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Check Point

An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl.

Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and suggests the documentary crew is making a film for the Discovery Channel. Palestinians wait in the pouring rain while an Israeli soldier eats his lunch. Another young soldier gets into a prolonged argument with a Palestinian man because he’d told the man an hour earlier that he would be able to cross back over the checkpoint to return home, and now a curfew is in effect.

After his superior reluctantly lets the man through, the embarrassed soldier turns to the filmmaker and pleads, “Try to make me look good…not like the bad guy.” Language barriers constantly interfere with the soldiers’ ability to do their jobs. “It’s not my decision,” is a constant refrain as they turn people away. Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir once served his army reserve duty as a checkpoint guard, which was what inspired him to make this documentary, Checkpoint.

For 80 minutes, Shamir simply shows us videotape of what happens at the various checkpoints that the Israeli government operates, which are in place to regulate the travel of Palestinians, purportedly in an effort to combat terrorism. The documentary uses no narration, and the soldiers and Palestinians at the checkpoints are never identified. The subtitles simply tell the audience where the checkpoint being videotaped is located.

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  37. this documentary really sadens me it is clearly biased and racist , the palestinians rejected a palestinian state side by side with israel in 1947 which th eisraelis accepted , and then they went to war and lost , and now the world has once again had delusions of mass granger , israel is the only democratic state in the middle east , moreover its the country where muslims have most rights.. do you think the filthy muslim run countries would give the jews the same courtesy… it think not…. 

    • Oh yeah and how you reply to the fact that the documentary is made by a jewish?

    • how can it be biased when the motherfucker has NO COMMENTARY or other fancy editing or cut screens or re-enactments???? You have to be the dumbest motherfucker

    • “delusions of mass granger”? you’re a fucking idiot. nothing about this unnarrated, barely edited footage is “racist” or biased–its the truth. must be upsetting to see how your “filthy” israeli soldiers “give courtesy” to the muslim…..asshole

      • 2 sides to every soldier , and for ur info i was a soldier in the israeli army , i still am and i am proud of it every day to put on the uniform , i will defend my country from any one who means it harm , and reading these anti semitic and anti Israel comments only drives me and my fellow people ! you may hate us but we are never leaving our land …..

  38. jews are assholes. thats why every society they try to infiltrate hates them

    • jews are beautiful people , i am married to one , and they are th ekindest people on this earth , you clearly dont know any and you must be a beligerant idiot if you think jews are asholes , they have helped the world more than anyother race or peoples… so before you spurt out your horrible evil racist rant you should think and realise without jews this wold would be a scary and much more dangerous place

      • Replying as them being the kindest and helping the world more than any race is actually racist… racist towards other people who arent jews or israelis. I am mexican so i dont even care about jews at all, try to be a little bit more objective the next time.

      • I think Israel is beautiful

      • I like to think there is good in everyone,I am not prejudice and was raised that one is not better than the other.But I have to say that I could not finish watching this documentory as I was very upset at the way these people were treated by these Israeli soldiers and what bothered me the most is these young boys as I will call them did not seem to care that they would be taped for the whole world to see,the arrogance of this was disturbing.Please dont tell me this is okay because if anyone thinks it is then they are blind fools.

      • I like to think there is good in everyone,I am not prejudice and was raised that one is not better than the other.But I have to say that I could not finish watching this documentory as I was very upset at the way these people were treated by these Israeli soldiers and what bothered me the most is these young boys as I will call them did not seem to care that they would be taped for the whole world to see,the arrogance of this was disturbing.Please dont tell me this is okay because if anyone thinks it is then they are blind fools.

      • I like to think there is good in everyone,I am not prejudice and was raised that one is not better than the other.But I have to say that I could not finish watching this documentory as I was very upset at the way these people were treated by these Israeli soldiers and what bothered me the most is these young boys as I will call them did not seem to care that they would be taped for the whole world to see,the arrogance of this was disturbing.Please dont tell me this is okay because if anyone thinks it is then they are blind fools.

      • stop yourself NOW

      • i think neither of you are right, whether in positive or negative stereotype.

      • i think neither of you are right, whether in positive or negative stereotype.

      • I really cannot countenance the notion that the ‘wold’ as you put it could be any scarier or more dangerous than it is, with the Jews in unlawful and reckless control. Quite the opposite, in fact.

      • Jews have been front and center in every social/cultural development destructive to Western civilization, the corrosive action being completely intentional.

        Jews hate Whites, see strongly self-identified Whites as their greatest threat, and so seek to destroy them by whatever means available. Cultural Marxism, immigration “reform,” “civil rights” a/k/a the ending of free association … you name it, Jews have been at the forefront in its promotion, if not having created it themselves.

      • Jews have been front and center in every social/cultural development destructive to Western civilization, the corrosive action being completely intentional.

