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"Llamama Productions

Presents"

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Black Screen with Title:

"A Film By

Yael Shuldman"

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Adnan walking around Manager Square

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

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Adnan:

 Hi

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Adnan:

Happy New Year

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Adnan: Ma'am, Welcome, where are you from?

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Narrator:

It is January 2006 in Bethlehem, Palestine.

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Adnan (low):

 Where are you from?

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Adnan is out in the street trying to bring clients to his souvenir shop in the town centre. 

[Adnan (low):

it's your first time here?

Tourist:

I was here twenty years ago]

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Narrator:

Not many tourists are around.

[Adnan (low):

Do you see changes?

        You are welcome my brother]

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

Narrator:

Six years of Intifada have left the town wounded and scarred,

[Adnan (low):

Do you speak English?

 Where are you from?]

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Adnan walking around Manager Square talking with tourists

and the recent unexpected victory of Hamas, the leading Islamist party in the Palestinian Territories, in the national elections cast a cloud of uncertainty as to what is to come.

[Adnan (low):

Don't buy, don't buy, only visit my shop]

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Adnan walking around in Manager Square

Adnan:

Just visit my shop

Tourist: no no, it's ok

Adnan:

really, don't buy

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Adnan walking around in Manager Square

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Adnan walking around in Manager Square

Narrator:

I first met Adnan 7 years ago. 

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TITLE on city Background

"Holy Dust"

Why Instrumental (original music) begins.

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Shots of Bethlehem

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Narrated By

Georgina Roberts"

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Shots of Bethlehem

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Camera By

Hagai Mazor"

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Shots of Bethlehem

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Script and Editing by

Ron Shuldman"

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Shots of Bethlehem

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Music by Ido Tavori"

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Produced By

Yael Shuldman

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Shots of Bethlehem

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TITLE on Shots of Bethlehem

"Directed By

Yael Shuldman"

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Shots of Bethlehem

Narrator:

It was the last November before the new Millennium.

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Shots of Bethlehem

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Shots of Bethlehem

Narrator:

I came to Bethlehem to witness how it was preparing to celebrate the 2000^th birthday of its most famous son - Jesus Christ.

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Shots of Bethlehem

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Shots of Elizabeth's house

Narrator:

We met four young Palestinians- The millennium generation.

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Elizabeth and her sister in the house

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Elizabeth and her family in the house

Elizabeth:

My name is Elizabeth Jackman, I am seventeen and a half years old

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Elizabeth getting ready for Girl-Scouts

Elizabeth:

I live in Bethlehem

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Elizabeth getting ready for Girl-Scouts

Elizabeth:

I have three sisters and one brother

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Elizabeth getting ready for Girl-Scouts

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Elizabeth walks out of the house

Elizabeth:

Everyone knows, I think, that Jesus was born here in Bethlehem

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Elizabeth walking outside

Elizabeth:

and it's a good thing to be near Jesus because we go to church every Sunday where Jesus was born, we pray there

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Elizabeth walking outside

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Elizabeth talking

Elizabeth:

I believe that if I live in Bethlehem I'll be close to Jesus

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Elizabeth talking

Elizabeth:

I know that he is in heaven but he is always close to

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Elizabeth talking

Elizabeth:

us and where he was born is very holy

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

Adnan:

My name is Adnan Khalil Khalif, I am a student at Bethlehem university

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

Adnan:

I study Social Work Psychology

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

Adnan:

and I am married and have one child

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

Adnan:

and I am working here at the shop, at the same time.

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Adnan standing outside of his souvenir shop

Adnan:

Really my dream is to be free

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Adnan sitting and talking in his shop

Adnan:

to have good health and to live a peaceful life

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Adnan sitting and talking in his shop

Adnan:

because health is better than money and business- and to be free to go to any place I want to

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Adnan sitting and talking in his shop

Adnan:

I would like freedom more than anything in the world

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Carlo at his home with his family

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Carlo:

My name is Carlo

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

and I am 25 years old

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

I finished my school

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

after that I went to Greece

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

to study

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

and I lived there 5 years, and now I came back here

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Carlo at his home with his family

Carlo:

and I live now with my family, with my parents. And I work here.

