Earlier this year, I posted about Turkey recalling their ambassador to Israel over a Israel's reactions to a Turkish television show. The show, "Farewell," depicts the brutality of the IDF during the invasion of Gaza through a love story between the lead characters.
Well, that controversial prime-time television show is set to be aired starting Saturday, according to a report from al-Arabiya.
Several scenes in the series depict the IDF using firearms against unarmed Palestinians whose only weapon is rocks. A soldier is seen kicking the body of a dead Palestinian boy while his mother runs towards him in tears. Another soldier shoots a Palestinian girl who is seen smiling right before she receives a bullet in her.
And here's what Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman had to say on the matter:
"Broadcasting this series is a serious case of state-sponsored incitement,” said Lieberman. “Such a series, which doesn’t even have a weak connection to reality, and which presents the IDF's soldiers as murderers of innocent children, is unworthy of being broadcast in enemy states, let alone in a country which has full diplomatic relations with Israel.”
Of course, Avigdor Lieberman himself doesn't even have a weak connection to reality. And if anybody knows about state-sponsored incitement...
Read the full report at al-Arabiya.
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