"Jerusalem, an ancient city with a sparkling new train." "It was meant to help unite this place but the train is dividing it further." "TRANSLATION:" "I don't think they put the train here to serve the Palestinians." "Now it is easier for Jews to travel to Palestinian suburbs." "Before this station, ten, 20,000 Jews were going to this neighbourhood in a month, today, in one day, we're talking about the same amount." "The" "Palestinians would rather they stayed away." "Thank you very much." "And the train itself has become a target for violence." "TRANSLATION:" "They burned everything along with the train." "I'm Adam Wishart, a" "British Jew, and I'm going to ride Djourou slum's new train, a journey into the heart of the city that feels more divided than ever " " I'm going to ride Jerusalem's new train." "I am boarding the Jerusalem Light" "Rail at start, Mount Herzl." "When I was first here on a Zionist education course now, this new $1 billion line served a city of about 800,000 people, 60% are Jewish." "We are building a network of public transportation in the city of Jerusalem, we have the first line, the red line, and we will be building another three in the next decade." "The philosophy is to enable high-end public transport for all people." "It will enable people to feel freedom." "The rail line is just nine miles from start to finish." "Most of it is in Jewish West" "Jerusalem." "My first stop is Damascus Gate, entrance to the old city and a world divided by religious rivalry." "Walk through here and you will find one of the holiest sites of the Muslims, home to the Dome of the" "Rock, the Al-Aqsa mosque, and the courtyard that hosts them, all under was in control." "The Riether Ibrahimovic here to pray and keep a watchful eye. -- the Riether Ibrahimovic." "This is my second home, if I don't come, I feel there is something missing." "Why is it so important?" "It is a place where our property that hammered -- our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, ascended the heaven." "This is one of our most holy sites." "It is also home to the holiest site in Judaism, a Temple destroyed yet 2000 years ago." "All that remains is the Western Wall, the Wailing Wall where Jews come to pray." "Some want to completely rebuild the temple on what they called Temple Mount." "No matter that Muslim holy places are already here." "The goal is building a mutual house for the God of Israel so I have to do my best to build a third Temple on Temple Mount." "This is the property and it is coming near." "Rivka Shimon is part of the new" "Temple Movement, determined to stake a claim for the Jews, and she sees the train as a way of doing it." "They think it is good for the future, that many pilgrims will come and from every age of Jerusalem they can all go to Temple Mount very easily in a convenient way." "It is a good invention for Jerusalem I think." "Once, Jews only ever came as far as the Western Wall." "Now, 1000 Jews a month into the courtyard, the heart of this Muslim place of worship." "Rivka, who is leading a tour, believes she has a right to be here." "Within minutes of her group arriving, there is protest." "This is our place of worship, they should at least respect that." "They come here and invade and walk around." "They are praying, which they should not be doing." "She's right," "Jews are allowed to visit but not prey on this site, as part of an agreement between the two sides." "While I'm walking and talking, I'm asking, please be merciful to us." "But you aren't really allowed to pray on the Temple Mount?" "This is a prayer and they know it, it is a prayer." "When you talk to yourself, it's not yourself, you are talking to God." "Today's skirmish is part of growing hostility fuelled by the competing claims of Jews and Muslims to this holy place." "It has already escalated into serious violence." "Last November, a group of Temple" "Movement visitors were attacked by Palestinians." "In response, or lease entered the Al-Aqsa mosque." "It may only have been by a few metres, but for many Muslims, it crossed a sacred line." "When we are brave enough and when we are short enough that what we are doing is right, no one can be against us and God will help us." "And it will come." "And it will be good for the Muslim world not to be against us because if they will be against us, they will suffer." "In the face of growing tension, the Israeli government has repeatedly said it has no plans to allow Jews to pray there." "The state of Israel declared itself an independent nation in 1948." "My grandparents, amongst many, were jubilant as they had campaigned for it." "Back then, Israel only held the western part of Jerusalem, up to the so-called Green Line." "In 1967, Israel occupied the eastern areas." "That is where the train is heading now." "The Palestinians who live here remain angry at being under Israeli control." "The train just adds to their grievances." "TRANSLATION:" "I'm standing on my land that serves" "Israelis instead of me, I feel like they put a rock on my chest." "Everyday, the train passes, they are butchering me, every day they are killing me." "This is what the train means to us." "Whalid Abou Khedir is showing me what used to be his land until it was taken to build this train station." "He refused compensation because the taking of land fits into a broader picture." "Since 1957, Israel has seized around 6000 acres of land in east Jerusalem." "Whalid has lost about ten acres." "It is forbidden for us to use these lands for security reasons, we don't know what they mean by that." "And why they confiscated lands, we don't know." "I live in a very depressing situation." "My land is here and yet I cannot ill at house for my son, not even a bigger house for my self. " " I cannot build." "All