Walking out of Eden - Paul Salopek

While Berger looks for our ancestral roots, National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is fleeing the birthplace of the human species, on his Out of Eden Walk. He is tracing our route from Africa, across the Middle East, Asia and ultimately to the tip of South America. He walked out of Israel and Palestine shortly before the current conflict, allowing him to get a very personal and intimate understanding of the motivations and fears of both groups of people involved. Salopek explains that he learned that just a few decades ago, Palestinians and Israelis regularly encountered each other in their daily lives, thus allowing more understanding and empathy to grow in that space; but today, children are so segregated that the flower of mutual respect and sympathy is struggling to grow in the West Bank and Israel, which doesn't foster much optimism for the future.