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(rhythmic music)
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(twangy guitar music)
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- We've just arrived in Tel Aviv.
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We're here on the beach, it's really nice.
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It's deceptively nice,
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because 20 miles that
way is the West Bank,
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which Israel has been
occupying since 1967.
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And the reason we're
interested in the West Bank
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is because the other thing that Israel has
been doing there is building settlements.
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So we're gonna head over there
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and find out what that's like.
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(speaking foreign language)
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- Israel conquered the West
Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967,
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after three Arab nations
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battled the newly minted Jewish
state in the Six Days War.
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Israel was only 20 years old at the time
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and its victory
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was hailed as a David
versus Goliath triumph.
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A lot of water's passed
under the bridge since then,
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and what was supposed to have
been a temporary occupation
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of the Palestinian territories
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has turned into four and
a half decades of misery
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for the Arab residents in the West Bank.
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Aside from the fact that the
West Bank is criss-crossed
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with barbed wire, walls,
and military checkpoints,
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over 300,000 Israelis have
taken it upon themselves
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to settle what was supposed to be
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the future Palestinian state.
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According to international law,
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the settlements are totally illegal.
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They represent a colonization of the lands
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that are slated for
hand-over to the Palestinians
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under an agreement that both Israel
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and the Palestinians signed in 1993.
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As a result, the peace process
has ground to a halt.
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And the much-lauded two-state solution
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is looking less likely than ever before.
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(praying and chanting)
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I wanted to find out who the settlers were
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and what motivated them to pick up sticks
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and move across the green line
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to become the most notorious squatters
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the world has ever known.
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But first,
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I decided to get some
counter-terrorism training
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in a West Bank gun range,
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with a member of Israel's Special Forces.
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- Ready!
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- Just in case.
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We're on a firing range in a
settlement in the West Bank
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and these guys behind me are civilians
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training to do border security.
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And they've got some
pretty mean-looking guns.
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- Is this a safe gun?
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No such thing as a safe gun.
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Guns were made for killing.
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(shouting)
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(gunshots popping)
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You're standing at the
entrance to the synagogue.
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Inside, there's a terror attack happening.
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Okay, I want you to imagine.
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You standing in ready
position, pointing your weapon
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inside the synagogue, trying
to take care of the terrorists.
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Remember how we defined counter-terrorism,
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as combat in a civilian area.
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We don't want to hurt civilians.
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We have to protect them, correct?
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This not an Xbox, it's not games.
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We don't push a reset button
and then you get a new life.
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There's real bullets outside,
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there's a real possibility
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that I'll never see my kids again.
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Ah!
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Simon's scared of me.
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- No shit.
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I was starting to think this guy's job
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was just to scare the crap out of anyone
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who showed up for the training.
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- Go, fight!
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- Turns out, I wasn't the only who
thought it would be a good idea
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to get some training.
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A Canadian woman we nicknamed Sarah Connor
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had brought her whole family along
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for the fear-fest.
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Doesn't hurt to know how to
use an AK, though, right?
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And for what it's worth,
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her daughter turned out to
be a pretty good marksman.
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(gunshots booming)
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- Well, I hit it
twice.
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Didn't do as well as the 10-year-old girl.
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- Not bad.
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- Do you think it's important for
everybody who moves to Israel
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to have this kind of
counter-terrorism training?
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- Look, counter-terrorism training, I
don't think it's important for everyone
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unless you encounter terrorists.
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But to have an awareness of terrorism...
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- So why do so many
people carry around guns?
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- I don't, I don't know.
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Maybe to feel safe.
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I think, people think that,
oh, I've got a gun at home,
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and if I wake up and there's a terrorist,
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I could take care of my family.
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Maybe that's what's going
through their minds.
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- I discovered that it
was easy for a settler
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to get a gun license in the West Bank.
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All they had to do was qualify
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at a shooting range like this one.
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The Palestinians living in the same area
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are never packing, because
Israel doesn't allow it.
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It turned out our trainer,
Steve, was himself a settler,
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who'd moved into the West
Bank from South Africa.
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When we arrived at his settlement,
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I was surprised to see it look
more like an American suburb
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than an outpost in a hostile territory.
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The community that you live in was built
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in the particular place that it was built
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because of the historic
significance of the place?
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- Yeah, most of the little areas here,
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they've actually found signs of
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ancient Jewish settlement there.
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We feel that we're
reviving the past, kind of.
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- Right.
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So you're saying, your settlement
is right on the right here
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and some fields that are used by
Palestinians are on the left.
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Are there any sort of
confrontations between
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the people working in these fields
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and people from your settlement?
- Not often.
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Occasionally I've been
called in to what we call,
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it's called a hadira,
that's an infiltration.
