"Tanks around the house all the day." "They are also entering a lot of houses and today they just get inside a lot of tanks and searching some houses." "They pass from here." "They stop near the house three times." "Actually." "I filmed a little bit from the window, sometimes from the door." "Sometimes from..." "So when you call me, I don't know..." "I just, look for the news in Al-Jazira and maybe I slept, like, out of all that tension." "But you're allowed to sleep." "It's okay." "I can sleep, yeah." "It's not like sleep." "It's like a death "prova"." "A what?" "Like a "prova" for death." "When you are going to die, you make a "prova" for how it will be." "I see." "A rehearsal." "A rehearsal, casting." "Be quiet for 3 minutes." "After that we'll hear from you what you heard during these 3 min." "Starting from now, concentrate on whatever you want." "Three minutes, eyes shut." "Just listening." "It is cold." "Yes, the wind told us." "Now, do it again." "Eyes shut." "Once again." "I want you to go back to the night before." "To the night before, Elazar Ben Yair is giving his speech." "After that speech, 960 people take their lives and kill themselves." "I want you to think you're part of these 960 people because in some way you are." "Eithan, eyes." "Three minutes, try to concentrate and go back to your history, to our history." "I'll stop walking." "3 minutes." "Soldier!" "Soldier!" "Why are you stopping them?" "They should keep working." "You have no authority." "Who authorized you to stop them?" "Excuse me, soldier, I'm talking to you." "I told him to stop." "Why doesn't he?" "He must stop." " Why?" " By what authority?" "Why should they stop working?" "Why should they?" "Don't talk to him." "This is a closed military zone." "He's getting the order." "If I show it to you, will you leave?" "Let me ask you a question." "Are you allowed to be in a closed military zone?" "Show us an order." "There's an agreement with the army." "What agreement?" "We are civilians, don't hush us." "Let them keep ploughing!" "Answer us!" "We're talking to you." " Let him plough!" " No." "Why not?" "It is a closed military zone." "You can't be here." "They can work." "It doesn't apply to them." "A military order would only apply to us." "They can stay." "It applies also to them, it's State land." "That's not true." "It's private property." "There is an interim court order allowing them to stay and farm." "You can't just say "no"." "There is a court order!" "What's up?" " What's up with you?" " Why are you following me?" "You know what?" "Let them plough." "Now, get the hell out of here!" ""...a closed military zone from May 1st to May 30th."" "The entire area is a closed military zone." "It's not clear." "Everything demarcated by this line." "We're right here." "We must check it." "Read it aloud to these people." "Some are gentiles." "They don't understand Hebrew." "Hold on, we need to check with the army spokesman." "I'm telling you to stop." "Stop!" "Turn it off!" "You have no permit." "Go away!" "I won't talk to you." "I don't know you." " Neither do I." " So shut up!" "I'm doing my job." "I'm a lawyer." "A lawyer!" "Then read it." "It applies only to us, they can work." "No, but..." "The order is one thing." "There's a second point." "These are State lands." "You don't agree?" "It's simply not true!" " How do you know this?" " There's a temporary injunction." "Show me." "How long have you been here?" "30 years!" "There's an agreement with the authorities." " With whom?" " Between the army..." "Between the army and the locals." "They can work only if he is here." " You mean Tareq?" " Or any other official." "So, have him come." " But why didn't they wait?" " Because he never shows up!" "Where is Tareq?" "You should decide if they can't plough because it's State land or because no Administration officer is present." "Basically, they have no rights here at all." "Besides, if they want to plough, they need a permit." ""Besides, you just made up something else."" "Great!" "Where is Tareq?" "What distinguishes Masada from other places is that here, in the year 66 A.D." "the great Jewish revolt broke out..." "A small Roman garrison was positioned on the mountain..." "In this very place, in the year 66 A.D." "the Roman garrison was attacked by a Jewish commando unit of rebel Zealots." "They took it by surprise..." "The Zealots reached Masada." "They conquered it from the Romans and stayed put until the end of the rebellion." "The Romans sent a well-trained army, an elite unit." "They took Jerusalem in 70 A.D., 4 years after the revolt began." "After Jerusalem was burnt down, three main pockets of resistance remained." "Herodium, Machvar, and the last, Masada." "He came here with 10,000 soldiers in order to besiege Masada." "The Romans reached Masada in the year 72 A.D." "almost two and a half years after the fall of Jerusalem." "They appealed to the Zealots to surrender." "Yossef Ben Matityahou addressed the Zealots saying: "Guys, you did it." ""You're the last ones to hold out." "But it'll be a shame." ""If you surrender, we'll find a solution."" "At first they tried to convince them to surrender." "But, when the Romans realized they wouldn't, they built a dyke around the mountain." "What was that dyke?" "Look!" "Near the small square there is a kind of stone ridge which runs down the cliff and all the way around the mountain." "The dyke is a wall ...one meter thick and two meters high with watchtowers every so many meters." "This wasn't just a "separation