realized everything is ok. i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. live. to. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but some of it all came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or god just. sixty to seventy percent of what i did as a combat soldier in the occupied territories was to do with the turks doing what we call making our presence felt to go out should some bozo they hear a knock on some doors for the other corner and then another house or religion and nationalism not just judaism have been a part of the problem they've been part of what leads to. bloodshed

a few one. thousand four hundred people in a month and you want to expect that this will have no effect and to feel you have to be either extremely naive for its terms and. here. you are religious jew calling another jew and not the way they really thought of. a time or been here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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a show. called touch from the. john c. life on the go. video on demand. smiling costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. and. i come here because i live in jerusalem and i am in shock and in the rage that. what is happening here.

no democracy without freedom to demonstrate. that is not a very clear line between religion and nationalism. to see this as a religious person together they can be a very volatile and they've respects that fight here is the worst possible combination of nationalism illusion that up a. little bit later people look back after you know we don't even want to hear. your religious jew calling another jew and not that the way they really let it not that you were. 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 gaza an arab east jerusalem. that's still today the palestinians live under military strain to control. this is a field for israelis who wants an end to more than forty years of israeli occupation. breaking the silence is a group of ex israeli soldiers and 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 it breaking his silence because you have to understand that what's going on and yet you buy territories like one of the biggest troubles in israel. people just

don't talk about it you don't come back home and see a money loser to tell since you killed us that it just doesn't come over. that people back home people here in israel have no clue of what's going on. spector's there's a secret agreements between society and in the military. we know there's going on there but please don't bring it out of you know 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 as soldiers because we feel this is the this is one of the most important pieces from the puzzle is missing and the discussion and debate here in this area. and we try to talk about small stories that make

a big problem to make big picture try to talk about what does it mean occupation how does a cloak 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 strain is soldiers control and hinder palestinians the biggest checkpoints located between ramallah and east jerusalem occupied land. the checkpoint is called.

a group of israeli women and here are lies that nobody knows what's going on so we decided to create a group that's going through the checkpoints and observes and the reports that's why the observing eye is proud of our local even our. bad says that we are poles will keep 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 collies for anybody and for the palestinians to know that there are people actively opposing the occupation. the bodies of this little dialysis she needs dialysis three times a week do you understand it's three times a week there is nothing to do with the boys sick of it has got to shards of that

hospital it's every time the same problem with getting a child to hospital it's can't 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. that. well i'm only usually only a year only remarkable if 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 says something like four thousand people it was built for letting 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 jerusalem visit. the other group of people walk around with a chip for a parish millions who have permits to go to either gulf go to work or to go through the hospitals who got. to go to pray. to visit sick or relative to the local weddings. or to go to get.

so if the queue at the checkpoint to be able to go to the office which is sealed. the deal. for. you.

in addition to checkpoints and obstacles israel has built so-called settlements in the west bank and in east jerusalem according to the un will draw today more than half a million israelis living an occupied land the settlements are all the legal according to international law. palestinian farmers can access 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 authority. sitting in front of you all have to leave i am asking you we do not have time for this is the red line please leave that and go down. here everything here is

a closed military zone where here there how many meters from here everywhere the table and even the other people. who believe that the one of the most basic commandments is what we read in the very first birth of the bible that all human beings are created settlement of came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or no it is we're just rich or poor and it's very it's a point of saying both men and women if we really believe that if you are going to internalize it then we have to honor and protect the human rights of every human being and feeling healthy. eric asher months into protection of the bible is rare in israel. the palestinian olive trees are standing on the biblical land and on biblical hills this land is god's slammed promised to the jewish people according to the sect lives. yesterday they came when i got back

here at four pm for they came and stole the letter i stole the black covers like those. they stole the. they still cutters and knives and the all of us over there did you see the all it says. to the settlers do this yes the sudras store all of us and 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. so when you came back everything was gone. yes they were thieves how me and i. know. for several years rabbi erica sherman was protected palestinian formers when they

were being harassed or attacked by religious jewish settlements. posted. because it's usually. that's what you're doing giving me the finger that was lifting his hands to fight but all of them said oh yeah i don't want five yet for the rest of the rest and now. i think i do you have an arab giving the finger to a jew should have his hand cut off oh now he's gone completely crazy. about coming here to guard the arabs one. of. our but i've heard soldiers say well the high court is there we're here our presence here is what's essential not only sometimes sometimes we actually are as human shields. is equated 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 with their supposed to be doing. the settlers are protected by israeli soldiers and the soldiers themselves are sometimes sutlers. there's a set up here to meet you did you walk and comes down and when anyone tries a worker he tries to stop them but this time bernie's of the army. the strategy for the settlers is to take over hill after hill of the west but. they do it by building small outposts and then expanding downhill closer to the palestinian farmers. legally they can't cross this line and. i would also like to see this document of his and they came up with this line one

