Who knows which of ministration will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. The United Nations says its concerned war crimes may have been committed in ethiopias, north, into grey region, infighting between the Ethiopian Military and the to gray Regional Forces. The 10 day conflict has already killed hundreds of people. Thousands of fled to sudan. Prime minister has accused the to great Peoples Liberation front of treason and terrorism, and Amnesty International says scores of civilians have been massacred during the fighting Mohammed Atta has more from the Northern City of gondola near to grey region. These fighting words has had no letup ever since it started about 9 days ago has caused massive casualties. And the civilian casualties that are being witnessed in some parts of the region are not giving any confidence to the people. There already. 100000 people who were already internally displaced within the region, even before the conflict started. And that was the most likely happened just about a 100 kilometers from where we are right now in a small town called mike cutler. Of course, the government is blaming the tea p. L. F. Fighters for these killings of people, most of it done through beheadings and using all kinds of crude weapons. But on this evening, the t. T. L. Of leader, the protests you dont get there. Michael held, released where he said that it was not his forces who hunted out these mutha and said that there was need for an independent inquiry into the killings in my country. Of course the government is claiming huge victories in the western part of the region. Clearly areas near the border with today they claimed that they had taken the town of the lumber and had their fight on the cup with on mcclellan. The Prime Minister. This is going to be a very quick operation. But when you look at how heavily armed both sides are, looks like its going to be a protracted war. And that is what is causing concern for many people. Something that the main fear is that this conflict is going to have ramifications far beyond the borders of if youre here a 30 year ceasefire in iraq is volatile. Western sahara region could be in jeopardy. Rockers says a Pro Independence group has blocked a main road on the army, has moved in to stop them the policy front to reporting fighting in the buffer zone. And so morocco has ignited war. The countrys authorities deny any fighting the group wants Western Sahara to be independent tensions of increased in the last few weeks, despite the longstanding ceasefire as a by john as enforced a curfew in areas that its captured in the corner. Karabakh. It comes ahead of armenias handover of land to azerbaijan. Scores of Ethnic Armenians of begun fleeing the areas that will be handed over some of set fire to the former homes, handover as part of the deal that ended 6 weeks of fighting over the disputed region. Rival factions in libya have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. The date was announced by the United Nations official and is considered a sign of progress in the talks in neighboring tunisia. Thats what 75 libyan delegates have been negotiating a road map out of civil war. Both sides signed a cease fire agreement last month in geneva. More news in half with me here on aljazeera next to aljazeera is aljazeera correspondent to stay with us. My name is matthew castle. Im a photographer and a journalist. I grew up jewish in america and i support the palestinian struggle against occupation. Support resigns, and israel is strong in the Jewish American community. And my support for palestinians has caused a rift in my family. After travelling in america to better understand u. S. Support for israel, im now headed to the middle east to trace my own story and see the conflict through the eyes of those who live in many ways the story of modern zionism starts in europe with Great Britain playing a prominent role after world war one and the breakup of the ottoman empire, britain took control of the land of palestine. During 28 years of the british mandate, thousands of jews fled antisemitic attacks in europe and emigrated to palestine with the hopes of the stablish in the homeland. In 1948, british rule came to an end in palestine, and the state of israel was declared on may 14th, londons east, and has hosted immigrants from around the world most recently from the indian subcontinent. But at the turn of the 20th century, this district largely consisted of jewish immigrants who had fled antisemitic attacks in eastern europe. Youve got somalia, and i was curious if it used to be a synagogue or through that you had your synagogue. Yeah, i dont think that most people know about how used to be said about, you know, no one knows the history. All right, thank you. Very good. Set up. In 1906 theodore heard so a jewish writer from austria, hungary addressed a large rally in the east and calling for the return of the jewish people to college time. He would later be considered by many to be the founder of modern zionism and a major catalyst for the creation of israel. I was in london to promote a book that i coedited, written by arab writers whose countries were swept up in the wave of arab uprisings in 2011. The Frontline Club hosted a Panel Discussion with the editors and authors. Its not, some people are very optimistic, some people are hopeful, some evil person is good. But you know, theres a, theres a process that happened. The uprising i havent got any sense of regret from people who are doing the will is didnt know what the freedom means. You know, i dont know what you want not to see a president or a Prime Minister the people of us. But what they see and we need to change is that society itself, its a great pleasure to be here with these 