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co-existed within its walls for centuries but it is only the jews who lay claim to it as their exclusive capital and that is a position that's been given added force since donald trump came to power in the united states and in the face of international law recognize the city as israel's capital as well as announcing he would relocate the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv and in recent decades israeli settlements have been springing up in east jerusalem previously recognized as palestinian it is a process that has been developing for many decades but in 2009 jackie rowland went to the front line of what can only be described as a battle for the right to live in a city that is the beijing hops of the holy land from 2009 this is holy land grab. jerusalem the. dream. for hundreds of. the most recent conqueror was israel it's captured the eastern part of the city in 1967 bringing

the whole of jerusalem on to its control in defiance of international law. since then israel has been working with determination to weld the 2 parts of the city into its eternal indivisible capital by building houses for jews and destroying houses in the meantime our ups. israel's object is nearly complete within a year or 2 if no one intervenes the invisible line dividing jerusalem into jewish and arab parts will be erased. the palestinian village of city one clings to a steep hill side a single voice of the old city in the valley below lies al gore style neighborhood

it's a setting resonant with meeting for muslims christians and jews. to be standing about is situated in the most important one of the most important areas in jerusalem right next to the walls of the intensity situated why were the temple mount is is observed very very close so it is one of the most important areas in jerusalem and maybe maybe in the entire war so the israeli authorities have plans for. they say the houses in these narrow alleyways were built without permits they want to flatten the whole neighborhood and tun it into open parkland 6. it's a tourist development plan that would wreck the lives of an entire palestinian community the municipality has slapped a demolition the water. $88.00 houses which would make $1500.00 people homeless.

for her or her. mom is one of them he's the local him and he lives with his wife and children in a street proudly decorated with seeds from the old city. whiskey lendl that idea in the end the hell 1000000000 age with donovan in the middle in a thought of peace. and then when the. thought. of will that annoy low on a number little bit of the we are mainly because you're on the other mover this mean well you know you can live for me i thought i mean me and shake in. a little house over the. federal saw yet the. they. saw the neighborhood is changing dotted around the hillside houses away jewish settlers have moved in they built extra rooms sometimes extra floors but the

chef doesn't recall any of these houses being demolished. at the same time a battle for historical the just a messy is on the way archaeologists digging at several sites in east jerusalem with a clear political agenda to uncover evidence of ancient jewish life that would strengthen israel's claim to the whole city we haven't been allowed to go in and film what you think that is where this character arises in this present stage of archaeology here and see one which is archaeology behind fences and it seems they want to keep things under wraps to prevent people from from hearing it and what about you have you been able to get inside i can't get into any of these sites bird from visiting that it seems that the antiquities authority doesn't want criticism like a sort of work. one reason for that the antiquities authority which is a state body has handed over some of the sites to a private organization called an ad which is run by israeli settlers. who

runs the national or has taken the interpretation associating with fragmentary names we know has maybe at a corner store a very tired protest of the site so that really history for them begins with and when in fact archaeological remains can be directly associated with very bitter almost nonexistent. so there's a definite conflict of interest there between their role as stewards of the ancient heritage and their role as people who want to actually be dispossessed like i was to. meet one such settler area a king. armed only with a motor scooter and a crash helmet he wants to evict palestinians from east jerusalem and replace them with jewish families he's on a crusade to extend jewish ownership over the whole of the city.

if i would compare it to an onion if we haven't the onion the. heart and this is the temple mount this is the city we'll trying to put a layer of more live in order to protect the heart of the onion and this is it was a time when we know what is happening when you try to cut the onion usually. in your eyes and our aim is to not to get to this situation of and to after you because somebody is trying to cut through. the layers he's talking about a jewish settlements in silwan in the mount of olives and in russian a mood. israel is gradually connecting the settlements and the archaeological parks to form a belt around the old city. danny's item and this a noir who keeps a close watch on the settlements he's come to look at some apartments for jews that

have been built in the palestinian neighborhood of job and. now there are as a rule 2 kinds of settlements in east jerusalem one kind are the settlements sponsored by the government and the other kind of settlements are ideologically motivated messianic settlements and you can see that there's one like that you see that really not knowing the difference between just because he stopped for what was it was a mask and now we have a real public property here. it is like a child's coloring book connect the dots and connecting the dots is basically be an circumvent of the old city by a ring of settlements and a settler unformed narrative in a public domain. mussa is worried the people from the municipality have been back this time with heavily armed police to hand out more demolition orders me out the

