(projector whirring)
(dramatic theme playing)
(car breaks squeak)
-MUSA HADID (in Arabic): -WOMAN (in Arabic):
(car horn honks)
WOMAN:
(Musa speaks Arabic)
MUSA:
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
MAN 3:
(men and women chattering)
(man responds in Arabic)
MAN 3:
WOMAN 1:
WOMAN 2:
MUSA:
MAN 3:
(Woman 2 responds in Arabic)
MAN 3:
MUSA:
(man chattering)
(dramatic theme playing)
(device beeps)
MAN:
WOMAN:
-MUSA: -WOMAN:
(people chattering)
MUSA:
-WOMAN: -MUSA:
WOMAN:
-MUSA: -WOMAN:
WOMAN:
MUSA:
(man speaking indistinctly over radio)
(melody playing over speakers outside)
MALE NEWS HOST (over radio):
(melody continues playing)
(news report on radio fades)
(car horn honks)
-KHALED: -MUSA:
MAN 1:
(electric saw buzzing)
MUSA:
(rattling)
MAN 2:
(man 3 speaks Arabic and Musa responds)
MAN 3:
(Musa laughs)
MUSA:
(in English) Very long day.
(traditional music)
(people chattering)
(in Arabic)
WOMAN:
MUSA:
(techno music playing over speakers)
(people chattering)
(techno version of "Jingle Bells" playing over speakers)
(woman speaking in Arabic over P.A.)
WOMAN (over P.A.):
(woman speaks over P.A.)
(crowd whistling and cheering)
(woman speaks over P.A.)
(fireworks whistling and popping)
MUSA (over P.A.):
(light applause and whistling)
(fireworks popping in the sky)
(Arabic version of "Jingle Bells" playing over speakers)
MAN:
MUSA:
NANCY (in English): Yes.
NANCY (in Arabic):
MUSA:
NANCY:
-MUSA: -NANCY:
Phew.
(sighs) (car horn blares in distance)
(people chattering)
MAHMOUD ABBAS (over P.A.):
-MAN 1 (over P.A.): -CROWD (chanting):
(man 1 continues; crowd responding)
-MAN 2 (over P.A.): -CROWD (chanting):
MAN 2:
(man 2 continues leading chant; crowd responding)
MAN 1:
(man 2 continues leading chant; crowd responding)
MAN 1:
(man 2 continues leading chant; crowd responding)
(man 2 continues leading chant with crowd in distance)
(chanting continues in distance)
NANCY:
MUSA:
NANCY:
MUSA:
NANCY:
MUSA:
DRIVER:
(driver responds)
DRIVER:
(Musa responds)
MUSA:
DRIVER:
(in English) Holy moly.
(Musa exclaims in Arabic)
MUSA:
(car horns blaring in distance)
(gunshot)
(Musa speaks in Arabic) (man yells in distance)
MUSA:
(people clamoring)
DRIVER:
(people clamoring; gunfire)
DRIVER:
-MUSA: -DRIVER:
DRIVER:
(Musa responds)
MUSA:
(Musa speaks Arabic)
(distant gunfire)
(speaking Arabic)
(gunfire continues)
-MAN: -MUSA:
(ambulance siren blaring in distance)
(police siren blaring in distance)
MUSA:
WOMAN:
(in English)
(in Arabic)
(man interjecting)
(exhales)
MUSA:
(cell phone rings)
MAN:
(two men continue chatting while Musa talks on phone)
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
-MAN 1: -MAN 2:
MUSA (in English): Hello. Oh...
MUSA: Hello?
MAN 2:
(light chattering)
MAN:
-MUSA: -BOY:
(boy and man laughs)
(Musa laughs)
BOY:
MUSA:
MAN:
("Jingle Bells" playing over speakers within)
CHOIR OF CHILDREN (on stage): ♪ Jingle bells Jingle bells ♪
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh what fun it is to ride ♪
♪ In a one horse open sleigh ♪
♪ Hey! Jingle bells Jingle bells ♪
♪ Jingle all the way ♪
♪ Oh what fun ♪
(applause)
(audience cheering)
(kisses then laughs)
MUSA:
MAN:
(calling of prayer over speakers in distance)
(bell rings in distance)
(bell ringing in distance)
(woman singing in Japanese)
(choir of women singing in Japanese)
(car horn honks)
MALE REPORTER (in English over radio): Israeli and American officials
say the United States is planning to open its embassy
in Jerusalem on May 14th.
The relocation has been planned to coincide
with the 70th anniversary
of the Israeli regime's installment
in the Middle East in 1948.
MAN 1 (in Arabic):
WOMAN:
MAN 2:
(laughter)
MAN 3:
(cell phone ringing)
MUSA:
(dramatic theme playing)
MUSA:
KHALED (over phone):
MAN:
MUSA:
WOMAN:
(applause and cheering)
MUSA:
(woman 1 responds in Arabic)
(woman 2 responds in Arabic)
-MUSA: -BOY:
BOY:
MUSA:
MAN 1:
MUSA:
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
-FARAH (over speaker): -MUSA:
(door buzzes open)
MUSA:
(Lulu laughs)
(both laughing)
FARAH:
LULU:
(instrumental music playing on digital piano)
(music fades)
FEMALE NARRATOR (in English): Ramallah is life,
in all of its elements.
