Epstein Secrets

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

n. At one point major tension erupted in the negotiations when Qurei demanded that Israel upgrade the official level of its emissaries; ultimately, Uri Savir, the director general of the Foreign Ministry, and attorney Joel Singer, who spoke directly on behalf of Prime Minister Rabin, joined the talks. Ma

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

a poignant multifacetedness, as sworn enemies find themselves tentatively speaking the language of friendship. This is most eloquently embodied by Uri Savir, an Israeli cabinet member portrayed juicily by Michael Aronov as an exuberant rock-star dignitary, and Ahmed Qurie , the P.L.O. finance minister p

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

Arafat as an effeminate narcissist, a portrayal I found entirely plausible from my own encounters with the PLO leader, whose vanity knew no bounds. Uri Savir, who was deputed by Peres to run the Israeli side of the negotiations, was someone else I got to know during that period. An urbane multi-linguist of