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What makes it your land?

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The words of God say very clearly
this land is given to us.

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Most of these people here,
they want to annihilate us.

You think they just want
this area of the West Bank?

They say it very openly,
they want the whole thing.

Why are you disputing these facts?
These are facts.

'I was deep inside the West Bank,
the largely Arab area that
Israel has occupied since 1967,

'spending time in a tiny
and controversial sub-culture of
ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers.'

Do you view Palestinians
and Jews as equal?

Er, no. No? No.

They believe these lands
were promised to Israel by God,

and have made it their life's work
to increase the Jewish presence here

and oppose any sovereignty
for Palestinians.

What I tell you is that the story
of the Arabs having rights in the
whole land are stories and lies.

LOUD BANGING

Many are religious extremists,
and yet they are protected by one
of the world's most powerful armies.

Is it a little bit tense?

I don't feel tense.

'And they are ready to resist
any onslaught to re-establish
the greater Jewish nation.'

Life in the Yemenite village.

BANGING

Sounded like big ones.

I was in Jerusalem, a city divided
between Jews in the west

and Arabs in the east,
all of them under Israeli authority.

'With me was Daniel Luria,
part of an ultra-religious Jewish
organisation called Ateret Cohanim.'

Where is the most conflict?

We're just about to go into it.

These intersections have had tons
of incidents. This one right here.

'We were in the heart of
Silwan, one of the most deprived
areas

'of East Jerusalem, populated by
several thousand Palestinians

'and 60 Jewish settlers
under heavy protection.'

These are security guys in here now?

Um... Are they doing patrol
or are they ferrying passengers?

It could be that they're coming
to pick someone that's leaving

or they're bringing someone back.
It's hard to know.

Well, there's your answer.

'Israel's control of East Jerusalem
is considered illegal
under international law,

'and yet Daniel's mission
is to help Jewish donors buy up
more Palestinian properties

'and find Jewish families
to live in them.'

As you can see, it's very easy for
the Arabs who live in close quarters
here to just be across there,

a few metres away, to throw across
a concrete block, throw across
a Molotov cocktail.

It doesn't matter whether
there's kids here or not.

The hatred is so extreme it's just
unbelievable, and it's unbearable.

Don't you feel you're partially
responsible for putting
those kids in harm's way?

We are responsible to make sure
that the Arabs don't get away
with what they're doing.

This is a hot spot, isn't it?
But actually...

And if we bend it's going to
have ramifications for everyone.

..there are places
all over Israel...

No. ..where they can live
much more safely.

Not at all. Look where you are.
You are here at the outskirts
at the centre of the Jewish world.

There's the Temple Mount.
East Jerusalem is still...

You can touch the Temple Mount,
you can feel King David. He's here.

You talk as though this land,
this area means nothing
to the Arab people.

Well, it doesn't. It clearly does.

No. We are here today.

This is the Jewish homeland,
and there's never been
a Palestinian people.

If they want to
express themselves nationally

they can express it somewhere else
in one of the other states,

maybe Jordan, which is primarily
Palestinian origin in any case.

Why should it be at the expense
of the Jewish homeland?

My roots are here, not theirs.

A little later, the settler's
battle-scarred armoured car

made its way under police escort
back down the hillside

and past a Palestinian child
acting as a lookout.

GUNFIRE

One of those looking on was an
Arab neighbour of the settlers.

He doesn't accept that
the Jews have returned home.

He doesn't like the fact
that the Jews are here, full stop.

That's his problem.

The international community is on
his side, really, in the sense that

it doesn't recognise
the validity of...

Israel... ..Israel's annexation
of East Jerusalem. Correct.

And would view YOU as an interloper
in HIS community.

OK, the world's got a problem.

There's nothing I can say about that,
because you're right.

We're the only country in the world
that accepts united Jerusalem.
I know that.

So I say,
"OK, so what for the world?"

It doesn't bother me.

In another part of Silwan, close
to where it borders the Old City,
live a family called the Adlers.

Hi, Yonatan? Louis.

'Yonatan and Devorah,
originally from the USA,

'were moved in by a Jewish cultural
group similar to Daniel's
called El'ad.

'With their six children,
they are helping to repopulate
the Jewish community.'

Are you comfortable talking about
security measures that you take?

I mean, don't tell anybody,
but we don't lock our doors.

You don't lock these doors,
but there's a guard posted at
a metal gate out front. Right. Yeah.

You hadn't noticed him? Yeah, no.

We have guards,
there are security cameras.

And you have someone posted
on the roof? Yeah. A soldier?

No. A private security guard.

And then do you have escorts
when you leave?

We have, we have escorts.

So this is all your yard?

This is all our backyard. And across
the hillside here we are basically
talking about an Arab neighbourhood.

Yes. Do you feel encircled
a little bit?

