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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

In a week of astonishing headlines, maybe nothing was more astonishing than Donald

Trump's proposal that the United States take over Gaza, ethnically cleansed the region

of Palestinians, permanently exiling a population already traumatized by war, and then turn the whole thing

into what Trump calls the Riviera of the Middle East. Was this a serious proposal? It certainly

put a smile on the face of Benjamin Netanyahu, who's not only intent on obliterating Hamas in

Gaza,

but at the same time, making Israel's control of the West Bank irreversible.

Even if Trump's proposal was merely part of his strategy of flooding the zone,

the reality is no less troubling.

And to understand what that reality is, particularly in the West Bank, there's a new documentary film that you should see called No Other Land.

In one scene, Palestinians are protesting the demolition of their homes.

They're walking down the road, carrying balloons and banners.

But the protest is banned under Israeli law,

and the army is at the ready alongside them

with combat gear, rifles, and stun grenades. No Other Land is opening in just a handful of theaters around the country this week.

It's been nominated as Best Documentary at the Academy Awards.

Two Palestinian and two Israeli filmmakers collaborated to make No Other land, and I spoke over Zoom with two of them.

Basel Adra, who lives in the West Bank, and Yuval Abraham, who lives in Jerusalem.

Because so few people have seen this film, I'd like to begin, first of all, this is, first and foremost, begins with Basel's life.

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