With the conflict over Israel continuing, I have seen over and over again a lot of ignorance about the complexity of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I have been deeply researching it for well over a decade now.
I must confess that looking back, my interest started when I was a pre-teen dreaming of maybe getting on the bicycle team for the 1976 Olympics as I watched the 1972 Olympics. Live. From Munich. That was the year that Black September, a terrorist organization kidnapped and then murdered eleven athletes from Israel. Walter Cronkite brought that to all of our living rooms live as it happened. There wasn't a lot of capability to spoof video then like there is today. Well, there was, but it took a whole lot more effort and time.
After I visited in 2011, I decided to do the deep dive. And boy, have I learned a lot! Mainly, how much I didn't know.
Recently I wrote an article about the United Nations refugee organizations. This video does more:
