
Roadblock To Peace
The 2003 roadmap to peace called for Israel to freeze settlement construction and dismantle outposts built in the occupied territories. This film tracks what actually happened after the plan was signed: rather than shrinking, the settlements grew, and it lays out the numbers, the maps, and the political maneuvering behind that gap between commitment and outcome. Interviews and footage from the West Bank frame the roadmap as a test case for whether international peace agreements can survive contact with facts on the ground, particularly when one side keeps building. The film treats the settlements themselves as the central obstacle, tracing how successive Israeli governments justified expansion while the diplomatic process stalled. It stays close to the documentary record, using the roadmap's own text as a yardstick against later settlement statistics. The result is a focused case study in how a specific peace framework failed, told through the concrete evidence of what got built where the agreement said nothing should.