Amidst a spate of killings by Israeli forces of unarmed Palestinians in
the occupied West Bank, we turn to the stunning Oscar-nominated
documentary, "The Gatekeepers." The film brings together six former
heads of Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, collectively
speaking out for the first time ever. They detail their methods against
Palestinian militants and civilians in the Occupied Territories,
including targeted killings, torture, recruiting informants, and the
suppression of mass protests during two intifadas. But in doing so, they
also criticize the occupation they were assigned with defending and
warn that successive Israeli governments have endangered their country’s
future by refusing to make peace. "We are making the lives of millions
unbearable, into prolonged human suffering, [and] it kills me," Carmi
Gillon says in the film. "[We’ve become] a brutal occupation force
similar to the Germans in World War II," adds Avraham Shalom. We are
joined by the film’s director, Dror Moreh. Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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