Israeli-American film producer and screenwriter Dan Gordon, known for “Rambo: Last Blood,” “Murder in the First,” “The Hurricane,” and more, recently discussed his latest project with The Epoch Times, a four-part docuseries on the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel. Mr.
Gordon’s decision to create a documentary was driven by his desire to counteract what he saw as falsehoods about the attacks and their aftermath. “I approached TBN and said I would like to do a documentary because I know that the lie is about to set in,” he said. “Holocaust denial will be on steroids compared to this.
” Mr. Gordon said he foresaw the changes in public perception that would occur soon after the attacks. “I said to several friends, the narrative is going to shift.
This was on Oct. 8, when there were demonstrations not calling for a ceasefire or decrying any Palestinian loss of life, but in solidarity with the terrorists who had just committed mass murder,” he said. “And I said, if that’s the case, it won’t be weeks, it will be days before the narrative is not that Israel is the victim of a massacre, but that Hamas and the residents of Gaza are the victims of Israeli genocide.
” The filmmaker recounted the harrowing experience of his sister, who escaped her kibbutz—a type of communal settlement unique to Israel—on Oct. 7. “I was actually messaging on WhatsApp my adopted sister, Sarah, who lives in a kibbutz on the Gaza border, about 3,000 meters from the border,�.