She is a mosaic of Palestine.
A puzzle perfectly put together
to paint a picture.
(continues over speakers) A home and a refuge
for Palestine's intellectuals,
writers, artists, and musicians.
Ramallah wakes up, every morning,
to live again...
to thank the heavens for another day...
to resist...
...to exist.
(music plays and fades out in program)
MUSA (in English): Welcome to Palestine, welcome to Ramallah.
I'm not quite sure that everyone
can imagine what difficulties you can face
as a mayor in Palestine,
when you are under occupation.
For example,
we cannot have a sewage treatment plant
because we don't have control
on the land
that is part of Ramallah.
To do it there, we need permission by the Israelis,
and there, we are always stuck with having no permissions
by the Israelis for our strategic projects.
This has to be...
stopped.
MAN: So another question, Musa...
What we're trying to do is bring
Palestinians and Israelis together
to educate the Israeli public.
Would that be something that you...
...might help us? Bringing people together?
We're talking not at the government,
we're talking students, for example.
MUSA: You know something?
Is it for the sake of negotiations?
Is it for the sake of having cameras around us,
telling the whole world that we're sitting together?
We are negotiating?
What's the output of this negotiation?
I would rather reframe it and say
it's clearly not the right political timing
to bring both sides together.
This is also something we, as internationals, have to recognize.
It's not the right time
to bring Israelis and Palestinians together.
Yeah, I recognize this.
What I'm wondering is, what has to be achieved
in order to rebuild trust
so that we can re-enter the phase
where, for instance, as our delegation is asking for,
an exchange on the local level could be possible
...again.
I mean, when we talk about local government.
The main goal for any city, and you are from Berlin city:
to improve the quality of life for our citizens.
That's the main goal. It's the common goal, yeah?
And in 2002, the Israeli side,
Israeli soldiers, invaded Ramallah.
And invaded most Palestinian cities.
Invaded Area A.
And they destroyed the infrastructure in Area A.
And they demolished most of the government buildings.
And even this city hall,
it was demolished partially in that time.
I will tell you about another thing.
Cemeteries. Cemeteries.
Can you imagine it took us 15 years
to get the Israeli permit to have a cemetery in Ramallah?
15 years!
It's not a factory, it's not nuclear weapons,
it's a cemetery.
It took us 15 years!
The Israeli airport!
We are not allowed to use the Israeli airport.
While most of us, we travel to Canada,
to United States, to Russia,
to Italy, to Germany,
we can go everywhere,
but we are not allowed to go to Jerusalem,
which is ten minutes.
So maybe, you are asking us
why you are not willing to sit with your friend?
The friendship needs some requirements.
I, of course, completely understand this
and you as a people can apply any strategy that...
I mean, you are under occupation, you have to resist.
No doubt on that.
But I just wonder from a strategic point of view,
is this the strategy
that will bring you one step closer to...
not only a virtual, but a real state
that is independent and viable?
You know something, maybe I have
to say it in other words.
It's about dignity.
It's about dignity,
and when it comes to the dignity of yourself,
it's not acceptable. Okay?
When we feel
that we are not treated as slaves,
and they are masters,
we are ready to do everything.
But when I have to take off all my clothes
in front of all the people because a soldier
of 16 years old is asking me to do so
under the threat of his weapon,
then it's about dignity.
Yeah?
And when it comes to dignity,
I think it's something not negotiable.
Right?
(in Arabic)
(music in Arabic playing)
(children chattering)
WOMAN:
MUSA:
WOMAN:
MUSA:
NANCY:
MUSA:
MAN:
MUSA:
(local music playing over speakers)
(man yelling over P.A. system in distance)
MAN:
MUSA:
MALE REPORTER (in Arabic):
(man whistles)
(slowly exhales)
MUSA:
NANCY:
-Okay? -Okay.
(Mahmoud Abbas speaking in Arabic on TV)
(utensil clatters on ground in distance)
(deep sigh)
WOMAN:
MALE REPORTER (in English): The U.S. opening of the embassy,
and that will continue. A royal visit coming up in June
so Israelis look at this picture,
when Netanyahu looks at the picture right now,
he will certainly see this as a diplomatic
and a political victory.
It's also worth pointing out
that Guatemala and Paraguay,
certainly two smaller countries,
they will also open their embassies
in Jerusalem this week.
(call for prayer over speakers in distance)
MAN:
WOMAN:
MAN:
WOMAN:
MAN:
(all laugh)
(traditional music playing)
(music stops)
(local jazz music playing in the street)
(in English) You can show this country
that we are not a nation of terrorists and camels,
but the land of Jesus Christ himself.
I extend to you all
an invitation to join us in Ramallah
for either our next convention or for your next visit.
The city is made more beautiful by your presence every year.
Thank you for all that you do
and continue to do
to help us obtain our freedom
and our rights. Thank you.
