This is the story of the son of an influential Hamas zealot, turned into an Israeli informant from the age of 17, and his Israeli handler, a Shin Beth agent. Both are surrounded by brutality -- Hamas's ruthless violence, and Shin Beth's likewise ruthless violence -- the informant struggling with conflicts of loyalty and shame, but the handler conflicted too, for a genuine personal bond of trust, affection and loyalty had also emerged between the two of them. Despite the fact that the portrayal is scripted, it has the ring of sincerity and it gives a non-partisan sense of the tragic vendetta in which they are both engulfed.
Review of The Green Prince