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I've caught, on a few occasions,
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Arabs that have
infiltrated the settlement.
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They've come to steal.
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In my mind, also, I think
it's quite a clever way
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for them to gather information,
see how quickly we react,
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by taking all this information in.
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So we've got to be really alert.
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- Do you ever worry about your kids,
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that they could get hurt?
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(Steve sighing)
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- I think every parent
worries about their kids.
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- But do you ever question your decision
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to bring them out here--
- No, no.
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- In such close proximity--
- No, no.
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- To people who aren't very
happy with your presence?
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- No, I mean, I'll tell you,
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that--
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- That's not something you think about.
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- That's not something I think about.
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- It turns out, the Israeli
state has given his settlement,
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and many others like it, its full backing.
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But like most settlements, it
hadn't started out this way.
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It was once an encampment
that was considered illegal,
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even by Israel.
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But over the years, the
settlers have learned
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that if they squat a site in
the West Bank long enough,
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Israel will give them its
approval, its infrastructure,
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and its security.
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You don't feel that coming here
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would provoke your Arab
neighbors, though, into violence?
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- I don't see why it should.
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Look, again, what I'm saying is that
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I don't think it's right,
taking other people's land.
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I don't think it's right for me to,
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these guys are working hard.
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They've been working these fields
now for maybe two generations.
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You should just know, that's maximum.
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When we're talking about Palestinian
people, we're maximum talking about
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maybe one and a half to two generations.
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The Jewish people have
been here for 5,000 years.
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This dates back another 3,000 years ago
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that this was active and used.
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We're not just a fabrication that this is,
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oh, we want this place.
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I understand that they were
here for whatever reasons,
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we were exiled out of Israel,
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but we were given the
opportunity to come back.
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- Now this was an incredible
fabrication on Steve's part.
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The notion that the Palestinians
had only lived on this land
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for two generations was totally false.
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But the idea that Jews
had a historic claim
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to the West Bank's territories
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that trumped any Palestinian claims
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was one I'd hear over and
over in the next few days,
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and turned out to be a major
part of the settler ideology
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that ran directly counter to
the two-state solution plan.
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Steve was an interesting guy.
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Our shooting instructor is also a settler,
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and somehow he made being
a commando in the West Bank
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seem almost normal.
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But the settlement he's
from is really established,
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and we want to find places that are newer,
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where people are
literally on an encampment
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at the top of a hill and
starting a brand-new settlement.
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(upbeat music)
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We headed out in the morning to see
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if we could find some Jewish
outposts in the West Bank,
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ones that were small,
unestablished, and unauthorized.
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We decided to drive to Havat Gilad,
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which is known for having clashed
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with both its Palestinian neighbors
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as well as the Israeli
Police force and the Army.
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Israel has a love-hate
relationship with the settlers.
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Nearly 40% of Israelis think the settlers
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shouldn't be in the West
Bank, but their views
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have never translated
into government policy.
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And many blame this on the influence
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of extremist religious parties
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who believe that the
Palestinian territories
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were promised to them by God.
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Israel's prime minister says
he wants a two-state solution,
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but he's never actually said he
wants to evacuate the settlements.
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And although he recently broke free
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of a coalition with the religious parties,
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he's still a strong supporter
of the settlement enterprise.
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(speaking foreign language)
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- There is no
government that supports
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or will support settlements
more than the government I lead.
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- This means Palestinians can expect
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more settler expansion and more
attention with the Israelis
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and their army.
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And on our way to the settlement,
we noticed a bit of a commotion
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involving a bunch of Palestinians
and some Israeli soldiers.
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We saw off to the side of the
road this group of Palestinians,
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but they're being watched over
by Israeli security forces.
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So we're wondering what's going on here.
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- It turns out, Israel
had mobilized its army
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to allow an Israeli archaeological
team to dig up a field.
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The Palestinian villagers weren't happy
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because they saw it as the first step
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in the expansion of a nearby settlement.
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This is totally crazy because
this is an archaeological dig
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being carried out by
the Israeli authorities
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in the West Bank.
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And this is how many soldiers you need
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in order to protect this
archaeological excavation.
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But what's even more nuts
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is that the Palestinians
are doing the manual labor.
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So the Israelis have hired Palestinians
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to do an illegal excavation in
the Palestinian territories.
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- What is this place?
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What is the significance of this site?
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But they're on the wrong
side of the green line
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for doing archaeological digs.
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No?
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I mean I'm just asking if that's correct.
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- I don't know, I don't know.
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- I don't know, I
don't know.
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- No picture today.
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- So those soldiers really didn't
want me to talk to the Palestinians,
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who are apparently upset
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about this archaeological
dig taking place here.
