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This season, which focuses on tracking down Hamas operatives to stop another catastrophic attack on Israel, speaks directly to a post-October 7 Israeli psyche that is consumed by revenge fantasies. It dramatizes the silent ethos that even most pro-Israeli parties won\u2019t say out loud: \u201cHamas started this. Now people are dying; that\u2019s war. And because there\u2019s no such thing as an innocent Palestinian, their people are being collectively punished\u2014however unfortunate that result may be.\u201d In a television interview, Israeli actor Sarai Givaty (who is not in Fauda<\/em>) appeared to justify the killing of children in Gaza by saying<\/a> that if Israel didn\u2019t kill those children, they would grow up to be terrorists.<\/p>\n Naza<\/em> is hitting a nerve not just because it exposes the IDF\u2019s alleged war crimes in a society that reveres its military\u2014and where serving in it is compulsory\u2014but because the film puts a spotlight on Unit 8200, the Israeli military\u2019s elite intelligence unit where many of its sources served. These are not some \u201crogue commanders\u201d or \u201ca few rotten apples,\u201d says Matar. \u201cThese are the elite of society. They are the ones who go on to found start-ups.\u201d<\/p>\n