Gideon Raff Quotes

#1. When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

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#2. Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

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#3. The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

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#4. When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot.

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#5. Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

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#6. I'm Israeli and gay.

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#7. The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

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#8. In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.

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