1 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,700 They told me, we support you. 2 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,280 And I said to them, I support you. 3 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:04,780 Because you, those who live here, you are the front and 4 00:01:04,780 --> 00:01:07,080 also the back of the Jewish people. 5 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,960 Israel's borders are a work in progress. 6 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:31,380 They have changed seven times in its history. 7 00:01:33,380 --> 00:01:37,280 In 2005, Israel's borders changed once again. 8 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:42,960 In an unprecedented decision, Israel dismantled four settlements in the West 9 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:46,680 Bank and ceded control of the entire Gaza Strip to the Palestinians. 10 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:53,820 Unlike previous border shuffling, This withdrawal did not stem from a war or 11 00:01:53,820 --> 00:01:54,820 political negotiations. 12 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:59,620 It was a unilateral decision that Israel hoped would lead to peace. 13 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,260 This plan would be called the disengagement. 14 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,940 Welcome to Gush Katif, a block of land containing most of the 21 Jewish 15 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:14,260 settlements in the Gaza Strip. 16 00:02:14,820 --> 00:02:18,940 Inside Gush Katif is Nevei DeKalim, meaning palm tree oasis. 17 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:24,130 It is the largest, and most populous Jewish settlement in Gaza, with 2 ,500 18 00:02:24,130 --> 00:02:25,810 mostly religious residents. 19 00:02:32,410 --> 00:02:34,410 We're getting ready for Shabbat right now. 20 00:02:34,610 --> 00:02:35,830 So we're going to mix the peppers. 21 00:02:36,330 --> 00:02:38,150 And here I find fish. 22 00:02:38,590 --> 00:02:41,970 And then we're going to put on some nice mashed potatoes. 23 00:02:43,170 --> 00:02:47,370 To get to Nevei DeKalim, Rachel would have to drive down this Israeli 24 00:02:47,370 --> 00:02:48,370 -controlled highway. 25 00:02:48,810 --> 00:02:52,750 Israeli tanks and watchtowers on the lookout for occasional sniper fire. 26 00:02:53,890 --> 00:02:59,090 This highway was part of Israel's so -called Five Finger Plan for settling 27 00:02:59,090 --> 00:03:03,950 Gaza Strip, dividing up the area for what Israel calls security measures. 28 00:03:05,610 --> 00:03:10,910 Before the disengagement, just outside Gaza, sat 40 ,000 Israeli soldiers in a 29 00:03:10,910 --> 00:03:14,690 specially constructed tent camp, preparing to carry out their orders to 30 00:03:14,690 --> 00:03:17,270 the 9 ,000 Israeli residents of the Gaza Strip. 31 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:27,140 The orders were given by this man, Ariel Scheinerman, a young soldier in 32 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:29,280 Israel's 1948 War of Independence. 33 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:36,400 A year earlier, the UN partitioned what was known as Palestine into two states, 34 00:03:36,580 --> 00:03:40,340 one for the Jews and the other for the Arabs, with Jerusalem as an 35 00:03:40,340 --> 00:03:45,440 capital. Less than 24 hours after Israel declared independence, five Arab 36 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:50,880 nations, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan, simultaneously attacked 37 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:51,880 the fledgling state. 38 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,400 Scheinerman, now known as Ariel or Arik Sharon, had his platoon in the newly 39 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,540 formed Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, nearly wiped out, and he himself was 40 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:05,560 in the groin. But the IDF and Israel survived. 41 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:11,720 After the war, Jordan controlled the West Bank and Jerusalem, while Egypt 42 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,560 controlled a tiny sliver of land on the Mediterranean, known as the Gaza Strip. 43 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,100 Thousands of Arab refugees fled to Gaza after the war. 44 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,100 Egypt refused to absorb them. 45 00:04:22,060 --> 00:04:24,880 Gaza became a staging ground for attacks against Israel. 46 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,160 In response, Arik Sharon created Israel's first ever commander unit, the 47 00:04:30,580 --> 00:04:35,360 and in 1955 led the first of myriad counter -terror raids into the Gaza 48 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,500 He fought as a paratrooper in the 1956 Sinai campaign against Egypt. 49 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:44,220 He crafted the strategy for the Six -Day War of 1967. 50 00:04:44,860 --> 00:04:49,220 Here, Israel took control of the entire Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt. 51 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,020 The Golan Heights from Syria. 52 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,140 and the West Bank from Jordan. 53 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,580 For the first time since 1948, Sharon and the Jews were allowed to visit their 54 00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:02,820 holiest site, the Western Wall in Jerusalem. 55 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:10,340 The bulldozers then went to work. 56 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:14,700 It was Sharon's plan and initiative to clear the desert sands in the Gaza Strip 57 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:16,300 to establish Jewish settlements. 58 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,120 Sharon was on hand at the founding of the first Gaza settlement, Kfar de Rome 59 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,120 1970. 60 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,880 Sharon would earn himself the nickname, the bulldozer. 61 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:35,160 After receiving a shrapnel wound to the head in the 73 Yom Kippur War, Sharon 62 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:36,560 left the army for politics. 63 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:41,660 The party he and soon -to -be Prime Minister Menachem Begin founded, the 64 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,360 campaigned on a platform to rebuild the biblical homeland of the Jews on land 65 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,060 mostly populated by Arabs. 66 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,900 Shalom was embraced by a growing number of religious nationalists, thousands of 67 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:15,720 whom would move into the occupied or liberated territories. 68 00:06:29,650 --> 00:06:36,190 I'm 64 and I'm a mom and a grandmother. I have nine 69 00:06:36,190 --> 00:06:38,490 grandchildren and two on the way. 70 00:06:39,270 --> 00:06:42,070 I came from Brooklyn originally. 71 00:06:42,510 --> 00:06:44,610 I married my husband who was from Manhattan. 72 00:06:46,490 --> 00:06:49,070 We came on Aliyah in 1968. 73 00:06:49,730 --> 00:06:53,730 You see over here, we see a Qasem rocket. 74 00:06:54,690 --> 00:06:56,830 I'd like to tell you something about this rocket. 75 00:06:57,050 --> 00:07:01,110 You can see it's rather, it's not a very professional job, actually. It's a pipe 76 00:07:01,110 --> 00:07:06,570 with a few fins, and when it blew up, in fact, it blew up close to my house over 77 00:07:06,570 --> 00:07:11,090 here, no one was ever killed by a Qasem rocket. 78 00:07:13,290 --> 00:07:15,510 The miracles of Gush Katif. 79 00:07:22,690 --> 00:07:24,850 Gustav Tief was a renowned farming community. 80 00:07:25,270 --> 00:07:29,230 Its greenhouses, here called hothouses, were famous for novel agricultural 81 00:07:29,230 --> 00:07:32,110 technology optimizing farming in desert conditions. 82 00:07:33,590 --> 00:07:38,350 The farms brought in $100 million a year in export to Europe alone. 