wall"" "as we call it today." "It was a statement on the part of the Romans that they were here to stay." "Hello." "This is what it's come to." "The Arab nations couldn't care less about us." " Take care, guys." " Take care." "Morning like noon..." "That's how it is." "Where are you from?" "Where can I pass from?" "Where?" "You can wait here for God's mercy." "They might come in 10 or 15 min." " This is how it is." " They do as they please." " What about the next gate?" " No use." "Why?" "They don't even let people from Zeita through." "I'll wait and in the end they won't let me through?" " Do you have a car?" " No." " How did you get in?" " Through another gate." "In the morning?" "I snuck in with the people." "You could do the same here." "From here, from there, it all depends on their mood." " At what time will they open?" " At 12:00." "It's fucked up inside and outside." "What's left?" "It's fucked up inside and out." "Now they'll come and you'll start arguing with them." "No one will argue with me." "You're wrong." "No one will mess with me." "Fucked up inside and out." " They're building another fence." " I saw it, I passed by." "Not a single olive tree left." "They're building the fence." "That's the end." " What do you mean?" " An ant couldn't pass." "They're screwing us just like that." "Let them go to hell, sons of a bitch!" "This morning they wanted to throw all of us out of here." "Does the fence have an alarm?" " It's all wired." " Lots of devices." "Not on this side." "It's inside, where the camera is." " Where is the camera?" " On the other side." " But where?" " It's hanging over there." "There are no cameras." "Yes, there are." "Don't touch the fence." "Don't touch it." "Whoever touches it won't get out." "He won't get out all day." "Until the evening." "As soon as you touch it the Border Police knows." "There are no cameras, but when someone touches the fence, it triggers an alert." "It's numbered every 100 meters." "If they get a signal, they come directly to the spot." "How fast do they come?" "Within minutes." " Five minutes." " Five to ten minutes." "It's 12:05." "When will they open?" "When they feel like it." "But officially?" "Sometimes at 12." "Sometimes not at all." "Could you help us make them open the gate every day?" "For God's sake, look how bad our situation is!" "The vegetables are rotting." "Talk to them!" "We're sick and tired of living." "It's all for nothing." "We're sick and tired of living." "What do you think, Haji?" "How long will you wait?" "I'm going home soon." "I've had enough, I'm going." "I'm going home." "It's no use." "Any relatives inside?" "My daughter's inside." "She told me she has things to give to her brothers." "I still have young children, so I came to get them from her." "I've been waiting for 4 hours." " 4 hours!" " I swear to God, 4 hours." "What can I tell you..." "I'm sick of life." "It really is terrible, Haji." "What can we do?" "That's fate." " That's our fate." " It is." "I swear to God, death is better than life." "It's better to die." "It's better to be in the grave." "It would be easier." "Why is life like this?" "A life of nothingness." "What can we do?" "It's fate." "I realized today that I don't know the day." "If it's Monday, Tuesday, Sunday, at all I don't know it." "I don't know for how long we used to live in curfew now." "If you told me a month, I tell you okay." "If you told me a week, I tell you okay, I believe you." "Because you know how it feel?" "Your feeling with the time is the same." "Because morning, evening, night, also in your dreams, you have one subject." "It's not like a normal life that in the morning you have that to do, after that, you have to look for lunch, then some meetings, etc." "So..." "Some cuts in the time schedule related to subjects in your life." "No, it's totally the same, one subject all the time." "Also in your dreams, so..." "I don't know if it's funny or sad... or what." "It's look like, how you look, how you appear, that maybe can decide your life." "So you know, today morning I decide to shave my... to shave my face again, after one week without, so..." "That maybe cost me a lot if they enter the house and I'm looking like... not well shaved." "Because I look like a terrorist in their mind, so..." "All these things that come actually to your mind, it's unbelievable." "My mother start to, from the first day, she start to put all the Christian signs in the house." "To make sure that..." "To make sure that she's giving them a message, if they enter so angry, that this is a Christian family." "This is the cave of Samson the Hero." "Just like the Bible says..." "He lived here?" "He lived between Tzorea and Eshtaol." "They were cave people." "It is written: "The Lord's spirit came upon him mightily."" "He was a man of valour who saved the Jewish people from extinction." "He fought alone." "When he went to Gaza, the story says," "the lion wanted to kill Samson the Hero but he tore him apart with his bare hands." "When he returned from Gaza," "Samson the Hero... took the bounty of honey he'd found inside the lion." "Samson was like a snake in the grass." "He had short legs." "He flew upon the donkey with the wind of his breath." "He had a spiritual power." "Every punch of his would kill 10,000 people." "Samson the Hero was one hell of a Rastafari." "He had seven dreadlocks on his head." "Huge dreads, since he was forbidden to comb his hair." "His power lay in those dreadlocks." "He was quite a guy." "We came from Judea." "Back in