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Summer 2002
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Palestinian filmmaker
Michel Khleifi
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and Israeli filmmaker
Eyal Sivan
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embarked on a cinematographic
journey through their country,
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Palestine-Israel.
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For this trip
they traced a route on a roadmap.
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They called it "Route 181",
after Resolution 181
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adopted by the United Nations.
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This resolution from 1947 divided
Palestine into two states,
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56% of land
for the Jewish minority,
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43% for the Arab majority
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and the rest,
an international zone.
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This theoretical line
presented as a solution
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caused the first Arab-Israeli war,
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which is yet to end.
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This journey along Route 181
followed this border
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that has never existed.
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A film by
Michel KHLEIFI and Eyal SIVAN
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Fragments of a Journey
in Palestine-Israel
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The SOUTH
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Albert
good morning
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What do you want?
... where from?
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What do you want from me?
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Hananaia, have you
been here already?
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MEDITERRANEAN BUILDING IN THE MARINA
4-5 ROOM APARTMENTS, PENTHOUSES
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Wasn't it easier
with Arab workers from Gaza?
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Yes, but you can't count on them.
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After a terrorist attack,
there's closure.
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One Arab worker
is worth four Chinese.
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- Do you communicate with them?
- No... I mean yes, I do.
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- It works?
- Pretty much.
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Some understand a bit,
others don't.
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How many workers do you have?
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About 300.
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Depends on their visas
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We treat them well,
they are human...
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- Where were you born?
- Kurdistan.
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- And you?
- Morocco. -Marakesh
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- Were you born there?
- yes
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- Was it good back then?
- Yes, it was.
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I mean it was good
40-50 years ago?
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- I mean for Jews it was good
- It still is.
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Nonsense!
There's anti-Semites everywhere.
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Everyone hates us.
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Christians, Shiites...
no one likes the Jews.
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You say Arabs were better?
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What?
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No it was just easier,
not that they were better.
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There are no good Arabs,
but it's easier.
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They'd always go back home.
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We didn't have to give
transportation, lodging, hospitals...
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They'd arrive in the morning
and go home at night.
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We always say
a good Arab is a dead Arab.
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Dead, he's OK.
Alive, forget it...
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We're waiting for these two clowns
to finish marking the parcel.
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They're Bedouins, Israeli Arabs,
from here.
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Do you know this land
belongs to refugees in Gaza?
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Forget that.
What was here before?
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We had land in Kurdistan too.
Can I get it back?
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They started a war,
invaded and lost. End of story.
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How many times
1, 2, 3, 4 times?
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If they were decent they'd have stayed
but they're animals, not human.
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That's harsh - a man calling
other human beings animals?
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It's the truth, what can you do?
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We gave them, everything taught
them to build, repair cars...
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What was in Gaza
before the 1967 occupation?
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Nothing. Just peasants!
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Look now, roads, sewers...
we did everything for them!
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But they just want to kill us.
That's it.
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Killing soldiers, fine.
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War, fighting for your land...
I understand that.
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But killing kids on a bus!
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Why do they do that?
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Why? They say it's their land.
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That's why.
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We're surrounded by millions
don't they have space?
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They've got enough desert!
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Let an Arab country take them.
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How many are there?
2 to 3 million?
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Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq
have plenty of space.
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They should give it to them.
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There was a Palestinian town here.
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I didn't know.
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What?
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Here? I didn't know.
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I didn't know there were
Palestinian lands here.
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I don't care.
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You really don't care?
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Why should I?
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- What was it called?
- Nabi Yunis.
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Nabi Yunis... Too bad.
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This was Nabi Yunis.
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These points indicate
demolished villages.
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Hang on a minute.
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What happened to you?
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In Eilabun,
during the occupation,
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they shot and killed 14 people
for nothing.
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Lined them up and shot them.
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Their names are at the cemetery.
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Some fled to Lebanon,
others say:
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""If ever we get Palestine back...""
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Israel should at least
leave them in peace.
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Does a young guy like you
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have a chance of going out
with Israeli girls?
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Plenty.
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It's really easy.
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With which girls
is it easiest to get a date?
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Russian girls.
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Emigr�s.
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Then Jewish girls.
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Local girls, not foreigners
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who have taken
Israeli nationality.
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The hardest are Arab girls.
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They're scared of their parents.
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They're really strict with them.
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They're forbidden to do anything,
talk to boys, go out...
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In a couple of months,
I'm leaving.
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To the US.
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Why?
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My brother and sister live there.
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- Foreman Hani's there.
- Youngsters are leaving.
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- What
- they exchange you with Russians?
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That's not the reason.
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How do I put it in Arabic?
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Speak in Arabic.
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Speak to him in Arabic?
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I know what I am here,
I can't realize my ambition.
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- Are you from Eilabun too?
- Yes.
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What does Palestine mean
to you two?
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For me, nothing.
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The most important thing
is to enjoy life.
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Palestine, sure.
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I sympathize with them,
I think they're right.
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They're oppressed,
subjected to terrorism,
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but we can't help them.
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Arab countries could
but they don't act,
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they do nothing.
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Arab politics are a total fiasco.
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We'll never have peace here.
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What about that massacre?
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It's ancient history.
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I live among Jews.
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My mentality is closer to that
of the Jews than of the Arabs.
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Yours too?
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- Did you do military service?
- No. My brother did.
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I'd like to,
but I started studying in the Technion.
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Also losing 3 years in the army...
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Why did you want to do it?
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To serve my country.
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Military service is good.
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It gives you pride,
makes you a man.
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So are Israelis manlier?
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No. Because of the army?
No way.
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It's just fun in the army.
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and I want to serve the country.
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I live here, so I want to serve.
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Hello? Okay, okay, yes.
Me? No way... bye...
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I've got to get back to work.
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WE WAVE THE FLAG
WE CONTINUE TO LIVE THE DREAM
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What's that house over there?
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An archeological site.
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They did a dig not long ago.
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It's the tomb of a sheik.
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What did they find?
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Bones, apparently. Skeletons.
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Was there an Arab village
here before?
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Yes, there was.
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This little point.
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- Gan Yavneh.
- Yes.
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- Gedera.
- And the Arab village Barka.
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The village was here.
and who had the houses?
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As you say, "had".
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They're gone now.
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Not being able to go home
as you please,
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it isn't right. Everyone should
be able to have his own home.
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But it's not a problem
we can solve.
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Who are "we"?
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We, the citizens.
We can't solve it.
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What if international law
lets them back?
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It wouldn't let them
live here with the Israelis.
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How do you feel?
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It wouldn't bother me.
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If we could live together
in peace.
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But it's not likely.
How can there be peace?
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We used to get on fine.
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That's what my folks told me.
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They arrived in 1948.
I was born in 52.
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They told me
what life used to be like.
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What did they say?
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They had good relations with the
Arab neighbors, a good life.
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Do you feel closer
to the Russians or the Arabs?
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You can't generalize.
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The Russians are Jews like me.
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I'm not racist or anti-Semitic.
I've lived with them,
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but by nature
I'm closer to Arabs.
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But the Russians are Russian,
the Arabs are Arab.
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It's a different culture,
another way of life.
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I wouldn't say I prefer
Arabs to Russians,
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or vice versa.
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Each lives his own life
and his own culture.
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They're all human beings.
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- Hi. Do you live here?
- Yes.
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I'm an Arab, an Israeli
and a Palestinian.
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How old's this house?
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80 or 90 years old.
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Are there other Palestinians
around here?
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There were 3 families before.
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- Where's Masmiye?
- This whole area is Masmiye.
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The whole region from
Bnei Re'em to Kfar Harim.
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- Were there many Arabs here?
- Lots.
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- Was the village razed?
- After the war.
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When the Muslims left,
the Jews moved in.
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Ashkenazi Jews,
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Moroccan Jews, Yemeni Jews...
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All kinds of Jews.
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We lived together.
Life was beautiful.
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Today, they surround us.
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- Why?
- To build a road.
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There's a housing project.
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They're building over there.
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They want to pay me to leave.
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But if I leave,
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where can I live?
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In the town? Never!
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And the road?
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It will cross my parents' land,
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which has been registered
in our name since the Ottomans.
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Do your neighbors help out?
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They help each other.
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Do you get along better with
the Russians or the Yemenites?
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They're as bad as each other.
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Before, the State
wasn't against me.