4 individuals tonight. Thank you. All coming and contributing. Journalist rachel shah became to moderate the discussion. She comes from an arab jewish families who left their native iraq after israels creation. We met up the next day at edgware road, which is long, been a hub for arab culture in london. And theyd see this was the place where you go to feel like youre in the middle east, an environment, and you can see all they are being used. Maybe theres a in her writing, rachel argues the Jewish Nationalism. And the creation of israel in 1948, forced arab jewish communities to abandon the countries theyve been living in for centuries. The Iraqi Jewish Community was 2000 years old. It was big, it was vibrant at one point. It was a quarter of a population of it. Why did they leave . Did they want to leave . Why their life became untenable in the middle east . So it routed communities of jews. The house of longstanding, deep how very integrated relationships in the middle east. They had to hide his identity, arab jews, that became extinct because of scientists. And you know, there are 2 different time it took the opposed Movement Seeking you will see in seeking your alleged allegiance. So which one of the sign isnt israel to say youre jewish . You know, we have the answer to you, youll, youll, identity questions. Ill sit here. Why cant they be arab or jewish, and part of israel at the same time because that wasnt the identity. Israel wanted old itself. I mean, israel sees itself as a european country that somehow took the wrong turn and ended up in the middle east. So how do you identify well, im a hybrid suv, you know, identify myself as british. But i do have a jewish iraqi her until i also struggle with the question of my identity because israel claims to be the home for jewish people, many in the arab world come from judaism with israel. So its not always easy to discuss my jewish background in the middle east. I spent more than 4 years living in beirut from 2007 until 2011. Although i love chicago and the people there, theres a certain indescribable warmth in the middle east that i feel many people have always offered me as a foreigner. I morely is one of my closest friends who i met when i 1st came to live in on living together since 2007, 1000 downs. And under what, being in beirut, im going to go when the fish was, was on the nose, a journalist and still lives in the apartment. We used to share guests loud the guests. Just see if you like people with you in the same balcony. So this apartment has always felt like home to me and i was happy when i saw that many of the photos id taken of palestinian life in refugee camps. Were still hanging on the walls. How did we meet . You said that you were looking for them and i was looking for a place to stay. Yeah. But then you said the place needs a lot of work. And i said, ill take about the ask. I jus never did. I painted the whole of the whole place, the place was it was even more of a mass back then and i still was, it was more of a mask. But the 6 years later, i remember just before we met, i met our friend rima, and i asked her, i think its like my 1st or 2nd day in lebanon, and i asked her, you know, like, so which religion do you belong to . And she almost smack me and i remember why is that such a sensitive issue . You ask people about, i remember that, yeah, you 2 asked me and i was like, why this guys asking me, what is my sag . This is, this is a crucial issue for me. I dont want to be part of a group or that i want to be part of the collective. I dont see what difference it makes if one that judaism is recognized as one of them is judaism as another. See the thing is that there was never think sentiments towards the jews in here as there was anti semitism in europe and the spanish inquisition times they were not perceived as an outside element. They were perceived as everyone else in the country. Things start going bad after 48. 00 after 48 actually after there has been some of whom are zone news against the jews in lebanon, and the other boys as being collaborators to the new jewish states that just got to be built in the middle of the middle east. Obviously i wasnt going around telling people you know that my background is jewish, that would have been to are weird. How do you think people would have reacted would react to this and certain places it could have been dangerous for you in places of the most is a clothing designer from london and like rachel, she comes from an arab jewish background. Her family fled lebanon during the civil war. My father was born here, but you dont live here. You have never came here. But did you, did you grow up identifying with lebanese . Yes, and now like a multicultural community, you dont really ever identify yourself as anything. I mean, i had 5 myself as a bond, but my definitely felt more from my father and from the rest of my family more than i did you explain that . I said i was not saying that and if thats true, its kind of all mixed into one ray. I feel is hard to separate the jewishness from the lebanese ness of my family. I feel that both is what i dont even know until i was probably too old and that there wasnt such thing as, as jewish arabs in the us, you know, like being jewish kind of is almost synonymous with being a supporter of israel. Yeah. Did you ever feel similarly . I dont think so because i think like i was quite ignorant and it was never taught by my family. So you never felt any connection, no tool. And i think in europe its different in america like being in the us with being an israeli, or whatever being zionist, when you like in lebanon, youre going to do you feel very uncomfortable talking about your jewish background . Yeah, definitely. I mean, i would be very picky