the days, the Judeans made a serious blunder." "They handed Samson to the Philistines." "They did it just like that." "So now, many years later, we've come here to make amends to ask Samson for forgiveness on behalf of the tribe of Judea." "So we may start something here." "When they came to his camp" "Samson said to the tribe of Judea:" ""Don't touch me, I'll surrender myself to the Philistines."" "He went and surrendered." "Then he killed 1,000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone." "The spirit of God must have been with him!" "He was quite a guy!" "Samson the Hero will come to us" "Samson the Hero will come back to us" "Let your dreadlocks grow" "Let your hair grow..." "He was like Superman, the one with the glasses..." "People would call:" ""Samson, I need your help!"" "Samson comes: boom!" "Samson was holy because he was a Nazirite." " Samson was like Popeye." " Right." "The spirit of God took hold of him." "Boom!" "Who will take me on?" "He comes, lifts the city gates." "Beats them up... 80,000 Philistines." "Just like Asterix." "With a donkey's jawbone!" "By the way, Samson fought the Philistines who were in Gaza." "He was the one who fought them." "We should follow Samson's example." "With a donkey's jawbone!" "I tell you." "These days we don't need a strong Samson." "Schwarzenegger dies at the end." "It is not about strength, it's about magnetism and courage." "The courage of a man who has the strength to say:" ""I'm going and God is with me."" "He does what must be done, with total faith." "He doesn't go for nonsense, TV and stuff..." "Earthly pleasures." " Like Jonah?" " Like all of us." "Can you see the new cable car station?" "Can you see it?" "Great!" "Between the new station and the old station you can see a wall..." "The remains of a wall going upwards all the way up the mountain." "We can see the route very clearly." "Notice that every so often there is a larger pile of stones." "These were watch posts where the Roman soldiers stood guard." "They're getting down." "Look at the jeep." " Won't soldiers be there?" " No, it's clear." "They're chasing those four." "You can go." "From here, straight ahead?" "No, through the olives." "I know the way." "Where did they go?" "The jeep's there." "They're chasing those four." "They're surrounding them." "Two soldiers got out and started chasing them." "Hamudi, Hamudi, let's go!" "Go!" "Where are the soldiers?" "Hamudi, get up, Hamudi!" "God!" " Which way did he go?" " That way." "The encirclement wall was about 2.5 meters high." "And the watchtowers were more like platforms." "The whole thing formed a system of hermetic closure." "A 2.5 meters high barrier blocked the way out." "It wasn't a total blockade but the patrols" "and the view points from the platforms enabled almost hermetic closure." "I don't want to stir up emotions nor tell you what to think, but think of the people sitting there." "How it makes you feel?" "Try to imagine them..." "Being encircled." "Soldiers everywhere..." "The noise and the sheer number of soldiers." "We're talking about a few thousands all around." "This is a closed military zone." "You aren't allowed here." "Show us an order." "The policeman is calling you." "You're not allowed to film." "Of course, I am!" "Two days ago someone was here and..." "He's calling you." "That policeman in the car." "You can zoom in or move forward and he'll signal to you." "Let him come if he wishes." "These people are being held for security reasons." "They're being checked." "You can go and see." "They've been here since this morning." "Not all of them." "Some left but others caused commotion." "They lit a campfire." " That's a commotion?" " Yes, it disrupts procedures." "Since the morning in the cold?" "What did you expect?" "On what claim are they held?" "What?" "For attempting to break into the Land of Israel." "Be sure we do our best to prevent such things, sir." "We're checking their IDs to prevent such things." "Why detain a man since the morning?" "Because he lit a campfire..." "A campfire, that's his crime?" " Yes, and we're checking..." " OK, we got it." "Nice picture?" "Why am I standing on a stone?" "Who told you to do so?" "The soldier." " To stand on a stone?" " Yes." "Because I looked back." "What's this?" "Tell me, is this a pretty picture?" "This is what they do to all Arabs." "They do this to all Arabs." "If I look back, he tells me:" ""Eat dirt!"" "If I look back, he beats me." "We've been here since 8:00 a.m." "There are suicide bombers only because of these things." "People don't just commit suicide." "There is another one over there." "Film him too." "You see, he's been standing like that for 2 hours." "We want to file a complaint." "We want to return to Bethlehem." "Some people have to go to school..." "to study." "I won't get back on the stone." "I'm back on the stone." "Stop, that's enough!" "Just come to experience two days inside our situation now and you can understand what I'm telling you about." "Thank you for your generous..." "Thank you for your generous invitation." "But, look, I..." "I'm not sure that..." "Please don't think that I'm trying to patronize..." "Don't be a master anymore." "Be equal and everything will be normal." "I don't think we have any argument here." "Because really we just rid of being slaves in our own country for people who is trying to control the resources, in fact, nothing else." "And actually we are suffering from a group of people..." " either Jewish or not Jewish, that's not a big matter