Israel's Next War
| Israel's Next War | |
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| Directed by | Dan Setton |
| Produced by | Dan Setton |
| Written by | Dan Setton Abat Tal-Shir Tzadok Yecheskeli |
| Starring | Shlomo Dvir Yarden Morag Will Lyman (narrator) |
| Music by | Dani Reichental |
| Cinematography | Gil Mesuman |
| Edited by | Tali Halter-Shenkar |
| Distributed by | Spiegel TV, Germany |
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Release date
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5 April 2005 |
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Running time
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55" (US) 2 x 52" (ISR) |
| Country |
Israel United States |
| Language | English, Hebrew |
"Israel's Next War" is an episode of the PBS series Frontline that aired on 5 April 2005. The episode, by Israeli director Dan Setton, investigated the rise of the religious right in Israel and the role it could play as a "spoiler" in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. It was Setton's second documentary film for PBS: his previous film for them, "Shattered Dreams of Peace," won him a Peabody Award.
Setton explains that the inspiration for his project came from his previous film, In the Name of God (HBO), an investigation of fundamentalist Islam and suicide bombers, for which he received an Emmy Award. Having investigated radical religion in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and South Lebanon, Setton decided to take his investigation closer to home and investigate how rightwing religious fundamentalism was impacting Orthodox Jews in Israel. The phenomenon of the radical right had already made an enormous impact on Israeli society following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994 by Baruch Goldstein and the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir the following year. Two groups associated with these events, Kach and Kahane Chai were declared terrorist organizations by the Israeli and U.S. governments respectively. While Setton found that the activist core of these groups was small, some 30 percent of Israelis identified with their ideology of establishing an exclusively Jewish state. To better understand the phenomenon, he decided to investigate a lesser-known incident that had failed—a plot to bomb a Palestinian girls' school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of At-Tur.
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