![Behind the scenes of the Israeli TV show "Fauda."](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/israel-culture-palestinian-conflict-12012023-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
The Israeli works of popular culture that are the most critically acclaimed in the West are also often the ones that engage the most directly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To outside observers, that has made it seem as though Israeli society was moving in a more conciliatory direction than it actually has in recent years.