for me- ...which they are owning the power and they control the resources." "And they are living as a master and I am their slave." "It's enough for me." "I will go out now and throw stones against the tank and let them kill me issue." "Enough, I'm furious." "Wait, wait before you go out, let me say another thing." "And this is your society..." "Yes, but this can't be changed by force." "You must understand." "I don't know if it can be changed at all but it can't be changed by force." "How we can change it?" "All the Palestinians have to come to the Israeli society and tell them, "Forgive us for being bad slaves for you"?" "What you think?" "We're fighting and fighting and fighting, that's it." "In Algeria, how they managed to get their freedom?" "And either in South Africa?" "Go to the history of any struggle for freedom all around the world." "So when you hear about operation Hebron today," "I think this is something really make me feel happy because I'm looking for my freedom, looking for living equally, that's all." "You think I feel good to see any blood on the street?" "Isn't it disgusting?" " What's disgusting?" " The mane." "Mom, look at the mane Yehi did." "Should I give Samson a ponytail?" "No, Samson didn't have a ponytail." "You should make him..." " Messy hair." " Messy, chunky hair." "A chunk here, a chunk there." " No, not a ponytail." " It's not a ponytail." " How do you know?" " From the story..." "When Delilah cut his hair, she cut off locks of hair." "When did she cut them?" "In his sleep." "And she cut it." "Tell him the story." "Samson was a hero and his strength lay in his hair." "The Philistines wanted to defeat him so they asked his wife about his strength." "She told them various stories." "She told them his strength came from different places." "Finally, she had to reveal that it came from his hair." "She was a Philistine herself so they sent her to cut off his hair." "She cut it and he lost his strength." "They said they'd kill her if she didn't cut his hair." "That's right, so she cut it." " At night." " In his sleep." "When he awoke, he had no strength." "She said:" ""The Philistines are here!"" "He wanted to run away but he had no strength." "That's right and they caught him." "Then he went to Gaza." "They wanted him to entertain them." "No, they wanted to ridicule him." "They put him on a stage and said: "Amuse us!"" "To humiliate him." "He was blind." "We forgot that." "They had blinded him." " They poked his eyes out." " Right." "And he couldn't see." "He asked the boy who watched over him to take him to the pillars that held up the gate." "He stood by the two pillars." "He said:" ""Let me die with the Philistines."" "And he made everything tumble down, killing 3,000 people that day." "That was more people than he'd killed in his lifetime." " You see?" " But he died with them." "Yehi, what about his head?" "He said:" ""Let me die with the Philistines."" "So they wouldn't humiliate him." "You didn't make him a mane." "They shaved him, right?" "He has no more hair." "At this point of the story." "I'll make his hair short." "We have to make holes for eyes because he had no eyes." "They had poked his eyes out." "Right." "He was blind." "Look at the eyes mom made!" "They look like Samson's caves." "Soldier'." "Come here'." "Goodbye." "Tractor, don't open." "Where's his permit?" "I have merchandise." "I can't hear you." "Come closer and show your permit." "Do you have a permit to Beit Omar?" "No, no." "What?" "Come here'." "Get closer'." " Do you have a permit?" " No." " You don't?" " No." "You can't pass the checkpoint." " But I have..." " You can't pass the checkpoint'." "I can't." "Tractor, don't open the barricade." "Should I smile?" "Since already four months we've been besieged by the Romans." "We can neither go down nor come up." "We have no way to bring in food or water." "It's very difficult here." "Sometimes Eleazar would look at the Romans below and yell:" ""Jews!" eh..." ""Romans, we will not surrender'."" "Romans, we will not surrender'." "Once again." "Wait'." "On the count of three." "Romans, we will not surrender'." "Now, all together and we'll go down to the pit." "On the count of three..." "Romans, we will not surrender'." "He's filming you." "Yell'." "Go ahead'." " Do I have to?" " Yes." "I don't want to." "Then you yell." "Romans, we will not surrender'." "Yes, I can hear it." "Do it again." "Romans, we will not surrender'." " Did you hear it?" " No." "You didn't?" "Let's yell together." "On the count of three..." "Romans, we will not surrender'." "Soldier'." "There was a bombing in Tel Aviv." "A bombing." "A bombing in Tel Aviv." "A bombing'." "Son of a bitch'." "Go home'." "Everybody go home." "Go home." "I don't care." " She has to go to the hospital." " Go home." "...To the hospital." "She's bleeding." "She's bleeding." "Get closer to him, Abd al-Salaam." "Get closer." "Go, I don't care." "Go away." "Go away'." "Go'." "I said: go, go away!" "Go!" "Listen, call an ambulance." "Let the ambulance take her by herself." "Stop." "Go away'." "Hang up the phone'." "Go away'." "Stop'." "Stop'." "Go home'." "Go away'." "Both ambulances drive away." "Stop." "Stop." "Go away'." "Go home'." "Stop'." "Go home'." "No'." "Go away'." "No'." " I'm going to..." " No, go away'." "No." " To Beit Furiq." " No." "To Beit Furiq." "No." "Go, get back into the car." "Get into the car'." "Drive away'." "No, I can't let you..." "Go'." "We want to go." "Talk to him." "He didn't agree?" "Should we stay here or