two israeli activists who continue their struggle for peace in the middle east by challenging the views of israelis themselves. ah. i come here because i live in jerusalem and down i am in shock and then the rage stepped out then what is happening here. no democracy without freedom to demonstrate. that is not a very clear line between religion and nationalism. to say this as a religious person together they can be a very volatile and dangerous mix of fight here is the worst possible

combination of nationalism illusion that of. economic activity from the low back in germany you know we don't know if you hear a jew or religious jew calling another jew and not that the way they read that or not that you were. not like this is my. son this is my plan to go back to america criminal. in one thousand six to seven israel conquered the west bank. and arab east

jerusalem. still today the palestinians live under military control. this is a film about four israelis who want an end to more than forty years of israeli occupation breaking the silence is a group of ex 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 science because you have to understand that what's going on in the occupied territories is like one of the biggest had was in israel. people just don't talk about it you don't come back home and say money these are two palestinians we 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 the sec there is there's a secret agreement between civil society and military. we know there's going on there but please don't bring it about 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. 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. we try to talk about the small stories that make the 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 these trailers soldiers control and hinder palestinians the biggest checkpoint is located between ramallah and east jerusalem on occupied land. the checkpoint is called. the i had group of israeli women and here eyes that nobody knows what's going on so we decided to create a group that's going to the checkpoints. observes in the report that's why the

observing eye is part of our local even our. bad says that we are all postal occupation. our presence here is a clear statement that really opposed to a comparison it's a statement for the army for the police for the border police for anybody and for the palestinians to know that there are people actively opposing the occupation. with the audience that this dialysis she needs dialysis three times a week do you understand it's three times a week there is nothing to do if the boy's sick has got to shards of that hospital it's every time the same problem with getting a child to hospital it can't go on like this. why do they do this. they're doing it on purpose they won't let anyone in so. everybody here is ill and

those that aren't soon will be in the yes it's true. will number only if you look really. remarkable. and 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.

it's making it difficult for palestinians who live in. so-called. goals. to work or to go through. to visit sick or relatives to go through. the checkpoint. which.

in addition to checkpoints some obstacles israel has built so-called settlements in the west bank and in east jerusalem. according to the u.n.

there are today more than half a million israelis living on occupied land the settlements are all the legal according to international. 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 american asher helps the palestinian the farmer 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 is it and go if you were ever going to get here everything here is a closed military zone where here there how many meters from here everywhere not able to even tell you but if. you

believe that the one of the most basic commandments in judaism what we read in the very first verses of the bible is that all human beings are created but sentimental came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews or 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 including palestinian. eric asher months into protection of the bible is a rare in israel. the palestinian all of trees are standing on biblical land and on the biblical hills this land is god slammed promised to the jewish people according to the south lives. yesterday they came when i got back here at four pm they came and stole the letter i was based all the black covers like those . are they still these. are the. still cutters and knives in the old

lives over there did you see the all over to. do. to the settlers do this yes the sudras store and did this i have been away for three days they stole everything they did this they stole covers and tools and did this with the all of us. so when you came back everything was gone. yes they are thieves how to me they were. here. for several years rabbi eric must protect the palestinian farmers when they are being harassed or attacked by religious jewish so i may say you posted. the filth and it's usually. that's what you're doing giving me the finger at what is lifting his hands to fight the battle of guns are you not wanted i guess for the

heart of the rest of now the rest of now. other than i do you and i are giving the finger to a jew should have his hand cut off the table oh now we've gone completely crazy. coming here to guard the arabs one of. the. hour but i've heard soldiers say well the high court's there we're here our presence here is what's essential not only sometimes some as we actually are as human shields. physically to stand between palestinian people threatening them and sometimes it's important we're here. to keep the army out is to make sure they're doing what they're supposed to be doing. the settlers are protected by israeli soldiers and the soldiers themselves are sometimes settlers. there's a set up here to meet you did you up and comes down and when anyone tries

a worker he tries to stop them but this time friendlies of the army. the strategy for the sutler's 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 and. i would also like to see this document to his nation they came up with this line one year ago. it tried the same trick last year but in the end the farmers worked here. if you don't like it take your questions to the coordination office. simply this attempt to.

slowly slowly take over another doing 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 palestinian the army wants control they want no palestinian to go anywhere without a permit i can't you have to make a choice is the best way to hold on to your land and we back you whatever you do. yes it was and i would that he is interested we have him in ok. in. them and. they acknowledge that this was his land and now they said we don't want

you to work here today though because it's dangerous someone could come and shoot you. there's a good chance that we will when you're here and maybe it'll be easier to finish if there's no attention here in another day as it is. in the west bank israel has built a 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 all the wall is mainly built on occupied land in breach of international norm 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 recessed the construction of the wall which we're doing here right now we are trying to. trying to stop construction a good reason to more from where we're standing at the top of the wall right now and there's about you about four or five kilometers into the way the bank i'll try to fix right interesting recognized border international court of justice and the hague's dispatched to the construction of barriers of the ego but if you go continue continue building it right now where have you had called nineteen twenty five hundred dunam about to be confiscated from the village and i think. it was probably one. strike short. ok.

thanks. thanks. jonathan polak has participated and direct actions on demonstrations for many years several times a week. he has been arrested and physically injured by stray the soldiers i was i i i thank. god. god. was like oh my god my god oh my god it's a very big part of my life and. you know and you have to go for a fighting and i live here and i'm. you know my life. much revolves around

political activists in a so obviously the political situation affects my life and my future and. i. i two people have been killed here due to military violence and over as if the fear is complete keep up if you feel i am not i. i there's never been a gun if you just want to start to good she often says and has demonstrated that it never delish the army and the x. too deep demonstrations to defeat uprising as if it was a military uprighting with military tools and if they showed two people are already being killed here. i. i. that i. i.

i. 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 get killed. i 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 whether we agree with it or not a moral obligation is to come here and stand we do people actually enough to state if you 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 just looks like because just. because you didn't like them there are soldiers.

where there you'll be surrounded me right now move boys come to the east do not go west. boys get back here. are we going away just go straight round. come. on this yeah and. are we out of rocks. is everything quiet here.

right. now assuming. i did. i failed i thought i would just note that ok i must have mixed you up with someone else. what organization are you from. checkpoint want so you don't want any more checkpoints. no but less checkpoints stamp of us there not enough at this stage where it against checkpoints and where you hear so what about the checkpoints if. you could who are a checkpoint it costed millions so you want something respectable to let everybody

in who are a checkpoint cost fifteen million it's own with our pockets and then they closed it the girl does no matter here we have the entrance to the notary or it should be at the entrance on israel's border. so write a letter and notice checkpoints we have already done that let it 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. that it didn't line up one by one. stick close to the wall. heard. a little.

bit of it. 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 so although 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 the charade of being reported i will not go to people of course you

will be able to pray just go over there and they will check everything in the computer model of women with computers you wouldn't condone the moment you put to 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 they also just behave as if they did no wrong and treat them as naughty people. not obeying the rules you know ignoring the rules ramadan karim. kawar just that's what they are. entitled. and i remember they're looking at us now the whole world has been watching us all our lives. are you from jerusalem to the city yes i'm from jerusalem are you do you have a permit no ma i you know clady you know she's forty five years old you cannot see. i have said you have

a poet she says i don't need i went over and over and over the woman you know you're not an old woman. maybe she's forty five years old. ok you're forty five years old it had that you know life must have been hard for her but. we're not allowed to go and pray but nothing prevents us from praying. did i mention something about what i heard moving next to the wall all of the or that why. was it what do you mean by this move one by one go back i was probably one of the top. or it. was done. was.

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