The Documentary "Four Hours on the Capitol": Democracy in Its Crazyest Moments | Israel today

"What we saw on Capitol Hill is nothing compared to what Netanyahu is planning," cried Avigdor Lieberman just three days after what really happened there on the hill.

The images in the imaginations of quite a few of our media people and politicians have replaced the thousands of enthusiastic Americans with Netanyahu's right-wingers.

Yesterday, "Four Hours on the Capitol" aired, the new docu from HBO, and watching it one can already understand how easily irresponsible and self-interested politicians can play on the minds of citizens and cause disaster. "You must show strength, if you do not fight madly - you will not have a country left", this call by Donald Trump on the morning of January 6, shortly before John Biden was sworn in as president, signaled tens of thousands of enthusiastic supporters, with federation flags and hatred in their eyes , To ascend the Capitol building.

It was an unforgettable morning, when tens of thousands of American citizens, members of the "Second America", came up to defend the homeland and the American spirit, to their perception. Equipped with a creative arsenal of weapons, from pistols to spears and pitchforks, they gathered in Washington DC to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election, with the intention of stopping Joe Biden from being elected president. Trump's explicit reading takes on this dangerous meaning in this docu, precisely in a document that does not "take sides" and lets the heroes of this day speak.

Just like the twin attack, January 6 changed the naive America forever, ending in the deaths of five protesters and the injury of 140 policemen.

The documentary mosaic that tells the story to both the representatives of the masses, the members of the legislature and the police, shows that in the land of unlimited possibilities the possibility of surpassing the House of Representatives and disrupting elections was not among these possibilities.

This is how several dozen unfortunate policemen found themselves in a situation that could not be prepared for in front of almost 15,000 people, who wanted the head of Washington's political elite, literally shouting "this is our home."

The famous picture from that day, of the demonstrator in the idol doctor costume inside the corridors of the House of Representatives, broadcast to the world a surrealistic play on the verge of humorous and non-threatening.

This is the image that has stuck in our minds, and it is fascinating to see how harsh videos from the heart of the friction will tell the true story of democracy in its craziest moments.

"Four Hours in the Capitol" presents a chronicle of the uprising, part of which consists of close-ups of the mob, who decided that the bastards from Washington were playing with them on the ballot papers.

Bringing difficult plays that have not been seen to date from those four hours, the film teaches what can grow out of pure anarchy even if unorganized, some would even say amateurish, of people being fueled by a dangerous message.

This is a document that is a thought-provoking lesson in citizenship, bringing in front of the camera to relaxed testimonials the seemingly most normative people, and cutting to records from their cellphone cameras in confrontations with the hill cops.

This is a film that anyone for whom "Death of Democracy" is just an empty slogan must see.

Especially politicians and media people who dare to incite against the public and say that it is a second to rise above the symbols of democracy such as the courts and the Knesset building.

With all due respect to the creative head of Lieberman and the like, we are really not there.

When you sit down to watch Doku you realize that the pictures from America are closer to the day when Balfour demonstrators tried to cross the police checkpoints and infiltrate the Prime Minister's House, of course minus the colorful weapons.

How reassuring to know that the change of government in the State of Israel was less like the events of the break-in to the Capitol, and more like the smiling formation last Friday.

"Four Hours on the Capitol", HOT8 and HOTVOD