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Now they're nervous
about what's happening
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and about the Muslims.
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They even hate Israeli Arabs.
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I'll sleep in a tent
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if they destroy my home.
A constitutional state
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wouldn't do that.
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Do they have no shame?
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They came here
and we welcomed them.
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- Is your family gone?
- All of them.
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Only my father, brothers
and sisters stayed.
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Some live in Bethlehem,
others in Jordan,
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Egypt.
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In Iraq.
They've scattered everywhere.
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- Do they come to visit?
- No.
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They're stuck where they are.
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How would they get here?
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Did you see the sign?
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""Transfer means peace. "
Palestinians to Jordan."
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I don't pay attention anymore.
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What do you think?
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It's been going on so long
I'm used to it.
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Am I going to weep
each time I see "Death to Arabs!"?
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It's what they all think.
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Write "Death to Jews!" once on
the road to see what happens.
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It would be all over the TV.
258
00:22:04,652 --> 00:22:06,927
Death to Arabs.
259
00:22:07,212 --> 00:22:09,407
They all think it.
260
00:22:09,692 --> 00:22:11,523
They all write it.
261
00:22:12,132 --> 00:22:16,171
They don't call this Masmiye,
but Masmiah.
262
00:22:20,212 --> 00:22:23,921
My address isn't Masmiye,
263
00:22:24,212 --> 00:22:26,009
but Bnei Re'em.
264
00:22:28,492 --> 00:22:30,687
They won't say Masmiye.
265
00:22:30,972 --> 00:22:34,169
They change all the place names.
266
00:22:34,452 --> 00:22:36,090
It's legal here.
267
00:22:36,372 --> 00:22:40,968
Would you say the Jewish
or Israeli people are inhuman?
268
00:22:41,252 --> 00:22:43,971
Or that their laws are inhuman?
269
00:22:44,772 --> 00:22:49,402
Are the people bad
or just their laws?
270
00:22:50,812 --> 00:22:54,725
The people accept the laws.
The State should be disbanded.
271
00:22:56,332 --> 00:22:59,688
- Is there racism?
- Every single day.
272
00:23:00,372 --> 00:23:02,442
I have no Jewish friends anymore.
273
00:23:02,772 --> 00:23:04,842
Isn't that racism?
274
00:23:05,132 --> 00:23:07,851
There's not one Arab home here.
275
00:23:08,132 --> 00:23:10,282
Where are our Jewish friends?
276
00:23:10,572 --> 00:23:12,961
They hurt us without realizing.
277
00:23:13,252 --> 00:23:20,249
Because basically, they don't
treat us like human beings.
278
00:23:22,252 --> 00:23:24,322
You do your 8 hours,
279
00:23:24,612 --> 00:23:28,525
you share a joke
and then you go home.
280
00:23:28,812 --> 00:23:31,406
We know each other well.
281
00:23:31,692 --> 00:23:34,809
Call this a life?
282
00:23:35,172 --> 00:23:39,723
Palestinians lived simply,
with bread and olives.
283
00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:42,925
With a good and pure heart.
284
00:23:43,212 --> 00:23:46,249
They helped everyone.
285
00:23:46,532 --> 00:23:49,000
That's how Arabs lived.
286
00:23:49,292 --> 00:23:52,090
All Jews seem to care about
is work and money.
287
00:23:56,652 --> 00:24:01,043
The State takes the bread from
our mouths to give to the Jews.
288
00:24:01,332 --> 00:24:03,243
That's not a life.
289
00:24:06,812 --> 00:24:09,007
When I lived with them
290
00:24:09,292 --> 00:24:12,728
I did them no harm,
but they harm me.
291
00:24:13,212 --> 00:24:17,046
I was here when
Jews and Arabs lived together.
292
00:24:17,332 --> 00:24:20,210
I treated my neighbors well.
293
00:24:20,492 --> 00:24:25,361
If they fought,
I stepped in and reconciled them.
294
00:24:26,492 --> 00:24:30,007
Even today, I separated two Jews.
295
00:24:30,292 --> 00:24:33,807
They wanted to fight.
I stepped in
296
00:24:34,652 --> 00:24:37,644
and the aggressor backed down.
297
00:24:37,932 --> 00:24:39,684
Now they do me harm.
298
00:24:40,332 --> 00:24:44,450
This plot of land where I live
with my goats and cows...
299
00:24:44,732 --> 00:24:47,929
They're taking it from me
due to a so-called law
300
00:24:48,212 --> 00:24:50,442
on the administration of land.
301
00:24:50,732 --> 00:24:52,927
But it's registered in my name.
302
00:24:53,212 --> 00:24:55,567
If they take it, where can I go?
303
00:24:56,052 --> 00:24:59,169
Why are they building this wall
304
00:24:59,452 --> 00:25:01,807
to separate them
from Palestinians?
305
00:25:02,572 --> 00:25:06,008
Can't they live among Palestinians?
306
00:25:06,612 --> 00:25:12,721
They lived among Arabs for years
in various countries.
307
00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:15,731
The problem isn't
between Jews and Arabs,
308
00:25:16,812 --> 00:25:20,964
but between occupiers
and occupied.
309
00:25:21,252 --> 00:25:22,844
That's the problem.
310
00:25:23,132 --> 00:25:28,126
They say, "Arabs hate us
and want to throw us into the sea!"
311
00:25:28,412 --> 00:25:31,882
But that hasn't happened
in Yemen or Iraq.
312
00:25:32,252 --> 00:25:35,050
Others threw them out, not us.
313
00:25:35,332 --> 00:25:38,130
Arabs haven't done that.
On the contrary.
314
00:25:38,612 --> 00:25:41,490
I dreamed they took my land
by trickery and force.
315
00:25:41,772 --> 00:25:44,411
The very next day,
316
00:25:44,692 --> 00:25:46,967
terrible rains fell
317
00:25:47,252 --> 00:25:51,086
and the deluge
destroyed everything.
318
00:25:51,532 --> 00:25:54,205
Even the jeeps were washed away.
319
00:25:54,492 --> 00:25:58,883
I said, "Go to hell
and never come back!"
320
00:25:59,172 --> 00:26:03,006
I took it out on them.
321
00:26:03,372 --> 00:26:07,729
I want to live on my land, just
the right distance from others.
322
00:26:09,492 --> 00:26:12,165
I'm happy here.
323
00:26:12,452 --> 00:26:18,322
I won't leave here, even if
they demolish my house on top of me
324
00:26:18,652 --> 00:26:21,166
or lay siege to me.
325
00:26:21,732 --> 00:26:24,849
It won't do them any good.
326
00:26:25,772 --> 00:26:28,730
I'm at my wits' end.
327
00:27:46,092 --> 00:27:48,765
VARDA'S INN. KOSHER
DISCOUNTS FOR SOLDIERS
328
00:28:35,212 --> 00:28:37,009
Why so many war pictures?
329
00:28:37,292 --> 00:28:41,046
That's life here. You think it's over?
Never.
330
00:28:41,652 --> 00:28:44,041
I don't feel like it's war,
331
00:28:44,332 --> 00:28:47,483
I feel safe
when I see them.
332
00:28:49,292 --> 00:28:54,241
When I die, I'll have my favorite
photos placed on my grave.
333
00:28:55,012 --> 00:28:56,764
What is Masmiye?
334
00:28:57,052 --> 00:28:58,929
It's the Arab name. Muslim.
335
00:28:59,212 --> 00:29:04,525
In Hebrew it's called
Re'em Junction.
336
00:29:04,852 --> 00:29:06,524
It's in the Bible.
337
00:29:07,532 --> 00:29:10,968
They come here
looking for their old homes!
338
00:29:11,812 --> 00:29:15,964
I hope they don't come
for the restaurant one day
339
00:29:18,852 --> 00:29:22,367
It was all Arabs here.
Arab houses.
340
00:29:23,572 --> 00:29:26,370
They should be demolished.
341
00:29:27,092 --> 00:29:29,083
They shouldn't be left,
342
00:29:29,892 --> 00:29:33,931
because the old people
come looking.
343
00:29:34,572 --> 00:29:35,925
Any Arabs living nearby?
344
00:29:36,212 --> 00:29:38,248
There are two families.
345
00:29:38,532 --> 00:29:42,491
They're not from here,
they're squatters.
346
00:29:43,372 --> 00:29:47,411
One of them was offered housing
but wouldn't leave.
