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Eli David liking Ziva´s expression to another one she made as a child not getting a pony is seriously such a terrible thing to do. The man really does not have a heart at all. Of course Ziva snaps.

Can you imagine your father saying that to you after they sent you to a terrorist camp and then didn´t bother to get you out at all?

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Eli: I am not here for her. Gibbs: Ziva. Eli: Yes. Gibbs: You’re not here for Ziva. She has a name.

Oh, man. I know Gibbs can be problematic AF, but I will always appreciate the pre-S11 era Gibbs who stands up for Ziva, especially to her father.

It’s not that Ziva can’t fight her own battles, but it’s that she shouldn’t have to do it alone, especially not with her own father. Eli continually treats Ziva as a cog in the wheel; yes, it may be a cultural difference or professional training that does that, but especially post-"Good Cop, Bad Cop”, Gibbs’ mission has been to make Ziva aware that she is a person; she is not the sum of her past and her faults, she is not just a pawn. She may be a soldier, but she’s also human, and her life has as much value as anyone else’s.

You can argue that Eli treats Ziva the same way he would any of his officers out of necessity, because he can’t afford to let his personal feelings cloud his judgment. (To which I’d say, that’s bullshit, because his personal feelings and narcissism already have, the way Jenny’s personal feelings clouded hers, but that is another discussion, and also I just don’t like Eli.) But, Gibbs is here to remind him, and us, that Ziva is worthy of the respect of her personhood. By saying her name, it makes her real. It makes her feelings real. He was there to see the fallout from Somalia, and even before that, the fallout of Ari, and he understands Ziva in a way Eli probably never will.

Understandably, Eli gets his hackles up, because he is her father, and he knows full well that Gibbs is attacking his role in Ziva’s life, which is why he’s all, “Yes, I’m aware she has a name, I gave it to her,” but Gibbs’ point still stands. Eli’s fatherhood is performative, but Gibbs’ is actually concrete and actionable.

#season 8 #enemies foreign #in this house we drag eli david

One thing that never fails to impress me when watching Enemies Foreign & Domestic is the synchronicity of the NCIS and Mossad teams when working together, it’s really cool to see

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If someone wants something out of your pants, they should have to use their hands.

....OMG the look she gives him .... hilarious

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Sorry, I still hate that Abby tries to push Ziva to reconcile with Eli.

I get that Abby is taking this personally, because her own father died, and I guess maybe she’s naive and doesn’t understand the extent to what Ziva suffered in Somalia and how her father has treated her her whole life.

But it just screams of the writers minimizing the damage Eli did to Ziva, as a father and as a boss, and minimizing the horrors she faced in Somalia.

I suppose there’s an argument to be made that Ziva owes it to herself to let it go, that she can’t carry around that anger forever, because it would impede her own healing. But I think there’s a difference between letting go of the anger, and forgiving something that is arguably unforgivable.

It’s one thing if Eli made a tragic mistake by sending Ziva to Somalia on a mission he knew was ill-advised, but was blinded by the potential reward; but as we know, this is a pattern of behaviour on his part, one Ziva has lived through her entire life. He is a narcissist.

It just goes back to the fact that the fallout from Somalia was never really dealt with, and that so few people on the show, save for maybe Gibbs and Tony. Over and over again, Ziva is made to feel small for her feelings, made to feel guilty for feeling so betrayed and wounded, as though she is a lesser person for being hurt. But we know this is what humanizes her; it’s what makes her so sympathetic to the audience, and empathetic towards other characters.

Anyway. Justice for Ziva and the Somalia arc etc.