        Jews hate Whites, see strongly self-identified Whites as their greatest threat, and so seek to destroy them by whatever means available. Cultural Marxism, immigration “reform,” “civil rights” a/k/a the ending of free association … you name it, Jews have been at the forefront in its promotion, if not having created it themselves.

      • Jews have been front and center in every social/cultural development destructive to Western civilization, the corrosive action being completely intentional.

        Jews hate Whites, see strongly self-identified Whites as their greatest threat, and so seek to destroy them by whatever means available. Cultural Marxism, immigration “reform,” “civil rights” a/k/a the ending of free association … you name it, Jews have been at the forefront in its promotion, if not having created it themselves.

        • The filmmaker is Jewish. As much sympathy as I have with palestinians, we must understand why the jews fear everyone and elect to defent themselves in whatever way possible. We cant change history, palestine will never take israel back so quit yapping and get busy living instead of dying…

          • Those who feel the world revolves around them are doomed to live in a perpetual state of fear. The problem is them, not the Evil Other.

            Let the Jews cease their course of creating/promoting/funding movements that destroy White societies. Until then, it’s going to be Western civilization that’s dying, instead of living.

            It’s all up to the Jews.

          • meh Israel doesnt mean shit.

        • The filmmaker is Jewish. As much sympathy as I have with palestinians, we must understand why the jews fear everyone and elect to defent themselves in whatever way possible. We cant change history, palestine will never take israel back so quit yapping and get busy living instead of dying…

  39. they are on a power trip for sure..they need a Palestinian state pronto

    • oh yes we want a palestinian state whose government (hamas) charter says they should kill jews not just israel , the people who also coordinate suidice bombings targetting specifically busses with women and children in it , they put nails in the bombs to cause more damage , and you think they should have a state….. 

    • oh yes we want a palestinian state whose government (hamas) charter says they should kill jews not just israel , the people who also coordinate suidice bombings targetting specifically busses with women and children in it , they put nails in the bombs to cause more damage , and you think they should have a state….. 

    • oh yes we want a palestinian state whose government (hamas) charter says they should kill jews not just israel , the people who also coordinate suidice bombings targetting specifically busses with women and children in it , they put nails in the bombs to cause more damage , and you think they should have a state….. 

  40. they are on a power trip for sure..they need a Palestinian state pronto

  41.  fire up the furnaces and gas chambers

  42.  fire up the furnaces and gas chambers

  43.  fire up the furnaces and gas chambers

    • you horrible human being, how dare you say such a thing about human beings , women and children were gassed and burnt alive you son  of a whore , imagine this happening to your family you scum i hope you burn in hell 

    • you horrible human being, how dare you say such a thing about human beings , women and children were gassed and burnt alive you son  of a whore , imagine this happening to your family you scum i hope you burn in hell 

    • you horrible human being, how dare you say such a thing about human beings , women and children were gassed and burnt alive you son  of a whore , imagine this happening to your family you scum i hope you burn in hell 

  44.  fire up the furnaces and gas chambers

  45. I am glad you published it..Honestly, i did not think that you will when i sent you the link

    • cunt you will die soon inshallah for insulting the chosen people and the people of the book 

      • “chosen people”????? you’re obviously a rational,open-minded,accepting, educated,reasonable individual,HaHa! Regardless of religion(mystic storytime,all cultures have them),fuckwits like yourself should be banned from breeding.

    • cunt you will die soon inshallah for insulting the chosen people and the people of the book 

  46. this video opened my eyes of the true nature of this criminal regime

  47. This videon opened my eyes…how can a people who have been oppressed behave like this

  48. Excellent movie by the way…

    • I suggest that you all just go move right in with those wonderfull little palestinians. Can’t wait to see your head on youtube!

    • I suggest that you all just go move right in with those wonderfull little palestinians. Can’t wait to see your head on youtube!

  49. Excellent movie by the way…

  50. They would touch me and my family only once. I can tell you that!

    • because you will never step foot back in the hallowed land of israel … God is great and he will look after his people for all of time 

      • israeli jews,the modern day nazis?
        classic case of victim becomes perpetrator.
        oops,mustn’t sound anti-semitic,these poor, down-trodden people have suffered horridly,we should just let them vent however they like,for however they like.
        c’mon israel,time to evolve,you are fast losing friends & everyone’s patience.

      • israeli jews,the modern day nazis?
        classic case of victim becomes perpetrator.
        oops,mustn’t sound anti-semitic,these poor, down-trodden people have suffered horridly,we should just let them vent however they like,for however they like.
        c’mon israel,time to evolve,you are fast losing friends & everyone’s patience.

      • lol yeah yeah wathever. Your GOD is soooo hot!

      • lol yeah yeah wathever. Your GOD is soooo hot!

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