'Fauda', an Israeli TV series that has become a Netflix hit for its un...
TEL AVIV - “Fauda”, an Israeli TV series that has become a Netflix hit for its unsparing portrayal of undercover commandos who pose as Palestinians to pursue Hamas guerrillas, promises to dig deeper into the conflict in its third season.
The first two seasons took place mostly in the occupied West Bank. This time, showrunners Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz have set much of it in the Gaza Strip, where the armed Islamist faction rules and has fought three wars against Israel. The show, which has bilingual scripts in Hebrew and Arabic, has been praised internationally for its gritty realism - the New York Times listed it as one of the best shows of 2017 - while being criticized by pro-Palestinian campaigners who describe it as gung-ho, pro-Israeli war propaganda.The creators acknowledge that they come to the conflict from an Israeli perspective: “At the end of the day, Lior and I - we’re both Jews, Israelis, Zionists. We cannot be fair.
“We want to bring people to watch this story and the plot that we are writing. We are not trying to change the world,” Raz said. “We can try to make people to start to talk to each other and to try to understand each other much better.”
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