Encircled by buildings, yes,
but I guess that's part
of living in a city.

You don't feel encircled
culturally or ethnically?

Um, I don't think we
view things that way.

You know, obviously there
is a sense of animosity
against Jews moving in here.

Do you not worry about
your children a bit?

Generally we don't have
a tremendous problem,

and I think our belief
in being here is so strong.

Really, this place
is part of our heart,

and I think that we raise
our children feeling that way also.

Did you say that you'd been in
a vehicle when it had been stoned?

We have been, yes.
You have been. With your kids? Yes.

That must be frightening.

Um, I think it's unsettling.
For the kids?

It's unsettling, yes, but it's
something that we speak with them
about. Did they start crying?

No. I think it's something
that they are aware of.

And God forbid,
if one of the kids got hurt?

We hope that it never comes to that,

but for us this is home,
and we're not running away
because a rock is thrown.

'The West Bank is home to about
2.5 million Palestinians
and 300,000 Jewish settlers.

'Many of these settlers live
in modern suburban communities.

'They're considered illegal
under most interpretations
of international law,

'though the Israeli government
disputes this and gives
the settlements its backing.

'But there is also a hard-core
fringe of settlers
who've defied even Israeli law

'and built makeshift
hilltop encampments.

'One of these is 17-year-old
Yair Lieberman.'

Can we come in? Of course.

It's a place you can come any time.

Who lives in here?

Me and three other guys.

Three other young guys? Yes.

Tell me a little bit about
where we are. It's called...

It's called Havat Gilad,
and it's built eight years ago.

How long has this structure been
here? A year, nearly one year.

Nearly one year? Yes.

So where you want to go now?
Which is your bed?

This is my bed, the most mess!

This one? No, this one.
The most mess, I told you.

This is all the rabbis...

These are all rabbis that you like?
Yes.

You're hooked up to electricity?
Yes. From where?

We have a generator here. Do you?

Yes. The state don't give
us electricity. Why not?

Because they think we are illegal.

Why is it so important to you
that you should be here?

Why not somewhere, you know,
near Tel Aviv, or...

Because nobody is here.

If we weren't here there is Arabic
town over there, and over there,
and over there and over there.

If we are not here this is a city,
and we don't want another city.

You don't want another
Palestinian city.

I don't want another
Palestinian city, no. Why?

Why? Because it's my land.

It's the land of Israel,
not the land of Palestinian.

A Palestinian would say,
"Well, this is my home."

This is your home
because you took it from me.

Do you view Palestinians
and Jews as equal?

Er, no. No? No.

Jews are the, how you say it, um...

the chosen.
We're not going to go from here.

What will happen
to the Palestinians?

The Palestinians, I don't know.

God will do with them whatever he
wants. I don't know, I stay here.

I think this is God's will,
I feel this is God's will,

and it's not only me, and thousands
and thousands of other settlements.

This is already by the police
and army,

this is already Arab land,
it's not ours.

It's ours, but we can't touch it.

If we go over there you can
get arrested. You see.

Would you build somewhere
over there? Why not?

Why shouldn't I?

You just said you'd get arrested.

So? I'd get arrested.

You can really only be here
because the army's protecting you.

No, I'm going to stay here
even though the army
not going to protect me.

You'd give your life to stay here?

I don't know.

God, er... I don't know.

I say, "get to the bridge,
we're going to cross it."

'Most of the West Bank is still
under Israeli military occupation,

'and so opposition
to the settlements

'and to the Jewish presence
generally is dealt with by the army.

'A colonel in the IDF, the Israeli
Defence Force, had agreed to take me
to one of their regular fixtures,

'policing a Palestinian protest
against the security barrier that
separates Israel from the West Bank.

'It takes place every week
outside the small town of Ni'lin.'

OK? Yes.

Here comes one.
SMASHING

What is it?

And the soldiers...
The soldiers are running in. Yeah.

The people... Are they running away?
Yeah, running away.

Is it? Yeah.

'After an opening salvo
from the IDF, we made our way
across the security barrier.'

Look at the stones.

'I'd been told one
of the reasons Ni'lin emerged
as a regular spot for protests

'was its proximity to Tel Aviv.

'It was a convenient location
for left-wing Israelis
and internationals

'who wanted to show their support
for the Palestinian cause.

'The previous year one unlucky
protestor had taken a canister
to the chest and died,

'and injuries on both sides
were not uncommon,

'but on this occasion
there were no casualties.'

What if you just left them?

And then you do it again? Yeah.
So just back and forth. Yeah.

Like a ritual. Yeah.

'I was back in Jerusalem
for an appointment with Daniel.'

Hi, Daniel. Thank you.

Sorry we're late. Good morning.

'This time our destination
was the heart of the Old City.

