are next to
settlements or next to the border,

975
01:10:23,541 --> 01:10:26,104
which is, of course, a clear
violation of humanitarian law.

976
01:10:27,723 --> 01:10:30,684
People have no chance to get
their personal items out.

977
01:10:30,824 --> 01:10:32,887
They have no chance to call for help.

978
01:10:32,957 --> 01:10:37,121
And this is far away from most media outlets.

979
01:10:37,355 --> 01:10:42,983
You are amongst the very few
journalists who have even seen this.

98
00:07:40,484 --> 00:07:44,079
And it's pretty clear these
settlements want this land.

980
01:10:43,139 --> 01:10:45,678
European or American journalists
who have even been here.

981
01:10:45,772 --> 01:10:49,400
Because people are afraid to
come or it's too hard to come.

982
01:10:51,772 --> 01:10:58,342
One of the things we were told in Gaza by
a very respected Palestinian psychologist

983
01:10:58,365 --> 01:11:03,265
who had just completed a study
of a thousand Palestinian children,

984
01:11:03,403 --> 01:11:07,863
was that they had discovered that
many of these Palestinian children

985
01:11:07,999 --> 01:11:10,371
no longer had a will to live,

986
01:11:10,535 --> 01:11:16,566
that they were so dehumanized and so affected

987
01:11:16,613 --> 01:11:23,860
by seeing their fathers, particularly,
beaten by Israeli defense forces,

988
01:11:25,149 --> 01:11:29,940
that the psychological condition is
one of the dimensions of the conflict

989
01:11:30,011 --> 01:11:32,411
that is not widely understood.

99
00:07:44,224 --> 00:07:47,106
It's some of the best
agricultural land around here.

990
01:11:36,143 --> 01:11:41,572
Palestinians called for an international
observer force that would stop the violence,

991
01:11:41,675 --> 01:11:44,925
but this action was blocked by Israel.

992
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:50,981
Finally, a group of Palestinian and
Israeli human rights activists, together

993
01:11:51,184 --> 01:11:54,328
created the International Solidarity Movement,

994
01:11:54,594 --> 01:11:58,773
which has brought people from around the
world, of all ages and backgrounds,

995
01:11:59,055 --> 01:12:04,356
to provide a nonviolent, international presence,
to try to fill this need.

996
01:12:05,969 --> 01:12:09,851
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American student,

997
01:12:10,101 --> 01:12:15,263
went to Gaza to join in these efforts,
sending back e-mails to her parents.

998
01:12:15,454 --> 01:12:19,213
"I have been in Palestine for
two weeks and one hour now,

999
01:12:19,502 --> 01:12:23,244
and I still have very few
words to describe what I see.