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ah, when when silver what a place of the epitome of devastation book closed the remains of the paths they used to go down to the sea. they redundant now. i should put up signs every few me to sang. the sea used to come up to here. hello my ball i l i up ah mm.

so big, i don't want to swim across the see that the yeah, there's an imaginary line in the middle that we consider the border between israel and jordan, the purple line, any sort of our aims to sales and to what i had swim bank leg yearly. albin become of, on the school to the davis has legacy my. what if jordan doesn't allow it? see? how do we know they'll welcome as of the other side? i think we should. what's other shinny? ah, okay, good. okay. let's take a photo, but they won't put your hands together, save the dead sea. going to save the dead sea comes the law. then be on the mail if you have to wear a mask of your face when swimming in the dead sea because the water hears very salty with this 36 percent salinity. my, my legal,

that's why the water mustn't touch a mouthful. mucus membranes, like if a drop of water gets in, you can suffocate, he needs trained for it. with that said, good luck to us all. the ha could i know. ah ah ah oh yeah. hello, hello. by the name i own the school. the idea is to swim and the did see yeah. to head out on boats to jordan at 1st lights and then swim back to israel because of the 16 kilometers. you know, it'll take 6 to 7 alice officially. we hope this will initiate a process where people begin to take action to safe this placement shibel clue on

we should start working in groups setting goals and objectives with time schedules . look over the, i'd like to do that with the partners most directly affected is rayleigh, so the jordanians and palestinian asking shock saline on infants new. i would love our conduct projects in the middle east are always nerve wracking to the water. this one will be right up to the last moment to look at them, so we have to make sure we have the proper permits. see sure that if judge national, ours railey media report about as prior to the event, it could be a sensitive issue. and we need to be careful of that the mon ah ah no, mid of the not you think it's just well, but then it starts to burn. uneasy been easy, but my i'm from this re just when you swim in this water for a while and it's cool,

it's around 24 degrees. you can get cuts in your skin. my why may i from the cold in the salt. i'm in good shape with my swim in the sea of galilee every day. i swim from here to that lookout point before that sweet gym parlor with a mouse muscle i was given a no nothing. okay. today's trading is canceled with breathe. normally this will feel okay that i can reason normally. ah . i thought where are you from me from bait on on johnny 15. he's my i see a palestinian silly by my dream of swimming across the did see this. i saw it from

one just one that did the scene there is to do with palestinian swimming to damien swimmers and people from everywhere in the world in america. erica, neither as a palestinian or would you be willing to join us? he without double hollywood, the soft young lady who philistine gladly, some cloth of it. if you wouldn't mind traveling together, spending time together from india, why not? we'll be up and eventually swimming together. we could be a hot. why not look at our system? can you recruit more swimmers on each than it? i'll try to find people in good shape who can handle this. see the salt and all that was the my mail lacking my kids in the automatic last step by step 2 of the best. mm mm ah

ah at his feet you social. hm. my name is use of mohammed, monterey. i come from bate anon palestinian village northwest of jerusalem and i've worked as a lifeguard for about 30 years. almost literally. i have to cross a checkpoint every day. so i wait in a line of cars about 150 meters long to cross to the israeli side. any local, i'm no politician living and i know nothing about politics any in india. if you gave me a gun that i wouldn't know how to use it, and i've never even thought of holding one. what for at each mine i like water not fires it. ah. so she

a zone and it is facing the jo challenges of the one form with georgia water that historically what everybody mo, done better during lush did see a 100000000 cubic meters. all that was left today. dear monkey, my name is a half and i'm from israel during the last few years i'm involved in environmental in collage local initiatives, currency. i'm in search for j dean in partners to jointly act for the sake of saving our mutual see the dead sea. i believe we have much to talk about

ah, good morning. so in a few words, i'll just say that we would like together to cross this see for the 1st time ever in history of mankind. and we do so in order to save it, but not the best. the best way to to swimming. exactly. will you swim? of course, of course shopping. fishing focus is fantastic. that is a great idea. read this great book. you know what? we all do, the whole one was headed to exactly the other thing into damian, it is really obvious to bring swimmers from all over the world. tell me one more thing the think you can arrange more swimmers from jordan. well, with the office politics, we wouldn't spaceship mental challenges, but i think we will have people. yes. fantastic

me. i was born in 1957. right. and after israel, french in england, at the egyptians, i was the savior. they were hoping that i'll be shaving be ups. ah, it was an issue for us for a young. i remember the water was right next to the swimming pool in tornado. i remember that very well. ah ah. when i was 10, about a year or 2 before the $67.00 war, we drove to the leader hotel, the north shore of the dead sea, and the metal behind me it can gain from all over the

world to the sea. both rich and poor. you will be charlotte, but the thing that most grab my attention with the number of cars, cars, from syria and lebanon, guitar, saudi arabia, dubai, or the way to ship. the 2nd thing was the turquoise color of the water that you could see from the hotel. from that was a site that opened the heart called me then the 1967 came down, was short after we started to see flux of us coming over, even in my neighborhood, they started to would a white 10 for that. if the genes

