Israel’s Fauda fallacy

Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel were still ongoing when unexpected videos began to circulate on social media. The first one showed Lior Riaz, actor and screenwriter of the Israeli hit Fauda, broadcast on Netflix, accompanied by Avi Issacharoff, co-creator of the series, taking shelter behind a wall, as rockets explode near them. In a caption that accompanied the footage, Riaz explained that they have rushed to the south of the country to assist security operations undertaken by their ‘brave brothers in arms’. ‘We’re not afraid’, Riaz later explained, despite faces that appeared to say otherwise. Mission accomplished for the TV stars: they later claimed to have helped rescue two Israeli families in Sderot.

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