Sometimes I think we are spoilt with TV in the UK.
An ex-CIA man who can speak Arabic and has lost friends to bombers goes to meet the families of the most celebrated suicide bombers in Palestine. He also meets ex heads of the IDF and the architect of "the wall".
I missed the first in this series and picked it up late. Incredible documentary from the guy. Surreal. He goes to a celebration of a "martyr" attended by his father, culminating in everone watching a film of the guy blowing himself up. Then they queue up to hug the father.
Hundreds of thousands of people celebrating bus bomings, kids carrying models of the buses. Everything interspersed with images of the carnage. Children shaking hands with future martyrs. IDF blowing up the families houses.
At the end the guy speaks to a typical looking Israeli. No one in particular.
"How close did he come to you?" asks the CIA man siting on a bench next to the guy.
The guy leans across him.
"This close".
The guy apparently survived Asif Hanif's martyrdom, which killed three people and wounded 60 others because the blast threw him clear.
persian students debate the program here
spiked politics here
1 comment:
Seems to fit with the "death cult" label that one of your commenters used.
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