about who i tell those kind of things to. I mean, i mean people think that the jews equals israelis and obviously this country is at war with israel. And people have a very kind of difficult history here in this country. I suppose you have blamed them. I mean, obviously that makes sense that they, if theyve been educated in israeli and jewish different things, then you can understand that reaction today. I mean, of course, its not like i would hold against them. We decided to get mad at a civil marriage based on our own beliefs that we are both none the religious nonsectarian people had to go through the mud, which is the north of the office. And he pulled out a book, an ancient book, really big block of this. He went through the names until he got to your last name. He stopped at it and like, gave me a look and said, now jews, you know that i was like, oh no, i dont, you have to find school larry fine. Lets not stop at it to heaven if you want to warn you to come and accept 2 minutes to digest. That thought. According to most estimates, there are only a few dozen jews remaining in lebanon. All thats left of this once vibrant community is whispers, a synagogue, a jewish cemetery. The head of the Jewish Community in lebanon, was afraid to speak to us because of the increasing sectarian tensions in the country. I came to lebanon because i wanted to understand the situation for Palestinian Refugees in this country. And when i came, it was in the middle of a battle in the, not a bit refugee camp in northern lebanon between the Lebanese Army and militants, from a group called the to the army, went into the care to try to root out 150 fighters or so ended up destroying entire camp of 3040000, people, leveling it to the ground, forcing the inhabitants from that care to leave the camp with nothing but the clothes on their back. After the fighting ended, i was documenting their kind of struggle to return to the refugee camp and not it. This isnt the 1st time that they have been made refugees. In 1948, the creation of the state of israel forced more than 700000 palestinians to flee their homes into neighboring countries like lebanon. Palestinians refer to this period as and which is arabic for the catastrophe. Its Palestinian Refugees comprise about half of the worlds palestinian population. There numbering in some 6000000. 00. And a lot of them are living in refugee camps without rights, without the ability to work without the ability to own and pass on land to their family members. And yet somehow they know so much about their homeland and they know so much that they want to return to it. During the time i spent at the camp, i became close to ziad, a showery, who i went back to visit. It had been over a year since we last saw each other. I should not only mean i should try to bluff him. Despite our closeness, i never told ziad that i had a jewish background. I was afraid of how we would react. I wanted to tell him, during my visit, just answered not have it refugee camp, and we have someone from the Army Intelligence who is this courting us into the camp. This is actually how it started in 1948, with palestinians, but they had these little homes or little tents in many cases and they basically just kept building on them. And thats what youll see with these benteke side, these prefabricated homes, they were given when they returned to not a bed in a few years ago. I arrived home made from temporary shipping containers provided by the u. N. I dont know if you just want to live in our shoes for they come to us just down the some other things. If i were a shadow, i dont know that if youre in jail, you keep some of them have it. There. Are people going to have to even think, you know, youre going to like many refugees in lebanon, were prevented by law from working in over 70 professions. Ziad is a laborer finding work wherever he can, but in the camps he has known 1st as a poet. His poems reflect Palestinian Refugees deep love for their homeland, an intense desire to return but that never was ok, but there was much too on my. I mean, i view myself that i took that picture in 2003 that they returned to the camp. Thats my stuff at like 6 am still fishing that day and thats when fishing on the spear in the field. You know philistine marshfield, full bodied nuns in a pool of golf. Its good enough for this team, but then i knew out of being one who shouldve shopped for the steve. Oh, shit. I did do a mean headed know what i would do in the studio in washington because a lot of the what does it do with it . Is just put us now on the street to get a chemist record. Dear john, for the students, how that ended up a little bit to my daughter being going to 15 and all took up the philosophy of would i love that office to know what i thought was a single call for help . That i just said you, i got off this nomination, assess how do i mean lady on the site and i just says you do it. I did and you know, and then you know, but thats all those. Yes, parents fled their home in 1948, some of his family remains, including an arrant who stayed with her husband. Theyve only been able to correspond through letters and you caijing a phone call. But in the summer of 2000, both sides of the family travelled to the border. Were her brief moment, they were able to see each other again only for the 1st. In 53, we saw the same page. I will tell you that if i think i will move on what i mean, what it means when there was a difference, it was with the montreaux to you and you can do more of the job. The top of that on the, on has of the car. And it would, i want to use our new key in the of that would model of the School District to say. And it would what doing on the has an additional fee to not have but 50 of them with something