Mark Ruffalo: “Palestine ‘36 is an amazing piece of filmmaking”

**So much of current Middle East problems relate to British colonialism,** even including an Iran that hates the US. **We overthrew their democracy in order to help British Petroleum (BP).**

**The rest of the Middle East was carved up by Britain and France after WWI,** mostly going to the former. The borders white empires cut without regard to where ethnic groups lived caused a lot of instability later on. (It partly explains Pakistan’s constant involvement in Afghanistan for decades, since most of the Pashtuns that are the largest ethnic group in the latter live in the former. Likewise Shiite Iran and Iraq.)

Read A Peace to End all Peace (dry history) and All the Shah’s Men (fast read).

Billy Howle and Kamel El Basha should get oscar nominations

I love how vocal he is!