The “22 years ago” part is shocking to many people, because it has only recently (within the past two or three years) started making headlines. My first roommate was Palestinian, and most of his family was wiped out by Israel. He fled to the US to escape them. His family used to own an olive farm, but it was burned and bulldozed, and the land was given to some Israeli “settlers” instead. He had photos of the farm, and it was a beautiful picturesque scene.

He told me about that like a decade ago, and said it had been going on for at least a decade prior. He even lamented the fact that nobody even knew about it, because the American news was refusing to report on it.