of a fan wanted no, they meant to put a lot of thats up to him. I will add more now on for the stop on up on fed him a little see why you would never see a boy about how leave with milk and wish and you will not be civil about how lived in the last seen walk on that road to the fullest while deanie kept lebanon, will have no idea of the. Why did it go to the people, you know, you can wonder how they fuck it in the how can a law from the, from the still there no matter how those the d. A. s office to establish how those years is usually about the rules was no, no, no did it all solved, but all the no one what did you, what here it was hard to talk openly was yad particularly about my jewish background because i felt uncomfortable being followed by the 2 army minders who took notes on everything. We said it breaks my heart to see this man whos been like a father to me, yearn for a place that he may never see. I see id to meet me again the next day. This time by the sea, where we could talk more freely. Hes an avid fisherman, so i stopped by a store to buy him a pole so that we can go fishing together. Susie, i know i know, i bet you dont. We dont want you insulting to trade well. So because everything from shore do i have to go on a boat from show you. Ok. I mean you get plastic bags, its all these fishermen, these fish dont know what they got coming. You know, im not going to get any location. I will get a fish, you know, if you want to find i want to just this minute. Im sure hes not fishing. You dont look at so you no idea what im doing is going to be good at all. And like i said, ill be honest. And see, just take their place, but we went by boat to a small island off the coast of tripoli. And and there for the sea. And our mother saw a monster that my mocking up and most of us out of out of from the bad fucking the bomb in my shop. And me started then. I mean, i was out here on the side of that land in a sham of, out of, encompassed in pursuit of the, on a philistine that can buy from off of this to me. Going to cheat on the market to death. And i will mount up out of the muck, you know, that i have decided about comes to me and im so, i mean, i was a lot of money i want to muscular and the end of an especially mishmosh could. Its going to mock, you know, idiot clinton much like, oh tony, how do i know, how do i see it . I have a federal ban idiot. Who did the so i only obey only i would be if they do not go that would be like 60 i would not be able sort of in the hospital for the stinney or kind of the anyone can do is out in the air i am when asked not be out of food and and i never left my salon in the year with d. M. And i met him. The meaning of initially i had dish and into many of the toughest thing he had this and that even though the matthew, i was glad to finally speak openly, was the out about my identity. And i was relieved that he didnt associate my jewish background with zionism and his suffering and television for going to have to do or should have been. Im technically, i never conceded that im not that sophie and i have all the truth and be a bit that not all and i had one moves with me. It saddened me that as a Jewish American, i could easily travel to the village that ziad family came from. But ziad couldnt a village that hes waited his entire life to see. But when i was growing up in america, this is the image i had of israel, the beautiful beaches of television, bustling with energy and life. But when i 1st went to the west bank in 2003, during the 2nd intifada, i saw a much different image of israel when of war and occupation. When i went through my 1st israeli checkpoint, my world changed. I saw hundreds of palestinians forced to wait all day under the sun, unable to travel to their towns and villages. I could see the expression on peoples faces of being denied, of wondering if they would be able to go home. A young soldier was shouting at a palestinian man, not even looking him in the eye, just repeating in broken arabic, go back, get out of here. I started to question a lot of things. The narrative i had learned of israel growing up. The u. S. Role in the middle east, my own identity. I spent much of the next 4 years working as a photographer, documenting palestinian life under israeli occupation. In 2007, i was denied entry into college son. This is my 1st time trying to get back in since then. After 4 hours of being held in questioned repeatedly by Israeli Border guards. I finally entered israel, palestine with jealousy. They feel she just exquisitely, shes a climber and its part of our culture to look at our very, very best part, a special occasion. And for that people, we spend money, everything you see on the catwalk, they do a test. If there is going to be longevity, they are all have to come out and tell you things are going to my nigeria on aljazeera one half go through and half lebanese. So diversity is really important to me. And aljazeera is the most diverse place i have ever worked. We have so many different nationalities, and this is a nice book together in this one piece organization. And this diversity of perspective is reflected in our coverage, giving a more accurate representation of the world. We report on and thats a key strength of aljazeera. , your children. The whole robin and horrible end of all top news stories, u. S. , President Donald Trump has admitted that he may not be leading the countrys next administration. He was speaking publicly for the 1st time since joe biden was named president elect. Trump said millions of doses of a crowd of ours that soon will be available to americans soon. According to some estimates, a National Lockdown course 50000000000. 