Israeli Oscar-nominated Documentary Angers Netanyahu
An Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary focusing on criticism of the Tel Aviv regime’s policies towards the Palestinians has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The Gatekeepers” is a French-Israeli production which sheds light on the Israeli regime's 46-year-old occupation of the West Bank through interviews with six former heads of the Israeli security service Shin Bet.
The conservative Israeli premier, who was usually quick to congratulate those who succeed abroad, has this time remained silent over “The Gatekeepers,” the Daily Star wrote on Thursday.
The documentary’s interviews paradoxically reveal that the Shin Bet veterans have defected from their former beliefs and turned on their political masters after they retired.
The interviewees also believe that the immorality of the occupation does not serve the Israeli regime’s long-term interests.
“When you leave the Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist,” former Shin Bet head Yaakov Peri said in his interview during the documentary.
Ami Ayalon, another interviewee, who once ran for the leadership of Israel's center-left Labor party, also told the documentary director, Dror Moreh, that Israelis suffer a strategic shortsightedness that could endanger their survival.
“We won all the battles but we lost the war,” Ayalon said.
Source: Press TV
The conservative Israeli premier, who was usually quick to congratulate those who succeed abroad, has this time remained silent over “The Gatekeepers,” the Daily Star wrote on Thursday.
The documentary’s interviews paradoxically reveal that the Shin Bet veterans have defected from their former beliefs and turned on their political masters after they retired.
The interviewees also believe that the immorality of the occupation does not serve the Israeli regime’s long-term interests.
“When you leave the Shin Bet, you become a bit of a leftist,” former Shin Bet head Yaakov Peri said in his interview during the documentary.
Ami Ayalon, another interviewee, who once ran for the leadership of Israel's center-left Labor party, also told the documentary director, Dror Moreh, that Israelis suffer a strategic shortsightedness that could endanger their survival.
“We won all the battles but we lost the war,” Ayalon said.
Source: Press TV
