Rick Steves and Israel

Michele's grandmother watches the shows of Rick Steves on travel.  Michele made me try to watch one show and I was bored to tears.  But she recorded one show about his trip to West Bank.  She suggested we watch it and I expressed disinterest.  I thought he is going to provoke me in the first minute of the show and I will get upset.  So we started to watch and from the first minute he surprised me.  It is a rare show that in fact deviated from the rigid norms of US TV shows on Israel and its occupation and terrorism.  Apparently, he saw the light a few years ago.  You know what was different about the show? He basically showed the Palestinian people as human beings--that is a big no no in US lands.