Surprisingly, Joseph and Yacine seem to bear the bad news with more maturity and understanding than everyone else, and the fact that Yacine was educated in Paris rather than Palestine, and that Joseph is a free-thinking liberal, make it easier for them to accept their new identities. The same doesn’t go for their two fathers, and especially for Joseph’s (blood) brother, Bilal (Mahmood Shalabi), who carries a hatred for Israelis after years of growing up in the occupied territories.