I recently found this doc­u­men­tary, made in 2006, called “Occu­pa­tion 101″. It’s an up close look at the Pales­tin­ian story behind the Israeli occu­pa­tion of their home­land. It is what the news media doesn’t show. Inter­na­tional jour­nal­ists rarely, if ever, travel into the West Bank and Gaza Strip to talk to the peo­ple trapped there. It’s a shock­ing and bru­tal world these peo­ple are forced to live in. They live with­out ade­quate food, water and med­ical treat­ment while right next door Jew­ish chil­dren play on green lawns and in swim­ming pools. The world has turned a blind eye to these 4 mil­lion plus peo­ple. Why does the US and the world sup­port the Israeli agenda with­out any ques­tions about their abuses of human rights in the occu­pied ter­ri­to­ries? Why should the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple suf­fer the loss of their homes, lands, liveli­hoods because of the atroc­i­ties com­mit­ted by Hitler’s regime in Ger­many? One les­son we should have learned from the Holo­caust of WWII is that we, the world, can­not stand by and watch while entire pop­u­la­tions of peo­ple are sys­tem­at­i­cally mar­gin­al­ized — first into ghet­tos and then into flat out geno­cide. The Zion­ist move­ment seems to the the root cause of a LOT of unrest in the Mid­dle East.