'Daniel's organisation had recently
helped a donor to acquire a number
of apartments in the Muslim quarter,

'adding to its portfolio
of around 50 buildings.'

So this is your most recent
acquisition, is that correct?

Well, once again, when I say yours,
it's not the organisation.

It's an individual either in Israel
or overseas that has acquired
this particular building.

It's a rather unique building as you
can see, from the point of view that
it's not just a single apartment.

Who owns it? Jewish concerns.
Can you identify them?

I don't have a right
to discuss about, you know,

private investors that want
to invest, whether they want
to be known or not to be known.

I'm not sure how relevant
it is, anyway.

Do you see anything the least
bit out of whack with, let's say,

a foreign donor donating funds
that displace a man who's been in
a property for several generations?

Just that in a nutshell.

We don't challenge any other person
round the world who wants to invest
in Manhattan or London,

so why should the BBC or anyone in
the world be concerned that a Jew

is investing in the heart of the most
important city for him as a Jew?

That's a very simple thing.

For a Jew,
Jerusalem is central to everything.

Why are you angry?

OK. Is there anything as far as you
know in the idea that more units
were grabbed than was legally...

No, no, no. If there was then the
police would never have allowed it
to happen on the first night,

neither would the courts.

They've been here for a month now.
No, no, it's nothing like that.

The issue is just something with him.

There's a lot of stuff here
that belonged to the Arab that
he obviously didn't want.

But they just left
all their stuff here.

Well, not all of it,
but there's some stuff.

You've got to remember there were,
you know, we're talking
about two Arab families.

For them to physically walk out
of the house before the sale
with all this stuff

would have aroused
too much of an issue.

Really? Another problem for them.

Would they have sort of left in the
middle of the night, kind of thing?

I can't really discuss exactly
how they left and why they
left the way they did.

It's a law in the Arab world.

They're not allowed to sell to Jews,
therefore if they do,

one has to be very careful
to give some type of cover story
or protection

to look after the Arabs that sell.
It's an absurd situation.

So where are these Arabs now,
the ones who were living here?

They're living comfortably in some
other Arab neighbourhood, either...
Somewhere in Israel, I imagine.

Sort of incognito.
No, not at all. Not at all.

Well, if it's known that they sold?

Well, not everyone knows that they
sold, and certain claims were made

that maybe the Jews came in
at a certain time. Like I said, I
can't really go into the whole issue.

You're suggesting they may
have created a cover story?

HE MUTTERS A HEBREW PHRASE

Some things we can talk about,
some things we can't talk about.

'45 minutes south of Jerusalem
is the city of Hebron.

'Like the rest of the West Bank,
it was taken by Israel in 1967.

'With an Arab population of 160,000,

'most of Hebron is now policed
by the Palestinian Authority,

'but the heart of the city
is home to a tiny enclave
of 700 or 800 Jewish settlers,

'and remains
under military occupation.

'Here the Jews live
in a secure bubble,

'a strange ghost town in which
literally hundreds of Arab shops

'have either been closed down
by the Israeli army
or gone out of business.

'My contact here was the head
of security for the Hebron Jewish
community, Yoni Blackmard.'

Good to see you.

That's my car over there,
and we can use the van over there.

As well? That's the ambulance?
Yeah. For evacuating wounded people.

Why would people be wounded?

Shots. Terrorist attacks.

We've got plenty of those.
Really? Yes, unfortunately.

So this is all bulletproof?

Yes. 360 degrees bulletproof.

'Yoni took me on a tour of the
secure area, or sterile zone.'

So this is a checkpoint? Yes.

And over there begins what?

H1, Arab territory.

The Palestinian Authority
are over there?

Yes, it is.
You can't go through there?

No, it's not safe for us to go.

If we go inside
we could get murdered, we could
get stoned, we could get killed.

These Palestinians going back
and forth, what's their story?

Shopping. They're going to the city
to shop, buy things, and go back
to their houses over here.

And so they have to go through
a checkpoint to go shopping? How
come there aren't... No, no, no, no.

To enter the Arab zone they don't
need to be checked, but coming back
they need to be checked,

because the army not once, not twice
discovered ammunition and knives,

cold ammunition that they tried
to smuggle into the safety zone
over here.

Now, what's happened
to the shops here?

They were closed
for security measures.

The army closed them down.

And there's no cars or buses here
for Palestinians?

For Palestinians,
on this road, no, it's a safe zone.

Safe zone is...it's sterile.

Do you feel embarrassed to see
settlers have scrawled stars
of David on the old Arab shops?

Yes. If it's not theirs,
absolutely. It's not right.

It's been reported that Arabs have
suffered a campaign of harassment
from Jewish settlers in Hebron,

including graffiti
and stone throwing, abuse.

There were incidents, of course
there were incidents, unfortunately,
but you cannot compare.

Some Arabs chuck stones
at some Jewish settlers,
the settlers do what?