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The reason they're upset is because
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a lot of times when the Israelis
do an archaeological dig,
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they then build a sort of memorial
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around any Jewish
artifacts that they find,
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and it becomes a place of pilgrimage
for the settlers who come here.
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And then, bit by bit,
the Palestinians feel
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that they're losing even more land.
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It turns out the guy who
was leading the excavation,
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and who casually shrugged
us off, was Michael Ben-Ari,
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an ultra-right member
of Israel's parliament
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who lived in the
settlement across the road.
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And Ben-Ari had a history
of questionable behavior.
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Besides openly advocating for
the departure of Palestinians
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from the West Bank,
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the US refused to grant
him a visitor's visa
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because he'd been included
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on the State Department's
Terrorist Watch List.
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Oh, and he's also been known
to post heartwarming photos
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on his Facebook page, like this one,
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which shows him and a
buddy relaxing on a couch
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confiscated from an Arab family
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that had just been
evicted from their home.
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Unfortunately, the
soldiers were pressuring us
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to leave the site.
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So we got back on the road
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and continued our trek to Havat Gilad,
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which is known for attracting
its own set of problems.
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Besides it being a hot spot for violence,
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Israel is known to come
in and routinely bulldoze
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these illegal outposts.
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But the settlers are always
more than happy to rebuild.
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So we were curious to see
what shape the place was in.
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When we arrived, we
came upon two teenagers
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who were building a
house from the ground up.
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(hammer banging)
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There to tell us about their
lives were Simcha and Yosef,
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a pair of teenagers who were busy doing
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what settlers in the area did best,
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building a house without a permit.
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When they hear somebody say
the West Bank, they think that
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it's a war zone, it's dangerous.
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You're living right next
door to Arabic villages.
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Are you fearful for your
own safety, moving out here?
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There's no fence around
this settlement at all.
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You're kind of exposed.
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- I don't feel any,
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like I'm afraid.
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I have God here.
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So.
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You getting used to it.
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- But can you even hear the call to prayer
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going now from the nearby Arabic town?
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- Actually annoying.
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- Simcha didn't seem to have much sympathy
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for his Palestinian
neighbors or their culture.
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But then again, he was kind of pissed
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because a couple of weeks ago
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they'd apparently burned down a house
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he'd helped build, and killed his dog.
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- Came in the morning,
and they saw nobody here.
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And then came two guys
and just burned the house.
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So after, all of our guys,
they went to the village
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and start fighting there,
and it was a big mess, yeah.
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- From our guys?
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No.
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- I think so, yeah.
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- Yeah, probably, they afraid.
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- We don't meet girls.
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That's one of the problems.
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- Lonely, no, I never get lonely.
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(hammering)
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(guitar music)
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- So you're gonna start a settlement band?
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- Yeah.
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We're gonna just make Jewish blues,
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some kind of something like that.
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- Kind of.
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- Ah, yeah.
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(guitar music)
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- Simcha struck
me as an oddly normal teen
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for someone who is taking
part in a blatant land grab.
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But the settlers don't see it that way.
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In their view, God had
promised the Jews this land.
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End of story.
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- What do you think the Arabs want?
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- Does it make you angry that most of the
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international community
agrees with the Palestinians
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in that you shouldn't be in the West Bank?
340
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- Have you personally had any
problems with Israeli police?
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(plangent Middle Eastern music)
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- Simcha and I left Yosef
to do some construction
343
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while we took a stroll
around the settlement.
344
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I suppose if you do like
everybody else here,
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you have to start your own family soon.
346
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- Yeah.
347
00:17:12,085 --> 00:17:15,306
- But you also have to go to the
military, so how do you do both?
348
00:17:15,331 --> 00:17:17,748
- I do military and I'm done.
349
00:17:18,978 --> 00:17:20,739
- But you want to go to the army?
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00:17:20,739 --> 00:17:22,551
- Yeah, I want to go the army, yeah.
351
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- Can you imagine a situation
where you'd be part of a unit
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that was ordered to provide
security for a demolition?
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- Never.
354
00:17:31,890 --> 00:17:33,319
No.
355
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- What about the demolition
of a Palestinian's house?
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- I'll be happy to do it.
357
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That will be my dream.
358
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- Simcha introduced me to Yair,
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a 19-year-old who was about
to enlist in the army.
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Yair's house had recently
been destroyed by the police,
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and he seemed even more
vocally opinionated
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than both Yosef and Simcha.
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I wonder if you tried to look at it
364
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from the perspective of the Palestinians.
365
00:18:01,517 --> 00:18:03,513
Their fathers were here,
their grandfathers were
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here, and their
great-great-grandfathers were here.
