very first verses of the bible all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or god it's. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier and i think i territories was to do with the turks doing what we call making our presence felt go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors run to the other corner and they don't know how religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed if you want to bomb gaza and kill i thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect until

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please. i come here because i live in jerusalem and down i am in shock and in the rage that. what is happening here. no democracy without freedom to demonstrate. that is not equal between religion and nationalism and brutally. see this as a little person to get or they can be a very volatile and they've respects the fight here is the worst possible combination of nationalism a little bit none of it. a

little bit later bit of that you know we don't even notice it here a few religious jew calling another jew and not the way they really are that i'm not worth it. not like this is my. son this is my land go back to america criminal. in one thousand six to seven israel conquered the west bank. and arab east jerusalem. as still today the palestinians live under military straightly control. this is

a film about for israelis who want an and to more than forty years of israeli occupation and breaking the silence is a group of x. israeli soldiers who served during the second intifada in the occupied territories and today we work to try to expose the reality of occupation back home. we call a break in a size because you have to understand that what's going on in the occupied territories is like one of the biggest it was in israel. people just don't talk about it you don't come back home and see a money these are the palestinians we kill that's the way it just doesn't come over . that people back home people here in israel have no clue of what's going on and it's like there is there's a secret agreements between society and the military. we

know there's going on there but please don't bring it back on you know we we want to live our life without. without knowing what it takes to have a peaceful life. or here just to talk about what we did. because we feel this is the this is one of the most important pieces from the puzzle that is missing in a discussion and debate here in this area. and we try to talk about the small stories that make the big problems and make big picture try to talk about what does it mean occupation of the work on a daily basis. how do you do it as an occupier forty years of occupation according to the u.n. there are today more than five hundred checkpoints and obstacles in the west bank where the straightest soldiers control and hinder palestinians the biggest

checkpoints located between ramallah and east jerusalem on occupied land. the checkpoint is called via. yahoo group of israeli women and it is nobody knows what's going on so we decided to create a group that's going to the checkpoints and observes in the reports that's why. the observing eye is coddle followed all fall even to our. bed face federal postal worker pace in. our presence here is

a clear statement that in the post occupation it's a statement for the army for the police for the border police play anybody and for the palestinians to know that there are people actively opposing the occupation. the theory is that this little dialysis she needs to alice is three times a week or do you understand it's three times a week there is nothing to do if the boy sick of it has got to shards of that hospital it's every time the same problem with a child's hospital it counts go on like this. why do they do this. they're doing it on purpose they won't let anyone in. your life everybody here is ill and those that aren't soon will be here yes it's true. but.

when i'm only usually earlier your own little remark on this was. the same you can see how the they asked all the time finding all the ways how to control what's going on more and more so this kalandia checkpoint sees something like four thousand people it was built for lifting one thousand people so first of all this. tremendous stress and tension of people who go to work every single day and have to stand here for a while. it's making it difficult for palestinians who live in this area so-called to do so and

resident. the other group of people walk around with a triploid a parish kenyans who have climates to go to either go through to work or to go through the hospitals the dog. to go to pray. to visit sick relatives to go to the readings. or to go to gift. so you have to queue at the checkpoint to be able to go to the office which is sealed from.

the local paper. in addition to checkpoints some obstacles israel has built so-called settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem according to the un will draw today more than half a million israelis living on occupied land the settlements are all the legal according to the national mall. palestinian farmers can tax us less and less of

their land as the settlements expand frequently there's violence when soldiers are sutlers stop the farmers from cultivating their land. rabbi eric asher mum helps the palestinian farmer. sit. down you all have to leave i am asking you we do not have time for this is the red line please leaves it and go down. here everything here is a closed military zone where here there how many meters from here everywhere not able even if. we believe that the one of the most basic commandments is what we read in the very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but suddenly located in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or rich or poor it's very it's

a point of that both men and women if we really believe that if you are going to internalize it and we have to honor and protect the human rights of every human being including health and. eric asherman interpretation of the bible is rare in israel. the palestinian olive trees are standing on biblical land and in the biblical hills this land is called slabs promised to the jewish people according to the south lives. i was yesterday they came when i got back here at four pm so they came and stole the letter i was a school the black covers like those. they stole the. they stole cutters and knives in the all of us over there did you see the all it says. to the settlers do this yes the sudras school all of them did this i have been away

for three days they stole everything they did. they stole covers and tools and did this with the all of us. yeah so when you came back everything was gone. yes they are thieves how maybe they were. for several years rabbi eric sherman was protecting the palestinian farmers when they were being harassed attacked by religious jewish so i did speak. both to dig up. the bills and it's. that's what you're doing if you me the finger that was lifting his hands to fight my god i'm sorry not yet for the rest of now the rest i'm now hearing like. nothing an arab giving the finger to a jew should have his hand cut off you know now we've gone completely crazy. about

coming here to guard the arabs. but. how often i've heard soldiers say well the high court's there we're here our presence here is what's essential not only sometimes sometimes we actually are as human shields. basically to stand between palestinian people threatening them and sometimes it's important we're here to keep the army honest to make sure they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. settlers are protected by israeli soldiers and the soldiers themselves are sometimes sutlers. there's a set of your timid you did you walk in comes down and when anyone tries a worker he tries to stop them but this them burley's of the army. the strategy for the settlers is to take over hill off the hill of the west bank.

