Sami Awad, Executive Director of The Holy Land Trust-Palestine, a resident of Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine and an advocate for the use of non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
In Part 1, Sami discusses what it is like to live and work under the Israeli occupation; the prospects for peace in the Middle East; The construction of the Israeli wall and how present day Palestine compares with the brutality of South African apartheid. Will non-violent resistance work in Palestine?