347
00:29:47,692 --> 00:29:50,081
Several times.
348
00:29:50,572 --> 00:29:55,009
- Do you have contact with them?
- Me? With them?
349
00:29:57,372 --> 00:29:59,363
Oh, I just love them so!
350
00:29:59,812 --> 00:30:02,042
We should get rid of them.
351
00:30:02,412 --> 00:30:03,811
Send them packing!
352
00:30:04,092 --> 00:30:06,128
Pay them if necessary,
353
00:30:06,412 --> 00:30:08,846
but rid this land of that cancer!
354
00:30:09,132 --> 00:30:11,362
They all have to go.
355
00:30:11,652 --> 00:30:14,485
Even the Israeli ones.
356
00:30:15,212 --> 00:30:16,645
That's for sure.
357
00:30:20,332 --> 00:30:22,971
Don't hold that against me.
358
00:30:23,252 --> 00:30:28,326
I know that you side
more with the Arabs.
359
00:30:30,772 --> 00:30:33,570
All the media do.
360
00:30:36,972 --> 00:30:40,851
But we need some censorship.
It would be better.
361
00:30:42,132 --> 00:30:45,090
We're too easy on them.
362
00:30:45,372 --> 00:30:47,727
And they're... Arabs
363
00:30:51,572 --> 00:30:53,881
If you're weak, you're done for.
364
00:30:54,172 --> 00:30:57,562
I'm telling you
You're still young.
365
00:30:58,212 --> 00:31:02,091
The ones that will end up
taking over the world
366
00:31:02,852 --> 00:31:04,490
are the Muslims,
367
00:31:04,772 --> 00:31:08,924
because everyone welcome them
everywhere in the world.
368
00:31:09,412 --> 00:31:13,803
- So, there'll never be peace?
- Never.
369
00:31:15,492 --> 00:31:18,404
Not as long as we're here.
370
00:31:47,212 --> 00:31:50,010
JORDAN IS THE PALESTINIAN STATE
371
00:31:50,292 --> 00:31:54,171
DEPORTATION = PEACE AND SECURITY
372
00:32:28,092 --> 00:32:29,923
KASTINA
373
00:33:27,692 --> 00:33:30,126
We came here in the 1950s.
374
00:33:31,652 --> 00:33:35,406
It was just a transit camp,
a few tents.
375
00:33:36,372 --> 00:33:39,887
We were given iron beds.
376
00:33:41,692 --> 00:33:46,368
We paid 2 liras
for an iron bed and a mattress.
377
00:33:46,652 --> 00:33:48,165
Made of straw!
378
00:33:49,772 --> 00:33:54,004
We started working hard
getting ahead.
379
00:33:54,292 --> 00:33:57,204
- Where are you from?
- Iraq.
380
00:34:01,252 --> 00:34:03,482
Do you remember Iraq?
381
00:34:03,772 --> 00:34:06,127
So... so... sure.
382
00:34:06,412 --> 00:34:09,449
Tell us what you remember.
383
00:34:09,732 --> 00:34:12,929
I was at school,
384
00:34:13,372 --> 00:34:15,681
life trundled along,
385
00:34:17,012 --> 00:34:18,968
until we went to Israel.
386
00:34:19,252 --> 00:34:22,005
Why? What suddenly changed?
387
00:34:22,332 --> 00:34:27,122
The creation of the State
of Israel, Zionism and so on.
388
00:34:28,252 --> 00:34:30,004
Everyone emigrated.
389
00:34:33,012 --> 00:34:35,128
Was life good in Iraq?
390
00:34:36,372 --> 00:34:39,125
You ask me that now?
391
00:34:47,172 --> 00:34:48,890
It was ages ago.
392
00:34:49,172 --> 00:34:53,450
We were kids.
For us wherever... was good.
393
00:34:53,732 --> 00:34:56,200
- What did you speak?
- Arabic.
394
00:34:56,492 --> 00:34:58,926
But now, only Hebrew.
395
00:34:59,572 --> 00:35:01,847
Have you forgotten Arabic?
396
00:35:02,932 --> 00:35:06,766
There's now Arabs
who fled Iraq.
397
00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:12,131
I can speak Iraqi Arabic
like it was yesterday.
398
00:35:16,132 --> 00:35:21,081
We learned it at school,
it's hard to forget.
399
00:35:23,892 --> 00:35:25,962
What's the origin
of Qiryat Mal'achi?
400
00:35:26,252 --> 00:35:30,609
When it started
it was called Kastina.
401
00:35:32,452 --> 00:35:36,923
It was an Arab name.
All the names were Arab,
402
00:35:38,412 --> 00:35:42,200
Masmiye, Kastina, among others.
403
00:35:42,492 --> 00:35:45,211
Gradually the names changed.
404
00:35:45,772 --> 00:35:48,923
Where did the Arabs of Kastina go?
405
00:35:49,212 --> 00:35:53,410
They were taken to Gaza
and other places
406
00:35:54,532 --> 00:35:57,524
like Ramleh...
They were moved.
407
00:35:57,812 --> 00:36:01,600
There was an Arab village
2 km away.
408
00:36:02,532 --> 00:36:06,764
An abandoned village,
a ghost town.
409
00:36:09,132 --> 00:36:13,364
There were Arabs
in the whole region.
410
00:36:16,892 --> 00:36:20,726
I'd have happily lived with them
and vice versa.
411
00:36:21,732 --> 00:36:22,608
Who comes now?
412
00:36:23,012 --> 00:36:27,927
People from the ex-USSR,
not just Russians.
413
00:36:28,372 --> 00:36:31,409
and some from Argentina.
414
00:36:31,852 --> 00:36:35,640
They live better than I do,
and I work!
415
00:36:36,212 --> 00:36:39,522
I work hard. I'm self-employed.
416
00:36:41,292 --> 00:36:45,490
Every month they go
to the social services.
417
00:36:45,772 --> 00:36:48,332
and get their check.
418
00:36:49,612 --> 00:36:50,886
Will peace come?
419
00:36:51,172 --> 00:36:52,571
We hope so.
If we...
420
00:36:52,852 --> 00:36:54,524
If our big people,
421
00:36:54,812 --> 00:36:59,602
not you or l, but the big
people on both sides -
422
00:36:59,892 --> 00:37:02,929
want peace,
they can do it.
423
00:37:04,332 --> 00:37:06,527
You know who I mean?
424
00:37:06,812 --> 00:37:10,407
Both sides. Us and them.
425
00:37:10,692 --> 00:37:12,410
If they want peace.
426
00:37:12,692 --> 00:37:17,163
Some people in this country
- and tell me if I'm crazy -
427
00:37:17,452 --> 00:37:20,171
possibly don't want peace.
428
00:37:20,692 --> 00:37:21,841
They don't want peace.
429
00:37:22,132 --> 00:37:24,885
Otherwise
they'd have nothing to do,
430
00:37:25,172 --> 00:37:27,766
nothing to get up in arms about.
431
00:37:29,692 --> 00:37:31,603
We have people like that.
432
00:38:33,172 --> 00:38:38,246
This co-operative village,
the Shafir moshav, is Hungarian.
433
00:38:38,532 --> 00:38:43,970
It was founded in 1949 by Hungarian
Jews - one was my grandpa -
434
00:38:44,252 --> 00:38:50,168
There were 2 waves of immigration,
in 49 and in 57.
435
00:38:51,252 --> 00:38:54,881
I continue the dynasty.
436
00:38:55,252 --> 00:38:57,527
I work in hi-tech.
437
00:38:58,732 --> 00:39:01,371
There are few farmers left here.
438
00:39:01,652 --> 00:39:05,042
- Who works the land?
- Mostly Thais.
439
00:39:05,492 --> 00:39:09,531
Before the Intifada,
Arabs mostly from Gaza did.
440
00:39:11,732 --> 00:39:16,806
But now, with the lock-down,
we can't count on that.
441
00:39:17,452 --> 00:39:19,488
Did your grandpa buy the land?
442
00:39:19,772 --> 00:39:22,445
No, they were given it.
443
00:39:22,732 --> 00:39:26,122
There was an Arab village
called Sawafir.
444
00:39:28,932 --> 00:39:32,811
The name Shafir
is mentioned in the Bible.
445
00:39:33,092 --> 00:39:36,482
In the Book of Amos,
if I'm not mistaken.
