5 Broken Cameras and The Gatekeepers' loss at
the Academy Awards was no loss for Israel, Bayit Yehudi MKs said on Monday
morning.
"The Israeli film, the anti-Israel 5 Broken Cameras did not win
the Oscar. I did not shed a tear," Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett wrote on
Facebook.
MK Uri Orbach (Bayit Yehudi) took to the social network to
write a sarcastic message: "Make a face like you're disappointed that the two
documentary films that 'represent Israel' didn't win the Oscar for Best
Documentary. Oy, so unfortunate." 5 Broken Cameras, co-directed by Emad Burnat
and Guy Davidi, features footage collected by the former starting in 2005, when
his fourth son was born, that follows skirmishes between Palestinian villagers
from Bil'in and IDF soldiers protecting the nearby town of Modi'in Illit and his
son's growth.
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