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his own country's wars.

I'm in constant

search of a frame.

There's something

very Sisyphean about it.

And sometimes

it's very frustrating.

You run, drive,

search, leave and return.

And many times you

return without a frame.

I have a social and

political agenda

that guides me

through my work.

I'm trying to

convey messages.

I'm talking about something

very close to my heart.

It's important to

me to convey the messages.

It's very hard today

to find a genuine frame.

You know, I don't

shoot for propaganda.

I don't belong to anybody.

I don't go out

and shoot to satisfy

this or that paper's

particular interests.

I'm not a photographer

for the Israeli army,

or for the PLO, or for anyone.

I shoot for the truth

because there is a

truth that I want to tell,

and that's why

I go out to the field.

Good morning, kids.

How are you?

The Muassi are

a Palestinian Bedouin tribe

that sits in an

enclave within Gush Qatif.

The Gush Qatif Jewish

settlements surround their land.

The Muassi were never hostile

to the state of Israel,

and relations have always

been good and neighborly.

They make their living from

agriculture and fishing.

Then the Shirat Hayam

settlement was established,

and that closed off most

of the Muassi tribe's shore.

They were not allowed

to go out to sea with boats,

but they were allowed

to fish from the shore,

which obviously reduced

their catch to almost zero.

Until November 2000, all

of the shore in effect was theirs.

Then in that month there was

the "Children's Bus Bombing"

in which two Israeli

civilians were killed,

and the Cohen family's

three children were wounded.

All three

children lost their legs.

In response to this terror attack,

the settlement of Shirat Hayam

was established.

After every major

bombing in Gush Qatif,

the settlers responded by

establishing a new settlement.

Shirat Hayam

is a pretty surreal place.

They are sitting

on the seashore,

originally just 16 families,

who have to be

guarded by soldiers,

watch towers, fences,

barricades and patrols...

for only 16 families

that sit on the shore,

all surrounded by

a Palestinian community.

Understand, this is how the

children are brought to school.

Shirat Hayam is an enclave

in a Palestinian population,

which is an enclave in

the Gush Qatif settlement,

which again is an enclave

within the Gaza strip.

That's to say there's

a sequence of enclaves here

of Jews surrounded

by Palestinians

surrounded by Jews

surrounded by Palestinians.

I think the Shirat Hayam

Muassi relationship is a kind of

representative model of Israel

inside her Arab surroundings.

This was the commander of the

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