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Thank you.

Hi. You a soldier?

Me a soldier?

Yeah. No, I'm a belly dancer, but I'm traveling incognito, you know, because

of the fans.

You want a ride?

Yeah. Thanks a lot.

Nice day, isn't it?

Yeah.

So are you a new immigrant or a tourist?

Tourist.

You don't look like a soldier.

Oh, that's because I do it reluctantly.

I'm a reservist six weeks out of the year. I'm half done, thank God.

Where do you serve?

Nablus. It's a town on the West Bank.

Three Arab boys were shot yesterday.

Right. That didn't drop the cement block on an Israeli soldier from one of the

rooftops to split his head into.

What's the difference between the yellow and blue plates?

Oh, the blue ones belong to Arabs from the West Bank. They're not Israeli

citizens.

Sure makes it easy to spot.

The soldiers always travel with their rifles.

Of course. There are a lot of Arab terrorists in this country. This is a

dangerous place.

I thought you were the terrorists.

No, I'm the good guys.

Are you?

Sure, can't you tell?

How long have you been here?

Oh, three hours, if you count the time I waited for my luggage.

Well, three hours ain't bad.

Well, I didn't get one of my suitcases, you know, it never turned up.

That's annoying.

You bet.

So, uh, your husband didn't come with you?

No, he's in the truck.

I'm sorry.

I just, you know, I haven't seen a woman in nearly four weeks. I'm not counting

the Arab ladies with covered faces and four rocks at you. I'm talking about,

you know, real women.

You're very attractive. You have a beautiful smile. I mean, I haven't

smiled yet, but...

What's

going on?

Get out, please.

I don't get it.

You don't get it?

Well, I just didn't come all the way from New York to be picked up with the

first Israeli I run into. Just, could you get out, please?

Well, with pleasure. And I was complaining about the Arab women because

of a few rocks.

I wasn't trying to pick you up. I was paying you a compliment.

You know, being a reporter, you should be a little more observant. How did you

know I was a reporter?

There was a tag in your suitcase, the one who did turn up.

Thank you.

Well, goodbye Welcome

to

Israel

Look at this mess, and they expect me to take care of it all.

The notes we took on the West Bank.

I worked a month on that story.

You know, Miss Romano... Milano.

Milano. I don't know why they sent a woman.

Who is going to talk to you? The Arabs won't even speak to Golda Meir.

And the Jews... It only makes my job harder.

Okay.

The Terek said you will be here three weeks, but a lot can happen in three

weeks. Well, let's hope so.

You Moshe.

Moshe.

Faye Milano.

Nice to meet you.

First, Wilson leaves without a warning because his country makes his wife

nervous. Then they sent me a woman.

Well, Shape, why don't you let me worry about being a woman?

Let's just clear up this place and you get me in touch with all the people I

need to know.

Okay? Okay, boss.

Your first time in the Middle East? Yes, I thought they'd send me to Central

America. My Spanish is perfect.

Hebrew and Arabic, I can't tell apart. Could I have some milk, please?

Well, Jerusalem's like a village.

This is the place for newspaper men and writers.

You can sit here one evening and meet practically everybody.

Good thing is, you don't need to chase stories. They come at you sooner or

later. We can't be sooner or later, Max. I'm replacing Wilson until Rogers comes

over from Rome. I've got three weeks.

Takes time to get the feel of the place.

Make your own contacts.

Three weeks is a bit short.

Just have to manage.

You know him?

Oh, yes.

We met, briefly.

He's a pretty well-known figure here.

A novelist had a couple of bestsellers.

Jose's uncle is the mayor.

Really?

Will you excuse me? I'll be right back.

Hi. Excuse me.

Before.

You probably don't remember me. I, um... A charming American reporter. Yes. How

could I ever forget?

Well, look, I...

If you were going to throw me out, I was really just about to leave anyway. I

wasn't going to throw you out. I was going to apologize.

Oh, well, in that case... I was rude. I was tired. I'm Faye Milano.

This is my daughter, Sarah. Hello.

I'm David.

It's a pleasure, David.

Well, I hope you didn't have to wait too long for a ride.

Oh, no, not at all. You know, just a couple of hours.

Not much.

I'm really very sorry.

