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The Human Factor Review: An Illuminating Look at the Messy, Evolving Middle East Peace Process May 5, 2021 Arriving at an energizing time in American history (the arrival of a new administration looking to reset certain international priorities), Dror Moreh’s The Human Factor, which premiered at a few 2019 fall festivals––a time when Jared Kushner was tasked with solving piece in the Middle East––is an enlightening and engaging look at fragile peace processes the U.S. worked towards since the early ’90s. Israeli director Moreh, whose previous film The Gatekeepers explored his co...

Messenger Ready for a documentary about three decades of agonizing fits and starts of the Mideast 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. “You can’t ignore the human fa...

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 ...

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 tr...

Yasser Arafat once insisted on cutting up Dennis Ross’s chicken during a dinner; Ross was then head of the American effort to arbitrate peace between Israel and Palestine. At the time, it seemed like a sign of hospitality and hope — Ross joked that Arafat had “a Jewish mother syndrome.” These days, after the Human Rights Watch has declared Israel guilty of the “crime of apartheid” against Palestinians, it is hard to imagine a moment of such intimacy. But “The Human Factor,” a new documentary by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh, is full of such moments, covering the near success an...