original production of link tv. >> thrup on the wall, they're keeping an eye owe. uncle sam keeps an eye on you. here sharon keeps an eye on you with an m-16. >> i lived in the united states

since 1975. and every time i've returned home to jerusalem things have gotten worse and worse. 40 years ago i met david michaelis at link tv and he comes with west jerusalem and i come from west jerusalem, so we come from the same seat. but in reality, two different worlds. >> i was born in jerusalem and i've been living there all my life, since 1945. five years ago i came to the united states to launch a tv channel. and that's how i met jamal dajani. he challenged me to think about solutions that hadn't been

discussed until now. and one day we said, well, we should test it on the ground. >> the reality there is very harsh. but why don't we go over there and do it. >> we are here in a bubble. afafter somemetime off woworkin together with jamal i said let's ddo this in california. you only have to choose in t th neighborhoodod what kind off la you want in the morning. >> when i i go there i'm always eaeager to go to my peoplple, t neighborhohood. i want to o have the least interaction with the israelis as possibible. >> manany israraelis don't't wa know about ppalestinis.s. they don't wantt to reach out. they don'n't wantt to cross in strereets and igighborhoods whe e palestiniaians live because of a mixture of stereotypes and so on. >> so we decided to go together to visit each other's neighborhoods. and i would talk to israelis and david would talk to palestinians, and together we would face the harsh realities

of our shared land. >> growing up in the 1960's, the palestinians just weren't in the head of anyone. palestinians were different. we knew we had property and it was taken away from us by force. i remember distinctly remembering that this was the wall that separated the east and west jerusalem. and this was no man's land here. >> my family lived in jerusalem for centuries. in 1948 the state was pounded, and for the palestinians this time was called the catastrophe. like many palestinians, my father and his entire family

were pushed out of their ancestral home. they moved to a small apartment in east jerusalem because the city was divided into a jewish and an arab city. and in 1967, the six-day war happened when the israelis invaded jerusalem and conquered it. we have lived under the israeli occupation ever since, always longing to go back to our ancestral homes. >> and my father's story that we left the home that he was born in and his father, etc., always was with us. >> whenever i walk here i feel as though i'm walking with a shiver in my body. like i feel at home.

they used to have the stables down there. and actually, this is my father's room right there. for threes three years i would say easily 50-year-old trees. because my father, when he came here, he said he remember when they left here they were a little bit taller than him. >> i was born the first gegeneration to be born outside our house. to take someone's home is like worse than ripping their heart away fromm ththeir body. >> i took david to meet my childhood friend. he and i went to the same school. i went afterwards to the united states, and he went to greece

to study denyivityry, but he returned to jerusalem -- denyivityry. and he returned to jerusalem and has been living there ever since. >> maybe the people he meets here can have root canal from him. >> he's seen the situation. half of his patients can't even afford to pay him. but he never turns anyone away. >> and you see some guy coming from russiaa and he says this i my land, and he takes your land, which you have been here thousands and thousands of years. and somebody comes only a month ago and says this is my land. why? because god gave it to me. >> you stopped believing in god. i'm a christian. i stopped believing in god maybe. imagine if theyy cacame into c and you find some jews in china, my god. the number would be about 10 million. where would we put them?

look at the country. in seven years, i don't know from america, from argentine narcs i don't know from where, but these are not thee palestinians. they don't know the people of the land. so these are the eextremists an they are b becoming more and more. 1/3 of the nation are newcomomers. newcomomers thatat came dudurin fightingng. >> my family lived for many centuries in germany and it was in 1920 when it became impossible for the jews, my mother left for palestine to begin working as a gymnastic teacher in a youth village. she was thinking about the identity of a jew, andd she cam to her parents and said to them i don't think the germans want us here. i'm looking for another place where we can do something from the beginning. so she came here.

i think her motivation saved about 15,000, 20,000 children. and i think it's good that i have some roots here. so this is my home since 1946, and i love the neighborhood. up there on the corner there's a catholic convent with a huge courtyard where it was very easy to learn to go on bikes. this was from 1946, 1947, the last joint palestinian jewish house. we had a very good relationship with the arabs. and then the war started in 1947. >> all the arabs were pushed out. >> they were pushed out. >> they feel guilty that you are living here? >> no, no. >> you don't feel guilty that this is a home that belongs to a palestinian family and they got pushed out, and you are the

recipient, the beneficiary of the blood and sweat and tears. >> i feel that the israeli government owes them, because the israeli government is the one who made this law about people who are not here. and the question is if people are ready to take compensation instead of coming back. >> the next day david and i separated so that i could go alone into gaza. along with the west bank, gaza is one of the two areas that have been taken by israel in 1967 and has been an occupied territory ever since. >> when i was in gaza david attended an israeli right wing rally in jerusalem.

a large movement of religious israelis believe that rather than returning this land, it should be annexed by the state of israel. these people, called settlers, were creating villages in the occupied territories in order to create this reality. the rally was one of many demonstrations held by the settlers to convince the israeli government not to withdraw from the occupied territory. >> you have not seen an earthquake. >> the devastation of an earthquake. all you have to do is go to -- >> the water here is salty. so the government set up desalination plabts. they cannot just get pressure water. looks like somebody's handy

candy. in fact, it's their daily routine. there are hundreds of thousands of people who don't want to get out of gaza. they want to keep them in gaza. and the palestinians is not something they want to relate to. i'm sorry i can't be with you there, but i don't know where the fate of god will be decided, here in the streets or in the streets of gaza. >> this is where the israelis has been coming and wreaking havoc through the entire area. >> you can look around here and see these homes. they were totally destroyed. >>

turning point in my life. i was in the army at the time, and when israel first conquered gaza and the west bank i was relieved, because we all believed that we were under siege. but unlike most israelis, i soon realized that israel's victory and occupation were a trap and a curse. soon after i joined a minority left wing movement opposing this occupation, and at today's rally i was surrounded by the people who i fought against for the last 35 years.

gaza has 1.3 palestinians and is considered to be the most densely-populated place on earth. it is a total prison. ththey cannot crcross into isra for work or to go to the west bank. and the only exist is through egypt where people spend days at the border. felt like i left

another country, you know?