only one. in order was stuck. so so do we in you who would be in yeah. for less than a year in. the i was there we will mess here in when. one of the locals. on the hilltop overlooking sawan is among the street built close to the spot where the disciple judas iscariot is believed to have killed himself judas betrayed jesus for 30 pieces of silver and treachery still there in the valley. mohamed merah admits that for several years he conspired against his fellow palestinians he says israeli police coerced him into helping the settlers grab property in siwan they ran a simple scam 1st find

a victim then make problems for him mahatma used to operate as a go between a con man who tricked bribed and smooth talk to palestinians into parting with their property i mean now we're a. part of what senator recordable our grounds are so. i'm sure them according to shift to cover so that the folks who are going to be the center of us a lot of the name but we should have a lot of the enabling what it was for. to morrow should have been one of the go to scam. on the road again with the settler area taking another man trying to separate palestinians from their homes but he insists that he's working within the law.

here the very few franken from the co-op. from the bible. explaining. why young children. and well believing living in the land belonged to the jewish nation and we all hold telling them that if not then back to them but their parents and we are arguing over them and we can fall for national public the way to do it is by. them finding their work in other places over the world. the teachers are understandably angry. king is inciting palestinians to leave their homeland a kind of ethnic cleansing delivered with of they'll put. back in stand people are increasingly worried about israel's plans to demolish their

homes and turn the neighborhood into a public park the municipality has sent envoys into the valley offering the palestinians alternative lands on the outskirts of jerusalem if they agree to leave their homes the people of stun said no. decides to take their grievances to the city hall. the planning committee is in session these are the people who make decisions that affect the lives of thousands of palestinians living in the east of the city. the new mare of jerusalem told al jazeera that all committee meetings are open to the public and anyone can ask a question we decide to put his offer to the test the. we would like to ask a question we would like a resident of jerusalem to be allowed to ask the question or your disturbing. part

of the ok. you didn't serve it you came to. california. it seems that the mess decision hasn't filtered down to his councillors in the end the chairman of the committee invited us to continue the conversation in his office. and i gently. if sarah and i had. a whole movement of them a. lot of thought it could work and we have been badly with doing it that i could go no one knows i'm so let's have a button and there's a bit button and some other shop but with nationality shop but nourish. so we are so. give yourself a discount. and this play and the under the old don't. let me be doing that i could go no one knows i'm so let's have

a. beer so for sure your. shake or missionary type will stand in with study from has overcome a conscience. can it. sheesh that blues question you got it in all safe. to the north of the old city settlers have also established a foothold in the palestinian neighborhood of chef show raw they say jews bought land here before israel's war of independence in 1948 although local palestinians disputes that claim of ownership the settlers have gradually taken over several buildings sholay with a number of local economy. there was a live rebel caller you fail. you have a theft of a mcginnis there are no reputable. in our ballot.

now the settlers have their eye on 2 more palestinian houses which they say were built on land belonging to jews. the settlers have plans to build hundreds of apartments for jews on land where palestinian homes are standing now this land grab in chef sherif has provoked an international outcry led by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. what mrs clinton a doing she with the pope think criminal. she thought poking people but a criminal valve quote into our land they are building on our land if you legal. not satisfied simply with affecting palestinians from areas close to the old city area king has decided to boldly go into new territory beyond israel's separation

wall this is generally off limits for israelis but not for came. just off the kalandia. checkpoint facing you know we know busy right now and. next they both were caught in a car. and the off one would be for me to meet all of them our neighborhoods or. we will feel the end of the road the building that belongs that is built on our land right now we can see the people building the illegal building along with them to jews on the left he claims that this land has been in jewish hands for more than 70 years with. all of this beautiful palace on my lawn and the police not coming here they want to pretty don't care about what's happening here and when we are talking about illegal buildings maybe the best example because

now been the building it on jewish land and nobody is taking care of the it is why i call the area the wide if hang on a moment this is yeah this is on the other side of the wall it's your mother's side of the old school student body this is the 5th part of it we shall live exactly like where i live in mount olive. and yet the hateful are going to cover the whole wedding she will not commit. she was really. one of the the look of the. october thought that they are all here for. the hostages are good men don't buy they do not. tell you. what you think of the. us about.

