Movie review of “The Wanted 18”: Stop-motion animation, interviews and re-enactments are employed to tell the true-life tale of a Palestinian, Israeli conflict over cows.
The Palestinians’ plan was carried out in darkness and was later deemed to be “dangerous for the security of the state of Israel.” Armed Israeli soldiers and helicopters were mobilized, while the Palestinians moved in stealth under a strict curfew.
All because of a herd of cows.
“The Wanted 18” tells a true-life tale that took place in the Palestinian town Beit Sahour in 1988 during the first intifada. There, as a nonviolent protest, the townspeople bought 18 cows from an Israeli peacenik to produce their own milk rather than pay an Israeli company for it.