Well... Call the Israeli army?

Police. Police. Police and army, yes.

If some Jewish settlers chuck stones
at some Arabs? The Arabs call
the police and the army.

They call the Israeli... Yes, yes.
Over here, yes.

But can you see how there
would be a perception
that because they are Israeli

that the Israelis
would not enforce the law,

that the military would not uphold
the security in favour of the Arabs

in the same way they would
in favour of the Israeli?

No, cos that's not democracy.

And do Arabs here have the vote?

To the Israeli Knesset?

No. No, they do not.

So that's... That isn't democracy.

Yes, it is.
Can you choose to the Knesset?

Well, I don't live here.

I cannot vote for their municipality
and their parliament, they can.

They are part of the Arab parliament.

'Hebron has a unique importance
for believers in the Old Testament

'as the final resting place
of Abraham and his family here
in the Tomb of the Patriarchs,

'and so it felt fitting
to be invited to attend
a circumcision, or bris.

'One of those present was the
child's grandmother, Shirley
Zissman, originally from Scotland,

'now resident of the West Bank
settlement of Kedumim.'

Does it have a special meaning
for you having your grandson's
bris in Hebron?

I never in my life dreamed
that I would have such an honour
to come to Hebron

and make the bris
of our grandchildren,
the circumcision ceremony here.

This is his brother,
he is a year and a half.

That's the bigger brother of the
baby that's going under the knife?

It is.
He doesn't have to worry. No.

He's done it. He's done it already.
The baby will get over it, as well.

Everybody gets over it. Does it hurt?
I don't know, I didn't do it.

THEY CHANT AND SING

'According to the Bible,
Abraham was the first Jewish man,

'his circumcision a sign
of his covenant with God,

'and God's commitment to providing
for the Jewish people, a tradition
that continues to this day.'

BABY CRIES

'Part of God's promise was that
the land of Israel would belong
to Abraham's descendants,

'and so the bris was also a kind
of guarantee of inheritance.'

THEY CONTINUE SINGING AND CHANTING

'After the ceremony I learned
that the child had been named
Amichai, or My Nation Lives.

'Back up in the area around
Havat Gilad, and the hillsides
were in flames.

'I'd had word that the Israeli army
had dismantled a house
and a goat shed

'at a Jewish settlement called
Givat Ronen that was well known
for its radical views.

'Given that the whole settlement was
illegal under Israeli law, the
action seemed somewhat tokenistic,

'but in return some of the settler
youth had apparently taken reprisals

'against local Palestinians
by setting fires.

'It was a practice
known as price tagging.

'An Israeli member of parliament
had turned out to show his
support for the settlement.'

Louis. BBC.

Hi. Good to meet you.

Your name? Member of Knesset,
Michael Ben-Ari.

What happened last night?

The vandalism.

'Though they'd been set by settlers,
the fires had spread across
land farmed by Jews.

'One of those attempting
to put out the flames

'was a local Israeli winemaker
and tour guide called Nir Levi.'

Whose trees are they?

My friend, my neighbour's.

They are Israeli trees.

All this area is going
to be burned because

a man and a lady and a child
were living in this house,

and this morning from out of the blue
someone came and tore it down.

Not someone,

the Ministry of Defence
came to tear it down.

And what's the connection
with the fires?

Well, the fires I think are only
a conclusion after what happened.

Maybe some people
got a bit frustrated,

and we are now taking out
these fires.

And where we live is at stake, right?

Our trees, our investments,
our environment. It's a pity.

Shouldn't you be angry
at the people who set the fires?

No. Why? Because what happened,
the people blockaded their entrances

as a normal person will do if they
will come to wreck your house down,
and the fires started, you know.

They burned some tyres
and then it got out of hand?

Of course. Was it price tagging?

Er, for them, yes.

You know, the young settlers,
they have a lot of enthusiasm,

and, you know, it's their house.

You see your house going down,
your investment, you get rage, right?

Is it possible there was a plan
to burn Palestinian trees?

No. You see actually that it's not,

and if you ask me those questions
I will ask you for this minute to
dismiss yourself from this interview.

'I was on my way
to the town of Nabi Saleh.

'Like many other Palestinian towns
it is involuntarily twinned

'with a much newer
Israeli settlement,
this one called Halamish.

'Nabi Saleh is also the venue
for a regular weekly protest

'against the occupation, which I was
hoping to experience first-hand.

PROTESTORS CHANT ANGRILY

'As at Ni'lin, the protest started
after prayers and took the form
of a march through the town,

'the idea being to reach
a spring near the settlement.'

What are you doing? Fuck off.
Get away from here. Go back.

What are you doing? Go back.
What are you doing? Go back.

'After the army had repulsed
the marchers, the formal part
of the protest seemed to end.

