Fiction frequently anticipates friction. Fauda’s fifth season treats the French-Hamas nexus in Marseille as an operational fact, mirroring a grim reality. This TV show previously presaged the Oct. 7, 2023, tunnel raid — a scenario its own writers initially discarded as too far-fetched for television. My recent analysis for these pages exposed this exact channel: on Oct. 16, 2020, a General Directorate for External Security emissary met with Mousa Abu Marzook and Khaled Mashal in Doha, Qatar. Authorized by French President Emmanuel Macron, this backdoor diplomacy occurred while Hamas was simultaneously plotting the biggest massacre of Jews since the Shoah.

Unchastened by this legacy, on Tuesday, Macron stripped off his diplomatic mask at the U.N. General Assembly and falsely claimed that “Hamas has never been active in the West Bank.” Yet, a Hamas gunman shattered Macron’s hoax days before on Yom Kippur by murdering Netanel Shukrun, a dual French Israeli citizen, at the Ein Raya spring in the West Bank. Using his final breath to tell his son to run, Shukrun’s sacrifice stands as a stark reminder of the human cost of European delusion.