Hello peace friends!
The Academy Award nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" has opened at the
Oxford Theatre in Halifax. I believe it is playing for only 1 week at the
theatre. Show times are here:
https://www.empiretheatres.com/movie/showtimes_by_theatre/18809/18/20130406
I encourage you to listen to the CBC's recent interview with the filmmaker
and one of the former Shin Bet leaders that aired on The Current:
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/03/25/the-gatekeepers-dror-moreh-a
mi-ayalon/
As well, Gerald Caplan has a good write up about the film on Rabble.ca. You
can read his review of the film here: "The Gatekeepers' a must-see look at
Israeli-Palestinian conflict":
http://awstats.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/gerry-caplan/2013/04/gatekeepers-mus
t-see-look-israeli-palestinian-conflict
Democracy Now's synopsis and report on the film is here:
"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."
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/29/the_gatekeepers_in_new_film_ex
The former Shin Bet leaders acknowledge ""You can't make peace by military
means."
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In solidarity for peace, earth & justice,
Tamara
Tamara Lorincz
55 Willowbend Court
Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3
Phone: (902) 443-2423
Cell: (902) 478-1379
Email: tlorincz@dal.ca
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