How ‘The Human Factor’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of Mideast Peace Talks

No filmmaker is better at unraveling the complexities of Middle Eastern turmoil than Dror Moreh.

In the Oscar-nominated “The Gatekeepers,” the director looked at the Israeli/Palestine conflict through the eyes of the six living men who have run Shin Bet, Israel’s Secret Service.

We expect Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Ami Avalon, Avi Dichter and Yuval Diskin to be hardliners, but they turn out to be smart, sane and reasoned about the sources and solutions for Israel’s 45-year security problem.

They know about it first-hand, because they have had to deal with it every day, unlike the politicians who come and go, for whom they have little respect.

The one Israeli leader who did make a difference – Yitzhak Rabin – was felled by an assassin’s bullet on November 4, 1995.Moreh adopted a similar approach with “The Human Factor”, which looks behind the scenes of three decades of

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