this project started out to be a film about the one state solution to explain the facts on the ground to show that the two state solution and a viable palestinian state is now practically impossible achievement but as it turns out this film would develop into something far different something far more personal this film is about sixteen israeli jewish voices sixteen voices from the inside from different generations different backgrounds and different perspectives i grew up in mandatory times under the british and british mandate so it was before there was an independent state and when the state what established in one hundred forty eight when you were young really this new country this new country is industry developing agricultural developing and lots of people are coming and i must say we were not fully aware of what happened in the i grew up in england during the in london during the blitz and during the war of course we gradually learned about the holocaust the things killing of the jews of europe and it was a very very big influence and growing up and we were very under shot and toward the end of the war forty five forty six forty seven forty eight we began to hear about israel and the idea of a new theory states and we felt that you know we had to be a bit of a phoenix and create something new from the ashes and we believe that we could build a good state a good society in particular  come to a kibbutz and live a communist line where everyone was equal everyone contributed according to their ability and received according to the needs the kind of new way of life we thought we'd build a model country which would be a good example to the world and i was very well aware of what how the ugly the occupation is very and i was very upset to what the occupation is doing to my country and my youngest son did the reserve duty when i hear people who get upset and very nostalgic to a kind of little brave modest moral spartan israel of the fifty's and sixty's let's say and there hiking back to that i'm not a part of that jewish so the voices of the organized jewish community that do support israel only represent a minority of the jews a lot of the minorities in new york city are miami you know want to be a part of the societies of the living in but they also want to keep something jewish so for them israel becomes a lynch there are no other words as long as they have an israel they can galvanise or threatened to be existed if they can organize themselves around their have their kids come on a birthright program israel have meetings in the federation to raise millions of dollars to support israel that the sense gives them that that center the keeps the community together because without israel with you the jews are a middle class white population they're sort of saying we don't want your stuff we don't want to deal with this you not leave us alone leave us with are we are your school to me your israel in other words talking about israel the real israel in a very critical way is very threatening it's only in terms of israel that people somehow feel that any criticism of israel is anti semitism or a question in the right to exist of the state of israel and that's what raises that ante so high that you can talk about  school i entered the national jewish bible contest i actually won the contest in one hundred sixty seven and the first prize was a trip to israel i came to israel for a year studied in the issue  in a way of worshipping god and they have sold this to the larger organized christian world the idea that respecting judy's and means supporting the state of israel as a jewish state so  that i think very it's very important that people who are interested in the meaningful relationship with jews and judaism recognize that that that is not necessary prerequisite to being involved cause and it's not black and white the sacred cows have been slaughtered  russian immigrants the only two thirds of whom are jewish integrating into the society israel becoming a pluralistic society the fact that israel to find itself the jewish democracy but only seventy percent of  population is jewish and creates racist tendencies within that within the society jews to be living in a majority i remember living that i came from life as a minority in america i came to live here in a majority among jews and in israel and and at first i thought that was wonderful and now i recognize what  i corrupting and how problematic it is understandable but still not acceptable i grew up in california in a zionist youth movement and so from an early age was learned about israel i mean i think it's it's a fantasy of of israel it means a very idealized sort of presentation of course because the whole point is to is to forge a connection between americans from the united states and israel with this ideology that jews belong here that we are responsible for israel and and vice versa so it was only in college that i came for a semester program that i saw a more complex picture about both about israeli society about the israeli palestinian conflict about the reality of the occupation and for me it was it was a shock i mean i thought i israel quite well i come from a very rightwing family until about twenty years ago i was not her involved in anything i was even right inclined politically for many years i was very concerned about not meeting any arabs whatsoever we're completely disconnected societies and one thing that parents teachers meeting i spoke about it with a woman and she said that there's a group of j arabs israelis all of them to me every month and i started meeting and talking with arabs and my whole world is actually change because i was brought up to believe that a good i grew up in this sort of lefty house for example that still i have never had any direct contact with palestinian citizens within israel in my hometown believe like five minutes from a nearby  is really just peace activist and i live in ramallah i grew up mostly in mostly in israel mostly in tel aviv even though i lived for five years in canada when gaza the first time i heard about the occupation we went to school like i would of cool like enrichment day and it was very enriching it was the first time in my life i was hearing about people who didn't have rights who didn't have political rights who were forbidden to gather who could be arrested without charge and have who were being tortured i couldn't believe that she was talking about is out i was totally against what i had been taught about us our enlightened inner nature because we are conditioned as israelis and taught by our parents by the media by the school that we are morally superior to the arabs that talk it totally broke my paradigm of the world because i recognize the oppression that she was talking about from the jewish history that i was taught but all the sudden we were on the wrong side of the equation of us and it was the jews that were doing this i couldn't justify it in any way didn't matter the stories that i have been told about the a seventy five percent of the indigenous palestinian population approximately eight hundred thousand people were expelled before during or immediately over israel's nine  remained inside israel are second class citizens completely under the pretext of redeeming the land since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israel's military and settlers have destroyed more than one million fruit producing all of trees cultivated by palestinian farmers some trees are as old as one thousand years in nine hundred sixty seven israel confiscated or palestinian water sources by law today palestinians are barred from even collecting the rain water falling from the sky widely practiced by israel administrative detention means imprisonment without justification or actual cause today hundreds of having any more porous you know it's impossible i don't know how it's lasted so long thirty eight years old the un convention of the child states that no child should undergo cruel degrading punishment or torture since nine hundred ninety nine in israel over four thousand palestinian children deprived of a lawyer have been imprisoned and interrogated i can tell you personally that i'm attempt to intimidate the civilian population israel has detained and imprisoned over six hundred and fifty thousand palestinians morally i am very unhappy of the moral qualities and values that in jewish values i come from are only just family and i remember my grandparents who were very religious jews and they were spiritual there be worthwhile to do anything if you could prevent this happening to another family army was a very organic part of that military is a sense here has used jewish just here is a history of jewish just  to build up this incredible inner fortification against any kind of just grew up in the israeli educational system which is not sponsored and i did develop some kind of an attitude of repulsion toward things that i felt but i've been brainwashed into me in the system the motorist present all the time you have weaponry all round of soldiers all around you know they advertise white cheese by referring to the army or cell phones and also special curriculum school service is sold to children as some kind of a summer camp and to parents like go to the military have some fun kick some arab ass in israel your military service is something that you're raised you breast feed it it's the oxygen that you breathe you can't pinpoint it it's at school it's at home it's on t v it's the terminology that we use it's how we reflect on our selves and when you learn your own history in most of the schools there are almost no arabs it's about you it's about the zionist movement service first sergeant with my grenade machine guns snipers or if there are rifles and we used to return fire inside the city every night when you fire a machine gun there is no way to really aim exactly towards your target to my  we have to respond we have to show them who ruled the place who controls the city and that's what we did every night