what?" "They should beware of God." "May God humiliate them as they humiliate us." "Don't be afraid, dear." "Don't be afraid." "Don't be afraid, dear." "God will help us in this life." "God sees us." "God will humiliate them as they humiliate us." "God will rid us of them." "Don't be afraid." "We shall overcome with God's help." "Don't be afraid." "Don't be afraid." "God will give them retribution." "Come here, please." "Journalist, come here, please." "Do you have a press card?" "What is possible?" "I think it's in your side, Avi, it's in the Israeli side." "I think the solution is there." "And I never feel that our mission is to work among the Israeli population to understand what the real meaning of... to be an occupier is." "It's a mission of someone else, not ours." "So I think something has to happen inside Israel, not here." "I have the feeling that not a lot will be happening here." "So get more bombs, Avi." "What?" "I tell you people here..." "it's very normally to be radical now." "As I told you, it's inside my bedroom." "It's inside my bedroom." "Inside everyone bedroom." "People is angry to death." "Really, really, people is angry to death, Avi." "And I think, you know, the Jews have to understand it." "They are the most people which can understand it." "But they don't want to understand it or there is a real block between them and the story, to get it, you know, to feel relate to." "Two:" "start praying." "I have a prayer shawl, phylacteries and a prayer book." "Yes, that's prayer." "Yes, you can read Psalms." "Are you with the prayer group?" "All of you are praying?" "...is if to pray to God and ask him for his help." "It says in the Torah that you should kill yourself for idolatry." "With the threat of forced conversion, in our opinion, so you're allowed to kill yourself." "OK, like about sanctifying God, you're allowed to kill yourself for idolatry, incest..." "They're preventing themselves if there's future idolatry." "When people start to feel that living is something not so such important, it will reach an end." "It is start to happen." "I didn't understand." "When what?" "When the Palestinians here start to believe that living is not important thing," "it's not a great thing to do to live in this kind of situation, and it's easily to decide, "Yeah, I want to die."" "I think that's what Israeli society have to think about." "Nothing else." "They have to be worried about that, when they are making a people reaching this point of thinking." "It's not the diplomacy, it's not the political talk..." "It's just thinking what damage can come to Israel from this part of the world that they damaged." "Maybe I'll never be able to understand suicide bombers as I understand it this month." "And this is what Israeli society has to start to think about." "And maybe they need another 20, 30 or 100 bombers inside so maybe they can start think about it." "Because this is not eleven of September." "It's not a group who's prepare for it for 10 years with a lot of money" "and planning." "It's something naturally." "Every day in Gaza, two kids, seven years and ten years, they have a knife, and they are going to attack a soldier." "This is what happen." "Imagine the situation." "Samson is blind but he can still hear the crowd's cheers of jubilation." "The mocking laughter." "Do you think he accepts his fate?" "That's it." "Whatever will be will be'." "Try to get into..." "Into his mind, into his thoughts." "Who wants to imagine what's going through his head?" "Yes, Gal." "He may think he'd better commit suicide than be defeated by the enemies who tortured him." "Moreover, committing suicide means that he can control how he dies." "If they kill him no one else will be hurt." "But if he commits suicide he can kill a lot of Philistines." "He may want to kill himself." "But if he does, he also wants to kill Philistines as well." "As many Philistines as possible, since this was his mission." "And..." "I don't want to tell the end of the story but he says... a great sentence, as a hero..." "and then he dies." ""Samson called upon the Lord and said:" ""O Lord God," ""remember me and strengthen me," ""just this once," ""that I may avenge but one of my two eyes" ""upon the Philistines."" "What does he ask for?" "Whom does he turn to and what does he ask for?" "Samson turns to God and asks him to give him strength." "Even though he's not a Nazirite anymore." "He asks him for strength once more so he can take revenge upon the Philistines." "But he said: "That I may avenge but one of my two eyes."" ""Samson took hold of the two middle pillars" ""which supported the temple and he braced himself against them," ""one on his right and the other on his left." ""Then Samson said:" ""Let me die with the Philistines."" ""And he pushed with all his might" ""and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it." ""So the dead that he killed at his death" ""were more than he had killed in his life."" "Samson died in solitude, secluded from his people, apart from his people." "Yet, he remains our mythological hero, right?" "This saying:" ""Let me die with the Philistines'."" "Who wants to explain it?" "Gal." "He'll die but he'll also kill all the Philistines when he dies." "This saying... when do we use it in other cases?" "I want to tell a similar story." "Trumpeldor said something similar." "Samson wanted to die a hero." "Even without killing Philistines, at least to die a hero." "So he coined a sentence that's remembered to this day." "And Trumpeldor, who