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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.
But there’s a reason “The Human Factor,” by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh, escapes what would seem a likely fate of being interesting only to policy wonks and those with a direct stake in the issue, and it has something to do with the title. It’s a reference to a line from Dennis Ross, the best-known negotiator of the bunch.
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Then US President Bill Clinton, center, looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and PLO leader Yasser Arafat shake hands in the East Room of the White House after signing the Middle East accord in Washington on September 28, 1995. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)
AP Ready for a documentary about three decades of agonizing fits and starts of the Middle East peace process, from the perspective of US negotiators? You’re probably thinking that doesn’t sound too enticing right about now.
But there’s a reason “The Human Factor,” by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh, escapes what would seem a likely fate of being interesting only to policy wonks and those with a direct stake in the issue, and it has something to do with the title. It’s a reference to a line from Dennis Ross, the best-known negotiator of the bunch.
US diplomat thanks Algeria 40 years after release from detention in Iran
Former Iranian hostages Steven Kirtley, Don Hohman, Steven Lauterbach, John Limbert and Paul Needham sit together during the 25th anniversary remembrance ceremony to honor the eight U.S. servicemen who died during the 1980 attempt to free them April 25, 2005 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia [Joe Raedle/Getty Images] January 21, 2021 at 2:34 am
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the US embassy hostages in Iran, one of the freed diplomats Ambassador John Limbert has sent a letter to Algeria in which he thanked the Algerian government and people for their kindness , and mediation efforts at the time, which helped release him after 444 days of detention in the embassy building.
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OT SINCE George H. W. Bush in 1989 has America inaugurated a president so well-known in world affairs as Joe Biden. A former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then vice-president for eight years, he has had a role in, or a say on, most foreign policy since the cold war. His chosen foreign-policy team, dominated by other veterans of Barack Obama’s administration such as John Kerry and Tony Blinken a former secretary of state and a prospective one who has briefed Mr Biden for decades is almost as well-known. Yet for all these familiar elements Mr Biden’s foreign policy is cloaked in uncertainty.
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