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| Subject: The Gatekeepers: Targeted assassinations with one-tonne bombs and exploding mobile phones, torture, covert security operations Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:38 am | |
| Targeted assassinations with one-tonne bombs and exploding mobile phones, torture, covert security operations, failed missions. Director Dror Moreh was shocked by the admissions of six former heads of Israel's secretive internal intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, while filming the Oscar-nominated documentary The Gatekeepers.
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''My jaw dropped at least 20 or 30 times in each interview,'' Moreh says on a crackly line from Tel Aviv.
The Israeli filmmaker says the greatest shock was discovering the number of missed opportunities for politicians to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead of being warmongers, he realised the agency's leaders were pushing for a two-state solution, creating an independent Palestinian state.
''Those people who exercise power and see war are much more reluctant to use force,'' Moreh says. ''I think it comes from a deep understanding of the huge human suffering and the futility of war.'' Advertisement
While less well-known than the foreign intelligence agency Mossad, Shin Bet has been monitoring activity on the West Bank and Gaza Strip - and assassinating enemies - since the Six-Day War in 1967.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/amid-confessions-real-shock-was-the-lost-chance-for-peace-20130812-2rsay.html#ixzz2bvWyn6xk |
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