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"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.〔(Frontline: Israel's Next War: An Interview with Dan Setton )〕 It was Setton's second documentary film for PBS: his previous film for them, "Shattered Dreams of Peace,"〔(Frontline: Shattered Dreams of Peace, the Road from Oslo )〕 won him a Peabody Award.〔(Peabody Awards ).〕 ==The film== 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.〔(Time Warner ).〕 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〔(G.J. Church et al., "When Fury Rules", Time, March 7, 1994 )〕 and the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir the following year.〔(BBC ) On This Day.〕 Two groups associated with these events, Kach and Kahane Chai were declared terrorist organizations by the Israeli and U.S. governments respectively.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kach and Kahane Chai ).〕 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. During the film, Setton interviews the two perpetrators, Shlomo Dvir and Yarden Morag, in prison, and visits the settlement of Bat Ayin, where they lived.〔(Frontline: Israel's Next War. )〕 Dvir admits to the camera that it was his idea, saying, "Whoever gets hurt gets hurt."〔 These interviews serve as a hook, leading Setton to various other settlers, who supported Dvir and Morag. Some are very explicit about the motivations for the attack: "Revenge," says Noam Federman, "is an important value. The Talmud says that it is one of the greatest things. Revenge is great."〔(Frontline: Israel's Next War: Transcript )〕 He believes that revenge is the motive for people like Yitzhak Paz,〔This is the spelling of the name as given in the transcript of the film (here ). Note that in the interview with Setton (here ), the name is given as Yitshak Pass.〕 formerly of the Jewish settlement in Hebron, whose 10-month-old daughter Shalhevet was killed by a sniper while he and his wife were walking with her in the street.〔 Paz's arrest for the possession of explosives helped the police to unravel the case against Dvir and Morag.〔 As the film unfolds, however, Setton discovers that the extremists' motives extend far beyond acts of personal revenge against the Palestinians. Shmuel Ben Yishai, a follower of Meir Kahane now living in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, is no less antagonistic toward the State of Israel in its current configuration: "The Israeli secular entity has to be destroyed," he says. "God can't reveal himself until it's all wiped out. As long as the state of Israel stays as it is, there will be no redemption."〔 An Israeli editorial on the series noted that "Words like 'redemption,' 'sanctify,' and 'revenge' marble the vocabulary of these people."〔Sam Allis. "Frontline takes an unsettling look at extremist Israeli settlers,' in the ''Jerusalem Post'', April 5, 2005.〕 On the other hand, the extremists believe that this will one day change. Mike Guzovsky says: "I think the day will come when the Secret Service and the government will look for Jews who are willing to go into the Arab villages and kick them out, kill them …"〔This appears in the English-language transcript cited above and is quoted in the aforementioned article in the ''Jerusalem Post'', however, based on a careful audit of the original Hebrew spoken by Guzovsky, it seems that he did not actually say "kick them out, kill them," but rather תדאג שהם לא יצאו משם, i.e., "make sure that they don't leave."〕 During the film, Setton also speaks with the Israeli authorities under whose tenure the events occurred. Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet at the time, tells him that, " Jewish terror is liable to create a serious strategic threat that will turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a conflict between 13 million Jews and a billion Muslims all over the world."〔 Yitzhak Dar, the head of the Jewish section of the Shin Bet, draws a distinction between believers and activists: "As long as they're only thinking it, as long as they're only talking about it, we can live with it. When they try to put it into action, through the murder of the prime minister, through the murder of Arabs, through the massacre at the Hebron mosque, it's the beginning of the end of a nation that can defend itself."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Israel's Next War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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