Louis Theroux

You could argue she's speaking in a Weberian sense.

She's saying any violence that's inflicted by settlers in the West Bank is a kind of law enforcement activity that is part of their monopolistic right to control and occupy the region that God gave them.

I think that Daniela Weiss is an extreme version of something that exists in all of us.

And, you know, one of the, you know, I try not to be overly invested in how well I've done, you know, in a film.

But genuinely, like when I watched that encounter with Daniela Weiss, there's a moment where I say, like, she's talking about, look, I know there's beta over there.

She says, pointing to the Palestinian town.

She says, I don't think about beta.

I think about here is a settlement and here is a settlement and here is a settlement.

So she she would say like she has no animus against Palestinian people.

She just doesn't think about them like she is only thinking about how to advance the cause of of of Jewish nationalism itself.

in the region.

And I say to her, you know, to think about your own people first is understandable, but to think about other people not at all seems sociopathic.

So the reason I say I like I'm quite I'm sort of pleased that

Because it's kind of pious to say like, oh, I don't distinguish between my own children and children halfway around the world, right?

That's clearly not the case.

But that's also the beginnings of tribalism, isn't it?

Well, I sometimes pretentiously quote Nietzsche and say... As one does.

As one does, especially if you're a perennial kind of existentialist student, you know, plonker.

But, you know, one of his things is madness in individuals is rare, but in periods of time, nations and religions, it's the norm.

So that we are all capable of being indoctrinated in forms of irrationality.