Louis Theroux

But this is the one that I wanted to make.

You know, it's not an unfamiliar role for me to be talking to someone who's obstinately refusing to see the facts in the way that she does.

I think I mentioned, I did a story about a cult in the Midwest in which one of the leaders was this woman called Shirley Phelps Roper.

She had a similar energy.

The Westboro one.

Amazing.

The Westboro Baptist Church.

So she had a similar energy.

And I feel as though...

It would have been a problem in the film if, as a viewer, you hadn't already seen video filmed of settler violence.

But because you have, then the viewer is able to draw their own conclusion as to how credible Daniela is.

And she is quite evidently willfully refusing to see the facts.

And it's almost a terminological issue.

It was Max Weber who said that the state is the institution that has the monopoly of legitimate violence in a given area.

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.