Open this photo in gallery: Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City. The World Food Programme has stated that nearly 470,000 people in Gaza are enduring famine-like conditions.Mahmoud Issa/Reuters David Paperny is a Vancouver-based film and television producer and director. In the winter of 1975, I went to work on a kibbutz. I was 17 years old. The work in the fish ponds was not glamorous: I stood for hours in a large, stinky pool of muddy water hauling spiny St. Peter’s fish out into a tank for export. But the trip was an ideological...