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They don't know any other country.
- They do.
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00:18:08,542 --> 00:18:10,587
- They might say, where
are we supposed to go?
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00:18:10,612 --> 00:18:13,099
- You know how many
countries of Arab there is?
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22.
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We have one.
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And now we have half of it.
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Not even all of it.
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And the little piece we have,
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they want to steal from us again.
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00:18:23,799 --> 00:18:25,875
- Would it be really stupid of me to say
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that the Canaanites
were here before Israel?
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00:18:28,714 --> 00:18:31,088
Maybe their descendants can claim to have
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00:18:31,113 --> 00:18:32,340
more rights than Jews.
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00:18:32,340 --> 00:18:34,987
- You see the Canaanim now?
381
00:18:34,987 --> 00:18:36,713
You see them anywhere?
382
00:18:36,713 --> 00:18:38,540
- No, I'm just trying to make a point
383
00:18:38,565 --> 00:18:40,970
that history moves in many
places, and many different ways.
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- History moves.
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Again, the Jewish people
didn't move a millimeter.
386
00:18:45,796 --> 00:18:49,225
- But even Israel says
this isn't your property.
387
00:18:49,250 --> 00:18:53,347
- I feel sorry for the
government that they feel
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00:18:53,347 --> 00:18:56,108
that they still in Poland and Germany.
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00:18:56,108 --> 00:18:58,508
And they think, oy, Obama.
390
00:18:58,508 --> 00:19:00,307
Oy, we are afraid of Obama.
391
00:19:00,307 --> 00:19:02,337
We are afraid of all
the rest of the world.
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00:19:02,337 --> 00:19:04,892
We are not in 1945 anymore. That's it.
393
00:19:04,917 --> 00:19:07,692
No Jew is going into the
burning places anymore.
394
00:19:07,692 --> 00:19:09,828
That's it.
Finish, done.
395
00:19:09,828 --> 00:19:11,569
- Is it true that
settlers sometimes attack
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00:19:11,569 --> 00:19:13,899
a Palestinian village as a reprisal
397
00:19:13,899 --> 00:19:18,704
against the Israeli police
destroying a settler's house?
398
00:19:18,704 --> 00:19:20,435
- I heard about those things,
399
00:19:20,435 --> 00:19:23,857
but as a settler, I never did that.
400
00:19:23,857 --> 00:19:25,109
I never saw that.
401
00:19:25,109 --> 00:19:27,276
I have no idea what they speaking about.
402
00:19:27,276 --> 00:19:30,867
I believe that it's a
manipulation of the media.
403
00:19:30,867 --> 00:19:33,289
Every media guy has a agenda.
404
00:19:33,289 --> 00:19:34,820
My father always says that
405
00:19:34,820 --> 00:19:38,265
the only true thing in
the newspaper is the date.
406
00:19:38,265 --> 00:19:40,496
That's it.
This is my ideology.
407
00:19:40,496 --> 00:19:41,540
This is what I believe in.
408
00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:43,656
I believe that the Israeli people
409
00:19:43,656 --> 00:19:46,594
should live
anywhere in Israel.
410
00:19:48,637 --> 00:19:51,293
- I headed back to meet
with Simcha and Yosef,
411
00:19:51,293 --> 00:19:52,998
who'd taken a break from construction,
412
00:19:52,998 --> 00:19:54,303
and were ordering a pizza
413
00:19:54,303 --> 00:19:57,195
from a nearby settlement called Kedumim.
414
00:19:57,195 --> 00:20:00,692
The goal for Havat Gilad and
Kedumim is to eventually merge
415
00:20:00,692 --> 00:20:03,130
and form a settlement
bloc, which would, in turn,
416
00:20:03,130 --> 00:20:07,037
separate the Palestinian
villages on either side of it.
417
00:20:07,037 --> 00:20:09,841
In the meantime, I headed back to Tel Aviv
418
00:20:09,841 --> 00:20:13,674
across the Green Line,
and into Israel proper.
419
00:20:15,947 --> 00:20:18,530
(upbeat music)
420
00:20:22,838 --> 00:20:25,022
After spending the night in Tel Aviv,
421
00:20:25,022 --> 00:20:27,082
it was time to head back to the West Bank
422
00:20:27,082 --> 00:20:29,224
for a Palestinian protest,
423
00:20:29,224 --> 00:20:31,271
which was only about 30 miles away,
424
00:20:31,271 --> 00:20:34,914
but things are never
as easy as they sound.
425
00:20:34,914 --> 00:20:36,842
In addition to all the usual barriers
426
00:20:36,842 --> 00:20:39,755
between Israel and the
Palestinian territories,
427
00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:42,417
the heavens had conspired
to shut down traffic
428
00:20:42,417 --> 00:20:45,638
across Tel Aviv for the annual marathon.