this land has been fought over conquered and lost many times the greeks the romans the muslims the crusaders just some of the armies who did battle here who owns jerusalem becomes a matter of historical interpretation. even in recent times the land surrounding the old city has passed through turkish british and jordanian hands the occupying power sometimes issued land ownership documents to people living there and this is where modern day israel applies double standards it often accepts documents from previous rulers when they're presented by jews but not when they're presented by arabs. and so area king will continue his mission to remove palestinians from jerusalem and erase their history replacing it with a purity jewish narrative. and share muso will continue his battle

to save his home and his heritage from the settlers and the city planners. were on and have a plan as it's just this far as how many jews or arabs living is when even if true that means when the news about the finds a certain area as it was dental area it doesn't say whether it's going to be our houses or. this is up to the owner of the land to decide. we are holding on by our fingernails to the 2 state solution today it is still barely possible to reach out a political boundary and in jerusalem which will be both acceptable to the parties and viable after the agreement is reached we are very close to losing that if current trends continue for another 6 months or year or 2 years this all will be lost. many powers have dreamt about jerusalem it is

israel's dream to crown the city as its eternal undivided capital that dream is now close to becoming reality. the government and the settlers swallowing up east jerusalem this is happening right under the nose of the international community yet hardly a voice is raised in protest. and that was holy land grab and i'm pleased to say joining us here in the studio is there as i would you know who spent several months in jerusalem recently making your film or 2 got them in fact for al-jazeera jerusalem a rock and a hard place so if we think about these 2 films what's the difference between them and what's changed in that time or what hasn't changed even as many palestinians and even israelis probably would tell you that the situation in the city of jerusalem occupied you some that is has only got worse the wall that started at that time is now almost complete jerusalem is separated from its nearby west bank

strategic depth hinterland so to speak there are more more encroachment on the old city in jerusalem and as i want to characters would would say it's almost game over for jerusalem but the main game over for many palestinians who i met through the making of this film they say our lives has become almost impossible in jerusalem you will find more and more use to meit's leaving the city to live in the suburbs of jerusalem and increasingly you'll find less and less palestinians in the city which is what many of the israeli settlers going to. dream really and what often surprises me and which i was confronted with while i was in jerusalem is that this settle organization is not something on the fringes of israeli politics it is the most powerful political movement in israel and not only that they have powerful friends in the united states you know yes sadly in many ways the palestinians are in a tight spot literally between a rock and a hard place saying saying is you mention it out we have got

a clip from your film jerusalem a rock and a hard place that's have a look. this was a business for palestinians in jerusalem i remember. i was a little kid i would come with my family this was the most expensive part of jerusalem it was an industrial zone as israel decides to build the wall that connects the street there used to be a street that connects with all of the front communities in east jerusalem they come they build their wall and they shut it and they say you are no longer have access to your neighbor you no longer have access to your school you no longer have access to your work. we came down from the neighborhood that i live in good infrastructure the new u.s. embassy and then you drive down the 1st thing you get is a police station a border police that kind of clarifies from this point on we need to be in control and then you drive through a person never heard that because there's a settlement here there's so many behind us you see there's good infrastructure there's lights there's sidewalks and then the entrance of the settlement comes and

just after it ends there's no sidewalk. neighborhood and you really see the difference and the fact that nobody cares about the infrastructure from that point on because really it's about infrastructure for jewish population. so we see omar and so hard in that clip can you tell us a little bit more about them. the young christian palestinian from east jerusalem his family goes back to the 13th century so it's a man with roots for me and throughout the film you get to really go on this journey with who shows you that the israeli occupation doesn't really differentiate between a muslim and a christian it differentiates against all palestinians and the story of omar really capturing that and then we saw on the other side is an extremely atypical israeli the vast majority of israelis from a young age 16 years old above served in the israeli army and in many ways and this is one of the issues we also touched on in the film although the israelis interact

with palestinians almost on a daily level they don't would you know the palestinians they are very alienated from them the only. the way they know them is from the other side of the gum where they're the checkpoint or on a patrol such let's talk about jerusalem the city rather than when you've been striving to 2 people they are the city itself when i think about recent history i think about donald trump's visits there the u.s. recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and moving its embassy there i think its embassy there. that has a huge effect on the city and we're talking about the united states having an effect in not even the israelis and the palestinians indeed from the fig leaves that used to surround the role of the united states has really fallen for many years the united states describe yourself as an honest broker but with trump he says it as it is and what was convoluted and packaged in nice words before in the clinton administration or the obama administration it's now out there so for the

palestinians very demoralising and also of many arab countries many arab countries believe that the united is the friend of the arab world but the people on the street the people you meet in jerusalem will tell you otherwise and i would you a great to have you with us thank you so much thank you thank you for joining us do be sure to check out the rewind page they were down to 0 dot com for more films from the series i'm come out santa maria for the whole team thanks for joining us this either. rewind returns with a new series. and brand new dates in the past about is a documentary think of. my needs and leave to. remind continues with the last try secret army of the cia so it's fun to 75 believe in the same way that the ancestors did living in the forest in the jungle and seems

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