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Carlo sitting and talking

Carlo:

And I will stay here now

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Khader's Father smoking

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Khader's Father smoking

Khader:

My name is Khader Mohammad El Shati

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Khader's Father smoking- Khader walking in

Khader:

I am 25 years old

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Khader and his father sitting

Khader:

I live here in Bethlehem

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Khader and his father sitting

Khader:

My father is from Bethlehem

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Khader and his father sitting

Khader:

and my Grand father is also from Bethlehem

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Khader speaking

Khader:

And I have two brothers, one 22 years old, and one 24

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Khader:

they also live with me in this house

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Khader:

and were born in Bethlehem

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Khader:

My father's brothers and sister's also lived here

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Khader:

And his father and mother, also lived here

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Khader:

Each one of his brothers went and got married, and left the house

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Khader:

But he was left here alone

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Khader:

Later he got married, and now we are here

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Khdaer's mother in the kitchen

Khader:

We are all Muslim in my family

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Khdaer's mother in the kitchen

Khader:

I have brothers that don't pray

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Khdaer's mother in the kitchen

Khader:

And I don't, and my father doesn't, my mother prays

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Khdaer's mother in the kitchen

Khader:

My brother prays, I Don't

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Khdaer's mother in the kitchen

Yael:

Why?

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Khader sitting

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Khader:

You are a person, and I am a person, yes

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Khader:

Now there is a difference between us

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Khader:

You believe in one thing

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Khader:

And I believe in something else

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Khader:

In this world we each have to Khader:

do what we believe is right

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Khader:

That's my answer

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Khader's father lighting a cigarette

Narrator:

I asked- how do you know Hebrew, the enemy's language so well?

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Khader speaking

Khader:

From Prison.

From prison.

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Khader speaking

Khader:

From jail

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Pages from the old testament and landscape of Bethlehem

Narrator:

Bethlehem is a significant city to both Jewish and Christian religions

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Narrator:

The city is mentioned several times in the Old Testament

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Narrator:

it is reputed to be the birth place of King David, and, amongst other references, is the burial place of Rachel

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Narrator:

one of the four mothers of the Jewish people

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Narrator:

The town is most known for its role in the New Testament

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Narrator:

where it is written that Jesus Christ was born

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Narrator:

The story of Bethlehem continued as one of conquests and foreign rule

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Landscapes and goats in Bethlehem

Narrator:

After centuries under Roman and then Byzantine rule, it was captured by the Persians in the 7^th Century

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Narrator:

In 1099 it was taken away from the Muslims by the Crusaders, who lost it to Saladin less than a century later

Shots of sky and the church of Nativity

Narrator:

Palestine later became a part of the Ottoman Empire until its fall

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Narrator:

apart from a short period in the early 19^th Century when it was conquered by Muhammad Ali of Egypt

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Narrator:

After the First World War, Palestine was placed under a British Mandate

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Man of the clergy ringing; woman in churches court- sky shots

Narrator:

By that time, growing waves of European Jews were immigrating into Palestine and the conflict between the Zionist movement and the local Arab population had become fierce and violent

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Landscapes, skies and churches in Bethlehem

Narrator:

According to the UN Partition Plan of 1947, Bethlehem and Jerusalem were to remain under international administration

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Landscapes, skies and churches in Bethlehem

Narrator:

yet in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

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Soldier on roof

Narrator:

the town came under Jordanian control

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Landscapes, streets, skies and churches in Bethlehem

Narrator:

Many Palestinian refugees settled in and around Bethlehem

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Narrator:

In the 1967 war Israel conquered the entire West Bank from Jordan, including the town of Bethlehem.

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Narrator:

The town remained under Israeli rule until 1995

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Streets of Bethlehem, members of the Palestinian police in the streets

Narrator:

when as part of the Oslo agreement it became one of the few areas under full control of the Palestinian Authority

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Member of the clergy leading a prays in the Nativity church.

The church and the people around parying.

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The church and the people praying

Narrator:

Bethlehem has been a place of pilgrimage since the dawn of Christianity

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The church and the people praying

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The church and the people praying

Narrator:

In the year 327AD queen Helena built the Basilica over the cave where Jesus is believed to have been born

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The church and the people praying- Including Elizabeth

Narrator:

It became known as the nativity church

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The church and the people praying

Narrator:

One of Christianity's holiest places

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The church and the people praying

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Carlo and Khader running down an ally

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Narrator:

Carlo and Khader told me about their experience in the first intifada

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Carlo (VO):

It was beautiful the first time

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Carlo and Khader standing.

Carlo talking

Carlo:

Because we couldn't understand what we were doing

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Carlo and Khader standing.

Carlo talking

And...

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Carlo and Khader standing.

Carlo talking

We were fourtenn years old

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Carlo and Khader standing.

