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.
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In the Bezeq-Walla case, you won’t find envelopes stuffed with cash passing from hand to hand in smoke-filled rooms as in the Talansky and Holyland cases against former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Nor does it involve money transfers to tax shelters, as in the Siemens and Electric Corporation case, or bribery in the form of electronic devices and flights abroad, as then-MK Faina Kirshenbaum received in the Yisrael Beiteinu case.
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Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein in 2009. Photo: ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images
An Israeli businessman with ties to the U.S. government was in touch with former Jordanian Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein when he was put on house arrest on Saturday, and proposed to send a private jet to take his wife and kids to Europe.
The intrigue: The Jordanian government claims the Israeli has connections to the Mossad spy agency, while the businessman stresses he s only a friend of the prince.
Why it matters: The Jordanian government is pushing the narrative that Prince Hamzah and his associates conspired against King Abdullah with people outside of Jordan.
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