Hanoch Daum speaks out about hilltop youth
Hanoch Daum's Keshet series 'Life Is a Difficult Age' dedicates its Tuesday night episode to the issue of hilltop youth who have been brutalizing Palestinians in the West Bank. Daum, a settler himself, makes an earnest speech condemning the masked terrorists as evil and not representative of the settlement movement. The episode shows the youths stealing a donkey, hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at an IDF patrol, and attacking Palestinian villagers. The columnist wishes Daum had gone further in portraying the violence and emphasized the lack of arrests.
Hanoch Daum's Keshet series 'Life Is a Difficult Age' devoted its Tuesday night episode to the issue of hilltop youth who have been brutalizing and killing Palestinians in the West Bank. The show is generally about how ordinary Daum's life in the West Bank is, but this week was very different. The setup involves Daum's buddy Rafi learning that his son plans to spend the night on a West Bank farm with no adults around. They go to bring him home and encounter hilltop youth who call them Nazis, laugh about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, call Itamar Ben-Gvir a leftist, and disparage the army. Daum recognizes a donkey they have stolen from local Palestinians and learns they have carried out a pogrom on an Arab village. The youths cover their faces and hurl stones and Molotov cocktails at an IDF patrol. Daum makes an earnest speech to the camera calling the masked terrorists evil and stating they do not represent the settlement movement. The columnist wishes Daum had gone further in portraying the violence and emphasized the lack of arrests by authorities.