Who owns Jerusalem? | DW Documentary

ulam Jerusalem is a safe city, full of aspirations and hope, people often ignore this aspect, they only see the intentions of conflict and hatred, but since Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the fragile status quo of the city has been in play for how long. Will it further deepen the divide between Palestinians and Israelis or could it ultimately bring them closer together? There will be like a big crazy war or a miracle deal of the century that Trump wants to get right and make everyone happy. Hakan is relatively unfazed by the uproar surrounding the US President's decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem for Israel It has long been clear that Jerusalem is its true capital from these and the status The work in Swiss white arrived in Israel 10 years ago and became an Israeli citizen five years later.

He wanted to be more Intensely involved with his Jewish religion, he studied Hebrew and became a tour guide. Shmuel lives near the government district in the western part of the city after getting married. His wife moved here from another part of Israel to be with him. This small apartment is full of photos from their wedding. The two are making plans for their anniversary, but no one in Israel can completely escape privacy. Politics is everywhere. Here, convicts can see the Israeli Parliament building from their window. kitchen you can see the Knesset behind me and there is the Trump's decision on European countries' decision on whether Jerusalem is the capital or not will not make much difference.

All heads of state have been here to visit the Knesset, whether they recognize Jerusalem as the capital or not. It was a mnemonic in all honesty, most Israelis probably see things that way too. You can see it in the posters hanging everywhere, but that's not the real problem. Palestinians also claim Jerusalem as their main city. They feel as humiliated as Israelis feel vindicated. It is divided between Israelis and the West and the Palestinians in the East. The predominantly Arab eastern part is considered by most of the international community to be under Israeli occupation. It includes the Old City which is divided into Muslim Christian and Jewish neighborhoods here on the Temple Mount.

Western Wall and the holy places of Judaism and Islam of the al-aqsa mosque are crowded next to each other, there is generally quite a harmony in Jerusalem and that is how it should remain, but of course there are tensions here, the Temple Mount It is a huge religious magnet loaded with history. and archaeological significance and then there is the political aspect, things get a little unstable, it can cause riots not in the well. Furthermore, I believe that all Palestinians have organized numerous protests after the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital they see as a measure to strip them of their rightful heritage.

Anthropologist Anacleto comes from an ancient Palestinian family with roots in Jerusalem dating back to the 14th century. He would prefer not to talk about Donald Trump. but about his beloved city, which he considers the historic home of the Palestinians, Jerusalem, without that you can be anywhere in the world, it is the centerpiece of Jerusalem, it is the sacred place par excellence for Muslims, it is the place of that we have to realize where God connected. with Muhammad or Muhammad connected with God on the ground it is a city where all the people were together the same hospitals are the same cafes and the same restaurants are the same streets we live together but at the rural level it is a different matter the land has been annexed in Jerusalem the people have been ignored this is a classic case of historical denial and historical revisionism Kleiber fears that US foreign policy will now make life even more difficult for the Palestinians that worries the European Union - perched on top of The city on Mount Zion is the Abbey of the Dormition.

The Benedictine monastery is located on land that does not belong to either Israel or the Palestinians. It was a gift from the German Kaiser at the end of the 19th century. Father Nicodemus Schnabel attaches great importance to its neutral status both before the EU and Germany takes a clear stance on the matter, as does the Holy See, a two-state solution is the fairest for the city, which means that the west , where the Parliament and the Supreme Court are already located, is indisputably the capital of Israel and the east, and that is the great aspiration is the capital of Palestine the horse angels and the hope for Palestine us all this is juicy will approach for so that we can see better the wall is the most visible symbol of division as the Israelis have been building a protective barrier against suicide bombers since the early 2000s the demographics of Jerusalem have been manipulated in such a way that it converts the Jewish majority and a minority Arab in the prominent narrative that has been deployed that this is the homeland of the Jews this is the narrative that Trump played with and he really should not have interfered, he legalized, he sanctified, he gave credence to this strange narrative that they went through high and denied the rights of the Palestinians to be here in the opinion of Father Nicodemus.

Palestinians and Israelis have equal rights of sovereignty over the Holy Land. Both nights have understandably deep longings. The Israelis longed for security, they say that if it had been for Hitler we would no longer exist and we are surrounded by states that hate us, refuse to recognize us and want to annihilate us, on the other hand, there is the no less plausible desire for freedom of the Palestinians. They say we don't send anyone to the gas chambers why we should live behind walls and checkpoints why we can't have our own state it's about a people's right to self-determination, which is fundamental so the question is how do we reconcile These two scenes of often conflicting longings, like this one filmed by a security camera at West Jerusalem's central bus station, are also fueling Israeli demands for more security.

A Palestinian stabs an Israeli and runs away. She became an Israeli citizen last November as a Jew, she no longer felt comfortable in Germany, she had been thinking about emigrating to Israel for a long time and finally decided to do it, but if she had been relying on faith numbers for a long time, it was naive to think when I first arrived. I came here. Maybe I was a little naïve and thought that peace would eventually come and that there were a lot of great Palestinians who were really open. Now after this, I find it very difficult to believe in peace.