83 00:07:40,810 --> 00:07:44,110 Settlers were compensated by the government according to the value of 84 00:07:44,110 --> 00:07:46,050 property and the size of their families. 85 00:07:47,390 --> 00:07:49,110 Am I planting because of ideology? 86 00:08:01,420 --> 00:08:02,700 Palm Beach. 87 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,440 Israeli tourists would frequent the Palm Beach Resort Hotel, which was closed 88 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,180 and abandoned in 1987 over security concerns. 89 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,920 It has since become a local surfer's haven. 90 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:22,620 I wish I'm going to surf. 91 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:27,680 The surfers enjoyed the best waves in Israel for what could be the last time. 92 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,799 Across the street from the entrance to Neve de Kalim and just south of Palm 93 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:43,760 Beach is the Muassi Arab neighborhood. 94 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:47,980 The Palestinians living there were boarded on all sides by settlements. 95 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:53,830 Following the second intifada, they could only leave the area with tightly 96 00:08:53,830 --> 00:08:55,150 regulated Israeli permission. 97 00:08:55,750 --> 00:09:00,970 You must have a special magnetic card that you live in al -Mawafi. 98 00:09:04,590 --> 00:09:08,690 This family of brothers hadn't left the Mawafi area since 2001. 99 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,080 The mayor of Panunis is hopeful that the disengagement will bring an economic 100 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,140 windfall as Gush Katif will come under his governance. 101 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,920 Gaza's third largest city sits directly east of Gush Katif. 102 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:52,820 Several weeks before, begin to count the days and the hours and even the minutes 103 00:09:52,820 --> 00:09:54,100 for this engagement. 104 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,860 And I think this is a big opportunity for us to improve our situation. 105 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,160 Many of Khan Yunus' 200 ,000 residents... 106 00:10:03,390 --> 00:10:05,430 We're farmhands in the Israeli greenhouses. 107 00:10:05,710 --> 00:10:11,230 We think that the Palestinian Authority now, they prepare itself to continue 108 00:10:11,230 --> 00:10:13,730 management of the greenhouses inside the settlement. 109 00:10:13,950 --> 00:10:16,290 So I don't think that they will lose their job. 110 00:10:17,230 --> 00:10:23,750 And we think that after this engagement, a lot of job will be created in our 111 00:10:23,750 --> 00:10:24,750 city. 112 00:10:27,150 --> 00:10:31,290 Colonel Jamal Qaid is in charge of the Palestinian Authority, Southern Command. 113 00:10:33,230 --> 00:10:37,990 It will be his job to deploy forces during and after the disengagement to 114 00:10:37,990 --> 00:10:40,250 prevent attacks on Israelis from Gaza. 115 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,320 And this is the green line. This is the green line between us and the Israeli 116 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:10,500 border. After the disengagement, after the Israeli occupation, we'll be leaving 117 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:11,500 from here. 118 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,580 I feel that there is something new will be coming. 119 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,720 With 29 days to go to disengagement, nearly 70 ,000 orange -clad 120 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,880 gathered in a nearby town, Niti Vot. 121 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,420 Anti -disengagement protesters adopted the color orange, the color of the Gush 122 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:35,880 Katif Regional Council flag. 123 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 From here, they plan to trek the over 30 kilometers to Gush Katif in a 124 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,000 solidarity march. 125 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:20,040 However, police and IDF forces declared Gaza a closed military zone, allowing 126 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,800 only residents, journalists and security forces to enter. 127 00:12:25,390 --> 00:12:29,690 We're going to march, we're going to march through the Gush Katif in order to 128 00:12:29,690 --> 00:12:30,690 break the ghetto. 129 00:12:31,950 --> 00:12:35,810 We are going to protect the democracy of Israel and we are going to do it in 130 00:12:35,810 --> 00:12:39,310 democratic ways, non -violent ways, in order to make it happen. 131 00:12:41,610 --> 00:12:45,850 The Orange was determined, planning to march five kilometers through the summer 132 00:12:45,850 --> 00:12:50,610 night to the town of Far Maimon, gather there, then march another 15 kilometers 133 00:12:50,610 --> 00:12:51,610 to Gaza. 134 00:12:53,650 --> 00:12:54,650 Far Maimon. 135 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,300 27 days to go to disengagement. 136 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,420 Tens of thousands of police and soldiers surround the town, barring anyone from 137 00:13:02,420 --> 00:13:03,660 leaving towards Gush Katif. 138 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:09,760 These people believe in the greater land of Israel. They believe that evacuating 139 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,980 9 ,000 settlers and 21 settlements from Gush Katif is the beginning of the end 140 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:21,160 of their dream of the messianic stream of Zionism. Over 5 ,000 journalists were 141 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,880 accredited to cover the disengagement. 142 00:13:23,390 --> 00:13:26,090 That's more than half of the 9 ,000 settlers who live there. 143 00:13:27,510 --> 00:13:32,130 TV, radio, print, and online journalists from around the world focus global 144 00:13:32,130 --> 00:13:33,390 attention on the event. 145 00:13:34,610 --> 00:13:41,550 This is what they're calling their zero hour or last stand protest march. 146 00:13:41,990 --> 00:13:45,230 They're banking all their money that this thing is going to go with and 147 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:46,650 going to be able to stop the disengagement. 148 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:56,960 The police is totally apolitical. 149 00:13:57,180 --> 00:14:01,440 We've been given a mission. The mission now is to keep this crowd under control, 150 00:14:01,580 --> 00:14:03,240 not let them march to Boushkati. 151 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,860 The motion doesn't take part in it. A lot of what the settlers are trying to 152 00:14:06,860 --> 00:14:10,240 is break down the morale. They go and they stand right in front of them and 153 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,880 say, refuse your orders. You're acting immorally. This is against democracy. 154 00:14:14,060 --> 00:14:16,620 This is against Judaism. This is against Israel. 155 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,220 And they're battering it, battering and battering all day long. 156 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:22,480 Got it? 157 00:14:24,250 --> 00:14:27,370 There's a strange camaraderie. This guy's handing out to soldiers, to 158 00:14:27,550 --> 00:14:30,130 to settlers, people who are, yeah, popsicles. 159 00:14:30,630 --> 00:14:35,270 I mean, there is a strange camaraderie here. I can't really see it devolving 160 00:14:35,270 --> 00:14:36,270 into violence. 161 00:14:42,410 --> 00:14:46,270 We all realize that we are all part of the same nation, and the day after the 162 00:14:46,270 --> 00:14:49,770 disengagement, the day after this demonstration ends... we will still be 163 00:14:49,770 --> 00:14:52,290 police that serve the people of the State of Israel, including the 164 00:14:52,290 --> 00:14:53,290 demonstrators. 165 00:15:31,790 --> 00:15:37,490 With 12 days to go, protesters had marched 30 kilometers in 24 hours from 166 00:15:37,490 --> 00:15:38,490 to Ofakim. 