they do it by building small outposts and then expanding downhill closer to the palestinian farmers. legally they can't cross this line. given to them i would also like to see just talk him into his mission they came up with this line one year ago. they tried the same trick last year but in the end the farmers work here. if you don't like it take your questions to the coordination office. simply this attempts to. slowly slowly take over another do them here another doom here from their point of view this is redeeming the land of israel and they'll do it by

any means possible. piece by piece. we're trying in some way to help how things have gone and even get some of the lands back. we always go by the accuser the palestinians the army wants control they want to go anywhere without a permit and i can't you have to make a choice is the best way to hold on to your life and we back you whatever you do. and they will be treated be appealing. well you didn't. really have to have that one but i was down and. they acknowledge this was his land and now they said we don't want you to work here today though because if there's someone to come and shoot you. there's a good chance that we will win here and maybe it'll be easier to finish if there's no intention here another day.

in the west bank israel has built a barrier wall made out of fences and concrete it is part of israel's defense project settlements and it ties them closer to israel. the barrier or the wall is mainly built on occupied land in breach of international law according to the international court of justice. for the palestinians in the west bank the wall results in further land loss to israeli settlers. but there are israelis helping the palestinians to resist the construction of the wall what we're doing here right now if you're trying to talk to the last you know and trying to stop

joking church an admission from someone with money at the top of the wall right now there's about you about four or five kilometers into the west bank outside of its record interacting with an ice border the international court of justice in the hague has ruled that dish tactic to stop construction of this their years of ego if you will continue and continue building it right now in a village called nailing twenty five hundred about to be confiscated from the village. was probably house run. the treasury. of. which. i. now know not jonathan polak has participated in direct action in some

demonstrations for many years several times a week like a fish so he has been arrested and specific injured like israel soldiers i i i i. i cut i know i. was like very good. for. the title but i really want to have somebody gets a very heart of my life and. you know and you have to go for a fighting i live here and i. you know my life pretty much revolves around political activism so obviously the political situation affects my life and my future and i guess. i.

can keep working killed here if you tell me to violence it always you can cure it can keep talking if you can be feeling and i. was. i i just need to be going if you just can just take a good she said stamfordham individualists the i meet me x. too deep to mr she is just a crazy i just it was a military upright thing with military tools in addition to people are going to be killed here. because. i. think that if.

demonstrations against the wall also turn violent they quickly erupt would stone throwing and gunfire it is mostly the protesters who are seriously injured sometimes protesters get killed. they believe the it's my duty as an israeli what's happening here you can keep the email account and it's being done in in our name if you judge if we do we agree with it or not a moral obligation is to come here and stampede of people actually enough to state if you oppose something your demented doing when such crimes are being committed i take a bow and i think it's our duty to come here and give you just a little like any other good job. because you don't have to do it alone there are soldiers over there you'll be surrounded not just move boys come to the east do not go west brown. boys get back here. are we

going away just go straight to the round of the ship. come. to my decision. that. are we out of rocks. is everything quiet here.

you know. i did. i say oh no i thought i knew joe sure no ok i must have mixed up with someone else. what organization are you from. checkpoint so you don't want any more checkpoints. with no but last checkpoint steps of us there not enough to distinguish we are against checkpoints and we're here so what about the checkpoints if. you could who are checkpoints it's cost of millions so you want something respectable to let everybody in who are a checkpoint cost fifteen million out of our pockets and then they closed it this is a group does no matter here we have the entrance to notre it should be at the entrance on israel's border not here so write

a letter and notice checkpoints we have already done that. have a nice day we need people like you to keep can. tell him to get in line one by one closer to the wall. and that. that it didn't line up one by one. stick close to the wall. and. i've been coming to kalandia for seven years so when it comes to ramadan it's important for me to know what's

going on fall though it's not even my shift time i decided to come and have a look the problem is that when you meet the individual people with the individual problems your heart just breaks you know that for some stupid reason that you didn't bring your origin or birth certificate for your sixteen year old daughter but only a photocopy. it's crazy you know it's not only crazy it's very painful to think that there are so many rules and that if you don't fit into the category then nothing out. of course you'll be able to pray just go over there and they will check everything in the computer. and the computer you wouldn't condemn a moment for to us trying their damndest you know to get into jerusalem because

it's such a holy place it's so important the army and the authorities behave as if they did know when to treat them as naughty people and not obeying the rules ignoring good ramadan karim. kawar just that's what we are one for learning and. they're looking at us now the whole world has been watching us so low lifes. i you from jerusalem said yes i'm from jerusalem do you have a permit know my i you know it lady you know she's thirty five years old you cannot see. that i have to do ever posted is that i don't need them at all and or the woman you know you're not an old woman that. she's forty five years old. ok you're forty five years old. you know life

must have been hard for her. we're not allowed to go in pretty much nothing prevents us from praying. it's. really good let's get something out of. my head move connects to the wall all of you are ready for that war i am just on it what do you mean by that just need to move one by one go back on my problem was on. cut cut cut cut cut cut. cut cut cut. i. was. tough. tough tough tough tough tough that. was.

i. was. i. was sure was that so much a lot of people at ariel battle were tough western liberal jim is a is it ever justified for such military interventions within the confines of international law is there a case where. a nation. couldn't take three days for charges three m.h. three.