'The Israeli soldiers took control
of the town square, and the
protesting became more freeform.'

THE CHILDREN CHANT

No problem.

That's the accent, eh?

THE CHANTING CONTINUES

This is strange.
It feels like a game, almost.

You said you've got to know
the commander quite well.

Danny, you said his name is Danny?
Yeah.

Do you think you
could be his friend?

'Down the hill, word came
that a Palestinian youth
was being arrested.'

What happened?

'One of those trying
to obstruct the arrest
was the sympathiser from Denmark,

'and he was next to be taken.'

He's done nothing wrong.
He's done nothing illegal.

What is wrong with you?

Hey!

'The afternoon passed with
more stone throwing and taunting
on the Palestinian side

'and the army's fruitless efforts
to pin down the culprits,
most of whom were children.

'I couldn't help feeling baffled
as to the commander's objectives,

'given the futility of trying
to bring the town to order.'

Out of shape. Out of shape, man.
Was that a good one?

Huh? Out of shape, guys.

Out of shape.

EXPLOSIONS

Whoa!
STONE LANDS

You threw a stone at us.

BBC.

Hi. How are you doing?

We think you are Israeli, you know.
That's all right. We're sorry.

Don't worry.

Do you hate the Israelis? Yes.
We hate Israelis.

What I feel if Israeli come
and kill my friend

and destroy my life
and steal my land, what's my feel?

What's your feel if Israeli come
and destroy you and kill you?

I hate Israel,
and forever I hate Israel.

Would you like to take all the
land back all the way to Tel Aviv?

In my heart I want
all Palestine. Yes.

And Netanyahu go to hell.

And Hamas? Hamas?

Hamas fire rockets, don't they?

Fire rockets at the Israeli people
and blow up buses
and things like this, Hamas.

Hamas, OK in bus,
but what's happened in Gaza?

You know what's happened in Gaza.

Israeli destroy Gaza,
kill our children.

We are human, they kill us,
and what's happened?

If I can go to Israel
and destroy Israel...

I am from now go to Israel
and destroy Israel.

'Late in the day, seeming to tire
of playing cat and mouse
with an entire village,

'the army finally withdrew,
with a farewell volley of tear gas.

HE COUGHS

HEBREW SPOKEN OVER MICROPHONE

'A few nights later,
and settlers were rallying
with soldiers and politicians

'on a hilltop overlooking Nablus,
the site of Joseph's tomb,

'and now home to around
130,000 Palestinians.

'Some of the talk was of the need
to march on the city
and reclaim it for the Jews.

'There was a widespread view
that the Israeli government
was too weak and conciliatory.

HE SINGS IN HEBREW

'Far from wanting to give up
any of the occupied land,

'for these settlers the aim was
to take back everything controlled
by the Palestinian Authority.

'I was with Nir, the winemaker
who I'd first met when he was
putting out flames on the hillside.'

This is the vineyards, what you see,
these are the vineyards.

'He'd offered to show me his
vineyard and the army of volunteers
he had working there,

'a coach-load of devout Christians,
almost all of them from America.

'Deep in the occupied territories
and within sight
of a Palestinian town,

'tourists were working land
that the international community
viewed as illegal.'

Shalom, Martin. Shalom, Nir.

Your name, sir? Martin.

Martin. I'm Louis.

Louis, I'm from Denver, Colorado.

This is my third time here.

How long are you out here for?

I came for a month.
You came here for a whole month?

Is it a vacation or is it a...
What is it? You're not
getting paid to work here.

No, it's a labour of love
for the nation of Israel
and for the people here,

to see that they prosper
in the West Bank

and help them fulfil the prophetic
calling that's on this land.

Why do you feel it's important
for you to be here?

It's about acting out the love
that we have.

The Bible talks about
not just loving in word
but also in deed and in actions,

and so when you pick a vine
and a cluster of grapes and you get
to hold them in your hands

it's like you're part of prophecy,
of scripture, you're part of the
promises that God has made.

Good job! Whoo!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Awesome!

'Back at the winery,
and one of Nir's young recruits

'was hoping to take his commitment
to Israel even further
by volunteering for its military.'

This guy here,
he wants to join the IDF.

Can you imagine such a thing?

Is that allowed?

No. He's just touring,
but he has his spirit with Israel.

You want to join the IDF?
Yeah, sure. Why?

They're the chosen people, you know.

Who? The Jews. The Jewish people
are the chosen people.

You've always believed that,
based on the Bible?

Not always. It's kind of something
I'm coming into, just with
the revelation you get being here.

It's good stuff.

This is the Mount Blessed wine area,
and here we have now
the 2010 vintage.

That's the whole grape in there,
the skin and everything?

Skin, seed, everything.

And here you see the grapes
are now in fermentation.

Can I do that, what you just did?
No, no, you can't. Why?

