Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road From Oslo

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Listen to the FRONTLINE Film Audio Track for the seminal 2002 documentary on how the Israeli-Palestinian peace process begun at Oslo was derailed and ultimately undone by the dynamics of politics and violence on both sides. Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road From Oslo traced how cautious optimism in the aftermath of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreeing to the 1993 Oslo Accord was undermined in the following years by violence and major setbacks. It explored the growing threat to the peace process posed by radical nationalist factions among both Jews and Palestinians — groups, including Hamas, that opposed all compromise between the two peoples. The documentary also examined the U.S. role in the peace process, including the U.S.-brokered negotiations at in 1998, 2000 and 2001. Shattered Dreams of Peace: The Road From Oslo includes interviews with key figures from both sides of the negotiating table, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Saeb Erekat and Ehud Barak.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the frontline audio cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	Right now, here is the audio cast of Shattered Dreams of Peace, the Road from Oslo,
0:12.0	originally broadcast in 2002. The Hamas unleashed a ferocious attack that seemed to come from everywhere.
0:40.0	As the war in Gaza continues.
0:42.6	Israeli commanders have been deployed all over Gaza as the bombardment continues.
0:48.0	A special presentation of Frontline's 2002 documentary shattered dreams of peace.
0:55.0	The time for peace has come.
0:59.0	Tracing how the hopes of the historic Oslo Accords were undone by politics.
1:04.0	The two-thirds of the public supported Oslo, they really thought that Arafat meant peace.
1:08.0	I didn't think that he meant peace.
1:09.0	There are some points which if you are in my place you you will not accept it who can accept it and
1:14.6	violence we are talking here about the toughest and more sensitive issues that
1:20.4	humankind has ever dealt with.
1:23.0	I know Palestinians and Israelis can make peace.
1:25.0	My heart aches because I know we were so close.
1:29.0	Now on frontline, shattered dreams of peace.
1:33.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:46.0	Thank you.
1:48.0	And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:51.0	Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation. Broadcasting. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.
2:04.0	The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation
2:08.0	committed to building a more just verdant and peaceful world.
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