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I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points | Mehdi Hasan

The Guardian UK · 16 October 2026 at 13:00

I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points | Mehdi Hasan

The film’s testimonies from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers expose years of baseless propaganda.

Don’t take my word – take theirs I watched the extraordinary new Guardian-produced documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor the other night, and I have struggled to stop thinking about it ever since.

The film’s title comes from a Hebrew military term for collateral damage, and it consists of eye-opening interviews with two dozen Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers sitting in darkness, often on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, their voices “digitally altered to disguise their identities”.

At one point, Abraham asks one of the soldiers a remarkably blunt question.

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I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points | Mehdi Hasan

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