Listen, let me make it up to you. Let me take you and Sarah out to dinner.

Now?

Well, yes.

I mean, if you haven't eaten already.

Oh, I'd eat again.

It's no problem. It's just that I have to be back in the army by midnight.

Well, okay.

Another time, then.

I'll be back on the weekend.

I'm at the La Rome Hotel.

I'll give you a call.

Anything you need, just call me. I'll try and assist you as much as I can.

It's very easy to get information here. We're a very small country, very open.

We're trying not to limit you.

But if there is a sensitive military subject, you must clear it first with

the army censor.

The army censor?

I don't want to get my information from the government press office. I want to

get it directly.

From the trenches.

What about those three?

boys that were killed in Nablus last week.

What about them?

I'd like to talk to their families.

Nablus is under curfew today.

One of the boys was from Jerusalem.

Let's go.

Okay.

Shafiq is one of the leaders of the Intifada.

I hope we're not intruding.

Fadalo, please come in.

This is Abdullah Sami Karim.

Please.

I'm sorry to trouble you at such a time. We won't be long.

That's my son Omar.

How was he killed?

He was visiting his cousins in Nablus with my nephew,

Mustafa.

The boys were playing outside.

He was only 14.

Thank you.

Please.

Thank you. Shukran.

The Israeli soldiers were conducting a search.

A group of reserve soldiers.

The boys were on the roof.

My son Omar was shot in the head with a rubber bullet.

It entered his brain.

Mr. Shafiq, when you look at an Israeli, what do you see?

An enemy?

A conqueror?

I'll tell you a story, Miss Milano.

When my son Omar was shot, he was brought to our hospital here.

We knew there was no hope.

The same day, someone telephoned the hospital, a Jewish woman.

Her husband was in an Israeli hospital in Jerusalem with a severe heart

condition.

Only an immediate heart transplant operation could save him. But there were

no donors.

There was no available healthy hearts of people who were about to die in all of

Israel except for my son Omar's heart.

And so she asked for it.

What did you say?

Mustafa was the one who got the call.

He was so angry, he didn't tell me about it at the time.

The next day, both Omar and the Israeli man were dead.

What would you have answered?

I would have said yes.

Because this is not about politics, it's about people.

That's it.

Fantastic story.

It's like everything else here.

It's got two sides.

The way things are and the way...

They could be.

This is my nephew, Mustafa.

Please meet Miss Milano. Hi, nice to meet you. How do you do?

I'm sorry, Mr. Moshe.

Please, sit.

Stay with us. No, I'm sorry. I have to leave just...

I'm sorry. Could I please take a picture? Would that be all right?

Yes. Yes.

I don't know, Jim. I thought his story was really interesting. I saw it as a

human interest story.

It's not topical enough, Jay.

Not topical enough?

Jim, he's a Palestinian. What are you... For God's sake.

Okay, understood.

I'll talk to you soon.

Hello?

Thank you.

This is your book.

Oh, yeah, it is.

You never thought of going into politics, huh?

No, I hate politics. I hate religion.

Sex I like.

Politics is in your family.

Isn't your uncle the mayor?

That's true.

I'd like to interview him.

Well, it would be arranged if you play your cards right.

How would you like a coffee?

It's good.

Look, I don't want to waste your time. I'm here to do a job. I'm not looking

for a man. It's just not on my mind right now.

So what if it's not your mind I'm after?

It's a problem.

Because my mind is the only thing that's available.

Tell me, Israel's 40 years old now. Is this what you expected?

Is this how you expected it to go?

Any surprises along the way?

You know, it's a lot easier to declare a state than to run it, as it is much

easier to declare a capital city than to run it.

The realization of it isn't always what we thought.

But if you look at this century altogether, it has lots of

ideas. It started out with liberalism.

It went on to the idea of the... war to end all wars it went on to

socialism communism nationalism fascism and the ugliest

kind of fascism and another war to end all wars and the welfare state and

decolonization and i could go on and on and on and none of them has lasted for a

long time i think of all these

Zionism and Israel, the return of the Jews after 2,000 years of absence, will

be, with all the troubles, the one outstanding thing of the century.

Wow.

Front page.

I never asked you. How did you get that interview so quickly, eh?

Contact.

Not bad, huh?

