In the action-thriller series Fauda (meaning “chaos,” from the same root as “intifada”), we see this unit at work in all its grittiness, intensity and sometimes shocking violence. Hamas officials told Issacharoff that because the series doesn’t soft-pedal episodic unnecessary Israeli aggression, they are amazed Israelis like Fauda. Conversely he hears from Israeli right-wingers who confess Fauda has for the first time made them feel compassion for Palestinians. In this series undercover Arabic-speaking Jews easily “become” Palestinian Arabs, and undercover Hebrew-speaking Palestinians “become” Jews. Fauda is a tale of brotherly enmity that paradoxically suggests a glimmer of hope for brotherly peace.

Source: National Post April 23, 2019 15:24 UTC