446
00:39:36,772 --> 00:39:41,448
The ancient name
of this place is Sawafir.
447
00:39:42,252 --> 00:39:46,609
When we came here
there were wells.
448
00:39:46,892 --> 00:39:49,406
You could see
the original lay-out.
449
00:39:49,692 --> 00:39:53,446
But basically,
they were destroyed
450
00:39:54,732 --> 00:39:56,290
Why the flag?
451
00:39:59,852 --> 00:40:01,843
The flag? Why not?
452
00:40:04,132 --> 00:40:08,489
They gave them out in Kastina
yesterday to boost morale.
453
00:40:09,172 --> 00:40:12,562
Not that my morale is low.
454
00:40:12,932 --> 00:40:17,642
I'm just proud to be Jewish
and proud to wave my flag.
455
00:40:18,812 --> 00:40:23,283
If we want to preserve
the Jewish State.
456
00:40:24,492 --> 00:40:26,528
Most people do.
457
00:40:26,812 --> 00:40:30,725
At least 80% of Jews
living in Israel.
458
00:40:32,892 --> 00:40:35,725
If so, it'll be hard to give up...
459
00:40:36,212 --> 00:40:39,887
to give the expelled Arabs
the right of return.
460
00:40:40,372 --> 00:40:44,809
Allowing them back here
won't solve their problems.
461
00:40:46,692 --> 00:40:50,128
It's not in the interests
of the Jewish people.
462
00:40:50,412 --> 00:40:53,802
The State would no longer be
a Jewish State.
463
00:40:54,292 --> 00:40:58,763
Palestinian problem or not,
many people think
464
00:40:59,052 --> 00:41:01,930
they should be expelled
to an Arab country,
465
00:41:02,212 --> 00:41:06,569
that once back
they would start wanting more.
466
00:41:07,612 --> 00:41:09,489
I'm against expulsion.
467
00:41:09,772 --> 00:41:13,447
I just think it's not feasible.
468
00:41:17,932 --> 00:41:20,730
Trouble is, the Jews are divided.
469
00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:23,810
Some think this,
others think that.
470
00:41:25,292 --> 00:41:29,490
But essentially, there's no other
realistic solution.
471
00:41:29,972 --> 00:41:32,566
There's nothing we can do.
472
00:41:34,652 --> 00:41:36,370
And that's that.
473
00:41:37,412 --> 00:41:39,448
We have to live with it.
474
00:41:40,292 --> 00:41:41,884
As best we can.
475
00:42:17,692 --> 00:42:19,489
"Despite the siege,
476
00:42:19,772 --> 00:42:21,728
"we prepared for attack.
477
00:42:22,732 --> 00:42:26,088
"We had ten protected positions,
like these.
478
00:42:26,372 --> 00:42:30,650
"At night we evacuated children
in Palmach armored cars
479
00:42:30,932 --> 00:42:32,206
"to the kibbutz Ruhama kibbutz.
480
00:42:32,852 --> 00:42:36,527
"The Egyptian infantry regiment
that attacked us
481
00:42:37,132 --> 00:42:39,327
"numbered 2500 men.
482
00:42:39,612 --> 00:42:42,172
"They had heavy artillery, tanks,
483
00:42:42,452 --> 00:42:45,967
"field artillery and two planes."
484
00:42:59,492 --> 00:43:01,926
First we built a fence.
485
00:43:02,212 --> 00:43:05,363
They didn't call it settlements then.
486
00:43:05,652 --> 00:43:08,962
We just settled down somewhere.
487
00:43:09,252 --> 00:43:13,404
We don't really like
the settlements of today.
488
00:43:13,692 --> 00:43:17,765
Today's settlements displace Arabs.
489
00:43:18,052 --> 00:43:21,283
We didn't expel them,
we came as neighbors.
490
00:43:21,572 --> 00:43:23,927
There was an Arab village here,
491
00:43:24,212 --> 00:43:26,965
another over there,
and we settled in between.
492
00:43:27,452 --> 00:43:31,445
Look - we built the buildings
and planted trees.
493
00:43:32,652 --> 00:43:35,485
There was nothing. It was empty.
494
00:43:39,772 --> 00:43:42,684
We put that up in a single day.
495
00:43:47,212 --> 00:43:50,966
- Where are you from?
- From Poland, from Ukraine.
496
00:43:51,372 --> 00:43:54,330
- When did you come here?
- In 38, I was 22.
497
00:43:55,772 --> 00:43:57,330
On an illegal boat.
498
00:43:57,932 --> 00:44:00,844
I came here straight from the sea.
499
00:44:01,452 --> 00:44:05,889
There was a big Arab village here
3000 inhabitants.
500
00:44:06,332 --> 00:44:11,565
In 1948, they fled.
501
00:44:12,652 --> 00:44:15,769
They became refugees in Gaza.
502
00:44:17,652 --> 00:44:19,768
We didn't want them anymore.
503
00:44:20,252 --> 00:44:23,767
All the Gaza refugees
are from these villages.
504
00:44:24,692 --> 00:44:27,729
There was a railway station
505
00:44:28,012 --> 00:44:34,008
before the border,
before Erez, was an Arab village.
506
00:44:34,492 --> 00:44:37,086
This map shows how they decided
507
00:44:37,612 --> 00:44:39,250
at the United Nations
508
00:44:39,532 --> 00:44:43,571
to partition the country
between Israel and an Arab State.
509
00:44:43,852 --> 00:44:47,208
If the Arabs had been smart,
they'd have founded
510
00:44:47,892 --> 00:44:50,645
an Arab State
where it was decided.
511
00:44:50,932 --> 00:44:53,366
Here. The Arab State.
512
00:44:53,812 --> 00:44:58,681
Yad Mordekhai should have been
in the Arab State.
513
00:44:58,972 --> 00:45:01,167
But they didn't want to.
514
00:45:01,452 --> 00:45:04,649
They wanted to throw us
into the sea.
515
00:45:04,932 --> 00:45:07,890
But you ended up throwing
them out.
516
00:45:08,172 --> 00:45:11,642
Yes, we threw them out.
They went to Gaza.
517
00:45:12,132 --> 00:45:17,160
If they hadn't declared war,
we wouldn't be here, but there.
518
00:45:17,452 --> 00:45:19,249
But they wouldn't have it.
519
00:45:19,532 --> 00:45:23,650
They fought
and we sent them here and here.
520
00:45:25,172 --> 00:45:26,241
That's the story.
521
00:45:26,532 --> 00:45:30,684
Did you see people leave in 1948?
Yes.
522
00:45:31,932 --> 00:45:34,924
Did all Arabs
take up arms against you?
523
00:45:37,252 --> 00:45:38,731
Only the activists.
524
00:45:39,012 --> 00:45:39,762
Not everybody,
525
00:45:40,052 --> 00:45:44,250
most Arabs wanted to live
peacefully farming their land.
526
00:45:44,532 --> 00:45:45,760
The activists fought.
527
00:45:47,292 --> 00:45:50,728
There used to be 1000 dunams here.
528
00:45:51,012 --> 00:45:54,766
That's 400 hectares
of vineyards.
529
00:45:55,612 --> 00:46:01,050
It's all gone now.
Can't make a living from grapes.
530
00:46:01,332 --> 00:46:04,722
We don't work for sentiment
we work for money.
531
00:46:05,012 --> 00:46:07,572
It stayed while it was profitable.
532
00:46:10,332 --> 00:46:12,800
In Poland my name was Katz.
533
00:46:13,532 --> 00:46:15,523
Here I changed it to Katzir.
534
00:46:15,812 --> 00:46:18,121
Why did you change your name?
535
00:46:18,892 --> 00:46:23,602
All Israeli patriots
take a Hebrew name.
536
00:46:23,892 --> 00:46:25,644
I went to Cuba.
537
00:46:25,932 --> 00:46:30,881
I didn't want to be Katz there
nor be asked if I was Jewish.
538
00:46:31,372 --> 00:46:33,966
I just wanted to be Israeli.
539
00:46:34,412 --> 00:46:38,963
20% of Israel's current
population is Arab.
540
00:46:40,332 --> 00:46:46,009
In 20 years, it will be 50%
and there'll be no State of Israel.
541
00:46:46,292 --> 00:46:48,010
What's the problem?
542
00:46:48,292 --> 00:46:49,611
The problem is,
543
00:46:49,892 --> 00:46:52,611
they have many kids.
