and the shelter the emergency management agency lazic unfriend it was a false alarm hawaii's governor has apologized for the accidental and that you know i know firsthand. what happened to the was totally unacceptable and many in our community was deeply affected by this and i'm sorry we are working to evaluate everything in the sequence of today's activities to make sure that we are prepared and the procedures are change so that a single person will not be able to make an error that triggers another false alarm january fourteenth marks seven years since the wave of protests known as the arab spring began in tunisia demonstrations are continuing in the capital tunis this time over new austerity cuts in response to the recent widespread protests the government plans to increase aid for poor families in twenty eleven president zine

el abidine ben ali officially resigned after twenty eight days of protests across the country put an end to his twenty three year will be up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next here is the documentary waltz of shame stay with us. doing this for the benefit of sudan people so that they see the importance of the archives witness documentaries not open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. in two thousand and two the israeli palestinian conflict was further inflame as a contentious supporter was cast in concrete. the following film first aired five years after construction began on what about describes as a separation wall. friday

afternoon in the west bank village of bella. and another demonstration against the israeli government that will take over half of the villages. on our cannot come out. of the yard and female food there are. not going to fear in the village. it matters little what they're called whether walls barriers or fences intention is the say to redefine human relations into us bear market. this is a story about division about the barriers that many erect in calculation or desperation to separate themselves from abos or others from them when

diplomacy and conciliation fail this is the alternative. of the living. i call it a wall of shame because a hundred and thousands of palestinians are without jobs because of them without food in the movement because of the world i would doubt that chinese. and israel is. the population of all these or else. there's nothing new about so-called protective walls most ancient cities have them the ones we see today around jerusalem date from the sixteenth century. but the

twenty first century wars not only look different they serve a different purpose. the war is just over seven hundred kilometers long so far it's costing two million dollars every kilometer. it began in two thousand and two and it goes deep into palestinian territory in the west bank and jerusalem splitting neighbors and in circling villages. it's the biggest construction project in israel. and one that its supporters claim is necessary to ensure israel's security. dishpans is for security reason this fence is only for blocking the way of suicide bombers into israel. and yet plans for the division of israel and palestine predate the relatively modern phenomenon of suicide attacks the plans were decades

in the making. of the wall really follows of israeli policies for the last hundred years even before there was an israel essentially the problem is that zionism has claimed this country from the mediterranean to the jordan river exclusively for the jews there is no other people here for the for the israeli jews there is no it palestinians there is no other collectivity with other. rights to this country this is our country exclusively period. the names of professor saw for the next prime minister sharon come up repeatedly in any discussion of the war. is the ideologues who first drew the maps for a construction of a war in the one nine hundred eighty s. but it was the politician sharon who put the reality on the ground. the day he was

elected second time with prime minister this very important evening he called me to bring him next day my met. with my abode to disengage from it not to sit with him but to give him his met because my mood was that. if you ask me how i did the map i would say ninety builds in. my consideration demography to three percent holy sites and maybe seven a. scented only secure with my vision was that if we would like to keep. to a democratic state we cannot enjoy the luxury of having all of palestine very slowly because the mogul feel it's the most deterministic fact thought. at that moment. as the main political force behind the erection of the wall it fell to

israeli prime minister sharon to allay the fears of israel's backers. good fences make good neighbors he told us president george w. bush astutely quoting american poet robert frost. good words can make it goes all over the world see the war between me and my second hols and we're all very good friends. but. most indians and israelis have never been good labors and the wall is a physical reminder of the end to put the on both sides. and even the very name of this divide is a contentious issue israel's official name for the wall is separation barrier to some it is a while to others it is a fence. only three percent of the barrier is wall ninety seven percent is fans

everybody wants to show in television the wall but you have to remember that this well is it is against should think it's only in places when people live very close to the fence and they can shoot through then you had to put it there was ninety seven percent is just transparent fence. but though a fence may have less visual impact it takes up more ground. it's true that the majority of the structure is not like this the majority of the structure is electronic fans but only one component there is patrol roads that are detection and there is trenches there is razor wire it's a very wide expanse. this is why the israeli authorities use the term fans but in fact. part of the wall to me is actually worse. what you see here. the footprint is much wider you have

