Louis Theroux and the Ultra Zionists

[ladylinda]

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ybyxp

Tomorrow, 21:00 on BBC Two (except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue))
Synopsis

Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive and disputed areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible.

Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement - finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.

[trubble]

I watched most of it. I am still none the wiser about any of the issues. The whole thing confuses me.

I didn't find Louis very helpful; his naive style of loaded questioning usually entertains me but this time it didn't seem to draw anything of interest out of the interviewees. They just came across as stereotypes of the sort of 'black and white' hardline thinking you can find in any movement.

[riotgrrl]

Louis focuses on the 'nutter' end of things 'though, doesn't he? That's his bag.

And those Zionists were full on nutters. How can you stand in front of someone who's telling you that he's one of God's 'chosen' ones without wanting to slap him right hard in the dish?