544
00:46:52,892 --> 00:46:58,012
We have two per family.
They have eight.
545
00:46:58,292 --> 00:47:00,601
So we need Jewish immigration.
546
00:47:01,092 --> 00:47:03,686
Even American Jews could come.
547
00:47:03,972 --> 00:47:07,123
- When?
- We'd have to ask them.
548
00:47:07,412 --> 00:47:12,167
If life's good for them,
they won't want to come.
549
00:47:14,052 --> 00:47:17,567
If Israel is strong,
there won't be war.
550
00:50:59,052 --> 00:51:02,647
This is a border.
It's supposed to block.
551
00:51:03,892 --> 00:51:05,405
It's our invention.
552
00:51:05,692 --> 00:51:08,843
It's unloaded from a truck.
553
00:51:09,132 --> 00:51:11,726
It's a method
that we've patented.
554
00:51:12,012 --> 00:51:15,129
We're the only producers
in the world.
555
00:51:21,852 --> 00:51:25,561
The Army has already bought
huge quantities
556
00:51:25,852 --> 00:51:31,324
and we're about to receive
an order for 120 km more.
557
00:51:31,612 --> 00:51:36,049
This barbed wire is used
for borders
558
00:51:36,532 --> 00:51:38,250
and in prisons.
559
00:51:38,532 --> 00:51:42,684
In South Africa
they fence their homes with it.
560
00:51:48,092 --> 00:51:51,164
Israel has launched
a huge operation
561
00:51:51,452 --> 00:51:54,728
to close off
the whole demarcation line.
562
00:51:55,172 --> 00:51:58,721
The first section is 120 km.
563
00:51:59,012 --> 00:52:01,890
The next two are optional,
564
00:52:02,172 --> 00:52:06,370
allowing for a total of 390 km.
565
00:52:12,252 --> 00:52:16,325
This fence has
particularly large blades.
566
00:52:17,052 --> 00:52:22,080
Other armies don't use it.
Maybe for humanitarian reasons.
567
00:52:22,372 --> 00:52:28,208
It's mostly used in prisons
and for property fences.
568
00:52:28,492 --> 00:52:33,612
In the US, it's used
to protect industrial yards
569
00:52:34,612 --> 00:52:37,570
and car yards.
570
00:52:38,612 --> 00:52:42,446
But not at borders,
for humanitarian reasons.
571
00:52:42,932 --> 00:52:45,924
The blades are particularly long
572
00:52:46,212 --> 00:52:47,884
and cut deep.
573
00:52:49,332 --> 00:52:54,326
I think that's why it's not used
for borders.
574
00:52:54,612 --> 00:52:58,651
And yet,
it's an uncrossable barrier.
575
00:52:58,932 --> 00:53:01,002
It's very effective.
576
00:53:01,492 --> 00:53:04,131
Maybe international law
forbids it.
577
00:53:12,612 --> 00:53:17,208
Today, the main use is
in Gaza,
578
00:53:17,492 --> 00:53:20,564
where soldiers can't go
579
00:53:20,852 --> 00:53:25,209
or stay in the open too long
to lay classic barbed wire.
580
00:53:25,732 --> 00:53:28,610
They use armored vehicles
581
00:53:28,892 --> 00:53:34,285
with trailers
loaded with pyramids like these.
582
00:53:34,572 --> 00:53:38,406
They place it on the ground,
cut the bindings,
583
00:53:38,732 --> 00:53:42,964
start the vehicle, step on it,
and it unwinds.
584
00:53:43,452 --> 00:53:46,842
The State has bought
enough for 120 km of border,
585
00:53:47,132 --> 00:53:48,850
at 600 million shekels.
586
00:53:49,132 --> 00:53:52,647
That's 5 million per km,
587
00:53:52,932 --> 00:53:57,084
not including
electronic protection,
588
00:53:57,372 --> 00:54:02,924
which would cost
another 5 million per km,
589
00:54:03,652 --> 00:54:05,210
if not more.
590
00:54:06,292 --> 00:54:09,602
This factory was facing closure
in 95 or 96
591
00:54:09,892 --> 00:54:11,644
after the peace agreement.
592
00:54:14,012 --> 00:54:18,164
There are fences for
for peacetime
593
00:54:18,452 --> 00:54:21,330
But the factory was almost
shut down.
594
00:54:22,492 --> 00:54:26,929
In the present climate
this product brings business.
595
00:54:52,412 --> 00:54:55,722
NIR AM RESERVOIR
596
00:54:59,932 --> 00:55:03,925
GAZA
NIR AM
597
00:55:32,692 --> 00:55:36,731
Our avocado farm
is that green strip.
598
00:55:37,012 --> 00:55:39,082
Erez is next to it,
the checkpoint's there.
599
00:55:40,932 --> 00:55:43,651
You get water from here?
Is there enough for everyone?
600
00:55:44,172 --> 00:55:46,208
We fight over it.
601
00:55:47,492 --> 00:55:49,084
After the Oslo Accords
602
00:55:49,372 --> 00:55:53,251
The Palestinian Authority
built a lot here
603
00:55:53,692 --> 00:55:56,968
They had to house
officers who came from Algeria.
604
00:55:57,252 --> 00:56:02,087
They also planned to re-house
the refugees in these homes.
605
00:56:05,732 --> 00:56:09,520
In the Beit Hanun area,
close to the Erez checkpoint.
606
00:56:10,532 --> 00:56:14,764
The Gaza Strip was full
of skyscrapers back then.
607
00:56:15,052 --> 00:56:18,488
They stopped building
since the Intifada.
608
00:56:18,772 --> 00:56:20,205
They're out of money.
609
00:56:27,972 --> 00:56:29,200
Lovely fresh air!
610
00:57:00,332 --> 00:57:03,085
NIR AM KIBBUTZ, NEGEV MUSEM
OF WATER AND SECURITY
611
00:57:03,572 --> 00:57:05,563
You're on the border.
612
00:57:05,852 --> 00:57:09,891
The orchards on the coastal strip
belong to the Arab village
613
00:57:10,612 --> 00:57:11,442
Beit Hanun.
614
00:57:11,732 --> 00:57:13,802
The low houses are Beit Hanun.
615
00:57:14,252 --> 00:57:16,925
The higher buildings are
Jebalyia.
616
00:57:23,932 --> 00:57:26,890
The floor is in reinforced glass.
617
00:57:27,172 --> 00:57:30,721
You can see
water running under your feet.
618
00:57:32,332 --> 00:57:36,962
It stresses the fact that
the museum is dedicated to water.
619
00:57:40,212 --> 00:57:43,124
We settled here in 1943.
620
00:57:43,412 --> 00:57:48,964
I was the officer in charge of
this place, which was secret then.
621
00:57:49,452 --> 00:57:53,923
The Effendi of Beit Hanun
dug a well here.
622
00:57:54,212 --> 00:57:58,763
He found water at 130 m.
623
00:57:59,492 --> 00:58:02,290
An Arab from Beit Hanun!
624
00:58:03,092 --> 00:58:05,560
He planted an orange orchard.
625
00:58:05,852 --> 00:58:09,891
But the digging
was done by some Jews.
626
00:58:10,532 --> 00:58:14,923
They did a botched job.
There was continual rubbing
627
00:58:15,372 --> 00:58:17,488
and it wore out the pump.
628
00:58:17,772 --> 00:58:22,766
The Effendi had to have it
repaired five times.
629
00:58:23,052 --> 00:58:25,043
In Tel-Aviv.
630
00:58:25,332 --> 00:58:28,961
It would work a few weeks,
then break again.
631
00:58:29,252 --> 00:58:30,765
Repaired five times!
632
00:58:31,052 --> 00:58:34,761
Meanwhile
the orange trees dried up.
633
00:58:35,052 --> 00:58:38,089
He sold the land
to our Jewish National Fund.
634
00:58:38,612 --> 00:58:41,172
Our national fund.
635
00:58:41,452 --> 00:58:45,730
They told us, "Move there,
the bore will be fixed
636
00:58:46,012 --> 00:58:48,890
and you'll have water.
637
00:58:49,172 --> 00:58:51,766
""It's a capital national mission.""
638
00:58:52,052 --> 00:58:54,612
because the British decided...
639
00:58:54,892 --> 00:58:57,611
This is Lord Peel's partition,
640
00:58:57,892 --> 00:59:02,602
17% of the land for the Jews,
the rest for the Arabs.
