An Israeli Shin Bet member disguises himself before carrying out an assassination operation in a Jenin hospital in the West Bank (social media sites)

Did Israeli reserve officer Matan Meir imagine himself entering Gaza in a scene that was a little similar to the scenes of the series “Fauda,” which he helped produce?

Matan was killed in Gaza in the end, in a real scene this time that is the result of a massive chaos that struck Israel, not at all similar to the chaos that it chose to draw for itself in the famous “Netflix” series of the same name.

The series, which depicts the daily life of an undercover unit, can be said to have done justice, even if just a little, to those referred to as “Palestinian terrorists,” and showed them in the form of human beings (like them!), although the upper hand was always given to Doron, the superhero in the unit.

Doron always triumphs in the end over the "terrorist" Ibrahim Hamed, who collapses dead, his "efforts having failed."

Then came the "Al-Aqsa Flood" and it became clear that Doron did not come to save the towns surrounding Gaza, as Israeli journalist Shani Litman wrote 5 days after the attack.

The shock of October 7 must have removed a little of the veil that Israel chose - almost voluntarily - to place over its eyes, until it was blinded from seeing the fighters of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" training for months to penetrate the separation wall, in full view of the towers. Monitoring.

"Chaos" in Jenin

The Israeli press is full of articles about the depths of self-hypnosis into which Israel has chosen to enter for decades.

But the assassination of 3 Palestinian resistance members inside a Jenin hospital in the occupied West Bank last week showed that the mentality of the famous series still controls an influential part of the Israeli security services, even as it acknowledges its responsibility for the defeat of October 7.

A bed on which one of the three Palestinian resistance fighters who were assassinated by members of the Israeli Shin Bet was lying (Reuters)

Even by the standards of the inflated Israeli ego of the period before the 7th of October, it seemed astonishing in the arrogance that came after it when the Shin Bet General Security Service published on its official page on Instagram - as a means of propaganda and to encourage people to join it - pictures of Arabists disguised as Palestinians. before the operation.

The post was accompanied by a comment saying: “You saw the end of the movie... (but) this is what the scene looked like before we went out this week in an operation in the heart of Jenin to thwart terrorists who planned to carry out attacks against Israel.” The comment concluded with an invitation to join him: “Do you want to participate in the next operation? To send a CV, click on the link.

The pictures looked like a scene from “Chaos,” which would have been complete if shots had been added to it showing the sense of humor among the series’ heroes as they disguised themselves in preparation for the operation, as if they were approaching a staged scene (within a staged scene).

"Haven't you learned?"

Many comments from Israelis on the publication of the photos showed a longing for a superhero to avenge an arrogant ego that was deeply wounded on October 7.

There was a lot of “You are the best,” “There are people we can rely on,” and “You are the most professional in the world,” and there were also strong criticisms that were combined with one question: “Why are you publishing this?”

An Israeli Shin Bet member disguised himself as an Arab before storming a Jenin hospital to carry out an assassination (social media sites)

A commentator by the name of Liraz Valash mocked the Shin Bet, saying: “Where were you when they took hostage the residents of the Gaza Strip and crossed the border without anyone stopping them?! You have disgraced us?” A commentator by the name of Oshri added: “Have you not learned? Those sitting in the hotels (in Eilat) are watching everything.” "They are making fun of us." As for Lior, he wrote: “We just want you to inform us of the next steps and nothing else. What stupidity!”

Was it an attempt to whitewash the reputation of an apparatus that was stained by a miserable failure, and whose commander would resign at the end of the war in preparation for long investigation sessions?

“I could not have imagined a scenario like October 7th,” Avi Issacharoff, one of the writers of the “Fauda” series, wrote about a month after the attack. But within the Shin Bet, some seem determined to see it in reality as just an extension of the photo studio.

They tried to take inspiration from the series in the Jenin operation, but they failed to be true to its spirit when it tried to do justice to the Palestinian (only a little, and mostly for dramatic purposes, so what is the excitement if the hero is someone who is easy to defeat?).

In "Chaos", the Palestinian "terrorist" fights bravely, even if Doron kills him in the end.

As for the sequel that the Shin Bet chose for him in Jenin, Doron triumphs as usual over his arch enemy Ibrahim Hamed, but his opponent is defenseless this time and even on his sick bed, unable to even stand on his feet in preparation for the fight.

Source: Al Jazeera