Original subtitles

The Israeli forces continued their attack

resulting in the death of seven young men who where working

in Beit Lahia, six of them from the same family.

President Abbas mourned the death of the young men

who died by Zionist enemy shells

and Aljihad movement issued a statement this morning

threatening to avenge these brutal attacks...

In 2005...

In the second uprising...

We are going to Beit Lahia to meet the enemy...

Israeli soldiers and officers with hands stained with blood.

They might be Shabak...

They might arrest us, assassinate us...

We were born under occupation.

So we were ready to do anything

in order to get our freedom.

Even this.

...and left in Iran

over 500 dead.

The five killed in the suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv restaurant

were buried this morning.

The "Fallen of El-Aksa" have claimed responsibility.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that the IDF will not rest.

Someone called,

there are people who want to meet with us.

As soon as we crossed the roadblock

our fears began to increase.

These people have blood on their hands and are dangerous.

We're a group of Israelis, so this has to be a trap.

I believe that everyone knows that we're Israelis.

Another two notice, it's been planned out.

We don't have any weapons, nothing at all.

I say to myself that I have

no idea how this will end.

We hereby declare the establishment

of the Jewish state in the Land of Israel, the State of Israel.

In the beginning of the journey...

My family's journey, or Palestinian people's journey...

The state of Israel is Palestinians' Nakba.

In 1948...

My family lived in a Palestinian village,

called Laqbeba,

my family lived there for generations...

In 1948 the Israeli Army occupied most of the villages,

all the people of the village fled including my family,

except my grandfather,

he refused to flee away.

Hence he died in his house.

My family moved to live in Dhaisha camp,

and they're still there.

The IDF spokesman reports that about 2:00 p.m. the forces of

Egypt and Syria opened attacks in the Sinai and the Golan.

As a result of Syrian air activity over the Golan

air defense sirens have been sounded throughout the country.

When I was ten years old,

my uncle, who was a fighter in PLO, was killed in Lebanon.

So I asked my mother a few questions,

such as "Why there isn't a Palestinian army?"

"Why we don't go back to our country?"

She said we're living under Israeli occupation

The Israeli Army and Israeli people...

They are ruling the Palestinian people.

Each time they demolished a house in Selwan

there was a police or army forces

to protect the bulldozer that will demolish the house.

When I was young I was not allowed to be there

because it's dangerous.

So we were watching from the roofs,

or from a balcony...

We were watching and feeling the pain.

There was a tremendous anger...

Since I was born I saw by myself

how the occupier destroys us, and kills us.

The first martyr I knew was Ibrahim Mansour.

A college student was visiting his parents in our neighborhood

And they stormed Tulkarem...

And they killed him at our doorsteps.

I cannot forget the blood I saw.

I loved the Palestinian revolutionary songs.

I used to lock myself in the room to listen to them.

I used to dream to become a fighter

in the Palestinian revolution

to wear the Army suit and the Kufiya...

The common weapon back then was the AK-47,

And I wanted to be part of the Armed struggle...

And I watched on the TV...

Also the horrific images...

Of Sabra and Shatila massacre that took place in

the Palestinians refugee camps in Lebanon.

Who did this to us, my mother?

I had tremendous sympathy with those people,

and I felt an urge to avenge.

I was willing to sacrifice my life for these ideas.

The army forced a curfew from 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.

every day, and whoever gets out in these house was arrested...

Or... was harmed.

I was two weeks to become 16 years old.

My brother Nasser was 14.

He went out from our house to my uncle's

which was 50 meter away...

When encountered army in his way he was afraid and escaped.

The soldiers followed him and shot him.

And of course he died.

I don't know how at the time...

I was able to endure the situation...

I felt as if the sky fell upon my head.

As soon as I got the chance I began throwing stones.

The soldiers in the patrol

might shoot at you...

But you can hide behind some kind of barrier...

Throwing stones, and you are masked...

Even if you're carrying a stone and he is carrying a gun.

You feel some king of balance.

Our aim was not to kill him,

but it was discharging our energy and big hatred

towards this entity which caused our pains.

I did not have any fear at all.

But the oppressor and occupier must be defied.

We were under a real volley of stone throwing,

Molotov cocktails and brick and such. They injured soldiers

from my battalion.

It was clear to me that the Army had to increase

the number of troops

in order to protect our civilians

We must make it clear to them where we are

and where they are so they won't dare do anything.

After a while it was not enough to throw stones only

or throwing Molotov...

So I needed to access weapons.

Me and another guy

decided to attack one or two Israeli

and take their weapons.

