Movies - Oslo
The movie recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
The antiquated negotiating model of totalism - All issues of disagreement on the table. All sides at the table. The process is formal, it’s rigid, and the results are absolute failure. It’s disastrous.
But if that is what the world wants you to do, you must do it. But at the same time, start a second process. Built, not on grand pronouncements between governments, but intimate discussions between people held somewhere isolated. Where the two parties can meet alone - and talk.
It’s only in the sharing of the personal that we can see each other for who we truly are.
Wherever you go, boy, you must always hold it, and this city, here. For it will always be your home.
Interpol, the CIA, and the Mossad, are chasing a rabbit. They go to the edge of the forest. Interpol searches the forest, but they can find no rabbit. The CIA burns down the forest, but still, no rabbit. Then Mossad says, “Give us 30 minutes.” They go in. Half-hour later, they come out with a grizzly bear in a headlock, with a broken nose and a black eye, and the bear is yelling… “Okay, I’m a rabbit! I’m a rabbit!”
When people talk to you, you should really pay attention to what they actually say. And not just listen for whatever you want to hear.
Life is nothing if not surprising.
My daughter says, with me, passion is another word for pigheaded. She says, “Papa, all you care about is being right.” I say, “Maya, if a man does not fight for what he believes, who is he?”
Mr. Singer, we did not fly across the world to speak of garbage and taxes. Garbage and taxes is what a government does. If you want us to give you the authority to be a government, then this joint document must spell out exactly how you will be a government.
A man aches for one thing above all: his home.
You mean flat-out lie? What is a lie but a dream that could come true?
And I ask that you, Larsen, are the one I speak to. For here, what men begin together, men must finish together.
For the efforts of any peoples to bridge their hatreds is always met by some with fierce resistance. But whatever mistakes were made, whatever unintended events have been unleashed, I still believe this channel was worth doing. For if we do not sit across from our enemies, and hear them, and see them as human beings, what will become of us?