Ya Shadad - Israel/Palestine

November 2009

The Amer family live in the West Bank, in a house completely surrounded by Israeli fences and the Wall. The family is left imprisoned and struggling to adjust to an impossible reality.
In 2003 the Israeli government started building a Security Barrier between Israel and the Palestinian territories in the West Bank. But for various reasons, the Amer's home was completely surrounded and isolated, neither in Israel or Palestine. We used to be able to see our neighbours and have a normal lifeeven in paradise one cannot live without people. After appealing to human rights organisations, the Israeli army offers to open a private gate. Father, Hani is given a key but threatened if anyone else uses it, the house will be demolished. The familys deteriorating reality causes tensions to grow and youngest son Shadad starts to disappear from the house.

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[Inediblehulk]

Probably not the best place to raise kids, but they seem like a good bunch, so there are worse places to be. May they make the best of their position, and long live Shadad!

[Inediblehulk]

Fuck, why does every video at all concerned with certain things attract the same certain crowd who type loud about remotely related ideas, but miss the point of the video entirely? How many miles of flamewars are going to convince either side that the other disagrees?!?

[livegunz]

at least they fixed him a gate, honestly, that was decent of them. to actually aknowledge his situation and do something good.

[shayshalom]

@mada12341 u have 22 arab states 2 go for. u allready control Euroarabia - u don't have what 2 seek in the Jewish land - u fight against god n that's y ur situation is like that. God tells u I gave this land to my ppl 5000 yrs ago n u occupy thier land. u have planty of other arab territories but u r stuck here like a cancer in the throth n we'll kick u out of here - we don't wan't arab occupiers n terrorists n our land. we gave u work n money n u killed the children of Israel

[rockynanach]

he should just move to jorden or syria

[jacky5484]

لسطين : أنا فلسطيني

[perrik7]

Balkans is a Christian/Muslim conflict.

Israel is a Jewish/Muslim conflict which is something else.

Palestinians are all ex jews that was forcely convert by the Turkish.

They should all accepted back as Jewish

[johnlewisy]

And we don't spend money on ridiculously idotic projects (vacation resorts) that screw us up big time *cough UAE*

[johnlewisy]

Additionally, we do not squander our oil wealth by giving the money mostly to billionaire Sheiks..*cough* Saudi Arabia*

And additionally, we do not blow and shoot each other up *cough* Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon*

and we don't piss of the richest group of countries in the world like the EU and the USA *cough* Iran*

[johnlewisy]

The 133 Canadians who died in Afghanistan left family members behind. Widows, children and parents. Shame on you. The chance of America invading is near impossible. Ever since the 1900s I believe, Canada has signed a 999 year non-agression pact with the Americans.

The only reason the arab nations are a bit lacking in their...um development is because of their unwillingness to get out of their conservative muslim ways (They believe Islam should be applied strictly to all element of life