429
00:20:45,638 --> 00:20:47,867
This was a celebration of fitness
430
00:20:47,867 --> 00:20:49,792
that I hadn't prepared for.
431
00:20:49,792 --> 00:20:51,944
(speaking foreign language)
432
00:20:51,944 --> 00:20:54,254
It's Friday morning in Tel Aviv.
433
00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:57,879
We're going to the West
Bank where it's Land Day,
434
00:20:57,879 --> 00:21:01,640
and all of Palestine
celebrates their land.
435
00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,026
But it's also an occasion
436
00:21:03,026 --> 00:21:04,978
when they clash with Israeli troops,
437
00:21:04,978 --> 00:21:07,542
so we're gonna see what that vibe is like.
438
00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:11,772
We're having to carry all of our stuff
across the entire city, and frankly,
439
00:21:11,772 --> 00:21:14,022
it's really pissing me off.
440
00:21:16,461 --> 00:21:18,508
This is the Qalandia checkpoint.
441
00:21:18,508 --> 00:21:21,380
There's tons of soldiers and
police here today because
442
00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:24,129
they're expecting a confrontation
443
00:21:24,129 --> 00:21:27,429
with the Palestinian demonstrators.
444
00:21:27,429 --> 00:21:30,365
We're going across the
checkpoint while we can,
445
00:21:30,365 --> 00:21:32,486
because once the trouble starts,
446
00:21:32,486 --> 00:21:34,736
they're gonna shut it down.
447
00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,848
(gate clanking)
448
00:21:38,848 --> 00:21:40,408
Oh, man, not another one.
449
00:21:40,408 --> 00:21:42,741
You've got to be kidding me.
450
00:21:44,406 --> 00:21:46,500
(loudspeaker echoing)
451
00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:49,411
Okay, now I'm pretty sure we're here.
452
00:21:49,411 --> 00:21:51,740
Three hours after we
set out from Tel Aviv,
453
00:21:51,740 --> 00:21:55,965
we were finally in the seat of the
Palestinian Authority, Ramallah.
454
00:21:57,107 --> 00:21:58,847
We met Tawfiq Haddad,
455
00:21:58,847 --> 00:22:00,798
a Palestinian-American who'd agreed
456
00:22:00,798 --> 00:22:04,718
to take us on a sporting
event of a different kind.
457
00:22:04,718 --> 00:22:07,385
(siren wailing)
458
00:22:10,227 --> 00:22:12,418
Palestinians were marking Land Day,
459
00:22:12,418 --> 00:22:14,718
an annual event that draws
attention to the fact
460
00:22:14,718 --> 00:22:17,181
that the territory they
control keeps shrinking
461
00:22:17,181 --> 00:22:19,159
and shrinking
in inverse proportion
462
00:22:19,159 --> 00:22:23,965
to the amount of land controlled
by Israel and its settlers.
463
00:22:23,965 --> 00:22:26,275
- Land Day for the Palestinians
is a catastrophe day.
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When the Palestinian land has been taken,
465
00:22:28,340 --> 00:22:30,429
Palestinians became
refugees around the world
466
00:22:30,429 --> 00:22:32,121
because the Zionists
has been expelled them
467
00:22:32,121 --> 00:22:33,895
from their land in '48.
468
00:22:33,895 --> 00:22:36,493
We are still, until now, suffering from,
469
00:22:36,493 --> 00:22:38,978
in the diaspora,
from this refugee problem.
470
00:22:38,978 --> 00:22:40,611
They want to keep
their occupation and
471
00:22:40,636 --> 00:22:42,747
colonization forever. This
is not going to happen.
472
00:22:42,747 --> 00:22:44,055
- But their
politicians say
473
00:22:44,055 --> 00:22:46,186
they want to have a two-state solution.
474
00:22:46,186 --> 00:22:47,572
- This is lip services.
475
00:22:47,572 --> 00:22:49,160
If you really, as a politician,
476
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,402
want two-state solution,
prove it in the ground.
477
00:22:51,402 --> 00:22:52,711
Stop your settlements.
478
00:22:52,711 --> 00:22:55,431
Take out your settlers from
the West Bank and Jerusalem,
479
00:22:55,431 --> 00:22:56,776
and stop demolishing the houses
480
00:22:56,776 --> 00:22:59,964
and the ethnic cleansing
and confiscating the land.
481
00:22:59,964 --> 00:23:01,627
Stop the wall that you are building.
482
00:23:01,627 --> 00:23:05,794
Then we can believe that
you want two-state solution.