this land but I cannot build a single room." "When I was first here more than 30 years ago, I was afraid to go to the eastern Palestinian suburbs." "Today, the train seems to have eroded the unease that Jews once felt." "It is helping to strengthen Jewish from a neighbourhood that they never passed through." "Before this train was operating, I believe may be ten, 20,000 Jews were going to this neighbourhood in a month." "Today, in one day, we are talking about the same amount." "In one day." "Arieh King is a local politician and a property developer with a difference." "He is going to show me his latest project, buying up bits of land in" "Palestinian neighbourhoods." "This is a property we are having here are a few people, it is one of the guest neighbourhoods in Jerusalem." "Today, decide here, we have four apartments, and another complex with seven apartments and if we continue on this road, we have another area with more apartments and one with four apartments." "I am trying to create layers of Jewish rings around the heart of the Jewish nation, this is Temple Mount." "The plan is to have a big neighbourhood." "Arieh is showing a group of Israelis around, hoping they will buy into his vision of Jewish expansion into Palestinian areas." "But his grand plan to buy up land and to use the courts to evict" "Palestinians from houses he claims Jews once owned is met by local resistance." "Thank you very much." "He is a squatter." "I believe in a year or two, he will not be here and there will be Jews inside." "Arieh King is clear why he is doing this, too tight in Israel's grip on the whole city, leaving no room for a" "Palestinian state which includes any part of Jerusalem." "I don't know today one person that thinks that there is really a chance for any kind of agreement in Jerusalem." "Everybody admits there is no chance, there is no way to divide this city, there is no way, forget it." "It is not going to happen." "And the Palestinians see the train as part of this ultimate Israeli plan, the make their control of the city irrevocable." "I don't think they put the train here to serve the" "Palestinians, there is no train to our refugee camp." "Baha Nabata is a youth worker, he gets off at the El Sahl station, a 20 minute walk from where he lives, the largest Palestinian neighbourhood within the city limits, the Shuafat refugee camp and its surrounding areas." "Behind a 24 foot barrier are the homes of tens of thousands of" "Palestinians." "The only way in and out of the camp from the city is this one checkpoint." "Here, the city changes from a modern metropolis to a slum." "This is my first time here." "On my teenage Zionist education course, they did not introduce us to any Palestinians." "As you can see, this place is not a safe environment, nobody picks up the rubbish and the city Street are not paved." "You will see the strange things here because of the pressure and population density." "Children dropping out of school, drugs, it is because of the wall, the municipality, the occupation and the policies of the Israeli government." "You cannot breathe here." "If we look over there to the Jewish side, it is green, full of trees." "Both neighbourhoods belong to the municipality but they don't give services to the Palestinians." "Israel says the barrier that surrounds this part of the city was built to protect Israelis from attack." "But it seems to me it serves another purpose as well, to cordon off the squalor and deprivation." "I was in Shuafat refugee camp, part of the municipality, there was rubbish all over the streets." "There is sporadic water." "I want to share something with you, when you talk about refugees." "There are no Jewish refugees in the world, not one." "If we find them, we bring them and take them home and help them, it's very unfortunate that there are Arab refugees." "All the wealth of the Arab world, they haven't found the time and the capital to help the refugees out." "The world has to understand that you can throw a few billions of dollars to the problem and find them good homes, not on the account of Israel." "The mayor's response shocks me." "The neighbourhood mite be called a refugee camp, but the people who live here are residents of Jerusalem and he is the city's mayor." "They're rebe dents of Jerusalem, aren't they?" "Agree with you." "I do everything I can." "However, it's a problem that the municipality cannot solve on its own." "The municipality says it's spending more every year and would like to provide even more services, but its staff are subject to physical and verbal abuse." "I can't help feeling that the state of this place and the lawlessness, all enclosed by the barrier, make this part of Jerusalem a tinderbox waiting to ignite." "TRANSLATION:" "It's difficult to be a child, born into an environment of occupation and racism." "It leads to a negative situation." "Nobody born a violent person." "But the segregation and disparities lead to war and violence." "The next generation are already arming themselves with whatever they can get their hands on." "Do you think throwing stones can beat the Israelis?" "Just as we're leaving the camp, there's an attack on the guards at the checkpoint." "It turns out that most of the noise comes from fireworks, the ammunition of the powerless." "It soon ends when the border police fire tear gas." "In the last year, these violent incidents have spilled into the rest of the city and escalated into murder." "Palestinians have targeted the rail line, driving cars into waiting passengers." "Killing three adults and a baby." "S 16-year-old" "Palestinian Mohammed Abou Khedir was walking by the train line a year ago, when he was kidnapped by a group of Israelis." "As tension grew in the run up to last summer's Gaza war, three