Dror Moreh talks about ‘The Gatekeepers’

If Netanyahu is Israel’s worst enemy, according to Moreh, Obama “is the best thing that’s happened to Israel in a long, long, long time.” Regarding the president’s comments last month that Israel doesn’t know what its best interests are, Moreh says, “He’s absolutely right. And this isn’t coming from Dror Moreh. I’m not that important. Six former leaders of the secret service are saying the same thing. Exactly the same words, almost word for word what Obama said.”

Still, even Moreh admits that the president will have to take a more activist role in the Arab-Israeli dispute during his second administration. “He doesn’t have a choice,” he says. “If things stay like it is now, or if nothing happens in Israel, there will be another eruption of violence soon. Whether he likes it or not, he will have to intervene. . . . I don’t see [that] the Israelis and the Palestinians themselves have the power, the energy or the kind of leadership they need in order to solve that problem. Unless there [is] huge pressure from the international community, nothing will change — on the contrary, it will only get worse and worse and worse.”