Yeah.

Ken.

Ken.

What?

Why is it that neither the article nor the picture was submitted to me before

you sent them out?

I didn't see anything sensitive about the interview.

I'm not talking about the interview.

Or the photo.

I was there, I had a camera, I took a picture.

It happened right here in broad daylight in the city.

Miss Milano, we give you a free hand, but we expect you to be fair.

I think I am fair.

I don't invent the news, I don't twist it, and I don't hide it.

I think that's what a reporter is supposed to do.

You only have two more weeks here. From now on, anything you send that has to do

with security goes through me, okay?

Have a nice day, Miss Milano.

and enjoy the rest of your stay in sunny Israel.

Rabbi Kahane, thank you for granting me this interview.

You are a very controversial figure.

It's good to be able to talk to you directly.

You know, you've spent time in jail.

You've been banned from the Knesset. You're often called a racist.

You're probably the most hated figure by the liberal voices in Israel. I mean,

how do you respond to all that?

We live in the Middle East, and the Middle East is not the Middle West.

In the Middle West, you can sit down over coffee and cake and solve problems.

The Middle East is a different mindset. It's a different culture, a different

mentality. They don't know about coffee and cake.

They know strength.

And that may be a tragedy, and indeed it probably is.

But that's what we have here. I want separation to survive.

That won't bring us peace, that's for sure. If anyone ever tells you, whether

left or right, that he has a peace plan, run away. He's a demagogue.

i don't have a peace plan i have a survival plan and please god when the

messiah comes then we'll have peace too

the father is is

not winding down it never went down it could have fluctuations periods of

intense violence succeeded by relative relaxation but it cannot possibly be

suppressed outside a political settlement territories for peace might

be painful, it would be less painful than the existing situation.

Do you know how much longer? Soon.

Soon.

They're late, aren't they? They usually get these things on time. I don't

understand that.

Ah, the Herald is up early. Hi, Max. Where are they? Oh, they should be here

soon. Look, they're going to transfer those three Arabs into that Mercedes and

drive them straight on through into Lebanon.

They like to get these things over with fast.

What's this?

Your chef.

Yeah, this is it.

Look,

I'm sorry. I... I'm really sorry.

Mr. Shafiq.

Why is it Shafiq is one of the leaders of the intifada he gives the orders

I Don't believe it. Why because he gave us Turkish coffee and told you a

touching story He wasn't doing anything they wouldn't

deport him let's go say

My uncle asked me to talk to you. He said you are a very honest reporter.

Come, come to my room. No, I shouldn't be here.

But you can come to dinner, to our room, and then we can talk.

Yes, of course. When?

Tomorrow.

It's off Salahuddin Street, you know that? Yeah, it's there. Seven o'clock.

Fine.

I trusted you.

To do what?

I said I'd be in the movie on a one-day notice.

What?

What you're really upset about is the picture. Is that right?

I printed the interview exactly as it took place, okay?

Yes, together with this picture, which makes it all into a joke. That's your

conclusion. It's one-sided. It gives a totally false impression.

I took the picture myself. It was real.

Well, there were a lot of other pictures you could have taken, like, for

instance, of a soldier helping a blind Arab cross the street. David, I have

three weeks. I cannot wait for a blind Arab. Well, maybe this job can't be done

by someone who only has three weeks.

Do you think this is what it's all about?

Israeli soldiers beating up cute little Arab kids?

Yeah, that's one thing it's about.

Yeah, it's only one part, one tiny little part of what it's about.

David, when you have thousands of women and children throwing stones at you for

over two years, don't you think something isn't right?

How would you know what's right?

I don't. I mean, I don't know what's right.

I know what I've seen.

You really don't like Israel very much, do you?

I used to adore Israel.

But you were right then, and you're wrong now.

David, can I just tell you something? I have an editor back home in New York

City who expects a riveting story from me every day. A foreign post.

For years, they promised me Afghanistan until the Soviet troops finally moved

out. What I got is three weeks in Israel, and I'm going to make it work.

I'm not going back to being a city reporter.

Oh, is that what you were? No wonder. Look,

David, look around you, okay? The whole world has changed.

You used to be a light unto the nations.

Now you're practically the only repressive regime left aside from China

and Albania. You're wrong. It's not that simple.