Yeah, seven minutes.
MUSA (in English over P.A.): As Palestinian Americans,
you are fluent in democracy and self-determination.
And you share a desire to carry freedom throughout the world.
I must humbly remind you tonight,
that the freedom you enjoy as Americans
is the very specific thing
we are denied as Palestinians.
MUSA (in English): While we were planting a tree
yesterday against bombs,
the Israelis were destroying our trees in Palestine,
destroying our houses in Gaza.
(in Arabic)
(in English) We don't have our own currency,
we use the Israeli shekel.
We cannot visit the sea,
which we can see from our hilltops.
We cannot visit Jerusalem,
which is ten miles away.
We can not build a sewage treatment center
without the permission of Israel.
We are surrounded on all sides by Israeli settlements,
which are illegal under international law,
and these settlers use what little resources we have
with impunity.
Please come to Palestine, and see this for yourself.
(applause)
(lively chattering)
MUSA (in English): I think we have to think about
something in common between our two cities
in order to make this relation very active.
Are there possibilities in terms of choirs or theater groups?
Yeah, why not?
Because those are things that work very well
-in terms of exchange. -Yes. Yes.
-Yeah. -Football teams and...
(chattering continues)
(quiet)
(birds chirping)
(classical piano music playing over speakers)
(turns up volume)
(traditional music playing over speakers)
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
MAN 1:
MUSA:
MAN:
ABU AWS:
ABU:
WOMAN:
MAN:
MUSA:
MAN:
FARAH:
MUSA:
LULU:
FARAH:
WOMAN:
(clears throat)
FARAH:
(music playing on TV)
CHRIS SHIP (in English): Prince William was promised a different perspective
from this side of the border,
and that is today what he got.
And what a different life
is lived here than in Israel.
And where yesterday, William met
Israeli political leaders,
today in Ramallah, he met Palestinian ones.
"I hope that your next visit," said Mahmoud Abbas,
the Palestinian President,
"will be in the state of Palestine
when we have our full independence."
PRINCE WILLIAM: The story of the Palestinian people is so often told
only through the lens of difficulty and conflict.
But there is another story,
which I was privileged to witness today.
This afternoon in Ramallah,
I saw an unforgettable display
of Palestinian culture and hospitality.
I'm also struck by how many people in the region
want a just and lasting peace.
This is only too evident among the young people I've met.
These are not extravagant aspirations,
but the same aspirations of people everywhere
in the world.
ABDULLAH:
MUSA:
ABDULLAH:
MUSA:
MUSA: Wow...
(in English) Too much!
(laughs)
MAN (in distance):
(several people chattering in distance)
(new age music playing over speakers)
FEMALE REPORTER (in Arabic):
WOMAN (in Arabic):
MAN:
WOMAN (in Arabic):
(in English) English? This is our home!
(ambulance sirens blaring)
(people chattering)
-MAN 1: -(distant gunfire)
(traditional music playing over speakers in distance)
MAN 2:
MAN 3:
(loud gunshot)
(people clamoring)
(small explosion nearby)
(explosion nearby)
(gunshot)
MUSA:
(phone beeping)
(in English) Hello?
-MUSA (in Arabic): -JIHAD (on phone):
WOMAN:
(explosions)
ALAA:
WOMAN (on phone):
(gunshot)
MUSA:
(gunshots)
(gunshot)
(men yelling in distance)
(phone ringing)
(explosions)
(man speaking over P.A. in distance)
MAN 1:
MUSA:
MAN 2:
MUSA:
(police siren blaring in distance)
MAN:
-(gunfire) -(people screaming)
MUSA:
MAN:
(Musa coughing)
(explosion)
(people chattering)
(coughing)
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
MUSA:
(gunshot)
MUSA:
MEDIC:
PHOTOGRAPHER:
(people clamoring)
(car alarm blaring)
MAN (over comm):
(gunshot)
(gunfire)
(man coughs)
(indistinct radio chatter)
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
MUSA:
MAN 3:
MAN 4:
MAN 5:
(all chattering)
MAN 6:
MAN 5:
(car horn honks)
MAN:
MUSA:
MAN:
MAN 1:
MAN 2:
WOMAN:
MUSA:
WOMAN:
-MUSA: -WOMAN:
(indistinct chattering over speaker on cell phone)
MUSA:
(male reporter speaking in Arabic)
(bird squawking)
(dramatic theme playing)
(birds chirping)
MUSA:
-MUSA: -WOMAN:
WOMAN:
MUSA:
MAN:
MUSA:
MAN:
MUSA:
-MAN: -MUSA:
MAN (echoing over P.A.): Hey.
Hey.
WOMAN (in Arabic):
-WOMAN: -MUSA: Oh.
MUSA:
(woman laughs)
(Musa speaks Arabic)
(music blares over P.A. speakers then turns off)
MUSA:
(Arabic female pop music playing over speakers)
(male vocalist singing)
(music ends)
(crowd lively chattering)
(dramatic theme playing)
(chattering continues)
(chattering fades)