I did not have a detailed plan...

I might get killed or kill...

I was standing behind one of the two Israeli

and I stabbed him...

And become like you're watching a play.

The fight ended and we escaped.

After a day or two the army came and arrested us,

and I felt like going to the unknown...

I spent my military service as an IAF officer

in a command center.

Earphones over the ears like so, walkie-talkie,

sitting in front of a screen. At that time there were still

round analogue screens that looked like they had been

taken from the series The Time Tunnel.

In order to monitor and support flight operations

that included deployment of bombs.

The martyrs count increased,

every day more martyrs...

Children...

My cousin martyred, a 17 year old.

He was going out the mosque.

Another cousin, a 14 year old martyred, too.

A little child coming from school.

My sister's sister in law also martyred,

She was 15 years old.

One day my daughter came from school screaming...

A little girl was killed in their school.

She used to wake up screaming every day.

I was very concerned for my daughter.

I felt choked.

I held a tremendous grudge against them.

This is not right.

I started thinking "What is my role in life here".

So I decided to do a Suicide attack.

It is antagonizing and angering causes the feeling...

Simply the feeling of terror.

My situation was so complicated.

How am I going to abandon my daughter?

How to abandon my family, my mother?

How to abandon life?

But they did not leave us any other choice.

We were laterally living in a graveyard of living.

One day before the operation I decided...

To tell my daughter what I was going to do.

I said, "Dodo, my sweetheart,

I love you so much, and you know how much...

You are the most precious thing in my life,

and I don't want to abandon you...

But what is happening is very hard for us to accept.

We are dying...

Like guinea pigs...

And nobody cares about us.

I am going to do something so you can live.

I am going to wear a belt...

And blow myself up among Israelis."

She said, "What do you mean? Are you coming back?"

I said, "How can I come back?"

"No, I'm not coming back. I am going to die."

She said, "What do you mean? I'll never see you again?"

I said, "Yes, but you'll have to look up to the sky...

You'll find a star..."

I preferred to go out while she was asleep.

I looked and the army was everywhere.

And they arrested me.

She is 24, divorced and the mother of a four year girl from Tul Karem.

She was caught during this past week.

Shlomi Eldar interviewed her at the Kishon Prison.

What are the operations you did?

What do you mean?

Terrorist operations.

It's not terrorist, it's martyrdom.

You are terrorist.

On the contrary, it's martyrdom.

What is the difference?

There is a big difference.

The terrorism is to kill...

and do...

-without any on... -What did you do?

-What are you doing? -Defending our homeland.

It was on the first day of a military operation in Gaza,

which began with an enormous flyover in the south of Gaza...

and tons of iron were dropped.

All the while are talking with planes, you're okay'ed to attack.

I am not occupied with the question as to what

goes on as to say behind the screen.

I don't even understand what we are attacking.

But out of that small point in southern Gaza came

horrible pictures 15 minutes later that we saw on TV

in the clubhouse.

There was something in the sterile distance

digitalized and air conditioned way it

was portrayed as opposed to the horrendous reality...

that something snapped.

I was in a room with prisoners...

who spent more than ten years because their participation

in fighting the occupation...

And we watched a film about the holocaust.

I thing it was Schindler's list,

And the film touched us, and we were crying.

This is complicated situation, because...

We are talking about parents and grandparents

of our jailers.

And we felt a great sympathy and solidarity with them.

I became more open to, meet with Israelis.

And I learned how to read Hebrew.

And understood the struggle from deferent point of view.

I tried to see the picture...

Out of context, kind of.

I used to think that all Israelis are the same.

Evil.

One day, one of the jailer lost her brother

in one of the martyrdom attacks.

So we expected that after that she will treat us brutally.

That jailer said, "Believe me, I'm not upset.

I'm against all the violence.

And as you die, we die.

The blood causes blood.

I wish to live in peace."

I started to reconsider a lot.

I found that there is goodness.

Goodness is possible.

One day, I came home...

There was bus explosion in Jerusalem...

And there were a lot dead.

The majority was children.

And my mother was crying.

I said, "Why are you crying? It's not in Palestine,

It's in Israel!"

She looked at me and said, "Those dead children...

Their mothers will suffer the same pain I suffered,

it's the same pain,

And it's the same blood, with same color.

And the suffering of the mother who loses her child,

Israeli or Palestinian, is the same exactly.

These things shook me deeply.

That means any thing... coming from me...

Like avenge another person,

I will cause the same pain that my mother suffered.