Carlo talking

And the other boys were twenty, maybe twenty five

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Khader's face-

Jeeps

Khader (VO):

The first time I was in school

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Jeeps driving in the streets of Bethlehem

Some People came to us and told us "go on leave the school

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Jeeps driving in the streets of Bethlehem

"The school is closed today

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Carlo and Khader standing.

Khader talking

"go on, leave the school"

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Khader talking

We went to the street

And there was chaos everywhere

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Khader talking

I am talking about maybe ‘88

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Khader talking

Everyone went somewhere

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Jeeps through the streets of Bethlehem

And I noticed that I am alone in the street

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People throwing stones on jeeps in the streets

What do I do?

I just heard weapons

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I just heard an ambulance

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Just heard someone shoot

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Someone leave

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Khader talking

Exactly like war

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Everyone needs to go to their own place

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Carlo looking at Khader

So we were on our way

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Jeeps and people throwing stones

And I saw them grab stones

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Jeeps and people throwing stones

I grabbed stones

I saw what they were doing, and did the same

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Jeeps and people throwing stones

This was the first time

I was like a mad man

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Khader talking

I didn't know where I was going or what I was doing

What.... What happened to the world?

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Khader talking

What kind of thing is this?

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Soldiers in the streets of Bethlehem

Carlo:

Not just for us it was beautiful

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For the Israelis too, yeah?

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We saw it in the streets

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It was beautiful and they smiled

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When they held their guns

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And...

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Killed somebody

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Maybe it was beautiful for them

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Khader talking

We weren't like now, now we have some sense

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We think about what we need exactly

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We were just thining we will go on

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We will go out to the streets

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We will make some mischief

And come back home

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And that's it

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And later we would go out again

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Write on walls

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Throw stones

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And they would come at night to take us away

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It's like a film, really

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Carlo talking

Carlo:

We knew everyday that they would be coming

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Every one hour

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Something like this, every two hours

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We would wait

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Carlo and Khader preparing to demonstrate how they would throw stones

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Carlo and Khader demonstrating how they would throw stones

Khader:

We would stand like this

And one of us would stand here

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And say "Here they come"

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And then we would go down

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Khader:

To throw

Carlo echoing:

To throw

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Throwing stones

And that's it

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They turn and dust their hands

Carlo:

Enough

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Carlo:

And then we go

Khader:

That's how it was

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Bethlehem road

Khader (VO):

In Bethlehem there was a captain called Hussni

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He came to me, he took me away from here

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They covered my eyes

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Road dissolves into Khader talking

And took me to prison

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Khader speaking

I sat there for two months

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And I was interrogated

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Um-Khader speaking

UM Khader:

They knocked at the door

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Then they kicked it

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Hussni came and took Khader

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He covered his eyes

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And they beat him and put him in the jeep

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And they took him away

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And I sat and cried

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I was so worried I started walking back and forth like a crazy woman

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Khader speaking

Khader:

I myself was in jail

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They came here and said "we are looking for Khader"

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My other told "Khader isn't here"

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"Khader is in prison"

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He didn't believe my mother

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He said "this is Khader

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She told him "Khader is bigger

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"and he is in prison now"

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Sp they took my brother his name is Hassan

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But what did they write on his file?

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They wrote it is Khader,  Khader Mohammad El Shati

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And I was in jail too

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I was in one cell

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Now everyday...

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Now everyday they would do a count of prisoners

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They would call 1,254 and I would say Khader "it's me, Khader"

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They would call 2,249 and call Khader

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I told them in prison

"I am Khader, not him"

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"he is here because of me"

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They didn't believe me

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Um-Khader Speaking

Once they came and took all three of them

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All of them in the jeep

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Elizabeth talking

There is nothing here- for example

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I have a good voice

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Ok? Beautiful

But I can't sing here

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Elizabeth in the street in the Girl Scouts uniform

We are talented

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My brother plays football very very well

And basketball

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Elizabeth talking

He is gifted in sports

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But here in Bethlehem

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There is no potential

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I love singing

Ok- but I can't

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So I have to face it

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I can't sing. So what?

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I have to face real life

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I don't want to live in dream-land

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And then suddenly fall

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Bethlehem doesn't have anything to give us

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It's empty

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Empty alleyways in Bethlehem

Original music

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Empty alleyways in Bethlehem

Khader (VO):

I was going to get married once

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Khader talking in his home

I told her father I want to marry

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He asked me "where is your house?

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"you will have to get a house for 1,000 shekels

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Working from about nine or maybe ten O'clock until midnight

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"how will you go on?

