Think About Innocent Palestine When you Watch Louis Theroux's 'The Settlers'

We're constantly being fed the crushing 'after' image, but the 'before' of Palestine is just as present in its painful absence | and a personal note

As if from another life, I know and have met many of the people Louis Theroux interviews in his excellent documentary about Israel’s religious right in the occupied Palestinian territories. The rabbis, the activists, and the streets and hills; I have been there. I have witnessed it firsthand, and many years before, I was also a soldier in Hebron and Gaz…