Not only do Said and Khalid look like Middle Eastern Jews, but if you substitute "Palestine/Palestinian" for "Israel" and "Israel" for "Palestine/Palestinian" in many of the scenes, the feelings expressed by all the characters mirror the same feelings expressed by Israelis and Jews.
For example, the video-taped message Khaled recites:
Israel views partnership with and equality for the Palestinians under the same democratic system as suicide for the Jewish state. Nor will they accept a two-state compromise even though that is not fair to the Palestinians. We are to either accept the occupation forever or disappear. We've tried with all possible means to end the occupation with political and peaceful means. Despite it all, Israel continues to build settlements, confiscate land, Judaize Jerusalem and carry out ethnic cleansing. They use their war machine and their political and economical might to force us to accept their solution: that either we accept inferiority, or we will be killed.
And Israeli/Jew:
Palestinians view partnership with and equality for the Israelis/Jews under the same democratic system as suicide for the Palestinian state/Arab world. Nor will they accept a two-state compromise - they want all of Israel in addition to Gaza and the West Bank - even though that is not fair to the Israelis who made Israel a prosperous and modern nation but are expected to turn everything they built up over to Palestinians. We are to either accept Palestinian terrorism forever and never fight back, or disappear. We've tried with all possible means to end the terrorism with political and peaceful means. Despite it all, Palestinians continue to attack Israel, demand all of Israel [right of return] for themselves, desecrate Jewish Holy cites, and want Jews ethnically cleansed from the West Bank. They use suicide bombings and exploit their humanitarian crisis to terrorize Israelis and garner international sympathy, forcing Israel to accept their solution: that Israel accept inferiority by becoming the a Palestinian majority nation, or be killed.
Or Suha's comment to Khaled about suicide bombing:
That's no sacrifice. That's revenge. If you kill, there's no difference between victim and occupier.
Many people feel that Israel's military operations are not defensive operations, but revenge operations, and view Israel not as a victim of attacks, but as a victimizer attacking/genociding/occupying victims.
Suha again:
Don't you see that what you're doing is destroying us? And that you give Israel an excuse to carry on?
Many people feel that what the Israeli government does pertaining to Palestinians is destroying Israel and giving Palestinians a valid reason to continue attacking Israel.
So much of the dialogue applies to both sides, it is startling.
Said's closing speech is also heavily anti-Palestinian, the occupation and oppression is the occupation and oppression of Palestinian leadership.
And substitute the speaker for a Jewish person living in a pre-WWII Ghetto [refugee camp...] and you are listening to the point of view of a Jewish person describing life in a Jewish ghetto.
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