Cos it's kosher. It's kosher wine,
and kosher wine can only...

That's quite rude, isn't it?

Yes. Cos I'm unclean?

No, it's not because of that.
I'm not ceremonially entitled.

I'm not allowed to drink your wine.

But then what about those guys,
those Christians?
They're not kosher, are they?

They're allowed to bring,
you saw like today,

they bring in the grapes
from the vineyard until
the factory room of the winery.

They are not allowed inside.

Do they mind? No.

They want to serve us.

Do you find it a bit strange
that they want to, the Americans
want... To serve?

Want to come and serve you?

It was for me strange at the
beginning, but I can understand it.

Through this,
they are redeeming themselves.

For them it's deeply spiritual,
isn't it? Yes, I think so.

Do you think they also understand
that it's political?

Less. Less.

They don't come on
the political side.

'The experience of meeting
Nir's Christian volunteers

'had brought home to me the strange
status of the West Bank.

'Claimed by three major religions,
it was sacred territory,
in its own way a piece of the Bible,

'that several million people
happen to live on.

'With a few days left in-country
I was heading back south to see
Daniel, this time at his home.

'Unlike the Jewish pioneers of East
Jerusalem, Daniel lived away from
the front lines of the conflict,

'though still in the West Bank,
in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.'

Welcome to Ma'ale Adumim. Thank you.

This is your humble abode?

Well, modest, humble,
call it what you like.

Have you lived here for a while?

I have lived here in Ma'ale Adumim
since we came to live in Israel.

MOTORISED SAW GRINDS

Is this supposed to be growth?

That's the extension
of Ma'ale Adumim.

Where? It just looks like
a barren hillside.

That's what this looked like
until ten years ago.

How do you get water here?
Where does the water come from?

The underground aquifers,
like the whole country.

It's magnificent.
The desert's abloom.

This is a miracle, no matter
how you look at it, a miracle.

Ten years ago, this looked like that.

This is Hamis. Hamis has helped me
build the pergola which is going
to be the tabernacle.

This is for the feast
of the tabernacle...

Indeed it is. ..which is
coming up in a little while.

These two guys look like they're
of Arab heritage and, um...

They're Israeli citizens.
..And they're working here
in an illegal settlement.

That's quite surprising. Well, not
really, because all... Most builders
in all these places are Arabs.

In a sense they're building
themselves out of existence.

I'm not sure they see it that way.

He lives comfortably in
a neighbourhood where there's Arabs,

but he also knows that life
is good under the Jews.

Do you ever have political
conversations? Never. Why?

It never comes up.

'A little later we were
heading back into Silwan.

'Daniel had offered to show my one
last house in the Yemenite village,
as he called it.

'Since my previous visit there had
been reports of heightened tensions.

'Daniel and I travelled in as part
of a protected settler convoy.

'Its unpopularity
was soon made clear.'

BANG
Whoa! That hit us.

That was a rock. That was a rock.

Two minutes away from the Old City.

BANG
Whoa!

Well...

..life in the Yemenite village.

BANG

It sounded like big ones.
That was a big boulder.

So this is the old Yemenite village.

This is the honey house,
as you can see from here.

Yes. You can see the Arabs purposely
dump rubbish here the whole time.

This is a private residence,

and not only has it been attacked
by Molotov cocktails nonstop
over the last few months,

but rubbish is purposely dumped
right at the entrance to the house.

HE KNOCKS ON DOOR

Hi, shalom, it's Daniel.

HE CONTINUES IN HEBREW

It's not normal what's going on here,
it's not normal.

Hi, are you Boaz?

Yes. Louis. Nice to meet you.

He speaks Hebrew. He doesn't
speak English. No English.

You've got two scary-looking
guys standing behind you
in flak jackets and dark glasses.

I don't know how scary they are.
They're not scary.

The government, the government,
this is not private security,

the government pays, just like the
government looks after the residents
around here with policemen,

the government also looks after
the Jews that are under fire,

unfortunately,
by the Arabs around here.

How do you get on
with your neighbours?

I haven't been inside your home,
but this doesn't seem that great.

"That's why we're here,
we're trying to make a change."

Would you get
a very favourable rent,

given that he's sort of a pioneer
in a hardship area?

There's a standard rent for people
that live in this area.

How much?

We don't discuss anything
to do with money,

investments, donations, rents, etc.

That's not a reason that drives
anyone to live in these places,
what drives him is ideology.

THE CHILDREN SHOUT

They're throwing stones
then running off.

It's not at you, it's not the BBC,
it's having Jews around here.

It's like kids playing their games.

Unfortunately, games,
it starts off with a small stone,

then it's a concrete block,
then it's a Molotov cocktail,
and then it's shooting.

STONE CLANGS ON METAL

'Shortly after the stone throwing,
the border police appeared
on the scene.'