167 00:15:38,630 --> 00:15:43,170 Police and the IDF lined up in Ofakim to prevent them from getting any closer to 168 00:15:43,170 --> 00:15:47,730 Gaza. This is the last point for them. They are not going to go from here. And 169 00:15:47,730 --> 00:15:49,730 if you know this way, it's to Bushkati. 170 00:15:56,780 --> 00:15:59,860 It's incredible the control that the leaders have over them, and that's why 171 00:15:59,860 --> 00:16:03,760 haven't seen stone -throwing, you haven't seen scuffles. It's been 172 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:04,760 peaceful. 173 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:16,200 We try 174 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,700 to make sure that there will be not a lot of demonstration near Gush Katil. 175 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:47,300 of police cavalrymen, bridgehead police. 176 00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:52,520 They have stopped about 10 ,000 protesters from marching that way, which 177 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,220 towards the Gush Kativ settlement block. 178 00:16:55,820 --> 00:17:01,240 There is no any winners and no any losers in this event, and they are not 179 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:06,160 enemy. They are not criminals, these people, as long as they obey the law. 180 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,660 some staged protests in front of soldiers, others went around the line to 181 00:17:10,660 --> 00:17:11,940 through fields and farmlands. 182 00:17:12,430 --> 00:17:16,910 Dozens were arrested on the journey, while hundreds infiltrated Gaza and 183 00:17:16,910 --> 00:17:17,910 Gush Katif. 184 00:17:18,150 --> 00:17:21,690 They're going to do everything they can to save those lands, including marching 185 00:17:21,690 --> 00:17:25,470 every single night, coming out here, bringing sleeping bags, bringing food, 186 00:17:25,589 --> 00:17:30,810 camping out here in the middle of a highway in an effort to, what they see, 187 00:17:30,990 --> 00:17:31,990 reach their brethren. 188 00:17:32,130 --> 00:17:34,830 And if they don't reach them, at least they can say they tried. 189 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,860 Nationwide, public support for the disengagement hovered between 50 to 60 190 00:17:49,860 --> 00:17:51,840 percent leading up to the pullout. 191 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,800 On the beach in Tel Aviv, disengagement supporters were easy to find. 192 00:18:15,660 --> 00:18:16,660 We'll be really happy. 193 00:18:20,420 --> 00:18:22,380 I'm for it. I'm for this engagement. 194 00:18:22,860 --> 00:18:28,840 I think it's necessary to move forward and to create some peaceful coexistence. 195 00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:32,080 We really want to believe there's going to be a quiet and there's going to be a 196 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,180 peace and no more bombs, no more war. 197 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,540 Supporters of the pullout adopted blue and white, invoking the colors of the 198 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:40,540 Israeli flag. 199 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,480 This is a symbol to say that we want them to leave Gaza. 200 00:18:45,820 --> 00:18:49,880 And you can see more and more people having this on the car. 201 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:51,920 This is a symbol of the state of Israel. 202 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,060 I think it's a good thing for Israel. 203 00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:59,140 I think it will help. I don't think we should be in Gaza. I don't think we 204 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:03,620 should occupy one and a half million people just for the 8 ,000 that live 205 00:19:03,860 --> 00:19:05,000 And I'm happy we're getting out. 206 00:19:08,940 --> 00:19:10,280 One country, as you can see. 207 00:19:10,780 --> 00:19:13,040 We don't need to be there. It's not our territory. 208 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:15,960 We need the support of other countries. 209 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:19,220 In 210 00:19:19,220 --> 00:19:34,680 Israel's 211 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,280 capital, Jerusalem, the disengagement was on everyone's mind. 212 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:53,420 I think that the situation now, it can't get any worse. So if this doesn't work, 213 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:56,520 then you're going to be pro -giving more? 214 00:19:56,740 --> 00:19:57,820 Exactly, that's my point. 215 00:19:58,060 --> 00:20:00,220 More and more and more until you have nothing? 216 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:06,020 What is that? Because I believe that occupying territories and people that 217 00:20:06,020 --> 00:20:09,400 not Jewish people, we are Jewish people and they're Arab people, okay? And we 218 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,440 are occupying them. And I think that they have a right for their own country, 219 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:14,900 for their own rights. 220 00:20:15,390 --> 00:20:16,430 and for their own freedom. 221 00:20:17,350 --> 00:20:21,590 Sitting less than one kilometer outside Gaza is Kibbutz Nachal Oz. 222 00:20:22,230 --> 00:20:26,930 Despite being on constant terror alert, this community's security chief favored 223 00:20:26,930 --> 00:20:27,930 Israel's withdrawal. 224 00:20:28,310 --> 00:20:34,710 Here is a place I like, you know, quiet, and you hear the wind blow the 225 00:20:34,710 --> 00:20:39,210 leaves and the birds. 226 00:20:43,180 --> 00:20:49,680 This is a gas trip from Yad Mordechai to the 227 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:56,560 sea. So many people died there, you know, only to say, this is us, it 228 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:57,560 belongs to us. 229 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:08,180 I don't think that Sharon is stupid, so stupid to leave all this part that he 230 00:21:08,180 --> 00:21:10,280 was one of the major... 231 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,160 people that he decided that we are going to settle there. 232 00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:16,120 Israel doesn't really need Gaza. 233 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,740 I don't know a lot of Israeli citizens that want to live in Gaza. 234 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:23,060 We have to do it to show the world that we can do some hard stuff. 235 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,620 But I don't trust the other side. 236 00:21:27,860 --> 00:21:32,080 Look, we have to find our place in the Middle East. 237 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,540 So we try. 238 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:39,180 I hope maybe this time we'll get it. 239 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:47,340 We have had 8 ,000 people among a million and a half Arabs. I never 240 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:50,600 a moment that 8 ,000 people have a future in Gaza. 241 00:21:50,940 --> 00:21:56,560 Now that we have to decide about shaping our future borders, then let's keep the 242 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:57,560 best and leave the rest. 243 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,020 Keep what we need. 244 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,900 A Jewish state is not a religious definition. 245 00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:07,800 A Jewish state is a demographic definition, namely the one that have the 246 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,860 majority make it either Jewish or Arab. 247 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,880 How do we ensure that we will have a Jewish majority in the land of Israel? 248 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,460 That's the critical strategic issue. That was the strategic issue by the 249 00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:19,960 founding fathers of Zionism. 250 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,420 And I thought better do it unilaterally than not do it at all. 251 00:22:25,140 --> 00:22:27,140 Because the alternative was not to do. 252 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,920 The Gaza Strip is home to more than one and a half million. 