You think what you're covering is the struggle for survival of the

Palestinians? The Arabs have 22 countries. They'll survive.

What you're covering is the struggle for survival of Israel.

It's a pity you don't know it.

Have some cake.

Hamida made them.

She's a good baker.

They look wonderful.

I am sorry. This is all that we have to offer.

These are hard times.

Mrs. Shafiq, it was delicious.

What's inside, Sammy? What is that?

Nuts. What else, though?

Honey. Honey? Ah.

Mrs. Shafiq, have you heard anything at all from your husband? How is he? Where

is he now?

He's in Amman.

He's well.

Thank you.

You think there's any chance at all of them letting him come back?

Who knows?

They will never let my uncle come back. Never.

Why not, Mr. Grant?

They are afraid of him.

They know he's not afraid of them.

Let's go.

I'm not coming with you. Why?

What happened?

Move it.

Come on. Why are you stopping me? Stop talking.

What do you want exactly?

Take him.

Give me your hand. Wait a minute. I have to explain something.

Why are you stopping me? What are you doing to me?

No! You're welcome, Nala, but don't... Rishai, Rishai, I'm going to give birth.

I'm going to give birth to a child.

Let's go.

We'll talk to him and bring him back.

The Intifada, if you wish, is a massive popular upheaval. It is a movement of

the empowerment of the people.

First of all, against the Israeli occupation.

Yes. And in favor of our own freedom and right to self-determination.

But primarily it is also the substance of the Intifada is the long and

painstaking process of nation building, of building the Palestinian

infrastructure, of proving your own identity, of legitimizing the

Palestinian will.

and at the same time delegitimizing the Israeli occupation.

The Intifada didn't begin in 1987.

It began in 1920.

They massacred us again and again and again.

Before there was such a thing as occupied territories of 1967.

When they had all of that land, they went to war with us.

They could have had a Palestine a dozen times over. I don't hate Arabs because

they are Arabs.

They are my enemy because they want my country.

And one who doesn't hate his enemy will never win a war.

You read Arabic, Max?

Like a native.

What does it say?

Something, something, freedom and independence, something, something, and

the oppression.

Like a native of England.

What do you think of the situation here?

Well, I think it's a bloody outrage, the way they're treating those miserable

Arabs. And getting away with it, too.

I mean, you feel the same way, don't you? You've seen it.

Yeah, I've only been here a week. Yeah, well, it only gets worse. Hey!

Where do you think you're going? You can't go there. There is a curfew. Okay.

How old are you?

18. How long have you been in the army?

Six months.

Do you hate it?

I don't hate the army.

I just hate being a policeman.

I volunteer for the paratroops. Please, please. It's not safe here.

Come on, please.

Okay, okay. Let's get out of here.

Tell them you're a philosopher. Tell them you're a philosopher.

Tell them you're a philosopher. Tell them you're a philosopher.

Tell them you're a

philosopher.

Here come the fireworks.

What are you doing here?

Making orange juice. I come here often, you know, to check the female

population. I'm sure the female population is thrilled. Me excluded.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Hey, wait a minute. I'm in a hurry, okay? Why? It's such a beautiful day.

No, it isn't. Not for people who get taken from their homes in the middle of

dinner. Not for their... Look who I'm talking to.

Must be crazy.

No, I understand.

No, you don't.

If you did, you wouldn't be who you are. You don't know who I am. You blow up

houses. You beat up unarmed people. I saw you. People who throw rocks and kill

my friends are not unarmed. Do you think there's any Israeli soldier who wants to

shoot at children?

But the Palestinians send their children to do their fighting, and we must face

them. We can't surrender to them just because they're children.

And a stone thrown by a boy can still kill.

That's a wonderful excuse.

So, uh, how about lunch?

Well, I'm going to Ramallah, so... Ramallah's all right.

It's in the West Bank, but it's fine.

I used to come to Ramallah very often after 67.

It was very friendly, before the Intifada. The tragedy of what's

happening now is that there's real hatred developing between their people

and our people.

There was never hatred.

There was conflict.

Friendly.

Sort of.

What are they doing?

Burning the tires.

They're doing it for your benefit.

They love reporters.

Why didn't they do anything?

