The Israeli government is not a collateral damage
Simma Kadmon argues in an opinion column that the real collateral damage is not the film 'No Other Land' that won an award in Venice, but the Israeli government itself. She describes the government's rapid response to the film—calls to revoke the creators' citizenship, a military advocate general's review, and a Foreign Ministry-funded campaign—as a witch hunt against a film that has not yet been screened in Israel. Kadmon compares this to the lack of an independent investigation into the failures of October 7, and quotes reserve Major General Yaakov Or, who took more than 250 people to see the situation in the hills. She also describes a meeting between Netanyahu and Lapid, where Netanyahu asked Lapid to open the Knesset for a vote on an additional security budget. Lapid refused and proposed cutting coalition funds and payments to Haredi draft dodgers. Kadmon condemns the media's treatment of Lapid, whom she describes as a politician who has gracefully parted ways with MKs and ministers who left, and warns that the change government is on its way to self-destruction.
Simma Kadmon argues in an opinion column that the real collateral damage is not the film 'No Other Land' that won an award in Venice, but the Israeli government itself. She describes the government's rapid response to the film—calls to revoke the creators' citizenship, a military advocate general's review, and a Foreign Ministry-funded campaign—as a witch hunt against a film that has not yet been screened in Israel. Kadmon compares this to the lack of an independent investigation into the failures of October 7, and quotes reserve Major General Yaakov Or, who took more than 250 people to see the situation in the hills. She also describes a meeting between Netanyahu and Lapid, where Netanyahu asked Lapid to open the Knesset for a vote on an additional security budget. Lapid refused and proposed cutting coalition funds and payments to Haredi draft dodgers. Kadmon condemns the media's treatment of Lapid, whom she describes as a politician who has gracefully parted ways with MKs and ministers who left, and warns that the change government is on its way to self-destruction.