The film Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land was quite interesting and refreshing to me. Interesting because I long to know and understand the problems in the middle east. Refreshing because during the Bush administration, I followed what was going on enough to gather a small understanding, but not a sufficient one, of the problems in the Mid East. I so look forward to this class because it is about time that I learn about the middle east. I become so overwhelmed when I hear of events that occur in Iraq, or Afghanistan because It normally is information that is apart of a whole series of events that I either don't know about, or that I have a vague understanding of. As to the film itself, I liked and disliked its content. I like the way it argued that Israeli media, when covered in the U.S, only reflects the pro Israel aspect of whatever is being portrayed, but the Arab or Palestinian aspect is always portrayed in a negative light. I like the strong support for that argument, also the way in which it revealed, in a sense, the true Israel which we don't see in the media and the equally devastated palestinians. What I disliked was the one sidedness of the film. I am a person who likes to hear both sides of the story, hence my dislike. My dislike also came about because I admire what the Bush administration did for Iraq, even though the issues surrounding it were and continue to be hotly debated. I like the idea of a palestinian state, and I do believe that it will come forth. The overthrow of Saddam Hussein was imperative to a successful Palestine. I would like to say however, that I fully understand why another person would disagree with my liking of the Bush administration's Iraq policies. In candor, I fully look forward to building up to the utter disorder of the Middle East of today from a historian's perspective, and the film "shook things up" in my mind, and got me to think and wonder about what has been going on.