Well, you know, the soldiers are 18.

What do they want with burning tires?

They just want to live.

What's going on?

Let's get out of here.

Come on.

I said stop!

Shoot me.

Just trying to be John Wayne.

Hey, you sound like you're American. I'm from New York.

Jerry Greenberg, West 86th Street. You're kidding, really? I live in that

settlement up there. Yeah? Where are those kids? Oh, I think they're gone,

Jerry. Come on, let's go.

To the Jews like him, there may soon be no Israel.

Christians think we have a right to this country. Only some Jews have to doubt

it. The only place we can call home.

Now, this is the West Bank.

It's Arab land. It's not Arab land.

It's been a desert for centuries. We made it bloom.

A new immigrant from New York and already shooting people here. I hate

this situation.

Mr.

Abu Ziyad, the intifada has been going on for three years, you know.

Right now, there's possibly one many people feel less chance than ever that

it will get resolved.

I mean, the problem is that there are solutions for both sides, but both sides

find these solutions unbearable. Isn't that correct?

The solution is possible and it is based upon the two-state solution, a

Palestinian state, the Palestinian people, alongside Israel, which will be

a state for the Jews, for the Israelis.

Now, these two states can live within the frame of peaceful settlement and if

they... were achieved through peaceful means, it means to me that the

Palestinian state will be with open borders with Israel, a free movement of

both peoples together.

And there, a process of cooperation between the two states will develop, and

between the two peoples will develop.

Should there ever be an economic collapse, and a bad one in America, you

will see unleashed the kinds of violence and anti

-Semitism. that we saw 50 years ago germans are not different than anyone

else when people say well the germans were different that's not that's a

racist concept germans are not different the jews in germany live better than the

jews do today in america people are not good or bad per se

so much has to do with the setting the environment if people have a good

life then that makes them better

If they're desperate, who knows what they'll do. And that's why for years

I've pleaded to Jews in America, come home before it may be too late. This

is home.

Hi, Moshe.

Hi.

Look, did my story about the dilemma of the Israeli soldiers getting into the

taxes... They didn't print that one.

Here.

Mustafa Shafik was released three hours after he had been arrested.

They thought he might have had something to do with the killing of the soldier in

Nablus. But his alibi was foolproof.

He's not a terrorist.

Maybe. He has six prior arrests.

All in connection with the incident where someone was killed or wounded.

Well, your article will make him a hero.

Can you imagine what it's like to lose a brother?

A son.

Yes, I had a son.

He died.

I didn't know that.

When?

He was killed in the war in Lebanon in 1982.

I'm sorry, Moshe.

There was a paratrooper in the reserves.

You know...

When he was called up, he didn't want to go.

He didn't think it was right.

I thought he must go.

So he went.

You thought he must go?

Yes. I thought I learned something in Auschwitz.

You don't turn the other cheek.

That was the last thing we got from him.

By the time it arrived we already knew.

What did he write?

In Jerusalem, a widespread manhunt continues for the killers of the

frontier guard earlier today at the Damascus Gate.

A 22-year-old guard was stabbed twice in his chest.

Eyewitnesses saw five Arab youths fleeing the area into the Muslim

quarter.

What's happening?

What? No, no, no, no, no. I'm a reporter.

I'm sorry. Go away. You can come in.

Moshe, what do you have on the stabbing of the Israeli border policeman?

I just heard it on the radio.

I tried to get to Shafiq's house. The police wouldn't let me through.

Don't look at me like that. I'm trying to get a story that tells the Israeli

side of it, huh?

What? You're taking away my press card?

That's right.

What's that supposed to mean? That you no longer have our cooperation to report

on anything out of this country.

Why? Look, Miss Milano, you've bypassed the censorship authorities twice since

you've been here.

Look, I'm a reporter. I report the news.

I thought this was a democratic, free country.

It is, and it has its laws.

You were warned.

my press card because I refuse to write Israeli propaganda.

No, because you don't submit photographs in the reports as do other reporters and

you endanger the security of the state.

No, that's not true. That's just not true.

You aren't going to stay here for another week longer anyway.

I understand that the permanent correspondent is going to be here by

next weekend.

Look, you're not making friends this way.

You need public support.

You need friends.

I wasn't aware we were about to lose a friend.