So it's hard for me to cause pain to any mother,

because I understand the meaning of mother's pain.

That's it.

Good evening. There have been commendations from all sides of political,

military and public spectrum regarding...

...the new Dissenters' Letter.

Anyone who will not obey will be prosecuted.

-Hello, Avner. -Good evening.

Before we continue, let's clarify, are you required

cover up your identity or is it your choice?

I need you as per security regulations

Okay, you are a Sargent Major in the reserves.

How many years are you with the General Staff squad?

-Ten years. -About, yes.

What has caused you at this time to sign such a letter?

This not a simple step. It has caused a lot of anguish to both

-my friends and myself. -Mm-hmm.

This between us this is an act of patriotism.

From now on,

this will no longer be acceptable.

In the detention period we had a cultural committee.

We called it revolutionary universities.

We learned about other revolutionary experiences in the world.

We studied Gandhi in India,

and Nelson Mandela in South Africa.

In order to achieve better conditions in prison

we decided to use the nonviolent resistance

and we started a hunger strike.

We felt stronger than the jailer despite...

despite the fact that he controls the doors.

And we achieved what we requested.

I got out after ten years and five months in prison.

And started with others to think of alternatives

to the facts of the second uprising.

After six years I got out.

I was determined to send my message.

Enough with blood.

I was very afraid,

it might be a trap.

Kidnapping or arrest or killing...

I looked at their faces asking my self,

"Who killed my friends?"

I felt a great deal of anger. They were terrorists

as far as I was concerned.

I felt like eating them,

I can't stand them. Who are they?

They killed me, and my family, and my relatives.

When you look at their faces

and to their body language

You remember all...

The images of the armed Israeli soldier.

We decided to exchange our personal stories.

But how can I trust them, and tell them what I did.

When I say that I attacked two Israelis...

I will see in their eyes

some kind of tension.

When I finished telling the story, they came

and shook my hand with mixed emotions as if to say

It's not easy for us, but we're glad you're with us.

I was very surprised.

We know that we and the Israelis...

Two sides living the suffering because of occupation

we discovered that there is mutual interests

We're Israelis and Palestinians but have the same message.

We want peace.

On the way back, an Israeli checkpoint stops you.

And you see another Israeli have the same look and language

so you feel tremendous contradictions

in the same day.

Suddenly I can talk with much forgiveness and empathy.

I know that if I was in his shoes

that I would probably think the same way.

Something new was born in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In 2006 we agreed to establish common groups

for the purpose of ending the occupation

and achieve a real peace between the two people.

And we named ourselves "Combatants for the peace".

My name is Erez from Tel Aviv. I was born into

a very right wing family that believes the Arabs want to drive us into the sea.

That they don't really want peace,

including the Palestinians, who only understand brute force.

I served as an officer, in the rank of captain in the IDF.

I come from a family most of it's members are prisoners,

there are martyrs,

I was 17 years old when I first participated in the uprising.

I was prisoned as a 17 year old, I spent four years.

When it's the time of the army enlisting

I enlisted in the special forces.

And I was proud.

To there, next.

Now the oppressed will give a chance,

others a chance to express their opinions in change.

So you can join us in the way we're gonna change the reality.

The purpose of the theater is not to entertain them.

We shouldn't come with preconceived ideas.

As Israelis and Palestinians we are in equal positions.

I hope that we'll be stronger than the complex reality

in which we are living, especially we Palestinians.

And let go of the victim thing...

With all respect to the fence and the settlements.

There is no respect for the fence.

There's something very important:

In every village entrance in the Palestinian authority

the occupation put warnings

for the Israelis, like we are killers.

We should do something about it at least modify them

to not warn them from us, because we are... like them.

The main question, in my opinion, we should ask

how to form an efficient strategy for a non-violent

end to the occupation?

-If we both want to reach a solution. -Yes.

Then we all need to compromise, correct?

-Compromise about what? -That if we are to abandon

Judea and Samaria, then the Palestinian mainstream needs

to realize that if they are ever going to achieve statehood

they'll need to renounce their dream to return to Jaffa and Acre.

Three million Palestinians will not return.

Who am I to choose who leaves who returns?

Jewish residents of Acre will have to vacate their homes?

We can state that no one will forced out of his home.

What is your ideal situation?

Whoever wishes to be in Palestine shall be allowed to.

Whoever chooses not to come, I will not compel

all the refugees to return.

They will, however, have the choice.

Coming, Jamil?

I'm coming.

What?

You want to come with me to the demonstration on Friday?

Want to go?

