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Introduction of Sami Awad, Yonatan Shapira, Ahmed Al'Azzeh

music combination of blues harmonica and middle eastern sounding music

story of Awad's grandfather being shot (re-enactment)

each story has b&w reenactment

title sequence

Family histories intertwined with history

Six Day War

Munich Olympics

Distinction between terrorism/militarism and lives of everyday people

Israeli military control of Bethlehem

Christian support for Israeli military

Palestinian Center for Non-Violence and Martin Luther King

Intifadeh and Civil Rights Movement

Formative Moment

Shapira visit to concentration camp (Israeli Defense Force)

Deportation of Sami's uncle and Kansas (Israeli participation in non-violent resistance with Center)

Oslo Peace Accords and Rabin Assassination

Post-Rabin elections and building of settlements; move toward segregated society

Ghandi's influence on Awad and return to Bethlehem in 1996

Challenge of doing non-violent resistance with Palestinians

Second Palestinian Uprising; Sharon's visit to Temple Mount; link of nonviolent resistance to collapse of peace process and resurgence of violence

Shapira and Israeli Refuseniks during the Second Intifadeh

Palestinian perceptions of non-violence as weak and cowardly (Al'Azzeh)

Role of fear: Militarism in Israeli society; connection between Holocaust and fear in everyday Israeli life; Awad's visit to concentration camps and understanding of how this has shaped Israeli identity "presenting this act as what the Arabs and Palestinians want to do to us now"; children being taught fear

Daily life: 2002 Arab Peace Offer to Israel: siege of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem; saving the TV; birth of child in Jerusalem; death of Al'Azzeh's father; animated graffiti sequences; children diseases in occupied territories

Shapira in Courage to Refuse and understanding he could be a refusenik; pilot's letter

Reading from Pilot's Letter and fallout

Possibility for coming together; coming together of Awad, Al-Azzeh, Shapira and joining forces of Israeli and Palestinian non-violent resisters under Combatants for Peace

Challenges to non-violence: Shapira's family's support non-violence; Al-Azzeh's concerns about taking care of son; Awad's belief in non-violence as central to Palestinian values

Freeing the Oppressor from their own Oppression; courage to engage in non-violent resistance

Shouldn't compare scales of tragedy; should compare process of dehumanization

Israeli Independence Day - Nakbah (Day of Catastrophe)