641
00:59:02,932 --> 00:59:06,129
The red area
between Jerusalem and Jaffa,
642
00:59:06,412 --> 00:59:09,961
was to remain
under British control.
643
00:59:10,612 --> 00:59:15,481
That's when our land was bought
and we settled here.
644
00:59:15,972 --> 00:59:19,169
The Negev was to go to the Arabs
645
00:59:19,452 --> 00:59:21,682
and the north to the Jews.
646
00:59:21,972 --> 00:59:24,566
The 17%, as you saw.
647
00:59:24,852 --> 00:59:27,924
Was it to ensure
the Peel Commission failed?
648
00:59:28,212 --> 00:59:31,568
Yes, because of
its partition proposal.
649
00:59:32,052 --> 00:59:34,202
We wanted it otherwise.
650
00:59:34,492 --> 00:59:37,848
We wanted a Jewish State
like the one we have.
651
00:59:38,132 --> 00:59:41,886
And we got it.
We fought for it.
652
00:59:42,372 --> 00:59:45,205
- You were soldiers?
- No.
653
00:59:45,492 --> 00:59:48,723
We were underground,
in the Hagana.
654
00:59:49,972 --> 00:59:53,328
Underground,
but we founded settlements.
655
00:59:53,612 --> 00:59:56,888
I was an officer
656
00:59:57,172 --> 01:00:01,484
in charge of armaments,
but I also planted vegetables.
657
01:00:02,172 --> 01:00:07,121
We created 11 in one night
throughout the Negev.
658
01:00:07,572 --> 01:00:12,327
We bought land in the Negev
up to Eilat.
659
01:00:12,772 --> 01:00:14,763
We knew what we wanted.
660
01:00:15,252 --> 01:00:18,528
How much land
did the Jewish National Fund buy?
661
01:00:18,812 --> 01:00:22,930
Listen! Ask questions
when I'm done!
662
01:00:24,492 --> 01:00:27,006
The British got fed up and left
663
01:00:27,292 --> 01:00:29,442
and the UN arrived.
664
01:00:29,732 --> 01:00:32,565
The UN created
a special committee
665
01:00:32,852 --> 01:00:36,925
composed of 11 members
from neutral countries
666
01:00:37,412 --> 01:00:43,044
and presided over
by a Swedish judge, Sandstrom.
667
01:00:43,332 --> 01:00:45,766
They arrived in July 1947.
668
01:00:46,172 --> 01:00:49,130
We took them to the Negev.
Imagine!
669
01:00:49,412 --> 01:00:51,164
The middle of the desert!
670
01:00:51,452 --> 01:00:55,968
Mitzpe Revivim
in the middle of the desert!
671
01:00:56,892 --> 01:00:59,850
There was a Jew,
who still lives there.
672
01:01:00,132 --> 01:01:01,963
He grew gladioli.
673
01:01:02,452 --> 01:01:05,603
Sandstrom said,
"You're having me on."
674
01:01:05,892 --> 01:01:08,122
"These are artificial."
675
01:01:08,532 --> 01:01:12,161
The guy came over
with some shears and said,
676
01:01:12,452 --> 01:01:15,489
Sir, would you like a bunch?
677
01:01:15,772 --> 01:01:18,445
Look, that's the Swedish judge.
678
01:01:18,732 --> 01:01:21,769
He's holding his gladiola.
679
01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:24,564
The Swedish judge,
680
01:01:24,852 --> 01:01:28,811
the Yugoslavian delegate,
and me in between.
681
01:01:29,092 --> 01:01:30,844
Recognize me?
682
01:01:32,132 --> 01:01:34,009
You don't?
683
01:01:34,292 --> 01:01:39,082
The ladies always recognize me
immediately.
684
01:01:39,532 --> 01:01:40,806
Do you know how?
685
01:01:42,252 --> 01:01:43,002
My ears!
686
01:01:43,612 --> 01:01:46,251
My ears stick out a bit.
687
01:01:48,852 --> 01:01:49,602
They voted.
688
01:01:50,092 --> 01:01:53,528
Some were for, some against.
689
01:01:53,812 --> 01:01:55,165
They finally decided...
690
01:01:55,972 --> 01:01:58,532
the Negev would go to the Jews.
691
01:01:59,012 --> 01:02:01,526
On top of the 17%
the British gave,
692
01:02:01,812 --> 01:02:04,884
another 16% for Israel.
693
01:02:06,492 --> 01:02:08,642
But what happened then?
694
01:02:08,932 --> 01:02:11,890
The US President
Harry Truman decided
695
01:02:12,172 --> 01:02:14,925
the Negev wouldn't go
to the Jewish State.
696
01:02:15,212 --> 01:02:16,486
What did they do?
697
01:02:16,772 --> 01:02:19,366
The head of
the World Zionist Organization,
698
01:02:19,652 --> 01:02:22,610
Dr Chaim Weizmann,
went to Washington
699
01:02:22,892 --> 01:02:27,204
to try to explain to Truman
how important it was
700
01:02:27,492 --> 01:02:31,405
for the UN to stick
to its committee's decision.
701
01:02:31,892 --> 01:02:33,883
But he wasn't seen.
702
01:02:34,172 --> 01:02:37,562
He waited a day,
a week, ten days...
703
01:02:37,852 --> 01:02:39,843
So they contacted a Jew
704
01:02:40,132 --> 01:02:44,330
who had done business
with Harry Truman
705
01:02:44,692 --> 01:02:49,129
and who called him sometimes,
Harry, how're things?
706
01:02:49,412 --> 01:02:50,731
They explained to him
707
01:02:51,012 --> 01:02:56,370
and he phoned Harry Truman,
saying, "Hi, Harry, how're things?
708
01:02:56,652 --> 01:03:00,008
""The head of the "
World Zionist Organization,
709
01:03:00,292 --> 01:03:02,283
"representing the world's Jews,
710
01:03:02,572 --> 01:03:04,802
"has been waiting 10 days
711
01:03:05,092 --> 01:03:08,323
""for you to give him 15 minutes. "
Shame on you!"
712
01:03:08,612 --> 01:03:09,840
And he hung up.
713
01:03:11,172 --> 01:03:14,130
Truman thought,
then told his secretary
714
01:03:14,412 --> 01:03:17,643
to fix up a meeting
with Chaim Weizmann.
715
01:03:18,692 --> 01:03:20,728
A meeting was fixed.
716
01:03:21,012 --> 01:03:25,961
30 minutes after meeting Weizmann,
717
01:03:26,252 --> 01:03:30,325
Truman called the US delegation
at the UN.
718
01:03:30,612 --> 01:03:31,681
He said,
719
01:03:31,972 --> 01:03:36,682
""The UN is meeting in 10 days "
on November 29.
720
01:03:37,772 --> 01:03:44,325
""Do all you can to ensure "
that those who are against
721
01:03:44,612 --> 01:03:47,604
""vote for the committee's decision "
to be adopted.
722
01:03:48,092 --> 01:03:52,404
""The UN must vote for the Negev "
to go to the Jews."
723
01:03:52,692 --> 01:03:55,411
That's how the decision got voted.
724
01:03:56,052 --> 01:03:58,566
The great story of the Negev.
725
01:03:59,052 --> 01:04:03,091
Then the war started
and shook everything up.
726
01:04:03,372 --> 01:04:07,524
The Jewish State wasn't formed
according to UN partition.
727
01:04:11,572 --> 01:04:12,925
The war helped us.
728
01:04:13,212 --> 01:04:14,486
Palestine disappeared.
729
01:04:14,772 --> 01:04:17,969
Why Palestine and not
Eretz Yisrael?
730
01:04:18,252 --> 01:04:22,006
We bought the land
from its owners.
731
01:04:22,292 --> 01:04:25,841
We paid good money for it.
732
01:04:26,132 --> 01:04:30,922
But they didn't know
you had plans to form a State.
733
01:04:31,212 --> 01:04:33,282
When they sold?
just business.
734
01:04:34,532 --> 01:04:36,409
Normally if you sell
you can stay.
735
01:04:36,692 --> 01:04:39,764
We didn't declare war.
736
01:04:40,052 --> 01:04:43,488
Who invaded Israel on May 15?
737
01:04:43,972 --> 01:04:47,123
You asked a question.
Here's the answer!
738
01:04:47,412 --> 01:04:49,243
Who invaded whom?