Want to go to the demonstration?

Not by myself.

Where is the demonstration?

In Beit jaffa.

What is it about? Only flags and like that?

Handala pictures and miniature of the Wall.

An there are birds also,

And peace.

And peace.

-Hurrah! -Hurrah!

You know my opinion,

I don't want them to participate in these activities.

Okay, and I want to participate in these activities.

Yes, but they are children, we shouldn't...

It's like we are directing them.

You direct them in the way you see suitable.

I can influence them, but I don't want to.

I don't influence them.

I'm showing them the two ways. Here and there.

When I took them to the Nakba demonstration...

They saw the gas and the soldiers and the shots...

From the other hand, I show them the other way.

There are peaceful demonstration.

What you showed them in the Day of Nakba

-is the reality! Honestly. -Okay.

Right? That is our reality, The shots and all that...

Those people, who are coming, the few people...

-How many of them? -They are not few.

Whatever, they come and say we want the peace,

we are good people, and we are demonstrating with you...

But he stays in my land.

It's like they invade our house

and took it from us, and gave us the bathroom to live in,

under their conditions,

and then they say to us, "Come we want peace"!

That's not right.

Those guys refused to serve in the Israeli army.

All their activities in West Bank against settlements

and the wall, all the things they are doing...

Good, how many settlement they prevented?

Look, they did not prevent any settlement, Mahmoud Abbas,

himself couldn't prevent any settlement. But at least tried.

They have a great power,

and a few "Combatants for peace" who refused to serve

-are gonna change that? -Yes.

You read about Nelson Mandela, one person changed a state.

And changed the whole world, and you know,

that he is only one, how could one person do that?

How could he? And Gandhi also.

What did all these people do?

It's a waste of time.

In order to improve our life, and my children's

and grand children's life, things must go that way.

We tried two uprisings, the first and the second

and all the achievements of the Palestinian people decrease.

In the end they want to make two states,

Israeli state on the Palestinian land.

-And? -And what is our share?

-22%. -From the Palestinian land?

22%, the answer is clear.

Yes.

How you converted...

from a young man spent his life in the prisons,

and you fight against the occupation and all that,

and your brother is martyr, and your mother, RIP, was...

known as freedom fighter,

to the opposite completely.

That is what provokes me.

I participated in the first uprising,

-there are people who did. -I did everything.

-More than you and still are. -They did not despair but...

And they did not cooperate with Israelis.

But they did not make any changes.

But if the resistance was really peaceful...

My aunt kept telling you...

"No right is lost as long as someone strives to claim it."

That's right. And who told you that I waived my rights.

If I shut up and didn't do a thing then I waived my rights.

Those people who say, "normalization"...

who don't fight at the settlement

or on the land that was seized by Jews...

or at the Wall, those who gave up their rights,

the ones who keep silent.

No, they preserve their dignities.

No, they are not.

Sitting home silent is not preserving dignity.

That's all.

-And you? -What?

What do you think? You want to go with your father?

If Dana goes I go.

Where to go?

Okay, no problem.

They informed now that there is army in the area,

and that is disrupting all we are preparing.

We are working on the element of surprise

for whoever exit in the area.

Two, Peter's wife. So, I say, we have assembled today,

the United Nations, to discuss tabled proposal,

to recognize the State of Palestine,

or to reject it.

Twenty-six years ago, the late president Yasser Arafat went

to the UN to ask them to vote for the Palestinian state.

Unfortunately, the voting did not pass.

Today we're gonna meet next to the Wall

to make the voting again.

Israelis arrive at the fence from the west.

The Palestinians come from the east.

We simply go forward and meet up together at the fence.

We have assembled here today, the United Nations,

to discuss the proposal to either accept or reject the

proposed Palestinian State.

-Russia? -Yes!

-Sweden? -Yes!

-Holland? -Yes!

We need yes to ourselves as well, since the burden

of the military government is ours, not just the world's.

Israel.

Israel?

Israel.

No!

Why have you started the violence? Why?

Move away from the fence.

We're away from the fence.

No to violent extremism.

Take note of the source of the violence.

Two non-violent sides, Israelis and Palestinians, who wish to be together.

And see who are trapped between the fences.

We invite the security forces to remove their uniforms

and to join us.

Do you remember the day they arrested me?

When I went to prison?

Of course.

You and me were here, in the kitchen, right?

You were six years old, and I told you,

"Today I am going to do a suicide attack."

I can't understand how you got the nerve to tell me.

Because you are my friend.

I know that,

I don't know how I let you.