didn't kill himself nor others, said:" ""It's good to die for our country."" "Which is exactly what Samson meant by:" ""Let me die with the Philistines."" "Very good." "Anyone else?" "The Romans nearly reached the top of the hill on Passover eve." "Then... yes, on Passover eve." "Yes, Passover, of all times." "They had to eat matzah, which made things harder." "In short, they reached the top." "The Jews, the Zealots who were up here." "The heads of the families gathered in a room." "They debated what to do and decided not to surrender." "We'll finish the story first." "Then we'll go to that room." "It's called..." " The chamber of lots." " The chamber of fate, yes." "What was found there?" "The ten remaining men." "They found ceramic lots with people names on them." "Names carved on bits of clay." "Which they drew in a lottery." "Right." "A lottery to see who kills whom?" "Didn't every father kill his own family?" "First, every father killed his own family." "Then the fathers drew lots." "The last ten men who'd kill the remaining fathers." "One man was left who killed the ten others." "In the end, they drew two lots, two men were left and they killed all the other men." "Only Yossef Ben Matityahu and that man who..." "No, it can't be Yossef Ben Matityahu." "He wasn't there." "It was Elazar Ben Yair." "Anyway, they all committed suicide on this mountain." "And when the Romans arrived, all they saw was..." "Their stinking bodies." "But some managed to escape, didn't they?" "A mother and her two children." "In the toilets." "Two women and three children hid so they wouldn't be killed." "It's horrifying killing one's own children." "We must think about something Baruch spoke of yesterday." "Whether suicide is permitted or not." "Yael, did you discuss this in your paper?" "No." "It's a moral question." "The Torah says it's forbidden." "The folks who lived there, the Zealots, it's true they were Jews, it's true they were religious, but apparently their heads were screwed on a little differently." "Three years earlier..." "Can you see Ein Gedi, the green oasis down there?" "The Zealots from Masada slaughtered the Jews who lived in Ein Gedi." "Why?" "They wanted to take food, to take goods from them." "You just said their storehouses were full'." "OK, so what?" "So what?" "True, they committed suicide here." "I don't know what Baruch has to say about it." "Is suicide permitted?" "It's forbidden." "Suicide is never allowed." "This act was not religious heroism." "I didn't suggest it was." "It wasn't religious heroism." "They were a band of Zealots who committed suicide." "Doesn't "Zealots" sound religious?" "They were Zealots, like..." "What were they zealous for?" "For God." "Who says it was for God?" "If not, what for?" "A Zealot isn't necessarily zealous for God." "They claimed to be zealous for God." "In their own eyes." "It's not the only case in history." "Five years ago, in the States..." "A group of people committed suicide." "They were religious fanatics." " But they were not Jews." " Right." "We didn't invent it." "It existed before." "Judaism is strongly..." "Sanctity of life is one of the most sacred Jewish..." "We have only 3 ironclad commandments." "Right, only three." "Sanctity of life is one of the most important." "It cannot be violated." "Therefore, it's clear that killing one's kids was the decision of a psychopath." "It's some kind of disease." "Tell!" "Which kind of disease?" "Superiority complex." "If I can't control, if I can't rule..." "What does that have to do with it?" "Sometimes you've to say: "I lost."" "OK, let's say you're the head of the family and it's been decided that they're going to kill all the..." "Decided by whom?" "By the men." "Men rule." "That's where the problem begins." " Who rules your house?" " My mom." "So what are you talking about?" "Our Father lives on..." "Our Father lives on..." "Our Father lives on..." "Our Father lives on..." "The People of Israel live..." "The People of Israel live..." "WE ARE ALL WITH KAHANA" "VOTE KACH" "Kahana lives on..." "Kahana lives on..." "Kahana lives on... (Rabbi Meir Kahana: founder of the Jewish racist movement KACH, was murdered in New York in 1990)" "Kahana lives on..." "Kahana lives on..." "Kahana'." "Kahana'." "Kahana'." "Kahana'." "Kahana was right." "O God" "My enemies raided your inheritance" "They defiled your Holy Temple" "They have spilled our blood like water around Jerusalem" "Will it ever end?" "Remember me" "Remember me" "Strengthen me" "Only this once" "Only this once" "O Lord of the universe" "Remember me" "Remember me, remember me" "And strengthen me" "Only this once, o God, only this once" "Remember me, remember me" "And strengthen me" "Only this once, o God, only this once" "That I may avenge but one of my two eyes" "Avenge but one of my two eyes upon Palestine" "That I may avenge but one of my two eyes" "Avenge but one of my two eyes upon Palestine" "That I may avenge but one of my two eyes" "That I may avenge but one of my two eyes" "Avenge but one of my two eyes upon Palestine" "Revenge" "Upon Palestine" "Revenge" "Revenge, revenge, revenge..." "Revenge, revenge, revenge..." "Revenge" "Upon Palestine" "Revenge" "For God's sake'." "Turn it off, please." "Don't point it at me." "What's the problem?" "Turn it off and we'll talk." "The camera is off." "Don't touch it, please." "Are you authorized?" "Yes, a brigadier general just told us we can stay." "Turn it off." "Don't point it at me'." "You shouldn't grab the camera." " I didn't grab the