"The Gatekeepers"
For decades the Israeli internal security service known as Shin Bet has labored in the shadows to thwart terrorist attacks by radicals on both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute. Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh convinced several former directors to discuss their controversial work -- which included assassinations and torture -- and deteriorating prospects for peace. "The Gatekeepers" was recently nominated for an Academy Award.
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Director Dror Moreh talks about his Academy Award-nominated documentary, "The Gatekeepers." The film reveals the dilemmas, burdens and questions that haunt former heads of the Shin Bet, Israel's counterterrorism agency. "How do you win a war like that? When the terrorists are inside the civilian population and you need to find a needle in a haystack in the form of a terrorist?" asks Moreh.
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Mr. Moreh is making a strong political statement highly critical of Netanyahu by using Shin Bet to validate his point of view.
He notes that he is in agreement with Obama's perspective basically about Netanyahu.
Just wondering...
* did Moreh consult with any member and/or agency of the Obama administration in making the film?
* were these former heads of Shin Bet paid by Moreh for their appearance?
* where did the funding come from to make the film - was any of it from either Palestinian sources and/or J Street and/or the Obama administration? If not, where did his funding come from?
*other than saying that the Palestinians are "not dolls," why was Moreh unable to point to any justification at all for any Israeli actions? What is Israel supposed to do when it is being relentlessly shelled by the Palestinians whose only mission is to destroy the Jewish state.
In addition, Moreh notes that the Palestinian issue was not raised during the Israeli election, though he says it is Israel's most important issue. Just wondering what he thinks the importance of Iran's nuclear development is to Israel and whether that was raised during the Israeli elections.
The Gatekeepers may be a film worth viewing merely for people to understand the intensity, bile and bias of one film maker. Makes you look at every film more critically to analyze the film maker's point of view.
While Kojo absolutely needed to have Moreh on the show because of the impending award, Kojo also needed to have a full dialogue that included some critics b/c the film is so one-sided. Kojo should also have explored Moreh's background to understand how the Israeli Moreh developed such an anti-Israel perspective.