Review: Human Factor gets personal about Mideast peace
by Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press
Posted May 3, 2021 4:54 pm EDT
Last Updated May 3, 2021 at 4:58 pm EDT
FILE - President Bill Clinton, center, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walk on the grounds of Camp David, Md., at the start of the Mideast summit on July 11, 2000. The documentary The Human Factor shows the behind-the-scenes story of the U.S. s effort to secure peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)
Ready for a documentary about three decades of agonizing fits and starts of the Mideast peace process, from the perspective of U.S. negotiators? You’re probably thinking that doesn’t sound too enticing right about now.
Review: Human Factor gets personal about Mideast peace
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Just as we never tire of the saga of the Titanic, which is doomed to hit the iceberg in perpetuity, so we are drawn to the catastrophe of Israeli-Palestinian relations and the tempting, teasing question: What if this circumstance, or that decision, had been different?
Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh’s riveting documentary “The Human Factor” revisits the 1990s negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians through new interviews with the top-level U.S. diplomats who shepherded those talks. Familiar as we are with the admonition to study history so as to not repeat its mistakes, the great tragedy that informs our viewing and underscores the film is that, in the present moment, when peace is seemingly off the table, history’s lessons are moot.