Extended Footage: A Home with Mobile Walls

In this Story of the Jews outtake, Simon Schama and author David Grossman discuss the historical relationship between the Jewish Diaspora and the Israeli conflict.

“And I wonder, I ask myself why it is like that? Why we doom ourselves in a way to live such life with no solid fixed definition of us, you know, to live like we do, like we did in the last sixty five years, with borders that move and move and shift all the time. It’s like living in a home with mobile walls. The walls are all the time moving. There is always this sense of unconfidence. We don’t know, as I said, where we end, where they start — we always create this double temptation of others to invade us, of us to infiltrate and to become assimilated in a way in their life.

Add to that the earth that is always shaken under our feet, you know, because our future is never secured.”