camera." " You didn't?" "I don't want to be filmed." "Is that OK?" "No, not really." " Why do you film me?" " You're a public servant." " I don't want you to." " Public servants can be filmed." "Soon we'll see if you're allowed to film." "If you are, we won't bother you." "Don't point it at me'." "Don't tell me what to do." "I'm a civilian." "I don't know if you're allowed to film." "Wait." " Do you understand Hebrew?" " Hands off'." "They have no permission." "They aren't allowed to be here." " Show us a permit and we'll see." " You have to show us a permit." " This is a military post." " This is basic democracy." "Don't touch my camera." " What are you crazy?" " Don't touch my camera." "Give me some air." "Are you nuts?" "What are you doing?" "Circle him." "No one touches him." "You are on the verge of..." "You are using unauthorized force." "Circle him." "No one touches him." "Enough'." "Leave me alone." "Have you lost your mind'." "Is this any way to behave'." " Look at your behaviour'." " Me?" "What did I do to you?" "Put the camera down'." "I have no reason to put it down." "It's legal to film a public servant." " We'll see what the law says." " Fine." "Don't you realize you're using violence?" " No, I don't." " You don't realize it's violence?" "That's exactly your problem." "No one touches him." "What else would you call it?" "You're talking about violence?" "OK, don't touch me." "You're chasing him, yet claim he's bothering you?" " That's enough." " I did nothing." "That's enough." "You hear me?" "Just stop." "You're allowed to film." "Ah!" "So, we're allowed." "Ever heard of "sorry"?" "Are you familiar with the word "sorry"?" "Ever heard of "sorry"?" "The fate of the people of Masada has been sealed." "Besieged on the mountain with scarce hope of rescue" "the people look for a way to escape capture." "They swear to themselves:" ""We won't fall into captivity."" "But as long as they're up here, they hold on" "to the very end, the night before Passover." "When Elazar Ben Yair sees the end nearing, he makes his famous speech." ""Let our wives die before they are abused." ""Let our sons die before they taste slavery." ""And preserve ourselves in freedom" ""as a funeral monument." ""But first, let us burn our money and our fortress," ""for I am sure that this will cause the Romans great grief" ""that they shall not be able" ""to seize our bodies and fall on our wealth." ""Let spare nothing but our provisions" ""for it will be a testimonial that we were not subdued" ""for want of necessities and that according to our resolve" ""we preferred death before slavery." ""I cannot but wish that we have all died" ""before we had seen the Holy City..."" ""I cannot but wish that we have all died" ""before we had seen the Holy City demolished" ""and the Holy Temple defiled." ""Since we had a generous hope that deluded us" ""as if we might have been able to avenge Jerusalem upon our enemies." ""Let us make haste to die bravely." ""For we were born to die as well" ""as those whom we have begotten." ""Nor is it in the power" ""of the most happy of our race to avoid it." ""Our hands are still at liberty and have a sword in them." ""Let them serve us in our deliverance." ""Let us die before we become slaves under our enemies." ""Let us go out of the world with our wives and our children" ""in a state of freedom."" "We find something similar in a letter which comes from the Holocaust, from Bergen Belsen." "Sent in the month of Elul, just like this month, when 93 girls from Bergen Belsen prefer to die than be captured." ""It's good to live for God's sake" ""but if it is of no avail," ""it is a privilege to sacrifice your life on his behalf." ""We are not afraid of death." "We have no fear."" "What resolve does a person need to drive a knife into his flesh" "to avoid falling into the hands of his enemy'." "What resolve'." "How many people in the world are capable of doing that?" "This story repeats itself in Israel's wars to this very day." "Many say:" ""The last bullet is for me."" "Anything rather than fall into captivity." "A state can't be taken for granted." "You sacrificed a lot for it." "To this day, more than 21,000 have died in Israel's wars." "Unfortunately, there are nine in my family alone." "Since 1939 when my grandfather was murdered in Jerusalem, in the Ben Hinnom Valley, to this day - 9 victims." "My sister didn't live to give birth to the son she carried in her womb for 6 months as they threw a Molotov cocktail at her." "So sometimes we reach a point where we say:" ""Better to die" ""than fall into the hands of those beasts."" "Would a woman commit suicide along with her child?" "Yes, just to avoid being captured by the Romans." "She knows that she will become a sex slave." "That her child will fall into the hands of some pedophile and who knows what'll happen to him." "None of those occupiers enter a house as enlightened men." "They didn't just move on when they saw a woman after fighting for years in some desert." "No'." "They unleash their urges." "They don't think twice." "They are not like us." "So, when I see that woman, here, in Masada, sitting with her children..." "She knows she's going to die." "Today, tomorrow, next year..." "In the death march to Auschwitz or on her way to Jerusalem, if they don't stab her first." "She will die." "So, she prefers an immediate death." "That's how I see it." "Believe me, I don't mind if I die." "My problem is how to live." "Well, I don't want to die." "And it's not a big issue if I die or