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Mehdi Hasan

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

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A scene from NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Photograph: NAZA/The Guardian

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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