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Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary
The New York Times ^ | Sept. 18, 2026 | Michelle Goldberg

Posted on 09/22/2026 12:30:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Israel is treating the new documentary “NAZA,” by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, less like bad publicity than a national security crisis.

Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation that would let the state strip Abraham and Szor of their citizenship. Israel’s culture minister has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate them for treason. Activists and staff members from the far-right party of Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir protested outside Szor’s parents’ house, where a speaker called for Abraham and Szor to be executed and their families’ homes demolished, as often happens to the homes of Palestinians.

The official calls for persecution of Abraham and Szor, who previously made the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” with two Palestinian filmmakers, seem strategically unwise, since they’re spurring heightened interest in “NAZA.” A press screening I went to on Wednesday, at New York’s 268-seat Walter Reade Theater, was at capacity, and I was told to arrive a half-hour early to get a seat. This is, in my experience, very unusual for documentaries of any sort, even those that, like “NAZA,” win the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

After seeing it, I can understand why Israel finds it so threatening. Its subjects described factory-scale targeting, enabled by artificial intelligence, in which little effort was made to avoid enormous numbers of civilian casualties. “The goal was quantity, not quality,” said one of the speakers. According to the sources in the film, the military chose to target...

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: callingsnowblack; demedia; enazibussozialist; michellegoldberg; naza; nazitrashonfr; nytantisemitism; officialdemnarrative; walterdurantytimes

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To: ComputerGuy

Hymie Town? Seriously? I bet the Holocaust meant nothing to you either. Golda Meir, the PM of Israel told Joe Biden that their “Secret Weapon” is that they have no where else to go. I bet if you had a few missiles shot up your butt you might understand why they fight so hard to survive.


21 posted on 09/22/2026 1:38:31 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Hooray for Pallywood!”


22 posted on 09/22/2026 1:48:26 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Fledermaus
NYT just hate Jooos

You can criticize Great Britain without being a Limey-hater, you can criticize France without being a Frog-hater, you can criticize Germany without being a Kraut-hater, you can criticize America without being a Yank-hater, you can criticize Australia without being a Kiwi-hater, you can criticize Belgium without being a Waffle-hater, you can criticize Canada without being a Hoser-hater, but if you criticize Israel you are an antisemitic Nazi.

23 posted on 09/22/2026 1:53:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: Eli Kopter
Golda Meir, the PM of Israel told Joe Biden that their “Secret Weapon” is that they have no where else to go.

There are approximately 8.5 million to 8.6 million Jews living in the diaspora (outside Israel) compared to about 7.2 million living in Israel.

24 posted on 09/22/2026 2:00:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

None of those you listed other than Israel had over 6 million murdered by Nazis.


25 posted on 09/22/2026 2:05:43 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: Fledermaus
None of those you listed other than Israel had over 6 million murdered by Nazis.

Millions of other ethnic groups were murdered by the Nazis.

Shouldn't they get special "no-crticism allowed" status too?

26 posted on 09/22/2026 2:11:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t see how civilian deaths can be avoided when an enemy consistently uses them as shields.


27 posted on 09/22/2026 2:16:11 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Eli Kopter

Simmer down, n00b.


28 posted on 09/22/2026 2:17:45 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They used to have live camera feeds looking into Gaza. They dropped thousands of pamphlets from planes warning the citizens of what was coming. There were so many it looked like it was snowing.


29 posted on 09/22/2026 2:22:45 PM PDT by roving
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“factory-scale targeting, enabled by artificial intelligence”

A 2,000lb. bomb might cost $20,000 plus $10,000 for factory to target delivery.

Israel knows there is a possibility of not getting more.

The bombs are carefully used.


30 posted on 09/22/2026 2:49:05 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Hamas members (including low-level ones) were often targeted at home at night rather than during the day because it was easier, even though this killed families and neighbors.”

“One account describes hacking a 12-year-old girl’s phone to determine when her father arrived home, then ordering a strike that killed her.”

Israel aims to kill off every last member of HAMAS. Each member should expect a bullet or bomb. Thousands of Israelis work full-time to hunt them down.

Israel will have peace or pieces.


31 posted on 09/22/2026 3:03:09 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: roving

I remember that.

1200 people on Oct. 7 weren’t permitted the kindness of any ‘warning’.


32 posted on 09/22/2026 3:07:55 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I WISH Israel was targeting the so-called Gaza "civilians" like they claim.

The children who were dancing in the streets of Gaza on 9/11 grew up to be the perpetrators of October 7th. Israel should have exterminated those cockroaches in 2001.

33 posted on 09/22/2026 3:09:19 PM PDT by 10mm
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The "style" of journalism has drastically changed since the Obama administration. It used to be that the headline summarized the key fact of a story, and the rest of the article filled in the gaps.

Now, all journalism is propaganda, and the headline is the subliminal hook.

Instead of telling me anything about the article that I'm about to read, this headline begins with the assertion (not assumption) that Israel is *fearing" what's about to be reported - revealed even - by these reporters.

The insinuation is that we're supposed to assume that what's about to follow is settled fact.

Don't fall for it.

-PJ

34 posted on 09/22/2026 3:19:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: bray

Wow!
I didn’t know that. Thanks

I knew the ny slimes covered up the holocaust


35 posted on 09/22/2026 3:31:40 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity; bray; Merrick

No, it’s Time magazine that has the Man of the Year (Person of the Year), not the New York Times.


36 posted on 09/22/2026 3:46:05 PM PDT by x
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not 6 million for one group. And not put in camps or burned in ovens.

If so, name them and where and how?

You just hate Israel. Many of your posts make that clear.


37 posted on 09/22/2026 4:00:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: Merrick

The NYT knew about the Ghettos and concentration camps and still made Hitler the Man of the Year. So did Joe Kennedy since they were all big communists.


38 posted on 09/22/2026 4:16:14 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: Fledermaus

You proved my point.


39 posted on 09/22/2026 4:21:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The right of Democrats to embezzle elections shall not be infringed. )
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To: dfwgator

Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens )


40 posted on 09/22/2026 4:22:53 PM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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