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In 2000, our cameras captured first-hand some of the violent conflicts raging in Israel and the Palestine territories giving an extraordinary insight into the day to day difficulties faced by people. We also follow some more liberal Israelis who were criticizing the army’s high-handed methods. From the start of the Intifada in mid-September (2000), the Israeli army has shelled and rocketed cities like Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah and tried to cut off Palestinians from the outside world.
Religious fervor seemed to sweep Israel, a country where many Jews think they are ordained by God to colonize the “promised land”, conveniently ignoring the Palestinians who live there. But there are also some Jews who do not see themselves as the chosen people and work alongside the Palestinians seen by them as victims of Israeli policies.
A Rabbi who leads a pro-Human Rights group, a Jewish lawyer who defends Hamas terrorists–not because she agrees with their methods, but because she doesn’t believe in her country’s military justice–, and an Israeli anthropologist, who actively opposes Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory are some of the protagonists in this report.