The former director general of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs* called it “waging a holistic campaign against the other side. Take him out of his comfort zone. Make him be on the defensive.”13 Argumentum ad hominem. “You discredit the messenger as a way of discrediting the message” has long been an Israeli mantra.14 For our plight cannot be “discredited,” but our characters can be. They turn us into criminals of thought, guilty of our rage and grudges, of our natural responses to brutalization. They test our answers against the viewer’s inherent bias. The bombs raining down on the
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