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i don't know what you really expect from the BBC, by their standards this is quite a damning exposition. it's not really meant to be a "critique of Israel", just to show the truth of settlers and what they are like, their mindset which i think it does a decent job of. of course they have to get the usual October 7th spiel out of the way near the start but it mostly moves on from both sidesing after that imo. i don't think it's fair to say Theroux tries to both sides things, he obviously does skirt around using certain language but he repeatedly points out settlers' hypocrisy, double standards and contradictions throughout the piece. he also asks a settler if he is from brooklyn which is hilarious.
I expect the BBC to call a spade a spade no more no less. I got the both sides argument thing from him asking the Palestinian activist in Hebron whether the Israeli military doesn’t have a point. I’m probably over sensitive at this point but that he even asked that guy that pissed me off. The end was a perfect allegory for how Isreal behaves.