Let me show you something, Miss Milano.

This is the frontier guard who has been killed.

His name and picture will be released to the media tonight after members of his

immediate family have been notified.

This is your article which appeared yesterday in Herald.

With a picture.

If you had shown it to me, I wouldn't have stopped you.

I just would have cropped the face of the frontier guard holding the gun to

Mustafa Shafik's head.

But you didn't show it to me and he's no longer alive.

Maybe it's a coincidence. We'll never know.

You'll never know.

Yeah. Jim.

Yeah, thanks.

Yeah, you got my message.

It's urgent. I'm out.

I took away my press card.

What?

Jim,

that...

Jim, um... Maybe if you called, huh?

A phone call from you, they might give me the card back.

Jim, I've just begun to get a handle on what's happening here. A few more days

would really make a difference.

To whom?

To me.

I'm sorry, I woke you up. What time is it?

It's around midnight.

Look, I'm sorry. Go back to sleep. Go back to sleep, really.

You make yourself at home.

I'm not used to, you know, barging in on someone in the middle of the night

without calling first.

That's fine, because the sensational Polish twins are gone.

I'm all by myself.

You look like you're cold.

I don't.

I'm fine.

I'm leaving Saturday.

But I thought you had one more week.

No, no, no, I've... I've been walking, I've been walking for hours. I

just needed someone to talk to.

You can talk to me.

Thanks, thanks.

I don't know what to say.

You don't have to say anything.

They... They took my press card away. I wrote an

article, didn't pass it through the censor.

That's okay. You don't really need a press card. All you need is a word

processor and something to write about.

I always wanted to be born somewhere else.

Sweden, Australia.

Somewhere quiet with a lot of blondes with the greatest national crisis. It's

losing a tennis tournament.

But I thought of it too late.

Yeah.

You know, I've been here three, almost three weeks, and what I feel more than

anything is confusion.

Who's right and who's wrong?

Who are the good guys?

I mean, everyone's so intense, they're fighting over land that has been holy

for over 2,000 years.

You know?

I mean, I just... It is a different

world.

not very good at this. I haven't been with anyone for a while.

But you must have had some relationships.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I sort of... Every two years they broke up.

You need some more practice.

Where are you going?

An Israeli bus was attacked on the road to Jerusalem.

I'm going with you.

When did it happen?

An Israeli family, a mother and two children were killed.

There are many in there.

Let's go to the hospital.

There's a soldier here who saved some of the passengers.

His lungs were badly damaged from the heavy smoke.

Let's get to him.

I don't think he can talk.

Well, let's find out. Maybe we can get a picture.

Okay, let's see here.

Hello. Shalom.

Are you family?

I'm a reporter.

I'm sorry, no visitors.

Look, just for a moment.

Please, try again in a few days.

Did you see him?

Hi. Hi, Max.

Hi.

Wouldn't let you in there, huh?

No, that soldier is in bad shape.

That's nothing.

You should see the Arabs that were beaten up by the Israelis today over

that bus incident.

Except they're not going to let you near them. Max, a mother and three children

were killed, over 30 people seriously injured.

You know, there's a little Arab boy somewhere in this hospital.

whose body's half torn off by explosives of the Israeli army.

I wasn't able to find him.

What are you talking about?

Forgot to take you when I were there. Don't you remember when they blew up

that house in Nablus last week?

Sure. They say the boy is brain dead.

The army wouldn't let him into an Arab hospital.

Apparently, they want to keep this one very quiet.

See you.

Yeah, see you.

I almost forgot.

You had a call from Nablus. Thanks.

Thanks, Moshe.

Listen, Moshe, could you try to get some pictures of the mother and the children?

I think I'll just hang around here for a while. Okay, I'll do it.

I'll see you later.

Yeah.

Give me the children's ward. Where is it, please?

Thank you.

Excuse me, who is that boy?

Tawar Saeed, an Arab boy from Nablus. Pardon me, please. Excuse me, can you

tell me how it happened?

I don't know. He was brought here three days ago by an army helicopter.

We are doing everything we can.

I've been looking for you all day. David, hi.

I left messages, but you never returned my call.

Yeah, I've been busy. I'm in a rush.

