We talk a lot here on AN about Israel's war on Palestine and the solutions to end it. And we disagree. But it's all talk. I joined Palestine Action but what good does even that do in the face of such awful suffering.

I've watched way too many documentaries about Palestine. They were all heart-wrenching, not political narratives but the lives of ordinary Palestinians, disaffected IDF soldiers, Gaza doctors with targets on their backs, amputee children. If you're not moved by these, you are not fully human. I know where I stand.

But I'm watching a new Netflix show, called Mo. It was written by a Palestinian. Mo is also the title character. Mo is an undocumented immigrant seeking humanitarian asylum in California along with his mother and brother. His father was tortured and killed.

Through both comedy and pathos, the two-season series manages to present this kind of life. To deport a family like this would require a heart of stone.

Watch and enjoy! Broaden your understanding...

"Mo Amer" is a good stand up comedian also. He has a Netflix stand up comedy special. Check it out.

Yeah Mo is a great show but it's not new.

BTW, Moishe is long for Moses, and your Mexican amigo named Jesus is same for Jesus.

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

BTW, Moishe is long for Moses

Moishe is the Hebrew/Yiddish pronunciation, Moses is was made up by translators.

Moe Howard (Moses Harry Horwitz)

Traditionally in the usa, years ago mo was a short name for maurice.

1 hour ago, novacova said:

Moishe is the Hebrew/Yiddish pronunciation, Moses is was made up by translators.

Google didn't do a good job, even way back then.

Mo Amer's netflix series is a fiction. It is not factual. It presents the writers' perception of the USA and an imagined struggle faced by a person who actually lived a privileged life as the son of a wealthy Kuwaiti oil company engineer. Amer's family moved to the USA after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. They were not poor. He calls himself Palestinian despite being born in Kuwait. The "Palestinian" Arabs were the only group who supported the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As a result Kuwait, turned on them and most had to leave.

Mo Amer was not an an undocumented immigrant, so don't attach anything to the Netflix series other than it being a show written by a guy who doesn't like Israel and is unappreciative of the hospitality that the USA extended his family.

And there are alot of latinos named Moises; Moises Alou, Moises Munoz, Moises Henriques. Ranks right up there with the Israels, like Israel Cortez, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and Israel Broussard. I doubt they will be welcome in Bangladesh. 😁

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah Mo is a great show but it's not new.

BTW, Moishe is long for Moses, and your Mexican amigo named Jesus is same for Jesus.

Last I heard, Jesus was picking strawberries in Watsonville. After ICE, I lost touch with him.

2 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Mo Amer's netflix series is a fiction. It is not factual. It presents the writers' perception of the USA and an imagined struggle.

written by a guy who doesn't like Israel and is unappreciative of the hospitality that the USA extended his family.

And there are alot of latinos named Moises; Moises Alou, Moises Munoz, Moises Henriques. Ranks right up there with the Israels, like Israel Cortez, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and Israel Broussard. I doubt they will be welcome in Bangladesh. 😁

A fiction can also be an accurate portrayal. Are you denying that experience?

What indicates to you Mo Amer doesn't like Israel? In the show, as a Palestinian, he was not chased from his home by Israelis but by other Muslims and Americans.

He's 'unappreciative' by signing up with Netflix? (WTF)

Who cares who's welcome in Bangladesh? There are 3M Arabs living legally in Israel. Luckily, they're not eligible for the draft. There might be some 'friendly fire'.

2 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

A fiction can also be an accurate portrayal. Are you denying that experience?

Denying what experience ? Its fiction.

I worked with a Mo and was short for Mohammed.

Comment with a direct insult toward Islam removed. Tread carefully. @novacova

11 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

A fiction can also be an accurate portrayal. Are you denying that experience?

What indicates to you Mo Amer doesn't like Israel? In the show, as a Palestinian, he was not chased from his home by Israelis but by other Muslims and Americans.

He's 'unappreciative' by signing up with Netflix? (WTF)

Who cares who's welcome in Bangladesh? There are 3M Arabs living legally in Israel. Luckily, they're not eligible for the draft. There might be some 'friendly fire'.

The actual chasing that occurred was the result of the Palestinian arabs betraying their generous Kuwaiti sponsors who allowed them to live for generations in Kuwait and to prosper. They showed their loyalty by collaborating with and supporting the Iraqis. The Kuwaitis wanted the Palestinian arabs gone after the war. The US did not chase his family out of Kuwait. Instead the USA allowed his family to relocate to the USA. If the USA was so awful, why move there? That is why he is an ingrate.

9 hours ago, blaze master said:

Denying what experience ? Its fiction.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. If the fiction is believable as shared experience, then it adds to the conversation.

2 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. If the fiction is believable as shared experience, then it adds to the conversation.

No it does not. It influences gullible people and manipulates the feeble minded. You accept the story as indicative of an undocumented person's struggle, when it is nothing of the sort. It is a tall tale written by a wealthy child of a family that did well in Kuwait but who had to leave because of their own national betrayal. It veers off into the demonization of Israel, a country that had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, nor the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs. It is ungrateful to the USA which gave his family refuge and opportunity.

12 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Last I heard, Jesus was picking strawberries in Watsonville. After ICE, I lost touch with him.

He was arrested for crimes, like so many of his ilk.

33 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

No it does not. It influences gullible people and manipulates the feeble minded. You accept the story as indicative of an undocumented person's struggle, when it is nothing of the sort. It is a tall tale written by a wealthy child of a family that did well in Kuwait but who had to leave because of their own national betrayal. It veers off into the demonization of Israel, a country that had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, nor the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs. It is ungrateful to the USA which gave his family refuge and opportunity.

Bravo! I bolded the important part. Life isnt TV shows.

No TVs in CECOT. Nobody said this was not fiction, but it's realism in the US.

I didn't know migrants owned an ilk.

Silly, utterly silly.

On 1/10/2026 at 8:08 AM, unblocktheplanet said:

We talk a lot here on AN about Israel's war on Palestine and the solutions to end it. And we disagree. But it's all talk. I joined Palestine Action but what good does even that do in the face of such awful suffering.

I've watched way too many documentaries about Palestine. They were all heart-wrenching, not political narratives but the lives of ordinary Palestinians, disaffected IDF soldiers, Gaza doctors with targets on their backs, amputee children. If you're not moved by these, you are not fully human. I know where I stand.

But I'm watching a new Netflix show, called Mo. It was written by a Palestinian. Mo is also the title character. Mo is an undocumented immigrant seeking humanitarian asylum in California along with his mother and brother. His father was tortured and killed.

Through both com edy and pathos, the two-season series manages to present this kind of life. To deport a family like this would require a heart of stone.

Watch and enjoy! Broaden your understanding...

so when guys over stay their visa in Thailand by years or decades you're ok with that? Or is it just the US that shouldn't enforce their immigration laws?

I feel for them, just like I feel bad for young kid that drinks and drives and either gets caught or hurts someone, but there are laws and they need to enforced.

Mo has two seasons. I finished the final episode last night.

Some of the series' situations are preposterous but this last is not for laughs.

This is the reality Palestinians in the West Bank face every day. Are you all right with that?

Another scene really hit me. I have attended two Jewish weddings. They drink (sometimes smoke joints outside).

What struck me was the scene of the Muslim wedding dance. It was EXACTLY what I saw in Jewish weddings!

These people belong together, not killing each other! Another thing that struck me (if true) is that the Palestinians depicted did not seem like any kind of fanatics (short of the delusion of religion), Certainly, all peoples, even Palestinians, just want peaceful lives.

However, 82% of Israelis polled support the war on Gaza.iptionovt brainwashing is, of course, employed to quell resistance to military conscription. "47% agreed that the IDF, when conquering a city, should "kill all its inhabitants" (referencing the biblical conquest of Jericho)." Wow. Just wow. 47%...

If polling is an accurate benchmark, 41% of Palestinians support Hamas as a political party. 60% are satisfied with Hamas conduct in the war. I think we need to ask why Palestinians support Hamas over al-Fatah or the Palestinian Authority. "Around half of Palestinians believe the October 7 attack was 'correct' and support the continuation of armed struggle as a path to a Palestinian state."

Both sides seem to be brainwashed warmongers! 

 I think each and every case should be viewed individually and with compassion. Is there a man among us who hasn't filed their 90-day on the last day?

Yes, I think the US & Canada can absorb a nearly limitless number of immigrants. Perhaps the deportations are merely the bills preparing the sheep for the AI fleecing.

Pedantic time. I though Md. was short for Mohammad (and its various iterations)

21 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

Pedantic time. I though Md. was short for Mohammad (and its various iterations)

I have seen Md. and also Mhd. I think Mo just wanted to stand out from the crowd, and not ber John Smith, PBUH! Or maybe he just liked The Three Stooges! Great Stooge museum in PA I went to with my son.