a fifty or sixty or seventy meters plus a buffer buffer zone and in terms of the damage it does to be environment in terms of olive trees uprooted irrigation systems cost it's actually much worse than the wall part here and in many cases the israelis have taken land that has been passed down through generations of palestinian families. who are chroma spend all his life farming in. but the arrival of the war has brought disaster the love of the. is it does he look at the. heat it is about. the point is that the one individual who is at the whim of the world life each one of the little free nasser was at the world rumi and with the destruction of the olive trees comes economic really as palestinians are left on able to work because they are forced to spend so long negotiating the divide. the bloody about. what i've been

kidding with it. being baited he didn't want to be in a debate because. of being. in. a year with a look how deeply in love with the listener would. but as it was a little bit too who. won a lot of it is it an official's little. visit the one to him. this was that. it was it was. another i mean there's a particular. somebody element of his will. because of a. bit like if you had to say to me you really mean is that. it is driving people to despair because the younger generation have no there's no future

livelihood for peace because their agricultural villages if they're in a situation where any about two hundred people or three hundred people out of a population of ten thousand for example somebody who's been to bernie two or three hundred people can get regularly to their land obviously you can't call this an agricultural village anymore. you daughter to your deed i don't know. a lot of the. idea. big. community but would be. a lot of the. many jewish. mustoe funny it different on a minute to have a lot of work to me still to understand we don't have the kind of blood what on been done to you what i mean you don't do any death you have died not on your model will be bad luck going up to. a quarter and then i mean i don't know mummy daddy

you just said. the model t. we're doing this out no she didn't know it's pretty neat i know i'll give her i know but i don't want to know your model too without your genuine pinnacles on an album but nothing is out of the talk on what's going to. for as long as palestinians suffer economic hardship it's argued that there will never be peace. equality makes us in the bull's eye if the palestinians will live what israel is in the legal terms infrastructure for statehood legal system. education and welfare and their own bad states and the only border sees only part two feet it's what's inside the border if there will be equality two states equal to the family of nations and not one occupying. this would make for good

neighbors but good neighbor who are. not necessarily love. and yet it is argued that the wall exists to protect the economy or at least the israeli economy. form two thousand and one until two thousand and plea is lost almost. four percent for its g.d.p. . in those years i mean no one goes to see even a movie and no one. was there. because the security situation. and according to the walls architect the security of the israeli people comes first you see your stuff. and you give me a clear picture a very miserable picture about people who suffer from the war go back from the

beginning why we did it. because. because of this because of one thousand draws tripper than other people that were killed in kindergarden in coffee. israel so-called separation barrier has provoked domestic unrest and attracted international criticism the route the war takes has been deemed by the international court of justice in the hague to be illegal and inhumane the issue of human rights that the international court of justice brings up is the issue of proportionality have a right to defend your population nobody is saying no but you can't be disproportionate about it you can't completely oppress and destroy another population for the sake of your own population that's really the issue if the wall have been built along the green line which is the internationally recognized border

between the west bank and israel israel has the right to build a wall either on the green line or within its own territory there will be about fifty thousand palestinians on the israeli side of the wall when it's complete and again this undermines the security argument bought on soft argues that the revulsion expressed by many around the world is sheer hypocrisy. we are not your in even your. wars don't tell you go. may lead us with. these bloody. wars. and yet it is not just the international community that has condemned the war even within israel there are many who believe that it isn't serving any useful purpose it was miniscule difference yal diane is deputy mayor of tel aviv that's probably

better known for being the daughter of moshe diane the hero of the one nine hundred sixty seven war in which israel alec's the west bank this current war she argues is not the answer. it's not effective. because instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in the sense that it is a provocation it's not a peaceful part. it became a political statement and it's a very bad to deep feelings of additional patients. a speaking it doesn't have legality from anybody in displaced. population. yet the israeli public went along with the idea highly decorated army pilot believes they allowed themselves to be duped with catastrophic