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You take 2,000 shekels

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A thousand shekels for the house

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And another 1,400 shekels maybe for water, phone bills and electricity

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And you have to go on living

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He said I Can't "no"

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I told him I love her

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And she loves me too

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He told me "well, what is love?"

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Khaders mother

He was nervous, sitting alone

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Coffee brewing

Thinking about our situation

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The house is too small

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No house, no money, nothing at all

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Yael (VO):

Where do you sleep at night?

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Um- Khader pointing around the room

Um-Khader:

Khader here

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Khader here

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I sleep here

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His father here

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And Yekhia here

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Bethlehem at night

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Adnan (VO):

Today in my shop I sold for $25 dollars, really

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Three days ago, I didn't sell anything

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Many tourists are afraid of this news

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when they hear
Thank you very much

Adnan:

You are welcome

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Santa in street

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Santa in street

Adnan:

Merry Christmas! Happy New Year

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Adnan talking to Israeli costumers in his shop

Adnan:

Shana Tova- Hag Samech (Good Year- Happy Holiday - In Hebrew)

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Costumer:

Shana Tova not to us- to you

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Choir singing in the street

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People in the streets of Bethlehem

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Narrator:

Faint signs are still visible that the two people, Palestinian and Israeli

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Narrator:

Are still at a peace process. At least formally.

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Israeli group, wearing Christmas hats

Israeli group:

We wanted to enter Bethlehem

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Israeli Group:

And then they snuck us in

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Israeli group:

Because the checkpoint was closed

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They took us into places where we couldn't managed without them

Camera:

Where?

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Israeli Group:

Beit Jallah

Through all the alleyways until we reached here

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The streets of Bethlehem, people dressed as Santa.

Choir singing in background

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Moon

Decorations on trees and roof tops

Choir singing in background

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Choir singing on stage`

Choir singing in background

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Crowd in the Square

Choir singing on stage`

Decorations on trees and roof tops

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Crowd celebrating in decorations

Narrator:

Christmas night: The main stage featured guest artists from all over the world, all joining in to take part in the celebrations.

But not everyone was invited...

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Show on stage through a television screen

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Family of Carlo and the Khader's mother watching television

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The performers on stage

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A line of men praying in the street (to the sound of the Muezzin)

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Clock showing 7 days left

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Israeli Group singing

Israeli Group:

We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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Israeli Group:

Bye from Israel

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Carlo and friends lighting a fire cracker

Israeli Group singing

Carlo and friends lighting a fire cracker

Narrator:

So this was Bethlehem at the dusk of the Millennium -Israelis, celebrating the birth of Christ in the town of his birth,

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View of the square full of people

Narrator:

Which is already mostly populated by Muslims.

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Pan to the top of the mosque

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Crowd in the Square

Carlo:

I know everybody helped for Bethlehem to be very beautiful in Christmas

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Carlo, sitting and talking

Carlo:

Europe, America- and Israel

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Star Lights

Carlo:

They all gave money for Bethlehem to have a good Christmas

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Carlo talking

Carlo:

But I think this is nothing for us

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Um- Khader

Camera:

You think that now with all the money coming into the city for the year 2000 things will improve?

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Um Khader

Um Khader:

No

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Um Khader

Um Khader:

The little peole don't have money.

The people on top take it all.

No?

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View of Bethlehem

A string instrument playing

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A man singing and playing

A man singing and playing

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The market, people walking, sowing...

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People buying, selling

Narrator:

I asked Adnan if he expects a lot of tourists this year

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Adnan:

We thought many tourists will be coming to Bethlehem

But we don't see anything

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Adnan:

Nothing

00:32:58

It was just talk

00:33:00

00:33:03

Adnan talking in front of his shop

Adnan:

Believe me not very good, no tourists! No business! Not what you think about the year 2000!