253 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,840 mostly Muslim Arab residents. 254 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:47,000 In Arab Gaza, unemployment hovers between 60 to 70 percent. 255 00:22:47,380 --> 00:22:49,880 Fifty percent live below the poverty line. 256 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,540 Its seaport, airport, and border have been controlled and closed by Israel, 257 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,020 preventing international trade and travel. 258 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:06,680 With a week to go, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a 259 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,900 speech on the prospects of the disengagement. 260 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:28,000 Considered a moderate, he, along with Yasser Arafat, founded the Fatah 261 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,320 organization, a secular movement aimed at the liberation of Palestine. 262 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,020 Mahmoud Abbas is hopeful that Israel's withdrawal will not embolden extremist 263 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:38,020 elements. 264 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:58,400 Here at the Palestinian 265 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,480 Authority's Security Forces Headquarters. 266 00:24:01,070 --> 00:24:04,610 These are some of the soldiers Abbas is counting on to police the streets of 267 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,770 Gaza after Israel withdraws. 268 00:24:08,330 --> 00:24:12,790 Both Israelis and Palestinians question whether the security forces could do the 269 00:24:12,790 --> 00:24:13,790 job. 270 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,220 The settlers of Gush Katib have buried their dead here. 271 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,280 Soon, the 48 graves will be exhumed and moved into Israel proper. 272 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:49,660 Today, their memorial service mourning the dead for the last time in Gaza. 273 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:57,680 The first context in which we read about this area in 274 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,600 the land of Israel is in Genesis chapter 20. 275 00:25:03,470 --> 00:25:10,270 when the Torah Pentateuch tells us, and Abraham journeyed from there toward the 276 00:25:10,270 --> 00:25:15,230 Negev and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar. 277 00:25:15,490 --> 00:25:17,350 This area is Gerar. 278 00:25:40,469 --> 00:25:41,469 settled. 279 00:25:41,950 --> 00:25:47,570 This is where they develop their ideology, their way of life. 280 00:25:48,290 --> 00:25:55,230 Followed afterward, we are told, is despite the adverse circumstances of a 281 00:25:55,230 --> 00:26:02,090 famine, Isaac was able to achieve what amounts to a veritable agricultural 282 00:26:02,090 --> 00:26:04,250 miracle here in Graar. 283 00:26:07,450 --> 00:26:12,560 In Netzerim, in the middle of Gaza, Families pour in to plant next season's 284 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,260 crops just 48 hours before the pullout. 285 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:20,020 They believe that in a few short months, they'll harvest these crops because 286 00:26:20,020 --> 00:26:21,460 they say a miracle is coming. 287 00:26:45,260 --> 00:26:52,020 We're planting cherry tomatoes in the high house of Netarim. In time, 288 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:53,540 three months, we'll pick them. 289 00:26:56,110 --> 00:26:59,990 Our commitment to the land didn't change because Ariksha once said it's changed. 290 00:27:00,670 --> 00:27:05,730 So we're doing our commitment to the land. We're planting, we're building, 291 00:27:05,730 --> 00:27:07,070 continuing our regular life. 292 00:27:07,270 --> 00:27:08,950 We're not prophets. 293 00:27:09,250 --> 00:27:11,150 We don't know what we'll be. 294 00:27:11,690 --> 00:27:16,290 But we believe that God is with us and we want to stay in Eretz Yisrael. 295 00:27:18,110 --> 00:27:22,230 The nation of Israel being here is in order to... 296 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,820 fully actualize the vision of the prophets as expressed by Isaiah to be a 297 00:27:26,820 --> 00:27:32,260 unto the nation, to develop the ideal state that can serve as a model for the 298 00:27:32,260 --> 00:27:33,260 entire world. 299 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:40,600 The night before disengagement coincided with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B 'Av, 300 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,800 a day of fasting known as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. 301 00:27:46,510 --> 00:27:51,950 Tisha B 'Av, the ninth day of our month of Av, when all evil decrees have taken 302 00:27:51,950 --> 00:27:54,190 place to the Jewish people. 303 00:27:54,750 --> 00:28:01,250 Two temples were destroyed, expulsion from Spain, and now the expulsion just 304 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:07,770 on the ninth day of Av. We pray that everyone will help us in saving these 305 00:28:07,770 --> 00:28:08,870 from destruction. 306 00:28:09,210 --> 00:28:11,990 If God forbid that destruction takes place. 307 00:28:12,730 --> 00:28:15,050 First, we're waiting for miracles to happen. 308 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,280 My husband and I have not signed away our home. 309 00:28:21,060 --> 00:28:25,960 Many residents of Neve DeKalim had seen all this before as former residents of 310 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,800 Yamit, once a Jewish settlement in the Sinai Peninsula. 311 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,200 1982. 312 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,460 Residents were carried out against their will when Yamit was dismantled and 313 00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:39,060 demolished after Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt in exchange for peace. 314 00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:44,200 While peace endured with Egypt, the conflict with the Palestinians 315 00:28:46,310 --> 00:28:52,670 1987. The Intifada, or uprising, ignited. Young, angry Palestinians 316 00:28:52,670 --> 00:28:56,870 against Israel's military presence in the West Bank and Gaza, spurring a wave 317 00:28:56,870 --> 00:28:57,870 Palestinian nationalism. 318 00:28:59,730 --> 00:29:00,730 1993. 319 00:29:01,210 --> 00:29:03,770 Israel took its first step to ending the occupation. 320 00:29:04,770 --> 00:29:08,870 Arafat, and then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, agreed that control of certain 321 00:29:08,870 --> 00:29:13,590 Palestinian towns would be ceded to the newly created Palestinian Authority, or 322 00:29:13,590 --> 00:29:14,590 PA. 323 00:29:14,860 --> 00:29:16,700 Arafat's popularity surged. 324 00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:23,840 2000, then Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Arafat at Camp David for a final 325 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,400 status talk led by U .S. President Bill Clinton. 326 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,300 Barak offered the Palestinians a large percentage of the West Bank and 100 % of 327 00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:33,300 the Gaza Strip. 328 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,000 The deal rejected by Arafat. 329 00:29:37,660 --> 00:29:42,180 Ariel Sharon, furious at Barak's concessions, went on the campaign trail. 330 00:29:43,370 --> 00:29:48,290 First stop, with hundreds of security guards by his side, the Temple Mount, 331 00:29:48,290 --> 00:29:52,850 holiest site for Jews, and just above it, the Al -Aqsa Mosque, the third 332 00:29:52,850 --> 00:29:53,850 site for Muslims. 333 00:29:55,330 --> 00:30:00,730 Riots erupted. The second intifada was underway. 334 00:30:04,630 --> 00:30:07,930 Palestinian suicide bombers struck buses in Jerusalem. 335 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:12,880 Discos in Tel Aviv. 336 00:30:15,420 --> 00:30:16,620 Restaurants in Haifa. 