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Israel, Bad Guy by the numbers


Just the first episode and the antagonist alone has supposedly killed 100+ Israelis? That's almost a tenth of the total Israelis killed by Palestinians since 2000.

I know it's just the first episode but I doubt they will meantion the 2000+ children alone Israelis have killed 2000. I'd post the other troubling statistics, but you'd be surprised at what gets you labeled as an anti-Semitic these days.

I know this is entertainment and it's in their interest to portray Israel as David, rather than Goliath. But it doesn't sit well with me if it continues on like this.

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Uh, your bias is showing. Here's an excerpt from a PRI interview with a Palestinian man (Mohammad Abumazen, 26; lives in Ramallah, in the West Bank)

For him, the conflict, tension and violence are all around.

He had never seen Fauda, but when I told him about the show, he knew exactly what it was about and he was curious. We decided to watch it together.

Fidgeting with excitement, Mohammad would shift from the edge of the couch, lean back, and skootch up to the edge again to get closer to the laptop screen. We blew through four episodes in one sitting.

Afterwards, I asked him: What do you think about a show like this that’s Israeli made?

“Wait, it's Israeli? It's not Palestinian?” He's stunned.

He says he has never seen anything like it on Israeli TV, “Because they were focusing on showing the world that we are terrorists, we are, like, carrying the guns [and] the weapons,” he explains.

Fauda, Mohammad says, makes you care about the Palestinians: You see innocent people getting killed, like a young groom who gets shot on his wedding night in a failed sting to catch his brother — a suspected terrorist. The scene was intense and heart-wrenching, as the newly widowed bride shrieked with horror. She later went on to blow up an Israeli bar. Those scenes, he says, are pretty true to reality.

Even more interesting to Mohammad is that he’s used to seeing Israelis portrayed on TV as unconditional heroes — but that’s not the case in Fauda. “Like, a wife cheating on her husband,” he recalls – a depiction that really surprised Mohammad, given it was the main character’s wife who was being unfaithful. “[I also saw] a soldier, he's fighting not because of Israel but because this is his duty or something. It’s like a job for them.”

“It's something really not as I expected. Really, it changed many things in my mind towards the Israelis and the way they are thinking,” he adds.


https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-08/hit-tv-show-fauda-highlights-chaos-israeli-palestinian-divide

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It does portray the Israelis and the Palestinians as what they are: flawed human beings. However given my bias or sympathies I don't really have much for the members/followers of Hamas.
Based on what I know about Israel/Palestinians/Muslims in that region (which can't be covered completely in this show) I can only sympathize more with the Israelis.
I can relate to them more than I can to their hostile Arab neighbors whose regard for human rights/democracy is abysmal.
Especially in comparison to the nation of Israel which is a far more developed/tolerant society. This is something that Westerners should take into account next time they develop any sympathies for a group like Hamas or similar groups.
The very fact that gays/lesbians are tolerated in Israel as opposed to what they would recieve in ohter countries in that region should be a revealing lesson.
Western standards of tolerance doesn't exist in your Islamic/Arab countries.

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