00 a day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally, we wont go to a lockdown. I will not go decide, ministre she will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully, the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. The United Nations says its concerned war crimes may have been committed in ethiopias, northern to grey region, infighting between the Ethiopian Military and to grow a Regional Forces that turned a conflict turns already killed. Hundreds of people thousands of fled to saddam Prime Minister. Ahmed has accused the to great Peoples Liberation front of treason and terrorism. List International Says scores of civilians have been massacred during the fighting a 30 year ceasefire and maracas, volatile Western Sahara region could be in jeopardy. Morocco says a Pro Independence reapers blocked the main road, and the army has moved in to stop them. The policy friend says morocco has ignited war. The group wants Western Sahara to be independent. Tensions have increased in the last few weeks despite the longstanding ceasefire. Us about john has and forced a curfew in areas that is captured in the color karabakh. It comes ahead of armenias, handover of land to azerbaijan. Scores of Ethnic Armenians have begun fleeing the areas that will be handed over some of set fire to their former homes. The handover is part of a deal between armenia and azerbaijan, that ended 6 weeks of fighting over the disputed region. Rival factions in libya have agreed to hold nationwide elections in december of next year. The date was announced by a United Nations official and is considered a sign of progress from talks in neighboring tunisia. Thats where 75 libyan delegates have been negotiating a road map out of civil war. Both sides signed a cease fire agreement last month in geneva. A back with more knees and half an hour. Here on our show, you can follow the stories on our web site at aljazeera dot com. We return now to aljazeera correspondent after arriving in the west bank, i went to the blotter refugee camp where i lived for 6 months in 20052006. I started a photo School Called picture, but i wanted to give you from the camp, the tools to document their own stories. Butch, was one of the young photographers from the program. Welcome to the refugee camp. And im not funny at all. Sounded like he was just asking if i was present, he was in there for a year and a half when i didnt get to keep classes in your meet the Israeli Soldiers still hes coming from right here in the winter camp and are clashing with the fighters. In the camp on, on a nightly basis through the food or just give you a listen, you know, and i do enough. I just up the credit to the fullest Palestinian Refugees are not on the exiled to neighboring countries like lebanon. They also live in camps like this one throughout the west bank and gaza. Thats the toughest book was that if you look at the same thought it was a lot. There was a flash point during both the 1st and 2nd intifada as youre supposed to come up side to it. Was your decision to become shocking . Shocking, actually, jeff, it appears study your sense of mission of the vision, because this is a poll thats going to you can make a full circle in most of the over the last year. This is a lot of a lot there. If you can st. That was a good yes, i do it up right over there. How to guides that tons of fog or 2 of my other photos today. And i wanted to help them share their stories with americans. So i arranged a photo tour across the u. S. It was an opportunity for them to travel freely that they really have israels occupation, restricts Palestinian Movement around the west bank and makes life increasingly difficult. Many humans will become Political Prisoners at one point in their lives. This is israels wall in the occupied west bank. But its not just a wall that separates palestinians. Its what people have termed the geography of occupation. That also involves roads settlements, military outposts, creating islands of unconnected palestinian land. Irene, nasr is a journalist and a palestinian citizen of his room. She documents israels encroachment on palestinian lands. I think people dont understand what the occupation was like or like what it actually means to live here as a palestinian. I think that the concept so this is a road 6, its a tall road. This road and thats the south from being a setback to the norths type player. Yeah. They could have confiscated land from israeli jews, but instead they decided to build it through the strip of palestinian villages. And as a result, it divided palestinian villages from the sides to palestinian villages on the side of one of the ways that they do that is that they confiscate it for military purposes for say but then slowly slowly their outpost built on it. And im sure that the eventual purpose is to take all the land, but it is done in that credibly planned out and sophisticated way to the settlements or choking palestinian population. There being the it strips morning in like specific passon chunks leaving the last bank in the palestinian areas just to these tiny Little Pockets a 2 state solution where and how we were headed to najaf in northern israel, ziad families village that i promised him id visit ive been to this greater area but definitely never to this village. Its amazing how many people here have family members who left in 1948, thinking they were, you know, going to escape fighting for one or 2 days, and then could never return after that 65 years later, ziad cousin abu mohammed welcomed us to the village. The only time that abu mohammed had met ziad was at the lebanese Israeli Border in 2000, delivering alutiiq. And i thought its a dogma, but that its morally, its more me, im busy said sterry. You know what, im going to do all the thoughts way. But on the look, and if it