So if there's an incident, and even
though that was pretty minor,
the security will call the army in?

It's not the army,
it's the border patrol police.

And they'll just come in and just...

And make sure everything's fine,
that there's no rioting.

It's not straightforward living,
I'm not going to pretend for
a second this is normal living,

it's not normal living,
but we either pack our bags
and go back to the ovens of Auschwitz

and I'll go back to the shores
of Australia,

or this is our land, and it means
fighting for it to this very day.

We're basically still part
of a war of independence,
nothing much has changed.

Tactics have changed,
but it's still a war of survival
for the Jewish people in this area.

I want to remind you
that what you see around you now
never existed here in the past.

This place was open,
the shops were open,

everything open,
everyone could shop here.

'Back in Hebron, and a party
of Jewish American visitors
was in town for the holidays.

'By special arrangement with the IDF
they'd been allowed to take
a walking tour of an Arab area,

'a part of town ordinarily
closed off to Israelis
for their own safety.

'In charge of security was Yoni.'

Two things, two important things,
one is to stick together
as one group,

second thing, if something occurs,
everybody, eyes on me
and please listen to me. OK?

This area was a part
of the Jewish community of Hebron.

The houses that we see around us
were all belonging to Jews,
were filled by Jews.

Look at this house.
This was a kosher bakery.

'Until the '20s a community of Jews
lived here, but they were violently
driven out during a pogrom.

'It was the dream of the Jewish
settlers to be allowed
to re-populate the area.'

How's it going? Great, even though
we don't have time at all.

Is it a little bit tense?

I don't feel tense.

But the soldiers do because
they've got a big responsibility,
to keep this whole group safe.

Yes. It's a little bit surreal,
isn't it?

Surreal?

Strange. No, we're used to it,
we do it every week.

My goodness. I'm used to living
with Arabs, you know that.

It's sort of the soldiers more than
the Arabs that's the strange part.

It's time to go now.

As you know the Yeshiva
was destroyed,

the Jews were not allowed
to leave their homes.

Are you enjoying it?

I am enjoying it.
Are you finding it tense?

Intense or tense? Tense.
Not really. Little bit.

I'm pretty chilled. No, you're not!

You can feel the tension. You can.

It felt safe.

I wonder why.

'There was an eerie quality
to the tour, somewhere
between embattled and entitled,

'organised by a fringe
of the religious right,
and yet fully protected by the army.

'I wondered whether even more
of Hebron would one day become
a so-called sterile zone.

CALL TO PRAYER

'And then news broke,

'a Palestinian man had been shot
dead by a settler guard in Silwan in
circumstances that remained unclear.

'Rioting was widespread
in East Jerusalem.

'I headed back into the area.'

GUNSHOTS

'I was hoping to get close
to the action,

'and so I'd met up with a local
Palestinian activist, Jawad Siyam.'

GUNFIRE CONTINUES

It's live bullets,
you can hear it now.

From who?

From either the settlers
or the soldiers,
but it's more from the settlers

or their armed guards,
because the soldiers use M16,

and it's not M16, it's normal...

HE LISTENS TO THE GUNFIRE

..bullets, yeah, live bullets.

'During what sounded like
a lull in the shooting

'Jawad guided me and a small group
of Israeli human rights volunteers
into the heart of the conflict.'

Who are?

That's the honey house.

'We arrived back at the house
I had visited with Daniel
where Boaz lived with his family.

'It was now in the middle
of the strange no-man's-land,

'protected by border guards
awaiting the next round of action.'

We're from the BBC,
can we talk to one of you?

Not now. Not now.

Do you think it's logical for a
Jewish family to come to live in
such a neighbourhood,

completely neglected,
and they tell you, "I want to live
together," with gunned guards?

But they do it for religious
reasons, don't they?
Ideological reasons.

Ideological reasons, transfer
reasons, and imagine the children
living here. Transfer reasons?

Transfer, to transfer Palestinians
from here to make a Jewish majority.

Do you not feel a bit sorry for them
in a way, that they're living here
and experiencing this hostility?

Do I show I live for them sorry
to live here? Who told them
to come to here first of all?

Secondly, they come to steal houses,
they are not coming to live here,
they come to kick us out.

They say that they buy them.
Fake documents.

Fake documents? Fake documents.

And if the Jewish government want
to have fun, want to have life,

why should they come
to this neighbourhood?

If they want to is it their right?

It's their right to action?
OK, I tell you one thing,

so they should give me the right
to live elsewhere if I want.

It's a right for Jewish people only.

You feel you have a second-class
citizenship.

I'm not second, I'm not third,
I'm not fourth, I'm less than that,
they consider me.

GUNFIRE

'The shooting soon started again,
with the familiar volleys
of tear gas.

'Among Palestinians
a report was circulating

'of a toddler dying from exposure
to the gas in the nearby
suburb of Issawiya.'

