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  • 6/24/2025
Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine. | dG1fYWctTjJ6czFJV28
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00:00Transcription by CastingWords
00:07People always ask,
00:08how do you choose the subjects you write about?
00:12It doesn't work like that.
00:14I've been coming regularly to the Middle East.
00:17I recognize it.
00:19It answers to something in me.
00:23Over four-fifths of the Israeli state
00:26are in favor of building a wall along its borders.
00:30This four billion dollar wall,
00:33it will be over four times as long as the Berlin Wall.
00:36And twice as high.
00:38They do it because they can.
00:40We have the right to render your life meaningless.
00:43It works.
00:4580% of terrorist attacks against Israel have stopped.
00:51We are trapped in this paradox.
00:54The wall is not around us.
00:57It's around them.
01:00History has not followed the course we might have wished.
01:03There are people here who have not seen a body of water for 15 years.
01:09This wall is being built to keep people out.
01:13We found a way in.
01:15We found a way in.
01:16I know as soon as I look I'm never going to forget.
01:19How do you react to that?
01:20I know as soon as I look I'm never going to forget.
01:22How do you react to that?
01:24How do you react to that?
01:25I know as soon as I look I'm never going to forget.
01:29How do you react to that?
01:30I know as soon as I look I'm never going to forget.
01:32How do you react to that?
01:34How do I react to that?
01:35How do you react to that?
01:39How do I react to that coldunya war?
01:41How do I react to that coldunya war?

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