Your story we are trying in all ways to understand this new culture. Not a visitor not a guest you want to become sitting. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. Decades now israelis and palestinians have been locked in an ongoing dispute over a few 1000 square kilometers of land the west bank sandwiched in between israel and jordan ever more jewish settlers are moving here some of them from germany like. She lives in a short. Thats me i see no problem with our living here and its a matter of how we live. By a tolerance or settler antimony palestinians provocation. The hard part she claims direct contact is the only real path to peace. High a town was born in some petersburg in 1991 and grow up in cologne at age 19 she emigrated to israel shes been living in a jewish settlement in the west bank since 2014 the couple this is and what is it this love is for the chain symbolizes the country of israel and im not a political person and a religious person for one thing and for another ive called my principles the 1st one is that the land should be unified for everyone who lives on it. Higher lives in this converted container and the alone put settlement just over 20 kilometers south of jerusalem the United Nations on the European Union both regard the jewish settlements as violations of International Law as theyre built on occupied territory but the settlers justify their initiative by citing an Israeli Court ruling that declares the building of the settlements illegal a conflict isnt over by a long shot it may get worse anything can happen we might all contract the coronavirus and wind up in solitary confinement so nobody will be able to attack the other thatd be just dandy this corona. We 1st met high in early march has the Program Festival was just getting underway traditionally jews dont costumes for it and exchange gifts. At the time the coronavirus had already come to israel but the people was still getting together to celebrate they kept up their usual social contacts and did not yet practice distancing. Why did the settlers prefer the relative isolation of the jew to han mountains on some of the most disputed land in the world to mention the hilarity in him as the people who lifted you say partly for their beliefs partly financial reasons just because its cheaper although i like the sense of community. Suffered like never lived in a community before where all the neighbors and so tightly knit. Land. The more. Sustain us in school is nice really nice because it reminds us were not alone and that everything is not as simple and beautiful as it would appear at 1st glance. The west bank is about the size of the us state of delaware but the potential for conflict is passed about 430000 jewish settlers live here among 2700000 palestinians behind fences walls and barbed wire. The expansion of jewish settlements extensively impacts the lives of palestinians like Ali Abu Awwad he comes from a family of political activists his brother was shot and killed at an israeli checkpoint in 2001. Was active in the resistance against israel and spent years in prison he says hes renounced violence even if that is. Im a nation continues unabated hes Palestinian Bisons plate is enough to get him stop to the supermarket by security the lead is well im so that the father asked where hes coming from abu awwad replies that he came from good. The officer asks to see some id but doesnt have any on hand. The officer suggests he look for it in his car and that he cannot let him into the parking lot without an id if it actually even if he did the next officer would stop him so i wanted the office to turn back. My id. So i wasnt allowed to. List doesnt happen to the israel is just the palestinians that has to be checked and if you forget your id its a big deal. I feel sometimes that every last thing. Is a suspicion. Until you prove you are a good guy. One hears like. A freaking you know we because there is a lot of fear a lot of. Different activities that tags annie annie a wrong move in this junction english is your injunction. Any mistake or their own good move while you are a drive in good can cost you your life. When i look around i see many subtle moments around the surrounding this learn i mean. This is what i see. This is what palestinians face every day for these people to exist practice their identity there is a price of my dignity and my rights that i have to be everything this is and just. As well as our without considering the palestinians as fact in vista that palestinians are struggling to survive that but also to start the heart of a cube ration in any way and this is an endless i dont want to spend my life doing this out of this victim. And the feeling of victim in both sides is such a huge issue its even the competition of suffering who suffers more none of us is going to give up his right none of us. For decades israelis and palestinians have been locked in a kind of local cold war in which neither side wins. Higher shan states he sees it as unfair that she and other jewish settlers are called an obstacle to peace in the middle east feel a physical 150000 israelis are not something to be ignored and you cant just classify several 100000 people as criminals and think youll be able to expel them for some political motives if it doesnt is a couple personally i see no problem with the fact that were living here so its more of a question of how we live here of how we behave and how the other section of the population the arab inhabitants of today or in some areas the palestinians behave towards us as a kind of interaction happening here and its not happening very positively i have to admit most are still given. On the question of who the land belongs to there are no easy answers people debate the issue and seek dialogue with the other side. Like hired rabbi one and schlesinger lives in the alone should sacrament together with palestinian partners hes launched a Grassroots Initiative called roots 60 years and 6 weeks ago for the 1st term my life i had a face to face meeting with the real palestinian before that i had seen them on the street i had hired them to work in my house they did my gardening but i never really talked to them. I was completely thrown for a loop that here are people that i thought of as terrorists and they have a human story just like mine i was so taken aback to hear their stories of living under occupation id never use that word before id never heard that word before in a face to face conversation here. Both sides are an obstacle to the other sides peace our identities are the obstacle to peace who have 2 contradictory identities israelis say and its true historically that the holy land as ours thats true we were here 2000 years ago but the palestinians are also connected to the whole land from the joint to mediterranean the same hold land it belongs to both sides legitimately. Routes organizes regular events for israelis web palestinians talk about their lives under Israeli Occupation for some of the young men and women here this presentation will be their very 1st direct contact with an arab. Once an enemy becomes a partner theres a chance of finding a political solution thats the idea behind roots we have to create a new reality in which we live not to be expensive of the side but in partnership with at the side and the truth is that the best place to begin trading that partnership is here in the west banks laster deen scenario were of close so close to each other. Well. This is precisely what higher towns set out to do in routes she got to know a palestinian over time theyve become good friends he lives in who sat on an arab village halfway between alone shoots and jerusalem but the political situation does not make such into ethnic friendships easy signs even warn israelis not to enter palestinian villages claiming that its dangerous higher town doesnt agree shes even learn some arabic because she wishes to communicate with her neighbors. Higher and more artists are determined to let what they share and not what separates them shake their fredricka. Im sure that. Weve had enough of warring so either we decide now how we can live together reasonably in peace or once able through the other out or whether. Some are against us meeting for others or for it was when i dont care and i have no reservations about meeting with israelis who everyone knows. Him have heard because of his contacts with israelis was detained for 4 days by Palestinian Security forces the mutual distrust ronsard deep that anyone ever has contact with the other side is quickly suspected of being either a traitor or a spy even so there is something essential that to share. The desire for peace. And we both like this new who because. Its the personal contacts that make all the difference for higher. Almost rather here global why do i stay on here because i have a good social community i have lots of friends had both jews and arabs and im getting along fine here. In spite of their differences higher up all i want and rabbi schlesinger a formed a common bond that convinced its the only way to bring peace to their own country. Motor sports is it still a man. No way. To compete in a race car driving. And they are winning. Our red motorsports Expert Consensus the fastest female race car driver in a long time ok lets jump. On t. W. Already do. 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