Epstein Secrets

r licence from the copyright owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. 401552537 - NICTHO - A23578-1 - 129616737 as its subject, Rogers has fashioned an unexpected thriller out of the brave and inspired Palestinian and Israeli negotiators who came together in a remote Norwegian hous

nts for The Daily Telegraph during the Nineties, I came to know a number of these players personally. Many of them are no longer around to reflect on Rogers’s version of events. Rabin, the great Israeli warrior-turned-politician who agreed to make peace with Arafat, aman most Israelis, as one Israeli cha

put aside decades of hostility and make peace. Their efforts were rewarded with a momentous ceremony on the White House lawn in September 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, the PLO chairman, shaking hands to seal the deal in front of a beaming president Bill Clinton. And s

roduced Rod-Larsen to J. T. Rogers, the American playwright whose production, "Blood and Gifts," Sher was then directing. After meeting the couple, Rogers soon found himself digging deeply into their past and into the negotiations they had helped to facilitate, which he knew little about. Few playwrig

rings to life the largely unknown drama of the secret back-channel negotiations that resulted in PLO chief Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands over the first peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. While many memories of that momentous day, and of the famous agreeme

shares that instinct. Unlike most of you, he has acted on it. Having combined investigative zeal and theatrical imagination with insider access, Mr. Rogers now invites you into the chambers where the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization were forged during nine fraught m

entering on one Norwegian couple who improbably initiated the diplomatic back channel that led to the epochal meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the P.L.O leader Yasir Arafat at the White House, "Oslo" affectingly elicits the all-too-human factor in the weary machinations of state policy.