results. naive u.t. i am not using the for stupidity signal everything to the people who are you know that eighty percent of the jews in israel are working in the morning oh my god i want peace oh my god so much of the left in israel is praying for you who will give you his mother for the peace. oh my goodness. and stupid. little to build a fence and all our problems will be ok. the wall is redrawing the map some israeli commentators see it as an attempt to define in wa and concrete a future two states solution by including within israel the land of the palestinian west bank which the illegal israeli settlements have been built and it is the settlers who stand to gain most from the. it's

a kind of settlers wall because they have just the wall to the reality on the ground to what their reality. that the setlist have dictated which is of course the full support of the government for many days. so actually if you look at the map of the of the wall what you see is that the principle. was maximum settlers maximum settlements minimum are of. relation in israel so if it has also a demographic that mention the meaning of the war has nothing to do with security check the path yourself see that it's only protecting settlements that it is build based on future plans for expanding ment of the settlement we are not

the fence not even protecting current settlers it's going to protect future settlers and that's absurd. many palestinians to believe the real purpose of the war is. that we are going into two thousand and one. i'm going to propose that it was the demographic issue not know that to limit the expansion because that is if according to them the two thousand and twenty. would be sixty percent so by the wall he said that he's going to assure that things will be fifty percent. the wall is basically. we don't want to see the palestinians it's a psychological barrier. it's actually a two state solution but the way i want. to get rid of the.

many. inside. and to give the israelis the feeling that if the palestinians within. says no longer. expanding the future good life would be impossible and. there would no development so they were forced to leave. by themselves it means voluntarily. determined to hang on. is surrounded by the wall. why because it. it's right next to an israeli settlement. and he is adamant he won't be giving up. about a problem. with him can he. had to do for you had to do it.

because for jihad if a. woman had looked at. one of the. problems. like all politicians israel's war both excludes and encloses the hardship which would cause the excluded the palestinians was predictable what now worries many israelis is what the war has done to the inclosed how it has created something

which in historical terms is thinkable. we are building for ourselves you know where the ghetto is there not to. build a fence around us and what are we doing we are fencing ourselves we're putting ourself in a ghetto. we should live like that. all continues to grow and in the present political climate difficult to see a time when it will be dismantled those on the extremes feel that this is a good thing. i would like to see such a war that even. you know there is a story i heard from a former general. who told me that he was sitting having coffee was a very old man of the old man. and he. you know i've been here was the

turks was the british mandate and was the jordanian always you have lived. treating us better than all the others but you were there was. so. because you are the only one what taking all that. is the settlements and the war so in a nutshell i think this is the host. since this film first aired in two thousand and seven israel has continued to expand the wall more than two hundred kilometers despite condemnation from the un and most recently. it's a measure that's continued to cause outrage even from some of israel's own citizens among these protesters israelis. jonathan polak

is an israeli activist who's part of the protest movement against the wall. i guess the like the vast majority of. the people who come here is ready to come here. to a degree i think that they're right because we betray the notion that this place here is part of. that degree that they're correct we are we are. very proud to be betrayed if no. political. ally but nobody. so i'm with jonathan is the founder of i case against the wall. the minute they come here because i believe that it's wrong that israel built this thing i think it's wrong and that it's really the wrong and i think it's definitely wrong when israel believes it on people's lands jonathan activism often puts them in direct conflict with the israeli army. now michael. that's the only thing.

that's that's like. the farce now what if you want the west coast that none of the customers out of the government the president has no money for. their stuff and a couple of them of the you know they're not going to focus. on the money the. money going to be and i think there should be so i talked about this. notion i think i'm going to just you know i think government you know it became clear that the policing power of israel's border guards extends well beyond the wall even on land. as palestinians and it shows how it's not on the about preventing people from going to the outside it's also about controlling this site and how the army regarded supports legal rights or even according to their own laws the army can do whatever they. wish me.

to my bedroom in this area. after that. and the government and i'm the spectrum of them but i'll go out of the city i must be able to get into. his own hands and then it will give me or you don't. right.

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