God Waits at the Station

A checkpoint between Isreal and the West Bank. There is Yael, an israeli soldier who wants to protect her country at the border. Facing her is Amal, a palestinian nurse. In the past, Yael has already denied entry into Israel for Amal and her severy ill father because of lacking documents.

This time, Amal is also missing the necessary documents. Yeal, however, lets the pregnant woman pass out of pity – an act of human kindness? Shortly thereafter, a bomb explodes in an israeli restaurant. A suicide attack that kills 30 people - an act of desperation, carried out by Amal. After spending her life in a refugee camp in her own homeland Palestine, after her her brother's death at the hande of the israeli military, and after her father died at the border, Amal had no strebght left to resist the manipulation through radical forces.

The israeli author Maya Arad Yasur looks at the fate of individuals between self-determination and heteronomy within the Mideast conflict. She is not so much concerned about placing or rejecting guilt, but with an attempt to approach humans whose lives are locked in a vicious circle of violence that is as asyymetrical as it is fatal.

Note: This is a rewrite of the orginal text. The original version as well as commentary about the changes that have been made will be available shortly.