483
00:23:14,237 --> 00:23:15,535
- The protests were taking place
484
00:23:15,535 --> 00:23:19,016
at the Qalandia checkpoint that
I'd crossed through earlier.
485
00:23:19,016 --> 00:23:22,678
And Israel's security forces
were determined not to let any
486
00:23:22,678 --> 00:23:24,717
of the Palestinians near it.
487
00:23:24,717 --> 00:23:26,513
(siren wailing)
(horns honking)
488
00:23:26,513 --> 00:23:28,788
Meanwhile, a local cell
phone company decided
489
00:23:28,788 --> 00:23:31,246
that the madness erupting all around
490
00:23:31,246 --> 00:23:34,781
was the perfect place to
advertise its services.
491
00:23:34,781 --> 00:23:37,582
So the funny thing is while
this protest is going on,
492
00:23:37,582 --> 00:23:39,585
somebody's handing out these hats.
493
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:41,072
And what these actually are are
494
00:23:41,072 --> 00:23:43,249
from the local cell phone company
495
00:23:43,249 --> 00:23:46,789
because apparently, Palestinians
never miss an opportunity
496
00:23:46,789 --> 00:23:48,836
to do some direct marketing.
497
00:23:48,836 --> 00:23:51,131
- What are they fucking happy,
people are gonna die today
498
00:23:51,156 --> 00:23:55,015
and they just want them to
be wearing the Jawwal hat?
499
00:23:55,015 --> 00:23:56,482
(horn honking)
500
00:23:56,482 --> 00:23:58,271
- Land Day demonstrations like this one
501
00:23:58,271 --> 00:24:00,715
were taking place all around the West Bank
502
00:24:00,715 --> 00:24:03,615
and along the borders of
Israel and Syria-Lebanon
503
00:24:03,615 --> 00:24:06,183
and in Gaza, where one of the protesters,
504
00:24:06,183 --> 00:24:08,364
just 20 years old, was shot dead
505
00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:11,048
as he approached an Israeli crossing.
506
00:24:11,048 --> 00:24:14,168
But I'd heard that Palestinian
demonstrators weren't the only ones
507
00:24:14,168 --> 00:24:16,288
in the habit of throwing stones.
508
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:18,468
So I headed to an
ordinary Palestinian town
509
00:24:18,468 --> 00:24:21,201
a bit further away from all the commotion
510
00:24:21,201 --> 00:24:23,223
to hear their side of the story.
511
00:24:23,223 --> 00:24:27,390
(horn honking)
(siren wailing)
512
00:24:29,205 --> 00:24:32,455
(plucked string music)
513
00:24:40,543 --> 00:24:42,525
We've seen a lot of settlers,
514
00:24:42,525 --> 00:24:44,879
and we've seen their
settlements and their homes,
515
00:24:44,879 --> 00:24:48,172
but we really haven't got the
Palestinian perspective at all.
516
00:24:48,172 --> 00:24:50,099
And apparently, the Palestinians
517
00:24:50,099 --> 00:24:51,845
are often attacked by settlers.
518
00:24:51,845 --> 00:24:54,054
So we've come to this
town, Asira al-Qibliya,
519
00:24:54,054 --> 00:24:56,559
to get their perspective on things.
520
00:24:56,559 --> 00:24:59,034
This is the end of the road
in this Palestinian town,
521
00:24:59,034 --> 00:25:00,933
so these houses here are the ones
522
00:25:00,933 --> 00:25:03,947
that are closest to the
Jewish settlement up the hill.
523
00:25:03,947 --> 00:25:06,247
And they face the brunt of the attacks
524
00:25:06,247 --> 00:25:08,556
when the settlers come
down throwing stones.
525
00:25:08,556 --> 00:25:10,705
And the owners of some of
these houses are telling us
526
00:25:10,705 --> 00:25:14,872
that the Israeli army
doesn't do anything about it.
527
00:25:50,205 --> 00:25:51,940
- He showed us
videos he'd taken himself
528
00:25:51,940 --> 00:25:55,018
of the settler attacks where
you could see youths come down
529
00:25:55,018 --> 00:25:59,185
from the settlement above
the village to throw stones.
530
00:26:02,433 --> 00:26:05,916
- The worst thing about it was that they
were accompanied by the Israeli army,
531
00:26:05,916 --> 00:26:09,122
who were supposedly there
to separate the two groups,
532
00:26:09,122 --> 00:26:13,289
but were in fact doing nothing
to stop the settler attack.
533
00:26:19,451 --> 00:26:21,996
- A few weeks after
we visited Asira al-Qibliya,
534
00:26:21,996 --> 00:26:23,755
the settler attacks resumed.
