June 3, 2021 Relection

 Today, we first talked about deceptive word phrasing that makes people think of different things than reality. For example, a separation barrier or security fence, when it obviously more of a wall than a fence. These kinds of deception make it seems as the problem is not as bad as it thinks which lessens support from the people outside.   

Most of today's class was used to watch a documentary by John Pilger who made two movies about the Israel Palestine problem. When we do these classes, we often watch it with the whole class and Mr. Paterson stops it for a discussion, but today, we were broken into smaller groups to pause freely and talk when we want to. The movie we watched was called "Palestine is Still the Issue" and follows John Pilger on a report to Israel. 

When watching the movie, one thing I felt was that unlike the news articles we read in class, the damage and violence we saw were not done by bombs and missiles but more by the Israeli people against the Palestinians. For example, when we watched the government office being messed up, I originally thought it was bombed by the Israeli, but was actually done by people coming in and messing up the place. After watching that we were introduced to few people who were Israelis who were actually against what they were doing. This was really surprising to see because I thought that all the people supported what they do because they were doing it because of their religion. I believe that these smaller voices are the things that can make the most difference during these struggling times.