50 percent of the population comes from the other side, almost all the door damian have met a relation with families of the same roots. my time in the roots and i grew up to the seventy's and eighty's, believing that israel should disappear because there has absolutely no rights for all those people who came from all over the world. they left their homes and came to palestine, believing, gets the promise. love is the promise land. the realize that the war will not take you anywhere. so i started to

believe that we should negotiate, we should talk i remember being told jordan, accept not acceptable as on me get does he bit bites she dina, my father says the country in the masada ema and my mother survived the holocaust sites uni. oh, i grew up in a zionist household for sure, lou shanita i was short in observing combat like that's even dying for the country of dina. on the other hand, thanks to my father's job, he still titled ethiopian children that i chased after chickens without an asian children, which i think the chinese me that you name and easy the know vegas basine, been my low. i became a manager to woah. go daughter. if i realised, were all equal in columbia and that's what made me them

a so i am today the old me shania young. ah yeah. i uh huh. oh my god. we'll have a long day to talk about it. i'll be here. thank you very much. okay. yeah, i said i'm on. hello my friend, how are you? how's it going? you love. ah, ah, that one lot though it. so what do you say is it's beautiful, a service she it's, you know, there are rumors in my village that i'm going to swim the dead sea, right? all the palestinian journalists want to come. we one, no, all of them, no chat, wait and see. now that they know israelis are involved just that i, you, me, nicola law, why did no one want to come with you?

i really love every time we try to reconcile. we go backwards 100 years ago. i tanaka hi laney enough. it's been for generation, all the doors i need i'm with you to the end. how baby to the bitter. and alex hi im gala my carla. exactly. it beautiful thats jericho jericho if you already so basically we came the whole way. ha, to see how we can start with a swing. since we actually haven't achieved anything yet. once we will go for the swing, should we tackle a specific problem, not going to broaden problems that must have been in the problem is our responsibility. and so is the solution. the solution must come from israel part of shannon georgia. and we think that those 3 countries can do wonders to the georgia river, which eventually will help the betsy. sho, let's work on it. i'm going is not to create with my staff. perfect.

okay. with a copies 25 years ago we founded copies smith and we used to have environmentalists from palestine and israel. i am the president of the organization and the jordanian director directing the organization in the israel is good on bromberg and directing the for the see an office now the most that i mean from others time you're very busy. you nice to meet a welcome. how are you want people to swim, want people to swim? the situation is a bit difficult to get will. it was always difficult. it was all over again. now it's large of your bill, but we have no option of them have no, we have no option. when i go invest, we have to, to speak to some higher level people to get some more. so in this message is the,

the fact that you be there as a palestinian is of great political significance mania. it's very important that you raised the palestinian flag in that that say i'm from a see and say this is ours. and we came our right to it and my yeah. which oh and we have rights to the jordan very fast. well we the had it of them in the ha noon dish begun shamae. this is saying, the garcia, my head, if you want to reach a destination fast to macau alone. yeah. oh if you want to go, father, go friendly, misquoted them. we could have organized to swing by ourselves. these railey grew lousy. i'm sorry. does the c belong to you? please? where are we? where? where are the jordanians? my if i out of there, that's why we're here. for the swim should be done together. responsibilities both

use a my god. no one else with the she'll have is here me. and we saw him exactly and mm ah, it's amazing. when approved, ah. find your balance and go. i can't do it. she rolled your balance, pull your knee to your change and one when has a big and by the way i have to hold on a vehicle. does it look hold on? no problem. 2, general 3 with

tell me you working with israeli is, is it a problem for you? is it okay? one evening guy was coming out of my office here in a month and i am, i am jump in my car. i had a drive up in and the office was in the back seat. so he was talking to me and i'm saying, what are you saying? and i was looking at the car next to me. i saw the bottle. wow. yeah. and if on, on the window and, you know, like the bullet came from here, you know, they've gotten, you know, they've got them in fact. and we find out that it's a local group who decided to revenge to everything. what's happening over the over there? by sacrifice yourself, your family, your future?