337 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,340 And this Passover holiday dinner in Netanya. 338 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:28,860 In three years of fighting, more than 900 Israelis and over 2 ,500 339 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:32,380 are killed, with thousands more wounded on both sides. 340 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:37,280 In response, Israel started building the security barrier, which Israel 341 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,120 estimates reduced terrorism by 95%. 342 00:30:41,669 --> 00:30:45,790 Palestinians called the wall an illegal land grab and a human rights violation. 343 00:30:47,290 --> 00:30:49,950 The settlements in Gaza were hit constantly. 344 00:30:53,090 --> 00:30:58,350 The attacks didn't stop Sharon from campaigning in Gush Katif in 2001, just 345 00:30:58,350 --> 00:30:59,350 before the election. 346 00:31:34,580 --> 00:31:38,400 Sharon's hardline stance catapulted him to the top of the Likud party. 347 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:06,440 Thanks to the support of the settlement movement, Sharon was elected Prime 348 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,300 Minister for the first time in 2001. 349 00:32:08,990 --> 00:32:10,370 and re -elected in 2003. 350 00:32:10,930 --> 00:32:16,470 He had an image of someone that would never retreat, that would never pull 351 00:32:16,670 --> 00:32:19,930 that he is the founding father of the settlement movement. He won't give up 352 00:32:19,930 --> 00:32:25,150 settlement. I voted for Ariel Sharon because he promised the people of Israel 353 00:32:25,150 --> 00:32:29,750 security and sanctity of the land. 354 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:43,340 Less than a year later, in a stunning political about -face, Sharon announced 355 00:32:43,340 --> 00:32:48,040 plan to evacuate all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West 356 00:32:48,260 --> 00:32:50,560 the very settlements he helped build. 357 00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:11,920 If the weapons and weapons will be collected, if a new Palestinian 358 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:18,400 will be established, democratic and free from terror, if the occupation will be 359 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:23,320 stopped, the Israeli government will be in our leadership, in the leadership of 360 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:29,900 the Nikud, ready to fill a part and to allow the establishment of an 361 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:30,900 Palestinian state. 362 00:33:46,350 --> 00:33:48,230 on the part of the Jewish communities. 363 00:33:53,390 --> 00:34:00,310 We will separate them politically and physically 364 00:34:00,310 --> 00:34:03,590 until they change their ways. 365 00:34:04,130 --> 00:34:10,630 My plan, the separation plan, is the best security 366 00:34:10,630 --> 00:34:11,630 plan. 367 00:34:31,429 --> 00:34:37,050 The whole history of the state of Israel is based on critical, historical, 368 00:34:37,250 --> 00:34:38,250 unilateral steps. 369 00:34:38,409 --> 00:34:41,350 The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a unilateral step. 370 00:34:41,630 --> 00:34:43,489 I'm the prime minister, he said. 371 00:34:43,929 --> 00:34:45,010 I make the decision. 372 00:34:45,630 --> 00:34:51,210 I was very glad that the right that was headed by Eric Sharon made a major 373 00:34:51,210 --> 00:34:57,790 change, established a precedent of dismantling settlements. 374 00:34:58,330 --> 00:35:02,610 It soon became apparent to me, as the weeks and months passed, that nothing 375 00:35:02,610 --> 00:35:05,490 going to change the decision, the impending decision. 376 00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:09,750 And so when the decision was actually made in the government, I felt I could 377 00:35:09,750 --> 00:35:14,740 longer... influence it. There was no chance of influencing it. I myself was 378 00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:19,060 going to be a party in good conscience to something I fundamentally disagreed 379 00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:22,600 with, I thought would bring terror and not peace closer. And that's when I 380 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:23,600 resigned from the government. 381 00:35:25,060 --> 00:35:26,060 Democracy? 382 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,720 What has happened in this country? 383 00:35:32,820 --> 00:35:37,240 On the eve of this engagement, in the northern West Bank, a group of far 384 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:42,770 rabbis invoked a Kabbalistic death curse on Sharon called Polsa de Nura, Aramaic 385 00:35:42,770 --> 00:35:43,830 for lashes of fire. 386 00:36:14,870 --> 00:36:19,010 They wouldn't stop the disengagement. 387 00:36:45,990 --> 00:36:52,890 Positively, it was the most sensitive mission in which we didn't have to deal 388 00:36:52,890 --> 00:36:55,690 with enemies, we had to deal with our brothers. 389 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:08,920 Everyone understood that it's a very unique mission and it has psychological 390 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,920 aspects. 391 00:37:13,260 --> 00:37:19,880 We understood that if we want to prevent violence, 392 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,140 we have to be very strong. 393 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:30,100 When the residents will see the black suits, the organized force, 394 00:37:31,150 --> 00:37:37,090 The well -organized force usually breaks the spirit of the protesters before the 395 00:37:37,090 --> 00:37:38,710 interactions, before the violent interactions. 396 00:37:48,450 --> 00:37:49,010 The 397 00:37:49,010 --> 00:37:55,850 one 398 00:37:55,850 --> 00:37:59,510 they meet is the soldier. They don't meet the prime minister, they meet the 399 00:37:59,510 --> 00:38:04,710 soldier. So we knew that the interaction would be, let's say, explosive. 400 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,520 The Jewish army, after 2 ,000 years, is supposed to protect Jews. When was the 401 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,880 last time there were 40 ,000 soldiers and police amassed against the Arabs? 402 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,880 It will be okay. 403 00:38:59,180 --> 00:39:03,680 We knew that our forces are very, very prepared. 404 00:39:30,510 --> 00:39:34,130 This is a 50 -50 plan, America and Israel working together. And we're here 405 00:39:34,130 --> 00:39:38,190 Americans saying we oppose this. The Jewish people throughout the entire 406 00:39:38,190 --> 00:39:43,210 of Israel have such a burning love for the land that they're willing to risk 407 00:39:43,210 --> 00:39:47,810 their lives, even to the point of dying, being terribly injured, in order to 408 00:39:47,810 --> 00:39:52,250 stay here. The land is that important to them. There's Jews living here, and 409 00:39:52,250 --> 00:39:54,070 that makes it just as important as Jerusalem. 410 00:39:54,350 --> 00:39:55,350 There is no difference. 411 00:39:55,950 --> 00:40:00,590 Hashem said, In thy hands shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a 412 00:40:00,590 --> 00:40:02,870 virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. 413 00:40:07,630 --> 00:40:08,630 Today, 414 00:40:10,390 --> 00:40:17,230 we saw the beginning of the attempted, attempted 415 00:40:17,230 --> 00:40:20,950 evacuation of the people of Pushpitsi. 416 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,740 What is he saying? You got blown away and he's got a nerve. 417 00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:57,950 in this act, as it is the crucial recognition that we have to make. 418 00:41:31,050 --> 00:41:32,050 Good afternoon. 419 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:04,980 Okay. 420 00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:47,300 to the army, to the Israeli army. 421 00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:50,920 That means that I have to do whatever the Israeli army tells me to do. 422 00:43:51,300 --> 00:43:54,720 We've had a lot of soldiers that have had a very, very difficult time standing 423 00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:58,700 against some of these young girls as they're, you know, telling you to your 424 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:02,100 face, you know, why are you doing this to me? We're not fighting a war here. 425 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,020 We don't have enemies in front of us. It's our brothers. 