00:33:04

Adnan talking in front of his shop

Adnan:

Most of the tourist last night were from Tel-Aviv, from Israel

00:33:06

Adnan talking to a costumer

Adnan:

Were Jewish people

00:33:08

00:33:09

Adnan talking to a costumer

Adnan:

Not tousits

00:33:10

Adnan talking to a costumer

Adnan is not the only peddler selling Christian souvenirs; I asked his neighbour what he thought about this Christmas

00:33:15

Adnan talking with costumer, his neighbour in the background

Adnan's Neighbour:

We were expecting

00:33:19

Adnan's neighbour talking

Adnan's Neighbour:

Between 30 to 40 thousand tourists to come

00:33:21

Adnan's Neighbour:

That was the reputation, the expectation in the media

00:33:25

Adnan standing in the streets

Adnan's Neighbour:

What you heard about in the T.V

00:33:27

People working on the installation for the new year

Adnan's Neighbour:

You know all over Europe they have this idea about Islam

00:33:32

Adnan's neighbour standing and talking

Adnan's Neighbour:

They still think that a Muslim person kills

00:33:34

Adnan's Neighbour:

That he thinks that if he kills a Jew he will go to heaven

00:33:37

Adnan's Neighbour:

That if he kills a Christian he goes to heaven

00:33:39

00:33:40

Adnan's Neighbour:

A lot of people were even scared to just go out

00:33:40

Adnan talking to a passer by

Adnan:

Where are you from?

Adnan:

Where from?

00:33:45

Adnan:

They are from Tel Aviv

00:33:47

Adnan's neighbour talking

Adnan's Neighbour:

Another thing The Israeli tour guides

00:33:52

Adnan's Neighbour:

They try to break the business of the Palestinian people

00:33:55

Adnan's Neighbour:

They take 35% commission

00:33:57

00:33:59

Adnan's Neighbour:

And the tell the tourists we are terrorists

00:33:59

Mosque

The Muslim Prayer

00:34:02

Soldier on roof top

Imam Khaled Tafish talking:

We live in a world without natural disasters

00:34:07

People walking into mosque

Imam Khaled Tafish:

And without was and without demons

00:34:11

Imam Khaled Tafish:

And without injustice

00:34:13

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Without killing of children, women and the elderly

00:34:17

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

The people on earth have to keep our dignity

00:34:20

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

Every religion carries the messages from God to us

00:34:25

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

And all of God's messages call the people

00:34:30

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

To follow the rules of their religion

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

And to be honest and carry that message

00:34:35

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

And to deliver it to the people in accordance

00:34:36

00:34:37

Imam Khled Tafish talking

Imam Khaled Tafish:

With their current reality

00:34:37

Men in mosque

00:34:38

Narrator:

After making this statement, during the Israeli Operation "Defensive Shield"

00:34:44

Men rise for prayer in the mosque

Narrator:

To remove terrorist thereat from the west bank

00:34:47

00:34:54

Imam Khaled Tafish leading the prayer

The Imam Khaled Tafish was arrested for his involvement with Hamas activities, being the leader of the organization in Bethlehem

00:34:54

Men in mosque praying

00:35:20

A carpet of men in the Square praying

Speaker emitting the prayer

Men praying

00:35:30

View of the city

00:35:32

00:35:37

A carpet of men praying in the Main Square

00:35:38

Performers practice for the new year

Sounds of the performers- bells and drums

00:35:41

Performers around the installation

Countdown clock

Narrator:

One week before the new year. The Millennium performance is being installed

00:35:45

00:35:49

Streets of Bethlehem

While the businesses of Bethlehem are still waiting for the tourists to arrive.

00:35:50

00:36:18

Performers around the New Year's installation

People around the square

Performers practicing

Tourists

Performers practicing- playing drums, bells, hanging upside-down

Sounds of the performers- bells and drums

00:36:19

New Year Installation

Narrator:

Tens of Millions of Dollars of the Palestinian Authority's scarce financial resources

00:36:24

Baker baking Pita bread

were spent on the Millennium festivities.

The people of

Bethlehem saw very little change to their standard of living

00:36:30

00:36:37

People walking in street

Performers around installation

Some of them remained impoverished, with no connection to a water and sewage system.

00:36:38

00:36:41

Men praying (through window)

Sounds of performance (bells mainly)

00:36:42

00:37:26

The New Year's installation in the sky of Bethlehem (from a distance)

Performers beating drums and ringing bells in the sky

Entertainers with bells and candles running in the crowd

Performers on ropes in the air

The installation in the sky

Kids watching the show

A clown ringing a bell on a small stage in the square

Performers in the air

Fire performances in the Main Square

Spectators and Christmas decorations

The installation above the Main Square

Sounds of performance

00:37:28

Carlo's house

Carlo's mother making food

Sounds of Performance

Mix into Arabic music playing in the house

00:37:47

Carlo and friends dancing

Khader and friends

Family eating and dancing

00:38:03

00:38:09

Crowd in Main Square

Countdown clock  (9 minutes left)

Crowd

Doves in crowd

Fire eating

Arabic music from houses mixes and changes to music performed on the main stage in the Square

00:38:10

Celebrationi n Carlo's house

Khader:

If there was good peace

00:38:12

Clocl in Carlo's house (one minute left)

Khader:

Really, I am not kidding.