well, not the family of the family came into the picture. maybe it'll be a different story, but in my views and in my values, i find it a duty of us to keep going. you that i direction in i in the courtroom. i don't think they come on come on the same law. people come out from the modem and get this book and we hope that they wouldn't come up with one of them and have not had less than what the

what do you how do you do you know, what i, i can measure with isn't was he was the best possible way he the most effective, the bound mushroom or chief show. i haven't dreamed that one day, maybe i'm 2030201420500. the dsl. you can no longer be gone lagossi and that's why we won't be able to change the situation. so the record sequence

will be hard to get authorization to taylor much or damian's will be complicated cub. we need a local solution, but we thought out that we my more water, we need 800000000 cubic meters per year. left in that guy again enough? yeah. him again with you. we're doing. i'm really sorry. no, i'm sorry. and live after all the order. yeah. it is, but yeah, it looks like they did some work and they decided to close it from a to block. to 11th floor. sometimes lucky is all you need with . where's the car been coming that he got

it? i'm sure to steer the ha, ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha long she i shall, obese with shallow. been at the p summit between saddam and golden, my ear and jerusalem. gold of my air mixed the sugar this way, which had the osha, diane mixed it that way. such a dot mixed it way me see the alarm. does anyone know why none? she and i'm to dissolve the sugar. i actually think that over there single i me oh the i

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ah ah. we're actually in the old hotel until late 19 seventies, early eighties. the dead sea came to here israeli government, the today and government have built mineral extraction. oh. and this causes some 40 percent of the loss. and then i sell those minerals all over the world. here in the sea of golly, at no water leaves oh. from the sea of galilee, syria and jordan control the arm,

oak no water leaves. israel controls the sea of golly, no wallet. why? because in the mindset of conflict, water is power. you don't wanna give power to your enemy, so you take it all with turn this into a little more than a sewage canal. and we've turned the dead sea into a shrinking v. a dying lake. there is no public beach any more to the dead sea because of the sink holes is a tragedy. so swimming cross the sea means swimming across the international border . yeah. so shall we do it today? yeah. me, wow. pleasure. i'm the highest mountain to the lowest. a yes no. this yeah. let's do it. i want to read it yet. mm. ah.

we're in the middle of the dead sea. i'm going to pick up use of mohammad. yeah, a lot with with and he does, i get that. i've been to the, i don't know. oh,

i'm not a good job is, is also a use of sunday. not all 4 of us, 4 brothers, dora, the oldest at all american them with ah, ah ah,

i'm mirage. well done rather a thank you so much. of a well done everyone i know than when then let's see if the jordanians will waive. hi jojo. he's waving lucy. yes. good. yeah. can you see him? maybe you can see him with a camera. levin. yeah. that list i because you know why we swam her little not all of them because the jordan river is the only one connected to the dead. c. o headless sora. without it several the dead sea will die. the do know about maybe i can a cross to river with hourly. what those in a few cross you'll be in jordan and my name again, the waters, the buddha emo minute years. why the borders wine club in lilian langston, and a border in la life. it was no water would we have peace with him? or to be already had he slowly. ah,

actually by dint your family, you know, wife and come to did, how well is the arrangements really? and furthermore, my wife is if palestinian you know, they have very, very strong feeling, you know, towards the conflict and all that. so it's really complicated to bring the whole family across that ever and so on. it's, it's the middle east. everything is complicated. for god's sake, nativity, which way you look. mm . my wife's family got kicked out of the country. israel. it's very, very hard to get 10 supports knowing that i'm working closely with these

and i respect that. how many people, how many people do you think we can bring to the swims? 1000001 of them, and i could set up a facebook page where people can sign up to the space invite we can right revise the dead sea for them and put a logo with the name of the page. the logo and the name of the page we've been in this business for a long, long time. he shop or hang. you'll see there will be resistance. just then sure of it. probably pretty much glue. the problem does not line the details like that. the got a question of reconciling with israel or not. i've been an issue for a long time, but the point is to convince people to change their minds were given. le let you know that the average arab on the street will tell you israel swallowed everything on the truck, but couldn't we

need assistance to start organizing? it is hectic in to get all the permits and people in swim, i'm still looking for swim as palestinian. swim as if try to help you. so for try to help us to find more swimmers and their venture lee, we need to also have equal rights. yeah. every one is stubborn and everyone has his own mindset in everyone, his own fears and hatred, and so on. and i'm not in the business. i'm in the business of creating future good for you. i always have this, this metaphor as that we are all on a titanic and authentic quino revoked to watch the fantasy movies. some people are in the fancy restaurants with the fancy, but i says and the others are slipping with the sheep. but when the iceberg hits the ship, everyone thinks ah,

and i want to finish, we need eccentric people. that we need to do something more dramatic. i thought we need to shop the world war sculptures that move people j as in dog here. yet so my, the, she, my, we need to come up with something that will touch every person in the world whole lot. make them understand that the lowest place on earth is here for and it's dying . will me one of the little my, let's create something with water hole on what we should have human bustled sculptures of people from all over the world. like i'm a source, was apprentice, each one carrying a bucket of water. they're carrying water to this wonderful place because it's essential to mine. i'm going to gladly give you great idea. ah ah.

