My heart always hurts because my country has been taken, first by the British and then by the Jews. The Jews started out with half of our country, but they wanted more. They used military force to push us back and make us refugees in our own land.
Some of us stayed and were stripped of our rights. I have more freedom to move around than many other Palestinian, but I would rather live within the same confines as others. I can't see anyone out of Israel's border. I wish the Jewish people would just disappear and that Palestine would be an independent state again where we are able to travel freely and meet with each other.
—Mahmoud lives in Jerusalem and is a supporter of Hamas. He goes to school and also helps out in his father's coffee shop in the Arab quarter of the old city of Jerusalem. "The more Jews we kill," he says, "the stronger the Arabs will be." The filmmakers visit Mahmoud's school, where the Qur’an is taught as a manifesto for Palestinian emancipation. Mahmoud takes us to Jerusalem's Old City where he visits the beautiful Al Aqsa mosque, one of Islam's holiest shrines. At the mosque Mahmoud prays for the liberation of his homeland.
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