could go to clinch the guardian while i will mohamed took me around the village and introduced me to the extended family if how like, what it meant. It was a matter of making their making the homemade bread and the notion you can make an minimum for law. And thats been my this is what modes cousin, some more of his cousins. Its a massive family. Im having a really hard time keeping track. They got some chickens down here to the olive trees. They make all of all from oh, oh and its not him, but i think hes been on here and ive been here may not have been a building then you know, with a lot of little were looking to do you know if youre not it better it can be no different we set up a computer to cause yet over skype. So the 2 families could meet again. I dont know just mark ziad of the mahmoud. Good product doesnt seem to see it. No one celeb it was just how would i feel to know i dont feel bad liberty because you are noble beyond a little and a little belief on our telephone or learn to share learned just what i had thought i was going to. Ive been tellin ya, you end the show. If you turn i know i am in love mean it up into you also like that. I mean, i know it is not the idea that been a while and to walk a noise. Now i shall lay all luck. Charlie. I love you, man. Im glad youre in love. We tried to continue to call on my cell phone, so the i could see the village, but the connection was lost. I dont i dont although z. I cannot return to his village in the israeli settlement of car night in the west bank, jews from all over the world can come and live in what they consider to be their homeland for more than 2000 years ago. I met with people, its a recent settler from the u. S. City of seattle and to spokesperson for the consul bit of an organization that represents different groups of settlers like yourself away from chicago, where the real problem once i started is a club with a life thats lets leave it at that here. You know, this is really beautiful. Yeah. Its nice. Yeah. But its not so easy. Its not so big. We have 2 rooms over there and one of them there. Then upstairs, just a loft with the master. Did you read . Speak hebrew, i mean i did study, but there is one thing. Reading the books and i think conversing. I studied for my bar mitzvah when i was 13, i dont think, i mean that its a useful thing to have. You get the hang garlic. Yeah. Thats not all thats keep the vampires away. I dont know if theres some tradition there. I think its just more food is one of the nice things about this community is i have people who are orthodox who are not orthodox. But everybody here see themselves being jewish. Thats the unifying aspect of israel, but also particular we all are living here and growing the next chain in the jewish people. Our generation is generation right now is a 1st generation where we have an amazing life back. Whatever country or from it, certainly in america, but now we decided to come here and make a better life, even with all the problems of the middle east and the stuff you hear about, you know, in this country in particular, were because were, were trying to be true to ourselves and who we really are. And that is being jewish in a completely holistic way. And you also consider yourself a zionist in the political side. So i think so. I mean its a tricky word to the un to try to tackle it. Tell me what it is describe describes i dont, i really dont know how people see it and i guess not a word that i usually just use to describe myself concerning communities that has very positive connotations. Certain communities has more negative connotations were about to use like the settlements in the west bank as being a hindrance to the Peace Process or moving forward, any kind of peaceful resolution to this conflict. How do you, how do you respond to . I find that whole proposition to be very, very problematic and questionable what i found to be the most eye opening was the 1st time that my wife talked about when she went to the Grocery Store and want to reach for a box of cheerios. As my kids want to cheerios, and as an american product, there was an error. Mom was reaching for the same box, insurers issue us and there was a connection whos like, you both want to raise our kids. And i think more interaction like that gives hope for what if theres only one box of cheerios left to go through. Theres never one box and you know, i think what youre saying was it was interesting in a used to hearing it because a palestinian state, if there were to be a 2 state solution, would it incorporate areas like this one is that the settlements and, you know, the west bank, i dont know. I mean i see i cant really imagine a palestinian state actually occurring here, but this is israel needs its land for its biblical and terror and taggerty for its security integrity. And just for natural growth, its all, its all part of the same tapestry and its not inconsistent with arabs and palestinians living here. Youre either going to cause because your lovely family is just there. I really find it important that jewish families like kids have the right to move and live in israel. But he didnt recognise the palestinian right to return. Yes, its not the same thing if you want to say that there are palestinians who left after the 948 war, they have a right to come back. You know, that doesnt make any sense. And there is no other country in the world that has any concept along those lines. Once you feel you have a National Identity, its real chio. Dont mean to minimize that because it is real to them. But practically, what does that mean to the, i mean they have a right to come and take land and come here. You know, throughout the conflict there has been a tendency to negate the National Identity of the other