Israeli teenagers had been abducted and murdered." "Hussein is Mohammed's father." "TRANSLATION:" "Mohammed was here." "Standing right here." "Two of them pulled up in the car, they opened the doors and threw him in." "They took him from here to Deir Yassin." "They tied him to a tree, poured petrol on him and burned him alive." "It was the ugliest crime in history." "TRANSLATION:" "Until today, I don't believe Mohammed has gone and left me." "Even now, I think he will be back." "I can't believe my son has left me." "He was very special to me." "The train station near where" "Mohammed was abducted became a target for Palestinian anger." "They destroyed it." "TRANSLATION:" "For 15 days the train was stopped." "They prevented it from operating." "The youth burnt everything." "Everything to do with the train was destroyed." "This is a racist train to keep Jerusalem for the Jews only." "The number of people killed in an armed assault on a synagogue in" "Jerusalem hasries ton five. -- has risen to five." "A paramedic described what he saw as "butchery"." "At the other end of the line in Jewish West" "Jerusalem, residents like Risa Rothman have been touched by the violence too." "What happened to my husband is that he was sliced across the head, through the eye, he was sliced twice across the head." "They cut him through the bone and several times along the arm." "They used a kind - like a cleaver, like a meet cleaver." "The tack did not kill him." "He's been in a coma for the last eight months." "Good morning, how are you?" "The attack happened at the synagogue where he used to pray and study every day." "I don't know why they chose this one." "I think that they specifically did choose one that was away from the centre to give over the message that no, we're not attacking only the people that are over the Green Line or near it, whatever, that no Jew in any synagogue in Israel is really safe." "Dinot stop crying for the first two days." "I didn't just cry because of what happened to me." "But I cried because how could such a horror happen?" "How could people come into a place that's so peaceful, such horrific violent act." "I'm back in the heart of the city and it's Jerusalem Day, a celebration of Israel's 1967 capture of east Jerusalem and the old city." "The six days war was a miraculous war." "Even though all the Arab countries claim that they are going to murder us, we won and where are we marching?" "To the direction of" "Temple Mount." "Youth worker Baha Nabata is here too to protest." "For" "Palestinians, Jerusalem Day marks the beginning of the occupation." "As thousands of Israelis march through the Muslim quarter, there is predictably heated protest." "Jerusalem Day degenerates into hateful chanting on both sides." "At the end of the day, the march arrives at the Western Wall, which borders the Muslim holy sites, where" "Arieh and others want to rebuild their temple." "No words, no - look what happiness." "Our future is better than our present." "You see the youngsters, the youth, what happiness just to go to the only wall that is reminded of the temple." "Imagine what will happen when we have a temple." "When I was here 31 years ago, even my most fervently" "Zionist friends weren't rushing to build a temple on this site." "Now the idea is gathering support from within the mainstream." "Even a member of the new cabinet supports the idea." "I can't help but think if some" "Jews push much further this would surely be the land stand for the" "Palestinians." "I'm left wondering what is the purpose of the train?" "Does its ultimate destination hold a clue?" "It travels north through the Palestinian neighbourhoods and snakes round the refugee camp." "What's so controversial is that the ultimate destination is an Israeli settlement, a thousand acres taken by Israel to build a beautiful suburb." "Like all settlements in occupied territory, most of the international community considers them to be illegal." "I don't get it." "In all those place there's was never a Palestinian state." "Put a shovel in the ground, and you'll find Jewish roots." "When people talk about occupied land, occupied from whom?" "It's all Jewish." "The train makes permanent the expansion of Israel." "This settlement is built like a fortress, perhaps not surprising when so many Israelis feel a constant threat from their" "Arab neighbours." "It's Rivka Shimon's home." "I came here 12 years ago, relatively to a new neighbourhood, because it was all empty, you know, before the six days war." "It's very big neighbourhood." "It's like, I think now 70,000 people." "It's like a city, in fact." "I like the view, because before I lived in a very crowded place and I didn't see no sky, no trees, no view." "So I love the place." "What's remarkable about this settlement, with all its amenities, is that it's only a few hundred yards from the squalor and deprivation of the Palestinian area, including the Shuafat refugee camp, the other side of the barrier." "Have you ever been over there?" "No, of course not." "No." "Even the police don't go there." "As the crow flies, the Israelis and Palestinians should be neighbours, but they're separated by an ever widening gulf of distrust." "TRANSLATION:" "There will never be peace between us and the Israelis, the Jews, or the municipality." "How could they be human beings?" "The settlers have lived opposite us and see with their own eyes the conditions of the camp and the situation we're in." "It is in no way humane or normal." "My journey has been heart breaking." "When my grandparents campaigned for the state of Israel, they hoped for a place of refugee, of tolerance and equal rights for all." "As I take the last train, I just can't believe this could be the place that they dreamt of all those years ago."