I've got to run. Hi, Sarah, how are you? What's the rush? Come on.

Going to Nablus.

It's not a good idea. You know, the city's under curfew.

Yeah, well, I have to go.

All right, I'll take you.

No, thanks, David. I want to go alone.

I'm a reporter.

It's really not a good idea for you to go alone.

When do you want to leave? As soon as possible.

Do you have a scarf?

Yes. Good.

Bring it with you. I'll pick you up in a half hour.

David, I want to go alone. David, will you listen to me?

David. Two o'clock?

Two o'clock.

So why are you going to Annapolis?

I had a call from a friend.

I'd like to see him before I go.

It's one of my favorite songs.

It's called You and I Will Change the World.

You know, Israel was very different when I grew up. It was very fragile and very

innocent. You knew you might have to die for it someday, but some of you didn't

mind. Because the enemy was all around us, but the enemy was not within.

It's all changed now.

I listen to the old songs and I just want to cry.

Put the scarf over your head.

Well,

I guess you could pass for a nice Jewish girl.

It's good to know.

Paste this thing to the windshield.

The scotch tape in the welcome part. Quickly.

What's going on?

We're no longer fanatic Jewish settlers. Now we're foreign press.

Okay.

Spend a month in the reserves. You'll learn all the tricks.

The Israeli army are not without the curfew in Arabic.

Mustafa, this is David.

He's a fool.

Sir Eddie.

Right.

Please.

Please, come in.

Sit down, please.

This is where I spent time during curfew.

What was that song?

It says Abu Ammar give us weapons and we will take back our homeland.

Abu Ammar is their name for Yasser or Fat?

Right.

You look familiar to me.

I was here in the reserves until last week.

I think you are crazy to come back here.

Why? My friend wanted to see you and I'm a civilian now.

How's your uncle?

My uncle's dead.

Dead? Yes.

These are my last pictures of him.

Oh, my God.

You know, my real father was killed at 67 war.

And he raised me.

Where did it happen?

Not far from here.

Well, I thought he was in Jordan.

Yes.

No one can keep a man away from his home.

He was coming back to continue the fight.

Arrangements were made secretly for him.

But he was betrayed.

He was betrayed. by his own people.

When he got here, he was ambushed and killed.

My uncle believed in you. He thought you could help us with our struggle, bring

our story to the world.

I'm leaving, Mustafa.

There'll be someone else, but... I mean, you know I'm a... I can't take sides.

He said you could be trusted.

He said you understood.

It's not clear-cut.

Everybody inflicts pain and everybody suffers.

I mean, I wish I could do some good, but I have no real power.

You know, for me, it is clear-cut.

I am occupied.

The army patrol has just passed by. They come here about every hour.

Can you help me?

Why can't she help? How?

Look, there is a man. He's living up the street.

I'd like to get him a message.

Can you do that for me?

But, I mean, couldn't you... I can't go out. You can go over and give him this

piece of paper.

His name is Rahim.

She's not going anywhere. We're leaving.

We're still on our last, and she will be safe.

I'm Faye Milano, New York Herald.

Lynn?

I'm Faye Milano. I'm an American newspaper reporter. I have a message for

you.

Newspaper reporter, I have a message for you.

I had to use you.

He's traitor.

Collaborator.

I remember you now.

You were the one who flew our little tower to Jerusalem, to the hospital.

Right.

Come on.

Just a minute, David.

Just a minute.

Come on, we have to go. All right.

All right, come on.

It's really rough.

Yes, you have to hurry.

Come on, let's go.

I'll meet you in better days.

Did you ever

kill

anyone?

Oh, yes.

How did it make you feel?

Terrible.

Why'd you do it?

When you live here, you're always part of everything.

If I were a Palestinian Arab, I'd throw stones.

If I were a black in South Africa, I'd fight against apartheid. But I'm an

Israeli.

What's the point in talking about this?

So you are really leaving, huh?

Yeah.

People come here, they want the explosive side, but there are human

stories, nice things.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Where do you find them and how do you sell them?

I heard a story.

Remember when they blew up the house in Nablus?

That same day the army found a six-year-old boy badly burned.

He had tipped boiling water on himself in the kitchen. The boy was dying.

The commander, a reserve officer, called for a helicopter and took him to the

hospital in Jerusalem unconscious.