It may only be a few thousand, but nine out of two. Of ten of them I have spoken to say that Jews should be thrown into the sea as a journalist Sara closely follows events in and around Israel. Do you think the new US policy regarding Jerusalem will change anything in the long term? I always wonder what peace dialogue everyone is talking about. There are so many people here who don't want to share Jerusalem. He doesn't even want to share Israel. They don't see Israel as Israel, but they say it should be all of Palestine. For me personally, what Trump did is fine, who knows, maybe he even started something that was long overdue and he's not crying over them like a document, an animal.

I don't care if you go to a mosque, a church or a synagogue, but I am definitely in favor of a Jewish state. I firmly believe that Israel is a refuge for Jews everywhere because they really need it. You see it in the attacks and the demonstrations and the horrible things that are shouted in the streets of European cities, proving that there simply has to be a place for Jews to come where they can feel safe. I'm Tim's economy. I don't see this being at the expense of the Palestinians because I know many Israelis who say we will share the city, we all live well. together, what bothers me is that Europeans who come from far away always think they know the answer, they are not here, they don't really talk to the Palestinians or the Israelis, but they always know best how to achieve peace, what they are doing wrong the Israelis and what they are doing right, that is a mental stigma that this may be too much international attention to every turn of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to a gap from where Khan also thinks that foreign media reports go a little overboard .

Very interesting situation we have here today. It is always examined through a magnifying glass, which means that all the newspapers report on what is happening in Jerusalem and on television, of course, Jerusalem is a very important topic, but normal people here live their normal lives, they go to school, shopping and religion, ethnic origins and political statements. You don't play as big a role as statesman Santorini Guardiola, but many people in the Palestinian part of the city would disagree. The bus terminal in East Jerusalem serves the Arab neighborhoods of the city. You won't see Israeli Jews here at all.

The passengers are Mohammed McGraw, he is a musician, do you believe in the peaceful coexistence that SHM described well? I like Jerusalem and hate it at the same time. It's like on paper, it's very diverse and multicultural, all kinds of religions and there are tourists from all over the world all the time, but the reality is very separate, there is like a thin line between East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem, where people from the East does not go to West Jerusalem and the people from the West do not go. Muhammad lives in Shuafat. refugee camp in east Jerusalem, which is behind the security wall, traces of a demonstration against Israeli soldiers the day before can still be seen.

Israel controls entry and exit to the camp, while the rest is primarily a United Nations administration. violent place for children and it's terrible, you know, you have children, children singing about killing people, about committing suicide for your country. I don't see the point. I understood that I want to live for my house, yes, build it, not die for it. It is a long process, it does not change, it does not happen and quickly you do not have to ask anyone here about the United States. Most Palestinians have lost faith in the United States as a mediator in the Middle East conflict, especially after Trump's decision, but Mohamed McRobbie is sure of one thing: he is sick and tired of all the violence, too much violence and in Ten days the soldiers killed three children from the refugee camp and I had a very, very strong depression.

Mohammed also feels responsible for one's death. of his fans who came out to demonstrate after listening to his angry songs and was killed in a confrontation with Israeli border guards. Since then the rapper has adopted a more conciliatory tone which he loves and refugees is the title of one of the music videos of Muhammad who even has Hebrew subtitles in an attempt to build bridges with the Israelis, but wonders if the other side has noticed at this point. There is a total separation. It's getting worse since they built the wall between Israelis and Palestinians. There is no connection.

You have a whole new generation. of young people who have no idea what Jerusalem is like, they lived all their lives in Bethlehem, Jericho or Ramallah, they have no opportunity to visit Jerusalem when you are desperate and have nothing to lose, you will go crazy, but if you feel comfortable, you will the beach and you have a good time. Why bother changing? Mohammed is putting the ball in the Israelis' court, but is he right in assuming that the Israelis don't want to change anything? We asked Shmoocon if he has Palestinian. Tyler Friends Angles Most of the people I worked with in tourism there are hotel staff and drivers are Muslims who live in the eastern part of Jerusalem or in the north and south of Israel.

I have very good relations with that talk, we talk to each other and I have very friendly relations when it comes to work, so it doesn't really matter if I'm Jewish, Christian or Muslim, all opposites, dah-dah-dah-dah Muslim, that's me , so we are going to fall into conflict. What saddens me most about this conflict is that it doesn't have to be this way. I have a friend who is Palestinian, she is a reporter who lives with her mother, but we don't really get to see each other much, it just doesn't work. at the border, but we are in contact through what happened on the phone, we don't agree on many things, but we still appreciate each other as people and say it's okay, we are both human beings and we don't wish death on each other another, maybe exchanging points of view can also help us grow the male, come on Amanda and then come down.

She was toasting the vaccine, but what does tolerance really mean? It doesn't mean that everything the other person does and says fits my opinion. Tolerance means that we are different and see things differently, but I. I still accept it and am willing to let them live their lives if I can live my life for myself, not for us, if none of my name is William Khan. Palestinians in Jerusalem complained that they have been mistrusted as a group since the unrest that followed suspicion of Trump's decision. has increased again here the Israeli border police are searching a young Palestinian man apparently he was sitting and enjoying the medicine it is a very traumatic experience growing up young in Jerusalem it is suspected to be apersona non grata just because he is arab at any time subject to being harassed search press for centuries the alley clubbers family has owned valuable properties at the entrance to the muslim quarter of the ancient cities he knows almost all the merchants here, They also generally oppose US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but they also make a living from tourism, so they are cautious about openly criticizing foreign countries, but Clio is worried about something else.