we can save the dead sea if we act together now. enough to hold him that sealed yellow miller in the file be ahead of shove. i noticed that the young m mancha will luckily may yet either i won again ah insurance, but we worked in what's different from swimming the dead sea to all the main difference is the fact that we are floating. so we hardly use our legs ah, some when i 1st you know, practice without mask it. they with

a mask. how long does it take to get relaxed to the condition if you have booth and if you have some cuts and you feel it, you know that it with you landing with ah, i don't. yeah. you use of how you how b b a. i wanted to organize swimmers, but i can't. it's only you and me, my friends. i'm with you to the end all the way how you got them. ah

. women are here. most of them are already in the hotel. and a lonely before this when we still haven't go on for me. yes. so be somebody wrote something in a newspaper and here we are. we, we are working really on the radar. definitely magically. i think we are in the twilight zone still be able to greet us on the jordanian side job. we don't to find ourselves in the desert and have some soldier wake up to see my monitor approaching a hubble tomorrow's the last day. we have to make sure the swimmers no that the u. s. is damian and best as a coming. we still don't have the green light school a know me. how are you? i don't know how to use for you, but i do because i'm

a we talking story about us this time. i'm really sorry. larry, i was going to re times a cure called best buy. ah yes i oh, golden with income too. i mean, i didn't believe that this day will actually, i mean those people. yeah. i know from sky from emails and i know you were real. it's always nice to be with your kind of people with your, with your tried to know that you are not the only reason alone in the cuckoos nest . a swimming thing. and i think the 3rd reason i'm so happy is because i won't have

to text you anymore if and i know it's been like having a baby, it's been 9 months in the making a since we spoke. right. so thank you for having us said we really, really privilege and proud to be doing this with you guys. thank you. things we have the armies authorization that connect with somebody as far as the armies concerned. we're all set again in cross of said that the someone from the foreign ministry, therefore ministry. hi angela. ham. yes. i'm who hasn't authorized to sway one of us. definitely. you know, it's still up in the air. yes. no ma'am. i say for early says it's okay, let's do it. worse. comes to the worst. a kilometer from the jordanian shore. well, we'll start with, we'll start swimming. ah a

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oh did i tried this out? you month but it's okay. what about hello one. can i have some like the bad news that we do have the permission to talk this when. so you said you to congratulate you. we have oh, back to my

review. shawnee on this hard work structure. i have my back pain, doctor could not understand how much i needed to participate in this way. so i'm very sad to hear. so one kid you're proud of this team and part of this when i'm sad to hear so you know that song so we have a green light. that's this weekend. we have of our 1st big project. somebody needs to take care of this one. thank you much. thank you very much. bye bye.

for 45. were on the board. every guy with won't start heading out some. let's say it will head out when we're ready. relax. will be ready in 2 minutes. just one little of things to get ready with you, like you don't want to get there at sunrise and have the sun of our back so we don't get, boom, shall only select 2 minutes to departure. what it's sick is in front of me and duty will be behind me. good luck. what about the 200 meters to the border?

let the soonest known and half way there isn't a glitch. okay guys. this is a big 3. come true. and if i would like to think of a nice sentence, here's one more. so man, one giant swim full mankind ah, 2 minutes ago. ah.

a 1st half hour. we've only just to go.

i need to break it out. yeah. take your time. i can't catch my breath caught up. oh boy. bob, get em have oh i me, i my last someone ask about huddled what did a half hours doing ok. and will be in about 700 meters for that then let's get leave on. ah, that the close the gaps,

my faith. it's a strong wind. make it look at the flag. oh, my goodness. helio with a a, a at the it will let you get the fuck . i was wrong. use of lower. i haven't eaten up,

but i don't feel like eating. i feel safe. sure. and then we'll let keep. how long i just got an hour shy and not only trouble breathing course you've been chima? no, no, no. my breathing is fine. it's like we take him to shore all available for you and id and he'll be fine too. but he's just dehydrated. he was like you said 8 kilometers. halfway. oh, are you better not sitting on board the boat to making me sick? but i understand i've swim slowly. everything. okay. a

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a far away land. there were these people who stood up for a seat swam across. and by doing so, they said the same no, isn't it something worth living for? ah, ah, my passion that one of the jews, escalation violence protect palestinian protestors and is rarely secure. i have been harmed in this situation for you when people are killed over 2000 people have been injured and the

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