>> you went to another country. >> so you think i did the right thing? >> oh, forget it. >> forget it? >> yeah. >> they'lll lynch you. you know? because they don't have too many trees. i don't know where they'll handing you from. >> i'm alwlways eager to come here because this is my home. and then when i go back, i take with me a lot of guilt leaving these people behind. >> when are we going to get to the humane level? people should be incensed. not just the palestinians. we should fight arabs and jews to preserve that. >> my opinion is that both sides, people are tired, fatigued and brainwashed and

they will not reeble in a way that they would march? the streets. people are saying i care about my four corners and my garden, and it's out of my control and i don't see this rebellion happening. >> clearly i'm the optimist of 2002 of us. in fact, i believe that rather than creating two separate states, one israeli and one palestinian, that we should have a one-state solution where everyone shares in the same land and has equal rights. i know i'm in the minority with this idea. still, the situation in the west bank and in israel is so complicated now that you have a scrambled situation, where the israelis are living amongst palestinians, and palestinians are living amongst israelis,

and the question really is how to separate the two people. one ofof the israeli intellectuals that dealt with this binational situation which we are in is the former deputy mayor of jerusalem, meron benvenisti. >> but the binational condition you're talking about is the condition of the haves and the have-nots. >> absolutely. >> where here, everything is intermingled. but you have one side that controls everything has arrived, and then the other side, it's almost a master and slave relationship. >> you force me to say to you don't discuss with me. you didn't come here to say it's master and slave and i yes say, it's master and slave. ime not in the business of labeling people. >> if i sit across from the

table from you and be honest. be honest, talk to you man-to-man and you be honest with me. what's wrong with that? >> i'll tell you. because, see, that is the problem always with palestinians. palestinians always want. >> you're judging me now. you're judging me. you provoked the worst for me always. >> this interview is ruined. i dictate the rules of the game, not you. >> you see, here is the problem with the relationship. we've been here for thousands of years, you and me. so we have time to talk about it. >> i don't. >> you might have time. i don't. you don't dictate to me what time i have and what i don't. you came to me in my house. so at least be polite, ok? >> well, that went rather well. >> well, do you think i blew it? do you think he'll see me again? >> i think we should really go back and see him. what do you think about that?

>> i think we have to give it some time and come back and call him again. but i definitely don't want to go inside his hole. so you better arrange that somewhere neutral. >> it's part of that coming here to the empty land, or the land with no people and all these things, and now it's -- >> most believe in the justice of the courts, they put the blame on otherers. we are always like -- and they are attempt together destroy us. if we are faced with

annihilation we can invoke all the memories of the jewish for the past 2,000 years. and then the palestinians become different type of gentiles. now, you can blame the israelis. but you can also blame palestinians for allowing enough justifications for the creation of that mess. maybe they were misled. maybe they had no other choice. but this is what you have. you have enough building blocks to create the myth of israeli -- >> were the palestinians misled during the four years? and how are they coping with their fears? we went to see a person who

fought for victims w witut a futurere. >> i h had mycousin killed by the israelis. and we were susupped to have a party here. we lit candles for all those who passed away to give us life. so we lit candles. and we cried there. then we came back home, we danced. we also cried again. andd for us, that was the resistance. >> the regression in the last three years has been incredible in the relationship between palestinians and the israelis. is there any way that you found to go tothe heart of israelis and tell them don't be afraid of me? >> i don't believe in this fear. we are the people who are afraid of them. they are the occupation. we are the occupied.

so the discourse that was played in the media and played in their minds by their leaders, i don't accept it. they talk about their security, but they never thought of my security. >> more than any other time that i went back to jerusalem, i found people living in fear and in suspicion of everyone who entered the coffee shop. even security where jerusalem became the world capital of suicide bombing. one of ththe v

suicide bombing is a doctor, who, in may of 2003, was standing behind a young palestinian girl in a supermarket who blew herself up, causing him multiple injuries. and he lost sight in one of his eyes. i was the first palestinian he agreed to talk to and discuss with me his feelings, his own fear, and to tell his story. >> i remember her. i remember standing with her long hair, her blue dress, but i couldn't imagine that someone is coming to kill herself and to kill as many people as possible. and as i always said, that kind of person i really don't forgive. >> you see a lot of difference

between a general or a commander deciding to drop a 2,000-pound bomb at the neighborhood to assassinate one person, knowing, knowing, knowing that this is a residential neighborhood and the likelihood of killing and maiming civilians is almost guaranteed. >> the answer should be forbidden. but if i kill not you, i kill something and i hide always with 10 kids around, and then i go and kill you there and i can put the 10 kids in the neighborhood, and then i kill you again and i put 10 kids around mere, what would you expect me to do? >> so you justify that? >> i just want to tell you one thing. thing. the answer is no.

>> even for palestinian terrorists knowing that they were terrorists as a doctor, as a person, i did my best, and now there were two terrorists. and if it was necessary to do again to terrorists, i would do it. she's 20 years old. nothing she's seen in life. and then she's sent to kill. you see it as a part of a struggle? >> no. i said for me killing is wrong. i mean, i've heard all kinds of justifications. i can take as a german and someone that knows about politics, i can tell you what some people say, suicide bombing, this is what they say, is the poor man's weapon. >> i know, i know what they say. >> they say israel can send something like this, missile, anand instead of the