More and more houses in the Arab part of the city are falling into Israeli hands rather than unilaterally supporting Israel. He says that the United States should use its influence to stop these acquisitions. The real problem in Jerusalem is that sooner or later they will be taken over. They are moving slowly and their presence there is those who choose to live here and not the nice people and educated people that we see in restaurants and cafes in resolution, are their fundamentalist collaborators who come here to create problems and the current fear are in themselves political statements this leads to more confrontations makes it more difficult for people to continue with their normal lives we are one of The last generations who see an Arab city still inhabited by weapons find it increasingly impossible to survive here, so my daughter would love to live here, but I'm sure it would be very difficult for her to live with me.

Moya Khan, who accompanies a group of tourists a few hundred meters away, in the Christian quarter of the old city, sees things quite differently hello too I will go to Turkey, there are many things in our daily life that really go well here We are on a street where we see pilgrims going to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and I am standing here, as a Jew, next to the Muslim merchants there, we must have been fooled by the things we constantly hear in the media. On the other hand, of course, there are always political tensions and we have felt them repeatedly over the last 3,000 years.

Life disputes the Souvenirs here are not only sold to the three religions but also to the different ideologies. We have the Israeli army here. America, don't worry. Israel is behind you. On the one hand, a very clear statement. On the other hand, we also see maps of Palestine. showing it occupying all of today's Israel and I love the freedom of Palestine for Palestine, there are such different ideologies, all in one place and they are not only bought by tourists but by locals, on the contrary, that means that when it comes to business and tourism, you can sell everything and everything is allowed this is where we see union and mutual opposition in one place in the Schewe Fat camp in East Jerusalem.

Musician Mohammad McRobbie is stepping up his efforts to promote the union. For a long time his songs reflected his deep anger at the Israeli occupation. but now he has come to the conclusion that anger alone will get him nowhere, there is no chance that the Israelis will leave and Palestine will be for the Palestinians or that the Palestinians will leave and Israel will be for the Israelis, They have to share, I don't know how, but they have to share it They have to figure out how to share it There will be like a big crazy war or a miracle deal of the century that Trump wants to make It will make everyone happy You have to deal with the problem to solve it You can't go and You turn your back and sit comfortably and wait for the problem to be resolved and talk about the problem with someone who agrees with you.

No, you have to talk to the other party who disagrees with you and figure out how to fix it. Better now he performs more and more in Israel and collaborates with Israeli musicians who invite him to their concerts. It makes no sense for him to tell Palestinian history to the Palestinian people than to live history. No, I think the right thing to do is to tell Palestinian history to someone who doesn't. They know it, they have no idea who lives in their comfort zone in Tel Aviv or in West Jerusalem, or in Haifa, and it is shocking to see the reactions of the people whose turn it is, perhaps the way forward is less in international politics and more in the small steps towards reconciliation on the ground and perhaps also through the younger generation in Israel's regular education system.

Arab and Israeli students receive separate classes, but at this school Jews and Muslims receive lessons together and teaching is in both Arabic and Hebrew. There are six schools like this in Israel Noah Yama works in one of them the Mercs Reina de la Mano school in Jerusalem what we try to do here is say that we are different from each other and that's okay, we don't ignore those differences, we put them on the table and talking about it and that really helps kids connect because they don't think they have to let go of who they are, they can be exactly who they are and still be with people who are different from them.

Donald Trump's decision has also been discussed here with the students. Palestinian history professor Haneen Hussain explains how they did it. There are two teachers in the same class. I'm the Palestinian and he's the Israeli, so we bring each narrative together equally and sometimes switch roles. We simply must accept that this is a model for our children, we also learn to understand that we do not have to agree, but we do have to listen, and when we listen and disagree, then we understand that we have a shared future, no. Never mind that hundreds of children are on waiting lists for schools and more are already being planned.

Launched 20 years ago by Israeli and Palestinian parents, this model seems to work, although Israelis and Palestinians are unlikely to agree on the status of Jerusalem in the short term, not everything in and around the city is about the conflict, no one knows what impact Trump's move will have in the long term, but at the beginning of the last Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, the Mood on the Israeli side was optimistic. Hanukkah Hanukkah is also about miracles happening from the Israeli point of view. From my point of view, I really believe that Palestinians can be part of this country, which is beautiful.

I don't think we have any problem with coexistence, of course, there are certainly radicals on our side who don't agree, but we live together and Palestinians, Israelis or Jews even marry each other and can run baskets with Allen Jesus, the mufasa me and it's a fascinating web you can't just say the city is Jewish or Muslim or Christian it's too narrow minded what this city mainly needs is a sense of wonder about where you say: what a total work of art, but you will take care and tact to help turn this city with all its wounds and scars into a true city of peace! - Come in, son - Dr. from Sweden