The Insult Page #5

I'd like to say...

Your Honor,

we live in the Middle East.

The word "offensive" was born here.

It's not up to Mr. Tony

to consider people's sensibilities.

That's their problem, not his.

Can you please allow

the defense to finish?

I wish to reveal the words

that pushed Mr. Yasser to hit Mr. Tony.

Go ahead.

The words are:

"I wish Ariel Sharon

had wiped you all out."

Yes! He should have!

Take that back!

That's disgraceful!

Order in the court!

Mr. Tony,

did you know these words violated

Mr. Yasser's dignity and identity,

and are a hate crime?

Hate crime?

For a humiliation?

Which humiliation is this?

The one in 1948? 1956?

The Six-Day War?

The Yom Kippur War?

The 1982 War?

They're all humiliations.

My client can't be blamed

for those mishaps.

The Palestinian tragedy

is not a mishap.

It was not a mishap,

it was a catastrophe!

Approach the bench.

Get a hold of yourself!

Think.

You're right, I got carried away.

I know you, Wajdy.

I won't wear a bulletproof vest.

I'm warning you.

Today at the courthouse,

members of the Christian Party

clashed with Palestinian refugees.

Which TV?

New TV. We'd like to have you

on our show.

We can send a driver.

I'm at the hospital.

We can come to you.

Let me think about it.

Great.

Your lawyer is pretentious.

It's ridiculous.

He's putting up a good fight.

You don't like it

because you live in denial.

You're just his puppet.

He lets nothing slide

without contesting it.

Really?

Why did he say

the Palestinians were a catastrophe?

He got carried away.

I don't get it.

A famous lawyer,

who defended the party's leader,

decides to take on a trifling case?

For free?

For you, it's a trifle.

For me, it's everything.

- How so?

- It's about the truth.

Which truth?

You provoked and insulted this man.

You hurt yourself working.

Really?

I was publicly humiliated

because of both of you!

Quiet!

You're upsetting her.

She can't hear us, she's just moving.

Really?

In your womb, she heard everything

but now nothing?

Mr. Tony?

I work for a security firm.

If you need protection, we're ready.

Courthouse Invasion - Webb wants

Palestinians Thrown into the Sea

Don't answer any questions

or any provocations.

Walk straight inside.

Is this a smear campaign?

No, it's a tribute

to Wajdy Webb's career.

- Your daughter is your opponent.

- Wajdy Webb encourages dissent.

Why do you always speak

in the third person?

It sounds better.

Why are you suing a Palestinian

while Gaza is being bombed?

Why are you here and not in Gaza?

Are you doing this because you lost

the party leader's case?

Thank you for coming to Beirut,

Mr. Ghandour.

I know it's hard for you to travel.

- You came from Amman?

- Yes.

- That's where you live?

- Yes.

This man was full of vigor and health.

Until the day everything changed.

He's been confined to a wheelchair

for 45 years.

It happened in Jordan,

July 1971.

After months of heavy fighting,

the Jordanian army dismantles the PLO

in the Palestinian camps.

What was your role in that operation?

I was the cook.

Did you see any combat?

No, I just fed the troops.

Can you tell us what happened?

At the end of the Civil War,

after the PLO was expelled,

the Palestinian refugees were in misery.

We set up tents to serve them meals.

Every day.

One day,

the line was very long,

endless.

The mood was very tense.

A woman came forward

for her meal.

While I was serving food,

one of her children

stole a piece of bread.

I asked him to give it back,

he refused.

I tried to take it by force,

he started screaming.

Next thing I remember,

a young man

lunged at me

and started hitting me.

I tried to defend myself,

but he was full of rage.

He hit me savagely.

He even struck me with a metal pot.

I lost consciousness.

When I woke up,

I couldn't move.

A cerebral hematoma

due to cranial trauma.

What happened to that man?

He must have crossed the border.

When the PLO guerillas fled,

the Jordanian army looked the other way.

We wanted nothing more

than to see them go.

Do you recognize this man?

Mr. Mohamed,

can you tell us who this person is?

A life crushed

by the brutality of the accused.

What Yasser Salameh

inflicted on this man

shows his deeper nature,

and proves

that he has a history of violence.

Violence is his sole means

of functioning in society.

That's unacceptable.

This man is dangerous!

And if he walks free today,

it's because history was on his side.

The political context prevented him

from being brought to justice.

And now we're being asked

to absolve him again,

for the same political context:

the holy Palestinian cause!

Lock him up!

Silence!

Stick to the case, counselor.

True, he didn't paralyze Tony Hanna,

but he came close.

And at this very moment,

a newborn's life hangs in the balance.

No further questions.

Yours, Counsel.

Mr. Mohamed,

what you call the Jordanian Civil War

is known as Black September, right?

It was a civil war.

Many Palestinians live in Jordan.

History remembers it

as Black September.

The Jordanian army

hit Palestinian refugees,

killing more than 3,000,

mainly civilians,

and based on recognized criteria,

this is a massacre.

The militias were hiding

among civilians.

We had no choice.

Then, your army decided

to eradicate the PLO at any price.

They tried to assassinate King Hussein.

They were a state within a state,

they launched cross-border attacks.

They endangered the whole country.

When you kicked them out,

they came here.

Order, or I'll throw you out!

Mr. Mohamed,

you say you were a cook.

Yes.

But you were in the army.

Yes.

Did you wear a uniform?

Yes.

Yasser Salameh had no reason

to believe you weren't a soldier.

I was serving them food.

The Jordanian Army

attacks a refugee camp,

indiscriminately kills

civilians and militants,

then decides to feed

those who survived.

The oppressor humiliates the oppressed

with his generosity.

In this conteXt, Salameh saw a soldier

take a piece of bread from a child,

his blood boils,

he attacks the soldier.

My client isn't the bloodthirsty man

you describe. No!

Yasser Salameh can't just stand there

while injustice happens.

The proof is he refused

to repeat Tony Hanna's words,

though it would have been

in his interest.

He didn't do it

because those words are humiliating.

Tony Hanna's words made my client

act in extreme distress

and pushed him to lash out.

Penal code, Article 228:

even if a perpetrator exceeds

the bounds of self-defense,

he may be acquitted

if he acted in extreme distress

that hampered

his judgment and self-control.

F***ing prick.

The workers agreed to work overtime.

You can inform the deputy.

It's for you.

What is it?

Open it.

Why?

The deputy called me.

He doesn't want to risk it.

I tried to convince him.

He doesn't want you here.

- Mr. Yasser, are you a politician?

- No.

- A member of a party?

- No.

- Any organization?

- No.

Have you been solicited or asked

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