THEY ALL COUGH

THEY CONVERSE IN ARABIC

'By now it was the early hours
of the morning,

'and local Palestinian fathers
were coming out of their houses
to remonstrate with police.'

THEY SHOUT ANGRILY

'I wondered if Boaz
was still in his house,

'but I was also mindful of the role
of the settlers and groups like
Daniel's moving them into areas

'that had been won in war,
and among people that didn't
have the same rights.'

ANGRY SHOUTING CONTINUES

'I was close to the end
of my time in the West Bank,

'but before I left I decided to
say goodbye to a couple of people.

'One was Yair,
the young hilltop settler
who lived in a tent in Havat Gilad.'

Is it a contradiction to say I'll
break the state's law if necessary,

but then expect the state security,
the army, to protect you
when you're doing so?

Listen, I am very happy when the army
is here, but we lived here,

we fell down, it doesn't matter,
we're going to stay here anyhow.

And if they tell you to leave, if
the government tells you to leave?

If they want they can take me
by power, I'm going to come back.

Come back here. Illegally.

This is our land. You can come
and kill us and do whatever you want,

we are going to stay here,
we're going to die for this country.
And kill for this country?

If necessary, yes.

I don't know if mentally I can do it,
but by the law of God
you're supposed to do it.

You told me you were an atheist.

You like it? A lot.

It's very comforting.
Very comfortable.

It's very comforting to know
that there's no-one up there
looking after me.

It's very comfortable. So I think
you forgive me already, right?

It's a stupid way of life.
What you are here for?
You think you came from a monkey?

That's not, erm...

Everybody likes to think
there is a big thing behind us,

not we are here just to work,
get money, feed our children
and die, and that's it.

You are supposed to be a good man,

you are supposed to work for God,
not just for yourself.

'A little later
I said goodbye to Yair.

'He was celebrating the feast
of the tabernacle with a few of
the other residents of Havat Gilad

'under a newly built sukkah.'

I'm very happy now.
The holiday of the happiness.

'All of them were supporters
of a greater Israel,

'against the Palestinians, even
against the state of Israel itself.

SINGING IN HEBREW

'Back in Jerusalem, and the Old City
was flooded with holiday-makers
visiting for sukkot.

'But the city was also recovering
from the rioting.

'Some of the settler houses had been
targets, and before I left him,

'Daniel offered to show me
the damage.'

The Arabs, they smashed everything
here in this door.

Now, these are very powerful doors
that hold six to eight people,

but as you can see they have dented
it, smashed the handle, smashed
the intercom and the camera, etc.

Even if people don't like the fact
that there are Jews living in this
area, you don't try and kill Jews.

You see enmity between
Arabs and Jews as in some ways
biblically decreed?

Yeah.

So in a sense is it possible
that you are creating that enmity

in order to fulfil the messianic
programme that you believe in?

As you just pointed out,
it exists no matter what,
it's something intrinsic.

We're not creating anything,
because it exists there.

But you're exacerbating it.
No, we're not.

Well, in a literal sense you are.

The presence of the Jewish people,
the presence of the Jewish people

in their ancestral homeland upsets
millions of people around the world.

the sons of Esau do not like the fact
that the sons of Jacob
have come back home.

Is it possible, Daniel,
that you are a religious extremist?

Not in the slightest.
How can I possibly...?

If I am extremist then millions of
citizens and residents of Jerusalem,

Judean Samaria and the whole
of the state of Israel
are also therefore extremists.

HE SPEAKS IN HEBREW

Hello.

'As part of the holiday season,
Daniel's organisation had invited
Jewish tour groups to experience

'the revival of Jewish life
at some of their properties.'

Daniel, what's happening
here right now?

They are just getting ready.
For what? Getting ready for what?

Getting ready for what?

The groups that come here.
Remember... Remember the tours?

The tours. There are a number of...
ARAB MAN CONTINUES TO SHOUT

Shh! There are a number
of different places...

HE RESUMES SHOUTING

OK. There are a number of places
throughout the whole of the Old City

where different films
are being shown,

where groups are going
on different routes, basically.

OK, marvellous.

He's going to be a little bit
of a problem today
with the groups coming in here.

He's going to scream, he's going
to rant, and he's going to rave.

If need be I'll call the
police, they'll...

Is it possible he's right about
the chairs and the tables?
So one of the tables is being used.

Big deal. He sold it anyway,
so it's not relative.

In the overall picture,
this is nothing.

The point is you're in a sukkah in a
building the Jews have gone back to,

and there's going to be thousands
of Jews here in the next three days.

There's the flag, there's
the tabernacle, there's the house,

there's Jewish life
in a united Jerusalem,

and there's nothing, nothing, that
you or the world can do about it.

Nothing.

HEBREW SONG PLAYS