Thread by @dikgaj

1) This series has been a little controversial (historical details) but I think it captures much of what we know. What is interesting is what it shows inside the minds of current Israeli intelligentsia. All those fretting abt Indian aantels shd watch this.

2) for those not so familiar with Israel's internal dramas, the scriptwriters r trying their best to be what we call "progressive", choosing to focus on a "class"-struggle, homegrown insurgents seeking social justice (Panthers), Ash-Seph contests in backdrop of Yom-Kippur war.

3) For me, scriptwriters political preferences (even if it was part of character building for Meni) wr clear when Meni berates his pal Moshe Dayan's alleged thinking with p****, and also berates the effing "Zionists". Hindus will identify parallels in Bolly or Indian media.

4)But I wd also like to pt out that, Meni is doing this berating after fighting in the founding wars, and later. He did not diss the founding of his nationhood based on his ethnicity/community. He was a soldier first then a journo. That wd be a difference with Indian parallels.

5) Dafna the "elite" gal, ditches his elite BF, falls for lowly Yaoav - that will be in line with Bolly and progressive narrative. (Elite boy falling for lowly gal wd be patrairachal - making "capturing" the woman of the politically incorrect the supreme goal of progressiveness)

6) But what marks out the narrative sequence is the determination to wage a ruthless war of defence to protect their society, their beliefs, their factional fights submerged in the face of an implacable religiously driven enemy - who torture and kill at every opportunity.

7) There are many things in the series that our future Hindu vanguard may find interesting - even if the biggest thing going for these boys and girls was the involvement of a state in the back, however caught napping. Hindus will have no state or mil support, but hostility.

8) the Yom Kippur battles being represented here is something that Hindus might hope as a best case scenario. Israeli states unpreparedness wd be parallel for Indian states hostility towards Hindu commons and withholding of arms/mil support leaving them to face an unequal war.

9) but this is a good representation of war and you shd watch it. it will have to be faced, fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, wives and mothers. Point to end with, Meni turns an orthodox Rabbi - losing his son, who visits him as a disembodied "soul". This shd be poignant.

10) unlike his never-fought Indian aantel counterparts erupting on secularism, Meni's turn to orthodoxy cd be superficially explained away as "anti-war" and frm guilt on son - but note how scriptwriters subconscious identification with religious nationhood makes Meni a rabbi.

11) so this is where even the scriptwriters of 'valley of tears" differ from Indian aantels. That means future vanguard of the Hindu will need to imbibe that attitude, and rather be scriptwriters of "valley of tears" than of kidnapped girl taking up arms for her kidnapper jihadi.