739
01:04:50,852 --> 01:04:53,889
Sorry, where's the Mefalsim kibbutz?
740
01:04:56,052 --> 01:04:57,201
What?
not here?
741
01:04:57,492 --> 01:05:00,848
Take the main road,
it goes to Mefalsim.
742
01:05:01,132 --> 01:05:03,407
How far along is it?
What?
743
01:05:04,652 --> 01:05:08,167
After Nir Am,
you get to Mefalsim.
744
01:05:11,412 --> 01:05:13,607
OK, thanks.
745
01:05:16,172 --> 01:05:18,925
Can you tell us about Gaza?
746
01:05:20,092 --> 01:05:22,128
What for? Why?
747
01:05:22,412 --> 01:05:24,972
Go and see for yourself.
748
01:05:25,252 --> 01:05:27,049
Why should I tell you?
749
01:05:27,332 --> 01:05:31,325
Gaza was already a big city
when we settled here.
750
01:05:31,612 --> 01:05:33,682
A big Arab city.
751
01:05:33,972 --> 01:05:35,928
Is there water in Gaza Strip?
752
01:05:36,372 --> 01:05:38,408
All along the coast.
753
01:05:38,692 --> 01:05:42,685
There's water
at 20 to 50 meters deep.
754
01:05:42,972 --> 01:05:45,202
Hence the Jewish settlements?
755
01:05:45,492 --> 01:05:49,485
Yes, we've started
settling in the north,
756
01:05:49,772 --> 01:05:52,809
and along the coastal strip.
757
01:05:53,092 --> 01:05:56,084
Wherever there's water,
until it runs out.
758
01:05:56,372 --> 01:06:00,445
The Jewish settlements get water
and then it runs out.
759
01:06:01,172 --> 01:06:06,530
There are no Jewish settlements.
Not in the Gaza Strip.
760
01:06:08,212 --> 01:06:11,648
- None?
- Some, but they're negligible.
761
01:06:11,932 --> 01:06:14,765
Like Nir Am was in 1943?
762
01:06:15,052 --> 01:06:16,280
That's negligible.
763
01:06:17,612 --> 01:06:21,571
Netzarim, Dugit,
Hofit, Eilei-Sinai
764
01:06:21,852 --> 01:06:24,491
They're on water sources.
765
01:06:24,772 --> 01:06:26,763
Where there's water...
766
01:06:27,052 --> 01:06:29,566
We don't want to expel Arabs.
767
01:06:29,852 --> 01:06:31,763
But we already did in 48.
768
01:06:32,052 --> 01:06:34,088
No, they'll stay.
769
01:06:34,372 --> 01:06:37,921
In 48, we chased them out
and razed their villages.
770
01:06:38,212 --> 01:06:40,806
You keep saying that nonsense.
771
01:06:41,092 --> 01:06:44,323
I explain and you keep
repeating that nonsense!
772
01:06:44,612 --> 01:06:46,568
- Isn't it true?
- Listen to me!
773
01:06:47,052 --> 01:06:50,601
The Arab neighbors need to understand
774
01:06:51,012 --> 01:06:55,767
that in the war against Israel
they will not taste victory.
775
01:06:56,612 --> 01:06:58,887
Okay? They will not win.
776
01:06:59,172 --> 01:07:02,562
It will only lead
to Arab extermination.
777
01:07:02,852 --> 01:07:06,162
much worse than any previous ones.
778
01:07:06,452 --> 01:07:08,727
Then there'll be peace.
779
01:07:30,692 --> 01:07:32,444
This is the amphitheater.
780
01:07:32,732 --> 01:07:36,771
There'll be benches
all along these rows of trees.
781
01:07:37,052 --> 01:07:38,804
Behind this tree,
782
01:07:39,092 --> 01:07:41,526
there's a small well.
783
01:07:41,812 --> 01:07:46,761
They bore down to 800 m
looking for oil and found water.
784
01:07:47,812 --> 01:07:51,168
I have a dream
of doing something like this.
785
01:07:51,452 --> 01:07:54,489
I saw it in Buchart Gardens
in Canada.
786
01:07:54,772 --> 01:07:57,366
There was a great water jet.
787
01:07:57,652 --> 01:08:01,930
If I ever got hold
of a million dollars...
788
01:08:02,212 --> 01:08:06,171
the water would fall back down
into a swimming pool.
789
01:08:06,452 --> 01:08:08,522
Is that you with Ariel Sharon?
790
01:08:08,812 --> 01:08:11,610
No, this is Ariel Sharon.
791
01:08:12,252 --> 01:08:13,480
Inside the museum.
792
01:08:13,732 --> 01:08:15,563
- With you?
- Yes.
793
01:08:15,852 --> 01:08:20,209
We have lots of albums
with photos of Arik Sharon.
794
01:08:21,212 --> 01:08:24,966
I need a million dollars
for this project.
795
01:08:25,252 --> 01:08:26,890
It would be grand.
796
01:08:27,172 --> 01:08:31,370
If a Jewish community or donor
were to give it
797
01:08:31,652 --> 01:08:36,772
It would be named after the donor.
798
01:08:37,052 --> 01:08:41,568
""A million dollars for a geyser "
to be named after me."
799
01:08:41,852 --> 01:08:45,686
Over there,
a hot-water swimming pool.
800
01:08:46,092 --> 01:08:47,161
Yes, a pool!
801
01:08:47,452 --> 01:08:50,285
The water would be
recycled to fish farms
802
01:08:50,572 --> 01:08:53,405
then to olive orchards.
803
01:08:53,692 --> 01:08:56,252
It's a vast project.
804
01:08:56,532 --> 01:08:59,888
And if I find the money to do it
805
01:09:00,172 --> 01:09:02,049
it'll be magnificent.
806
01:09:02,332 --> 01:09:05,642
If I find a million for this
807
01:09:07,132 --> 01:09:09,123
my dream will come true.
808
01:09:14,859 --> 01:09:19,410
"Give us water
We haven't drunk yet"
809
01:09:19,699 --> 01:09:23,374
""Give us water "
And some newly-pressed wine..."
810
01:09:41,219 --> 01:09:43,210
Send me a tape?
811
01:09:43,499 --> 01:09:47,048
God knows how you'll turn this
into a film!
812
01:10:38,819 --> 01:10:40,969
You can't film here.
813
01:10:41,259 --> 01:10:42,738
Why not?
814
01:10:43,739 --> 01:10:48,210
We don't want pictures,
of this base
815
01:10:48,499 --> 01:10:50,854
getting into the wrong hands.
816
01:10:54,019 --> 01:10:57,648
But go further along,
you can film there.
817
01:10:58,139 --> 01:10:59,208
That's the border.
818
01:10:59,499 --> 01:11:03,492
Further down you can see
the homes that were built
819
01:11:04,259 --> 01:11:06,693
for the officers of Force 17.
820
01:11:07,099 --> 01:11:11,172
That's Jebaliya to the north-west.
821
01:11:11,579 --> 01:11:13,888
See that white line?
822
01:11:15,739 --> 01:11:17,889
It's an electronic fence.
823
01:11:18,179 --> 01:11:20,215
It runs along the whole strip.
824
01:11:20,499 --> 01:11:24,731
It's open to the sea
but closed inland.
825
01:12:01,659 --> 01:12:04,048
The Gaza Strip is cut into zones.
826
01:12:04,339 --> 01:12:09,094
The Netzarim Zone, the North Zone
and the Central Zone.
827
01:12:09,579 --> 01:12:14,653
Here to the sea
is a 5 to 7-minute drive.
828
01:12:14,939 --> 01:12:16,531
Is this the international border?
829
01:12:16,819 --> 01:12:18,491
There's no international border.
830
01:12:20,979 --> 01:12:23,812
There's no border
as there's no State.
831
01:12:24,739 --> 01:12:25,888
What's Israel?
832
01:12:26,179 --> 01:12:28,739
There's no Palestinian State.
833
01:13:07,099 --> 01:13:10,057
NO ENTRANCE
BORDER
834
01:13:50,259 --> 01:13:53,410
We've been settling Israeli land
for 100 years.
835
01:13:53,699 --> 01:13:56,213
Since the Age of the Patriarchs.
836
01:13:56,499 --> 01:14:00,777
It has never been a wilderness.
The Middle-East was never empty.
