The Gatekeepers? Director Dror Moreh: ?Peace Is Possible? In The Mid-East, But ?Israel Lacks Leadership?

The two most chilling films I've seen so far in Toronto are both documentaries:  Dror Moreh's The Gatekeepers and Alex Gibney's Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God."  I'll be writing more about Gibney's film in the coming days, but I got a chance to briefly interview Moreh at a dinner Sony Pictures Classics threw at Creme Brasserie in the Yorkville District of Toronto, and I want to share his comments.

Dror Moreh Interview -- 'The Gatekeepers'The Gatekeepers is remarkable because Moreh managed to get six former leaders of Israel's security agency Shin Bet to go on camera for the first time and talk about the sometimes very dark things they've done to protect their homeland from terrorism since the Six-Day War of 1967.  The men talk about torture, about cultivating informants and about collateral damage:  the calculations that go into deciding whether to take out a terrorist at the risk of also killing innocents.  They also talk, in very level-headed terms, of the spineless nature of the political leaders to whom they report.

What really resonated with me is that Moreh never loses sight of the fact that, despite the life-and-death decisions these men made over the course of their careers, they are just men. (Indeed, one of the men looked unsettlingly like my father.)  And in addition to pulling the curtain back on what goes into the bloody sausage-making process of Mid-East politics, these former Shin Bet leaders talk quite eloquently about the toll their work took on their psyches and their souls.

What I didn't expect is for the men that Moreh interviewed to agree so readily that peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is possible, even if they didn't all agree on how it should be…

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