Today, the boy got out.

That's the story.

Jim, yeah, sorry to call you at home. Yeah, I know what time it is.

Jim, I sent you a picture yesterday of a boy, a small boy wounded in a hospital.

I got it. Great stuff.

It's in tomorrow's newspaper.

No, you've got to stop it.

Stop it? Why?

Well, I got it wrong.

He wasn't hurt in the explosion.

Damn. They were in print already.

Jim, you've got to stop it.

Nobody reads the retraction, Jim.

Three million people are going to read this, and I got it wrong.

Best we can do, but I got it wrong. I mean, rush it. Get it hot. I got it

wrong. What happens if I got it wrong? Jim, this isn't the front page. It's

people. Hang up.

Take it easy.

Are you all right?

Yeah, sure, me.

Just selling newspapers.

Forty cents.

You can come. Hi.

I was just in the neighborhood and I, uh... These are for you.

They're lovely.

Thank you.

Would you like some mineral water?

No, no, no. I don't drink. I just wanted to see as much of you as I can before

you leave.

I should have called first.

It's okay.

Well, would you excuse me? I'll...

You know, all I wanted to say basically is I have a really difficult time

connecting with people, you know, especially when I want to connect and I

want to connect with you. Why? Why do you want to connect with me?

I don't know. You're just different from the women I know. You're a whole other

world.

Thanks.

I don't know about that, but I'll tell you one thing. I don't know which world

I'm from anymore.

Well, I thought... New York, no? Well, there's more than one. Yeah, New York,

you know, but... I don't know.

I've lived there for a long time. I consider myself a New Yorker, yeah.

I was born in Pennsylvania.

Small, small town, very poor.

Nothing but steel mills.

My father's greatest dream was to give a waitress a $50 bill for a $25 check and

tell her to keep the change.

Me.

I wanted to change the world.

That the world is not basically just.

How do you explain that to children? That the justice of your cause does not

necessarily mean that you're going to be treated in a fair way.

And this is the dilemma that all of us have. How do you protect them and how do

you explain it to them? That although we adhere to these values and principles,

that they are not always the principles which govern your lives.

They always ask, I mean, they ask, why are other children of the world going to

movies, to amusement parks, even to schools?

And we can't. Why can't they go outside and walk and visit their friends? And we

can't. And we tell them that being a Palestinian is not an easy thing.

And sometimes as I watch them and I see how their childhood has been confiscated

in many ways, how the childhood of all Palestinian children has been hijacked.

for political gains, I feel that nobody in the world, nobody has the right to

deprive our children of the right to be carefree, to be children.

In the long term, I'm extremely confident and I'm optimistic.

However, my only two questions are how long and at what cost.

This guy who was taken away is an Arab who was working in a building

next door, not far away, and he just happened.

to run into my husband as he left the house and he stabbed him to death.

That was about five minutes before he stabbed also this other guy

opposite my window.

Later on I found out, I was told that also ten minutes before, this Arab

stabbed also another young girl who left her house.

My elder boy keeps asking me, why

was my father killed?

Why did this Arab kill my father?

And I had to explain to him that it was just

our bad luck that his father

happened to be...

outside that morning, and this guy didn't know Ellie personally.

He just wanted to kill any Jew.

Where are we going?

Oh, we're going to just a very beautiful spot. It's a little bit outside

Jerusalem.

When are you going to let me drive?

Wait a minute. Just wait a minute. He's going to let you drive?

Oh, just a little bit, you know. She's crazy about cars.

Besides, she's a minor, so if she runs somebody over, she'll probably get away

with an extremely light sentence.

Oh, that's good thinking.

I think I missed a turn.

Something, David?

Yeah, let me see.

Yeah, take a minute can we help

I don't know what you're saying, but we're just taking pictures

My name is Faye, and this is Sarah.

What is your name?

My name is Celine.

Oh, you speak English. Hello, Celine.

What?

He wants to see it. He just wants to see it.

Wow, that was quick.

Needs to go to the bathroom.

Be back in five minutes.

I'm, uh, I'm a reporter.

American reporter.

A newspaper.

Newspaper, you see?

See?

I take pictures, right? See?

No, don't take my camera away! Come back!