00:38:13

Sky- moon

Khader:

If there was good peace

00:38:16

Crowd celebrating in the Square

Khader:

And we would feel good

00:38:21

Khader:

We and the Israelis

00:38:23

Khader:

live well

00:38:25

Khader talking

Khader:

We would feel like we are human beings in this world

00:38:27

Khader:

We could go where we wanted to

00:38:29

Khader:

Without ant problems or anything

00:38:31

Men smoking together

Khader:

Maybe the past will be forgotten and we'll move forward

00:38:34

Khader

Camera:

Do you forget? You- yourself?

00:38:36

Khader talking

Khader:

I can

00:38:37

Khader:

I can, I can forget

00:38:39

Khader:

But how can I live, or forget now

00:38:45

Khader:

When I see a person is being killed every day?

00:38:47

00:38:48

Khader:

How can I forget?

00:38:48

Crowd celebrating in the main Square

00:38:50

Khader:

If the world was good

00:38:51

Khader:

We would live together

00:38:52

Khader:

We and the Israelis would be friends

00:38:56

Khader talking

Khader:

We could live together

00:38:58

00:39:01

Khader:

We can

We can forget

Really.

00:39:01

Countdown clock (1 minute left)

Fireworks

Crowd

Doves

00:39:10

Khader talking

Khader:

Like there are people waiting for the Messiah to come

00:39:13

Khader:

We are waiting for a chance to come

00:39:15

Fire works

00:39:19

COUNTDOWN

Crowd, doves, spectators

00:39:24

00:39:52

MIDNIGHT

Big fireworks display

Crowd looking at the display

Fire works

Fades out to black screen

00:39:53

Streets of Gilo

00:39:55

Streets of Gilo

Narrator:

In November 2000 I came back to visit Bethlehem. Christmas was nearing, but this time, no one was thinking of celebrations.

00:40:06

Pan showing the street- through wall- and overlooking Palestinian towns including Bethlehem

Soldiers in a Jeep

Narrator:

On my way there, I stopped at Gilo - a Jewish neighbourhood built on the hills overlooking the Palestinian town on land that was seized in 1967

00:40:16

Soldiers in Jeep

Pan to view- smoke rising from somewhere in the town below

Narrator:

This was now the centre of media attention due to extensive exchanges of fire across the valley separating the two towns..

00:40:24

00:40:33

Narrator:

The Israeli army was determined to stop the shooting at any cost, and by any means, sometimes this means innocent people are hurt

00:40:36

Damaged houses in Gilo

Man from Gilo:

They shoot 500 millimetre bullets or bombs

00:40:40

Ruins of a town

Man from Gilo:

On civilians, innocent civilians

00:40:43

Shells collected by the people

Man from Gilo:

What did we do to them?

00:40:45

Structure damage and ruins

Man from Gilo:

Innocent people

00:40:46

Structure damage and ruins

Man from Gilo:

Why don't they shoot at the other people- who shoot at them?

00:40:48

Structure damage and ruins

Man from Gilo:

Why do they shoot at 11 years old kids and 12 years old kids?

00:40:51

00:41:05

Structure damage and ruins

Man from Gilo:

We are innocent people

00:41:05

00:41:20

Black screen with typewriter text:

INTIFADA:

The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The first Intifada began in 1987 until the early 90s.

00:41:21

Man from Gilo holding a slingshot in his hand, a kid next to him

Man from Gilo:

Does this kill a tank? Does this blow up a tank?

00:41:24

Man demonstrates use of slingshot by kid

Man from Gilo:

This child is playing with this

00:41:27

Man from Gilo:

And when he goes out to the street he just plays with it

00:41:29

Man from Gilo:

He doesn't just shoot at Israelis, he plays with it

00:41:32

Man from Gilo:

Does this blow up a tank?

00:41:34

Man from Gilo:

This is weapon of the Palestinians

00:41:36

Man from Gilo:

And I would love you to show the weapons of the Israelis

00:41:41

00:41:42

Man from Gilo:

Tanks and Apaches

00:41:43

View of Bethlehem

00:41:44

00:41:47

Narrator:

Seeing it from their point of view was very disturbing

00:41:47

Streets of Bethlehem

00:41:55

Streets of Bethlehem

Carlo's family watching TV with Khader's motther

Narrator:

Many hoped that celebrations of new millennium would mark the beginning of a new era; one of prosperity and an advance in the stagnated peace process.

