Do watch award-winning Louis Theroux's unsettling documentary "The Settlers" which has just been released on BBC (also available on other places online). It is a brave and successful attempt to shed light into the mindset of extremist settlers, a key parameter of the seemingly intractable middle east puzzle. The brave journalist is the son of the famous travel writer Paul Theroux. We need...Do watch award-winning Louis Theroux's unsettling documentary "The Settlers" which has just been released on BBC (also available on other places online). It is a brave and successful attempt to shed light into the mindset of extremist settlers, a key parameter of the seemingly intractable middle east puzzle. The brave journalist is the son of the famous travel writer Paul Theroux. We need equally brave and cool-headed politicians (not clowns), local and international, who can finally stop the slaughter and build the bridge to a lasting peace. If we fail, the wound and the hatred will keep getting bigger and eventually swallow us all. More broadly we need (to build from the ground up) a new culture of fairly sharing everything on this planet. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/27/the-s… Show more

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before | Television | The Guardian

The documentarian manages to stay calm and polite as guns are repeatedly pointed at him in the West Bank. Then someone shoves him …