year ago. they tried the same trick last year but in the end the farmers work here i'm not. going to tell you if you don't like it take your questions to the coordination office. simply this attempt to. slowly slowly take over another dunam here another doom here from their point of view this is redeeming the land of israel in any means possible . piece by piece. we're trying in some way to help help things hang on and even get some of the lands back. we always go by the accuser the palestinian the army wants control they want to go anywhere without a permit i can't you have to make the choice is the best way to hold on to your lives and we back you whatever you do. and i will be

treated. it is. really a lot of them right but i look at them and i. play acknowledge this was his land and they always said we don't want you to work here today though because it's dangerous someone to come and shoot you. there's a good chance that we will when you're here and maybe it'll be easier to finish it there's no intention here another day of rest. in the west bank israel has built the barrier a wall made out of fences and concrete it is part of israel's defense it protects 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 between doing here right now is trying to block the world you know and trying to structure their protection division to move from where we're standing at the top of the wall right now there's about three about four or five kilometers into the west bank and i'll try to further the recognized border the international court of just in the hague has ruled that dispatched the construction of this barrier to the ego but if you continue continue doing it right now when of huge cost nearly twenty five hundred you know about to be confiscated from the village. it was

probably just one. the top story short. i. know that not jonathan polak has participated and direct actions on demonstrations for many years several times a week just so he has been arrested and physically injured by israeli soldiers i i i i. was such

a god it was like there was a risk for. the title but i really want to go by it's a very big part of my life and. you know and the after go for a fighting i live here and i'm. you know my life pretty much revolves around political activism so obviously in a political situation if it's my life or my future in the past. i. was to keep working until carried utility by and see over the issue here is complete keep talking i think you i was. i i just never began if you just come to say good enough he says he just didn't figure out how to never delish the army me access to these demonstrations to dish up writing as if it was a military uprising with military tools in addition to people are going to be

healthier. i. think that if. demonstrations against the wall also turn violent they quickly erupt with stone throwing and gunfire. it is mostly the protesters who are seriously injured sometimes protesters gets killed. before they believe they can make you do see israeli what's happening here you can keep coming and it's again done in in our name it's very well whether we agree with it or not a moral obligation if you come here and chant we the people it's enough to state it

can oppose something your government is doing when such crimes are being committed i expect people and i think it's our duty to come here and give you just it. looks like because of. the because you had too much you know there are soldiers over there you'll be surrounded just move boys come to the east do not go west around. the boys get back here. are we going away just go straight to run out of the ship. come. on this is just. that. our way out of rocks. is everything quiet here.

back. on the. ground as. i think. ok i'm not a fellow i just know ok i must have mixed up with someone else. you know what organization are you from. checkpoint watch so you don't want any more checkpoints . you know but less checkpoints themselves they're not alone

and these days where it against checkpoints and where you hear so what about the checkpoints if. you look at who are a checkpoint it costed millions of so you want something respectable to let everybody in who are a checkpoint cost fifteen millions out of our pockets and then they closed it this is a group does no matter here we have the entrance to the notary or it should be at the entrance on israel's border here so write a letter and know the checkpoints we have already done that let me have a nice day we need people like you to keep camp with tell him to get in line one by one closer to the wall. and that you know. that it. felt. guilt. don't live in

a line up one by one. stick close to the wall. and. i've been coming for 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 done i decided to come and have a go the problem is that when you meet the individual people with 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 the straight out will be acquitted i will now go to a course you'll be able to pray just go over there and they will check everything in the computer. and it will be the. moment you put us trying their damndest you know to get into jerusalem because it's such a holy place and it's so important the army and the author of his behave as if they did know him and treat them as naughty people. and not obeying the rules ignoring their ramadan kareem. how are just that's what we are. learning and. they're looking at us now the whole world has been watching are so low lifes. i you from jerusalem to the city yes from jerusalem do

you have a permit no more i you know clady you know she's twenty five years old you cannot see. that i have to do i have a poet is that i don't need it and all this and all the woman you know you're not an old woman but. she's put in five years all right. ok you are forty five years old. you know life must have been hard for her. we're not allowed to go and pretty much nothing prevents us from praying. it's. really good let's get something up like i heard move next to the wall all of you are ready for that why. do you mean why i just need one by one go back i'm on i'm going on. the.

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