00:42:05

Performers on stage (new year)

00:42:10

Man cleaning street

Streets of Bethlehem (Jeep passing)

Narrator:

In May 2000 Israel terminated 18 years of military presence in South Lebanon.

00:42:17

View of the city

Murky skies- church and mosque tops

Narrator:

In July of that year, under heavy pressure by the Israeli PM Barak and US president Clinton, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president, arrived to a peace summit in Washington.

00:42:28

People walking in the hazy streets

Narrator:

Anything less than an end to the conflict was to be considered a failure.

00:42:34

Narrator:

The Camp David summit indeed failed. The Israelis and the Palestinians could not agree on the terms to a final status agreement, especially on sensitive matters such as the Palestinian demand for a right of return and the status of Jerusalem and its neighbourhoods.

00:42:51

Narrator:

The peace process seemed to have reached an impasse. Any hope that remained before was replaced by frustration and hopelessness.

00:42:59

Narrator:

All that was needed then was a spark to ignite the flames, and that spark did not take long to arrive.

00:43:06

Narrator:

In August I spoke with a member of Hammas which told me they have a plan on a scale which was never seen before

00:43:13

People walking through the streets

Police driving through dark streets

Narrator:

In September 29^th 2000,  following a controversial visit of the Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, mass protests erupted, which very quickly escalated to widespread violence

00:43:28

00:43:35

Narrator:

Months later reports started appearing stating that the Intifada was planned long before hand

00:43:36

Streets and buildings of the city

00:43:38

Streets and buildings of the city

Narrator:

By the end of the first week 86 Palestinians were dead

00:43:43

Streets and buildings of the city

Narrator:

300 were injured and the riots had spread into the entire occupied territories in what has become the second Intifada.

00:43:49

Streets and buildings of the city

Narrator:

Unlike the uprising of 1987, this time the struggle was not confined to the West Bank and Gaza and to throwing stones or Molotov cocktails on soldiers.

00:44:01

Streets and buildings of the city

Narrator:

The two populations were now embroiled in a bloody reality of curfews, searches and military raids on one side

00:44:10

00:44:13

Palestinian flag on top of a house

Narrator:

and on the other side, shootings and suicide bombings

00:44:13

Israeli soldier talking to Palestinian

00:44:15

Narrator:

In my crossing over to Bethlehem, I asked the soldiers manning the check-point what they think

00:44:28

Soldier talking at the Military checkpoint in the entrance to Bethlehem

Soldier 1:

You see that fence there, a lot try to go from there but we chase them

00:44:33

Soldier talking

Soldier 1:

Those we catch we delay

00:44:35

Rows of people walking on a path

00:44:38

Soldiers talking by checkpoint

Soldier 2:

I am willing to bet that they all come in

There were a thousand, now what's left? 200? 100? 50?

00:44:43

Camera:

So what, you are kidding yourselves?

00:44:46

Soldier 2:

Yeah, it's a joke, no?

00:44:48

Men walking up a path

Soldier 1:

I told you it's a problem, they go from around

00:44:50

Soldier 2:

He infiltrates

Goes with a bag under the trees

00:44:53

00:44:54

Soldier talking

You don't know what's in the bag, right?

00:44:55

Women and men entering a minibus

00:45:09

Men getting into cars

Soldier 2:

Listen, they need to work

If I had to work to bring food for my children you know what I would do?

00:45:12

Soldier 2:

After all what is Barak doing? This is not ok.

00:45:18

People showing permits to soldiers at checkpoint

Soldier 2:

There are many people without a permit

00:45:21

Soldier 2:

Hospital- you won't let them in?

00:45:22

People showing permit to soldiers at the checkpoint

People crossing

Soldier 2:

A woman comes nine months pregnant. Has to give birth. She says just a hospital visit, that's it

What, I won't let her in?

00:45:29

A man pulling permit out to show soldier.

Soldier 2:

What? No.

Listern, you don't hurt people.

00:45:33

Man showing his permit

Soldier 1:

How do I feel being here?

00:45:36

Soldier 1:

It's hard work.

It is not exactly fun.

00:45:39

Soldier 1:

But that's how it is, you do the job

00:45:41

Soldier talking, a woman walking in the background behind him

Soldier 2:

Dying to work, I will tell her not to?

00:45:44

Woman walking

Camera:

So you turn a blind eye?

