License to kill - How Israel liquidates its enemies

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Movie
Original title License to kill - How Israel liquidates its enemies
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 2013
length 45 minutes
Rod
Director Egmont R. Koch
script Egmont R. Koch
production WDR
camera Matthias child
cut Arno Schumann

License to Kill - liquidated as Israel's enemies is a TV - documentary from the year 2013, of the WDR for ARD was produced. The film was directed by Egmont R. Koch , who also wrote the script. The film deals with Israel's so-called targeted killings .

content

In the film, the motives for carrying out targeted killings in the fight against Palestinian Islamist terrorists and Iranian scientists as well as moral and legal aspects are presented and questioned using exemplary cases. It also describes the murder of a false suspect in Hebron and the economic and legal situation of the victim's relatives. The film recreates the killing of Abbas al-Musawi , a high-ranking member of Hezbollah, and his family in Lebanon in 1992. The film also describes the Mossad's 2010 murder of the Hamas weapons procurer Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai . The murders of Iranian scientists are also examined. The film alleges that the Mossad was behind these actions and that they allied with a Sunni anti-Iranian terrorist organization. Former Mossad agents such as Moti Kfir and Gad Schimron as well as the Israeli philosophy professor Asa Kascher and the Australian professor of human rights in New York Philip Alston have their say. The Israeli war hero Iftach Spektor has his say , who in 2003 spoke out in a publicly effective letter against the extra-legal killing of suspect Palestinians. The targeted killings are condemned as not justified under the rule of law.

reception

Robert Zion, a member of the state board of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia , criticized the film in an open letter published by the Friday newspaper. After introductory remarks that he rejects targeted killings “per se”, he criticized the fact that the documentation concealed the fact that the policy of targeted killings was also part of the NATO strategy and that Germany was also participating in it. He accused the editors of using the "tendentious broadcast [...] the psychological mechanism of defending against guilt, which is all too well-known here [in] Germany and which has meanwhile become mainstream again in the media", of abusing Israel as a scapegoat and thus "of the mission of the public legal television ”grossly missed.

background

  • The first broadcast took place on April 3, 2013 in the joint program Das Erste in the series Die Story im Erste .
  • The title alludes to the James Bond film series with License to Kill .
  • The program, which was broadcast late in the evening (11:45 p.m.) on ARD, reached 0.8 million viewers.

See also

  • The Gatekeepers , Oscar-nominated interview film with six former heads of the Israeli domestic secret service Schin Bet

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To the Monitor editors , Friday April 4, 2013
  2. ↑ The story in the first: License to Kill - How Israel liquidates its enemies. www.program. ARD .de, April 3, 2013, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Send when nobody is watching. Investigative journalism takes place in the ARD especially after 23:00 . Telepolis, April 25, 2013