My few last films about Palestine give context to the current genocidal nightmare. Free Palestine!
If we want to understand how Israel approaches, from a security perspective, its occupation and subjugation of Palestine, the Oscar-nominated 2013 documentary The Gatekeepers is a good start.
Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh got the then–six living former heads of ultrasecretive Israeli domestic-intelligence agency Shin Bet on camera to talk about their work. These are the secretive bureaucrats who have been in charge of policing the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank since the 1967 Six Day War and monitoring the security of cities such as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from those who would very much like Israel to end that occupation.
Whatever you know — or think you know — about the mess that is the Middle East and Israel’s role in that mess may well be challenged or even completely overturned by this startling film.
US: rent/buy on Prime and Apple TV
UK: not streaming anywhere, but it is available on DVD
See The Gatekeepers at Letterboxd for more viewing options.