00:45:46

Soldier 2:

I don't talk. Let her go. I am not scared of anyone, let her come in

00:45:50

00:45:55

Woman walking.

Fade into black screen

Soldier 2:

It'd be like arresting my mother. She has 13 kids at home. What kind of thing is that?

00:45:56

People running and rushing through the streets of Bethlehem

Military Jeeps riding through the streets

Army call in the background- calls through speaker

00:46:04

Jeeps through streets

People running.

People closing there shops

Narrator:

Three years on, the conflict has accelerated. There are no exceptions, no one going out, and nobody coming in.

00:46:18

Soldiers standing by their jeeps as people run and clear the streets

People closing shops

Jeeps driving by

People running

Elizabeth's father closing his shop

00:46:57

Jeep stops - door opens- a gas bomb is thrown towards the film crew

Narrator:

Even the media is advised not to enter Bethlehem.

00:47:13

Jeep backs away

People running in the streets

Narrator:

I found myself running along with everyone else when the Curfew was called.

00:47:22

Elizabeth's father hurrying along a street

I followed Elizabeth father, which kindly let me into their home

What do they say in the speakers?

00:47:30

Elizabeth's father hurrying along a street

Narrator:

Trying to disappear.

00:47:34

Elizabeth's father walking down stairs to the house

Narrator:

I followed Elizabeth's father who kindly let me into his home

00:47:46

Elizabeth's father entering the house

Narrator:

I asked - what do they say in the speakers?

00:47:49

Elizabeth's father entering the house

Elizabeth:

Nothing, just ‘go home'- ‘it's curfew'

00:47:52

Elizabeth:

Until, I don't know, until they will lift it again

00:47:56

Elizabeth:

And those which don't obey will receive harsh punishment

00:48:01

Elizabeth at home

Narrator:

What is harsh punishment?

00:48:03

Elizabeth:

Hitting, getting a 500 shekels fine.

About two... one week ago they lined all the taxi drivers and their cars in one row

00:48:13

Elizabeth house and family

Elizabeth:

Like... like a wedding!

00:48:16

Elizabeth's house and family

Elizabeth:

Walking in beith Jalla, Beith Sahur... for a day

00:48:22

Elizabeth's sister sowing

Elizabeth:

There is another one, like a lottery

00:48:24

Elizabeth

Elizabeth:

Hit bones or hit the head or break the... the hand or the leg

00:48:30

Elizabeth:

So they guy will lift one

and the soldier will do what the paper says

00:48:36

00:48:40

That's the third punishment

A lot of punishments

00:48:41

Jeeps driving through the streets of the city

An ambulance

Man closing shop

Women walking in the street

00:49:09

Empty streets- a cat walks by

Narrator:

Carlo is now married

00:49:10

An ambulance passes.

Empty square with a single person passing

Narrator:

Adnan still has the same souvenir shop

00:49:14

00:49:16

Narrator:

Khader has his own food stand

00:49:17

Television showing Elizabeth and her Fiancé

Elizabeth at home

Elizabeth's family watching television

Narrator:

And Elizabeth is engaged to be married

00:49:28

Elizabeth's brother sitting

Narrator:

I asked- Have you ever been out in the curfew yourself?

00:49:32

Elizabeth's brother:

Not all the time.

Sometimes

00:49:35

Narrator:

I asked him how it felt

00:49:36

Elizabeth little sister playing with dolls

Elizabeth's brother:

For me not terrible, normal.

00:49:42

Elizabeth's little sister playing

Elizabeth's brother talking

Elizabeth's brother:

Walking in the free streets, no people

Went to friends home

Playing cards that's it

00:49:50

Narrator:

And if he saw a soldier, what would he do?

00:49:54

00:49:57

Elizabeth's brother:

Run away, of course.

00:49:58

Elizabeth's family watching the news on TV- showing injured in the west bank

00:50:13

Bethlehem abandoned streets

Jeep through the alleyways

00:50:24

Kids throwing stones and running away

00:50:30

Carlo walking into his house

Carlo:

The Israeli soldiers, they came here, they destroy everything. I was in the house, but I went outside, maybe they will kill me even though I didn't do anything

00:50:37

Carlo showing damage down to furniture in his house

Carlo:

This is from the soldiers, the Israeli soldiers.

00:50:40

Camera:

They came to the house?

00:50:41

Carlo showing furniture

Carlo's mother and wife on a sofa

Carlo:

They came to the house

All the furniture is like this

Carlo's mother:

All this is like that

Here...

00:50: