If you're tired of the New York Times-NPR Slant on Israel and the Palestinians, here's good news: documentary filmmaker Pierre Rehov has been challenging prevailing myths since 2001. With six films already to his credit and another on the way, this serious, never boring, and above all else courageous documentarian is starting to make some serious waves.

Last week he screened Hostages of Hatred at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue on the Upper West Side. The film looks at how Arab states, the Palestinian elites and the United Nations have all been instrumental in keeping Palestinians festering in refugee camps since 1948.

It has been a mainstay of Arab propaganda since 1948 that the Jews kicked the Arabs out of Palestine. But Rehov presents Arab newspaper and magazine accounts from both before and after the war of 1948 documenting Arab leadership's many calls to Arab citizens of Palestine to get out before the impending war started.

Those citizens were assured that they would be able to return to their homes within two or three weeks, after the Jews had been defeated. It didn't play that way, of course, and unlike all the other refugees from wars of the 1940s, those who had fled have been kept in squalid, hatred–breeding refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Gaza for more than a half-century.

The UN oil-for-food scandal pales in comparison to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency which was set up ostensibly to serve the Palestinian people but which has more than anything else become a work program for 22,000 permanent UN workers...