‘Oslo’ Review: Timely HBO Movie Tackles Landmark Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticPerhaps it’s time for another meeting between officials from Israel and Palestine, like the series of off-the-books negotiations that took place in Oslo, Norway, back in 1993. Those sessions — conducted in secret over nearly six months, since Israeli policy forbade interacting with or otherwise acknowledging the authority of the Palestinian Liberation Organization — paid off in very public handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat, photographed with then-U.S.-president Bill Clinton.But the U.S.