You were a child, you didn't realize.

If you came today to tell that though you're not gonna do it,

I'll shoot you.

Okay, check the height.

-Is this right height? -Yes.

We'll need four-five signs to show the places are saved.

Okay.

There are so many people.

It's the hardest day for the Israeli people

And in this day we decided...

As combatants for peace from the Palestinians side

and the Israeli side to Commemorate the memorial

of the dead on both sides.

Peace upon you.

My name is Jami Kasos, from the Dehaysha refugee camp.

Welcome, Jamil.

I am Meital Lokov from Jerusalem.

We have gathered here together, Israelis and Palestinians, this evening

to remember that we're all the victims of the dispute and also its perpetrators.

This year we paid a heavy price.

More Palestinians and Israelis

joined the groups of bereavement and loss.

And we talk about the next war

as if it's inevitable.

Hence we are the ones have to break the circle of violence.

We were moved to received a message of peace and hope

from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Here's your ball, Maya.

Messi today is showing...

Five years after "Cast Lead" and barely two years since

"Pillar of Cloud" Israel again begins an operation in Gaza

"Operation Protective Edge" is its name. For the first time

Tel Aviv is in the range of missiles fire.

And here are the rest of the headlines.

The result of this continuous bombing from the air

was six killed and 15 other wounded.

More than 20 casualty recently...

At least nine terrorists have infiltrated into Israel

through the tunnel. They were carrying zip ties and sedatives

and they were planning to kidnap civilians back to Gaza.

Alshujayia massacre, news about more than 60 martyr till now

Expect only the war and destruction and the dead

and the circle of the violence start all over again...

Even the people who believed in the idea of the peace

they started to doubt it.

Any one wants to speak? Go ahead.

First of all, good evening to everyone,

With the last war, it became very difficult

especially on the Palestinian side,

All the factions in the same position

and there was no deference in such matters.

They consider even the dealing with the Israelis is...

not Normalization, we reached a new phase which is...

Treason.

The major opinion in Israel is that the Hamas is to blame.

What bothers me the most is how to explain to both the Israelis

and the Palestinians that there are people on the other side.

It's hard to talk about two sides as being symmetric

since it's easy for them to look upon Gaza

we do not see another version.

We must see another story.

We see the horrible fear in the people of Tel Aviv

during the sirens.

Even when there is suffering on any level

it needs to be addressed.

People can get frustrated, and that is understood,

But in times of crises

we should raise our voices,

Our role is to get out and make a deferent impression

through refusing the violence and the war...

and by sticking to our beliefs...

The nonviolent beliefs proudly...

-Friends, this coming Saturday, -Yes.

There will be a demonstration. We plan to bring to

the demonstration tens of participants...

-You got a small head. -Only on the outside.

What's inside won't come out.

You are terrorists!

Terrorists!

It is not easy to be considered traitor in the eyes

of people who are important to you, like family and friends.

You are terrorists!

They are haters of Israel and should be put in jail.

We need to kick them out of the State of Israel.

They are causing damage to the State of Israel,

soldiers are being killed and these shits are demonstrating

against Israel, my country.

JEWS AND ARABS REFUSE TO BE ENEMIES

My name is Sulamain Katib.

I have come from Ramallah, and I...

We, Palestinians and Israelis, all together for both sides,

to act bravely and wisely to stop the fighting Gaza,

and to immediately begin a serious dialog.

There is no military solution

for the conflict.

As participants in Combatants for Peace are aware that

the twelve million people living between the river and the sea

share a common destiny.

And that war is not part of this destiny.

No rockets from Gaza, F-16's, or iron domes will bring peace.

PEACE DEMONSTRATION

Peace must be based

on the security and independence...

STOP THE WAR PEACE AND SECURITY NOT BY BLOODSHED

...of two states. Let us live in peace and tranquility.

We shall not drive you away and neither shall you succeed.

We both need to get along together in this land and to

get live together in peace and in dignity for all.

Thank you very much.

God doesn't change people until they change themselves.

Change starts from within oneself.

Then this positive energy effects others.

We succeed together

in turning a personal transformation

into a transformation of a large community.

Don't follow your leaders.

Challenge them and create your own peace.

Israeli or Palestinian.

Create the peace against their will.

I will never lose hope that the peace...

Peace is the only answer. There is no other way.

The narrative begins with the man and his wife.

To his family, to the large family.

To his village, to his city.

To his state, to his religion.

To his continent, to the whole world.

Until you reach humanity.

And when we reach humanity,

believe me, our problem will be solved faster than we think.