426 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:06,920 It's Israelis just like us. 427 00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:10,300 Honestly, I don't know what I would do if I was in their position. 428 00:44:11,100 --> 00:44:13,080 It's not easy. 429 00:44:13,980 --> 00:44:15,360 To be in their position is 10. 430 00:44:19,150 --> 00:44:20,170 Stand against the residents. 431 00:46:51,210 --> 00:46:57,210 And we'll be watching them taking out a Torah around the synagogue and then 432 00:46:57,210 --> 00:47:04,030 bringing the crescent of 433 00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:05,290 Hamas. 434 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:11,700 Oh. 435 00:50:08,790 --> 00:50:13,050 . . . . . 436 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,060 The State of Israel is corrupt. 437 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,740 Corrupt to the State of Israel. This is his army. 438 00:50:37,420 --> 00:50:38,420 Beware. 439 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:48,400 We can all pray, do good things, build, to spread this 440 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,120 place. This is peace. 441 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:56,820 This is peace. I will live well. I have a friend who will not expel me from my 442 00:50:56,820 --> 00:50:57,820 home. This is not peace. 443 00:50:59,529 --> 00:51:04,050 Tell me what's on your mind. I want to think about it. I want to think 444 00:51:04,050 --> 00:51:12,390 about 445 00:51:12,390 --> 00:51:18,890 it. 446 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:08,360 The army has been coming around from home to home, throwing people out of 447 00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,020 homes. People are realizing that they're going to be thrown out of their homes 448 00:52:12,020 --> 00:52:16,120 in order to make way for the very people that have been murdering them for 30 449 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,940 years. I mean, how can you live with such an injustice? 450 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,880 Regardless of how practical anyone may think this is, it's so unjust. 451 00:52:46,990 --> 00:52:48,290 I see a bunch of them. 452 00:56:26,410 --> 00:56:33,150 We are in a very good settlement, and we are free without any Jewish in our 453 00:56:33,150 --> 00:56:38,330 land, and we will fight in Ramallah and Jerusalem to put our flag on Jerusalem. 454 00:56:48,730 --> 00:56:52,710 Islamic Jihad was the first faction to organize parades through the former 455 00:56:52,710 --> 00:56:53,710 settlements. 456 00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:12,760 Both Israel and the PA had agreed months before that Israel would demolish the 457 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:13,760 settlement. 458 00:57:14,060 --> 00:57:18,780 All homes would be destroyed, the neighborhoods flattened, but public 459 00:57:18,780 --> 00:57:19,780 would be left standing. 460 00:57:21,300 --> 00:57:25,120 Israel says it wanted to prevent terror cells from acquiring infrastructure. 461 00:57:30,410 --> 00:57:34,270 The PA says it agreed in order to prevent land grabs and chaos. 462 00:57:36,890 --> 00:57:38,750 The synagogues were left intact. 463 00:57:40,670 --> 00:57:46,110 Israel put up signs in English and Arabic saying, Holy Place, and asked the 464 00:57:46,110 --> 00:57:47,690 to guard them from being destroyed. 465 00:58:22,310 --> 00:58:24,970 Kids forage for scrap metal that they could sell. 466 00:58:31,690 --> 00:58:34,010 Palm Beach, leveled. 467 00:58:34,250 --> 00:58:35,690 No surfers in sight. 468 00:58:37,470 --> 00:58:43,510 Instead, Palestinians living in nearby Han Yunis could for the first time in 38 469 00:58:43,510 --> 00:58:45,210 years reach the beach. 470 00:58:47,050 --> 00:58:52,570 Up the street on the road to Neve Dikalim, Muassi, out to greet new 471 00:58:53,850 --> 00:58:56,370 They could finally reach other parts of Gaza. 472 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:07,020 This land is once again a chance, or a possibility, and we have to work as soon 473 00:59:07,020 --> 00:59:13,120 as possible to develop this area and have all the benefits of it for our 474 00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:24,060 And I think this is really maybe the day of the born of Russia. 475 00:59:25,140 --> 00:59:28,880 Now I think it is a simple life and a simple life without any soldiers. 476 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,320 The Saperstein Residence. 477 00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:36,320 Demolished. 478 01:00:12,460 --> 01:00:15,700 The disengagement cost Israel almost $1 billion. 479 01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:21,360 It was a historic 180 -degree turn in Israel's security strategy. 480 01:00:22,060 --> 01:00:27,560 Sharon, the architect of the Gaza settlement, had abandoned them. He 481 01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:32,180 unilateral step was a necessary sacrifice to move the peace process 482 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:34,020 Would he be proven right? 483 01:00:43,379 --> 01:00:45,620 The mission is completed. 484 01:00:47,460 --> 01:00:49,860 An era has ended. 485 01:00:51,420 --> 01:00:58,360 From this moment on, the responsibility for all that takes place in Gaza 486 01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,760 Strip lays on the Palestinians. 487 01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:16,380 As Israel lowered its last flag in Gaza, another question remains. 488 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:21,360 Would a unified Palestinian flag be raised in its place, or would factions 489 01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:22,940 compete with each other for power? 490 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:35,180 A day after the disengagement, Gaza's top cleric held a congratulatory Friday 491 01:01:35,180 --> 01:01:37,740 prayer service in Mahmoud Abbas's honor. 492 01:02:26,050 --> 01:02:28,930 Thank you very much. 493 01:02:44,650 --> 01:02:48,430 Sheikh Abu Tir is a top Hamas official from a village near Jerusalem. 494 01:02:48,830 --> 01:02:54,310 The soon -to -be candidate had served 26 years in Israeli prisons across four 495 01:02:54,310 --> 01:02:58,010 terms on charges of weapon smuggling and terrorist activities. 496 01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:26,160 One week after the pullout, Hamas organized this massive rally in Gaza's 497 01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:30,000 refugee camp to announce what it saw as its victory over Israel. 498 01:04:19,030 --> 01:04:23,230 Propaganda there depicted bloodied Israeli settlers and soldiers fleeing 499 01:04:23,230 --> 01:04:26,570 settlements, crushed under the feet of a Hamas militant. 500 01:04:58,659 --> 01:05:04,220 The international community applauded Sharon, seeing the disengagement as 501 01:05:04,220 --> 01:05:05,560 advancing the peace process. 502 01:05:05,900 --> 01:05:08,680 Sharon addressing the UN General Assembly. 503 01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,260 The price will improve. 504 01:05:41,660 --> 01:05:46,820 While the world backed his move, His own party, which he helped found, did not. 505 01:05:47,260 --> 01:05:52,000 Sharon was to deliver a speech at the next Likud Central Committee meeting. 506 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,000 one. 507 01:05:55,880 --> 01:06:02,140 His microphone cut out. 508 01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:03,740 Organizers replaced it. 509 01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:05,240 Take two. 510 01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:15,580 Again it cut out. 511 01:06:20,820 --> 01:06:23,100 Sharon would never deliver the speech. 512 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:31,180 Sharon walked away and started an entirely new party, Kadima, meaning 513 01:06:31,180 --> 01:06:32,180 forward. 514 01:06:35,220 --> 01:06:40,460 January 5th. The Prime Minister is rushed to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital 515 01:06:40,460 --> 01:06:41,760 suffering a major stroke. 