837
01:14:01,059 --> 01:14:02,970
It's always been inhabited.
838
01:14:03,259 --> 01:14:05,693
I don't deny
the original place names.
839
01:14:05,979 --> 01:14:09,528
Kids used to call this
the White House.
840
01:14:09,819 --> 01:14:12,652
I call it Khirbet Naim,
841
01:14:12,939 --> 01:14:15,453
after the family
that lived here before 1948,
842
01:14:15,739 --> 01:14:17,775
members of the Abu Sita tribe.
843
01:14:18,059 --> 01:14:21,131
Their grandchildren
live in Khan Yunes.
844
01:14:22,499 --> 01:14:25,332
We should keep calling it
Khirbet Naim.
845
01:14:32,579 --> 01:14:35,935
This house belonged to a sheik.
846
01:14:36,219 --> 01:14:37,732
The Army occupied it.
847
01:14:38,019 --> 01:14:40,772
I want to make it an art gallery.
848
01:14:41,859 --> 01:14:46,455
I offered people from Gaza
to come to work here.
849
01:14:46,739 --> 01:14:50,778
They said no, but they might
change their minds.
850
01:14:52,779 --> 01:14:55,452
Works of art,
paintings, sculptures...
851
01:14:55,979 --> 01:14:58,209
Next to the world's
biggest ghetto?
852
01:14:58,499 --> 01:15:00,217
What then? Leave?
853
01:15:00,499 --> 01:15:02,251
Should we flee?
854
01:15:03,099 --> 01:15:06,409
What would it do
for the ghetto?
855
01:15:07,139 --> 01:15:11,610
Would a humanitarian gesture
ease my conscience?
856
01:15:12,899 --> 01:15:13,968
No.
857
01:15:16,139 --> 01:15:19,768
I can't change people's minds,
their politics.
858
01:15:20,219 --> 01:15:21,937
It's difficult.
859
01:15:22,219 --> 01:15:25,416
It's become extremely difficult.
860
01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:28,816
Do you have contact with them?
861
01:15:29,099 --> 01:15:30,373
Palestinians?
862
01:15:30,659 --> 01:15:33,253
I did. With two guys from Gaza
863
01:15:33,539 --> 01:15:36,849
who worked at for us.
864
01:15:37,139 --> 01:15:40,131
We'd speak on the phone.
865
01:15:40,619 --> 01:15:41,813
What can I say?
866
01:15:42,099 --> 01:15:44,693
You can't turn back time.
867
01:15:44,979 --> 01:15:48,574
You have to think of the future
not the past.
868
01:15:48,859 --> 01:15:49,928
I don't get it.
869
01:15:50,219 --> 01:15:54,451
Living together is the future,
not the past.
870
01:15:54,739 --> 01:15:56,855
Depends what you mean.
871
01:15:57,499 --> 01:16:02,414
Living together with territorial
or financial compensations?
872
01:16:02,699 --> 01:16:06,294
How do we do it?
What does "living together" mean?
873
01:16:06,779 --> 01:16:08,178
Who's closer to you?
874
01:16:08,459 --> 01:16:12,850
A Palestinian from Galilee,
or a Belgian or Dutchman?
875
01:16:13,699 --> 01:16:16,816
It's a different type of closeness.
876
01:16:17,139 --> 01:16:22,133
My own identity
and cultural background,
877
01:16:22,339 --> 01:16:24,728
are western.
878
01:16:25,419 --> 01:16:29,378
I can be good friends
with an Arab from Galilee,
879
01:16:29,659 --> 01:16:32,776
but he has a different culture
I must respect.
880
01:16:33,059 --> 01:16:34,731
I don't know if I do,
881
01:16:35,019 --> 01:16:38,295
since I'm totally ignorant
of his culture.
882
01:16:38,579 --> 01:16:41,776
But the roots of my culture
are western.
883
01:16:43,739 --> 01:16:46,890
- It's a paradox.
- Yes, what can I do?
884
01:16:47,539 --> 01:16:50,417
Go to Paris and go fishing...
885
01:16:52,339 --> 01:16:54,455
Cacti mark
the edge of the village.
886
01:16:54,739 --> 01:16:58,812
There's the well.
It's still usable.
887
01:17:00,699 --> 01:17:04,009
The water's a bit salty,
but drinkable.
888
01:17:07,579 --> 01:17:12,209
See our sorting chain?
At the end is the border.
889
01:17:16,219 --> 01:17:17,857
South Africa is the settler's model.
890
01:17:18,139 --> 01:17:21,336
A white minority
dominates a black majority.
891
01:17:21,619 --> 01:17:25,771
Here, it's the Arabs,
who have no rights.
892
01:17:26,059 --> 01:17:30,291
They'll be well treated
as long as they don't rise up.
893
01:17:30,579 --> 01:17:34,049
They'll have water
and we won't beat them.
894
01:17:34,859 --> 01:17:39,410
But no civic rights.
And that's the moderates' view!
895
01:17:41,459 --> 01:17:43,654
The Army felled all the trees.
896
01:17:43,939 --> 01:17:48,251
We're coming to a point...
Let's go that way instead.
897
01:17:48,579 --> 01:17:51,969
I don't want to cross
the tree-line.
898
01:17:52,259 --> 01:17:55,217
Otherwise...
See, they're already here.
899
01:18:03,139 --> 01:18:04,891
They fired on a patrol here.
900
01:18:05,179 --> 01:18:08,410
The Army don't like trees.
They fell them.
901
01:18:08,699 --> 01:18:12,408
The driver was killed,
so they felled the trees.
902
01:18:12,699 --> 01:18:14,576
They call it "stripping".
903
01:18:22,739 --> 01:18:24,172
Arabs lived here.
904
01:18:24,459 --> 01:18:28,293
The British dug
the Bir Gara'a well.
905
01:18:28,579 --> 01:18:32,174
Across there is Hourza'a.
It was inhabited here.
906
01:18:33,099 --> 01:18:35,693
Look. People lived here.
907
01:18:35,979 --> 01:18:37,094
Or lower.
908
01:18:37,379 --> 01:18:41,088
I suppose it was
in this little pocket.
909
01:18:44,539 --> 01:18:45,972
There was no fence
910
01:18:46,779 --> 01:18:50,294
when the Egyptians were in Gaza.
911
01:18:50,579 --> 01:18:53,571
Just a 10-cm ditch
912
01:18:53,859 --> 01:19:00,298
and every 2 km, a sentry box with
blue-berets completely stoned.
913
01:19:00,579 --> 01:19:04,128
But no fence.
We passed sacks of wheat
914
01:19:04,419 --> 01:19:07,650
to guys from Khuza'a.
There was no fence.
915
01:19:08,139 --> 01:19:11,211
The fence is the ultimate absurdity.
916
01:19:11,499 --> 01:19:12,978
Take the fence -
917
01:19:13,259 --> 01:19:15,819
The settlements there were,
the more we built.
918
01:19:16,099 --> 01:19:19,648
As they got more settled
the fence goes up.
919
01:19:20,699 --> 01:19:22,132
From a little fence,
920
01:19:22,419 --> 01:19:27,254
to a big one, then barbed,
then double, then electronic,
921
01:19:27,539 --> 01:19:28,938
and so on.
922
01:19:29,219 --> 01:19:31,892
The fence is the symbol.
923
01:19:32,179 --> 01:19:34,409
The fence is Zionism.
924
01:22:43,299 --> 01:22:47,815
"We will hear in the hills of Judea
925
01:22:49,499 --> 01:22:54,414
"And in the streets of Jerusalem
926
01:22:54,859 --> 01:22:59,649
""The cries of joy "
and the cheers of elation
927
01:23:00,219 --> 01:23:04,098
""The voice of the groom "
and the voice of the bride"
928
01:23:05,019 --> 01:23:07,294
Each happy event is an occasion
929
01:23:07,579 --> 01:23:12,095
to pray for Jerusalem
to rise up in our time
930
01:23:12,699 --> 01:23:15,771
and for us to say
like the exiles of Babylon...
931
01:23:17,819 --> 01:23:21,175
""If I forget, Jerusalem, "
may my right hand shrivel,
932
01:23:21,899 --> 01:23:24,732
""may my tongue stick "
to my palette,
933
01:23:25,019 --> 01:23:26,930
"if I forget, Jerusalem,
934
01:23:27,259 --> 01:23:30,092
"that you are my greatest joy."
68931
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