side. On the palestinian side to say there is no Jewish National claim or history here and on the jewish side to say theres an arab nation, but theres no separate palestinian nation. And when you deny somebodys identity in their story, they will find that unbearable. And i mix up the bill, thats a challenge to their most basic. Being gershom gorenberg, an israeli journalist, and historian, is critical of the settlements and questions, the commonly held narrative of israels history. I learned everything i knew before going wrong. I saw that the level of political backing from within the government in actual government, initiating of the settlement project was much more extensive and important. Then its part of the wider narrative. And i also saw that from the beginning, there were people warning of various levels of why this was a mistake. Its precisely from within the perspective of being somebody who is committed to israel and committed to israels future and community judaism that i see this process as be you know, long term way destructive of the state of israel. A lot of israeli settlements like this one just here, which is called let me take palestinian resources such as water taking a Natural Spring and using it for the settlers and preventing the palestinians who have used it for many years from accessing that water every friday. The villagers try to go demand access to that Natural Spring that they say belongs to them. And they are prevented from doing so by Israeli Soldiers who are going to come out and block this road that were walking down now and clash with palestinians from the village, preventing them from getting to that water right up into it. A little bit. But this week the protest has become a Gathering Place for palestinian solidarity activists, including many israelis and europeans. You know, not go, no, youre going to die. And i mean, how do you think that the saudi, you know, not cool, you know, and then albacore now and then almost done that. Oh no, im done. Im an actor. You have got to know youre going to get you know i was like ok, i dont think these were forced and i realized that i am fighting on the right side as a jew, as an israeli, i feel that its my responsibility to, to be here. And how much of Israeli Society do you think you represent and the things you just said that and you 2 percent. But in many years from now, israelis will say, oh, we were against the apartheid. Just like today in the south africa, you go and every policeman will say i was always against apartheid. Right. But they took part in it. I mean the middle men of the religion of the thing have the government since i go to be on the hook. I feel ive got the time to know everything, but i think im on the 100 and im going to be in a lot of them. I mean, well thanks to both lot of so bring our videographer from the village here. Is you speaking right now it looks like hes going into the back of an israeli jeep. That white truck. I believe its spring skunk, that disgusting family spray. They just got, i got to let it go. Youre going to be your 1st thought hell 1st time to not be thought. Oh yeah. So what just happened right now. Just how do you for a minute write to tell you to stop filming or to move away with this one issue . Would you want the husband every friday with me money times theyre not just me for the whole day. And once they had asked me for 4 days off to keep me away from the demonstration on whats up in the village, there is right. A law said that there was no ballistically on, doesnt work in their Land Clearing 3 years, they think needed to stay in the land. So its not that we dont want to work in that end, but we cant seem to them to end. Of course, the sole job for the things that lead is all the time. Its another way of stealing and going to risk it and then listing the young and the Israeli Government is not only taking lands in the occupied west bank, but its also taking lands from palestinians inside of israel. For centuries. The negev desert in southern israel has been home to palestinian bedouins. Schecter been barry, is a palestinian veteran lawyer in israel fighting a new bill by the government, designed to confiscate bedouin lands and move them to more concentrated urban areas. Some 100 meters from here on the 4th night. My family also to move from there. He uses a lot of ways to force people out from the place. They put that this is a dangerous fighting area, hebrew and english, even within a lobby or not a big not taken nice and i think no land, no trees, no homes, nothing thats going to have been buried. Took me to the house of a bedouin family. Their home was deemed illegal by the Israeli Government. The government refused to provide the village with public utilities. So they were forced to install solar panels and bring in their own water supply. Begin with or buy those tanks, whether those things because of the lack of the water to see the lives of very dry, you know, oh wow, you know, thats when it is. And he is 700 meters from me. You know, if you have the individual farms, so they dont know, he just might live his claes will talk again with and if the city also has individual farms are jewish settlements inside of israel, often built on confiscated land. Even though many of the bedouin neighbors are refused to basic public services, individual farmers are provided with the electricity and water thats needed to grow healthy crops. Is a marriage ceremony that were watching with horses running by it, celebrating this young man who is about to get married. Hes from this Bedouin Community right here. So to make a company into a shared home for her to be a sort of an advantage to the good just good man is a man behind that there. But the thing that i, that the body im