516 01:06:43,690 --> 01:06:47,630 Following a series of life -threatening operations, he fell into a coma. 517 01:06:48,470 --> 01:06:50,710 Kadima had to go forward without him. 518 01:07:00,610 --> 01:07:03,530 January 26, Palestinian election. 519 01:07:04,850 --> 01:07:09,550 Israel had pressed the U .S. and Europe to delay the election and or ban Hamas, 520 01:07:09,610 --> 01:07:12,350 considered internationally a terrorist organization. 521 01:07:13,150 --> 01:07:15,190 But there they were on the ballot. 522 01:07:15,410 --> 01:07:20,390 The voting process was transparent and democratic, voters choosing between the 523 01:07:20,390 --> 01:07:24,730 longstanding Fatah power base, accused by Hamas of mismanagement and vast 524 01:07:24,730 --> 01:07:27,070 corruption, and a surging Hamas. 525 01:07:42,590 --> 01:07:46,710 Campaigning to reform the government and continue, quote, the resistance against 526 01:07:46,710 --> 01:07:52,230 Israel, Hamas won by a landslide, taking nearly 60 % of the seats. It promised 527 01:07:52,230 --> 01:07:56,610 to stick to its charter's principles of not recognizing Israel as a legitimate 528 01:07:56,610 --> 01:08:00,630 state, vowing its destruction, and supporting suicide attacks. 529 01:08:01,330 --> 01:08:06,230 This is Sheikh Abu Tir being sworn in and shaking hands with the outgoing 530 01:08:06,230 --> 01:08:08,330 finance minister, Mohamed Dahlan. 531 01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,380 from handshakes to fist fights. 532 01:08:12,980 --> 01:08:18,100 The day after results came in, clashes broke out between Hamas voters and Fatah 533 01:08:18,100 --> 01:08:22,040 backers here at the Palestinian Legislative Council building in 534 01:08:23,020 --> 01:08:26,200 Hamas loyalists replaced the Palestinian flag with their own. 535 01:08:28,140 --> 01:08:29,620 Fatah supporters respond. 536 01:08:34,359 --> 01:08:36,140 A sign of things to come. 537 01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:44,340 I believe that we will lose a lot of our power, but I don't believe that Hamas 538 01:08:44,340 --> 01:08:47,520 will have a majority in the PLC. 539 01:08:47,779 --> 01:08:50,580 The terrorists got the credit. Why did Israel leave? 540 01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:55,560 It fled the terror. Who conducted the terror? Hamas. Who would get the 541 01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,460 credit? Hamas. Who got it? 542 01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:04,580 Hamas. It seems in the Arab world that resistance is Hamas and negotiation is 543 01:09:04,580 --> 01:09:07,120 Fatah. Fatah lost not because... 544 01:09:07,529 --> 01:09:11,590 People rejected their ideology, but people accused them of corruption, and 545 01:09:11,590 --> 01:09:12,590 was the problem. 546 01:09:12,609 --> 01:09:17,670 I will tell you, in my opinion, I think Hamas should be, from the beginning, 547 01:09:17,970 --> 01:09:23,710 should be out of the government. Because I feel that the situation, 548 01:09:23,990 --> 01:09:26,350 it is not suitable. 549 01:09:26,750 --> 01:09:30,950 It is not able to be Hamas in the government. 550 01:09:31,890 --> 01:09:36,270 Meanwhile, on the streets of Gaza and the West Bank, old loyalties die hard. 551 01:09:36,779 --> 01:09:40,439 Despite the Hamas victory in the election, Fatah refused to disarm their 552 01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:41,439 security forces. 553 01:09:41,500 --> 01:09:43,560 The situation spiraled into chaos. 554 01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:47,439 March 20th, Hamas gunmen firing on Fatah militiamen. 555 01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:52,960 The reaction of Hamas that they feel that they can't do everything now. They 556 01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:58,280 kill, they can assassinate some people without any court. 557 01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:00,880 They take the law to their hand. 558 01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:05,500 April 1st, a Fatah funeral procession parades down Ramallah Street. 559 01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:10,740 Shots from now. Kids caught in the crossfire. The pallbearers take cover. 560 01:10:14,440 --> 01:10:20,440 April 22nd. 300 young Fatah backers raid the Palestinian legislature building in 561 01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:21,440 Gaza City. 562 01:10:21,460 --> 01:10:26,560 They destroy newly occupied Hamas offices, demanding civil servants get 563 01:10:27,980 --> 01:10:32,660 The next day, outside the Ministry of Health, Hamas gunmen fire on Fatah 564 01:10:32,660 --> 01:10:34,620 fighters after they storm the building. 565 01:10:35,130 --> 01:10:36,130 A man down. 566 01:10:36,210 --> 01:10:37,670 Police later arrested. 567 01:10:39,170 --> 01:10:45,110 They ate communists. 568 01:10:45,550 --> 01:10:48,230 Rival gunmen fired at each other leaving three dead. 569 01:10:48,550 --> 01:10:49,650 Kids take cover. 570 01:10:51,190 --> 01:10:53,830 People going about their day find a safe corner. 571 01:10:55,030 --> 01:10:57,270 Schools evacuate and kids rush home. 572 01:11:11,830 --> 01:11:15,890 Hamas's military wing took an active role in patrolling Gaza's streets, 573 01:11:16,190 --> 01:11:20,510 deploying their own fighters at busy intersections, acting as a new police 574 01:11:20,510 --> 01:11:26,330 force, provoking PA security forces, mostly composed of Fatah loyalists. By 575 01:11:26,330 --> 01:11:30,430 year's end, more than 200 Gazans would be killed due to factional violence. 576 01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:33,580 Some clashes here, some clashes there. 577 01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:36,720 All the time we are doing our best to do it. 578 01:11:37,060 --> 01:11:42,000 Hamas, in their side, they know that they failed. 579 01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:49,340 But they are looking for any excuse to leave the 580 01:11:49,340 --> 01:11:50,340 government. 581 01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,420 The cycle of violence raged on. 582 01:11:57,070 --> 01:12:00,930 In revenge for Hamas militants firing a rocket -propelled grenade that killed 583 01:12:00,930 --> 01:12:05,950 two PA soldiers, Fatah militants kidnapped and killed this Hamas 584 01:12:05,950 --> 01:12:07,130 paraded to his burial. 585 01:12:09,330 --> 01:12:13,710 Chants at his funeral are directed not at Israelis, but rival Palestinians. 586 01:12:43,150 --> 01:12:46,730 Gaza militants continued to wage war on Israel with an all -too -familiar 587 01:12:46,730 --> 01:12:47,730 weapon. 588 01:12:49,190 --> 01:12:54,870 I think that the effect of the Qassam missile is very minimal. 589 01:13:58,300 --> 01:14:03,060 Drawing a kid, raising a kid on fears and traumas. 590 01:14:26,769 --> 01:14:30,630 Statistically, there were more rockets after the disengagement plan. 591 01:14:32,070 --> 01:14:33,910 That's for sure. We counted. 592 01:14:34,730 --> 01:14:37,910 We never had 60 rockets a day before the disengagement. 593 01:14:47,050 --> 01:14:52,150 The rockets come in half a mile from here. This is a place neighboring Gaza 594 01:14:52,150 --> 01:14:56,390 called Beit Hanun, Beit Lahiya, and a place called Jibaliyah. 595 01:14:56,850 --> 01:14:59,790 Those three places, the major places they're shooting from. 596 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,800 We have here a number of syringes, when a number of types, according to their 597 01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:19,200 numbers, we see a syringe, which is a syringe of 115 millimeters, 60 598 01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:26,200 millimeters, and 90 millimeters, when, again, each one has the damage that 599 01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:30,200 it causes in terms of the amount of toxic material that it contains. 600 01:15:30,780 --> 01:15:35,020 All the Jews will return in repentance. 601 01:15:36,060 --> 01:15:40,220 The seats are protected, the students lie down, and that's it. 602 01:15:52,469 --> 01:15:54,590 It's not easy. 603 01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:14,520 It's not easy to live in this kind of situation that any second it can be hit 604 01:16:14,520 --> 01:16:15,520 a rocket. 605 01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:22,500 So the red dawn is the warning system to tell people to get to cover. 