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Producer’s Travelogue for
God’s Muslim Warriors

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God’s Jewish Warriors Production Note

This is the story of God’s Jewish Warriors, people who risk their lives – and their children's – to live in and claim what they believe is their religious birthright: East Jerusalem, with its holy Temple Mount, and the rocky hills of the West Bank, steeped in the history of patriarchs, prophets and biblical kings.

When God’s Jewish Warriors used guerilla political tactics to build a settlers movement after the 1967 Six Day War, their goal was to incorporate the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip into Israel.  After 40 years, they have created situations that are difficult – maybe impossible – to change as long as religious fervor on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict stands in the way of territorial compromise. 

God’s Jewish Warriors believe they are commanded to live on this biblical land and that doing so will hasten the coming of the Messiah.  At their most extreme, Jewish zealots are even willing to murder in God’s name to cripple land-for-peace negotiations.

Meanwhile, the United States’ staunch support of Israel inflames much of the Muslim world and puts America in the crosshairs of jihad. 

Through this episode of God’s Warriors, we cut to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a knot tied so tightly by religious “fundamentalists” that it could strangle U.S. attempts to stabilize the explosive Middle East.

Research began in September 2006 and continued through March 2007.  Shooting began in February of this year and finished in June.

The production crew of God’s Jewish Warriors traveled to Israel and the West Bank, London and within the United States to Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Chicago; Melbourne, Fla.; Boca Raton, Fla.; and Atlanta.

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