The face of Israeli public broadcasting for almost 40 years, Haim Yavin could soon be out of a job as news anchor for Channel 1. His outspoken views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have angered settlers and raised calls for his resignation, but that won't stop him from speaking his mind.

"You cannot be human and control and conquer another people. It won't work," Yavin told CTV News.

Yavin ventured out of the studio and into the occupied territories to show Israelis how both sides had been scarred by the conflict. For two-and-a-half years he wandered the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a small hand-held camera interviewing people he met there.

He spoke to Palestinians forced to wait at checkpoints for hours, Jewish settlers determined to fight for their homes and Israeli soldiers.

In his series titled "Yoman Masa" (Diary of a Journey) he says, "Since 1967, we have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing other people," and criticizes settlements for stoking the cycle of violence.

Yavin believes that the settlers are "wrong" and are "endangering us" but unlike some of his left-leaning friends he says he does not hate them but even "esteems and likes them."

In the documentary he explains that he believes withdrawal is necessary so that a Palestinian state can be established which will in turn lead to peace.

"That is the only thing I can believe in. Other than that I have nothing to believe in – only bloodshed," he tells a female settler in the documentary.

The series was so contentious, Yavin's own employer Channel 1 (a station he co-founded) refused to broadcast it. Yavin sold the series to a rival commercial station that recently lost its licence and was about to go off air.

Critics accused the veteran broadcaster of crossing an ethical line.

"We trust him to be objective and as neutral as possible. He has proven he isn't. He doesn't belong on television," settler Yisrael Medad told CTV News.

But others have compared Yavin to Walter Cronkite, who once produced a series about America's increasingly hopeless situation in the Vietnam War.

With his contract set to expire just a few months from now, Yavin believes he won't be on air much longer at Channel 1. But he's unrepentant about expressing what he feels are the facts of a violent conflict.

"I could not in clear conscious but report the truth," Yavin told CTV News. "I did this and I'm proud of it. Very proud of it"

"When you take this personal thing and you sling it toward the wall of politics this is what you get, something that disturbs people."

With a report from Janis Mackey Frayer