The Alpha Diaries

The Alpha Diaries

The Alpha Diaries was shot over a 5 year period in the life of director and reserve soldier, Yaniv Berman. Each year for 30 days, when Alpha Company got together, the camera came along to tell the unique story of the Israeli Army Reserves.

This movie is a view into the looking glass, to remind us what is happening in our own back yard, lest we forget.

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jamie

gila in 5..4..3..2..1..
geoff

i can see why these people hate Israel .they treat the Palestinians like the nazis treated them . sad. a sense of superiority lies in your bones. just like the americans. im an american and i am ashamed of my nations policies . no wonder they fight you with terrorism. you deserve it.

jimjoe

Did we watch the same documentary? What reminded you of the Nazis? What did these soldiers do exactly? I saw no signs that they felt superior any way, or that they even enjoyed what they were doing. And what WERE they doing? Unless you are an anarchist, I don’t see how you could find any real fault with what they were doing. They exception of course, would be the way they treated the office supplies of the Palestinian Authority headquarters (though in fairness, while they through paper binders and folders, they didn’t seem to have broken anything) and the fact that they sole coffee cups from the office. Besides that inexcusable behavior, they simply did what any police force would do. They went to the houses of accused members of violent gangs in order to arrest the person and bring him to trial. When no one answered at the house, they broke down the door. They then searched the house of the accused for weapons and evidence. The only difference is that since the autonomous police force of the Palestinian Authority only ever goes after lower ranking members of groups that they feel are they’re political rivals, and since Israeli citizens are the targets of most of the groups violence, the Israeli Army arrests the others.
Have you ever seen footage of Nazi operations in the territories they controlled? Have you seen how they treated the Jews and other ‘undesirables’? How is what we saw here in ANY way reminiscent of that? The Nazis gathered the Jews and other ‘undesirables’ , who were in the vast majority innocent of any crimes, and either systematically killed them in mass graves, or imprisoned them until later being forced into slave labor while being starved to death, or killed them outright in death camps. How is that in any way similar? How can you even compare the treatment of the partisans by the Nazis? The Nazis would randomly kill dozens of innocent civilians for each German soldier killed by partisans. Those partisans targeted invading German soldiers and not German civilians, yet the German soldiers retaliated against civilians. These soldiers, in response to attacks on civilians, have been sent to ARREST members of the gangs that have targeted civilians, and collect evidence for trial.
I also fail to see the ‘sense of superiority’ you speak of. While many Nazis humiliated and beat Jews in the street (you can see many videos of such behavior towards old men and women who don’t even try to defend themselves out of fear–despite the fact that not just anyone could buy a camera and take it everywhere like today with cheap inexpensive digital cameras there is still so much footage of such behavior). But here, where the soldiers are only arresting members of violent gangs that attack their friends and family, they dislike what they are doing and feel sorry for the families of the accused.

Rob C.

Is this stuff even legal? unbelievable doc. Wow! Hard to put in perspective at times. ‘Kinda sad and funny.

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