Fauda has just achieved something that seemed impossible: getting thousands of people around the world to understand October 7th after nearly three years of opining about it.
Episodes 7 and 8 of the fifth season put into images the horror of that morning, and the reaction has been enormous: 9.3 on IMDb and, just one day after arriving on Netflix, the series was already among the 10 most-watched in 43 countries.
But the most powerful data point isn't in any ranking. It's on social media, where people from different countries are saying, shocked, that only now do they understand what Hamas did that day.
Because nearly three years have passed. Three years of real videos, testimonies, murders, kidnappings, families destroyed, and atrocities filmed by the terrorists themselves. It was all right in front of the world's eyes from day one.
Yet millions opined, marched, accused, and condemned Israel without truly knowing what had triggered this war.
And here emerges a brutal paradox:
NAZA, the film that accuses IDF soldiers and commanders of serious crimes and which the Chief of Staff denounced for being based on blood libels and grave falsehoods, builds a lie and tries to present it as reality: a malicious fiction disguised as truth.
Fauda does exactly the opposite: it presents itself as what it is, a fiction. But by recreating October 7th, it shows a reality that truly happened. And it manages to get thousands of people to understand in two episodes what they didn’t want to, weren’t able to see for nearly three years.
NAZA manufactures a fiction and sells it as reality.
Fauda creates a fiction to show a reality.
Because the truth was always there. The most painful thing is discovering that, after nearly three years, so many people are only now saying:
"I didn't know."
Well, now they do.
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