Homeland Season 4 episode 12, a.k.a. the finale, had fans feeling meh as it appeared to be something they did not expect. After all the tensions and top-level dramas in earlier episodes, the Showtime political drama decided to mellow down and drop heart-pounding scenes in Pakistan in its last episode aired on December 21. Fans are disappointed, so is Israel where the show originally came from. However, their reason is not exactly about the letdown of the episode.
Israeli media slammed the final episode of Homeland Season 4 after describing their former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Menachem Begin as a killer. In one scene, F. Murray Abraham's Dar Adal said Begin killed a lot of people back in the day while talking to Mandy Patinkin's Saul Berenson. Israel did not find this amusing.
"Menachem Begin killed 91 British soldiers at the King David Hotel before becoming Prime Minister," says Dar Adal in the controversial finale of Homeland Season 4.
In an interview, Menachem Begin Center director Herzl Makov called the scene on Homeland Season 4 episode 12 a slander on their former leader and called on the Showtime TV series to explain.
"It is slander against Menachem Begin and the state of Israel," said Makov.
"To say, 'Begin killed'? He wasn't even there. The underground resistance group was under his command, and he took responsibility. In addition, three warnings were given to the British to vacate and their commander refused. So there is a dramatic difference between the two cases compared. For me, it is like saying that [Begin and Haqqani] are both terrorists, just like saying they both wore brown shirts. It is surprising specifically because Homeland is based on the Israeli format Prisoners of War."
Israeli's look at Begin with high regard, reason why they are not pleased with that Homeland Season 4 episode 12 scene. He is the sixth prime minister of Israel and a recipient of Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, an award he shared with Anwar Sadat. He died in 1992 at the age of 79 due to depression after losing his wife.