going to have the ability to get it, get the backing of it left. If they do that is what im the kind of i got to do that. So its going to kick out of its destruction of the whole way of thinking go from lifes cultural tradition. This is the problem. My mom once said that is jews. Israel is who we are. But when i hear stories like the bedouins, its hard for me to believe that israel is a part of me. Before returning home, i went to the wailing wall in jerusalem. I wanted to talk to my mom and have an honest conversation about our differing views on israel, but she wouldnt appear in the film. She was afraid of the backlash from her Jewish Community in the u. S. So i wrote her a letter. I came here with my mom once and i saw what a special place it was for her and i understand for jews, this is the holiest site in the world. And it was nice to see my mom feeling something greater, something more spiritual, perhaps. And she came here and i like being here with her. But then i mean very in the middle of it, theres israeli flags, the soldiers with guns all over the place that really ruined the whole spiritual event for you. So you politicized it with this symbol of the state of israel, which is for palestinians. And for many others, you know, a symbol of oppression, occupation. For me, the 2 should have nothing to do with each other. Even though my mom wasnt willing to appear in the film, she didnt want to share her perspective. So she wrote me a letter the holocaust was recent history when i was young. And the people that i knew who were touched by it talked about it under their breath and whispers like it was a sham and a word used in judaism to mean disgrace. Shame. Now we had a home where nazis, crusaders, sars couldnt extinguish us just because of our religion. You were born in a different time in israels history. It was no longer wonderful dream and ideal. Rather it was a reality as the region got hotter, the idea of who was the aggressor got muddied in some peoples eyes. Never mind. Our history together on this topic got more and more difficult and you became a merged in and so passionate that i appreciated your devotion. I couldnt understand where your passion was coming from and the degree of your fervor. Our dinner table conversations became a battleground and every topic found its way back to the middle east. So even today, as i love you as my son and i feel you are hardworking and smart, i do not appreciate the fact that you cant see why im so devoted to israel. But its a conversation that needs context. I will always love you, and when we have disagreements on anything in life, we will have to agree to disagree with respect. This one is no different. Love mom. And im definitely, you know, her son once again. So i think thats great. I understand for her that being jewish meant something much different than it does for many jews in my generation and especially the holocaust. I wasnt really aware that you know, there is this kind of shame around it. You know, im growing up in a different time and younger jews in the u. S. And around the world are growing up in a much different time. Were not living in the shadow of the holocaust or the shame that she refers to. I dont need israel to make me feel proud about my identity. And she even admits that shes unwilling to really ask a serious question or any serious questions about israel and its policies. She says shes going to support them no matter what. And i think thats where the problem occurred. So youre a victim, youve suffered, we realize that we recognize that. But we also have to be sure that youre a victim, and your victimization doesnt victimize, another people as it has. And whats going on in israel and palestine for israel and its supporters. The long and difficult history of jews in europe made the realization of the jewish state, a dream. But a dream is no longer a dream. When it becomes a nightmare for someone else. Thats the palestinian experience since 1948. And its a story that i believe needs to be told we can say goodbye to each other. Finally, its been a long lived storm and here it is over the water. Now its, theyre going to disappear into the atlantic. It inhouse the rain up the east coast, and theres been flooding from britain still some rain to come, but largely its an improving picture. The cold to suppress so much snow in the cascades in the rockies. The codicil the spreading across the plains states now coming out with this fairly warm weather and you know what happens when the cold reaches the warm and you start develop showers then thunderstorms. These could really be quite dangerously nasty with significant snow going through parts of ontario on the Northern Edge as well. And theres more to come. The pacifics providing yet more rain for lower levels of washington, maybe oregon and of course inland. So that we said goodbye to eater. We watch another development here, i think is, will stay as a tropical depression, which means its a trouble for shipping, but it will spread showers or at least induce showers as far north as to make your then down to the north or south america and is certainly heading further west where you dont really want to be, but thats how we go to the end of the weekend. The showers again being sun to form in eastern mexico to cause the still flooding in these, in southern mexico from each other. So this is not a particularly good sign. A multimillion dollar online sex scam in the philippines is blackmailing men from around the world. 1. 00 to 1. 00 east uncovers our small time syndicate, became a criminal empire on aljazeera gang life. This was our foundation. I tried to do some to different when i met daisy. It was the best day of my life. 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