I stay alive." "My problem is not the people who did die." "My problem is the people..." "how they are living now, the people who stay alive, how they are living now." "And that's the main issue." "The main issue how people is living, in fact." "Well, I also think that... staying alive is important in itself, not just how you live." "Are you afraid from death?" "You feel afraid?" "Well, I want to live." "I don't know..." "I don't feel a direct fright of death because..." "Personal threat is imaginary for me." "It's not physical." "But I want to live." "I love life." "Don't you?" "Now, not at all." "For sure not." "You don't want to live?" "Actually, I want to live." "But the line between death and..." "To live or to die is not so complicated for me." "It's not..." "It's not an... like I want to live and I'm afraid of the idea of death." "No, it's really normal." "I don't know." "It's not so big deal." "I will miss something actually." "You will miss nothing, you will not be there." "What do you mean, you will miss?" "Maybe something will miss you." "But you will miss..." "French wine, Holland girls..." "No." "French wine will miss you." "You will miss nothing." "How you could know?" "Well..." "I have my beliefs in how this world is constructed." "And if I find differently," "I'll find you up there and tell you that I was wrong." "Where, up there?" "Down there, both of us." "You see, you also have your beliefs of how this world is constructed." "Don't tell me "up there"." " Why not up there?" " Me and you, up there?" "Why not?" "You don't want to go up?" "Where, up there?" "We believe that up is God." "Down is the place we have to go." "I see, but..." "To the Hell." "But why go to Hell?" "Because..." "Have you been bad?" "No." "I forget to say" "I am now 35 and I forget to pray once in my life." "I never pray once, which is..." "If I want to discuss it with God, what can I tell him?" ""I've been busy."" "Busy all the time?" "Every Sunday?" "Yes, no, you can be..." "Well, he will appreciate it if you will be honest and say," ""I didn't give a shit." "This is why I didn't..." ""I couldn't give a shit about praying."" "Well, I'm sure God will appreciate an honest man." "Anyhow..." "You know, I start to..." "I'm sleeping until eleven o'clock every day." "I don't know how I will return to normal life." "Excuse me, when will you open the gate?" "Must I answer you?" "Talk to my superiors." "Would you leave, please." " What's the problem?" " I'm asking you to leave." "Why?" " It's a closed military zone." " Show me an order." "It's on its way." "Am I photogenic?" "May I ask you when you're going to open the gate?" "We asked the Civil Administration but you're not coordinated." "I don't have to talk to you." "They said you are supposed to open at a certain time." "I won't talk." "Could you give me your name and army number?" "You'll get them but I don't have to tell you." "6974568, Omer Eliyahu." "Lieutenant, but I don't intend to..." "The reason for not opening the gate to the kids?" "I don't have to tell you." "Thank you." "Could you please move away from the jeep?" "I'm not disturbing the jeep." "Would you move away from the jeep?" "For what reason?" "You're just being stubborn." "I'm disturbing neither the jeep nor you." "If it's a closed military zone, show me an order." "To say it, you must have a proper order." "You're right." "It's coming." "How does my standing there disturb the jeep?" "Grow up'." " Grow up?" " Yes, look at yourself!" " I should grow up?" " Yes." "Instead of hassling me about jeeps and closed military zone open the gate for those kids coming home from school'." " Are you lecturing us?" " Yes, I am!" "You worthless bunch'." " Who are you to lecture us?" " Who am I?" "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "You work for me." "You're a soldier in my army." " I have my orders." " Your orders are illegal'." "Can't you see those kids have to go home?" "Calm down." "Lower your voice." "Nobody here raises his voice." "Don't tell me how to talk nor to lower my voice." "Do your job, open the gate'." "Your only job is to open that gate." " I'm not allowed to speak." " Good, then shut up'." " I won't stoop to your level." " God forbid'." "Open the gate." "Look at yourselves'." "Look what you're doing to yourself'." "Want us to grow up?" "Listen to you talk'." "Blah, blah, blah, you hear that?" "You know what blah, blah, blah means?" "That's what I have to say to you:" "blah, blah, blah." "They're just trying to get material for a story." "Kids are waiting at the gate." "You'll neither open it nor say when you will." "Where did you come from?" "What hole did you crawl out of?" "What dump were you hauled from?" "I hope your son hears what you're saying." "I hope that you have a son who hears what you're saying now." ""I don't have to tell you." "I don't have to answer you."" "Where did you people come from?" "We come from your country." "Exactly, that's the right answer'." "When you leave this place, lovely girls, remember one thing." "In this place which is considered to be one of the greatest defeats of the People of Israel" "an Israeli flag proudly waves." "Where are the Romans?" "Look for them in the history books." "They're gone." "But here, we tell their story." "The story of a corrupt nation." "A people who came to kill, murder and rob." "Yet, we're entrenched here and I hope that today" "I manage to deepen your roots in this land." "Thank you." "Subtitles:" "Rachel Leah Jones" " Béa Rafel" "Subtitling:" "C.M.C."