606 01:16:43,660 --> 01:16:48,300 You know, it gets people 10 seconds or so to take cover anywhere they can. 607 01:16:48,860 --> 01:16:52,800 And I guess, you know, we did it, and people around here did the same. No one 608 01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:53,800 was hurt. 609 01:17:07,639 --> 01:17:10,740 A house used to sit on this now empty lot. 610 01:17:12,500 --> 01:17:18,100 It's the same story as many other families in Gaza, where a family member 611 01:17:18,100 --> 01:17:20,840 suspected militant, others innocent victims. 612 01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:27,800 One night in August, they got a call from the Israeli army, seven minutes 613 01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:28,800 the airstrike. 614 01:17:35,980 --> 01:17:42,260 The strike leveled the home and killed his father and brother, 615 01:17:42,480 --> 01:17:44,640 now honored as martyrs. 616 01:18:12,310 --> 01:18:16,890 But it would be a long road before the violence on both sides died down. 617 01:18:19,180 --> 01:18:20,880 More houses were leveled. 618 01:18:22,340 --> 01:18:24,880 Infrastructure, like this bridge, was targeted. 619 01:18:27,100 --> 01:18:30,480 Power outages continued, even at hospitals. 620 01:18:32,740 --> 01:18:36,960 And all the while, the Hamas -led parliament couldn't pay government 621 01:18:37,300 --> 01:18:38,700 not even teachers. 622 01:18:39,420 --> 01:18:44,560 I didn't receive my salary since seven months. 623 01:18:46,510 --> 01:18:52,130 Yes, before the disengagement we were very happy and looking for a happy 624 01:18:52,130 --> 01:18:53,290 for our life. 625 01:18:55,550 --> 01:19:02,170 Everything is destroyed and no one go to his working, especially in farming. 626 01:19:02,710 --> 01:19:09,170 I think one percent from our greenhouses are operating now. 627 01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:19,260 Before the disengagement, we think that the disengagement will make a big change 628 01:19:19,260 --> 01:19:25,780 in Khan Yun's condition. And really, nowadays, we did not feel that there is 629 01:19:25,780 --> 01:19:26,559 big change. 630 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:31,000 The mayor wasn't as concerned with possible civil war as he was with what 631 01:20:24,430 --> 01:20:30,250 If we are talking about rehousing a project, if we are talking about 632 01:20:30,610 --> 01:20:35,510 trade, financial situation, I think it go worse and worse. 633 01:20:35,790 --> 01:20:40,490 Nowadays we are talking about a very high ratio of unemployment, a very high 634 01:20:40,490 --> 01:20:43,330 ratio of poverty people who are living under poverty line. 635 01:20:43,570 --> 01:20:45,290 So nothing good is happening at all? 636 01:20:46,490 --> 01:20:47,490 No, near, near. 637 01:20:54,470 --> 01:20:56,890 What in the end did the disengagement produce? 638 01:20:58,090 --> 01:21:02,730 Many settlers, including the Sapersteins, were relocated to 639 01:21:02,730 --> 01:21:07,230 housing communities like this one in Yitzhan, between Gaza and Tel Aviv. 640 01:21:13,970 --> 01:21:19,390 This is our caraville over here. We're just one of many, many others. 641 01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:25,920 In fact, it's row after row after row of the same yellow house with the red 642 01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:26,920 roof. 643 01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:29,700 We immediately put in a garden. 644 01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:31,280 You can come on in. 645 01:21:32,220 --> 01:21:35,300 Hi, this is the inside of our house. 646 01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:41,400 It's a small house. It's smaller than the one we had, but we're grateful that 647 01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:45,140 have a little house to live in. Friend's container is over here, the neighbor 648 01:21:45,140 --> 01:21:47,360 next door. She had a huge... 649 01:21:47,790 --> 01:21:52,030 three -story house, and so most of her stuff is in the container. 650 01:21:52,450 --> 01:21:58,350 Who would ever have suspected that at the age of 65, 651 01:21:58,370 --> 01:22:03,210 I would be a refugee in Israel? 652 01:22:04,450 --> 01:22:10,570 Israel was supposed to be the place of refuge. 653 01:22:12,110 --> 01:22:14,330 We were not supposed to be refugees. 654 01:22:15,370 --> 01:22:16,550 Not in Israel. 655 01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:24,160 Prime Minister Olmert announced that further unilateral disengagement is no 656 01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:25,900 longer a feasible option for Israel. 657 01:22:26,220 --> 01:22:29,640 If this strategy is off the table, what next? 658 01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:37,680 Like all over the world, economic coordination and political separation. 659 01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:43,760 We think that if we give them better economic conditions, 660 01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,340 housing, medical care. 661 01:22:48,190 --> 01:22:51,290 Why? They'll be perfectly happy to have peace. 662 01:22:51,770 --> 01:22:56,110 There's been a sea change of opinion in Israel in the wake of the terror that 663 01:22:56,110 --> 01:23:01,090 followed the unilateral withdrawals. The promise of peace did not materialize. 664 01:23:01,150 --> 01:23:05,230 In fact, what we got was more terror from improved positions of the 665 01:23:05,550 --> 01:23:10,750 For the Arab, the existence of a state of Israel, a Jewish state, here, 666 01:23:10,930 --> 01:23:15,070 is something that they cannot tolerate. 667 01:23:16,650 --> 01:23:17,930 They cannot have peace. 668 01:23:19,110 --> 01:23:26,090 We need to return back to peace negotiations to solve the problem which 669 01:23:26,090 --> 01:23:28,410 faced both of us, the Israeli and the Palestinian people. 670 01:23:31,290 --> 01:23:37,710 So the equation should be the exact reverse. 671 01:23:38,050 --> 01:23:42,490 You should bring down the extremists. You should weaken them, ultimately 672 01:23:42,490 --> 01:23:45,050 or help induce a regime change. 673 01:23:46,030 --> 01:23:50,850 And in order to allow the more moderate forces to rise, and with them, of 674 01:23:50,850 --> 01:23:53,170 course, one can conduct political negotiations. 675 01:23:53,630 --> 01:23:55,330 They want to have this balance. 676 01:23:55,750 --> 01:24:01,850 They want to share this balance, not to bring Hamas so strong, not to bring Abu 677 01:24:01,850 --> 01:24:02,910 Mazen so weak. 678 01:24:03,630 --> 01:24:10,290 It's good to be no beast leadership with power, no 679 01:24:10,290 --> 01:24:11,830 resistant leadership with power. 680 01:24:12,460 --> 01:24:15,680 It's good to have this balance between these forces. 681 01:24:16,140 --> 01:24:17,740 We're good for this, unfortunately. 682 01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:25,100 I prefer there would be a night for peace instead of divided between a group 683 01:24:25,100 --> 01:24:29,780 that supports peace and a group that wants to prevent peace. With an enemy 684 01:24:29,780 --> 01:24:35,000 is committed to your destruction, you shouldn't give them any leeway. 685 01:24:36,580 --> 01:24:40,720 They have to look for a solution. We are no longer in charge of it. They have to 686 01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:41,880 decide which way to go. 687 01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:45,700 If they'll continue to fight, we shall react. We don't have a choice. 688 01:24:46,180 --> 01:24:50,800 I once joked, I said Israel has three deterrent elements. The Israeli Air 689 01:24:51,060 --> 01:24:53,200 the Israeli Special Forces, and Shahar. 690 01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:54,720 Shahar himself. 691 01:24:55,180 --> 01:24:58,640 And they say, with this guy you don't mess, you know, because he's serious. 692 01:25:01,740 --> 01:25:06,500 As of the editing of this film, the former soldier, the former prime 693 01:25:06,660 --> 01:25:09,440 the creator and destroyer of the Gaza settlements. 694 01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,660 The bulldozer, Ariel Sharon, remains in a coma. 695 01:25:14,660 --> 01:25:17,920 What strategy would he have taken if still in office? 696 01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:20,480 Would disengagement continue? 697 01:25:21,060 --> 01:25:23,760 Would peace remain elusive?