535
00:26:23,755 --> 00:26:26,239
But this time, two Palestinian villagers
536
00:26:26,239 --> 00:26:29,193
who were throwing stones and
approaching Jewish youths
537
00:26:29,193 --> 00:26:31,603
were shot by the settlers
with live ammunition
538
00:26:31,603 --> 00:26:34,476
during two separate attacks.
539
00:26:34,476 --> 00:26:36,988
Both times, the Israeli army did nothing
540
00:26:36,988 --> 00:26:39,021
to restrain the settlers.
541
00:26:39,021 --> 00:26:40,095
(gunfire popping)
(whistling)
542
00:26:40,095 --> 00:26:43,262
Fortunately though, both men survived.
543
00:27:08,456 --> 00:27:12,558
- The situation was obviously
very tense and very dangerous,
544
00:27:12,558 --> 00:27:16,263
but this wasn't the only place
under a fair bit of pressure.
545
00:27:16,263 --> 00:27:19,617
The Migron settlement is one
of the few Jewish outposts
546
00:27:19,617 --> 00:27:21,945
that have received clear-cut court orders
547
00:27:21,945 --> 00:27:24,137
to be totally dismantled.
548
00:27:24,137 --> 00:27:26,068
This is Migron, an illegal outpost,
549
00:27:26,068 --> 00:27:29,302
and Israel has ordered all
of this to be demolished
550
00:27:29,302 --> 00:27:30,549
in a few months.
551
00:27:30,549 --> 00:27:33,357
So it's got a bit of a
Deliverance vibe going on,
552
00:27:33,357 --> 00:27:35,825
not so much because there's
a lot of hillbillies out here
553
00:27:35,825 --> 00:27:38,595
but they're about to flood the valley.
554
00:27:38,595 --> 00:27:41,101
Migron has seen some of
its structures knocked down
555
00:27:41,101 --> 00:27:44,163
by the Israeli authorities
before, but this time,
556
00:27:44,163 --> 00:27:47,186
Israel's high court has
ordered that the entire place
557
00:27:47,186 --> 00:27:48,366
be destroyed
558
00:27:48,366 --> 00:27:52,437
because it was illegally
built on Palestinian land.
559
00:27:52,437 --> 00:27:54,736
(yelling and shouting)
560
00:27:54,736 --> 00:27:56,486
It's a very unusual ruling,
561
00:27:56,486 --> 00:27:59,321
and most Palestinians see it as a one-off
562
00:27:59,321 --> 00:28:01,442
rather than a reversal
of settlement policy
563
00:28:01,442 --> 00:28:03,172
in the West Bank.
564
00:28:03,172 --> 00:28:05,024
I spoke to one of the
residents to find out
565
00:28:05,024 --> 00:28:08,440
how she felt about the
impending demolition.
566
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,322
Do you sympathize with Palestinian people
567
00:28:11,322 --> 00:28:14,425
who also see their houses get demolished
568
00:28:14,425 --> 00:28:16,650
under Israeli bulldozers?
569
00:28:16,650 --> 00:28:19,574
- I see it from another point of view.
570
00:28:19,574 --> 00:28:21,736
I think it's a different story.
571
00:28:21,736 --> 00:28:23,986
Here, nobody killed anyone.
572
00:28:24,928 --> 00:28:28,428
Israel destroying a house for Palestinians
573
00:28:30,308 --> 00:28:32,439
is not for no reason.
574
00:28:32,439 --> 00:28:33,939
Most of the times,
575
00:28:37,328 --> 00:28:39,661
it's because they did a very
576
00:28:40,964 --> 00:28:42,037
wrong thing.
577
00:28:42,037 --> 00:28:45,539
People killing people and other things.
578
00:28:45,539 --> 00:28:48,569
The story here is that
the families did nothing.
579
00:28:48,569 --> 00:28:51,061
It's not that I don't feel sorry, I do.
580
00:28:51,061 --> 00:28:54,382
But I more feel sorry about my own people
581
00:28:54,382 --> 00:28:57,493
that sits under attacks every day,
582
00:28:57,493 --> 00:28:59,290
and we see it all the time.
583
00:28:59,290 --> 00:29:01,425
- So right now must be
a really difficult time
584
00:29:01,425 --> 00:29:03,860
for the residents of Migron
585
00:29:03,860 --> 00:29:05,842
because the high court of Israel
586
00:29:05,842 --> 00:29:09,023
has stated pretty finally that by August,
587
00:29:09,023 --> 00:29:10,837
they want all of this to be demolished.
588
00:29:10,837 --> 00:29:12,750
Do you know what you're going to do?
