Ready. Im with i was a women especially in victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying in all ways to understand this new culture. Another visitor another guests you want to become citizens. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. For decades now israelis and palestinians have been locked in an ongoing dispute over a few 1000 square kilometers of platte the west bank sandwiched in between israel and jordan ever more jewish settlers are moving here some of them from germany like. She lives and alone short. Personally i see no problem with her living here its a matter of how we live. By a tolerance or settler antimony palestinians provocation. Part she claims direct contact is the only real part to pace. Higher 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 thats like they saw the change symbolizes the country of israel and im not a political person im a religious person for one thing for another ive called my principles and one is that the land should be unified for everyone who lives on it. Higher lives in this converted container in the alone foot 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 underneath this corona. We 1st met high in early march has the Program Festival was just getting underway traditionally jews dont cost you much for it and exchanged gifts. Or at the time the coronavirus had already come to israel but the people were still getting together to celebrate and they kept up their usual social contacts and did not yet practice distancing. Why do the settlers prefer the relative isolation of the do to hand mountains on some of the most disputed land in the world you mention hilarity in the minds of people who live it you say partly for their beliefs partly financially since just because its cheaper well they 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 bopped while. 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 around stylus even if the discrimination continues unabated his Palestinian Bisons plight is enough to get him stopped at the supermarket by security at what is before the asked where he is coming from abu awwad replies that he came from good. The officer asks to see some i. T. V. But doesnt have any on. The officer suggests he looks pretty. His car but he cannot let him into the parking lot without an id even if he did the next officer would stop him so i wanted the office to turn back. So i was so. This doesnt happen to the israel is just the palestinian has to be checked and if you forget your id its a big deal. I feel sometimes that every. Is suspicion. Until you prove you are a good guy. One hears like. Freaking. Because there is a lot of fear a lot of. Different activities attacks and the wrong move in this junction english is your injunction. And the mistake with their own good move why you arent driving good cause to your life. When i look around i see many subtle men around the surrounding this land i mean. This is what i see and 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 i live our acting without considering the palestinians as fact them best. Palestinians are struggling to survive that but also to start to heart of a cube ation annually 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 is 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 shantz this sees it as unfair that she and other jewish settlers are called an obstacle to peace in the middle east silicosis 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 which doesnt easily couple the personally i see no problem with the fact that were living here its more of a question of how we live here and 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 thats the kind of interaction happening here and its not happening very positively i have to admit i was a little devil. On the question of whom 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 short settlement together with palestinian partners hes launched a Grassroots Initiative called roots 60 years and 6 weeks ago for the 1st time 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 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 whole land theres ours thats true we were here 2000 years ago but the palestinians are also connected to the whole land from the jordan to mid train in the same old way and it belongs to both sides legitimately. Roots organizes regular events where 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 code a new reality which would not be expensive on the side but in partnership with the other side and the truth is. That the best place to begin trading the partnership is here in the west banks last trading scenario we live close so close to each other. This is precisely what higher town set out to do in roots she got to know a palestinian and over time theyve become good friends he lives in whose son an arab village halfway between a lone shorts 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 high a town doesnt agree shes even learn some arabic because she wishes to communicate with our neighbors. Higher and more after this ata term and to let what they share not what separates them shake their friendship. Im sure that. Weve had enough of warring so either we decide now how we can live together reasonably peace or one side through the other out. Well miss leisure of the summer against as meeting more others are for it was not when i dont hear them i have no reservations about meeting with israelis who everyone knows that men are allowed to him and i have heard because of his contacts with israelis motus 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 to even serve as something essential there to share. The desire for peace in the racine a man with latest new who has. A. Hand. Its the personal contacts that make all the difference for higher. Almost whether you have level why do i stay on here because i have a good social community i have lots of friends here both jews and arabs and im getting along fine here. In spite of their differences higher level i want and rabbi schlesinger performed a common bond that convinced its the only way to bring peace to their own country. 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