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Eight brave individuals strive to expose the unjust mechanisms of control that the state of Israel uses to subjugate and silence Palestinians. In Israel, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank, the law is whatever Israel deems to be in the best interest of Jewish Israelis and to the detriment of Palestinians. Israel violates the civil and human rights of Palestinians as a matter of standard, accepted policy. However, there are brave, determined individuals who are trying to expose the destructive, unjust, and sometimes invisible ways in which Israel exploits and oppresses Palestinians. The Law and the Prophets explains the mechanisms of control that Israel deploys to subjugate Palestinians. These mechanisms, some violent and some nonviolent, have been perfected through decades of civil and military rule of Palestinians both within Israel, and in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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00:13If you're lucky, you get a work permit, which allows you to wake up at 3.30 in the morning,
00:18cross a checkpoint into Israel, work in the Israeli economy 12, 13, 14 hours a day,
00:25come back at night through that same Israeli military checkpoint, you'll get home about 10 o'clock at night,
00:31kiss your kids while they're sleeping because you're not going to see them awake,
00:35wake up 3.30 the next morning and repeat that for the rest of your life.
00:43What is Israel? What is a Jewish state?
00:46When it declares itself a Jewish state, it has no room for people who aren't Jewish.
00:51Israel is always looking to try and drive Palestinians into smaller and smaller spaces,
00:56to make them invisible, to deny them resources, deny them chances,
01:01and ultimately to try and force them out.
01:07This became the problem of Israeli politics, what to do with land that we want
01:13and people that we don't want, more land, less Arabs.
01:16If you are going to move 600,000 Israeli civilians into occupied territory
01:24in violation of international law and against the wishes of the 3 million Palestinians already living there,
01:32will there be security issues? Of course there will be security issues.
01:39Israel begs for violence with everything they do,
01:42from creating settlements, to having checkpoints, to demolishing houses,
01:47to arresting kids, etc., etc., etc.
01:51As a soldier, when you control population without rights,
01:55you have to make people afraid, that you have to treat them all as enemies,
02:01and therefore undermine their humanity.
02:04So for Israeli mothers and fathers to sleep all night and to go about their daily lives as normally as
02:11possible,
02:12Palestinian mothers and fathers have to be kept awake all night.
02:15In their mind, it's not a question of if their house will be raided,
02:19it's a question of when.
02:21A Jewish state wants to be Jewish.
02:24Israel will violate some fairly fundamental rights of Palestinians to maintain its Jewish majority.
02:30I do remember children looking at me.
02:34You destroyed my home and you raided my village.
02:38People were killed here that didn't do anything just because they were Palestinians.
02:45That was the moment that I started seeing myself as a possible villain.
02:55This story, it's an ugly story.
02:58It's a story that we're responsible for and that we need to confront.
03:02That we can make the world a better place by starting with Israel-Palestine.
03:17It was a pretty clear moment where I stand after peace and foreignamps,
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