589
00:29:12,750 --> 00:29:15,261
- We believe that we won't be,
590
00:29:15,261 --> 00:29:17,117
we won't be in the street,
591
00:29:17,117 --> 00:29:19,507
and we work with the
government to find a solution
592
00:29:19,507 --> 00:29:21,507
for this hard situation.
593
00:29:23,742 --> 00:29:26,235
- It's easy to get bogged
down in the legal details
594
00:29:26,235 --> 00:29:29,048
of the status of each
individual settlement,
595
00:29:29,048 --> 00:29:30,890
but the important thing to remember
596
00:29:30,890 --> 00:29:33,640
is that while some sites
face the chopping block,
597
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,293
the total number of
settlers in the West Bank
598
00:29:36,293 --> 00:29:39,419
has grown from just
12,000 in the early '80s
599
00:29:39,419 --> 00:29:41,729
to over 300,000 today.
600
00:29:41,729 --> 00:29:43,630
And that figure doesn't even include
601
00:29:43,630 --> 00:29:47,331
a further 200,000 Israelis
living in East Jerusalem,
602
00:29:47,331 --> 00:29:50,039
according to the activist group Peace Now.
603
00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:51,972
Many have begun asking themselves
604
00:29:51,972 --> 00:29:55,074
if it's even possible for a
Palestinian state to emerge
605
00:29:55,074 --> 00:29:58,463
from a territory crisscrossed
with Jewish settlements.
606
00:29:58,463 --> 00:30:00,856
A couple of miles down
the road from Migron,
607
00:30:00,856 --> 00:30:02,515
just across a small valley,
608
00:30:02,515 --> 00:30:04,776
we saw a shack with a couple of teenagers
609
00:30:04,776 --> 00:30:07,507
poking their head out of
the door to see who we were.
610
00:30:07,507 --> 00:30:09,814
It turned out that the shantytown of one
611
00:30:09,814 --> 00:30:12,615
was yet another unauthorized outpost.
612
00:30:12,615 --> 00:30:14,699
The place isn't marked on any map,
613
00:30:14,699 --> 00:30:16,772
but already it's been
demolished and rebuilt
614
00:30:16,772 --> 00:30:18,524
a few times over.
615
00:30:18,524 --> 00:30:21,761
These kids were without
any adult supervision.
616
00:30:21,761 --> 00:30:25,928
They told me they've named
the place Strength of Zion.
617
00:30:28,144 --> 00:30:29,730
Wow, it's really basic.
618
00:30:29,730 --> 00:30:30,995
There's not even a floor.
619
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:32,399
It's just the grass here.
620
00:30:32,399 --> 00:30:34,263
You've got holes in the roof.
621
00:30:34,263 --> 00:30:36,430
I mean, it's rained today.
622
00:30:50,825 --> 00:30:52,290
- This has been totally incredible.
623
00:30:52,290 --> 00:30:54,890
This is the freshest, most radical outpost
624
00:30:54,890 --> 00:30:57,617
that we've visited so far.
625
00:30:57,617 --> 00:30:59,220
The crazy thing about it is that
626
00:30:59,220 --> 00:31:00,878
the more you talk to these guys,
627
00:31:00,878 --> 00:31:02,168
the more somebody tells you
628
00:31:02,168 --> 00:31:03,536
that God has given them this land,
629
00:31:03,536 --> 00:31:05,583
and that there is no two ways around it.
630
00:31:05,583 --> 00:31:08,364
You kind of start to believe them
631
00:31:08,364 --> 00:31:11,034
and get to the point where you think
632
00:31:11,034 --> 00:31:14,617
a peaceful settlement
is almost impossible.
633
00:31:15,636 --> 00:31:17,728
With so many settlements being built up
634
00:31:17,728 --> 00:31:20,835
on the future territory
of the Palestinian state,
635
00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:23,107
you start to wonder if
Israel is working to make
636
00:31:23,107 --> 00:31:25,352
the two-state solution a reality,
637
00:31:25,352 --> 00:31:27,855
or if it's just telling
the international community
638
00:31:27,855 --> 00:31:30,029
what it wants to hear.
639
00:31:30,029 --> 00:31:32,615
The more Israelis move to the West Bank,
640
00:31:32,615 --> 00:31:37,153
the less viable a Palestinian
state seems to be.
641
00:31:37,153 --> 00:31:38,707
So the real question becomes
642
00:31:38,707 --> 00:31:40,420
whether Palestinians will end up
643
00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:43,408
citizens of a greater
Israel with equal rights
644
00:31:43,408 --> 00:31:47,398
or if they face a permanent
regime of occupation.
645
00:31:47,398 --> 00:31:51,753
(yelling in foreign language)
646
00:31:51,753 --> 00:31:54,336
(upbeat music)