The writers of hit Netflix drama “Fauda” scrapped a storyline last year involving Hamas attacking Israel and taking over a kibbutz – because they thought the idea was too outlandish.
“We argued about it, and I remember saying, ‘Guys, what are the chances that dozens of terrorists will reach the border and the IDF will have no clue about it, that they won’t be shot down? ‘ ” co-creator Avi Issacharoff recently recalled to Jewish News. “‘They’ll be killed before they get close, sure.”
Series co-creator Lior Raz had proposed a then-unimaginable plot — in which Palestinian terrorists breach the Gaza border and hold an entire kibbutz hostage — while in the process of helping write the fifth season.
But Issacharoff rejected the idea, telling other writers that the Israel Defense Forces would not allow Hamas to get that far into the country.
Unfortunately, what Issacharoff thought was unthinkable has happened – and on a much larger scale – with Hamas attacking Israel on October 7 and killing more than 1,200 people and taking 240 more hostages. The sneak attack sparked an ongoing conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and threatened to turn into World War III.
“Fauda” series star and co-creator Lior Raz (right) pitched last year’s plotline in which Hamas attacked Israel. Courtesy of Netflix The look was rejected by the series’ co-creator as too outlandish. Channel 13
Issacharoff, also a seasoned Israeli journalist, said the October 7 attacks left him shocked, and now, like many others in the Jewish state, he wonders why his leadership failed to stop the Hamas attack despite numerous warning signs.
“There are signs that they planned this. Israeli intelligence was told they planned it a year ago,” he said, referring to reports that Jewish officials dismissed the Hamas plan as “completely imaginative” and impossible to implement.
Issacharoff said he believed that the IDF failed to take the warning seriously because the military’s focus was on containing Hamas rather than taking an active role in destroying the terrorist group.
Raz (left) has rejected his plot twists that series co-creator Avi Issacharoff (right) couldn’t think of. AFP via Getty Images
“If you look at Hamas through a Western logical point of view, then it is stupid what they are doing, knowing that if they try to kill five soldiers or 50 soldiers then we will try to destroy them, kill them all,” he told the Jewish News. “And then they killed 1,200 people, kidnapped 240.”
The creator of “Fauda” said the attack left Israelis in a collective “post-traumatic national phenomenon,” with every citizen having contact with at least one person killed or kidnapped on or since Oct. 7.
The “Fauda” team lost Matan Meir, a publisher, in November when he was killed during fighting against Hamas in Gaza. “Fauda” star Idan Amedi was also injured in combat while deployed across the border.
In the wake of terrorist attacks and the ongoing war in Gaza, Issacharoff stated that the hit show could not continue as usual, with the writers wanting to make a major overhaul in the fifth season to reflect the situation in Israel.
To that end, Issacharoff worries about the global perception of the war, slamming those who criticize Israel as ignorant of the atrocities that befell the Jewish state.
“Fauda” actor and real-life IDF soldier Idan Amedi was released from hospital last month after being wounded in Gaza. AP
“They say we deserve it,” he said of the opposition. “They try and contextualize the slaughter of innocent people. They are very stupid; they use words like colonialism. But Israel hasn’t been in Gaza since 2005. … I can’t get over how ignorant these people are.
“At the end of the day, you can’t see it as anything more than antisemitism. It is pure antisemitism,” he said of critics of Israel.
“So excuse my French, but blame them,” says the writer – whose plot involves a top Israeli agent who “comes out of retirement to hunt down a Palestinian fighter he thinks he’s going to kill, setting off a chaotic chain of events,” according to Netflix.
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